325 items available at our booth at the 2023 Georgetown Rare Book Fair 5/19-5/21 at the City Tavern Club
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover.
Still in original plastic wrap.
360 pp. Color frontispiece, color images of jackets, boards, spines, etc., of various editions, black-and-white images of title and copyright pages, etc. Over 1000 entries including all the PCS, Madison Square, and BBG reprints. 38.....
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[Amsterdam?]: Au Pays Libre pour Le Bien Public, 1749. Full-Leather.
Paper label on spine base, corners a bit rubbed, minor loss of gilt, bookplate of philosopher Paul Desjardins on front endpaper.
[viii], 124; [iv], 99, [5] pp. 16mo. Original full leather, gilt titles, decorations, and triple rule, marbled endpapers, all.....
London: Printed for D. Brown, R. Sare, J. Churchill, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, and G. Strahan, 1713. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First thus. ESTC T58751. Front joint just beginning to split, all sewings holding firmly, a few light stains on boards. Text clean and unmarked.
Full calf, gilt titles on spine.....
. I. Wright, 1887. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Rare - only 2 in OCLC, none in trade or at auction. A few faint creases and blemishes to wrappers, wear along spine with 1/2 inch closed internal tear and tiny chip. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
178 pp.....
London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1906. Hard Cover.
Minor pencil marks on a few pages.
lii, 276, [16] pp. Includes two maps. Translated into English from the original Icelandic by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris (who used it as a source for his A Tale of the House.....
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1975. Gorey, Edward (jacket art). First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. "Library edition" sticker on jacket spine, jacket price clipped, jacket lightly toned, ink name on front endpaper.
214 pp. Edward Gorey jacket art. Contents include: Introduction; The Pavilion, by E. Nesbit; Searching.....
. Justin Marks, 2009. Soft Cover.
Near fine.
Fold-out poetry set in paper wrappers. About the author: Justin Marks is the author of You're Going to Miss Me When You're Bored (Barrelhouse Books, 2014) and A Million in Prizes (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009), which was chosen by Carl.....
Washington, D.C. United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. Large Hardcover.
Includes original shipping box. A few minor cosmetic blemishes.
Includes 50 plates, some comprising multiple pages, others consisting of reproductions of multiple historical documents.
Dunellen, New Jersey: Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1940. Magazine.
Slightly musty. Wrappers creased but still holding.
80 pp. True crime magazine with pulp detective fiction style cover art. Illustrated with photographs, period advertisements throughout (Pepsi, etc.). CONTENTS: Blue-Blood Brigand; Massacre Masquerade--Avenging the Bullet Inferno at Five Forks Tavern, As Told to.....
Dunellen, New Jersey: Macfadden Publications, Inc., 1940. Magazine.
Slightly musty. Wrapper edges rubbed with some creases, small chip along top edge of rear wrapper.
80 pp. True crime magazine with pulp detective fiction style cover art. Illustrated with photographs, period advertisements throughout (Gillette, etc.). CONTENTS: Clue of the Lost Hat;.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('for Susan, with greetings, David McCullough'). Publisher stamp on page base, ink gift note on front flyleaf, front jacket flap corner creased, edges faded (common with this book).
445 pp.....
Croton-on-Hudson, New York: North River Press, 1970. Allen, Tom. Trade Paperback.
Signed on title page by author and illustrator. Edges rubbed, front cover creased.
93 pp. Compiled by Don McLean, best known for his 1971 hit American Pie. Title refers to a trip McLean took with Pete Seeger on a......
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Second American Edition. Hard Cover.
Second American edition (stated on title page), released the same year as the first American edition. Edges faded, minimal loss from spine head and foot, lacks front free endpaper, ink name and later gift note on front flyleaf ('Ada J......
Pittsburgh: Self-Published, 1872. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Scarce - 19 copies total in OCLC (8 modern reprints, 5 1870 firsts, 6 1872 seconds). Edges lightly rubbed, rear endpaper removed, otherwise an excellent copy.
56 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped design on front and rear boards. Engraved frontispiece.....
Fredonia: W. McKinstry & Co., 1846. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Former library copy with just a couple small stamps. Boards rubbed, foxed throughout.
Sabin 49037. A firsthand account of the 1838 Canadian rebellion, and the author's subsequent imprisonment in Tasmania, which was.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1985. Shepard, Ernest H. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Includes publisher's custom wooden stand. Books excellent, split in wooden stand at front corner.
Full leather in four colors, gilt titles, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon markers bound in. Four classic volumes by A.A. Milne, with illustrations.....
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).....
London: Ball, Arnold, & Co., 1840. Small Hard Cover.
New edition, revised (seventh edition and fourth edition, respectively). Both volumes feature idyllic fore-edge paintings: the first of a woman and a boy holding hands as they walk a road, with large trees on either side in the foreground, and copses.....
New York: George P. Putnam, 1864. First Edition. Small Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges rubbed, boards soiled, front hinge starting,
xii, 299 pp. Sabin 50367. A collection of Southern/Confederate verse published during the American Civil War, to "illustrate the spirit which actuates them in their Rebellion against the Government and.....
Washington, D.C. Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation / Infantry Journal, 1943. Fourth Edition. Small Softcover.
1943 revised fourth edition. Check List for Oral Field Order page missing (appears to have been torn out), two text pages have writing.
As a Practical Aid in Carrying Out Field Duties. Distributed by the Infantry Journal, Washington.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Some loss to spine head, spine label rubbed, ink name on first blank.
387 pp. 16-page review from Athenaeum appears after text. Published the year before Morris founded The Kelmscott Press, this work was an influence on J.R.R......
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.....
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. Cooke, Edna. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Lacks jacket. All plates included. Boards lightly soiled, light stain to top corner of frontispiece and title page, ink name on front endpaper.
384 pp. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles, red, white, and gold.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
3rd printing. Includes original jacket. Tiny chip from jacket spine head.
274 pp. Jacket art initialed 'JK.' A scarce trade edition of the popular military biography which sold out of its first several printings before it was published. First.....
. National Americanism Commission, 1943. Unbound.
Small tear.
Single sheet folded into 8 pages with patriotic writings about the American flag on 4 pages and single sheet showing how to display the U.S. flag for various private and public events, discussion of how to salute, say the pledge to the.....