Boston: Published by Order of the City Council, 1896. First Edition. Tall octavo. 77 pp. Black and white photographs with tissue guards. Blindstamped dark brown boards decorated in gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Boards bumped at corners with some general scuffing and rubbing. Binding is sound and pages clean..... More
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Woodbridge Suffolk (England) and Winterthur (Delaware): Antique Collectors' Club and The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2007. First Edition. Signed on titlepage by both authors. Quarto (30x24.5x3cm); 287pp including appendices with firm marks, genealogies, bibliography and index. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs of exceptional pieces in the Winterthur collection..... More
Williamstown, MA: Privately Printed, 1910. Limited Edition of 600 copies, this being #189. Octavo. 220 pp. Blue cloth with title label to spine. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn, with a patch of white spotting to top edge of front board and along center of..... More
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to..... More
Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo (25x16x1cm); 32pp with 21 additional unpaginated full-page B&W document reproductions bound in. Black card covers with silver stamping on spine and front cover. Textblock in sewn gatherings, the whole stab-bound with silk thread. Cover is erratically chipped around edges and cracking..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [2],188pp.; illus., blue pictorial endpapers. General light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel and spine cloth faded, old tape to both jacket flaps and pastedowns (tape yellowed and perished), else Very Good and..... More
Boston: J.W. Alden, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 4 pp. Printed wraps. Dated October 12, 1843. Stained and soiled. Scarce abolitionist pamphlet, ending with colorful language, calling out the slaveholding Tyrant Paupers, who have "applied their horse-leech-suction to the pockets of every free laborer... and hatched the great cockatrice..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1832. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 21 pages. Upper edge of title page a bit soiled. Evident ex-library copy with "Dup discard" in pencil on title and call number to rear. Quincy lectures on the American Revolution as the result of historical circumstances rather than..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Wellesley: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, 1997. First Edition of 4000 copies. Folio (14.25" x 9"); 247p. Illustrated translucent dustjacket over blue cloth boards with blindstamped patter and bronze lettering. Jacket rippled with light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are clean with front board..... More
Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1793. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 x 13 cm); vi, 7 - 339, [1] pp. Partial fold-out frontis map (approximately 15.5 x 13.5 inches) of the County of Worcester by "Charles Baker Esq. & Capn. John Pierce of said County." Top left portion of map missing (approximately..... More
Fitchburg, MA: [Livermore & Knight], 1896. First Edition. Oblong octavo; [28] pp. Illustrations and local advertisements throughout. Printed in three columns on coarse brown butcher paper. Stiff burlap wrappers with decorative ribbon binding and a wax seal. Side staple binding. Wrappers are cracked and separated from the text block..... More
Donald McKay. Second Printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Stated Second Printing, August 1951. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 221pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in patterned red cloth with white title block to spine. Jacket torn and chipped at..... More
[Boston?]: State Teachers College at Westfield, 1941. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth; 114pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven leaves of photographs printed on rectos only. Light shelf wear and minor soiling, spine gilt a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. More
Boston: International Jubilee Convention, 1901. First Edition. 12mo (7.25" x 5"); 184p. Numerous ads and illustrations throughout. Rebound in three quarter leather over pebbled black cloth. Index and terminal ads (pages 167-178) brought to front with pages 179-184 remaining at end. Boards are sturdy with light shelfwear and a few..... More