London: J. Tonson, 1712. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set in 2 volumes. 1712, First Edition. Hardcovers, 12mo., 18th-century bindings, quarter leather over marbled boards, leather and gilt title labels, raised bands. Frontispiece and half-title in the first volume. Light rubbing to the boards; fresh leather spines. Pages occasionally trimmed close.....
Measures 12 x 9.25, good with some foxing and folds. Unrecorded: no copies found in any institution. Almost certainly from Jefferson Clollege, ca. 1860, later Washington & Jefferson, the three column poem lambastes and mocks fellow graduating classmates either by name or nickname: Traitor Zack, Ten Mile Yelper, Bombastic Freeman.....
Hardcover. Large dark red leatherette binder housing 54 8x10 photos, often accompanied by the original negative, marked INVESTIGATION on title sheet, from the Pittsburgh law firm McArdle, Harrington, Feeney & McLaughlin seemingly detailing safety hazards of mainly PA Railroad cars, including a few interior shots and some of the train.....
13th Governor of Missouri and longterm Congressman, the first letter, three pages, is about the backroom dealing prior to the Presidential election of 1856 (a three-way election between Filmore, Buchanan and Fremont). Millard Fillmore is referred to as 'Filly.' The election was closely contested, and the letter is quite honest.....
Amsterdam: L. Elzevir, 1652. Hardcover. 12mo, old vellum, very good but quite soiled binding, text very good, 715 (5) pp.
Boston & London: Houghton Mifflin; Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1930. First printing. No. 9A of 75 copies (of a total of 225), signed. Quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards, near fine with just minor handling to vellum. 183 pp, occasional mounted color plates.
Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by both Goldbaum and Rennie! First edition, 1973, hardcover with metallic silver boards in dust jacket, small quarto, 128pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with hint of wear to edges, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ.....
Praha: Klub modernich nakladatelu, 1930. Pictorial wraps, very good sharp copy, minor wear and soil, 284 (4) pp, with illustrations and portraits photos including by Sudek. Literary works by many Czech authors but also Valery, Kipling, Goethe, Wells, Huxley, Flaubert, D. H. Lawrence (a selection in Czech of Lady Chatterly's.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Review Copy, with letter from the publisher laid in. 1943. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in dust jacket. 410pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Shallow chipping and perforations to dj extremities, dj clipped, else complete and in mylar. Edges and.....
Dresden: Verlagsbuchhandlung von Rudolf Kuntze, 1858. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1858. Cloth-backed boards, illustrated (many are double-page), 182 pp. + illustrations, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, this copy belonged to weapons-scholar Stephen V. Grancsay and bears his small bookplate on the front pastedown, light age-toning to some pages.....
Leipzig: Marcheschen, 1751. Hardcover. 1751, bound in plain stiff wraps. 117, (15) pp. Library bookplate (with inked withdrawn stamp) on the inside of the front wrap; remnants of library label on spine; no other signs of past ownership; contents lightly foxed; loss to wraps at the spine ends; secure binding.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Hardcover. Bound volume of Ticknor and Field's Our Young Folk illustrated monthly, including issues January through December, 1866. Hardcover, 8vo. in 3/4 leather and buckram, five raised bands, all edges marbled. 772pp. with nice color engraved title, frontis, illustrated throughout with in text engravings and.....
Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1994. Hardcover. Two volume complete set! Printed cloth covered boards in dust jackets, octavos, 2022pp. and 1333pp., not illustrated. Books show mild rubbing and edgewear to boards and spines, bindings tight, text of volume two has pencil underlining and marginalia. DJs rubbed and edgeworn, showing small tears.....
Lake Geneva, WI: TSR Rules, 1976. First edition. Paperback. First printing. 4to, staple-bound paperback. Illustrated in b&w. This volume is in quite good shape for its age with mild creasing to wraps and pages. Last, perforated page is still attached. Fading highlighting to about five pages and minor ink marks.....
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1925. First printing. Hardcover. Stated first edition, 1925, special edition for publisher's 'friends among the bookmen.' No. 373 of 500 signed boldly. Cloth backed boards with pictorial woodcut label to front board, printed paper spine label, very good or better copy, lightest wear to edges of.....