Material purchased long ago that we are just now cataloging, plus some fresh purchases. Take a look!
Sheets are stiff old card stock, 14 sheets with 6 photos a page and one with 2 photos, photos mainly measuring about 3.5 inches in diameter, and all labeled underneath. Some of the photos seem a little faded and others are clear as a bell. A couple are taken aboard.....
Hardcover. We wish we could decipher the artist's name. Caingh? Canigh? Cenigh? Presumably a male, with inscription on last page with 7-line poem to his "dear one, little love." 10 x 9.5 inches, boards with "dust jacket" sewn from pieces of black velvet, blocked cotton, Dutch paisley brocade, satin, linen.....
Collected by Adam Ott of Pittsburgh, an avid amateur astronomer. All in very good condition, with most being before 1950 and including many postcards of well known planetaria including variants and some duplicates, as well as a handful of astronomically related postcards, but the vast majority being of planetaria. Includes.....
Madison, WI: Brant & Fuller, 1890. First printing. Hardcover. 4to, 2 volumes, original publisher's half leather and cloth gilt boards, very good, some rubbing and light wear along spines, contents very good but slight age toning. Illustrated with plates, mainly guys with mustaches...and sometimes beards.
Kaunas - Vilnius: "Svyturio" Bendrov s Leidinys, 1923. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth, very good, a couple institutional stamps from a closed down Pittsburgh area convent, 63 pp. text in Lithuanian, many plates in b/w, 6 in color, two folding plates at end -- plates include some of the.....
Sydney, Australia: Blissymbolics Publications, 1983. First printing. Paperback. 10 x 8 inches, cloth backed stiff green printed wraps. With Bliss's note in pen: All errors corrected by Charles Bliss. 306 pp. A remarkable book, outlining and reprinting both the criticisms leveled against his project and pedagogical process, his responses, plus.....
London: Robert Stanton Swift, et al. printers, 1848-1849. Hardcover. Bound volume of 11 issues, each ca. 48-50 pp in length, in contemporary marbled boards , leather corners, later blue paper spine, good copy with foxing to preliminary and terminal pages, old bookplate from the Mattatuck Historical Society. Founded and edited.....
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1904. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, maroon cloth gilt, very good, with inscription with poem, signed "Father" and dated Oct. 12, 1904. Author was a well known anthropologist and psychologist, editing the Journal of American Folk-Lore and The Journal of Psychology, and author of.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1943. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo, very good, slightest mellowing to spine, ownership signature from a Harold Clipstone, 1944, Stafford (an active member of the Quaker Friends Meeting in Stafford, he was apparently manager of a shoe factor and was also seemingly a disciple of Meyer Baba).....
Wheeling: Hoblitzell, 1851. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, rebound in modern dark brown cloth with black leather labels, contents shows light foxing, smudges, age toning, still very good. 416 pp, frontispiece, illustrated, including small folding plate of the leaden plaque placed by the side of the upper Allegheny River in 1749.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. No. 188 of 265 signed by Porter and Devoto. Large 8vo, red cloth with black leather spine label, very good; we don't know if this came in a slipcase or had any sort of jacket, but we have the book, nice condition, touch.....
New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. First edition (stated, plus number line to 1), Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, absolutely fine sharp copy with no wear at all. 480 pp., illustrated. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1865. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, good copy with new spine cloth and label, minor exlibrary marks from Library of Congress. 276 pp. Much on the early petroleum and oil industry in WV.
(Pittsburgh): 1968. 3 copies of the two-page handout, probably for a Black Studies class in 1968 at the University of Pittsburgh. 2 are blank, one filled out (and somewhat edgeworn) -- probably the student's copy who took the class. "Adrian Dove had a quiz for middle-class, white America, an aptitude.....
Leipzig: Franz Dueticke, 1931. Paperback. Dritte Umgearbeitete Auflage. Large 8vo, original gray printed wraps, very good, light wear and discoloration to covers, spine creased and rubbed, light loss. Inscribed and signed on front cover by author. Froeschels was a voice and speech therapist who introduced the term logopedics into the.....
Boston: School of Printing, North End Union, 1908-1911. All about 5.5 x 3.5 inches, 16mo, stiff wraps, stitched, very good, a few pages each. The School of Printing was for apprentices who wanted to enter the trade; the program was associated with settlement houses back then, and continued through the.....
Washington, PA: J. A. Howden & A. Odbert, 1878. First printing. Hardcover. All the maps and plates engraved & lithographed by Otto Krebs. Folio, original cloth, old cloth reinforcement to spine and corners, supplied endpapers, 159 pp, complete, maps and plates in good to very good condition, some tanning and.....
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 1966. 4 mimeo'd pages, stapled at top left, 7 sides total, with the Bulletin printed on one side only, and the first issue of the Peace and Freedom newsletter with reportage on high school protests, an editorial on the need for.....
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1919-1921. Hardcover. 12 volumes, all 8vo, in decorative boards with a design indicative of the region, spine and cover labels, good to very good: 4 volumes have light wear and loss to spines, the rest are very good with light wear, pages a bit tanned. Each volume.....
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Moscow: NAUK, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 10.5 x 7 inches, cloth, very good, light wear, minor stamps to rear endpapers, faint occasional waterstains, otherwise clean, 848 pp, illustrated, color frontispiece. Biography of the great 19th century Russian mathematician and pioneer in geometry. Rare in commerce. Text in Russian.
Rochester, NY: Sage & Brother, 1851. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, rebound in modern cloth with original board cloth laid on, new endpapers, text very good, large folding map has a 4-inch repaired tear, other plates, charts and such in excellent condition, short section minor browning and separation along one fold.....
New York: Rebman Company, 1909. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original gray cloth with red leather spine label, very good, lightest wear. 403 pp, Illustrated, some in color.
London: Royston, 1683. Hardcover. 8vo, recent full russet niger, morocco spine label, very good, 2 volumes in one (the title page to the second part dated 1682, and titled: Marcus Minucius Felix, His Octavius; or, A vindication of Christianity against Paganism), first title page chipped and worn, laid down, and.....
Germantown, PA: Billmeyer, 1822. Hardcover. Neunte Auflage. 8vo, full original sheep, lacking clasps, some wear along joints and bottom of spine, contents very good, with elaborate colored lettered ownership inscription from Berks County, the writing a little too stylized for us to read, some foxing to contents throughout, the middle.....
A Londres: Chez Jean Nourse, 1765. Hardcover. First or early edition, 1765, other editions were printed in the Hague the same year, but the binding of this looks distinctly French, so possibly published in Paris, not London. Small 8vo, speckled calf gilt, (6), viii, 360 pp. Joints a little weak.....