Pleasant Memories
Chicago: The Acmegraph Co. (1912). 24mo.; stiff wraps with decorative dust jacket and bound with a ribbon, softcover; 36 pages; dust jacket is heavily chipped with a large chip on spine else very good. More
New Arrivals
Rumpelstiltskin
NY: Scholastic, 1973. 4th Printing; 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 48 pages; black, white and yellow illustrations; wraps are lightly rubbed and back wrap has a crease else very good. More
The Iron Tonic: Or A Winter Afternoon In Lonely Valley
Zurich: Diogenes, 1979. Swiss reprint edition; Part f the 9 volume set The Catafalque Works; Oblong 16mo.; pictorial stiff wraps with sewn binding, softcover; English Text; lightly rubbed wraps with sunned spine else very good. More
Menaced Objects: Dogear Wryde Postcards
No Place: Dogear Wryde, 1989. First trade edition cards and envelope, Toledano A96b; oblong 32mo.; 16 black and white postcards (no colophon card as indicated in trade edition) in envelope pictorially stamped; envelope has 2 closed tears at opening and all cards are present, very good. More
The Dwindling Party
NY: Random House (1982). First edition with a 1 present in the number line Toledano A-83a; 6 color illustrated pop-ups and moveables; a very good copy with all moveable parts present and in working order. More
The Tunnel Calamity
NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984. No statement of edition, Toledano A-89; Square 16mo.; pictorial stiff covers; A Magic Window book; bottom corners are bumped and some edgewear else very good. More
Edward Gorey Checklist: American Book Collector, Volume 6, #3 New Series, May/June 1985
NY: The Moretus Press, Inc. (1985). 8vo., stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 68 pages, b/w illustrations wraps are foxed else very good. More
Phantasmagorey The Work of Edward Gorey Exhibition Catalogue Sterliing Memorial Library, Yale University April 17 - September 27, 1974
CT: Yale University, 1974. First edition; small 4to.; illustrated wraps, softcover; vi, 28 pages; black and white and color illustrations; lightly sunned and back wrap has a crease else very good. More
Essays of Elia
NY and Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., no date [ca 1900s]. 16mo; blue cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and lettering, hardcover; 302 pages; sunned lightly sunned else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
A Present for an Apprentice: Or, A Sure Guide to Gain both Esteem and Estate with Rules for his Conduct to his Master, and in the World By a late Lord Mayor of London. London
Philadelphia: Managers, 1822. 24mo; boards; 107 pages; boards are held together with tape and poor and pages are heavily stained but tight copy. More
New Englands Rarities Discovered
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1972. Thin 16mo; Stiff wraps; 114 pages plus book list black & white illustrations; a very good, clean,tight, unmarked copy. More
Early Days of the Island of Manhattan and its Environs 1626 - 1776
NY: Guarantee and Trust Co. [1927]. Oblong 24mo; stiff pictorial wraps; 75 pages; black & white illustrations; previous owner’s name on front free endpaper else a very good, clean, tight, copy. More
Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and Additions
NY: Leavitt, Crow & Co. 1846. 1st edition Small 8vo; rebound gray leather backed floral cloth covered boards; flowered endpapers; 264 pages; lightly foxed title page and page edges else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Freedom of the Press: History and an Argument Compiled from Speeches on this Subject Delivered over a Period of Fifteen Years
NY: Appleton-Century Co, 1936. 12mo; brown cloth covered boards, hardcover; 116 pages; signed: “xx With Friendship, Robert R. McCormick”; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Bobbin Boy Or How Nat Got His Learning An Example For Youth
Boston. Boston: J. E. Tilton and Co., 1860. First edition; 8vo; red cloth covered boards with decorative gilt spine; 310 pages; rubbed covers and small spot on spine, some foxing and front hinge is cracked else very good. More
Michelangelo Pistoletto / Mario Ceroli
Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1969. Back to back catalogues for May 13-June 15, 1969; Michelangelo Pistoletto - silver wraps; 10 pages, 5 b&w illustrations; Ceroli - woodgrain wraps; 10 pages; 6 b&w illustrations; essay by Robert M. Murdock on each artist, biography and bibliography. More
Why Men Should Work for Women’s Suffrage The Wages and Employment Question
Birmingham, Templar Printing Works (1912). coverless paper wraps with the original cover pasted on the temporary covers; 30 pages; internal pages are toned else quite good. More
Highlights of Manhattan
NY: Century Co., 1927. First edition; 8vo; cloth covered boards with pictorial paste-on, hardcover; 381 pages; black & white illustrations; lightly soiled and edgeworn covers and toned pages else a clean, unmarked, tight copy. More
Northport Volunteer Fire Department Centennial Celebration 1889-1989 Norhport-Long Island New York
NY: Jostens, 1989. 4to; gilt embossed logo on boards with gilt lettering on spine and pictorial endpapers; hardcover; 235 pages; color and black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy. More
The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1912. Second printing. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and seals; six folding maps and black & white illustrations; edgeworn especially at spine ends else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost: Being a Collection of Country and Suburban Homes in Good Taste, with Some Value in Suggestion for the Home-Builder
NY:McBride, Winston & Company, 1911. 4to; pictorial cloth covered boards; 173 pages; black & white illustrations; lightly rubbed edges and name & address of former owner on front endpaper else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Geology of Long Island New York
Washington: Govermment Printing Office, 1914. First edition: 4to; brown leatherette covered boards, hardcover; 231 pages., 27 table pages, 1 folded table, 204 figures in the text, 2 folded color maps in pocket. Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Professional Paper 82; original paper cover glued in, is in..... More
The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten
Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, 1993. First edition; 4to; red cloth covered boards, hardcover; 120 pages; 59 black & white images; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a very good dustjacket. More
Rev. Christopher Yonges and Pastor, John Youngs. Thomas Youngs, of Oyster Bay, and His Descendants, The 250th Anniversary of Pastor Youngs' Settlement
Jamaica, NY: Charles Welling,’ 1890. 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; 142 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Czech Modernism, 1900-1945
Boston: Bulfinch Press/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1989. First edition; 4to; black cloth; 263 pages; black & white and color illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More