As schools let out, we also celebrate the books that get to graduate and move on with their lives. We hope none of them flunk and are kept back a year. They all have such potential...
Paperback. No publisher's information, 21 plates; sheets measure 17 x 21.25 (images measure 16 x 20), bound crudely in old brown folder stock ,each images shows the addition of a new color to the well known image of "Ecce Homo" (Behold the Man, as Pontius Pilate said), showing the process.....
Charleston SC: 1866. 4 pp, 22.5 x 16 inches, good -- left edge a bit rough and with neat tissue lining, inch-long tear to the middle of the paper where the folds intersect, light general foxing, light edgewear. The first issue of the paper after the Civil War; publication was.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth, very good, no jacket (if one was issued); inscribed "For Albert L. Franklin, My brother, and His Wife, Juanita, from the Author, Charles Lionel Franklin, August 2, 1936." 415 pp. The author, African-American himself (a graduate of HBC.....
London: Heinemann, Ca. 1920. First printing. Hardcover. No. 371 of 380 signed and with an original drawing of a sitting terrier faced away from the reader (we have seen other copies with similar drawings) , quarto, vellum backed boards in dust jacket, book very good with light general soil, minor.....
8.5 inches tall, on blue paper with some white mottling to top, signed in pencil by three of the author-speakers, and in pen by Betty Smith (of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn fame). For Tuesday June 20 [1944].
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth gilt, very good or better with just a hint of soil to covers, owner's name from 1896 on flyleaf, lightest soil to top edge of text block, text clean and bright. Science-Fiction novel cited by Bleiler and.....
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Praha: Vladimir Zikes, 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, handsome half black morocco and black rather celestial marbled boards, near fine copy but for a touch of wear to the spine label, contents about fine, slightest age toning. Edition of 500 copies, this one with printed name of the original subscriber.....
Backus, a Federalist congressman from Pomfret, CT, writes to Bourne, a fellow congressman from RI, asking him about the character of John G. Thayer, a 'civil, well bred man,' and whether he is who he claims -- he had arrived in Pomfret 'without letters' and Backus relates that 'certain reports.....
New York: Scribners, 1918. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth backed boards, very good, light soil to covers, 15 pp. text, approximately 20 plates.
Postmarked August 13, 1904, a note in Italian addressed to Robert Michels at Marburg, from what we can tell asking Michels for an article on the development of the field of political sociology in Italy from 1850-1900. Odd bluish mottling to address side, much less so to the side with.....
Postmarked Dec. 22, 1913 from Jena, expressing best wishes for the new year and support for the projects of the Lowell Institute to William T. Sedgwick, a key figure in shaping public health efforts in the United States. Eucken won the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature for his philosophical works.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. Large quarto in boards with dust jacket. Gentle bumping to corners; near fine copy. 548 pp, illus. in color and b/w. We can't imagine there's a better book on the subject.
Probably 1970s; purchased from the collection of Sam Hamill, who translated many of the Japanese and Chinese poets. 29.5 x 20 inches, on rice paper; we are relying on multiple variant translations offered up by google-translate, which gave us "emotional bile pot," "pot farm, " and Yongqu vs. Yongfu. Some.....
Paris: Les Editions Guerinet, C. 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Folio, 16 x 12 inches, chemise with cloth backed boards with ties, housing 3 portfolios of collotype photographic plates of candelsticks, lanterns, sconces, fireplaces, grates, etc., 120 plates in all. The second volume, which we don't have, covers the 17th-19th centuries.....
Tokyo: 1918. Paperback. 11.5 x 8.75 inches (29.5 x 22 cm), color decorated wraps, bound accordion / leporello style, with 96 pages, 92 of which are plates, and 4 with text, publisher's information, etc. Good or better condition, light waterstaining to bottom of one of the covers, and the other.....
