Minden, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More

Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to..... More

New York: NAL Books / New American Library / Times Mirror, 1981. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; ix,[1],230pp.; eight leaves of halftone plates printed on rectos and versos. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins, textblock margins..... More

United States? ca. 1900. Broadside (22x30cm) printed letterpress on newsprint. Small chips and losses at corners and along bottom edge not approaching text, textblock a bit spotted and toned, else Very Good. Fun-spoiling broadside forbidding ball games at the park, "All persons violating this requirement will be dealt..... More

New York: Random House, [1947]. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [6],343pp. Moderate shallow chipping to jacket margins, short horizontal closed tear with small hole to spine panel not approaching text, spine panel significantly toned, else a Very..... More

New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo. 321 pp. "Copiously illustrated with halftones from photographs and diagrammatic drawings by the author," collated and complete. Brown cloth boards stamped in dark brown and white; top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Wear to extremities with minor fraying to crown; corners..... More

[Havana?]: 1921. First Edition Limited to 600 copies. Octavo; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered boards, decorative endpapers; 39pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Staining and a few paper remnants to boards; light wear to extremities; corners bumped. Binding sound. Touch of spotting to interior; mild dampstaining to fore-edge of text block, with text unaffected;..... More

Minneapolis, MN: Blue Book Publications, Inc., 2009. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 208pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Glossy photo-illustrated boards. Light rubbing to edges of dust jacket with mild dust soiling. Tight in binding and interior unmarked; Near Fine. More

New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1975. First Thus. Signed by Dick Francis at half title without inscription. Thick octavo. 715 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red-orange boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket worn and creased along edges with some nicks and a few short tears along edges;..... More

Rocklin, CA: Forum / Prima, 1999. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); 380pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $25 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with copper stamping to spine; black endsheets. Black-and-white images throughout. Dust jacket bumped along edges and at spine ends; superficial scratches throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends..... More

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. Limited Edition of 75 copies, of which this is number 24. Boards in plum cloth with gilt lettering and black title square to spine. No dust jacket as issued. Boards lightly faded along bottom edge with some faint scuffing to title lettering..... More

[Chicago?]: [Exhibit Supply Co.], [ca. 1930s]. Original color poster (46.5x31.5cm.) printed on translucent wax paper. Light wrinkling, else a Near Fine example. Display poster advertising a fortune-telling arcade game manufactured by the Exhibit Supply Co., which often employed backlit posters on translucent stock. The image shows a romantic young..... More

Boston: Printed for W. Pelham, 1805. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 186pp, collated incomplete. Missing frontis, pages 187-208, endsheets and flyleaves. Bound in cream and gray paper-covered boards. Pages uncut. Boards bumped and worn with cracking to both hinges and middle of spine. Generally soiled and scuffed. Binding cracked but..... More