101 selections from this year's new acquisitions, covering a wide range of publication dates and topics.
![Leaves of Friendship [Manuscript with Engraved Illustrations]. Adelia Kendall](/pictures/thumb/2311380.jpg?v=1637611077)
New York: Leavitt & Allen. Full-Leather.
Circa mid 1800s (handwritten dedication dated 1859). Boards rubbed, some pages foxed and soiled, most pages written in.
Deep red leather with gilt decoration on front board and blind stamp decoration on rear board. Entries inscribed to Adelia "Delia" Kendall presumably upon her graduation.....
Boston: Shepard and Gill, 1873. Hard Cover.
Includes map of Yosemite Valley, lacks other maps and plates. Spine leans forward slightly, bookplate and a few ink numbers on front endpapers, bookplate remnant on rear endpaper.
365 pp., tipped in tissue advertisement for Occident Hotel follows text. Green cloth, gilt titles.....
New York: Villard Books, 1987. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Multiple creases on front jacket panel, small chip along top edge of rear jacket panel, ink underlining on front jacket flap.
xvii, 219 pp. "This inside look at some of the most famous advertising campaigns in recent history created.....
[Harrogate, Tennessee]: Lincoln Memorial University, 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather.
Limited edition, #399 of an unspecified limitation, this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894, but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set.....
Lunenburg, Vermont: The Limited Editions Club / The Stinehour Press, 1973. Dabcovich, Lydia. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #1255 of 2000, signed by illustrator on colophon. Includes publisher's slipcase.
Light green cloth with black stamped evergreen design, white titles, paper decorative labels on front and back of slipcase, black.....
London: The Folio Society, 2013. Hard Cover.
Near fine copies in near fine publisher slipcase. A few faint smudges on rear board of volume II.
xxxvi, 338; xiv, 342 - 860 pp. Two volume set. Preface by Christopher Brooke. CONTENTS: Part One. A Common Culture: The Old Church, 1490-1517 -.....
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, ink name and crease on front endpaper, front and end matter faintly foxed.
viii, 299 pp. Maroon stamped cloth, gilt titles. Includes three-panel fold-out map of the author's journey from Presburg [Pressburg], Hungary to Cracow [Krakow].....
New York and London: The Masonic History Company, 1906. Large Hardcover.
1906 edition. Volume V: Blue stains on front board. Volume VI: Pink stain on front board. Spines of all volumes toned.
Seven volume set. Blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine and gilt decor on front board. Top.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor loss to spine head, spine base and bottom corner of boards; two small chips to edges of front free endpaper.
242 pp. Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organization of the Army of the.....
Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1900. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Lightly soiled.
xxiv, 589 pp. A European travel guide written by an executive working in the telegraph industry (he was president of Commercial Cable Company at the time of publication, and later the director of German Atlantic Cable Company).....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. Large Hardcover.
Slipcase repaired. No jacket.
Two large hardcovers in slipcase. "These volumes are the first part of a projected catalogue of the books and manuscripts in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts established in the Harvard Library by.....
New York City: Mason Publishing, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Chips to jacket edges, bottom edge of jacket lightly stained, top edge of front jacket flap chipped. Ink name on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly soiled.
288 pp. A bibliomystery. "Henry Devore lay dead in his apartment. ...It.....
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1911. Muir, John; Gleason, Herbert W. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed, corners slightly pushed. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
353, [1] pp. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, woodland motif on.....
U.S. George T. Nagengast, 1958. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Signed by author with inscription. Light general wear to jacket. Pages crinkled.
416 pp. Autobiographical novel. "A novel written by a native of Poland who spent most of his teens working as a slave laborer in Germany and Austria.....
. S.N., 1899. Martin, H.B. Small Hard Cover.
No publisher information or date (circa late 1800s/early 1900s). No jacket. Spine lightly faded, minor chip along top edge of first few pages.
Unpaginated. Red cloth boards. Floral decorative endpapers. Roster and 16 pages of ads follow text. Illustrated with half-tone photographs.....
. Dennis P. O'Mullally and Eileen O'M. Yanan, 1941. Hard Cover.
14 in OCLC, none in trade. No jacket. Board corners lightly rubbed, light smudge to page ridge.
536 pp. CONTENTS: Title Page; Dedication; Preface; Explanation; Introduction; Section I--The Glory of Eire; Chapter I. History and Genealogy - The Origin.....
Philadelphia: University Publishing Society / Jas B. Rodgers, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges faded and faintly foxed.
480 pp. Only 4 copies located in OCLC. Illustrated with engravings. Subject index follows text. A domestic medical guide by Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and Pathology.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Two inch chip and half inch chip to jacket spine, sticker on rear jacket panel, a few minor chips to jacket edges.
286 pp. A novel of "British proletarian realism." A novel about a British miner and a worker's.....
Indianapolis / New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by Mary Pickford on front endpaper. Includes new facsimile jacket. Spine titles rubbed with some loss of gilt, light 1/2 inch spot on top page edge, owner bookplate on front endpaper, light.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. Second Edition. Half-Leather.
Second edition. Bookplate of Redmond Conyngham on front endpaper of each volume. He was a Princeton graduate who served in the House of Representatives and state senate in Pennsylvania. After political service he ran a print shop and studied history.....
Worcester: Mirick & Bartlett, Printers, 1836. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Sabin 68566, Howes R129). Edges stained, foxed throughout.
168 pp. Green decoratively stamped cloth, paper spine label. Frontispiece plan of Rutland and its house lots. Includes sections on the Revolutionary War, the Stamp Act, smallpox, tribal peoples, etc.
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. A few small white spots on boards, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners.
303 pp. A detective novel written pseudonymously by former British artillery officer Cecil Street. He wrote dozens of novels featuring Dr.....
Worcester, Mass. Alfred Seelye Roe, 1899. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Spine cocked, boards soiled, front hinge starting.
615 pp. A contemporary firsthand account of the military history of the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery during the American Civil War, written by a member of Company A......
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, Inc., 1927. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. No jacket. Light stain on front board, hinges starting.
viii, 408 pp. "'The Analysis of Matter' is one of the earliest and best philosophical studies of the new physics of relativity and quantum mechanics.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Presentation copy with ALS laid in on State House School letterhead. Boards lightly soiled, board corners bumped.
173, 32, 4 pp. Edward Daniel Stone was an Eton schoolmaster and classical scholar. This volume was inspired by the.....