No publisher place: No publisher listed, No date [c. 1880]. Ephemera no binding. 11 ½” x 13”; cotton-even weave, perhaps lawn; copper plate or roller printed in color; left side selvage, 3 sides hand-rolled and stitched hems; light soiling, age-toning of cotton, foxing; very good. Not recorded or in WorldCat..... More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Ltd., No date [c. 1920]. May GIBBS. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; 98pp; color pictorial boards with color pictorial onlay of a ‘gumnut’ baby, green cloth back-strip; grey half-tone pictorial endpapers; 2 glazed color plates, including frontispiece; b&w vignette to title-page; ink inscription on dedication..... More
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, Ltd., No date [c. 1918]. May GIBBS. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; 87pp; sepia pictorial boards with color pictorial onlay of two ‘gumnuts’, blue cloth back-strip; grey half-tone pictorial endpapers; bookseller’s impressed-stamp on half-title; ownership to verso half-title in neat ink; glazed color frontispiece; b&w..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers, 1897. Maud HUMPHREY. Boards. 4to; [17 leaves]; color pictorial boards, green cloth shelf-back; thick paper stock printed recto; 6 color plates including frontispiece; line drawings in text; binding tight appearing unread; scuffing to board edges, bumping to corners, spotting to cloth shelf-back; very..... More
London: James Imray & Son, Chart and Nautical Booksellers, 89 & 102 Minories, 1859/1860. Map no binding. Ten hydrographic detail insets: The Coast from Calais to Boulogne; Cherbourg; Dartmouth 1853; Approach to Falmouth; Penzance Bay 1851; Plymouth; Portland and Weymouth 1860; Approach to Portsmouth 18948; Entrance to the River Seine..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Pebbled Calf. 11 Volumes, Boxed. 16mo (5 ¼” x 3 ½”) each volume, 2256pp in 11 volumes; gilt-ruled red pebbled calf, 4 spine bands, author and volume number to spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow glazed endpapers; bookseller’s ticket, “Westerton, Hyde Park Corner”, to..... More
No date [c. 1870]. Cloth. Case Map. Fold-out map: 5 7/8” x 9 ¼”; 5 3/8” x 9” within the neat line; gilt-stamped maroon ribbed cloth over board; pastedown tourist information; fold-out map with two folds; inset bird’s-eye-view of Mt. Keneo; Scale of Miles; sunning to case, small splits at..... More
Minneapolis, Minn. Buckeye Publishing Company, 1885. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 433pp + [7pp publisher’s ads]; gilt-stamped brown cloth, beveled edges; flowered decorative endpapers; b&w portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and tissue guard; b&w wood engraved illustrations and line drawings; laid-in pencil drawings on old store “Counter Bill”; light..... More
Munchen-Gladbach [Germany]: U. Riffarth, 1879. Boards. 4 7/16” x 2 7/8”; 526pp; purple velvet over board, brass banded edges; hand-painted scene of Christ holding a child and a book on a raised oval badge [porcelain?]; four applied brass ornaments to front corners; brass clasp; all edges gilt & gauffered; glazed..... More
No printer or manufacturer [probably English], No date [c. 1820]. Ephemera no binding. 10” x 12”; cotton weave, brown madder-dyed block printed childhood scene; one selvedge edge, 3 edges hand-rolled and stitched; light staining, small area upper right of weakened fibers with shattered weft; very good. Not found in any..... More
[Portland, Maine]: B. Thurston and Co., Printers, No date [c. 1883]. Stiff wraps. 8vo; 87pp; stiff manila colored wrapper, two stab-holes tied with orange silk ribbon; glazed paper; binding tight and appears unread; staining to wrapper, damp staining to lower corner and edge some pages, no odors; very good. WorldCat..... More
Augusta: Charles E. Nash, [1891]. Wraps. 12mo; [48pp]; peach wrapper, title and farm scene vignette within a triple border, rear wrapper an advertisement for Spear, May & Stover from Rockland, Maine; stab hole with cord for hanging; wood engraved illustrations; creasing to corners, damp stain to front wrapper, light spots..... More
Augusta: Charles E. Nash & Son, 1920. A. W. PEASE, wrapper illustration. Staplebound. 8vo; 36pp + [12pp lists of parade floats]; tan stiff wrappers, illustrated with a decorative scrolling frame topped with the state seal and finished with a pinecone; two staple binding; cream colored leaves; half-tone photographic illustrations; damp..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Tasha TUDOR. First Edition, First Printing. Boards. First edition, first printing. 12mo oblong; [28pp], color pictorial boards with a vignette of a girl and goose to front, flying goose to rear; color pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout; light shelf wear to bottom..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 314pp; green cloth over beveled board, black-stamped decorative border and title to front, gilt-stamped house vignette; gilt-stamped spine; brown endpapers; b&w illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard; head & tail piece decorations to chapters; b&w illustrations; light board..... More
Bridgeport, Conn. Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1878. Cloth. 8vo; 84pp + 14pp ads; black-stamped design and house vignette to green cloth over board; brown & cream patterned endpapers; 28 b&w illustrated plates of buildings, many with floorplans; near fine. Authored by a renowned architectural firm established in Bridgeport, Connecticut in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Maxfield PARRISH. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing, c. 1920. 8vo; x [ii], 199pp [1]; last leaf unopened; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers featuring a giant with a club astride a red lobster; color..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. First edition thus. 8vo; vi [ii], 397pp; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers titled “The Kremlin”; color pictorial plate for title page; 9 color illustrated plates; light shelf wear to boards;..... More
New York: Henry J. Johnson, 27 Beekman Street, 1877. Felix O.C. DARLEY. First Edition. Half Bound Leather. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo; 1866pp; half-bound in brown leather over brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped title to front and spine; 5 banded spine; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; sunning of spine and edges, scuffing..... More
Bangor, ME: D. Bugbee & Co., Publishers, 1892. Cloth. 8vo; 357pp; gilt-stamped title to brown cloth over board; ownership in ink to ffep; portrait frontispiece; front hinge cracked but holding tight, light age-toning of paper; very good. More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895. Marion SATTERLEE. Cloth. 8vo; xvii [i], 373pp + [4 ads]; decoratively stamped brown cloth over board with title on front and spine, vignette of a flowering tree stamped to front, signed “MA” this is a Margaret Armstrong design; gift inscription to ffep; b&w full..... More
London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1942. Cloth. 8vo; iv, 304pp; ribbed brown cloth over board, gilt stamped title and date to spine; ownership in neat ink to ffep; engraved ownership half-title; 14 hand-colored engraved plates; a few untrimmed fore-edges; lightly bumped corners, spine sunned, light foxing to eps..... More
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1867. Half Bound Leather. 8vo; lx, 635pp; half-bound in brown leather and pebbled brown cloth; 5 banded spine, gilt stamped title and ornaments to spine; red speckled edges; clipping affixed to two fly-leaves; dedication page to His Royal Highness Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; scuffing to spine..... More
London: Strahan & Co. Publishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, 1871. First British Edition. Cloth. First British edition. Two volumes. 8vo; 371pp, 368pp + 4pp ads; binding variant A (ABL 7635), blind-stamped blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped title to spine; navy blue endpapers; scuffing to edges, book plate to front pastedown both..... More
Strasbourg: De Derniers Nouvelles de Strasbourg, 1961. Half-bound leather. 4to ; [xvi], 224 + [10]pp ; half-bound in leather over marbled boards; title gilt-stamped to 4 banded spine; pictorial endpapers in sepia; printed on heavy glazed stock; text with photographic illustrations of scenery both in b&w and color; scuffing to board edges;..... More