Le Sicilien, ou l'Amour peintre. Comédie-ballet de Molière
Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1881. First printing. Quarto, wraps, good with some wear and loss to wraps, 140 pp, music, text, some small illustrations.
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The National Pictorial Primer, designed for the use of Schools and Families...
New York: Geo. F. Cooledge, Ca. 1850. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5 inches tall), cloth backed printed yellow boards, 48 pp, illustrated throughout and with advertisement pages for various Webster's dictionaries and reference books, very good copy, light wear to cloth and subtle reinforcement of inner hinges with japanese tissue, scarce book.....
Borrowed from Beatrice Warde: Selections from the addresses and essays of BW commemorating Mrs. Warde's visit to the U.S. in April, 1967
(Jackson Heights, NY): F. E. Powers, 1967. Pamphlet, 12 unnumbered pages, fine copy. Handsome printing and quite uncommon with only two located in institutions by OCLC.
The Summer My Mother Fell in Love (Poems) with Photographs by Ray Farbarik
Seattle: Slavic Press, 1988. First printing. 30 copies printed, handsome chapbook in gray wraps with photos done by the Van Dyke process with a Kodak no. 2, about 40 pp., near fine with light fading to spine, and laid-in letter from 1988 to Hilary Masters then teaching at CMU, regarding.....
Jackson & Lee. Legends in Gray. The Paintings of Mort Künstler
Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press; Easton Press, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. One of 2000 signed by the artist. Quarto, blue-gray leather gilt, with pictorial onlay, watered silk endpapers, 180 pp, illustrated in color.
Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or an Attempt to Collect and Preserve Some of the Speeches, Orations, and Proceedings, with Sketches and Remarks on Men and Things,
Baltimore: William Ogden Niles, 1822. First printing. Tall 8vo, modern black cloth wraps with leather spine label, contents very good and clean, ownership signature of William Garrett Bibb, 1897; 495 pp, printed in double columns.
Pittsburgh Pirates World Series 1960 Souvenir Program
Pittsburgh: Pitt Sportservice, 1960. 11 inches tall, pictorial color wraps, very good, some soil and spottiness to rear cover and last page of text. Approximately 100 pp.
The Applause of Virtue, in four parts. Consisting of Several Divine and Moral Essays towards the obtaining of True Virtue
London: Printed for John Graves, 1705. First printing. The copy of the author's sister, Eliza. Large 8vo (8.25 inches tall; 20.5 cm), contemporary deep red calf with gilt ruling to covers, heavily gilded spine, very good, (24) 262 pp. with three engraved frontispieces for the first three parts and engraved.....
Tenants Law: or, the Laws Concerning Landlords, Tenants and Farmers...(1741)
London: Henry Lintot, 1741. Hardcover. Twelfth Edition, with Great Additions. 12mo, old polished calf, good copy, spine oddly varnished, bookplate of the Los Angeles County Law Library, contents very good. 365 pp, ca. 50 pp. index/table. 1745 signature of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (1708-1770), a Scottish nobleman who.....
The Song of the Indian Wars
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Hardcover. Later printing, rare in jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, light wear, jacket good with edgewear and light loss, some darkening and soil to spine and rear panel.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought (the Child in Primitive Culture) -- inscribed to his future wife
New York: Macmillan, 1896. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, half leather, good copy with some neat reinforcement to inner hinges and outer joints, light rubbing and wear, discoloration to spine, inscribed to "Belle Cushman" affectionately from the author, Jan. 17 1896 (he would marry Isabel Cushman two years later in 1898).....
Account Of Custer's Last Campaign And The Battle Of Little Big Horn, U. S. , By Captain E. S. Godfrey, Who Commanded Co. K In The Fighting
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Hardcover. One of 2100 numbered copies, tall 8vo, red cloth, very good copy. 86 pp, illustrated, map endpapers.
George C. Marshall (3 of 4 volumes): Education of a General; Ordeal and Hope; Organizer of Victory
New York: Viking Press, 1963, 1967, 1973. Hardcover. First volume is a first edition, the second and third volumes are second printings. Cloth in dust jackets, all signed by their owner on title page, small note on flyleaf of third volume. Books are near fine clean copies in very good.....
1843 manuscript handwritten translation of Dumas's preface to Col. Henry Bouquet's 1764 expedition against the Ohio Indians and account of the 1763 Battle of Bushy Run
(Pittsburgh): 1843. 12 leaves, handwritten in 1843 either by Neville Craig (certainly he added notes, etc.) or a hired clerk. Dumas had translated Bouquet's journal from English into French in 1769, so his preface is the only part that needed to be translated into English for Craig's purposes. Craig notes.....
The Days That Are No More
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1921). First American edition. Wraps, good copy wear and soil to covers, especially along spine, contents good and clean. 192 pp., illustrated. Possibly a prepublication proof or advance review copy since the front and rear wrap are the same text.
Paintings In The Collection Of Joseph Widener At Lynnewood Hall
Elkins Park, PA: Privately Printed, 1931. Tall 8vo, flexible cloth covers, very good. 228 (2) pp, illustrated. The founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art.
The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, with his letters and journals, and his life, by his son, 8 volumes
London: John Murray, 1834. Hardcover. 8 volumes, 12mo, later 19th century binding in green calf gilt, good solid set, general rubbing, some tanning and mellowing to spine color, several labels either absent or half there, contents good, all hinges and joints sturdy.
The Feebly Inhibited: Nomadism, or the Wandering Impulse, with Special Reference to Heredity, Inheritance of Temperament
Washington DC: The Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1915. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, bound in gray-blue library cloth, 158 pp, illustrated, good copy, ex-library the National Library of Medicine (Surgeon-General's Library).
Three Lives and All of Them are Mine -- 2 copies, first edition and revised edition
(Pittsburgh): Self Published, 1972-1973. Hardcover. First volume signed by author. Both in cloth, both very good with light rubbing and soil to covers, owner's name and bookplate. Autobiographical sketches by a Pittsburgh corporation businessman and foundation head.
William Henry Hunt 1790-1864, Life and Work, with a Catalogue
London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1982. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, very good with light wear and soil. 264 pp, illustrated, much in color.
Law, Legistlation and Liberty, 3 volumes; Rules and Order, Mirage of Social Justice, The Political Order of a Free People
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978-1980. Paperback. 3 volumes, trade paperbacks, good with pen underlining in each volume.
Yale 1883: The Book of the Class compiled after its Quartercentenary Reunion
New Haven: Yale, 1910. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, deep blue cloth gilt, very good, 320 pp, well illustrated and with portraits of each of the graduates and what they've been up to.
Nostoi. Children of Prometheus, A Tetralogy
Seoul: Space Publishing, 1987. First printing. Paperback. Small quarto, wraps with dust jacket, very good, 6 pp. with very minor underlining in pen.
Archaeological survey of Egypt, Nineteenth memoir: "The Island of Meroe" by J. W. Crowfoot, "Meroitic Inscriptions Part I. - Soba to Dangel" by F. Ll. Griffith
London: Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1911. First printing. Hardcover. 4to, cloth backed boards, good copy, general wear to binding, rounding to corners, minor ex-library marks, some pages with corners missing, but a complete readable solid copy. 94 pp, 35 plates.
Excavations in Baluchistan 1925, Sampur Mound, Mastung and Sohr Damb, Nal. Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 35.
Calcutta: Government of India, Central Publication Branch, 1929. First printing. Quarto, original gray printed wraps, good with neat paper reinforcement to spine, light wear to covers, contents very good, age toning, light occasional foxing including to fore edge of text block. 89 pp, index, 24 plates.