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197624295No place 1976. Wrappers very good. <br/><br/> unknown books
2008110904Zell am See: RHE Kunst- & Anituitaten 2008. Hardbound. VG/good- with one tear and some other wear to dj. White cloth; black dj with black and gold lettering; 122 pp. with profuse illustrations mostly in color. With works by Christian Attersee Manfred Bockelmann Marc Chagall Lisl Engles Anthony Eyton Anton Faistauer Evi Fersterer and Paul Flora. RHE Kunst- & Anituitaten unknown books
194748795Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America 1947. 1st printing thus. Yellow paper covers. General wear & soiling. Some age-toning to paper. Removed insert from front of volume. Overall Very Good. 259 1 pp. Yellow order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Baseball Congress of America unknown books
195448854Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America 1954. 1st printing thus. Red white & blue paper covers. Modest wear. Prior owner name stamp. A VG copy. 332 pp. Pale blue order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Baseball Congress of America unknown books
195548853Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America 1955. 1st printing thus. Green yellow & brown paper covers. Modest wear. Prior owner name stamp. A VG copy. 268 pp. Yellow order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Baseball Congress of America unknown books
195648852Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Baseball Congress of America 1956. 1st printing thus. Black & orange paper covers. Modest wear. Prior owner signatures. A VG - Nr Fine copy. 252 pp. Pink order blanks at rear. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images throughout. 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Baseball Congress of America unknown books
194712923France: Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good. Oversized 8vo. Little known and early work of drawings by Mitelberg a French political cartoonist. Text in French by Ferrary and Roman. This copy INSCRIBED by Mitelberg and dated in 1946. A fragile production. This copy in good condition overall with small chips and wear to covers. One of twelve hundred hand numbered copies. Despite the ample limitation we could find only two copies in world institutional holdings. <br/><br/> Edite Aux Depens De Quelques Bibliophiles paperback books
170739858London: Printed by J. Sowle 1707. 1st Edition Smith 2 p. 84. Modern quarter-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Maroon title label to spine second compartment. Renewed eps. Binding - Fine. 30 156 pp. 12mo: A12 a3 B - G12 H6. <br/><br/> Printed by J. Sowle hardcover books
195032635Seattle: Univ. Washington Library 1950. First edition. Self wrappers. Chipped and torn along fore edge sunned wrappers disbound fragile. 17 pp. Sm. 4to. Univ. Washington Library unknown books
189547460New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1895. First American Edition. First illustrated edition. 12mo. Publisher's gilt-decorated pale maroon cloth boards; xiv1-137;4pp; frontispiece pictorial title-page and numerous text illustrations by Charles Robinson. Hint of sun-fading to spine cloth and board edges; crease to first and second fly-leaves; text tight fresh and unmarked with gilt still bright on spine and covers; Very Good. Ownership signature "Jessie Guernsey" dated 1896; later annotation below signature in pencil describing the book's family provenance. Quite presentable copy of the First American edition of this classic of children's literature in the attractive Art Nouveau binding after Robinson's designs. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
178523622Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman 1785 1785. Second edition preceded by the first of 1773. ESTC T128607; NCBEL II 406. Some spotting and foxing; binding somewhat rubbed; very good copy. 12mo later brown half morocco marbled paper boards with an attractive gilt vignette with an angling motif on the upper board gilt lettering. With half-title. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Scottish printer and publisher Walter Ruddiman 1719-1781 and here reissued by his son Thomas who continued his father's business. It includes poetry sketches and dialogues on jugglers poets preaching cooking dancing lying angling punning etc. Bookplate of John Wilson with an angling motif on the front paste-down. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddiman, 1785 unknown books
1969JC9261New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Brown cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 227 with b/w photo-illustrations. Light rubbing at spine tips and along edges of boards; one corner gently bumped; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket rubbed; lightly chipped along the edges; mended with tape along spine. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
19761331176New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press 1976. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 280; G/G; light blue spine with black text; dust jacket shows mild wear to exterior; price clipped front flap; mylar wrap; cloth has minimal wear to exterior; strong boards; text block edges have slight toning to edges; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - Collection. 1331176. FP New Rockville Stock. Oxford University Press hardcover books
195814929Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1958. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 73pp. Near Fine. Lengthy essay on the creative imperatives of Party-sponsored literature. Includes appendix by Shao Chuan-Lin "Clear the Road and Advance Boldly! Foreign Languages Press unknown books
191632490New York: John Lane Company 1916. Reissue. One of 699 sets of first printing sheets bound in a Boni & Liveright binding ca.1925 see Ahearn APG 008c - the sheets used for this reissue are second state with p.173-174 inserted. Thick octavo 24cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 513 1pp. Text edges slightly dusty else very Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped priced $5.00 slightly dusty overall with light wear to extremities a few nicks and tears and 1.25" of erosion along upper front flap; Very Good. "By 1914 Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with teh idea of driving from New York to Indiana Dreiser's response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I've been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route Dreiser recorded his impressions f the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser's early life in Terre Haute Sullivan Evansville Warsaw and his one year at Indiana University" Indiana University Press. Uncommon. John Lane Company unknown books
