A selection of the most interesting items we've cataloged recently.
New York: Geo. F. Cooledge, Ca. 1850. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5 inches tall), cloth backed printed yellow boards, 48 pp, illustrated throughout and with advertisement pages for various Webster's dictionaries and reference books, very good copy, light wear to cloth and subtle reinforcement of inner hinges with japanese tissue, scarce book.....
Universal Pictures, 1923. Souvenir Program, 12 x 9 inches, color pictorial wraps, 18 pp. including inner covers, good copy with light general wear, some creasing, including light vertical crease to the whole program; three very short repaired tears along right edge of front wrap, and a few short edge tears.....
London: Henry Lintot, 1741. Hardcover. Twelfth Edition, with Great Additions. 12mo, old polished calf, good copy, spine oddly varnished, bookplate of the Los Angeles County Law Library, contents very good. 365 pp, ca. 50 pp. index/table. 1745 signature of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart (1708-1770), a Scottish nobleman who.....
New York: Random House, 2016. Fourth printing. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Svetlana Alexievich on the title page. 8vo. in black cloth and blue boards, dust jacket. 470pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket, housed in mylar. Wear to spine ends. Internally bright and unmarked.....
Paris: Societe d'editions d'art, "Le Livre et l"Estampe" 1903. One of 300 copies, this one not numbered. Small quarto, original printed wraps, very good, wraps lightly soiled, darkened, and shelfworn, contents very good, 214 pp, 50 plates, handsome printing.
New York: Century Co., 1926. First printing. Hardcover. Orange cloth with "bookplate" on front cover, very good, no jacket, light soil and handling to covers, contents clean.
New York: Macmillan, 1896. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, half leather, good copy with some neat reinforcement to inner hinges and outer joints, light rubbing and wear, discoloration to spine, inscribed to "Belle Cushman" affectionately from the author, Jan. 17 1896 (he would marry Isabel Cushman two years later in 1898).....
London: H. L. Hunt, C. G. Clarke, 1826. Hardcover. Stated Fifth Edition, 1826, 2 volumes, small 8vo, more recent half midnight blue calf and blue cloth boards, colored engraved frontispiece of Napoleon in first volume, black and white portrait of Ney as frontispiece to second volume, very good with light.....
Paris: Les 13 Epis, 1947. Hardcover. Of a total of 330 copies this is no. 277 on Lafuma. 4to, daubed pink chemise boards housing loose gatherings of Desnos poetry and 4 eau-fortes by Coutaud. Contents Fine, chemise nearly fine, hint of rubbing, daubed pink slipcase very good with light rubbing.....
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1870, 2 volumes, very good, minor wear, half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spine compartments, green and reddish spine labels, frontispieces in color, 352 / 344 pp, light foxing to a few pages. Handsome set.
Mexico City: Ediciones La Lucha de la Juventud, 1943. First edition. Paperback. 1943, First Edition, Spanish text. Softcover. 509 pp. Two page prologue by Pablo Neruda. Inscribed on the half-title by Jose Renau, the 'Caratula exterior' of La Lucha de la Juventud. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of images of Russia.....
Elmwood Park / Oak Park, IL: Frederick S. Clarke, 1970-1979. Paperback. 26 issues, all first printings, including the premier issue and numbers 2 and 3 from the first year with the original blue covers. 1970-1979. Near Fine. Only minor shelfwear or signs of handling. All contents complete, clean and intact.....
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1956. First printing. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, sunning to the boards, inscribed by Freeman, 302pp.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Dennis Hopper to film director George Romero on the half-title, ''For George / Here we go / Love Dennis Hopper.'' 2001, Softcover, First Edition. 315 pp. Large 4to., illustrated throughout with Hopper's photos and art. A Fine copy. Hopper starred in.....
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1928. First edition. Paperback. 1928, First Edition. Number 579 of 750 copies on Rives paper. Softcover, original wraps. Total of 6 striking b&w plates by Alexandre Alexeieff - a small vignette on the title page, plus the frontispiece and four others. All 5 of the internal plates.....
(London): 1848. Quarto (11 inches tall), unbound sheets housed in recent gray wraps preserving the original title label, contents good to very good, some spotting and mustiness, light occasional edgewear to contents, but not too much foxing evident. Many artists contributed to this, but there are several by the Dalziel.....
Paris: Georges Guillot, 1947. First printing. One of 350 on Arches Blanc. Quarto, wraps holding loose unbound gatherings, in patterned paper covered chemise and matching slipcase, book very good with some mustiness and foxing, especially to the outermost gatherings, and most plates show at least a sprinkling of tiny fox.....
np: S. E. Stallone, 1975. Paperback. 1975. Original screen play. Blue wraps, bound by 3 brass tacks. 111 pp. Printed on rectos only. One page of mimeographed illustations. Label on front wrap reads, "Hell's Kitchen, Chartoff-Winkley Prods., Inc." LIght soil to wraps. Title handwritten on the spine. Clean contents. This.....
Paris: Curmer, 1857. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, half maroon morocco gilt (flat spine), very good, light wear and discoloration to binding, some foxing within. Bookplate of Evelina Du Pont Bidermann (1796-1863), born in Philadelphia and builder of Winterthur in Delaware; there are also two silk bookmarks -- one stitched "Evelina" with.....
Hartford: 1843-1884. Averaging about 25 pp each, in original wraps, good to very good, light wear and soil with "duplicate periodical" stamped at upper right of front covers. Includes Washington College catalogue (1843; the college became Trinity in 1845), 1845 catalogue, first year as Trinity, 1845-46 catalogue, Rev. John Williams'.....
NP: US Steel, Ca. 1968. Paperback. 10 x 10 inches, wraps, 24 pp, with color illustrations throughout, plus large mounted tinplate color photo of kids in a candy shop affixed and matted to inner rear cover. Rare, no copies located in any library according to Worldcat. Advocates enhanced industrial and.....
Lake Geneva, WI: TSR Rules, 1976. First edition. Paperback. First printing. 4to, staple-bound paperback. Illustrated in b&w. This volume is in quite good shape for its age with mild creasing to wraps and pages. Last, perforated page is still attached. Fading highlighting to about five pages and minor ink marks.....
(Philadelphia): Privately Printed, (1904). Hardcover. Large 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good, 65 pp. Laid in are several circulars (one sheet flyers), plus letter from Albert Welles, who had published a genealogy of the Wells/Welles family in 1848 and was proposing an expanded 300 pp. edition, dunning a J. J......