New York: The American News Company. Decorative Cloth. "Including 34 Pieces of Music, With Painoforte Accompaniments, and Upwards of Two Hundred and Fifty Illustrations". Lovely children's songbook, c. 1880. Lavishly gilt-decorated front panel and bright gilt-lettering and decoration to spine. Solid, tightly-bound and VG to VG+ in its orignal cloth...
New York: Postcrypt Press (Earl Hall, Columbia University), 1967. Original wraps. The uncommon Sept. 1967 maiden issue of this short-lived student weekly, issued firmly in the spirit of time (1967) and place (Columbia). Suffused with a radical energy and a palpable distrust of the school's administration, the paper foreshadows the...
New York: The Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co., 1921. A solid copy of the 1921 issue of The Official Automobile Blue Book. VG in its black leatherette, with lightly-rubbed lettering to the front panel and very light creasing along the spine. Octavo, 962 pgs., wonderful period maps and advertisements (in color) thruout.
London: Collins, 1970. Decorative Cloth. An immaculate copy of the 1970 1st "uniform" edition. Fine in a bright, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. 16mo, richly illustrated thruout by Margaret Tempest.
Phialdelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1894. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Wonderful (and enlightened) 2 volume history of life in America BEFORE its "discovery" by Columbus. An exhautive treatment --spanning the "evolution of the Earth" up until the late 15th century-- of plant and other natural life, the development of Reptilian and Mammalian...
New York: G. Schirmer, 1918. Marie Louise Woodson. Cloth. The 1918 1st edition of this charming children's songbook, wonderfully illustrated thuout in rich color by Marie Louise Woodson. Solid and VG in its light-blue cloth, with pasted-on illustration to the front panel. Mild darkening along the front fore-edge, light soiling...
Oklahoma City, OK: The Crosby House, 1946. Edith E. Buhler. Hardcover. The 1946 1st edition, in the fragile pictorial dustjacket. Clean and VG+ (with light wear to the spine edges and small former owner name at the front pastedown) in a bright, G+ dustjacket, with chipping to the panel edges...
Blackburn, Lanchester, England: SCREECHES publications, 1964. The Spring 1964 issue (#5) of POETMEAT, the important British-based poetry journal edited by Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris, and calling "for peace before our time & social & literary revolt now". Solid and VG in its stapled, Arthur Moyse-illustrated wrappers, with notable chipping...
Cambridge University Press, 1973. Cloth. A very impressive copy of the 1973 3rd edition. Solid and Near Fine (just a touch of streaking at the rear panel) in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo, 868 pgs., top-edge gilt, fold-out maps complementing the text.
London: Methuen & Co., 1922. Hardcover. The May 1922 2nd edition (which follows the 1st edition by just one month). Tight and VG+ in its pictorial boards, with light offsetting to the front and rear endpapers. 16mo, part of Methuen's wonderful "The Best Books on Golf" series.
Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, 1881. 1/4 leather. The 1881 original edition of this collection of all of Rabelias's known works in print. Limited to only 50 copies and bound in a handsome 1/4 moroco over marbled boards. Also includes 15 tipped-in original albumen photos of erotic paintings. A well-preserved copy...
New York: Whittlesey House (McGraw-Hill), 1934. Cloth. A tight, well-preserved copy of the 1934 1st edition of this early football instructional. Solid and VG+ (one tiny bump at the front lower-tip, a dozen or so dog-eared pages) in a crisp, price-intact ($3.00), VG to VG+ dustjacket, with 2 small scrapes...
Chicago: Popular Mechanics Company, 1910. Cloth. A very sharp copy of the 1910 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its light-blue cloth, with bright gilt-lettering at the front panel and spine. Publisher's decorative blindstamp as well to the front panel. Octavo, 184 pgs. plus wonderful publisher's ads at the rear.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Hardcover. A solid copy of the July 1929 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (light offsetting at the pastedowns and endpapers) in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light soiling along the panels and very minor chipping at the spine crown. Thick octavo, dozens of...
Sci-Art Publishers, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, 1939. Hardcover. 1939 stated first impression. VG in a bright, VG dustjacket with a bit of darkening along the spine and a minor amount of soiling along the back panel. Thick octavo, 910 pgs. An exhaustive compilation of Yiddish poetry translated into English verse.
Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1953. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR MAY MCNEER AND THE ILLUSTRATOR LYND WARD on the title page. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1953 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo, illustrated thruout in...
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2001. Yangsook Choi. Hardcover. INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY THE AUTHOR MILLIE LEE on the front free endpaper. A lovely copy to boot of the 2001 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, wonderfully illustrated by Yangsook Choi.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988. 1st. Decorative Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title. An immaculate copy to boot of the 1988 stated 1st edition. Bright and Fine in its original cloth. Octavo, 342 pgs. Signed by Author.
Brussels: D'Un Groupe De Bibliophiles, 1948. 1st. Original Wraps. 1948 1st edition, 1 of 522 copies. Bright and well-preserved and VG+ in its original wraps. Minor offsetting to the panels, otherwise clean as could be. Signatures unbound, as issued. Including 5 superb hand-colored erotic plates in rear. Octavo, 109 pgs. plus plates.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. Cloth. A lovely copy of this November 1959 reprint, the "Harpercrest" edition in its stated library binding. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, fresh, Near Fine dustjacket, which is both price-clipped AND price-intact. Octavo, wonderfully illustrated thruout in color by the great Peter Newell.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. Cloth. A crisp, very nice copy of the 1901 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine (just a touch of rubbing to the lower front panel) in its pictorial blue cloth, with bright design to the front panel and bright gilt-lettering to the spine...
London: Chatto and Windus, 1853. George Cruikshank et al. Full leather. 1853 re-issue of Cruikshank's "Comic Almanack", with a signed, lovely full morocco binding by Bayntun & Riviere of Bath. Bright and Near Fine, with gilt-rule to the panels and 5 raised bands and detailed gilt-tooling at the spine. Thick...
Boston: Little, Brown, 1922. Decorative Cloth. The 1922 re-issue, in the pictorial dustjacket. Solid and VG in a bright, price-intact, VG- dustjacket, with chipping along the panel edges and at the spine crown. Still though, very presentable. 16mo, the famous Harrison Cady illustrations complementing the text.
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900. Isaac Taylor Headland. Boards. The 1900 1st edition of this charming offering of Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes, with its wonderful photographic illustrations accompanying each rhyme. Solid and VG- in its pictorial boards, with light wear along the tips, the spine ends and the...
