Twelve Poems
London: Chatto and Windus, 1980. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, fine copy. Preface by Peter Pears.
New Arrivals
Vanessa Bell's Family Album
London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, in dust jacket, near fine copy, lightest handling. 144 pp, photos with captions.
Curiosities of Literature, school prize binding
London: Routledge, 1866. Hardcover. New edition in one volume. 8vo, full leather, prize school binding from Brighton College with their gilt insignia on front cover, 582 pp, printed in two columns in miniscule font. Light rubbing.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Multi-Variorum Edition. English, French, German, Italian, and Danish translations comparatively arranged in accordance with the text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, with further selections, notes, biographies, and other material
Boston: L. C. Page Co., 1898. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes, cream cloth decorated in gilt and red, very good, light wear, spines a little darkened and soiled. Plates on velin with tissue guards.
New and Old a Volume of Verse
Boston: Osgood, 1880. First American edition. Blue cloth 8vo, very good, light wear at spine head.
Fancy Dresses Described, or What to Wear at Fancy Balls
London: Debenham & Freeborn, (1887). Hardcover. 5th edition, preface dated Dec. 1887. 8vo, dark blue cloth gilt, very good, with 16 chromolithograph plates in very good to fine condition, and 16 monochrome plates in bistre. 253 (2) pp. Better than is usually found, and with some plates, like The Hornet.....
A Companion to Seaton's Map of Palestine and Egypt
New York: Baker, Godwin, Ca. 1860. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, frontispiece engraving of Jerusalem, 129 pp.
The Roadmender - in Sangorski & Sutcliffe blanket-weave binding
London: Duckworth, 1923. 8vo, full dark green calf gilt, raised bands, morocco tan spine labels, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with blind tooled blanket-weave pattern on boards. Very good plus with just a touch of wear. With handsome color plates.
1880s Photo Album: Eastern Pennsylvania -- Stroudsburg, Philadelphia, Lewistown, Allentown, Easton
11 inches tall, pillowed red velvet, spine worn, contents good, with 29 cabinet sized photos (5.5 x 4 inches) with studios mainly in Eastern PA: Philadelphia, Stroudsburg, Lewistown, Allentown, Easton, with a couple from other places or states. Walton is the only family name we saw, on two of them.....
1880s photo album Altoona, Hollidaysburg families
11 inches tall, handsome leather aesthetic movement binding, 38 photos inside, 22 cabinet sized photos (5.5 x 4 inches) and 16 CDV sized photos (3.5 x 2 inches), mainly of families in Altoona and Hollidaysburg, plus a couple who had their photos taken in a Denver studio, and one from.....
Sammtliche Sonaten fur das Pianoforte, Erster Theil, Nos. 1-10
Stuttgart: Hallberger, Ca. 1880s. Hardcover. Large quarto, leather backed cloth boards, very good, light wear and rubbing, contents VG. With the first 10 piano sonatas.
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Annual Reports, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1901-1902, plus weekly schedules for 1901-1902
1895-1896 are bound together in modern gray wraps with original covers bound in, the other annuals are separate, in original wraps, and the weekly schedules (from April 1901 to end of December, 1902) are also bound in modern gray wraps: each schedule is one page, whereas the annual reports are.....
An Apologie for Poetrie, 1595
London: 1869. Hardcover. Large paper edition (8.25 inches tall, 21 cm), original lithographed dark gray decorative card cover, bound in early 20th century full grained black leather, title in gilt on cover and spine, light wear, contents VG, a bit tanned. 72 pp.
The Last Fight of the REVENGE at Sea, under the Command of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Grenville, on the 10-11th of September, 1591
London: 1871. Hardcover. Large paper edition (8.25 inches tall, 21 cm), original lithographed dark gray decorative card cover, bound in early 20th century full grained black leather, title in gilt on cover and spine, light wear, contents VG, a bit tanned. 96 pp. Owner's embossed name stamp on title page.....
Areopagitica...preceded by Illustrative Documents
London: 1869. Part of the English Reprints series, this is a Large Paper edition (8.25 inches tall, 21 cm), original stiff card lithographed decorative dark gray cover, bound in early 20th century full grained black leather, gilt title on cover. Light wear to binding, contents VG. 80 pp.
Boxiana Review, Seventh Issue 1971
Philadelphia: Harry W. Pegg, 1971. Quarto, pictorial white wraps, very good. Approx. 30 pp, illustrated. Dedicated to James J. Jeffries.
Spalding Sports Show for 1947
A. G. Spalding Bros. 1947. 11 inches tall, color covers, 12 pp. of cartoons of various sports stars: Walter Travis, Red Grange, John L. Sullivan, Jim Thorpe, Joie Ray, et al. Mullin was a well known sports cartoonist, inventor of the prototypical Brooklyn Bums cartoons.
1960s Supper Menu, Lou Walters Latin Quarter, NYC
14 inches tall, light wear, we're guessing 1960s by the prices -- still high for the time, but it was a nightclub at 48th and Broadway, so prices might be a little higher there than elsewhere. $4.50 for the "chopped sirloin delight" is hard to stomach, though.
Snowball - Song by Gus Kahn, Frank Galvin, Elliston Ames
New York: Jerome H. Remick, C. 1924. Sheet music, 5 pp, very good, light wear, cover by Starmer, with inset of fiddler Florence Richardson. Lyrics tell the story of a black kid whose teased and called "Snowball" by the white kids; he goes home crying and his mother comforts him.....
Stow Monthly Visitor, October 1846 & April 1847: The Orphan / The Contrast in Death
Edinburgh: R. Marshall Printer, W. Innes, Bookseller, 1846-47. 8.25 inches tall, single sheets folded once to make 4 pp. -- 2 narratives with religious themes. Both unrecorded in OCLC, COPAC, etc. Part of the Tract Movement in Scotland and England, designed to appeal to the purses of the wealthy, to.....
1966 Program brochure signed by Fonteyn for Summer School of Ballet, Camberley, Surrey England
Approx. 9 inches tall, 4 pp, signed by Fonteyn, the patron of the summer school.
3 large 1920s photos of a jazz-age dancer, Kansas City MO
Photos measure roughly 9 x 7.5 inches showing a jazz-age dancer. All three show lightest edgewear and are backed to mounting paper with tape (removable). Baron Missakian was born in Turkey in 1891 (d. 1964), apprenticed as a state photographer for the Ottoman Empire, and eventually located to Kansas City.....
Ca. 1918 typed letter concerning use of "Behold the Flag" & the National Loyalty League
Typed letter to a Mrs. Elizabeth Wall of Washington DC, enclosing a copy of "Behold the Flag" and explaining how it could be used in schools to encourage patriotism, etc. Murphy, a native of Hays, Kansas, originally published the page-length poem in Topeka in 1918 to gin up the spirit.....
2 typed notes, 1908 & 1912, declining invitations to speak
Both notes addressed to Col. John McElroy of Washington DC, the first a paragraph in which Harries declines an invitation to speak at a July 4th celebration and the second from MacVeagh (Secretary of the Treasury) declining an invitation to speak on Lincoln at the First Congregational Church on Feb.....
First Families of the Southwest
Kansas City: Fred Harvey, ND. First printing. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1913, no date on title page. Quarto, cloth backed pictorial boards, very good (light wear to boards' corners), contents excellent, with great color plates.