A terrific assortment of newly catalogued books which will whet what wants whetting.
New York: Milt. Goodkind; printed by Beauymont & Hartshorn of East Liverpool, 1899. Paperback. 9.25 x 6 inches, wraps, good copy with some abrasions and insect damage to covers, contents very good, one page has small marginal stain, about 75 pp, well illustrated with buildings, residences, map plate, many ads.....
(Pittsburgh): N. G. Chandler, 1890. First printing. Paperback. 8 x 4.5 inches, recent green wraps with reproduction of title page on front wrap, contents all original (1890), very good, light wear and soil, unpaginated, probably about 100 pp, illustrated throughout, including two maps, lithograph title page by Krebs, phototype views.....
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Large quarto, cloth in dust jacket, good to very good copy: book good plus to very good with lght bumping to corners and the majority of the b/w plates which are printed on coated paper, show faint abrasions at the fore-edge and.....
(Pittsburgh): Self Published, 2012. Paperback. 4th printing. Wraps, very good, light wear, minor creasing to front cover, signed by the author as well as co-author Gloria June Brumfield, and also by Major Mason, a well known African-American educator in Pittsburgh. Lots of pen corrections by the author to the text.....
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good with some shelfwear and light chipping. Inscribed on half title by a Chester C. Davis to Eurreal Wilford "Little Brother" Montgomery (a jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist; April 18, 1906.....
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1883-1885. Hardcover. Publication dates range from 1883 to 1885, 16 volumes complete, bound in half deep red morocco, marbled boards, handsome gilt spines with raised bands. Near fine with extremely light occasional rubbing to corners. All joints and hinges fine, contents near fine, slight age.....
Philadelphia: Alexander Towar, 1833. First printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo (7.25 inches tall), original cloth with front label, very good. 260 pp, small woodcut illustrations, some foxing throughout. Nice couple pages on golf, in the Scotland section -- each chapter devoted to a different country.
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: B. Graves, 1807. Hardcover. 12mo (5.75 x 3.5 inches), xxxi, 214 (1), bilingual edition with French and English facing each other. Light rubbing to binding, still very good. Shaw and Shoemaker 12451.
Decatur: Khenti, 1999. Paperback. Later printing, inscribed to a Black Pittsburgh educator. 8vo, wraps, very good or better with just a touch of wear. 216 pp.
Cambridge: At the University Press by Cornelius Crownfield, 1727. First printing. Hardcover. Folio (13.25 inches tall), ca. 1840s half leather and green cloth boards, good copy with some neat cloth renewal, portion of the original (1840s) spine laid down. (16) 981 pp. The "philosophy" is in the Newtonian sense of.....
London: Darton and Clark, (1839). First printing. Hardcover. 12mo (5.4 x 4.5 inches) bound in early 20th century red morocco with raised bands, gilt spine, bookplates of Joan Whitney (heiress, art collector and first female to own a major league baseball team, The Mets) and Reynolds Stone-designed bookplate of Brian.....
Toronto: Etue & company/Stone House Publishing for Canadian Booksellers/Summerhil, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, cloth, in slipcase with glossy color photo panels, book fine, slipcase just short of fine; book inscribed to Jay Stock, a fellow photographer, remembering their many trips together. Laid in is a signed color photograph.....
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Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1912. First printing. Paperback. Folio (14.25 x 10.25 inches), recent wraps with front cover laid down, very good, bit of soil, toning and corner bumping to contents, 120 pp, illustrated, including plates, some folding. Also called Khafre, the Pharaoh flourished around 2570 BC. Not much.....
New York: J. Smith Homans, 1856. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover, very good copy, some spotting to edges of text block and moderate foxing to contents, heaviest to the endpapers. 114 & 97 pp. Shows the state of the economics in America just.....
Paperback. Of unknown ownership and place of origin, but there is a program for Madame Patey's Farewell Tour from 1894 laid in, with performances in Ilkley and Otley, both small towns NW of Leeds. Oblong sea-green pages (approximately 8.5 x 11 inches; 22 x 28 cm) interleaved with thin tissue.....
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904. Hardcover. Black stamped brown cloth flexible boards, octavo, 51pp. + 40 pages of ads at rear, not illustrated. Book has soil and rubbing to boards and spine, spine ends and corners worn and torn, binding tender with cloth torn at hinges, previous owner's signature.....
London and NY: Oxford University Press, 1935-1939. First printing. Hardcover. Folio set (15 x 12 inches), 6 volumes, complete, blue cloth in dust jackets, very good overall with some light soil and bumping to bindings, dust jackets generally good plus to very good, light general soil and wear to jackets.....
New York: Experimenter Publications, C. 1930. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto (11.25 x 8.5 inches), cloth backed color pictorial boards in the Gluyas Williams style. Very good minus, light wear and soil, some tan stains and splatters to a handful of early pages, no doubt from the efforts of an intoxicated.....
Los Angeles: Science Foundation Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Green stamped gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 210pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of toning and shelfwear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with faint foxing to edges of text block. DJ has edgewear that.....
Carmel Valley: Ventana, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. Squarish quarto, fine copy in dust jacket, signed by Sexton on the half title, also inscribed by someone else (not Sexton) to photographer Jay Stock. A very handsome book.
Hong Kong: Pink Triangle Press, 1981. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, 94 pp, illustrated, very good, light wear and soil. Very RARE, OCLC locates a single copy in a Dutch library. Text in Chinese. Shasha expanded this book to 30 questions in a 1989 edition, equally scarce.
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1861, lavender cloth gilt, about very good, collated complete with all 6 chromolithographs (including folding panoramic frontispiece in the first volume) and folding map in pocket at rear of first volume -- in fact, there is a duplicate.....
(NY): Columbia Pictures, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. Folio, 14 x 11 inches, cloth backed heavily decorated gold foil boards and gold endpapers, about 75 pages, very good with minor wear and soil to covers, slight loss of foil to one corner, faint spotiness to outermost pages, color vivid and bright;.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. Housed in handsome quarter burgundy morocco slipcase and red cloth chemise. 8vo, red cloth gilt, in original printed dust jacket; book about fine, no real blemishes, first state with no ads on verso of title page, jacket good plus: some edgewear.....