The Eclectic Abecedarium
NY: Adama Books, 1985. Reprint edition; Toledano A86c; 24mo; glossy boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; very good. More
NY: Adama Books, 1985. Reprint edition; Toledano A86c; 24mo; glossy boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; very good. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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