Dresden: Verlag von Rommler & Jonas, 1903. 13 x 10, cloth wraps, about 25 photo plates of Hamburg, fair to good condition, with creasing, soil, wear and abrasions, etc. Signed: "From HJH 8/18/03" -- according to the woman from whom we acquired this, her great-grandfather worked in the executive offices.....
(Pittsburgh): R. W. Johnston, 1909. First printing. Quarto, wraps, xxx pp. heavily illustrated with photos, etc. Good with some corner loss to front wrap and some soil and creasing to first few pages. Uncommon. Campbell, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, had many family connections in western Pennsylvania, particularly Washington County, and resided.....
Ellicott City, MD: The Donaldson School, 1923-1929. The two general booklets give information about the school, faculty, premises, course of study for each of the subjects, textbooks required, code of conduct and so forth. The Circle journals included jokes, creative writing by the boys, news of alumni, school news, etc......
Short one paragraph note to a scholar who had inquired about the Alfred Miller painting, "The Trapper's Bride," with DeVoto's advice and where to seek out more information. Miller was a painter of mountain men, Native Americans, fur traders and trappers. DeVoto spends some time discussing Miller in "Across the.....
The letter is addressed to Eleanor Head, who wrote columns and book reviews for the local paper in Greensburg. They seem to be old friends on familiar terms, with Ade giving details about the health of a mutual friend. With funny passages revealing Ade's great charms as a humorist. "For.....
Pittsburgh: Fort Pitt Publishing Co., 1909. Very good with light wear and soil, message on back in pencil from July 1910, postmarked from Mckees Rocks, not really referencing the strike. The Pressed Steel Car Co. near Pittsburgh employed between 5,000 and 8,000 people to build the railway cars, from low.....
Approximately 13 x 8 inches, single sheet, probably excised from a volume of such bills and acts.
Receipt measures 9 x 6.25 inches, with the final destination Austin Texas in 1881 for the passage in steerage of Caroline Bruckner of Reuth in Saxony, including passage in one of the North German Lloyd steamers to NY and train fare from NY to Austin. Very good.
Folder on gray-blue paper, measures 6.5 x 4.25 inches and houses three real photo postcards of French nudes. Folder a little worn, photos very good.
Denver: Weiss Instrument Co., Ca. 1919. 7.25 x 3.5 inches, wraps, very good, light soil and wear, 20 pp, illustrated, selection of Weiss binoculars and an ad for one of their transits.
Northfield, MN: Carleton College Observatory, 1888. 2 issues, both in pale olive wraps, very good, 9.25 x 6 inches, with Holden's long article on Lick Observatory, and Keeler's observations of Saturn from Lick Observatory: Keeler was the first to observe that the rings of Saturn do not rotate as a......
Chicago: Watry & Heidkamp, Ca. 1925. Paperback. 9 x 6 inches, stapled wraps, very good, minor wear. 48 pp, illustrated and priced. No date, but evidence from the products suggests about 1925. Lots and lots of thermometers.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1857. Hardcover. Early edition (first published 1854) 12mo (5 x 4 inches), original cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece and woodcut title for The Little Ones' Library. 128 pp, a few woodcut illustrations, very good, some foxing.
NP: Koumoundourea, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, glossy pictorial boards, about fine, probably not issued in dust jacket, 240 pp, illustrated, mainly in color, exploring the treasures, art and architecture of the Greek isle of Patmos. OCLC locates a single copy, at Princeton.
Digest sized magazines, measuring 9 x 6.25 inches, all very good with light wear and soil, crease to cover of Feb. 1941 issue. Nice Hawkins cover on July 1940 issue. A slightly high-brow journal with articles on politics, history and culture with a clear Libertarian bent, including a number of.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. Trade edition after the Derrydale Press edition, 2 volumes, red cloth in slipcase, remarkably fine set, slipcase with just a touch of wear. Usually found somewhat more used since this was a beloved set much in demand among early practitioners of cocktail.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Hardcover. This volume only. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with library stamps and signs of plate removal to endpapers, stamp to half-title page, stamps to bottom and top text block edges, a few short tape marks to boards, dust jacket very.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. This volume only. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with library stamps and signs of plate removal to endpapers, stamp to half-title page, stamps to bottom and top text block edges, a few short tape marks to boards, dust.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962. Hardcover. This volume only. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with library stamps and signs of plate removal to endpapers, stamp to title page, stamps to bottom and top text block edges, a few short tape marks to boards, dust jacket very.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. This volume only. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with library stamps and signs of plate removal to endpapers, stamp to title page, stamps to bottom and top text block edges, a few short tape marks to boards, dust.....
Concord, NH: The Commentator, 1938. Paperback. 7.75 x 5.5 inches, color wraps, very good, articles of general interest, including Frank J. Taylor's "What Has Disney Got that We Haven't?" etc.
Greensburg: Chas, M. Henry, (1927). First printing. Hardcover. Oblong small quarto (10.5 x 7 inches), green cloth gilt, very good, minor soil to endpapers and occasionally to pages, light waviness to first several leaves. Rare look at the county seat of Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania. 352 pp, heavily illustrated.....
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Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in slipcase, very good copy. 349 pp. Text in Japanese. Uncommon, and OCLC locates only a single copy, at the University of Southern California.
Edinburgh: John Bell, 1776. Hardcover. 8 volumes, early calf, good with some rubbing and wear to bindings, and five of them lacking flyleaves (judging from the notes and figures on the remaining flyleaves, these were probably used by Craig for scratch paper, given the scarcity of paper in Pittsburgh back.....
London: Martin & Bain, 1794. Lacking the first volume with the first part of The Iliad. 12mo (approximately 5.125 x 3.4 inches), full dark brown calf, handsome gilt spines, black title and volume labels, very good, light wear. The Notes volume has two folding maps, occasional engraved plate to rest.....