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
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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
Up In The Old Hotel And Other Stories
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
The School of Good Manners, Composed for the Help of Parents in Teaching Their Children How to Carry it in Their Places During Their Minority
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
The Night Before Christmas
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
Practical Piety; or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of Life.
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
The Art Of Publishers’ Bookbindings 1815-1915 An Exhibition held at The Grolier Club New York, 17 May - 29 July 2000
Los Angeles: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd, 2000. Stated First edition; 4to.; stiff pictorial wrap, softcover; 127 pages; color illustrations; very good. More
Adelphi College Garden City, New York
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
Constitution, By-Laws, Racing Rules, Etc., of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club of New York 1889
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
Father Christmas
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
The Gem, Or Fashionable Business Directory For The City of New York 1844
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
The Grand ABC With Handsome Large Letters, and Fourteen Coloured Engravings
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
New York Shopping Guide for 1873
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
New York World’s Fair 1940 Edition Illustrated by Camera
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
The Pastime of Learning, with Sketches of Rural Scenes
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
PolyTechnic Preparatory School Annual Catalogue 1909-1910
Brooklyn: Polytechnic Preparatory School, 1910. Small 8vo.; stiff wraps with stapled bindings, 63 pages; wraps are lightly soiled and rubbed else very good. More
The Rural Cook Book Some Old Recipes and Many New Ones - Being the Collected Wisdom of a Legion of Home Cooks
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
The Jolly Book For Boys and Girls
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
Laurence Olivier presents Romeo and Juliet with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (Souvenir Book)
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
Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County, N.Y., With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and Additions
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
Third Anniversary of the H. L. T. A Movable Feast Falling In The Year 1883 On The 3rd Day of June. “Cedani arma toga.”
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
The Buenos Aires Affair (Signed )
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
The Pet Circle
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
Sightings A Maine Coast Odyssey
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
New York, Rand McNally Indexed Pocket Map Tourists’ and Shippers’ Guide: Main Highways, Railroads and Electric Lines, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Offices, Lakes, Rivers, etc.
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