177323455Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie 1773 1773. First and only edition. ESTC T67787.; NCBEL II 2053 Hailes. Stitching gone; signatures loose; a good sound copy. Small 8vo disbound 51 pages fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed. ¶ A polite response with some deferential corrections to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland published earlier in 1773. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773 unknown books
19276934Philadelphia: Penn Publishing 1927. First Edition Remainder Issue. Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine title page and copyright page jacket not supplied; as issued. Endpapers a little grubby mild tanning to text margins still VG or better in a very nice example of the scarce dustwrapper. A later work by this Rideout author whose early books infused with a zeal for socialist reform were well-received by critics and radical activists alike in the years prior to WW1. The present title an investigation of religious hypocrisy in the Episcopal Church clearly met with a limited audience given the fact that even the publisher's presentation copies had to be remaindered! Quite scarce and seldom seen in any sort of jacket. HANNA 1972. Penn Publishing unknown books
201421836ENew York: Sotheby’s 2014. First Edition. Paperbound. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an auction of modern literature from the collection of Gordon Waldorf including works by Anthony Burgess Raymond Chandler T.S. Eliot F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Jack Kerouac John Steinbeck J.R.R. Tolkien Virginia Woolf and more. 72 pages. With estimated prices and with prices realized sheets. Fine copy in printed wrappers. An impressive personal and historical collection. Sotheby’s unknown books
180349599London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman at the Eccentric Book Warehouse 122 St. John-Street Smithfield; . Hartnell Printer 3 New-Street Borough 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Binding - modest wear VG. Text-block - age-toning the occasional smudge old paper repair to frontis. Overall Very Good. iv 28 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece. Tailpiece. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>Scarce publication OCLC records only 5 holding institutions world-wide with just 2 of those in the U.S. <br /> <br />This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49598 & 49600. The price is for the one volume containing the 3 titles. Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, New- unknown books
197741949Stuttgart: Porsche 1977. 1st Printing. Color printed self-wrappers. Light wear & soiling. VG. Unpaginated fold-out brochure though 6 pages. Illustrated with 4 graphs 4 schematics & 1 map. Oblong format: 8-1/4" x 12-1/8" <br/><br/>Scarce Porsche brochure for the recently introduced 1977 924 automatic with the 110 hp engine. Porsche unknown books
1883166754San Francisco: A. Roman 1883. 17x12 cm pp. i-ix x-xv xvi 17 18-216 217-219: ads 220: blank flyleaves at front and rear inserted frontispiece original red cloth front panel stamped in black and gold spine panel stamped in gold rear panel stamped in blind floral patterned endpapers. Second edition enlarged. A new edition of A YOUTH'S HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF ITS DISCOVERY TO THE PRESENT TIME San Francisco: A. Roman & Company 1867. The 1867 edition is uncommon. "Among the earliest schoolbooks relating exclusively to California. The author Louise Palmer Heaven wrote a number of children's books under different pseudonyms" Howell. Heaven was a popular contributor to OVERLAND MONTHLY and the author of "indifferent novels" Walker San Francisco's Literary Frontier whose best known work is CHATA AND CHINITA 1889 a novel set in Mexico. Cowan 1933 p. 456. Sabin 55495. California news agent's stamp on the front and rear flyleaves. Cloth worn at edges a sound good copy. A nice copy overall. #166754 A. Roman unknown books
1808WRCAM43389Boston 1808. 20pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. A Federalist pamphlet prepared for the presidential election of 1808 in which the author recounts the grievances against the past eight years of government under the Jefferson administration. A typical New England view of Jefferson after the Embargo. In the end Jeffersonian candidate and current Vice President James Madison soundly defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 16057. unknown books
182936934New-York: Printed by A. Ming Jr. Beekman-Street 1829. 1st edition American Imprints 39290. Printed self-wrappers sewn. Outer leaves age-toned & browned with some wear staining & curling at corners. An About VG copy. 96 pp. Pages 7-10 contain the "Testimony" of the orthodox seceding members disowning Elias Hicks "signed on behalf and by direction of the monthly meeting of Friends of Westbury and Jerico held at Westbury the 29th day of the 4th month 1829. By Valentine Willetts Clerk." 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed by A. Ming, Jr. Beekman-Street unknown books
189044169New York: D. Appleton and Company 1890. "Authorized" edition. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown blue & gilt stamping. Pale green eps. General shelf-wear. One proud gathering. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Evidence of pocket removal to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy. x 417 5 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 111 illustrations by Townsend. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
1983111429London & New York: Thames & Hudson 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Collection of 114 duotones and 7 color plates. An about near fine copy with some bumping to the top corners in an about very good dust jacket that has oddly been trimmed along the top edge. Otherwise a nice copy. Thames & Hudson unknown books