New York: Lumen Books, 1989. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear. With laid in business card with note from Ronald Christ, the publisher of Lumen Books, and 2 pp. press release about this book, a bit edge-rumpled. Sarduy was a Cuban poet and critic whose works sometimes.....
Pittsburgh: James McMillin, 1924. First Printing. Wraps. Quarto, 11 x 8.5 inches, illustrated wraps with string cord tie, very good, light tanning and soil to covers, 32 unnumbered pages of facsimiles of letters of testimonial nature, illustrated with portraits of Boggs and Buhl. Mary Roberts Rinehart, from Pittsburgh, contributes a......
New York: Youth Publishers, (1933). First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light soil. 16 pp. Uncommon. The YCL had as many as 12,000 members by 1939.
New York: National Military Publishing Company, (1893). First Printing. Complete collection of 24 chromolithograph prints on sheets measuring approx. 14.5 x 11 inches, with cover of the original box-lid or card chemise the prints were housed in. Each plate has a smaller black and white printed reduction of the plates.....
Cordoba: Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, 1962. First Printing. Wraps. 13.75 x 8.75 inches, stapled wraps with title typed and taped to cover, good to very good, some yellowing and wear. Inscribed by Liberani to Juan Adolfo Vasquez, an Argentine scholar and philosopher who taught at the University of Pittsburgh. xiii.....
Paris: L'Edition de Luxe, C. 1918. First Printing. Wraps. No. 475/1000 on papier Hollande. Quarto, 13.5 x 10.25 inches, stiff wraps with silk cord tie, very good, light general soil and darkening to covers, tanning and discoloration especially to rear cover, contents very good and bright, very handsome illustrations (which.....
(Chicago): (Life Magazine), 1943. First Printing. Wraps. 14 x 10.25 inches, wraps, (41) - 55 pp., illustrated, including two color map sheets/patterns with directions how to cut and construct the model. Very good, light wear and soil. Offprint from Vol. 14 no. 9 (March 1, 1943) of Life Magazine. Extremely.....
New York: 1917. Wraps. 12 x 9 inches, pictorial stiff wraps with silk string tie, very good, wraps show general light wear, soil, darkening and rubbing, contents very good, occasional small smudge. 36 unnumbered pages and numerous color illustrations including double-page plate. Based loosely on Ali Baba and the Forty.....
New York: Scribner's, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. First edition with the Wyeth illustrations. 8vo, publisher's black cloth with color pictorial onlay, very good, light wear. Plates collated complete.
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's wraps, good with some wear and loss to rear wrap, original glassine overlay also yellowing and with loss and chipping. Contents very good, printed on thick rag paper, title page in red and black, uncut, untrimmed. Essays on Byron, Macaulay, Carlyle and.....
New York: American Tract Society, C. 1856. First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 6.25 x 4 inches, embossed charcoal black cloth, gilt spine, very good. 120 pp, engraved frontispiece. A biography for youth of Samuel Budgett (1794-1851), an English merchant and devout Methodist who applied Christian principles to his trade and made.....
Smethport, PA: Rogers, 1890. 7.25 x 6 inches, single sheet folded to make 4 pages, printed on thick deliberately old looking yellow paper, with lots of jokey old English spellings, to advertise a concern in Smethport, with a program of songs given in the inner two pages and a funny.....
Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, (1918). Wraps. No date, but Worldcat dates this 1918. 8vo, pictorial wraps, very good, light wear and soil. 41 pp.
Paris: Ca. 1780. 11 x 9 inches, single sheet with printed form acknowledging receipt of a letter, sent from his chateau des Tuleries. Good with some light wear and soil, light separation along a fold near at middle of the left edge.
8 x 10 photo with stamp on verso from Wide World Photo. Fair to good condition, corner creasing, tape remnants on verso. Inscribed to famous autograph collector Rev. Cornelius Greenway of Brooklyn, whose collection grew to 42 volumes of 2,500 pictures and 3,000 manuscripts. He would persistently send his requests.....
Yonkers: Arlington Chemical Company, (1892). First Printing. Wraps. Undated but OCLC dates this 1892 (4 copies located: Yale, Harvard, UVA, National Library of Medicine). 12mo, 5.75 x 4.75 inches, 32 unnumbered illustrated pages, some tinted red, with hemp string tie, on stiff tan slightly marbled paper to imitate papyrus since.....
Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., 1891. Wraps. 7.5 x 5 inches, wraps, good with general light wear, dog-eared pages, one small tape repair to inner front wrap, general tanning. 22 pp. Lists 293 plays with short descriptions and estimated lengths of time. Many of the dramas are farces and.....
No publisher, postmarked 1933. 6 x 4.25 inches, 10 postcards in b/w, accordion folded into blue-gray printed outer envelope with panorama of the Seton Hill campus. Light wear and soil, with short note from two sisters at Seton Hill to two girls/women, Mollie & Cecilia in Pittsburgh. Uncommon!
Cambridge: West End Press, 1977. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, last page tanned by an inserted newspaper review of this book by Judith Vollmer who would become one of Oresick's dearest friends and edit his last book, inscribed to Saul (Diamond), the poet's supervisor.....
Hardcover. 11 x 8.5 inches, full embossed decorated brown leather, very good, some wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good, with over 125 snapshot-sized photos of hunting camp & cabin in upper Ontario about 200 miles north of Toronto, off the NE shore of Lake Huron. Showing hunters collecting.....
A remarkable group of 13 letters from Leib or Leybe Salmon (1869-1955, b. in either Lithuania or Poland), a Jewish merchant of dry goods, sundries, shoes, glass and silver -- M. Salmon & Son, Beaver Falls -- to his cousin Bertha Quint in the Lower East Side of New York.....
London: The Astolat Press, 1903. Hardcover. 7 x 4.25 inches, full red publisher's leather, heavily gilt decorated front cover, very good, slight bowing of boards, light wear to top of spine, offsetting to endpapers, beautifully printed, with large decorated initial letters to each verse in red. Lovely giftworthy book.
New York: Galerie Chalette, 1960. First Printing. Wraps. No. 343 of 970. Quarto, 9.5 x 9.5 inches, stiff velveteen-covered wraps with dye-cut gilt-plated onlay, very good, light wear and slight rippling of first two pages. 62 pp, illustrated, a few plates in color.
Ligonier, PA: CASIRT Legacy Edition, Tunnel Press, 1996. Hardcover. 11 x 11 dark green cloth portfolio with ties housing a nested book measuring 5.75 x 4.25 inches with handprinted pages on the symbolism of flowers and on the other side a 9.5 x 9.5 inch original florigraphic work of art.....
Dublin: Printed for W. Whitestone, et al. 1777. Hardcover. First Dublin edition, printed the same year as the English edition. 12mo, 6.75 x 4.125 inches, mid-19th century half dark green calf and marbled boards, very good, light wear and rubbing to binding, internally very bright, previous owner's modern bookplate, and.....