New York: Thatcher & Hutchinson, 1859. Warth, Thomas. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. General light wear, pencil scribble on one page.
355, 4 pp. 21 of 33 chapters previously published in New York Evening Post, other 12 appear first here. True accounts of New York City life, including the.....
London: Air Ministry, 1940. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly soiled.
Unpaginated. A shoe-string bound volume with strap closure, issued by the Air Ministry of Great Britain during World War II, and providing recognition information for British, French, and German aircraft (the United States had not yet entered the war). Each country.....
London: W. B. Conkey Company, 1895. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed, pencil name and date on free endpapers, pages toned.
A carefully selected collection of entertaining stories and poems, suitable for young readers, and including sketches and poems by such well known authors as Olive Thorne, Edgar Fawcett, Laurie Loring, Celia.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1933. McNab, Allan. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal.....
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: Boutesteiniana, 1719. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition. Minor loss from corners, small paper remnant on spine head.
[xxiv], 765, [37] pp. Full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles, gilt tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A medical work by the Venetian physician and botanist whose descriptions.....
North Andover: Kat Ran Press, 1998. Eichner, Sara. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, hand numbered #35 on limitation page, and signed by Julia Alvarez and Sara Eichner. Faint stain on rear panel of clamshell case. Original mailing envelope from Kat Ran Press containing a duplicate prospectus laid in.
Unpaginated.....
Philadelphia: American Art Marble Co., 1909. Soft Cover.
Light stain to wrappers, light water damage to pages.
60 pp. Includes color frontispiece, two-page color image of Blair County Court House, and numerous black-and-white photographs showing the uses and advantages of American Art Marble, with examples from throughout the United States
.....
Palestine: American Red Cross, 1950. Soft Cover.
General light wear, no tears and no chips.
A guide produced by the American Red Cross, intended for distribution to U.S. soldiers on leave, and probably produced at Camp Tel Litwinsky in Palestine. Color fold-out map of Jerusalem with another map and descriptions.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1849. Soft Cover.
Gatherings resewn (appears to have been done some time ago). Toned, with creases corners and light foxing, small chip from fore-edge of front wrapper.
32 pp. Unclear whether this was issued in self-wrappers, or if this copy lacks cover (my inclination is toward.....
. S.N., 1878. First Edition. Soft Cover.
Some loss along wrapper edges and split along front wrapper edge, two crude repairs on front wrapper, chip from bottom margin corner of last few pages, faint stain along base. Bound into Coverbind protective cover at binding edge.
33 pp. Blue printed wrappers.....
![Item #2283812 Hans Andersen's Story Book. with a Memoir [Fairy Tales]. Hans Andersen, Mary...](/pictures/thumb/2283812.jpg?v=1676397205)
New York: Allen Brothers, 1869. Hartmann, Carl; Dalziel. Hard Cover.
Spine faded, ink name stamp crossed out on title page, ink name and date on front endpaper.
vi, 9-154, 7-187, [3] pp. Beautiful blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece, portrait of Andersen from a painting by Carl.....
London / Cambridge: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper / C. Corbet / M. Cooper / D. Henry for J. Payne, and J. Bouquet / J. and P. Knapton / J. Bentham, etc. / J. Shuckburgh, 1750. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed with a few discolored spots, lacks title label, ink.....
![Item #2323578 Grant in Peace. from Appomattox to Mount McGregor. A Personal Memoir. [Ulysses S.]....](/pictures/thumb/2323578.jpg?v=1670876396)
Hartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Company, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Corners a bit rubbed, brief ink note on verso of front free endpaper. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
591 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles with unfurling scroll decoration on front board. Includes engraved plates.....
. S.N., 1740. Full-Leather.
Lacks leather title label, joints weakening but binding holding firmly, edges rubbed.
About 240 pages, unpaginated, of neatly penned manuscript, bound in full calf with five raised spine bands and gilt decorations in compartments. 16mo. An eighteenth century volume dedicated to formal logic and the art.....
New York: M. Doolady, 1872. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Howes 5245. Small surface tear on front free endpaper of volume one, spine heads and feet of all three volumes lightly rubbed, two closed tears to binding edge of fold-out map.
Three volume set. Green cloth boards with gilt.....
New York: The Century Co., 1905. Richardson, Frederick. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first/second printing hybrid (rear endpapers are integral, but p. 171 illustration is light-brown and black, not light blue-green and black), no jacket as issued (Bienvenue 213-16). All plates included. Boards lightly soiled, endpapers toned as if.....
New York: Published by the Author. For Sale by Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau St. 1852. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition. Appears to include 174 of the 181 plates called for. Professionally rebacked with original backstrips laid down, nearly invisibly, though new endpapers were added which are obviously newer paper stock.....
New York: Barse & Co. / National Broadcasting Co., Inc., 1931. Politzer, Irving (jacket art). First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, two closed 1 inch jacket tears, one with several associated creases (top edge of rear panel), edges faintly foxed.
250 pp.....
London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand. 1732. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition. Neatly rebacked with new gilt titles, original boards and endsheets retained. Discolored 2 inch declivity on front board, boards rubbed with corners exposed, ink owner stamps on front endpapers (William Harris Mar 1944), light stain to.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge just beginning to weaken, ink bookseller stamp on front endpaper.
x, 247, 4 pp. 8vo. An account of the plot to construct several vessels for the Confederate Navy in French dockyards, for which the Confederacy made.....
Hubbardston, Mass. Biko Mfg, Co., 1898. Small Softcover.
Leather heavily rubbed.
Unpaginated. Leather wrappers. Contents include: yearly calendar for 1898; care of horses; learning to ride a bicycle; large cities of the United States, population exceeding 10,000, census of 1890; explanation of flag signals for weather and storms; graph paper.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. Black, Alexander. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. Paper illustration on front board chipped and loosening on one side, binding starting.
288 pp. With photographic illustrations by the author. "In the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of perpetual youth.....
![Item #2263972 Jerusalem [The Emanation of the Giant Albion]. William Blake, Geoffrey Keynes](/pictures/thumb/2263972.jpg?v=1670879355)
New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1955. Limited Edition. Full-Leather.
Limited edition, one of 2500 copies. Errata slip laid in.
[xiv], 115, [3], 100, [4] pp. The last book by the pioneering English poet and engraver William Blake, etched in handwriting with accompanying sketches, marginal figures, and full-page illustrations. Finely bound.....
Paris: Rue S. Jacques, Chez Antoine-Claude Briasson, 1741. First Edition. Full-Leather.
First French edition. Corners a bit exposed.
159; [160]-301, [3] pp. Full leather, gilt titles and decorations, French marbled endpapers, red edges. A work on chemistry by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine. La Mettrie's concepts.....
Paris: Chez Huart / Chez Briasson, 1739. Full-Leather.
Bottom corner exposed, a few pages lightly foxed, contents pages toned.
[xii], 560 pp. 16mo. Full leather, five raised spine bands with gilt titles and tooled decorations in compartments. French marbled endpapers. Julien Offroy de la Mettrie's tribute to Boerhaave's work, translated.....