A Happy Christmas to You
London: Raphael Tuck and Sons, no date [ca 1880s]. 48mo.; shirt-shaped die-cut card, softcover; opens up to a Christmas Greeting Card; one brown and white illustration; the 2 sides have separated else good. More
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The Poems of the Pleasures; Consisting of The Pleasures of Imagination, The Pleasures of Memory, The Pleasures of Hope, The Pleasures of Friendship
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1841. 24mo.; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 346 pages; includes a Memoir of each Author, and a Dissertation on each Poem prepared expressly for this work; foxed throughout and in edgeworn and rubbed boards else very good. More
Principles of Education, Drawn From Nature and Revelation and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes Two Volumes In One
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1866. 8vo. cloth covered boards; 492 pages; dusty edges, some edgewear and faded spine else a very good clean tight copy. More
Girls’ Make-At-Home Things
NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers (1912). Second Edition; small 8vo; pictorial cloth covered boards; hardcover; 211 pages; black and white illustrations; lightly edgeworn with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in an edge chipped pictorial dust jacket with a faded spine. More
Magical City: Intimate Sketches of New York
NY & London: Charles Scribner's Sons (1935). 2nd edition with B; small 4to; silver and blue clothe covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; 120 full page black and white drawings by Bailey; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in the rare red, blue and silver chipped and creased dustjacket... More
The Illustrated Room: 20th Century Interior Design Rendering
NY: McGraw Hill Book Company (1997). 1st printing with 1 in the number line. small 4to., cloth covered boards, hardcover; 272 pages; color and black & white illustrations ; from the dustjacket:“showcases the illustrations of preeminent figures such as: Adolph Loos, Josef Hoffmann Jacque-Emile. Ruhlmann, Hugh Ferris, Elizabeth Hoopes, Walter..... More
Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Form the Manners and Enlighten the Understanding
Brattleboro: William Fessenden,1811. Sixth American edition; 24mo; full leather; 311 pages; heavily foxed with last page and appendix page creased else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
And I Mean It, Stanley
NY: Harper & Row, Publishers (1974). Stated First Edition; 8vo; glossy pictorial covers; hardcover; 32 pages; color illustrations; an Early I Can Read Book; a very good clean tight copy in a price-clipped, sunned, and chipped pictorial dust jacket with wrinkling on top edge. More
Caldwell's Atlas of Monroe County, Ohio From Actual Surveys By and Under the Direction of J. A. Caldwell, C. E
Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic (1975). 4to., black cloth covered boards, hardcover; facsimile edition of the Atlas Publishing Company of 1898; black cloth boards are slightly bowed; previous owner name on front free endpaper and couple of penned notations in the text portion. More
Italian or American? The Second Generation in Conflict
New Haven: The Institute of Human Relations by Yale University Press, 1943. First edition; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 208 pages; very good in a poor torn, chipped and sunned dust jacket. More
The Theory and Practice of the Ophthalmoscope. A Hand-Book for Students
Detroit, MI: George S. Davis, 1888. 12mo; embossed stiff covers; softcover; 77 pages; black and white illustrations; inscription on title page and former owner’s name on cover and title page; one inch closed tear at top spine end that is lightly sunned and chipped with lightly sunned pages else a...... More
Twenty-Eight Years In Wall Street
NY: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing (1887). First edition with no other printing listed; small 4to.; green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering, hardcover; xxiv, 723 pages; black and white illustrations; former owner’s name on preliminary page and boards are rubbed with some spots colored in with like-color marker..... More
The Records of The Court of Sessions of Suffolk County in the Province of New York 1670 1688
Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. (1993). Small 4to.; stiff wrappers, softcover; 319 pages plus index; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
The Essentials of Good Table Service
Ithaca, NY: The Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly, 1971. 4to.; stiff wraps, softcover; 64 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations with some color photographic illustrations; back wrap has a soil stain else very good. More
The Last Rivet The Story of Rockefeller Center, a City Within a City, As Told at the Ceremony in Which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Drove the Last Rivet of the Last Building, November 1, 1939
NY: Columbia University Press, 1940. First edition; 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 45 deckled edged pages; black and white photographic illustrations; endpapers are sunned else a very good clean, tight, unmarked copy in sunned boards with corners and spine ends beginning to fray and in a sunned, chipped and torn..... More
Babar’s Birthday Surprise
NY: Random House, Inc. (1970). First edition; 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; color illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a price-clipped and edgeworn dust jacket with one closed tear by top of spine end. More
The Story of Rosina and other Verses.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner 1895. First edition; 12mo., red bevelled boards with decorations, a minstrel, a shepherdess and sheep in gilt, b&w drawings. by Hugh Thomson, front free endpaper removed else very good/o. More
Nassau County Pictorial Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1938
NY: Nassau Division of The Long Island Association, 1938. Folio; pictorial stiff wraps with metal spiral binding, softcover; 91 pages; black and white photographic illustrations; wraps are sunned and soiled on top edge else very good. More
Dutch Treat Code Book 1936
NY: Dutch Treat Club, 1936. 1st Edition; wide 8vo octagonal pictorial boards, hardcover;unpaginated black & white and color illustrations; rubbed cover and “Down with the King” page lightly wrinkled but not rubbed with damp napkin, as instructed, else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Teddy-B and Teddy-G The Roosevelt Bears Abroad
Philadelphia, PA: Edward Stern & Co., Inc., 1908. Stated 2nd printing; 4to.; cloth backed embossed boards with pictorial paste down; b/w illustrations and 15 color plates all present; boards are rubbed with slight soiling and sunning to back cover with tears to page edge of verses title page and former..... More
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats Calendar for 1991 with excerpts from the poems by T.S. Eliot
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers (1991). Stated First edition with an A present in the number line; small 4to.; stiff pictorial wraps with metal spiral binding, softcover; Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page; a fine unmarked copy. More
Contes de Perrault
Paris: Librairie Ernest Flammarion, no date [ca 1920]. 24mo; small cloth backed boards, hardcover; 77 pages plus ad; 7 full page color plates by Margaret Tarrant; French text; edge chipped covers, internally, a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Our Boys in Ireland
NY: Worthington Company (1891). Small 4to; color and black and white pictorial boards; hardcover; 331 pages; black and white illustrations; sunned and edgeworn boards with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
Around The World With Santa Claus
NY: Suttonhouse Ltd, (1936). Small 4to.; red cloth covered boards with black lettering, hardcover; red, black and white illustrations; tape remnants on front and back paste-down endpapers in very lightly rubbed boards with the bottom spine end bumped else a very good clean tight copy in a heavily chipped, rubbed..... More