New York: J.D. Sheldon & Co., 1874. 16mo (14cm.); publisher's grey wrappers printed within decorative border; 255pp.; pictorial advertisements throughout. Shallow chipping along wrapper extremities, small paper flaw to upper cover affecting some text with brief loss of sense; still, Very Good, internally near fine. Price list printed..... More
Oswego, NY: Hatch & Mills, 1850. First Edition. Small 12mo (15cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; 124,[5]pp. Boards rather rubbed and corners bumped with brief exposure, rather crude glue repair at spine ends, front free endpaper torn away, general soil throughout text block; still, overall..... More
Second Edition. Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1834. Second Edition with corrections and additions. Small octavo (5.75" x 3.75"); xxx, 311p +2p indices. Many pages still uncut. Printed paper wraps. Back cover barely holding on at spine, with front torn 3.5" up. Corners bumped and creased with some toning and foxing. Spine..... More
Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan Company, 1909. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 66pp.; photographic frontispiece. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Collection of religious poetry published nearly fifty years after the author's death at the premature age of..... More
London: J. Hatchard, 1816. Octavo; 174pp + 1p of errata + 1p of publisher's prospectuses. Calf with gilt outer border on front panel and blind-stamped inner border and ornaments. Rebacked in matching leather with new leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Reproduction marbled endpapers. Textblock edges ornamented in a brown..... More
Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; [4],ii,207pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Just About Fine. More
Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[1],264pp.; illus. Faint fingerprinting to jacket, else a Fine copy. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1913. First Thus. Quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's sea green cloth-backed pictorial boards, spine lettered in black, grey pictorial endpapers; [4],124pp.; color frontispiece and fifteen leaves of plates, all tipped to grey card stock, printed tissue guards, text printed within tan decorative border. Light shelf wear, corners a bit..... More
Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1830. Octavo. 657 pages + 4 pages sheet music. Contemporary mottled calf with brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Two brass clasps. Marbled endpapers and edges. Text in blackletter German. Some wear and flaking to edges and spine ends and cracked at top of front..... More
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Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
New York: Johnson, Fry and Company, [1859]. Folio (16.5" x 11.5"); xvii, 743, 1-122 (Apocrypha), 747-1026. 37 plates with tissue guards including engraved title, vignette frontis for New Testament, and two pages engraved family register (blank). Elaborately blindstamped leather covers with gilt title lettering and gilt to all page edges..... More
Westport, CT: Oryx Press, 2001. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's glossy white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued; xxxvii,[1],377pp.; illus. throughout, text in double columns. Light dust-soil to boards else Very Good to Near Fine. Civil War reference in the form of a dictionary of terms and..... More
New York: Nelson & Phillips, [ca. 1860s?]. Octavo. 154 p. + 4 p. advertisements. Black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Ex-library with minimal institutional markings on title page verso only. Worn at extremities with brief exposure and more heavy wear and chipping to top of spine. General..... More
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Anderson, IN: Standard Print, ca. 1859. Illustrated broadside (30.5x13.5cm.); printed in various attractive display types and adorned with two woodcut vignettes of the pump. Offered together with small printed handbill testimonial (10.5x17cm.) dated Washington City [Indiana], Jan. 25, 1859, and signed in type by Republican Indiana congressman David Kilgore. The..... More
New York: Board of Officers Seventy-First Infantry, Publishers, 1881. First Edition. Octavo. 103 pp. + 25 pp. appendices. Four full-page black and white drawings by Oz-illustrator William Wallace Denslow; black and white frontispiece, with tissue guard, by an unknown artist. Brown boards stamped in copper. Boards edgeworn. Title..... More
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket, yellow topstain; xi,[1],420pp.; illus. throughout. General edge wear and surface scratches to dust jacket; overall Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Billed as the first biography in English of "the..... More
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Lynchburg, VA: H.E. Howard, 1991. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 986. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, no jacket as issued; [4],vii,[1],504pp. Light shelf wear, cloth a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon; additionally..... More
[Albion, NY]: J. Jay Johnson, Patentee [copyright page: C.G. Beach & Co., Printers, Albion], 1863. First Edition. Octavo; 14 + [1] pages. Original printed yellow wrappers. Black and white illustrations, including a lady riding a buck. Signed fold-out transfer of patent interest tipped in at front. Interest was..... More
Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, 1842. Two volumes in four. Tall octavos. Amusing black and white caricatures throughout. Vol. I, Part I: 90 plates incl. 4 folding; Vol I, Part II: 74 plates incl. 1 folding; Vol. II, Part I: 91 plates incl. 5 folding; Vol. II, Part II: 65 plates incl..... More
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue decorative cloth, upper cover embossed in black, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown glazed endpapers; 272pp. Light shelf wear, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, front hinge cracked but holding, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Memoirs of..... More
Charlottesville, VA: Rockbridge Publishing / Howell Press, 1998. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's leatherette in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],266pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of wear from handling, else Near Fine. More
Bridgewater, VA: Mountain and Valley Publishing, 2000. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pale grey photo-illustrated card wrappers; xxi,[1],127pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title; additionally signed by the author on title page. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5x13.5x3cm); xvi + 380pp, including bibliography and index + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses, including Darwin and Spencer. Four full-page plates and 20 figures. [Sabin 42601] Red ochre publisher's percaline with blind-stamped frames and borders on both panels; gilt..... More