Treasures of American Museums
NY: M & M Books, 1991. First edition; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 239 pages; color photographic illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
NY: M & M Books, 1991. First edition; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 239 pages; color photographic illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
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
NY: Pantheon Books, 1992. Stated First Edition; Uncorrected Page Proof; 8vo; stiff gray wraps, paperback; 717 pages; stamp on cover else a very good, clean, tight copy;. More
Boston: Printed and Sold by Manning & Loring, 1805. 32mo.; paper wraps with sewn binding, softcover; 95 pages; title page is torn in half but present with many tears to page edges and wraps are very edgeworn and a faded gift inscription on front wrap else very good. More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Pub Co, no date [ca 1920s]. #615; 4to., large softcover; stiff pictorial wraps with Santa going down the chimney; color illustrations ; lightly soiled and edgeworn covers else a very good clean tight copy. More
NY: Richard Scott, 1812. 1st edition; 24 mo. brown leather covered boards, hardcover; 234 foxed and toned pages; torn front free endpaper and front hinge cracked else a very good clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Los Angeles: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd, 2000. Stated First edition; 4to.; stiff pictorial wrap, softcover; 127 pages; color illustrations; very good. More
Brooklyn, NY: Albertype Co., no date [1931]. Oblong 24 mo.; stiff illustrated wraps with sewn binding with decorative rope, softcover; 1 page of text followed by 16 pages of black and white photographic illustrations of the women’s only campus; lightly edgeworn wraps else very good. More
NY: E.F. Weeks, Printer, 1889. 16mo; cloth covered boards with racing wheel design; hardcover; 132 pages; color and black and white illustrations; former owner’s name on front free endpaper; sunned and edgeworn covers with sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy; all domestic orders are shipped with a...... More
NY: Saml Gabriel Sons (ca 1911). Folio; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 14 unnumbered pages; No. 280; black and white and color illustrations; sticker remnant on front endpaper else a very good clean tight copy in edgeworn wraps and tears on each spine end. More
NY: George Shidell, 1844. First edition; American Imprints 44-2562; 16mo.; brown blind-stamped boards with gilt, hardcover; 108 pages; black and white illustrations; contains Poetry and business directory; heavily edgeworn and rubbed else good. More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, no date [ca 1842]. 24mo.; illustrated wraps, softcover; black and white illustrations (although the title says 14 coloured engravings all are not coloured); watermarks on the edge of some of the pages but not all and the wraps are edgeworn and stained else good... More
NY: Tower, Gildersleeve & Co., 1873. Narrow 12mo.; wraps, softcover; 84 pages; black and white illustrations and maps; title continues: Established to Guide Purchasers to Prominent First-Class Houses, Who habitually keep large and varied stocks in each department of Trade. Admitting only Those Responsible in the Highest Degree, and Well..... More
NY: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co., 1940. Small 4to.; pictorial stiff wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 64 unnumbered pages; black and white photographic illustrations; wraps are creased, edgeworn and rubbed else very good. More
Boston: Cottons & Barnard, 1831. 16mo.; leather backed boards, hardcover; 260 pages; hand-colored illustrations; book is heavily foxed, sunned, edgeworn and chipped at spine ends with hinges cracked else fair. More
Brooklyn: Polytechnic Preparatory School, 1910. Small 8vo.; stiff wraps with stapled bindings, 63 pages; wraps are lightly soiled and rubbed else very good. More
NY: The Rural New-Yorker, 1907. 12mo.; paper wraps with stapled binding, softcover; 192 pages; front wrap and spine is gone and pages are edgeworn and foxed else fair. More
Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Co,, 1915. First edition; 8vo.; decorative cloth covered boards, hardcover; xvi, 409 pages; black and white illustrations and frontispiece; 2 pages have chipped edges and non-authorial gift inscription dated 1915 on title page in ink else a very good clean tight copy in boards that..... More
NY: A. Greenstone, no date [ca 1939]. 4to.; gilt pictorial wraps with stapled binding and decorative glassine cover, softcover; 16 unnumbered pages; black and white photographic illustrations; edgeworn wraps with the glassine cover in poor shape else very good. More
Hempstead, L.I.,NY: Lott Van De Water, 1884. Second Series; 8vo. stapled toned pages, soft cover which has been glued to cloth covered boards, hardcover; toned pages else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
privately published [ca 1883]. Limited edition, number XXIV, signed by author and printer; 16mo.; boards self-wrapped in paper, hardcover; the third annual dinner of the Hengstenberg Lunch Table; according to Historic Photos of Cincinnati by Linda Bailey page 61: “ Four young lawyers began daily meetings over lunch at Hengstenberg’s..... More
NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1976. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine; stated first edition with 1 in the numberline; small 8vo. blue boards, hardcover; 219 pages; “To Leonard this rather somber novel, Manuel Puig” on the half title page;a fine clean tight copy in a lightly sunned and soiled dustjacket..... More
Boston: New England Publishing House, 1866. 16mo.; cloth covered boards with gilt decoration on spine, 229 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations; Vol II of Kaleidoscope Pictures series with other volumes listed as Vol I Kalid and Kittie, Vol III Gold Robin, and Vol IV Kalid’s Friends; has non-authorial inscription on front..... More
Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1997. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; oblong sm. 4to.; pictorial, glossy wraps, softcover; xi, 145 pages; color photographic illustrations; wraps are sunned else very good. More
NY: Rand McNally, no date [ca 1920s]. 16mo.; paper wraps, softcover; 96 pages plus 2 sided fold out map on back wrap; black and white illustrations; wraps are detached from text block at spine and edgeworn else good. More