New York: McBride, 1930. Hardcover. First edition, 1930, Pittsburgh author's first book. Cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket VG with light toning and soil, 2-inch tear at top left of front panel neatly repaired. Bell was the author of Out of this Furnace (1941), the best labor novel.....
Dublin: printed for Gilbert and Hodges, 1809. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1809, 8vo, contemporary red straight grained morocco gilt, pp. (iv) v (i) 121, very good, light rubbing. Boyd graduated from Trinity College in 1809 and died at Brixton in 1857. From 1840-1855 he was surveyor-general of customs for.....
New York: Budde & Westermann, Ca. 1900. Paperback. Rare catalogue, no date but ca. 1900, 123 pp, fully illustrated and priced, 9.25 inches high, very good copy, mild soil and wear to front wrap (neat rice paper repairs to two creases that were threatening to split) and light curling to.....
Berlin: Weltkreis-Verlag, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1928. Cloth-backed boards, 290 pp., Good copy, pencil-notes to one page of the text and to the rear pastedown, bookplate on the front pastedown, a little bit of creasing to the tips of some pages, soiling and age-toning to the pages and.....
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1923-1929. Hardcover. 5 volumes bound into one large 8vo volume, full brown calf gilt, housed in large rounded solander leather box (light rubbing and wear). We do not know if there was a 1927 volume published, and OCLC not helpful (very few listed on OCLC).....
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. 1820, First Edition. xxiii, 477 pp. Hardcover, 8vo., in original boards, heavy cloth tape repair to the spine; pieces of the original paper title label still present. Front inner hinge starting. Mild foxing throughout. A rare title. Carpenter, 1780-1840.....
Paris: Dunod, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2004. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 1117 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, owner's signature on the half-title page, minor creasing to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.....
Pittsburgh: ca. 1960s. ca. 1960s oil on canvas-lined board, 15.5 x 12 inches. In frame and mat, 22.5 x 18 inches. A lovely still life of flowers in a vase, featuring Contis' iconic "Byzantine Butterfly". Near fine in a near fine frame. Peter Contis is a Pittsburgh artist known for.....
London: 1784. Sheet measures 27 x 17 inches, plate measures 25.75 x 15 inches, very good, usual folds, light wear along right edge, minor offsetting else nice and crisp. Apparently this was plate 36 in the Atlas published to accompany Cook's 3rd Voyage, 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' --.....
Meadville, PA: Keystone View Company, ND - Ca. 1910. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1910. New Revised Edition. Thick yellow printed cards, with title card and 31 cards with photographs, each measuring 9 x 7 inches, in cloth inner slipcase and leatherbacked slipcase with title in gilt. Some smudging to verso.....
Madrid: Instituto Jeronimo Zurita, 1954. Hardcover. Hardcover with gray cloth boards in dust jacket, 1954, quarto, 450pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with handsome boards showing faintest shelfwear, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, otherwise text clean and unmarked with top edge dyed red and foredge untrimmed. DJ.....
Pittsburgh: Patterson & Lambdin, 1819. Hardcover. Second American edition after the Boston edition of 1815. 12mo, contemporary full dark brown leather, very good, light wear to corners, the spine slightly pitted and rubbed, contents very good, bit of tanning and foxing, owner's name (Thomas Hughes of Wheeling), 208 pp complete.....
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1929. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1929. One of 400 copies. Hardcover, large 4to., vellum-backed boards. Fine in original slipcase. Printer's prospectus on the type face laid-in. Printed by George Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin. Slipcase with light fading and signs of soil from handling.....
Madrid: en la Imprenta de Musica de Don Eugenio Gieco, 1754. Hardcover. Septima impression, 1754, original vellum, (32) 207 pp, very good copy. Feijoo (1676-1764) was a Spanish monk and educator who was almost singlehandedly responsible for ushering in the age of enlightenment in Spain by his popular encyclopedic writings.....
Paris: Chez Abouin, Emery & Clousier, 1687. Hardcover. Early edition. 12mo, original calf, very good with handsome gilt spine; minor rubbing, contents very clean. 365 pp. A Catholic theologian and historian, he earned the respect of both Louis XIV and his court and of French Enlightenment figures. Voltaire thought this.....
Boston: 1898. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, coal black cloth with gilt cover, very good, light wear, small abrasion to front board, light discoloration to spine, contents very good, 255 pp, illustrated throughout. Rare. Author blames the Turks and the Ottoman Empire for mass killings of Armenian Christians and gives a......
Wiesbaden: F. A. Brockhaus, 1964-5. Third edition. Hardcover. Seven volumes. Third edition ("Dritte, vollig neuarbeitete Auflage"), Leather-backed cloth boards, gilt titles on spines, gilt top edges, illustrated (including some in color and some fold-outs), clean unmarked text, Near Fine books, age-toning to some pages, some vols. with a bit of.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Second printing. Hardcover. Second printing in first state dust jacket (with "$5.95" on front flap), 1961. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 443 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Good dust jacket, owner's name-stamps on the front flyleaf and the bottom edge, some.....
Instanbul: Cem Yayinevi. Various. Paperback. Six volumes. Various editions, most vols. published in 1978. Softcovers, clean unmarked text, Very Good copies, name-stamp on vol. 1's front flyleaf, vol. 1 with a small ink-notation on the titlepage, a bit of dustiness to the covers, light rubbing or wear to the edges.....
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1906. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1906, green printed wraps, about very good, light wear to edges of wraps, stamp of noted Leipzig doctor Tibor Benedek, who specialized in dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases. 57 pp, two plates, one a lithograph, the other a phototype.....
London: Architectural Association, 1986. First edition. Black Folio Box. Signed and numbered by Holmes on front of box! First edition, 1986, no. 377/1000, paperback quarto + 20 silkscreen prints in cardboard box, 28pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book is near fine with mild rubbing to panels, stapled binding tight.....
Late 19th century, printed cotton, 27.5 x 29 inches, illustrations printed in black and cream on orange ground within double rule and Greek key border. A striking memento of Orange Ireland, and the northern Irish Protestant fraternity of Orangemen, named for William of Orange who defeated Catholic James II in.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 1875, First Edition of the author's first book. One of 1510 copies printed. 496 pp. Hardcover, original maroon cloth, 8vo. "James R. Osgood and Co." in gilt at foot of spine. Very Good copy: Spine sunned; shallow chipping to cloth at spine.....
Tokyo: Neuron Publishing Co. First printing. Hardcover. With typed letter signed by Kanno to a colleague loosely inserted. First edition, ca. 2002. Quarto, hardcover in dust jacket, 2168 pp., heavily illustrated (in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light rubbing to the edges of.....
Barcelona: F. Seix, (1901). Hardcover. (1901) Hardcover 4to's each containing 100 plates printed in black and white on tan backgrounds, with descriptions in French and Spanish. Gentle ex-library copies with a small blue stamp on the verso of each plate. Volume I in original brown and green cloth, rubbed at.....