325 items available at our booth at the 2023 Georgetown Rare Book Fair 5/19-5/21 at the City Tavern Club
London: Published for the Buddhist Society, London, by Rider and Company, 1949. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Lacks jacket. Minor loss of gilt from titles, minor ink underlining and marginalia.
136 pp. Foreword by editor Christmas Humphreys, foreword by Carl Gustav Jung. Suzuki was a Japanese-American Buddhist monk who.....
Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher. Reissue. Hard Cover.
No date, circa 1910. Hinges repaired, minor bookplate remnants on endpapers.
446 pp. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. 10 color plates and 50 wood engravings. Part of a series of illustrated classics, each 'illustrated by 10 full-page colored plates, printed in eight colors, and.....
New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., 1976. Hard Cover.
ix, 147 pp. A guide for the traditional book collector; also makes a handy resource for the traditional bookseller. 'Lists over 270 publishers and their methods of denoting first editions. Presents bibliographies covering every aspect of collecting American first editions. Describes.....
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Co., 1865. Schmolze; Turner, R.A.; Graham. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First edition. Edges rubbed, very beginnings of split to top of front joint.
xii, 124 pp. 8vo. Blind-stamped leather, gilt titles, all edges gilt. This title was also released in brown cloth and green cloth bindings, which are.....
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. Postcard.
10 postcards. In this set of postcards one can see the variety of decorated letters found in European illuminated manuscripts from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries.
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
Front wrapper lightly toned, front wrapper edge lightly rubbed, very minor tear along bottom edge.
16 pp. Easter number, cover art by J.V. Ranck. Black-and-white photographs include: desolation and grief in wake of war; Brussels, Belgian capital, under rule of Germans; a......
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1914. Magazine.
A very nice copy. No chips or tears.
16 pp. Cover art: British bicycle scout gets his bearings. Black-and-white photographs include: how the women and children of Germany aid in War; humors of war on the German side; little heirs and an.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1914. Magazine.
A very nice copy. No chips or tears.
16 pp. Black-and-white photographs include: Congress of all America; leaders in big battles; the white night of Miss O'Callaghan; youngsters show fine horsemanship at garden show; battle lines drawn across all Europe; vocational training.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1914. Magazine.
Pages 3-14 loose from binding but included, spine lightly rubbed.
16 pp. Cover art: Servian boy on the firing line for his nation. Black-and-white photographs include: side-lights on the World War; three views of an actual battlefield; the War in Poland; war.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
Very minor hole in pages 7-8, no other chips or tears.
16 pp. Cover art: on the battlefield: a cross of shrapnel shells. Black-and-white photographs include: incidents of world war and a soldier prince; war in the air; nature teaching in public.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
A very nice copy.
16 pp. Cover art: cossack on guard in a pass of the Caucasus. Black-and-white photographs include: scenes of Italy's earthquake; two great leaders of the German armies; sidelights on the Great War; little Servia's heroic defense; actual scenes.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
One-inch surface tear on page 15, slightly obscuring text.
16 pp. Cover art: battery b in action: signaling ready to fire. Black-and-white photographs include: members of New York's guard off to Fishkill Camp; battle scenes east and west in the Great European.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
Large stain on pages 7-16.
16 pp. Cover art: New York's citizen soldiers on the firing line at Fishkill: a charge at Fishkill, seven pages devoted to the boys in khaki in this number. Black-and-white photographs include: society enjoys fashion fete at.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
Very faint stain along bottom edge.
16 pp. Cover art: fighting from cover: French infantry in real action, photo shows nose of a German shell. Black-and-white photographs include: great battle in Poland and a German leader; Allies fight to oust Turk; battle.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
Pages 3-14 loose from binding but included, half-inch tear along top edge of front wrapper, pages 15-16 of "People's Popular Monthly, February, 1915" laid in.
16 pp. Cover art: terror of the sea: new U.S. submarine, rising after eighteen hours under water.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1915. Magazine.
A very nice copy. No chips or tears.
16 pp. Cover art: a long shot. Black-and-white photographs include: Constantinople: capital of Turkey; capture of Craonne by the Germans; war in New York; World War in pictures; novelties of the Spring fashions; with.....
New York: Mail and Express, Co., 1914. Magazine.
A very nice copy. No chips or tears.
16 pp. Cover art: Bombardment of Antwerp. Desolation of Belgium--A Nation Facing Starvation. Photographs include: the War around the world; aiding the War's victims; daughters of empire: imperial princess, blood relations, whose nations are.....
New York: Excalibur Books, 1983. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. Faint stain on corner, jacket price clipped.
280 pp. 40 color and 250 black-and-white illustrations. "... the eminent bookseller... tells the story of some of the world's greatest books, their creation and survival, and the men who.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards lightly soiled, front hinge just starting, ink owner stamp on front and rear endpaper.
vi, [2], 228 pp. 8vo. A guide to wine and cocktails, pseudonymously published by wine experts Frank Schoonmaker and Ted Marvel, known.....
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1930. Neill, John R. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state - binding A (Bienvenue p. 112). Lacks jacket. All color plates included. Boards lightly rubbed with a few small spots on front edge, hinges loosening, portion of Tin Man doodled on front.....
New York: Saturday Review Press / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page ('9/4/03, For Tracy Callahan: With warmest regards. Honorable Edwin Torres J.S.C.'). Slightly smoky, top page ridge faintly foxed, jacket lightly toned.
152, [2] pp.....
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. Shepard, Mary. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition (no subsequent printings mentioned on copyright page). Very good in good supplied later state jacket with $2.50 price on flap. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, jacket spine faded, small bookseller plate.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (BAL 3337) with ad on p. 592. Edges rubbed (fore edge exposed), single gathering sprung, a few pages faintly foxed.
xviii, 591, [7] pp. 8vo. Two engraved frontispieces, six plates in text. Numerous engravings throughout. "Roughing It.....
. U.S. War and Navy Departments, 1945. Magazine.
Two inch tear along bottom edge of front wrapper and binding, one inch tear along top edge of rear wrapper and binding, bottom edge of rear wrapper mended with tape.
48 pp. British cruiser on the cover.
. U.S. War and Navy Departments, 1945. Magazine.
Wrappers torn halfway up length of binding, half-inch tear along top edge of rear wrapper, stain on front wrapper.
48 pp. Nightfighter on the cover.