Rutland, VT: Moon Publications, 1978. Second edition. Paperback. Paperback octavo in Very Good+ condition with pull out map. Book is in Near Fine condition with wear to edges, and a sticker on the inside cover otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.
Tullamore, Ireland: Irish Family History Society, 1986. First edition thus. Paperback octavo in Very Good + condition. Book in in Very Good condition and shows toning, rubbing/ staining to the front coverand 2 spots of writing interior otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.
Boise, ID: Mineral Land Pubns, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperback octavo in Very Good + condition. Book is in Very Good + with toning, price sticker back cover and corner wear otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked.
New York: Delta, 1966. First edition thus. Paperback. Paperback octavo in Very Good condition. Book is in Very Good condition with wear to edges and corners, rubbing and toning to the text block otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean and unmarked.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell Univ Pr, 1993. First edition thus. Hardcover. Hardcover octavo with black cloth boards in dust jacket. Book is in Very Good + condition, jacket in Very Good. Jacket has curling, edge wear and toning and foxing, Book has a slight bow to the front cover and foxing.....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto hardcover with gray cloth boards in dust jacket. Book and jacket are in Very Good + condition. Jacket has wear to edges and a small tear at the spine, book has a slight bow to the front cover.....
41 pp, clearly an in-house copy, with the "logline" written in pen on the cover page (the short precis of the plot of a movie). At only 41 pp, a portion of the total screenplay. Names and action quite different from the finished product in 1990 (Quaid is Quail, for.....
Album measures 6 inches wide, with over 70 photos, the best of them feature a girl around 10 named Helen boldly staring at the camera in the Swiss Alps, notably Andermatt, Ragatz, and near the Matterhorn; the shipboard photos are excellent -- the SS Rotterdam and the SS Virginian --.....
Greensburg, PA: Self Published, C. 1935. Textured tan wraps, 37 pp, very good, rare, OCLC locates 4 copies.
Cards are almost all for the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburgh. Signs of usage and soil, neat railroad memorabilia.
London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1853. First printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, contemporary half deep red leather gilt, red cloth boards, very good, light wear and discoloration to binding, contents VG and clean, ownership signature of W. W. Smith, 1889, on verso of flyleaf, and a gothic lettered tag "Smith" affixed.....
London: William Clowes & Sons, 1904. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, red cloth gilt, very good copy, light soil and discoloration to cloth, contents VG, three tears to the Afghanistan map have been neatly mended, 172 pp, folding maps of the Pyrenees and of the Afghanistan campaigns of 1878-80. Inscribed at.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, very good plus with just a touch of discoloration to bottom of Vol. I spine, 1901 owner's signature on verso of flyleaves, large folding map in the first volume with 4 very short repaired.....
2 pp written on medium sized notebook sheets. "Dear Unk, I'm sorry that I haven't written for awhile but I've been pretty busy lately. Right now I'm on CQ. It's pretty easy. All yuou do is sit in our orderly room all night and monotor radio transmissions and telephone calls.....
Likely Blair County PA, ca. 1920s, cover sheet plus 5 sheets, mainly in pen and pencil, last sheet typed, some wear, soil, creasing. A comedic monologue in a German-Jewish mock dialect straight out of Milt Gross and later Borscht Belt circuit humor. We are unable to read the name of.....
11.5 inches, wraps, 16 pp, short text, mainly color plates, good copy, light soil, stamp of Galerie Eigen, Leipzig on inside front cover, and note in red sharpie at the end of Neo Rauch's CV.
11.5 inches, wraps, 16 pp, short text, mainly color plates, good copy, light soil, some pen notes on one page, trying to make sense of the title 'Sator' of the first plate.
Bellefonte, PA: Self Published, 1832. 8.75 inches tall, self wraps, 15 pp, fair copy with some damage to front cover resulting in the loss of a few letters; that page has been neatly mended with thin rice paper and wheat paste, some early marks from previous owner (J. B. Oliver).....
Baltimore: Self Published, C. 1983. In cloth-backed binder with stiff paper covers, stainless steel folded strip binding, very good, light wear & soil, 87 pp. A play about child abuse at the hands of parents, probably from personal experience, by an author who was also known for his work on.....
Gainsborough: Printed for the Author, (1806). First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, original boards with old brown cloth spine, good plus copy, some rubbing and wear to boards, old cloth strengthening to inner hinges, moderate corner chip out of half title, light foxing to contents. With frontispiece; x (2) 346 pp, untrimmed.....
(London): Albion Press for J. Cundee, (1807). Hardcover. Second edition, preface dated 1807. 8vo, early 20th century half brown leather and plain cloth boards, very good, light rubbing to leather, contents VG. 579 pp, 6 pp. ads. Bookplate of Henry A. Sherwin (d. 1916), co-founder of Sherwin-Williams.
New York: Farlag Matones, 1950. Hardcover. Cloth in plain dust jacket, book very good, some repairs have been done to one tender inner hinge; light rubbing to edges, no other blemishes, jacket is unprinted, on embossed patterned paper, light wear and yellowing. Text in Yiddish.
Tokyo: On the Table, Ca. 1993. Two-part box measures 6.5 x 4.5 inches, with short folded preface plus 21 postcard sized photos of Kawabata's urban projects about the cycle of conspicuous consumption ---> conspicuous destruction. We could not locate this on OCLC.
Frankfurt-a-M. Buchner, 1728. Paperback. 12mo (13.8 cm tall), old marbled wraps, good copy, wraps worn, light wear to title page, folding plate shows some tide-lines from old damp staining, 102 pp, tide-line from old damp stain from p. 90 to end, increasing in darkness. An earlier edition of this book.....
New York: Grolier Club, 1950. Hardcover. 1250 copies printed at the press of A. Colish. 8vo, boards, very good but ex-CMU Library, with bookplate of Rachel McMasters Hunt, the founder of the Hunt Botanical library.