London: Printed for Edw. Powell, 1682. [2],17pp. Folio. Modern tan paper spine and blue paper boards, manuscript title on spine. Moderate wear to boards, corners bumped, spine ends chipped. Minor foxing and tanning throughout. A few pages with small chips (no text affected). Very good overall. John Wilmer was a......
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Philadelphia: Printed by David C. Claypoole, 1779. Forty-one individual issues, details provided below. First issue folio, the remainder octavo. Contemporary reverse sheep, boards tooled in blind, manuscript title on spine. Noticeable rubbing to boards, spine titles mostly rubbed away and faded, some soiling. Two old, unobtrusive ownership signatures on front.....
Paris: Publié par Aubert & Cie. [nd, but ca. 1845]. Titlepage with color lithographic vignette of a whale, plus eighteen sheets of colored lithographic plates with a total of sixty- five separate vignettes. Titlepage and captions in French and English. Quarto. Original textured black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind.....
Charleston: Published by David Longworth, for the author, 1809. Two volumes. xii,478; iv,602pp. plus one (of two) folding maps. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands. Minor wear to extremities, hinges a bit tender. Mild even tanning and light foxing to text. Offsetting onto, and.....
Pittsburgh: Printed by Johnston and Stockton, 1829. 89pp. 12mo. Contemporary thick pulp-paper wrappers, stab-sewn. Binding worn, soft vertical crease to front wrapper. Faint dampstaining to front blanks and top edge of several leaves. Text tanned, occasional marginal tears, creasing to edges and corners, scattered foxing. A good, unsophisticated copy. The.....
Boston: A.D. Handy, Stereopticons and Supplies, [1914]. Seventy-six slides, 4 x 3 1/4 inches, each numbered and captioned in pencil on paper labels. The slides in near fine to fine condition, with the exception of the first slide, which is cracked. Housed in a contemporary mahogany box with brass hardware.....
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Boards. Some dust darkening at perimeter of boards, hairline crack running up one external hinge, internally fine. First edition. One of four hundred and fifty copies printed by Rudge and signed by the author. In this copy, Russell has decorated five pages (including the title-page).....
Boston: D. Henchman, 1746. 35pp. Lacks the half title. Dbd. Old ownership inscripton on final blank page. A bit stained internally. About very good. An important historical discourse principally treating the war against Spain and France, and in particular the operations against France in North America.
London: Longmans, 1920. Later gilt red cloth. First edition. Heavy foxing to edges, otherwise a very good (albeit rebound) copy. A major, wide ranging selection, though mostly reprinted material.
[Paris]: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930. 184pp. plus plates and adverts. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned, with chips at tips and spine ends, internally very good or better. The well-annotated catalogue of an amazing exhibition of manuscripts, first editions, periodicals and iconography of French Romantic writers - 657 items with ample descriptions.....
New York: Tams Witmark Music Library, [nd. but ca. 1950s]. [8],45,38,25 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript, on rectos only. Perfect bound into paper tape-backed wrapper with printed/typed label. Wrappers somewhat creased and used, small tape mend at fore- edge of upper wrapper, internally very good. A prompt book for this musical.....
[Northampton, MA: Distributed by the Poet, 1976]. Three folio broadsides (56 x 41 cm), with color illustrations. Two corners bumped (one of them creased), otherwise near fine. First printings in this format of "Noon," "Encountering," and "Let Islands Drown," each accompanied by a drawing in color by Henry Elinson. Each.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1964]. Gilt cloth and paper over boards. Photographs. Very slight lean, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket (vertical stripe of rubbing and some dust smudging to rear panel, minor shelfwear to tips and spine ends). First edition, first printing (one of.....
London: Geo. Standring, 1892. 94pp. Printed pale rose-tan wrapper. Some dust tanning to wrapper edges, but a very good copy. A new edition of this text first published in 1879, accompanied by a new Preface treating, in part, the prosecution of booksellers for distribution of works on the population question.....
Genova: Alla Libreria Grondona, April 1859. 76,[1]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from collective pamphlet volume, without wrappers. Light foxing, a couple of small in marks at fore- edge, otherwise very good. First edition of this tract by the philosopher / historian addressing the role of the clergy in the movement toward.....
London: John Murray, 1818. xiv,[4],[3]-257,[3]pp. Octavo (23 x 14.5 cm; 9 x 5 3/4"). Original paper boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Crown of spine nicked, with short crack at crown of one joint, some light soiling to boards, ink name in upper corner of title, crease in top edge.....
Kilmarnock: Printed by James M'Kie, 1869. xxiii,[1],396,xxvipp. Large octavo. Paper backed boards, printed spine labels. Spine darkened, with chip to title label and vertical crack, otherwise very good. One of 600 copies signed by the publisher, denoted the "Kilmarnock Complete Edition," and issued largely by subscription. Pages xv through xxxiii.....
New York [etc]: George A. Fuller Company, 1937. 322pp. Small quarto. Cloth and boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Heavily illustrated with gravure photographs. Some darkening to the backstrip, otherwise very good, without slipcase. First edition of this testament to the firm's decades of involvement in the construction of some of the.....
New York [etc]: George A. Fuller Company, 1937. 322pp. Small quarto. Cloth and boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Heavily illustrated with gravure photographs. Some hand smudges to spine, two letters in envelopes tipped to endsheets, pencil inscription on prelim, a few minor marks to boards; a very good or better copy.....
Charlotte: McNally of Charlotte, [1960]. Stiff pictorial wrapper. Illustrations. Edges a bit dusty at top edge, otherwise very good or better. First edition, wrapperbound issue, of this work of Civil War history by the accomplished pulp fantasist, historian and miscellaneous writer. An out-of-the-ordinary presentation copy, inscribed by Wellman to his.....
New York: Street & Smith, September 1939. Large octavo. Pictorial wrapper. Modest use and tanning, soft vertical crease in upper wrapper, several stamps of a San Antonio news dealer (rear wrapper and in an occasional margin); a good to very good copy. Inscribed and signed by Sturgeon at his contribution.....
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[London: Printed by Tho. Cotes ... 1632]. pp. 23-46,45,50-86 (31 leaves) [b6]-[g6]. Page 47 misnumbered '45' and verso numbered '50'. Folio. 13.5 x 8.5"; 34 x 22cm. Bound up in smooth padded calf, lettered in gilt, with faux parchment endsheets. Some rubbing to binding, small worm track in lower blank.....
[New York]: New Directions, [1965]. White linen, lettered and decorated in black. About fine in a very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities. First edition, clothbound issue. Inscribed in pencil by Merton at Gethsemani in April 1966, and signed with the initials of his secular name.
New York: American News Company, August 1938. Small quarto. Lurid pictorial wrapper by Brundage. Illustrated. Text stock uniformly tanned (but not brittle), mild damp ripple toward lower edge of wrapper (but without significant staining), otherwise generally very good. Contributors to this number include HPL ("The Tree"), Quinn, Wellman under his.....
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1954. Folio. Half morocco and decorated boards. Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. Small book label removal mark on pastedown, spine very slightly sunned, but a very good copy. One of 180 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated prospectus laid in.
