Dutch Treat How To Book 1955
NY: Dutch Treat Club, 1955. 1st edition;small 8vo., pictorial endpapers; not paginated; color and black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
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Guide to Social Happiness
NY: Edward Walker, [1850]. Small 4to.; embossed cloth covered boards with gilt, hardcover; black and white frontispiece; large gift inscription on front free endpaper dated 1855; text block is very good but boards are heavily edgeworn especially at spine ends and hinge is cracked. 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
Pedro
NY: Macmillan, 1940. 1st ed. square 8vo. Blue cloth. Illus. by Karl Larson. Pedro, a houseboy in the home of a wealthy American, saves the life of an American boy. The color and architecture of Mexico is depicted in gay double page illustrations and numerous vignettes. Cover faded with some..... More
Batiking at Home A Handbook for beginners
no publishing info: [ca 1930]. 8vo.; illustrated paper wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 16 pages; black and white illustrations; Prepared especially for the Woman’s Home Companion; edgeworn with bottom spine split 1” else very good. More
The Laws of Etiquette or, Short Rules and Reflection for Conduct in Society
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836. First edition; 24mo.; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 172 pages; former owner’s name on front free endpaper else a very good clean, tight copy in edgeworn and soiled boards. More
The New York Red Pages: a Radical Tourist Guide
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers (1984). 8vo., black cloth covered boards, 156 pages; hardcover; black & white illustrations; sticker remains on front cover else a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
It Isn’t This Time of Year At All!
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co. (1954). Stated First edition; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; jacket art by Edward Gorey; former owner’s name and date on front free endpaper else a very good clean tight copy in lightly soiled boards and a sunned, soiled and chipped dust jacket..... More
The Willowdale Handcar Or The Return Of The Black Doll
Indianapolis/NY: Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1962). First edition, Toledano A10a; square 24mo.; pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
Meisterwerke der Dresdener Galerie. Eine Auswahl der vorzüglichsten Gemälde derselben in Stahlstich.
Leipzig und Dresden: English Art Institute by AH Payne, no date [ca 1863]. 3rd edition; 4to.; red cloth covered, die-cut and embossed with pictorial label paste-on, hardcover; 95 pages with gilt edges; black and white illustrations; “Masterpieces of the Dresdener Galerie A Selection of the most exquisite paintings in steel..... 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 Day on the Airway
London: Nicolas Sarony & Co., n.d. (ca.1928). sm.4to; stiff gilt-stamped decorative thin boards, hardcover; 8 pages; 25 color-illustrated cigarette premiums describes and illustrates an 'air tour' taking from London to Brussels, Bruges, Ostend, Zebrugge, Flushing, Robberdam, The Hague, Scheveningen, and ending in Amsterdam; broken ribbon else a very good, clean..... More
5000 Years of Textiles
Washington DC: Smithsonian Books, 2010. Small 4to.; illustrated stiff wraps with french folds, softcover; 320 pages; color and black and white illustrations; glue showing at hinge but it is a very good tight copy. More
Japan and Her People In Two Volumes
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. (1902). First edition; 2 volumes; 8vo; blue, cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering; top edge gilt; vol 1: (x) 377 pages; vol 2: (vi) 374 pages; illustrated with photogravures by Gilbo & Co. very good, clean, tight, unmarked copies. More
Bedtime for Frances
NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1960. Early edition; small 4to.; cloth backed illustrated boards, hardcover; black, white and green illustrations; gift inscription on front free endpaper and lightly edge-rubbed boards especially on the corners else good in a poor, chipped, soiled, and torn dust jacket that is price-clipped but lists..... More
Pete, the Cunner Boy; Or The Boy Who Kept the Fifth Commandment
Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1863. 24mo.; brown embossed cloth covered boards with gilt on spine, hardcover; x, 186 pages; black and white frontispiece; gift inscription on front free endpaper and on preliminary page and the boards are rubbed and stained with a faded spine else very good. More
Edmund Dulac-His Book Illustrations
Potomac, MD: The Buttonwood Press, 1995. 4to; cloth covered boards; hardcover; black and white illustrations; “A Bibliography”; Authorial Inscription: “To XXX and XXX What a delight to meet you and share ideas about C.W. Post College, Monhegan and best of all books! With warmest wishes Ann Conolly Hughey 2 December..... More
Teeny Tine Gnome Tomes
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. 48mo.; 3 volumes in a slipcase; glossy pictorial boards, hardcovers in an illustrated glossy slipcase; Titles are: Little Gnome Facts, Gnomes to the Rescue and A Gnome Counting Book; color illustrations; very good books in a very good slipcase. 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
La Fayette A Bibliography
N.Y.: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First edition limited to 400 copies; 8vo., cloth covered boards, hardcover, 226 pages; light edgewear, frayed spine ends, soiled boards and lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. 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
S. Karpen & Bros. Book of Designs and Price List 1916
Chicago: S. Karpen & Bros., 1916. 4to; flexible card covers with pictorial label; softcover; 55 pages; b&w illustrations on every page; 6 page price list enclosed; edgeworn covers else a very good, clean type copy. More
The Clue In The Ivy The Dana Girls Mystery Stories
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1952). The Dana Girls Mystery Stories, #14; 12mo., green tweed boards, top edge green, hardcover; green and white endpapers; 211 pages; black and white frontis on plain paper; a very good clean copy in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket; dustjacket front flap lists to “The Clue in..... More
The Lost Child
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1871. First Edition; small 4to.; blue cloth covered embossed boards with black and gilt, hardcover; 41 pages plus advertisements; black and white illustrations; non-authorial gift inscription neatly written on half title page else very good in rubbed boards with corners and spine ends..... More
Books About Poictesme An Essay in Imaginative Bibliography
Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1937. 1st edition; 8vo; green cloth backed decorative boards, hardcover; pictorial map endpapers; 28 pages; lightly faded covers else a very good, clean,, tight, unmarked copy. More