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.....
Dawson, Yukon Territory: American Journal of Industry, 1901. 60 [of 72]pp. Oblong quarto. Stapled. Wrappers and final six leaves absent. Small tears, chips, and stains in lower and outer margins of a few leaves, not affecting text. Outer leaves a bit soiled; verso of terminal leaf scuffed, with loss to.....
London: Printed for the Author, 1748. [34],417,[2]pp. including binder's directions, plus forty-two handcolored folding engraved plates (including three folding maps and ten folding plans). Large, thick quarto. Original calf, spine ruled in gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label, edges of boards tooled in gilt. Boards shelf worn, corners bumped, front.....
Phoenix. 1925. [1],648,[1] leaves. Without leaf 238, apparently as issued. Accompanied by a printed calling card and [3]pp. of typed correspondence. Folio. Contemporary half red morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Worn at spine ends. Perforation stamp on titlepage. Very clean internally. Very good. The accompanying correspondence with some dampstaining.....
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.....
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.
New York. 1852. 295pp. plus 14 tinted lithograph plates (including frontispiece) and folding chart. Original blindstamped cloth. Spine ends frayed. Very good. Detailed work prepared for the Tehuantepec Railroad Company of New Orleans, concerning railroad and maritime communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. The.....
Las Vegas, N.M: Cattle Sanitary Board of New Mexico, 1905. 127pp. Original printed wrappers. One-inch triangular area of loss at top edge of front wrapper, closed tears and small chips to spine, dark stain to top corner of last fifty pages and rear wrapper, proceeding into text in the last.....
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.
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.....
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.....
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1941. xvii,[1],142pp. Cloth. Portrait and plates. Endsheets darkened at gutters, but a very good copy in tanned and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition. One of 750 copies printed. Warmly inscribed by Blanck to Providence bookman Brad Swan: "For the Swan of Providence from the.....
Syracuse: Printed at the Journal Office, 1872. 417pp. including folding map and advertisements (some printed on gold or blue paper). Original stamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Very slight wear to spine ends, corners bumped. Touch of early foxing, but a very good copy. An information-laden directory for two upstate New.....
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.....
Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1813. [6],708,[20]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco labels. Covers bowed, rubbed and scuffed, buckram repairs at head of spine. Minor worming. Moderate to heavy toning, foxing, and dampstaining. Good. Lacks errata. Second issue, with corrections, after the first of the previous year. A useful assemblage.....
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.....
Denver: S.S. Wallihan & Co., [ 1870]. 442pp., plus [7]pp. of ads at the front, [59]pp. of ads at the rear, and [144]pp. of ads interspersed in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to boards. Internally clean. Very good plus. This directory.....
[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.
London. 1886. Two volumes. xxviii,675; xii,803pp., including several in-text maps, charts, and illustrations, plus fifteen plates (including frontispiece in second volume) and a folding colored map. Thick octavo. Original gilt pictorial cloth, spines gilt, skillfully rebacked with original backstrips laid down, new endpapers. A few scattered light fox marks. Very.....
