Philadelphia: J. Ormrod, 1799. First Edition. Octavo. (v), 519, xiii pages. Rebound in modern tan buckram with black and red leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Alexander James Dallas was the first U.S. Supreme Court Reporter and would later serve as Treasury Secretary under..... More
Philadelphia: P. Byrne, by Fry and Kammerer, 1807. First Edition. Octavo. pp. (iv), 472, xxxiv, (xi + 1 page publisher's advertisements). Rebound in modern tan cloth with black and crimson leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress] with usual library markings. Boards are worn with..... More
Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Volume I, Third Edition. Octavo. 538 pages. Tan buckram with black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Ownership stamp of George S. Graham to front and rear pastedowns. Graham was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania..... More
New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (29x23x1.5cm); 184pp, including bibliography. Richly illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and many background, reference, and documentary images. Illustrated card covers with a purple ground. Some slight signs of storage pressures on covers: faint scuffing of coating (without color loss)..... More
Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 2007. First Edition. Quarto (28x24.5x1.5cm); 207pp, including bibliography and list of exhibitions. Seven color plates and 113 additional color and B&W illustrations of art details, photographs, and documents. Illustrated card covers with deep French flaps. Card spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock unmarked... More
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1955. First Edition, First Printing with "R" present on title page verso. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],493pp.; pictorial double title-page printed in green and black, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with coin-sized loss at top..... More
Skippackville, PA: J.M. Schuenemann, 1863. First English Language Edition. 12mo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth; xii,140pp. Extremities a bit rubbed with exposure at corners and shallow loss at spine ends, stock rather browned, else a Very Good, sound copy, internally clean and free of markings. Early Schwenkenfelder treatise first..... More
Laury's Station: Garrigues House Publishers, 1991. First Edition. 215 color photographs plus additional document reproductions. Five-color system map on front endpapers. Pictorial dust jacket. Army green boards stamps in gold front panel and spine. Dust jacket lacking large triangular chip (2" x 1.5") and additional thin strip (3.5") at bottom..... 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
Philadelphia: Christopher Sower Company, 1933. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's green cloth lettered in dark green; viii,9-192pp.; photographic illus. throughout, map endpapers. Extremities rather rubbed with brief exposure and fraying at corners and spine ends, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown (with "Withdrawn" rubber-stamp); overall Good to Very Good, internally clean..... More
Shippensburg, PA: News-Chronicle Company, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 94 pages. Black and white photographs. Light green printed wraps. Wraps are toned with some light wear along edges. Secure in binding. Pages unmarked. Tales the author had heard as a boy including "Saga of Simon Girty," "Danger in..... More
Shippensburg, PA: News-Chronicle Company, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 90 pages. Yellow printed wraps. Wraps are toned with some light wear along edges. Secure in binding. Heavy toning to inside back cover and final blank page opposite from previously laid in sheet, otherwise pages are clean and unmarked... More
Philadelphia: Alpress, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; [xii], 37pp. Limited First Edition, numbered 310 of 350 copies on colophon. Hand set at Alpress and designed by Sydney B. Liss. Red cloth and sage buckram spine with gilt lettering. Boards rubbed, scuffed and smudged, with a bit of dulling to spine lettering..... More
Lancaster, PA: Lecture Printing Society of the Theological Seminary of The Reformed Church, 1891. First Edition. Octavo. 136 numbered pages, but each numbered page followed by an unnumbered, blank one. Wraps. Missing front wrapper. Remnants of spine and rear panel chipped and stained. Binding holding. Pages brittle. None in..... More
Pittsburg [sic], PA: A.R. Crum & Co., [1899]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.,); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 92pp. Some light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, very faint soil, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later fraternal prize inscription to front free endpaper to a Sir Knight (illegible), "for securing..... More
Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown card wrappers lettered in white, yapp edges; [12],46pp.; illus. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, else Very Good, internally fine. Muhlenberg College's literary magazine, featuring artwork, poetry, and fiction. Notable contributions include Henry David Abraham's poem "a patpoem for autumn." Almost twenty-five years..... More
Octavo (26cm.); publisher's black gilt-lettered card wrappers, yapp edges; [6],45pp.; illus. Wrapper extremities a bit rubbed, spine slightly sunned, else Very Good and sound. Muhlenberg College's literary magazine, featuring artwork, poetry, and fiction. Notable contributions include the short story "Persons from Porlock Are Female" by the author Frederic..... More
Philadelphia: Press of M.D. Wood Printing Company, 1899. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's red textured paper-covered boards, upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt; 63pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, evidence of glue residue to front endpapers from previously removed materials, rear hinge cracked but holding, mid-20th century..... More
Lancaster, PA: Pearsol & Geist, 1867. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); removed and housed in 20th-century library cloth-backed card chemise, manuscript spine title; 39pp. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, extensive later ink underlining throughout, else Good and sound. Proceedings of a convention convened "for the purpose..... More
Small quarto (21cm.); original stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaged; woodcut illus. in text. Upper wrapper (often missing) illustrated with an elaborate full-page woodcut depicting a dock scene, with a European and an Oriental person about to be joined by a third man arriving from a dinghy, a port town lying just..... More
Germantaun, PA: M. Billmeyer, [1825]. Small quarto (20cm.); original stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaged; woodcut illus. in text which is printed within typographically decorative border and double rules. Upper wrapper (often missing) illustrated with an elaborate full-page woodcut depicting a dock scene, with a European and an Oriental person about to..... More
Philadelphia: Wm. J. Dornan, 1888. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2],11pp. Title page separated but present, extremities a bit toned and brittle, faint vertical fold; overall Good, internally fresh. Address delivered by the leading Philadelphia physician on the need to reform the legal system in relation to mental illness..... More
Lancaster: Jacob Schweitzer, 1828. 12mo; full contemporary sheep, black gilt spine label; 360pp.; intaglio engraved frontispiece and eleven (11) leaves of plates depicting forty-four emblems (collated and complete). Ex-Philip Schaff Library of the Lancaster Theological Seminary with their internal markings, leather rather scuffed along extremities with exposure at corners, numerous..... More
[York, PA: Trimmer Printing, 1965.] First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver foil, original glassine dust jacket; vii,[1],167pp.; four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Book in Fine condition; uncommon glassine dust jacket quite toned and chipped along spine edge, Good only. More
Carlisle, PA: A. Loudon, 1805. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); original full sheep, red gilt-lettered spine label; 220pp. Leather a bit scuffed at extremities and boards bowed, textblock somewhat foxed and toned, else Very Good, better than usually encountered. Lovely copy of the works of the "first poet of Cumberland..... More