New York: Bloomsbury, 2003. Bono with Jordan and Eve. First Edition. Pictorial boards. First American edition in original publisher’s gift box with the compact disc performed by Gavin Friday and the Friday-Seezer Ensemble. 8vo; tan cloth with illustration and title on front cover label; black decorated endpapers; light bump to..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. JOHNSON, Clifton. 1st Edition. Cloth. First edition. xi [iii], 8vo; 279pp + 4pp advertisements; stamped green cloth with two color design to front cover and title in gilt on cover and spine; gilt top edge, untrimmed fore edge and bottom; decorative endpapers; b &... More
London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1887. 1st Edition. Half Bound Leather. First edition. 8vo; vii [i] 988pp; half-bound in maroon leather with pebbled cloth, gilt stamped title to spine; blue endpapers; black and white illustrations; light shelf wear to cover, light age toning of paper; very good plus. Exhaustive... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1914. Cloth. 12mo; xvii [i], 163pp; blue decorated cloth over board with a waitress in an apron on the front cover; black and white photographic illustrations; light shelf wear; very good plus. Nice edition of this book with duties on serving, furnishing and maintaining the... More
Bangor, Maine: George F. Searle, No date [c. 1890s]. Staplebound wraps. 16mo; pale green stiff wrapper with decorative scene on front; 13 black and white photogravures of the city including two fold-out, printed recto only; silk ribbon tie as binding; light hand soiling to wrapper; near fine. Scarce, none in... More
Augusta, Maine: Maine Development Commission, No date [c. 1930s]. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 47 [1]pp; dark green wrappers embossed with gilt design, cut-out window on front revealing color photographic illustration on title page; two staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations throughout and five in color; chip to bottom edge front wrapper... More
Bangor, Maine: published for C.S. Woolworth & Co., No date [c. 1900, before 1912]. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; [32pp]; gilt embossed title to front of stiff light brown wrapper; 2 staple binding; 31 full page black and white photographic illustrations; spotting and light soiling to wrapper, creasing at corners, some pages... More
Augusta, Maine: Gannett and Morse, No date [c. late 1880s]. Cardboard covers. 12mo; 12 plate fold-out; maroon blind stamped decorative border with title gilt stamped on front cover; paper spine; illustrated with gray tone chromolithographs, not photographs; paper spine has chipping and is fragile; very good minus. Scarce, only two... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1937. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustrated stiff wrapper with Shirley in Asian clothing; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations with text; leaves held firm by staples but disbound from wrapper; light shelf wear; good plus. Photoplay. Shirley Temple was a.... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustrated stiff wrapper with Shirley in a green cap; 2 staple binding tight; black and white illustrations with text; light shelf wear to edges; near fine. Photoplay. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio and... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1938. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; [48pp]; color photographic illustrated stiff wrapper with Shirley and a dummy on the front cover; 2 staple binding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; light shelf wear to wrapper, front wrapper upper corner creased, light age toning of... More
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen, radio... More
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. 8vo; 32pp; color illustrated stiff wrapper with Jane Withers’ portrait to cover; 3 staple binding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; light shelf scuffing, chip to top front wrapper, scratch to back wrapper and creases at spine with color loss;... More
New England: Printed for the Proprietor, 1813, February. Full calf. 12mo; 264pp; contemporary smooth brown calf, spine with onlaid gilt stamped black label; 4 woodcut illustrations of which 3 depict various conjoined twins and one with other genetic anomalies; damage to head and tail of spine, scuffing to edges, scrapes... More
London: Longman, Green and Company, 1886. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; xi [i] 396pp; half bound in pebbled navy leather with 5 raised bands on the spine, marbled boards and gilts stamping; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Claud Lambton on the front pastedown; all edges marbled; 9 engraved illustrations including... More
No place [possibly New York City]: Fleischmann & Co., No date [c. 1900]. Wraps. 12mo; [14pp]; chromolithographed illustrated glazed wrappers with a chick on the front and a bid flying over a wheat farm on the rear wrapper; illustrated throughout in dark green ink; fine. Scarce, located in 3 WorldCat... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1888]. Gordon Browne, et al. cloth. 8vo; 140pp; gilt stamped title in a border to front cover, green cloth over board with stamped design of a Christmas tree to front and blind stamped title to spine; chromolithographed frontispiece, other black and white illustrations... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1918. 1st Edition. Cloth. [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]. First edition. 4to; 199pp; brown stamped cloth over board with the title and author on front cover and spine; inscription to a student and signature on free front endpaper; signed on title page; illustrated throughout text... More
Portland, Maine: A. J. Hudson, 1926. Boards. 8vo; [vi] 145pp; blue paper over board with paste-on title label to front cover; untrimmed pages; 4 graphs including one fold-out; spine paper cracked at edges and chipping, loss of ½” at head of spine, age toning to page edges, cracked front hinge... More
Rockland, Maine: Seth Low Press, 1959. cloth. 8vo; 100pp; gilt stamped title and author to spine on pale green cloth over board; ownership in pencil to free front endpaper; heavy textured pages; unclipped dust jacket with photographic illustration of author on front and short bio on the rear; light sunning... More
Boston: R.A. Supply Company, printer for B and M Railroad, No date [c. 1890-1900]. Staplebound wraps. 12mo long; [32pp] gilt embossed title to green wrapper with 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations to recto only with title; light sunning to wrapper edges, some minor staining of rust from... More
Boston: R.A.Supply Company, printer for B and M Railroad, No date [c. 1890-1900]. Staplebound wraps. 12mo long; [40pp] gilt embossed title to grey wrapper with 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations to recto only with title; fine. One page of text and black and white photographs of the..... More
Portland, Maine: National Society of Colonial Dames of AMerica in the State of Maine, 1982. W. L. Frost. Limited Edition. cloth. Fold-out Map: FROST, W.L., Falmouth Neck and Stroudwater in the Time of the Tates, for the Colonial Dames, 1982. Fold-out Map: A Plan, of the Clear Inclosures in Brigadier Gen... More
Portland, Maine: Chisholm Brothers, 1911. 12th Edition. Stiff wraps. Twelfth Edition Improved by New Plates. 8vo long; [46pp]; stiff grey pictorial wrappers with a color scene of a lighthouse and title to the front, rear is plain white; chipping to edges, light hand soiling to rear wrapper; 2 staple binding... More
Boston: R.A. Supply Company for B and M Railroad, No date [c. 1890-1900]. Staplebound. 12mo long; [40pp] gilt embossed title to pale blue wrapper with 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations to recto only with title; one finger smudge in margin, one small closed tear to bottom edge;... More