Rochester, NY: Rochester Volksblatt, 1893. Paperback. 5.5 x 3.75 inches, pale yellow coated linen-backed pictorial wraps, very good, light soil, contents very good, 38 (1) pp, with text first in English and then in German, with the book's owner's information and certification as a member of this lodge filled in.....
Hardcover. Oblong quarto (14 x 10.5 inches) stiff paper covered boards, short text plus 47 photographic plates detailing the church, the house of the foundress of Tenrikyo, Osayama, and other buildings, interiors, courtyards, etc in the compound of the church, which was located in Tenri, east of Osaka. Very good.....
Pittsburgh: Kaufmann Brothers, Ca. 1910. First printing. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.75 inches, pictorial stiff card covers, 32 pp, illustrated, each page with a biography and achievements of each inventor with an illustration, each written by a different Pittsburgh child. Ends with the Wright Brothers and judging from the airplane on.....
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1993. Paperback. 2nd printing -- number line ends in 2. 8vo, wraps, very good, most minor wear. Inscribed in 1993 to Jim (Daniels), a well known poet currently residing in Pittsburgh.
London: Country Life, 1905. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, folio, dark blue cloth with handsome gilt decorations, very good, minor wear and rubbing, light occasional bumping to page corners. 159, 143 pp, many plates.
Senator from Nebraska 1883-1895. Mainly 1 pp, but a few more than that, one or two typed letters, almost all addressed to General William B. Franklin in Hartford regarding his work as President of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Volunteer Soldiers, including bills coming up in.....
Glasgow: William Collins, Ca. 1878. Hardcover. Large quarto; 13.25 x 10.5 inches, full dark brown morocco, raised bands, embossed decorations in darker brown including fleur-de-lis inside a diamond pane design, stamped in gilt on spine, about fine with just a touch of wear, inscribed to a Robert James Houston from.....
County Clare, IR: Self Published, 1987. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, near fine, signed on verso of front wrap by McMahon "To Jim." 47 pp. McMahon was a legendary Irishman and busker associated with the Cliffs of Moher, a dramatic landscape in southwest County Clare in the NW of Ireland.....
Oslo: Forlagt AV H. Aschehoug & Co., 1934-1936. First printing. Hardcover. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches), original tan cloth stamped in gilt, very good, light bumping, sprinkling of tiny spots to edges of text block, contents very good, in plain unprinted dust jacket that has some soil and wear. 2.....
Oslo: Forlagt AV H. Aschehoug & Co., 1930-1932. First printing. Hardcover. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches), original tan cloth stamped in gilt, very good, light bumping, sprinkling of tiny spots to edges of text block, contents very good, in plain unprinted dust jacket that has some soil and wear &.....
Oslo: Forlagt AV H. Aschehoug & Co., 1913-1926. First printing. Hardcover. Folio (14.5 x 11 inches), original tan cloth stamped in gilt, very good, light bumping, sprinkling of tiny spots to edges of text block, contents very good, in plain unprinted dust jacket that has some chipping, soil, and wear.....
17.75 x 11.25 single page for land leased to Harry Mudway in the Seneca Reservation near Salamanca, NY, double-sided. Whether or not all such documents had an 8 x 7.5 inch lithograpah of a Seneca chief affixed to the bottom of the document, we don't know. Signed by a number.....
Jerusalem: The "Song of Songs" Publishing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Third edition, quarto (13.5 inches, 35 cm) in full embossed dark brown leather with floral pattern and copper relief inset in front cover, 26 mounted color plates including title page, each with glassine plate guard, very good, small inscription on one.....
Chicago & NY: Rand McNally, C. 1925. Paperback. Wraps, 83 (13) pp plus, and folding 27 x 39.5 inch two sided color map at rear. VG crisp copy, neat reinforcement to spine hinge, map with a few very minor separations at folds. Rare on the market and perhaps 1 copy.....
