1.5 page letter signed in FULL by Dickens, Sixteenth December 1850. 'Devonshire Terrace. Dear Sir I find that I Shall be so deluged and utterly swamped and cast away by letters of introduction during the time of the Great Exhibition if I remain in town that I must fly to save myself. Therefore I......
Wilmington: Scholarly resources, [1975]. 8vo. (5 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches). Complete 33 volume set, reprints of various previous editions. Bound in tan cloth with red metallic titles. Bindings tight, seem unread; some minor foxing and aging to covers; interiors are clean and unmarked. v. 1-7. Cherokee v. 8-12. Chickasaw v. 13-26. Choctaw.....
Scientific American Magazine, January-December, 1888. Orson Desaix Munn, ed. New York: Munn & Co. Folio (16 by 11 1/2 inches). Full year 1888. January through June includes full-color plate inserts and also laid-in blueprints, July through December have color inserts only, as issued. Light toning; some issues have closed tears to.....
Scientific American Magazine, January-December, 1890. Orson Desaix Munn, ed. New York: Munn & Co. Folio (16 by 11 1/2 inches). Full year 1890. Include full-color inserts. Light toning to covers; small closed tears; November has chip and a tear at bottom right. PH HTop
Halifax: William Milner, 1840. 32mo. (3-1/4 by 5-1/4 inches),, 384 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, gilt titles to spine; 20.5-inch folding frontispiece seems unopened. Light wear to covers with rubbing and mild toning; slight cracks starting at top and bottom of front hinges; gilt titles bright; calligraphic early owner's name.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITIONCatalog from the Stockholm Exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm February - March 1968Stockholm: Moderna Museet, [1968].8 1/4 by 10 3/4 inches, unpaginated. Illustrated softcover exhibition catalogue. Numerous B&W photographs. Spine sunned; small tear along hinge and crack along heel of spine; title page loose, pages toned towards edges.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION New York: Random House, [1967]. 4 to. n.p. Black half-binding with hologram overlay to front cover. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs by Billy Name and others. Present: the pop-up castle, the accordion (silent), the pop-up plane, the Chelsea Girls spring disc, the geodesic dome on.....
Paris: J. Carez, 1825. Folio (16 × 21 inches). Copper engraving, hand-colored in outline and wash. Engraved by Ales after the map of the United States by John Melish. Unframed. Fold lines present throughout; wrinkling and light soiling to the lower left quadrant. Hand-coloring intact and generally clean. One of.....
First Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836 to 1837. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. 20 parts in 19. Original green printed wrappers. A mixed set. The dates on the covers vary between 1836 and 1837. Part I: 1836, II: 1836, III: 1836, IV: 1837, VI: 1836, VII: 1837, VIII: 1836.....
October 1846 to April 1848. London: Bradbury and Evans, October 1846 to April 1848 FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS. 20 parts in 19. 40 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne. Original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut. Some of the parts have been rebacked in matching paper. Edges of.....
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860. 12mo., 432 pp. First Revised American Edition. Third Issue with three quotations to verso of half title page. Original tan cloth binding. Cloth uniformly faded, with fraying to head and heel, corners worn through. Owner signature and small plate to ffep. Light foxing throughout, heavier towards.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION London: George Newnes, 1896. 8vo., (5 1/2 by 8 inches), [7], 334; 8 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and black sword emblem to front, deckled fore edges; 24 B&W lithographs. Light shelving wear to spine ends, bump to top right corner; light abrasions to.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. 4to. (9 by 12 1/2 inches), n.p. Quarter white vellum over grey paper-covered boards, gilt titles, and framed Harrison Fisher girl to front in tan matching lidded presentation box. Twelve colored plates. Light scuffing and toning to covers; minor.....
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson the elder, 1717. Folio. 548 pages. Engraved title page and other engravings by various artists (a frontisportrait of the Princess of Wales engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, a vignette engraved by Elisha Kirkall after the original by Peter Berchet.....
Monte-Carlo: Aus Degens d'un Amature, 1943 4to. (7 1/2 by 10 inches), 265 pp. Limited Edition, 221 of 350 cc. Original buff-colored wrappers in slipcase. Wrappers unevenly toned; clean, uncut pages in tight binding; light wear to slipcase. PH D1V.
Muskogee, OK: Hastain, E., 1908 & 1910. Three volumes. 740; -1440; 731 pp. 8vo. Full pressed goat with four raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Scuffing to block edges; small tear and chip to bottom of first two leaves of vol. one, else very good. PH D6V.
New York: Villard Books, Random House, 19874to. (8 x 11 1/4 inches), 340 pp. Second printing. Half black cloth over red boards, pig emblem to front in a pictorial dust jacket. Light shelving wear with minor toning and light chipping to top edge of dust jacket. Caligraphically inscribed, on ffep.....
Automobile Color Schemes New York & Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, n.d. [c. 1890-1910] Oblong 4to. Automobile Manufacturer's Catalogue. Brown cloth-backed riveted boards with fifteen embossed chromolithography illustrations on heavy cardstock. A bit scuffed and worn; front free endpaper loose and laid in; some protective tissues have small tears. PV
Halle, Knapp. ( 1904 ). Illustrated with 48 plates printed on colored stock mostly made to simulate the texture of leather, these tipped onto heavier stock, all loose in portfolio. 4to. Plates accompanied by 4 leaves of ads on darkened, brittle paper and 2 leaves comprising a prospectus of volume.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION London: Chapman & Hall, 1926. 4to (9 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches), 120 pages. A handsome half-leather binding in dark brown polished morocco with raised bands and gilt-lettered panels over peacock-wave marbled paper in rich autumnal tones with well-defined combing throughout. Binding is tight and square.....
FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, [1969]. 8vo. (7 by 10 inches), 256 pp. Brown cloth with silvered titles in illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by author on ffep crossed out, and second inscription with notations in marker. Near fine with light foxing and discoloration to half-title page and.....
Paris: A. Combette, 1854. Folio (approx. 14 × 20 inches image). Steel engraving with outline hand-coloring. Engraved by Laguillermie; border illustrations by Raimond Bonheur. Framed and matted in cream mats with gilt-line border. Map and decorative border in very good condition; hand-coloring intact and clean. One of six continental maps.....
Boston & NY/ Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co./ The Riverside Press, 1899. Compiled by Joseph B. Gilder, introduction by A. A. Adee. First Edition. Frontisportrait. 8vo. (6 x 8 3/4 inches, ix, 107 pp. Rebound in 3/4 leather over cloth. Five raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt lettering and devices.....
Leipzig: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1911. Folio. (9 by 13 inches), 119 pp. Gilt-stamped original vellum. Text in Deutsch. The titles, 150 initials, and the binding designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens. Limited Edition, unnumbered copy of 440 cc. Light scuffs and darkening to vellum. PV
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933. Three volumes, 8vo., 442; 458; 355 pp. Exquisite binding: full polished charcoal morocco, front cover ruled in gilt with large central gilt silhouette of two Indian warriors on horseback; crossed tomahawks stamped in gilt at head and spines; dark green morocco lettering labels bear the title; board.....
