Beaton: The Art of the Scrapbook
New York: Assouline, 2010. Hardcover. Black stamped yellow cloth boards in slipcase, large quarto [11.75" x 14.5"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book as new, feels unread. Slipcase has hint of wear to corners.
New York: Assouline, 2010. Hardcover. Black stamped yellow cloth boards in slipcase, large quarto [11.75" x 14.5"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book as new, feels unread. Slipcase has hint of wear to corners.
Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [10.5" x 13.75"], heavily illustrated in color and b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild rubbing and soil.
New York: Abbeville Press, 2021. First printing. Hardcover. Gilt stamped black cloth boards with mounted plate on front board, tied binding, oblong quarto [13.75" x 9.75"], illustrated in color. Book has hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Clamshell box has mild rubbing, small scuff to.....
Kempen, Germany: teNeues, 2009. Hardcover. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [11" x 13.5"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ rubbed, mild scratch and sticker ghost to rear panel.
New York: Privately Printed, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo, in patterned boards, good with some wear and tanning to boards, light foxing to contents, which are printed on rice paper. No. 20 of 75 copies. 35 pp.
Albany, NY: Montgomery Ward, 1934. Wraps. 13.25 x 9.5 inches, softcover, good to very good, light general wear to covers, short repaired tear to upper corner of front cover, contents a little tanned. 496 pp, illustrated, much in color, a few samples/swatches on inside front cover.
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1969. First Printing. Wraps. Small quarto, 11.5 x 8 inches, softcover, very good. 38 pp. text, 22 b/w photoplates, some folding, the transcriptions of the facsimiles by W. Braxton Ross Jr.
London: John Murray, 1872. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's beveled blue cloth gilt, good with light wear, ex-library marks (bookplate, stamps, signs of pocket removal, white call letters on spine). Text nice and clean, a bit toned. Includes J. C. MacDonnell's "Cathedrals in Ireland, Their Past and Future," among many.....
New York: The Cathedral Library Association, 1913. Second Edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Lucia D. Pychowska. 8vo, publisher's brick cloth gilt, very good, minor wear. 507 pp.
New York: Jesuit Mission Press, C. 1936. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth backed pictorial boards with felt-paper, very good, light wear, a bit musty, library pocket on rear pastedown but no other library marks (kind of strange). 417 pp, illustrated. Produced by Jesuit missionaries from their journal, The Baghdadi.
Springfield: Illinois State Journal Company, 1870. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's pebbled dark burgundy cloth stamped in gilt on spine, good with light wear to binding, ex-library marks including bookplate, perforated stamp and other marks on title page, no other marks. 549, iii pp. Not illustrated.
Warsaw: Arkady, 1967. Hardcover. Quarto, 12 x 10 inches, publisher's medium brown cloth, very good, no dust jacket, light wear and fading (spine lettering almost completely unreadable), contents very good, previous owner's name on pastedown, light soil and yellowing to endpapers, heavily illustrated with b/w photoplates, text on pale yellow.....
St. Louis: Eden Publishing House, C. 1885. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 7.75 x 5.25 inches, deep brick cloth stamped in black, very good, light wear, light soil to endpapers, contents tanned. 92 pp, illustrated with woodcuts and handwriting samples. A reading and handwriting primer for German-American youth, on behalf of.....
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse, 1902. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 7 x 5 inches, dark green cloth gilt, very good. 119 pp, 32 plates, several of which fold out.
(Pittsburgh): The Fragment Press, 1972. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth with wraparound paper label, good, slight mustiness, stain and divots to pastedown and some kind of faint indentation to top of front board. Edition of 82 copies, this one signed in pencil on last page by Peterson. Charming poems and.....
New York: Manhattan Motion Picture Institute, C. 1913. First Printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 7 x 4.75 inches, publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover. Very good with previous owner's blind embossed initials on flyleaf and handwritten signature from 1921 (possibly a Leon S. Mann). Introductory advice for screenwriters.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1892). Hardcover. Single volume from the 7-volume set of his works. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth with darker brown leather spine label. Very good, light foxing to outermost pages. The first 200 pp. collect 20 articles and essays on slavery, the rest are on "Reform and Politics," "The.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, C. 1888. Hardcover. Early edition. Previous bookseller has pencilled "1st edition" on flyleaf, but without a date on the title page we doubt this. Vol. I only. Small 8vo, publisher's green cloth, good copy with light wear to binding, scattered small pale spots to boards, modern bookplate.....
Aachen: Andreas Magdanz, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. 15.5 x 13 inches, cloth in dust jacket, fine copy in two-part cardboard box (tray and cover). According to the colophon, only 75 copies were accompanied by an original photographic print, "Gasmaskenprufgerat" (ours signed on the verso); sheet size of the print is.....
Wheeling, WV: Chester R. Hubbard, 1931. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 7.75 x 5.25 inches, cloth backed boards, very good, light wear and soil, inscribed by Ben DeMier Miller to his friend Amos Horstman (a Presbyterian minister in Arlington VA); Miller contributed "The Beautiful River of the South Branch of the.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. First Printing. Hardcover. First English language translation, but the English edition also came out in 1878, unsure of priority, but probably this edition since Schuyler was American. Publisher's dark red cloth stamped in black, good with some wear, rubbing and darkening, including wear and.....
Paris and Lyon: Librairie Catholique de Perisse Freres, 1857. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. 8vo, old calf, good to very good, some rubbing and wear, spine faded but gilt still bright, contents very good and clean, light foxing. 466 pp.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, publisher's brown cloth, good with some wear and loss to spine ends, corners a little worn, contents a bit tanned, table of contents written on front pastedown in pencil, and with the long folding color plate of the.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1858. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 10 x 7 inches, publisher's brown cloth, unusually near fine copy but for a small stain to center of front board. 429 pp plus 7 pp. list of subscribers, full page steel engraving of Pittsburgh in 1790, long color foldout of the.....
New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1818. Hardcover. Vol. I & 2 only of four, the second volume also having a title page and separate pagination. Old brown calf, good copy, rather rubbed and used but sturdily bound, the contents toned and slightly foxed. Entirely comprised of the first two.....