The Eclectic Abecedarium
NY: Adama Books, 1985. Reprint edition; Toledano A86c; 24mo; glossy boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; very good. More
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Gorey Endings A Calendar For 1979
NY: Workman Publishing Co., Inc (1979). Oblong 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps with metal spiral binding, softcover; includes its original mailing envelope; black and white illustrations; a fine unmarked copy in its original envelope that is lightly edgeworn, wrinkled and some soiling. More
Edward Gorey Priced Order List Fall/Winter 1976
NY: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery Inc, 1976. First edition; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; small 4to.; black and white illustrations by Gorey; includes a price list for Edward Gorey’s First Etchings and an Addenda to the Fall/Winter List laid in; a fine, unmarked copy. More
Will Women Help An Appeal To Women To Assist In Liberating Modern Thought From Theological Bonds
London: Watts & Co., 1900. 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; 100 pages plus ads; lightly soiled covers and foxed pages else a clean, tight copy. More
A Dash Through Europe: With Snapshots by the Way, Including "How I Planned the Trip, and What I Found Out of Value to Others"
NY: Oswald Publishing Company, 1923. 1st edition, 1st printing; sm. 8vo; 254 pages; cloth backed boards, hardcover; possible author’s penciled dedication: “To Mabel, My good wife of thirty years with love and affection Ed” else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Art Of The Fairground At Auction Including Important Collections Of Circus Artifacts And Exceptional Carrousel Carvings
NY: Guernsey’s, 1986. sm. 4to; pictorial wraps; 99 pages; black & white photographic illustrations on every page, 2 page Addendum for Sunday, November 2, laid in; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People Volume XX, (May, 1880 to Oct , 1880, Inclusive)
NY: Scribner & Co. 1880. Small 4to; 3/4 black leather, gilt lettered, marbled boards. 952 pages; contains: “The New York Seventh, pages 63 - 80; “Coney Island”, pages 353-365, and “Our River (The Hudson) pages 481-493 and “A Free Lending Library For New York With The Public Schools As Branches”..... More
A Book Of Old-World Gardens
London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911. First edition; 12mo.; covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; 113 deckled edged pages; color illustrations tipped in; boards and endpapers are heavily sunned with some edgewear to boards else very good. More
Inside of One Hundred Homes
Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1908. 24mo.; green decorative cloth covered boards, hardcover; 140 pages plus 1 page publisher’s ad; black and white photographic illustrations; corners are lightly bumped and boards are rubbed else very good. More
The Game of Euchre
NY: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889. 16mo; cloth backed pictorial boards; hardcover; 82 pages; includes: Treatises on French Euchre, Set-Back Euchre, Etc. and Progressive Euchre; lightly sunned and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Railway A. B. C.
NY: Sam Gabriel, 1911. Small 4to.; pictorial “linenette” stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color and black and white illustrations; some light soiling else a very good copy in edge rubbed wraps. More
Lawn Tennis Lessons for Beginners Lawn Tennis Library Vol I
NY: American Lawn Tennis, Inc. 1926. 2nd edition; 8vo. brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorative tennis racquets covered boards, 174 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Old Proverbs With New Pictures
London: Cassell, Petter, Calpin & Co., (ca 1880). Small 4to.; cloth backed boards; hardcover; color illustrations by Lizzie Lawson; non-authorial inscription on front free endpaper dated 1893 with some internal foxing and loose front endpaper else very good in lightly soiled and rubbed boards especially on corners. More
The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables
NY & London: Harper and Brothers, 1912. 1st edition, 8vo, black cloth covered boards, hardcover; color pictorial paste-on with some scratches, color and b&w illustrations by Elizabeth Green; 15 tales including: The Old Coat of Dreams, The Maker of Rainbows, The Man with Something in His Eye; Mother of Pearl..... More
Kidnapped in the Jungle: Hal Keen Mystery Story #2
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1931). 12mo., orange cloth; glossy frontis and three other glossy illustrations by Bert Saig; front dust jacket flap describes Kidnapped in the Jungle; back panel of dust jacket lists three titles; What Happened at Midnight is the last title on the back dj flap; very good..... More
Financing Government On Long Island in Volumes
Hauppauge, NY: Long Island Regional Planning Board, 1993. Two Volumes; 4to.; blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, hardcovers; black and white illustrations; prepared for the New York State Temporary Commission for Tax Relief on Long Island ; prepared by the Long Island Regional Planning Board and the..... More
Flushing, Past and Present: A Historical Sketch. Flushing,
Flushing, L.I. NY: The Home Lecture Committee of 1860. 24mo. blue decorative cloth covered boards; 180 pages; 10 tissue covered illustrations; lightly worn boards else a very good clean, tight copy, Sabin 44230. More
Deary Dot and The Squee No. 39
Rochester, NY: Stecher Litho. Co., 1916. Narrow Folio; stiff pictorial wraps with stapled binding, softcover; red, blue and white and full color illustrations; No. 39; sticker remnant on inside wrap and wraps are edgeworn with bottom staple missing therefore bottom of binding is loose else very good, pictures available... More
By Wagon and Flatboat
NY: Thomas Crowell Co. (1938). First edition; 8vo.; pictorial cloth covered boards with map endpapers, hardcover; 170 pages; black and white illustrations and color illustrations and frontispiece; very good in a dust jacket that is sunned especially on spine and lightly edgeworn. More
Summer Days and Nights in New York
NY, NY: Merchants' Association of New York, 1898. Thin 16mo; tan and red pictorial wraps, small booklet; (38 pages); light green photographic illustrations; 1898 hotels, theatres and transportation are marked on the fold out map; a very good, clean tight copy;. More
Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy and The Border Provinces
Boston: L.C. Page & Co. (1929). Stated New Edition; 8vo.; red embossed decorative cloth covered boards with gilt, blue and white decorations, hardcover; ix, 333 pages; black and white illustrations and color illustrated plates plus black and white folded maps; front hinge partially cracked else a very good clean tight..... More
The Waldenses: Sketches of the Evangelical Christians of the Valleys of Piedmont
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication 1853. 12mo.; brown and gilt embossed decorative boards, hardcover; 392 pages; black and white illustrations; With Illustrations on Wood, Drawn By Doepler, and Beaulieu, and Engraved By Louderback, Orr, and Roberts.; faded spine, light edgewear and some foxing and former owner’s name and address and..... More
The Night Before Christmas
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1938. Sm 4to.; color pictorial wraps, softcover; color illustrations; pages sunned and foxed with large water mark on back cover and rubbed spine else very good tight copy. More
The Night Before Christmas
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1939. Small 4to.; pictorial linen-like wraps with stapled binding, softcover; color illustrations; #1062; wraps are edge-rubbed especially at spine with bottom corner creased else very good. More
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De Kluchtige Aap en Het Poesje [The Comical Monkey and the Cat]
Amsterdam: G. Theod. Bom, 1876. Seventh edition, zevende druk; 16 mo.; rebound in cloth and paper-covered boards with plastic spiral binding, hardcover; 17 pages of text and 16 pages with hand-colored illustrations; Text in Dutch; Translation of The Monkey’s Frolic: A Humourous Tale; pages are edgeworn and foxed else very..... More