Christmas Stories
Brooklyn, NY: Baldwin the Clothier, 1894. Large 8vo. stiff pictorial wraps; softcover; 48 pages; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
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Elson-Gray Basic Readers Primer
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company (1936). 12mo.; black cloth covered boards with orange and green picture of boy and dog, 144 pages; hardcover; color illustrations by Miriam Story Hurford; green and white endpaper; from the Curriculum Foundation Series; in lightly rubbed boards else very good. More
The Golden Hour
NYChicago/ Toronto: P.F. Volland, 1915. 1st Edition. 24mo; pictorial boads with with metal title, small hardcover; color illustrations; a lovely , clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly sunned box. More
Larmes De Crocodile
Paris: Robert Delpire, no date [ca 1950s]. Oblong 48mo.; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover in brown “packing crate” slipcase; green, orange, black and white illustration; French text; lightly rubbed slipcase else very good. More
Before I Go, You Should Know... My Funeral and Final Plans
Hinesburg, VT: A Funeral Consumers Alliance Publication (2000). First edition; 8vo.; softcover booklet, pamphlets, and refrigerator magnet all contained in a stiff plastic envelope with a string closer; black and white illustrations by Edward Gorey; Includes, sheet on Palliative Care, advance directives, death away from home, a checklist to prepare..... More
Woven History The Technology and Innovation of Long Island Coverlets, 1800 - 1860
Seatauket, NY: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities. 1st edition; small 4to; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 86 pages, black and white photographic illustrations of coverlets and related things on almost every page; a fine, clean, tight copy. More
Four Footed Folk
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co. (1914). 8vo; color pictorial boards; yellow and white pictorial endpapers; hardcover; color illustrations; edgeworn boards and chipped spine ends with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Broken Spoke
NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1976). First trade edition, Toledano A63c; oblong 24mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; endpapers are sunned at hinges else a very good clean tight copy in a very lightly edgeworn dust jacket that is unclipped. More
The Epiplectic Bicycle
NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1969). First edition with proper price on dust jacket, Toledano A30a; oblong 16mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; endpapers are sunned else a very good clean tight copy in a foxed dust jacket that is sunned on spine. More
The Raging Tide: or, The Black Doll’s Imbroglio
NY: A Peter Weed Book, Beaufort Books Publishers (1987). Stated First Beaufort edition, First trade edition with the proper price on dust jacket, Toledano A93c; oblong 16mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; spine of boards is sunned else a very good clean tight copy in an unclipped..... 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
Chuggins: the Youngest Hero With the Army: a Tale of the Capture of Santiago
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co. (1904). small 8vo., blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations with large color pictorial paste-on; color frontis and b&w illustrations by J.C. Claghorn; very good/o. More
The Star Beast
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1954). First edition with the Scribner A present; 8vo.; black covered boards with blue lettering on spine and cover, hardcover; 282 pages; black and white illustrated title page; one corner of board is frayed else and about 10 pages have dog-ear creases on top corner else..... More
Das Unbekannte Spanien Baukunst, Landschaft, Volksleben [The Unknown Spain Architecture, Landscape, Folk Life]
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth (1925). 4to.; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations, hardcover; 23 pages plus 304 sepia photographic illustrations; German text; boards are sunned and corners bumped else a very good clean, tight copy. More
The Magnificent Adventure This being the Story of the World’s Greatest Exploration, and the Romance of a very Gallant Gentleman
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards with front pictorial pastedown and gilt lettering; hardcover; 355 pages with (I) on last page; black and white illustrations; edgeworn and rubbed covers with sunned spine else a very good clean tight copy. More
Bermuda Vacation. A Photographic Picture Book.
Phil.: David McKay (1941). small 4to., pictorial boards; map endpapers; photographic illustrations and drawings by Roberta Paflin. former owner’s name on title page else very good in edgeworn dust jacket. with several small closed tears. More
A Luggage and Leather Goods Manual
NY: Luggage and Leather Goods Manufacturers of America, Inc. (1948). 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 235 pages; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
The Elementary Methods of Sherlock Holmes
NY; Magico Magazine, (1987). 8vo. brown boards, hardcover; 145 pages; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy. 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
Fun With Paper Dolls
NY: Doubleday & Co (1949). 1st edition; small 4to; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover; decorative endpapers; 64 pages; color and black & white illustrations; two complet fold out Christmas manger cut out scenes attached to the front and back endpapers; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly..... More
Memoirs of a Good-For-Nothing
NY: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. First Edition; 12mo; brown cloth covered beveled boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 192 pages plus 4 pages of advertising for other books published by Leypoldt & Holt; From the German by Freiherr von Joseph Eichendorff; owners bookplate on front pastedown endpaper; black and white illustrations;..... More
Our Home Counselor, a Practical Cyclopedia for Daily Use, containing Reliable Recipes, Legal Forms, Interest Tables, Etc.
Chicago: Ruth & Co. 1877. 8vo; decorative green cloth with gilt lettering; 320 pages; original green cloth gilt, 320 pages and 127 pages of interest tables; on nick on cover and pencil writing on first fee end paper else a very good, clean, tight, copy. More
The Spring-Time of Life; or, Advice to Youth
NY, NY: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853. 1st edition; 12mo; brown cloth covered boards with faded gilt spine lettering and decorations; 328 pages plus 8 pages of publisher’s books; faded covers else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies From The Times
London: The Times, 1930. 1st edition; square 4to; black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and design; unpaginated; full page sepia plhotographic plates of the animals by Maxwell; some wrinkles and spots on cover (see picture). back cover is heavily soiled. plates are in very good condition with minimal foxing..... More