NY: Federal Book Company Publishers, no date [ca 1900s]. 12mo; decorative cloth covered boards with pictorial paste-down on front cover; hardcover; 491 pages; black and white illustrations; ìownerís name, Syracuse State Fair, Sept. 11th 1902î on free front endpaper; lightly rubbed boards with foxed page edges else a very good..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1871. 16mo; embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 90 pages; Hints include: Burton and other Trent Ales, Care of Flowers, Cooking Meats, Diet for Invalids, Fish Culture, Good Housewifery, Housemaidsí Knees, Smuggling Lace, Varieties of Charity, To Dry Herbs, and What is Cheapness?;..... More
New York: Harper Perennial (1993). Stated 1st Edition; glossy pictorial boards; 186 pages; ìA wee handbook for the perplexedî; very good. More
Oneonta (NY): The Oneonta Press, 1901. 12mo., decorative cloth covered boards, hardcover; novel set in Cooperstown; photographic illustrations of Cooperstown- and the Oneonta area photos within. From the Author's note: ìIt is not my intention to write a history of Cooperstown only so far as this story coincides with history..... More
Boston: John P. jewett & Co., 1856. 12mo., brown cloth binding with blindstamped design and gilt spine titles; 259 pages; light edgewear and dusty page edges else a very good, clean tight copy. More
Philadelphia: TB Peterson and Brothers (1858). 12mo; embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 508 pages plus pages of other publications from T.B. Peterson & Brothers; informational endpapers; black and white illustrations; edgeworn covers and partially split spine with foxed pages,else a very good clean tight copy. More
London: Debrettís Peerage Limited (1980). 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and picture; hardcover; 160 pages; black and white illustrations; Preface by Lord Burghersh; very good in a very good pictorial dust jacket. More
Chicago: Junior Home Magazine (1929). 12mo. stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; black and white ilustrations; lightly soiled and edgeworn covers and sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy. More
Omaha: Clark Publishing Co., 1893. 8vo.; green cloth embossed covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 502 pages; black & white illustrations; introduction by Rev. Willard E. Waterbury; edgeworn boards especially at corners and spine ends; pages 19 to 22 poorly cut but tears not interfering with text else a tight..... More
Cresskill, NJ: Creative Therapeutics (1990). 2nd printing; 8vo., glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 221 pages; black & white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy with no apparent flaws. More
NY: Atheneum, 1985. Stated 1st edition; 12mo.; marble covered boards, x, 70 pages; hardcover; b/w illustrations; lightly rubbed on corners and spine ends else very good. More
London, Eng.: Debrett"s Peerage Ltd, (1982). 1st Printing. thin 8vo., cloth covered boards, small hardcover; very good in a very good price-clipped and sunned dust jacket. More
NY: Rizzoli International Publications (2000). First edition and signed by Author on half-title page ìHappy Holidays! Sheryll Bellmanî; small oblong 4to., cloth covered boards with a large cut out section which reveals the picture on the first page of the book; foreword by Simon Doonan; color and black & white..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard (1895). Revised and Enlarged Edition; 24mo.; brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, xviii, 285 pages; hardcover; boards are slightly soiled and rubbed with some internal foxing else very good. More
Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. 8vo., 240 pages; cloth; children at play, as observed by Iona Opie over 30 years; Games, seasonal variations, fads that come and go, the differences in attitudes between the sexes; very good in a very good dustjacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946. Stated 1st edition; 12mo.; 326 pages; A Discussion of the Problems of Sanitation raised by Sir John Harington, together with Reflections upon Further Progress recorded since that Excellent Knight, by his Invention of the Metamorphosed AJAX, Father of Conveniences, revolutionised the System of Sanitation..... More
NY: Association Press, 1933. First edition, 12mo., 100 pp., boards, ìGrowing Into Manhood is a book that makes boys want to grow up strong and healthy: it makes them want to excell in real things.î very good in edgeworn dust jacket. More
Phila: George W. Jacobs & Co. (1908). 16mo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 191 pages plus index; black and white illustrations; lightly rubbed and edgeworn boards else very good. More
Wickcliff: Westvaco, 1979. Limited reprint edition from the collection of Daniel A. Walker; 8vo., 308 pages; red cloth with gilt lettering on spine., designed by Bradbury Thompson; black and white illustrations and captions from Hill's Manual of Business and Social Forms. #22 in Westvaco Christmas series. very good in a...... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Book Co., 1977. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 148 pages; very good in creased and edgeworn dust jacket. More
NY: Derby & Jackson, 1858. 12mo gilt & blind stamped brown cloth covered boards, hard cover; 226, xvi pages plus advertisements, edgeworn covers (see picture) chipped frontis; toned pages with some foxing else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
London B.T. Batsford, 1884. Second Edition; small 8vo; green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 167 pages plus ads the preliminary pages have some stains and are covered with newspaper clippings about hints or householders else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First edition; 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover 357 pages; black & white illustrations; remainder mark on top page edge else a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More
Dublin: William Porter, Fox P. Byrne, J Moore, J Jones, Grueber and McAllister and W. Jones, 1790. 1st edition; stiff wraps; 60 pages; toned pages else a very good, clean, unmarked copy; Neale was the Curate of St. Margaret Pattens, Rood-lane, and Lecturer St. Bennet, Grace-churdh;. More
NY: Fourth Jeffersonian Estates / Stanley Thea Associates. 4to. stiff decorative wraps, softcover; 52 pages; tipped in photographs and black & white architectural diagrams, no date but circa 1984; a very good, clean, unmarked copy. More