Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, C. 1945. First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, signed as usual on cover, and inscribed to Monroe Wheeler on title page. Very good with just slight wear and soil, replete with b/w reproductions of Walkowitz's drawings. First written in 1913, this is the first of the.....
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, C. 1945. First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, signed as usual on cover, and inscribed to Monroe Wheeler on title page. Good with some fading and wear to covers, contents very good, replete with reproductions of Walkowitz's drawings of Duncan (he made over 5,000 drawings of.....
London: Printed for the Author by S. Gosnell, 1800. First printing. Hardcover. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 2 volumes, in late 19th century half calf and marbled boards, gilt spines, raised bands, excellent condition. Bookplates of Charles Arthur Wynne-Finch (1841-1903) and of Keith Andrews of Edinburgh. With frontispiece, folding plan in.....
Roma: Nella Stamperia della Reverenda Camera Apost. 1695. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (9.5 x 7 inches), old vellum, good to very good with some darkening and rubbing to binding, contents very good overall, with shallow yellowish stain to a portion of the upper edge of the text, and small divot.....
Detroit: Chamberlain Publishing Co., 1884. First printing. Hardcover. First edition of the revised work rewritten by Ford; originally published by Davies in 1867. 8vo, publisher's deluxe half leather and cloth boards, very good, light wear and rubbing, 508 pp, illustrated, including chapters on apprenticing, manufacturing, mechanics, and the workingman. One.....
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1919. First American edition. Hardcover. First published in Dublin in 1909. Boards in dust jacket, book good with some wear along spine, light loss along front outer joint and some loss to top of spine, jacket in pieces, most of it still there, but spine.....
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First printing. Hardcover. Large square quarto, cloth, lacking dust jacket, good plus copy with some soil and spottiness to covers, offsetting and tanning to endpapers, some rust marks from paperclips to preliminary pages, INSCRIBED BY MARTHA GRAHAM, "Nellie Bond, with love, Martha." With.....
1971. Art measures 12.5 x 18 inches, mixed media on black glossy paper with dark red acetate overlay, white paint, etc. mounted at top edge to slightly larger gray card backing sheet, very good with light wear, mottling and rubbing to the acetate. This is the original artwork that appeared.....
New York: Bradley Phillips, 1962. 11.25 x 9 inches, embossed black folder with cover label that gives title and author, and Bradley Phillips' address in pen; he was Lang's husband. Contains about 50 pages of poems in purple mimeo/ditto, and four carbons of poems (some waterstaining to upper right corners.....
NP: NP, Ca. 1890-1900. Paperback. 7.25 x 5.25 inches, pictorial wraps, fair copy with some wear and tanning to covers, 1.5 x 1.5 inch loss to corner of rear wrap, contents good, 32 pp of advice for both sexes including how to woo a widow, how to make love to.....
Cadiz, OH: Ohio Card Company, Ca. 1880s. Single double-sided sheet on green printed paper measuring 22 x 6 inches, mounted on which are 6 real samples of various cards, in relief-printed chromolithographs with die-cut borders. Accordion folded, light wear, very rare.
New York: John Jay Phelps, 1831. Hardcover. 2nd edition, revised. Small 8vo, original calf, good plus copy with general mild wear and rubbing, both sides of the front flyleaf taken up with an original poem, "To Lib and Suse after House Cleaning" dated May 17, 1842, but the author's name.....
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth backed floral decorated boards, very good, lightest wear and soil. Humorous poems illustrated with funny vignette woodcuts.
Munich: Verlag Lars Muller, 1996. First printing. Paperback. 6.75 x 5 inches, wraps, very good, light rubbing to edges, ca. 150 pp. illustrated, some in color, including work from the Studio Mendell & Oberer.
Buffalo: D. Ransom, 1905. Paperback. 6.25 x 4 inches, pictorial orange wraps, very good with light wear and soil, light wear and damage to last page; 32 pp of standard recipes, plus ads for various quack medicines including Trask's magnetic ointment, Ransom's Hive (croup) Syrup and Tolu, Miller's Magnetic Balm.....
New York: Shepherd & Derom Galleries, 2006. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, very good with lightest soil, inscribed to friends of Nama from Pittsburgh by Charles Simic in pencil, in 2007. 79 pp, illustrated, much in color, reprinting Nama's prints and the accompanying poems. Uncommon.
Berlin: Moeller & Heidmann, 1922. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear, 104 pp, illustrated, some in bluetone. Laid in is a program for the 1923 Wagnerian Opera Festival at the Metropolitan Theatre in Cleveland and a couple other related clippings.
New York: George H. Doran, C. 1914. First edition. Hardcover. Later issue with "Printed in the United States of America" on copyright page. Rebound in 3/4 morocco and blue cloth boards, very good, ight wear and loss to spine cap, light wear to corners of boards. 75 pp. "I think.....
Paris: G. Masson, 1881. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary morocco over patterned boards, about very good, some rubbing and wear to edges and corners of boards, light rubbing to leather, mild loss at spine cap, contents very good, with mild foxing throughout, light strengthening of inner hinges, bookplate, 284 pp.....
Paperback. Stapled gray wraps, 4.25 x 3 inches each, 8 pages, good condition, some wear and soil. All remarkably funny and smutty.
Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771. First American edition. Hardcover. The first volume only. Royal 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches), original calf, good copy with some rubbing and wear to binding, neat strengthening to front outer joint, contents very good, signed by Thomas Leaming, Jr. in 1772 on title page and also.....
Portsmouth, NH: 1896. Hardcover. 6.75 x 4 inches, full leather, good plus with some wear, stains and rubbing to covers, contents very good, handwritten recipes, 77 pp. filled in, with another dozen recipes either typed or handwritten loosely inserted. The recipe book of Fannie B. Shipley, dated 1896; she was.....
New York: BBC, (1940?). One sheet folded to make 4 pp, 11 x 8.5, very good with horizontal fold and light soil. A brochure advertising "London calling..." programming from 730-1030 pm daily with headline news, Canada at the Front, Today in England, Commentaries on the Day's News, and The War.....
New York: British Library of Information, 1940. First printing. Paperback. Pamphlet, 8 pp, good plus with some soil and light wear to covers. Includes double-page Nazi War Aims map. Uncommon.
New York: British Library of Information, 1940. 12 x 9 single sheet printed on recto, very good, horizontal fold. Reprints Curie's June 27, 1940 article on the fall of France and the complicity of the French government in caving to the Germans. The battle for France lasted from May 10.....