An interesting selection of items recently acquired, have a look!
Tokyo: Ca. 1920s. Hardcover. 2 volumes, bound in silk with paper chemises, with a total of 73 woodcut prints that measure approximately 9.5 x 7 inches each. Some ex-library marks from Carnegie Mellon University (including their deaccession stamp), but hardly any stamps to the pages, and images all in excellent.....
11.75 x 8.25 inches, silk brocade covers, bound accordion-style, with 50 mounted photos measuring roughly 6 x 4.25 inches each, showing a festival and parade involving a "float," martial artists and many school-children, with quite a few activities. Some foxing or spotting to the accordion pages, but the photos in.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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......
Las Vegas: 1882 (?). 11 x 8.5, in tanning wove paper, good with some short repaired tears, bottom edge with some staining and darkening. Possibly from 1882, but probably not, however, it does give off the vibe of having been printed at least a hundred years ago and is substantially.....
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1949. First printing. Hardcover. No. 812 of 1500 signed by Kent. Tall 8vo, 2 volumes in brick cloth gilt, near fine (just a touch of spine mellowing) in very good slipcase with some darkening and shelfwear but much less so than usually encountered. A......
Paris: Chez Rosa, 1812. Hardcover. Second edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo, old calf gilt, very good, light wear and stains. 19 plates and two engraved title pages. French playwright best known for a play about a woman who dresses as a man to rescue her husband from prison, the basis.....
Beijing: Zhongguo gu dian yi shu chu ban she, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 15 x 12 inches, stiff portfolio housing book in wraps with red silk ribbon ties, short text plus 27 color plates, very good, light wear and small stains, portfolio rubbed and shelfworn but still sturdy.
London: Early English Text Society, N. Trubner, 1868. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches, contemporary half deep red morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, very good, light wear and rubbing, slight corner loss to title page, which also has a high school library stamp on it (no other marks.....
(Paris): 1946. No. 122 of 250 on velin du Marais Crevecoeur, stiff paper chemise measuring 11 x 7.5 inches, housing loose sheets of the program and several hand-colored pictures, this copy inscribed to Alvin Laidley (a UNESCO administrator) by Guy Arnoux, the illustrator with a pencil sketch of a Legionnaire.....
London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. Hardcover. First illustrated edition with Keene illustrations and chromolithograph frontispiece. Large 8vo, finely bound in polished warm brown calf, very good, some darkening and dulling to spine, boards with some darkening and discoloration, contents very good and printed on an unusual pale green paper. With bookplates.....
Palermo, Sicily: Edizioni e Ristampe Siciliane, 1986. Hardcover. 10 x 7 inches, cardboard covers with color illustration on front, contents printed on interesting mustard yellow paper, 187 (20) pp, illustrated, with occasional color plate. Rare edition. Light wear to corners and edges of boards, inscription on flyleaf.
New York: for La France Industries, Ca. 1940-1944. 9 technical pencil drawings, all measuring 11 x 8.5 inches, fine condition, on thin vellum bond translucent paper, some with pencil notes such as "omit" or "VOID see later dwg;" unclear whether these were specifically designed for the showrooms and offices of.....
London: John Lane, 1924. First printing. Hardcover. First edition of the illustrated version, small quarto, pictorial cloth, very good, minor wear to top of front outer joint, endpapers a little foxed, owner's signature in pencil. The plates are lovely.
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Moscow: Russkoe tovarishchestvo, 1908. Paperback. Wraps, good, light restoration to spine, small chip to fore-edge of front wrap, small tear to first 50 pp of fore-edge margin. 169 pp, a few plates. Two late 18th and early 19th century exponents of Russian enlightenment. Chaadayev wrote eight "Philosophical Letters" about Russia.....
London: Ackermann, 1830-1836. Quarto, in recent plain charcoal paper wraps with cloth spine and recent spine label. Title pages for each of the four sections partially colored, with a total of 102 plates including the title pages, slight spine cocking or leaning, plates generally in excellent condition. 11 x 9.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, this one initialed by the printers, Vivien and Mallette Dean. Tall 8vo, cloth backed decorated boards, bookplate of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973, a San Diego newspaper publisher with strong conservative links and credentials), else fine.....
New York: Random House, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. No. 112 of 1470 signed by Kent, this one unusual in that the initial letters are hand-colored (there were 95 copies with illustrations colored by hand in the Kent studio, and it could be that the early numbers above no. 95 also.....
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. Royal 8vo (10 x 7.5 inches), full original leather binding in imitation of a 15th century binding, remarkably fine condition with hardly any wear, 522 pp, illustrated including color frontispiece. Listing over 300 pre-1500 titles.
Allegheny, PA: The Author, 1891. First printing. 11 x 7.5 inches, recent paper covers with original covers mounted, good copy, 155 pp plus many plates, ads. Contents good, light wear and soil, first page of ads with corner loss, some smudging and waterstains to a few pages, not too intrusive.....
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1903. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo (approximately 5 x 3.5 inches), pictorial cloth, good copy with covers somewhat soiled and a little rubbed, contents good to very good, light soil and with a few funny newspaper clippings affixed to pastedowns. 87 pp. Ownership signature of Kate Macbeth Simpson.....