Cincinnati: Dabney Publishing Company, [1926]. 440pp. Large octavo. Gilt dark blue cloth. Photographs, portraits and illustrations. A few finger smudges to endsheets, small spot on lower board, one corner bumped, very good. First edition. Inscribed, as often, by the compiler on the front pastedown, in this case in 1936. Dabney.....
San Bernadino: The Borgo Press, 1992. 360pp. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Light sunning to wrapper spine, top edge slightly dust marked, otherwise near fine. First edition. Edited by Boden Clarke and published as No. 9 in the press's series of Bibliographies of Modern Authors. Warmly inscribed by Margaret Aldiss: "for.....
New York: Published by William Drenttel in Association with the Delos Press, 1994. 93,[3]pp. Cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endsheets. Frontis portrait. Spine very faintly sunstruck, otherwise fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Portrait by Victor Schrager. From a total edition.....
New York: Published by William Drenttel in Association with the Delos Press, 1994. 93,[3]pp. Cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endsheets. Frontis portrait. Very faintly sunstruck, otherwise about fine. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Portrait by Victor Schrager. From a total edition of 500 copies, this is.....
New York: Published by William Drenttel in Association with the Delos Press, 1994. 93,[3]pp. Cloth, paper spine label, handmade Japanese endsheets. Frontis portrait. Spine and portions of upper board quite sun-faded, internally fine. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by Robert Hughes. Portrait by Victor Schrager. From a total edition of.....
Baltimore. 1949. xxix,219pp. plus many facsimiles. Thick quarto. Gilt cloth. Fine, in a slightly worn dust jacket. One of 300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. With an introduction by Lawrence Wroth. A superb reference for early Americana.
Boston: Privately printed, 1914. Cloth and boards, gilt spine label. Extremities worn, spine label a bit chipped, foxing to endleaves and edges, a few pencil notes; a good, sound copy. Second edition. Printed at the Merrymount Press after a design by Updike. Collations and descriptions of 685 items. Presentation slip.....
New York: Burt Franklin, [1970]. Two volumes. Red cloth, gilt spines. Richly illustrated with reproductions of woodblock vignettes. Photo-offset reprints of the 1866 and 1868 original editions. Both about fine, without dust jackets.
New York. 1928. Three volumes in all. Facsimiles. Tall quarto. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. [with:] AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES A CHECK-LIST [1473 - 1926] COMPILED BY WILBERFORCE EAMES. New York. 1938. xii,220pp. Original gilt cloth, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of third volume. Bright, very good set. First.....
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1990. Quarto. Cloth backed pastepaper over boards with gold decorative overlay, gilt spine label. Illustrations by Lili Wronker. Fine. First edition. One of 230 numbered copies, printed on Arches in Van Dijck types composed by Michael Bixler, and bound by Barbara Blumenthal. A collection.....
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1990. Quarto. Cloth backed pastepaper over boards with gold decorative overlay, gilt spine label. Illustrations by Lili Wronker. Strip of sunning near lower edge of upper board, else fine. First edition. One of 230 numbered copies, printed on Arches in Van Dijck types composed.....
San Francisco: Cubery & Co., 1875. 32pp. plus 16pp. of advertisements. Original printed tan wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, bit worn along edges and spine. Very clean internally. Very good. A scarce, early, and interesting promotional for Monterey County, California, "published by the mayor and Common Council of Salinas City, for.....
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1932-3. Two volumes. Quarto. Polished black buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Portraits, plates, facsimiles. Spines faintly sunned, bookplates (see below), usual slight tanning to endsheets, otherwise near fine. First editions. One of 180 sets printed on "antique" paper. The original.....
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1954. Printed wrappers. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations and vignettes. Wrappers slightly darkened and smudged, with one small spot, internally about fine. First edition, issue in wrappers. Foreword by Herbert Cahoon. Library exhibition of over 300 items related to the education and/or entertainment of.....
San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, 1867. xcvi,698,88pp. Later half sheep and printed boards, spine gilt. Spine leather worn and chipped, boards rubbed, cloth tape around edges. Initial and final leaves used as pastedowns. No map present. Bookplate on front pastedown. One leaf with extensive tape repairs, several other with minor.....
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1954. Gilt cloth. Frontispiece, black and white illustrations and vignettes. Tips rubbed, with small snag at crown of lower joint, internally about fine. First edition, the less common clothbound issue. Foreword by Herbert Cahoon. Library exhibition of over 300 items related to the education.....
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987. Two volumes. Large, thick octavo. Gilt cloth. Frontispieces. A fine set without dust jackets, as issued. First edition of this invaluable descriptive catalogue, rich in association copies, ephemera and bibliographic detail about the major and the obscure publications of the era. The holdings.....
Columbia. 1864. xxxv,[1],161pp. Original printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear to wrappers. Some toning and light foxing internally. Very good. Numerous important General Orders, prepared by the Headquarters of the Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Indexed, and with explanatory notes on various decisions taken by the Confederate.....
[Bloomington]: The Lilly Library, 1983. 111pp. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrations and facsimiles. Hard crease to lower forecorner of upper wrapper and title, a few soft rumples (signs of heavy reading) to a few leaves, otherwise very good. First edition. 150 items from the collection of Dr and Mrs. John.....
[Bloomington]: The Lilly Library, 1983. 111pp. Quarto. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrations and facsimiles. Hard crease to lower forecorner of upper wrapper and title, a few soft rumples (signs of heavy reading) to a few leaves, otherwise very good. First edition. 150 items from the collection of Dr and Mrs. John.....
New York: NYPL, [1967]. Large octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. First separate printing, reprinted from two numbers of the BULLETIN. About fine.
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[Paris: Imprimè Chez Desfaber, nd but possibly 1925]. [22] leaves. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Wrappers a bit tanned at edges, spine a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. First edition. Copy #30 from an edition of five hundred copies, here initialed on the rear wrapper by the artist and.....
London: Frank Kerslake, 1879. Contemporary three quarter gilt calf, marbled boards, t.e.g. Front free endsheet loose, binding rather scuffed and worn, a bit of soiling at edges; a sound copy, with an early bookseller's description tipped to the front endsheet. First edition of the earliest Dickens bibliography. A significant association.....
Warwick & New York: J. Thomson / G.D. Steichert, 1904. viii,[9]-108pp. 12mo. Boards, paper spine label. Spine label chipped, spine a bit darkened and creased, extremities rubbed and a bit worn, pencil annotations throughout, endsheets tanned. A good, sound copy. First edition. A good bookselling association copy, inscribed by the.....
Terre Haute: Indiana State Univ. [1975]. xxxiv,212pp. Printed wrappers. Twelve illustrations. Introduction by Warren Cordell. First edition. Publisher's compliments card laid in. Some modest hand soiling to wrappers, otherwise very good or better.
