Philadelphia, PA: House of Bourbon, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 238 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red; red endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn and dampstained along edges with chipping to extremities; portion of bottom third of front flap neatly removed by previous owner. Boards show light shelfwear, binding..... More
![Item #25953 Bilbo: En Hobbits Aventyr [The Hobbit, Or There and Back Again]. J R. R. Tolkien,...](/pictures/thumb/25953.jpg?v=1678829081)
Orebro, Sweden: Raben & Sjogren, 1962. First Tove Jansson-illustrated Edition, preceded in Sweden by Tore Zetterholm's translation, Hompen, in 1947. Octavo. 308 pages. 12 full page black and white illustrations; smaller vignette pieces by Jansson throughout. Original green cloth with pictorial boards; spine stamped in gilt. Boards show light shelfwear..... More
![Item #25949 Slow Coins Minted by Julia Fields [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Note Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/25949.jpg?v=1678825262)
[Washington, DC]: Three Continents Press, [1981]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey pictorial card wrappers; [10],206pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Substantial poetry collection by the Alabama-born author, inscribed and signed inside upper cover: "To Joe Johnson with respect and honor..... More
New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc. Publishers, 1948. First Edition, first printing stated. Octavo. 297 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.00" price present. Beige boards stamped in maroon; red topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges and spine lightly sunned. Boards show light shelfwear and spine ends mildly..... More
Columbia, SC: Palmetto Historical Works, 2000. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red photo-illustrated dust jacket; xx,[2],250pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine just a hint sunned, else a Fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. More
![Item #25946 Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers [WITH] Supplement [Review Copy]. Ronald Vere Tooley,...](/pictures/thumb/25946.jpg?v=1678894917)
New York: Alan R. Liss, 1979, 1985. First Editions. Two volumes; quartos; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jackets; xii,684; x,116pp.; illus. throughout, color endpapers. Corners of the Supplement volume gently tapped, ownership signature to half title of Supplement, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Review copy of the..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in glossy green pictorial dust jacket; xv,[3],228pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. More
Gormania, WV: [s.i.], 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 144 pp. with 10 pp. table of contents and supplement advertisements to rear. Black and white photographs, complete. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges and spine with general scuffing and rippling and dampstaining to rear..... More
Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; iv,[5]-352pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, lacking spine label and endpapers, dark dampstaining to margins of first twenty and final ten leaves, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite attractive and..... More
Philadelphia: B. & T. Kite, and S. Pike, 1811. Later Edition. Two volumes; octavo; full contemporary calf, brown gilt-lettered spine labels; xxiv,[25]-578; [2],603,[33]pp. Leather a bit scuffed at extremities and corners softened, Vol. I lacking front free endpapers, fairly ubiquitous later pencil marginalia throughout, occasional soil to textblocks, else a...... More
[Philadelphia]: Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic [Town Printing Company], 1917. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, contemporary paper label accomplished in manuscript mounted to upper cover; 71pp. Minor wear to cloth extremities, old brief paper reinforcement to top margin of pp. [39]/40, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good..... More
San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; ix,[3],156pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Light wear including a few tiny chips to jacket margins, a hint of rubbing to cloth extremities, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. More
Aldershot, UK: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 470 pp. Black and white photographs, illustrations, and maps, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. Navy boards lettered in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows light chipping with some minor creasing along edges. Boards show very mild shelfwear with some nudging..... More
New York: Peter Smith, 1941. Reprint. Octavo. 361 pp. Black and white photographs. Blue cloth with spine lettered in black. No dust jacket. Boards show very light wear to edges and joints with some general smudging. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and heavy underlining..... More
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. Reprint. Octavo. 199 pp. Black and white illustrations. Black boards with silver lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, binding sound, and pages unmarked. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Black and white photographs including frontis with tissue guard, complete. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; gilt topstain. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and joints with some general..... More
Kingston and Montreal, Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. Reprint. Large octavo. 674 pp. Black and white illustrations; map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Slightly ex-library with minimal institutional markings. Dust jacket shows general rubbing and ghosts of stickers to spine and rear. Boards show..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 326 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.50" price present. Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Dust jacket chipped along edges with mild creasing and a few short closed tears. Boards with dark spotting along joints and binding is..... More
Cincinnati, OH: Phonographic Institute, 1883. First Edition. Octavo. 231 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. Brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Boards rather worn with brief short splits to spine ends, brief exposure to corners, general scuffing, and a scrape to front. Cracked at hinges but..... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 317 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with a short tear along top edge of rear joint with a touch of toning to spine. Boards chipped with exposure along top..... More
Lanham, MD: Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey and The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Octavo. 155 pp. Gray boards stamped in black and gilt. No dust jacket. Light scuffing and rubbing to boards, binding is sound, and pages unmarked. More
London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden Bookseller in Cambridg [sic], 1660. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary blind-tooled calf, recently rebacked with mottled calf, red gilt spine label, new endpapers; liii,[3],526,[2]pp. (¶^4 - 3¶^4 * - 3*^4 A - 3X^4, collated presumed complete with publisher's advertisements on final leaf);..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905. First Dulac-illustrated edition. Octavo. 292 pp. Six color plates by Dulac, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. In publisher's boards decorated in dark green and gilt.; top edge gilt. Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges and spine with faint patchy dampstaining..... More
New York: Published by the Compiler, 1903. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 64. Octavo; publisher's grey paper-covered boards, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; vii,[8]-86pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Light wear to spine ends, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown..... More
[Washington, DC]: Park View Press, [1908]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 186pp.; portrait frontispiece. Corners a bit bumped, spine gilt starting to dull, front free endpaper torn away, else a Good to Very Good copy. More