York, PA: George Shumway, 1968. Hardcover. Third edition, print run of 2000 copies. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book fine, jacket very good, light wear. 281 pp, illus.
Ca. 1925-35, all framed (cheaply, in frames of the period), all measuring approximately 13 x 9 inches, not examined outside the frame. Georges Gabriel Thenon, a creator of revues, plays, librettist and singer. Roze was the orchestrator of the mise en scene of at least two of RIP's productions, and...
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1860. First printing. 8vo, limp cloth covers, good copy, some light freckling and speckled loss to covers, spine renewed with cloth, contents good with light age toning, foxing. Rare on the market, but seemingly plenty of copies in institutions.
Salt Lake City, UT: Theo. Hollie, 1931. Paperback. Wraps, 34 pp, very good, light wear. RARE, with only 3 copies located by OCLC: Huntington, Brigham Young, U. of N. Texas. A naturopathic guide to nutrition and self healing.
Paris: 1930. Paperback. Wraps, 29.5 cm tall, very good, inscribed on the cover from Bernard to theatrical impresario, director and stage manager Edmond Roze. Very good, light wear. Bernard was a playwright and novelist as well as a lawyer. The entire issue is devoted to his theatrical sketches for the radio. RARE.
Rochester: Gannett Co., 1971. 13 inches tall, newsprint, illustrated, good copy with some yellowing, scratch or abrasion to front cover, inscribed by William Heyen to Ernest (Stefanik), a Pennsylvania publisher of the Rook Press who was in the process of compiling a bibliography of William Heyen's publications. With a profile...
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Philadelphia: W. A. Leary, 1851. Rebound in plain gray wraps with spine label, contents good to very good with age toning, some foxing, and light tide mark from old dampstains to inner part of lower margin and sometimes to upper margin. 196, 154 pp, with second part having its own title page.
Bruckberg, Germany: Hugo Skrastins, Publisher, 1946. Apparently published at a British-run camp for refugees: the address of the editorial offices is 135/B Camp 33/135 D. P. Assembly Centre 800 Control Unit. B. A. O. R. (via Gt. Britain), and printed in Bruckberg near Munich, while Meerbeck is 650K north, near...
Chicago: National Music Company, C. 1897. Paperback. Quarto, pictorial wraps, 160 pp, fair copy, lacking rear cover, neat repair to spine, front cover worn along edges, contents complete, pages tanning. Only 2 in OCLC, at Oxford in the UK and at University of Illinois. Uncommon collection.
Stuttgart: Edition Medicina Rare, No Date. Hardcover. Ca. 1980, number 983 of 1500 bound by Richard Mayer in a full leather wallet style binding, 30 unnumbered pages, full color facsimile, plus larger 22 pp. introduction (in English). Housed in suppled cloth backed folder with introduction bound in, and book in...
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Praha/ Prague: SPN; Státní nakladatelství ucebnic, 1951, 1955. 2 volumes, both quarto, pictorial folders housing loose pages, first item has 4 pp. text, 8 plates, 2nd has 11 pp. text, 24 plates. First has occasional stamp of James Swauger, an associate director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Both very...
Pittsburgh: Grant Mfg. Co., Ca. 1902. Pictorial wraps, 9 inches tall, 10 pp, mainly testimonials from those who installed the soda fountain, with the profits mentioned as costing a half cent per glass of soda water, which would cost 5 cents to customers: you do the math! Very rare Pittsburgh...
Chatauqua, NY: Chatauqua Bookstore, (1924). Gray pictorial folder with accordion-folded 10 post card sized views of the Institution in b/w. Very good. No date, but the first assembly was in 1874 and the 50th anniversary was 'just celebrated,' so: 1924 or 1925.
Arthur L. Draper was director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, then director of Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh from 1940 to 1967. This is a folder of papers from Draper's collection, including typescripts with multiple handwritten corrections, and typed accounts by other astronomers, possibly for inclusion in his popular "The...
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. Hardcover. 8vo, early or original full green leather, heavily gilt decorated, especially spine. VG, light wear and rubbing to binding, green color faded to brown on spine, contents good to very good with a bit of unevenness to text block -- this was 'perfect bound'...
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 1968. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in dust jacket. 239pp. illustrated. Very good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket foxed and edge worn, perforated at extremities, else complete and unclipped. Wear to spine ends, edges toned. Internally unmarked.
Wheaton, IL: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1980, 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover. These volumes ONLY. 1980, 1985. First edition thus. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth, vol XIV lacks dust jacket. 859, 733pp. illustrated. Very good in good/ no jacket. Dj of vol XII chipped and perforated at head, scuffed, else...
Long Island, NY: New Age Church of The Christ, ca. 1980s. First edition. Paperback. ca. 1980s. First edition. Paperback, 12mo. in white printed wraps. 12pp. Very good. Age toning to wraps, light edge wear. Internally unmarked. 0 copies on OCLC.
London: George Philip & Son, 1889. Third edition. Hardcover. Third edition, 1889, hardcover with black and gilt stamped purple cloth boards, octavo, 91pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with wear to spine ends, corners and joints, binding just tender with small split to bottom front inner hinge previous owner's signature...
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by de la Mare! Limited edition, this no. 139 of 260 copies, 1927, hardcover with gilt stamped white cloth boards, octavo, 320pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG with toning to spine and boards, rubbing and soil, binding tight although front...
London: Methuen and Co., 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Second edition, 1970, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 214pp. + 24 plate b&w index at rear. Book VG+ with toning to top and bottom edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked except for previous owner's signature...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Eleventh printing. Hardcover. Eleventh printing, 1967, hardcover with red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 582pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of...
New York: The Grove Press, 1952. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, 1952, hardcover with teal cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 199pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. DJ VG with rubbing, toning, edgewear that includes...
New York: Wheldon & Wesley/Hafner Publishing Co., 1961. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint facsimile, 1961, hardcover with green cloth boards, small quarto, 796pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with rubbing and mild shelfwear to boards and spine, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, 1967, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 180pp., not illustrated. Book good+ with mild rubbing and soil to boards, binding tight, previous owner's signature to top front pastedown, text shows a few small ink underlines toward beginning of text...