Newly cataloged little stars, how we wonder where they'll go, on which shelf, down which row? Those who catch them are in the know, of twinkling stars at Common Crow!
Pittsburgh: 1956. 3 photos, the largest 10 x 12" documenting the capture and surrender of Charles Lutsovich, who had killed his mother and sister and was hiding out in a cave on a farm in West Newton. Verso has photographer's name stamp, information, and label from the UMO 1956 photo.....
Pittsburgh: 1956. Print mounted on 16 x 20" thick white stock which shows a little wear and soil but the photo itself is fine. Identified in pencil on verso and with entry form filled out for a Popular Photography magazine photo contest for 1956. Probably the Horne's Christmas tree. Alexandrowicz.....
Pittsburgh: 1956. Print mounted on 16 x 20" thick white stock which shows a little wear and soil but the photo itself is fine. Stamp on verso and pencil notes, plus documentation showing it was entered into the Popular Photography magazine contest for 1956. One of the teams was apparently.....
Pittsburgh: 1961-62. Print mounted on 16 x 20" thick white stock which shows a little wear and soil but the photo itself is fine, printed on glossy RC paper. Label from the 17th annual photo competition on rear filled out, with photographer's name stamp and that it was published in.....
Mainly in Italian a few in English, please check photos for titles. Almost all in very good condition, one or two with edgewear. Rare on the market.
Possibly Spanish, ca. 1600 or earlier. 19 x 15 inches, parchment, very good, 4 sides total, with Gregorian chants from the Epiphania Domini - the Feast of the Epiphany, celebrated in the Latin church as an 8-day feast (an octave) on January 6-13 of each year, commemorating the visit of.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book very good plus, binding bright, light offsetting to endpapers, owner's small name label on flyleaf, jacket very good with light rubbing and wear to tips, mild wear and soil along top edge, and shallow wear.....
Munchen / Munich: Senger, Ca. 1910-1913. Hardcover. First two portfolios undated, ca. 1910, third dated 1913. First two are limited to 500 numbered copies, the third is limited to 260 numbered copies. 3 portfolios, each bound in vellum with buff brown paper covered boards and vellum corners, with folding paper.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, red cloth gilt, very good, light wear, with "Smuts" in blue pencil on flyleaf, and bookseller's note in pencil below confirming this was Jan Smuts's copy, an excellent association copy; from the library of the South African statesman and Prime.....
(Wheeling, WV?): (1975). 22 x 17 inches, about fine, printed on medium weight poster stock. This advertises or promotes the Catholic Bishops Pastoral on Appalachia. In 1975, the 25 bishops of the Appalachian region issued a pastoral letter titled "This Land is Home to Me" signed by all 25 on.....
New York: Morrow, Hyperion, Villard, Random House, 1988-2002. First edition. Hardcover. Group of 6 books all inscribed in the year of publication either to Jay Dantry, the owner of Jay's Book Stall, who employed Chabon while he was in college in Pittsburgh and was an early reader and commenter on.....
Argentina: Artes Graficas Farro, C. 1978. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, boards in dust jacket, very good, some white spots to bottom edge of boards (as if the book was on a white painted shelf where the paint wasn't quite dry), jacket with light wear. 326 pp.
London: Sampson, Low, Son and Co., 1860. mixed. Hardcover. Complete set in 3 volumes. All published in 1860 -- Volume 1 and 2 are First Editions, Volume 3 from the new edition (published a few months after the first and following the stated 'seventh edition'). Hardcover, short 8vos. bound in.....
London: Strand, 1893. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, old half pebbled deep red leather, pebbled rose cloth boards, very good, light wear. Contains six stories from "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" -- The Adventure of the Cardboard Box; ___ the Yellow Face; ___ the Stockbroker's Clerk; ___the "Gloria Scott"; ___ the Musgrave.....
Athens: Phytrakes, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, pictorial cloth, good with some obvious signs of usage including light wear and stains to covers, occasional small stains to text, most noticable at endpapers and first several pages, but occasionally from an oft-cook-from page, and once in a while an ink.....
Munchenstein, Switzerland: Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei, 1972-1975. In a stiff cardboard mailing folder (12 x 9.5 inches), housing specimen catalogs and brochures of the fonts the firm produced, with texts mainly in German, some also in French. The mailing folder is postmarked 1975 but it appears much of the enclosed was published.....
Pittsburgh: Harbison-Walker, 1909-1915. 5 volumes, which fit into a pebbled dark red leather slipcase (moderate rubbing and wear); each of the volumes is in full pebbled limp leather, 6.75 x 4 inches. Four of the books are in good plus to very good condition with light wear, contents very good.....
Richmond, VA: Laurel Press, [1994]. Limited ed. Hardcover. Number 13 of 40 copies signed by the poet, Larry Levis, and the illustrator, David Freed. Published 1994. Hardcover, Japanese style binding with beautiful rag paper. Includes 2 intaglio etchings by David Freed. A stunning production. Fine. Levis died in Richmond, VA.....
Strassburg: T. Rihel, 1590. Hardcover. Published 1590, folio (13.5 x 9.5 inches), freshly bound in full brown calf to period style, black spine label gilt, pp. (28) 887 (22), collated complete. Binding fine, text good to very good, light wear to first several leaves, occasional fox marks or stains to.....
np: np, 1879. Hardcover. 1879. Hardcover, original tooled leather boards rebacked with modern leather, aeg, blue, cream and yellow paper, (141) pp. Autograph album compiled by Lizzie Burnett, with two page handwritten note by her dated Christmas Day 1879 extolling the pleasures of an autograph album and comparing its importance.....
Rio de Janeiro: Philobiblion, 1957. Limited ed. Paperback. 1957, First Edition. One of 100 unnumbered copies. 8 color plates plus 2 in b&w designed by Lorca and hand printed by Manuel Segala on Ingres paper for Philobiblion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Text in Portuguese. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Loose.....
Boston: Massachusetts Consistory, C. 1908. Hardcover. 8vo, full red leather stamped in gilt, very good, light rubbing to edges and spine ends, text mainly unopened and uncut, with "James Isaac Buchanan, 33 degree" in gilt on front cover, 144 pp, illustrations. Contents consist of history of the Consistory, charter, by-laws.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pictorial light brown cloth, very good, light wear to spine ends, small bump to bottom board of second volume, moderate foxing to both volumes, heaviest at outermost leaves and more prevalent in second volume. Text block edges sprinkled.....
Dresdae (Dresden): Gabrielem Hubnerum, 1676. First edition. Hardcover. 1676. First and only edition of this curious title. Rebound in 20th-century boards. [17], 69, viii, [4] pp. Frontis with 12 heads and fold-out chart showing an intricate mathematical scheme. Printed in black and red, most elegantly as part of the visual.....
Hardcover. Tall 8vo, half leather and marbled boards, bookplate of the Cambria Free Library (and their withdrawn stamp), given to them by James M. Swank - Secretary of the American Iron and Steel Association -- and with his blue pencil dating of undated publications; very good, light wear and rubbing.....