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1937). First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth in dust jacket, book about fine, minimal wear and toning, jacket very good with minor wear and darkening. Unusually rare book. 281 pp, frontispiece and one other plate in color, 51 plates at rear.
London: William Mackenzie, Ca. 1889. Hardcover. First one volume edition, folio (15.25 x 11.25 inches, dark green cloth gilt with gilt illustration of Furness Abbey on front cover, unusually near fine fresh copy with minimal wear to binding, contents fine, including the remarkable chromolithograph plates (12 in number), 288 pp.....
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Amberes: Iuan Bautista Verdussen, 1678. Hardcover. Folio (12.5 inches, 32 cm tall), old but probably not original vellum, hand lettered on spine, (18), 34 (6) 398 (Empresa Politica), 2 pp (Sumario); lacking at least one more page of the Sumario at end, with woodcut emblems throughout. Good text, with dampstaining.....
20 x 17.75 inches, on regular sketch-pad paper, very good with some tanning and lightest edgewear and loss, signed and dated by Scheuch in 1947. "Harry W. Scheuch [1906-1978] moved from New Jersey to Pittsburgh in 1928 to study at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He described his new home.....
Paris: Contrejours, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, boards in dust jacket, very good plus, lightest soil to bottom of boards, jacket about fine. Lots of black and white photos of supermodels' butts.
Miami: 4M Home Press, 1992. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, near fine, inscribed by poet in 1993. Jamaican poet, good poems, some in dialect. RARE, only three recorded copies in libraries: Virgin Islands, Barbados, and Miami-Dade.
Madrid: Nuevo Mundo, 1900-01. Hardcover. Large quarto, leather backed cloth boards, very good, light wear to binding, original front color covers bound in including the rear wraps, each issue is 24 pp, heavily illustrated, some colorized photos, on all aspects of Spanish theater.
Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, 1880. First printing. Hardcover. Tall folio (22 x 16 inches), original cloth boards, recent cloth over spine, good with recent cloth reinforcement to spine, mild ex-library marks, boards with darkening, soil and corner wear, contents very good, with 63 plates printed on rectos only. Number 220.....
Hardcover. Oblong 8vo, cloth, 9.5 x 6 inches, with 47 very nicely done pencil sketches, almost all architectural and scenic. Ownership signature of a Frederick Partington; he apparently stayed at the Flyhof in central Weesen on the western shore of Wallansee, a Swiss lake in the east toward Lichtenstein. One.....
10.75 x 8.5 inches, very good, with Haring-like decorations to the ad, and signed by Warhol. Provenance: collection of Tom Sokolowski (1950-2020), the second director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Ads on the verso touting the new Singapore Airlines' Concorde flights to London, date this to 1977.
London: Thomas McLean, 1850. First printing. Hardcover. Tall folio; 24.5 x 17.5 inches, original cloth boards, good copy: recent amateur re-cornering and respining with cloth, contents good to very good, inner hinges strengthened with cloth, light ex-library marks from Carnegie Inst. of Technology (later CMU): old faint purple stamp to.....
London: Batsford, 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good with slightest curving to boards, offsetting and tanning to endpapers; jacket very good, minor wear; 268 pp, illustrated.
London: Country Life, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Folio, cloth backed boards, good to very good, binding with some edgewear and soil, contents good to very good, must have got a little moisture at some point because when we got this some of the pages were beginning to stick together but.....
Boston: L. Prang, C. 1889. Stiff wraps, 7 x 4.75 inches, 9 stiff leaves, printed on rectos only, with 4 chromolithograph landscapes and other pages printing the text in brown-tone. Remarkably fine copy with some minor discoloration to rear cover. No copies located by Worldcat in institutions, and one of.....
New York: Macmillan, 1904. Hardcover. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged (3rd printing of the second edition, the first being published 1900). 8vo, midnight blue cloth gilt, about very good, some light mottling to binding and minor shaking to inner hinges; light occasional signs of waterstaining to inner gutter of some.....