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

New York: James Miller, 1866. Fifth Edition, Revised. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's lilac blind-embossed cloth, pictorial gilt spine; 354,[8]pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with brief exposure at bumped corners and spine ends, both boards rather soiled, faint ink scribble to upper cover, rear cover unevenly discolored, title page starting to..... 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

Lorraine, France? B.P. Grimaud, ca. 1920. Advertising display (ca. 16x25cm.) comprised of stiff die-cut card stock to which are fitted, like the pieces of a puzzle, seven fanned out playing card samples. Dark soil spot affecting two cards, light wear from handling, else a Very Good, bright and sound example.Small..... More

Boston: Wright & Ditson, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges with some minor staining and spotting. Binding sound. Slight marginal stain but otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Scarce trade catalog from the early sporting goods store. Includes..... More

La Haye [The Hague]: Pierre Gosse, Junior, 1759. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments with printed paper spine label, all edges stained red; xxi,[1],141,[1]pp.; fourteen leaves of engraved folding plates (lacking final blank, otherwise collated complete). Leather a bit scuffed with small loss at spine crown..... More

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1933. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 224pp.; frontispiece, half-tone illus. and maps throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, cloth unevenly darkened, contemporary bookseller ticket affixed to front free endpaper; a Very Good, internally..... More

France?: s.i., ca. 1836. Collection of three twenty-eight piece puzzles (15.x25.5cm), card and ribbon dividers present, housed in original lidded box lined with arsenic green and pink patterned paper, upper cover mounted with unique chromolithographed illustration not repeated on any of the puzzles with bronze embossed paper border. Box a...... More

London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm), [x], 350pp. Publisher's pictoral dust jacket with price intact (£12.99). Text block soft bound in highlighter yellow and black pictoral cover. Dust jacket minorly creased. Text block bumped and rubbed at margins and corners. Page edges soiled with sunning to..... More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1962]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in black decorative dust jacket lettered in grey and red; 220pp. Light wear and wrinkling to dust jacket, ownership rubber-stamp "Property of USAF" to p. 13 and very faint sticker ghost at foot of jacket spine..... More

London: T. Hurst, 1834. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm); publisher's dark green goat over cloth, gilt-lettered spine with original price (8/s), all edges gilt; xvi,269,[3](ads)pp.; frontispiece and added engraved title page, forty-nine leaves of plates including one folding (collated complete). Very light wear to leather, corners a bit softened, else a...... More

[Washington?]: s.i., 1907. Presumed First Edition. Photo-illustrated broadsheet flyer (23x15.5cm) printed entirely in brown, text on verso in double columns; accompanied by original photograph (10x18cm) of Smith and his team. Old mail folds to flyer with bottom third entirely split, three small losses to right-hand margin from biopredation not affecting..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition with "A" and publisher's seal to copyright page, in Grissom's "Jacket B" with green panel over 9 lines of text. Large octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Light green cloth stamped in black and gilt; topstain.Dust jacket chipped..... More