Saint Louis and New York: The Saint Louis Art Museum and D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 1997. First Edition. Signed and inscribed on half title by Helen Kornblum to Brenda Richardson, former Chief Curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art: "7-04 / Brenda—It was wonderful to meet you in Santa Fe..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908-1912. Later printings. Octavos; dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, red, blue, white, and green, top edges gilt. Armstrong was, along with Alice Cordelia Morse and Sarah W. Whitman, one of the most accomplished and successful book designers of the late 19th and early..... More
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Art History Research Society, 2006. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's tan decorative paper-covered boards; [2],390pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Corners gently tapped, else Near Fine condition. 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
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First American Edition, after the Fifth English Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gilt; xv,[1],423pp.; photographic frontispiece, sixteen leaves of plates including folding map, additional illus. in text. Light shelf wear, corners rather bumped and spine cloth a shade..... More
![Item #8345 The Uncrowned Queen: Life of Lola Montez [Signed]. Ishbel Ross](/pictures/thumb/8345.jpeg?v=1611074885)
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Ross on half title with inscription, "For Tom Mahoney / with good wishes. Ishbel Ross June, 1975." Octavo. 349 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt and silver. Unclipped dust jacket chipped along edges, a bit..... More
![Item #13668 Fairy Flowers: Nature Legends of Fact & Fantasy [Signed and Hand-Colored by Newman]....](/pictures/thumb/13668.jpg?v=1658524844)
New York: Oxford University Press, [1926?]. First Edition. Quarto; modern cloth-backed boards with original paper covers laid down, retaining original pictorial endpapers, gilt-lettered calf spine label, bespoke cloth slipcase; viii,[4],160pp.; tipped in color frontispiece and fourteen (14) leaves of plates, fifteen (15) half-tone illus. throughout text, each hand-colored and initialed..... More
Washington: Blair and Rives, 1835. First Edition. Printed paper wraps. 16 pages. Publication of an address of Freemason Lawrenson of the Grand Lodge of DC to offer aid to the orphans of the city. Final page split along bottom half of spine, but holding. Overall very good copy..... More
Pennsylvania? Jane Alden, [2005]. Second Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's comb-bound printed card wrappers; [12],314pp. Some light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Self-published account of the author's thirty years of experience as a crime reporter in the United Kingdom, though at the time..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1882]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's olive cloth over pictorial glazed cream paper-covered boards, all edges stained blue, bright yellow glazed endpapers; 64pp.; illus. throughout printed in color by Edmund Evans. Boards a bit scuffed and paper rather discolored from dust soil, corners bumped..... More
Los Angeles: Times Mirror Press, 1973. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; [4],253pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket a bit shelf-worn and lightly wrinkled at extremities, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound overall. Generously illustrated homage to Hollywood's "First Lady of Song," the..... More
New York: Lenox Hill Bookstore, 2004. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's tan printed staplebound card wrappers; 9pp. Tiny spot at bottom margin of upper cover, else Fine. Forms part of the Lenox Hill Bookstore Chapbook series, published at the Stinehour Press. Uncommon and quite early appearance of an excerpt..... More
New Jersey: Belleville, [1976]. Revised Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [2],112pp.; illus. throughout. Some minor chipping to jacket extremities, closed tear at the top edge of upper panel touching one letter, else Very Good and sound. Maass, a nurse at the Newark German Hospital..... More
Baltimore, MD: 1933-1937. Four quarto volumes (28cm.); uniformly bound in green cloth, pictorial typescript elements mounted to each upper cover; approx. 260ll. per volume totaling nearly 2000 pages of manuscript text; myriad hand-colored illustrations and mounted pictorial elements throughout. Rear hinges of latter two volumes very slightly loose, a few..... More
![Item #25398 Traite de Patisserie Moderne: Guide de Patissier-Traiteur [Julia Child's Copy]. Julia...](/pictures/thumb/25398.jpg?v=1675456764)
Paris: Dupont & Malgat, 1961. Nouvelle Édition (49e mille). Thick octavo; publisher's yellow paper-covered boards, upper cover and spine lettered in brown; [22](ads),viii,774,[2],[14](ads)pp.; twenty-eight (28) leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, some in color, text illus. throughout. Minor scuffing to extremities, brief soiling to spine, ownership rubberstamp..... More
Cincinnati and Athens: Cincinnati Art Museum and Ohio University Press, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (28x21.5x2cm); xvi + 287pp, including biography, bibliography, and index. Richly illustrated throughout with color plates of the pieces in the exhibition, augmented with many background, documentary, and reference images. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Covers..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirse, 1871. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo; 20th-century red library cloth, gilt-lettered spines; xiii,[1],385; iv,384pp.; engraved portrait frontispieces. German text throughout. Ex-Wilson College Library with their usual markings, cloth rather unevenly toned along extremities and spines, textblock uniformly brittled and toned due to inferior paper quality..... More
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, n.d., ca. 1890. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary grey felt boards, grey paper spine label lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; [4],xx,299pp. Boards a bit rubbed and darkened at extremities and spine, front free endpaper separated but present, textblock a bit brittle and toned due to inferior paper stock..... More
![Item #9413 Tess Monaghan [Limited Edition, Signed]. Laura Lippman](/pictures/thumb/9413.jpg?v=1619552362)
New York: Mysterious Bookshop, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 95. Small, slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 35pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon. Issued as Mysterious Profile #2. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 191pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears, light portions a bit toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. A "Red Mask Mystery."..... More
Macon, GA: J.W. Burke Company, 1938. First Edition, wrapper issue, limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in brown within decorative border; [18],81pp.; photographic frontispiece. Wrapper extremities toned, light shelf wear and soil, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
New York: William R. Scott, [1956]. First Edition. Small, square quarto; publisher's pictorial simulated cloth in matching dust jacket; unpaginated; two-toned (black and brown) illus. throughout. Shallow chipping to jacket extremities, including coin-sized loss at bottom margin of upper panel not quite touching text, the whole rather dust-soiled, a few..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [8],188pp. General edge wear to jacket and board extremities including a few tiny closed tears to the former, rear jacket panel a bit toned and dust-soiled, spine rather cocked, else Very Good, internally..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition, with FR symbol on copyright. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth lettered in yellow, yellow topstain; [6],310,3-5(ads)pp.; map endpapers of the Chesapeake Bay. Cloth rubbed at extremities, corners bumped with some brief exposure, spine a bit cocked, contemporary lending library bookplate to front free..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1898. Early printing, lacking year to title page and gilt to top edge. Octavo. 408 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, complete. Turquoise cloth decorated in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges with some minor fraying to crown;..... More