Paris: L. Westhausser, Editeur, 10, Rue de l'Abbaye 10, No date [c. 1890]. Boards. [POETRY] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. 12mo square (7 ½” x 6 7/8”); [28]pp; stiff glazed chromolithographed pictorial boards featuring cats and dogs playing on a swing; pale blue floral endpapers, bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown; illustrated poems and..... More
Boston: Graves, Locke & Co., Publishers, 1879. Wraps. [TRAVEL] [SOUVENIR] [EPHEMERA]. Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 10 Spring Lane, printers. Cover title: Old Orchard Maine Map: Plan of Ferry Beach Park, Cottage Lots, Ferry Beach, Saco, Maine, 2 pp Fold-out illustrated bird’s-eye-view map with vignettes: Balloon View of Old Orchard, Me...... More
Newburyport [Massachusetts]: William H. Huse & Co., Printers, 1875. Wraps. [GEOLOGY] [MAP]. Map: Map of Mining Lands at Newbury and Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, Boston: The Hatch Litho Co., 1875. 12mo; 60pp; map attached to title page; lacks a wrapper, publisher’s stab-stitched leaves; light soiling to title and last leaf;..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: 25th Congress, 2d Session [Senate], 1838. Wraps. [MAP] [GOVERNMENTAL REPORT] Blair & Rivers printers. Fold-out map: Owl’s Head Harbor Maine, Aug. 1836, by Lt. Col. S.H. Long, Lieuts. J.F. Cooper, and J.I Donaldson. 16 ½” x 13”; one 1 ½” closed tear to left side where map is..... More
Portland, Maine: L.H. Nelson Company, Proprietors of Nelson's International Series of Souvenir Books, 1906. Wraps. [VIEWBOOK] [SOUVENIR] [STATE OF MAINE] [EPHEMERA]. Cover title: Old Orchard and Vicinity Second edition. 8vo oblong; [32]pp; gilt-embossed title and vignette to stiff purple wrapper; 2 staple binding; 31 b&w half-tone photographic illustrations with titles;..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: The Yankee Publishing Company, 1941. Edith STEVENS. Wraps. [MAP]. SNOW, Edward Rowe, Aerial and Island Survey. U.S. Coast and Geological Survey, Chart 246. The Islands of Boston Harbor, 1935. Drawing by Whitman and Howard, Engineers, Edith STEVENS, illustrator. 8vo; 57pp [1]; photographic illustrated wrap with cloth spine; illustrated..... More
[Portsmouth, N.H.]: Published by City of Portsmouth, and Portsmouth Board of Trade and Merchant's Exchange, No date [c. 1910]. Wraps. 16mo oblong (6” x 6 ¾”); [32]pp; stiff pictorial wrapper printed in black and gold, b&w harbor view photographic illustration on front, rear panel lists publishing information; 2 staple binding;..... More
Concord, N.H. The New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, 1959. Wraps. [STATE OF MAINE] [NATURAL WORLD] [TRAVEL] [NON-FICTION] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. First edition. 8vo; 51pp; pale blue pictorial wrapper, dark blue ink with illustration of a lighthouse on the Shoals; two staple binding; illustrations and small maps within text; sunning..... More
Buffalo, New York: Foster, Milburn & Co. Wraps. [ALMANAC] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 12mo (7 7/8” x 5 5/8”); 32pp; yellow pictorial wrapper, 2 children on the front with a large key and the letters “BBB”, store advertising on rear; stamp of “E.D. Graves, Wendell Depot, Mass.” on rear; age-toned wrapper edges..... More
New York: Seaver Books, 1988. First edition. 8vo; 225pp; quarter-bound ivory linen and tan board, brown lettering on spine; owners gummed label on ffep; headpieces and a few black line illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, light scuffing; fine in very good plus dj. ISBN: 0-8050-0394-0. Saksa Art..... More
New York: Random House, 1958. Lorraine FOX. Boards. FOX, illustrator. First edition. 8vo; xiii, 229pp; white boards, cooking utensils and food stamped in orange and green on front, lettering in green on spine; illustrated endpapers; 2-page title page illustrated with black line drawings of post with food; line drawn illustrations..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953. Cloth. Dust jacket title: Delicious Seafood Recipes, Over 250 dishes using fresh—and salt-water fish. 8vo; xi, [iii], 204+ [6]pp blank Notes; turquoise cloth over board, white stamped lettering on spine; ownership on ffep dated “1953”; small srubs to bottom edge; unclipped color pictorial..... More
Boston: The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1909. Cloth. [HOME ARTS] [COOKERY] [CLEANING]. Cover title: Little Helps, Hints for Our Homemakers 8vo; 341pp + 10pp Index; maroon cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine, b&w pictorial onlay of a young man and woman looking at an old woman at..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. George KORFF. Boards. George KORFF, illustrations. A Wartime Book, printed on copyright page. 8vo; [36]pp; pictorial boards illustrated in brown on a cream background, two bears on the front amidst pine trees, lettering in black; vignette of a bear and pine tree on title..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Ludwig BEMELMANS. Cloth. First British edition. 8vo; 113pp; bright green buckram over board, stamped silver lettering on spine; pictorial endpapers of a mountain scene in navy and white; pictorial half-title; line drawings on fp, dedication and contents pp; 2 single and 2 double plate color illustrations;..... More
Hallowell, Maine: White & Horne Company, 1938. Boards. Hallowell, Maine: Printed for the Author’s Great-Great-Great-Grandchildren Ruth Richards, R.H. Gardiner, and W.T. Gardiner by White & Horne Company. 8vo; 84pp; color half-tone photographic facsimile of the 1763 cover, tan cloth shelf-back; 3 glazed plates; near fine. A nice copy of the..... More
Bangor, Maine: R.H. Stanley & Company, 1887. Cloth. [OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE] [CIVIL WAR]. Press of Ford & Rich, Portland, ME. OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE of Hannibal E. Hamlin (1858-1938), a Maine state politician and son of Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin from Maine, the first Vice-President under President Abraham Lincoln. 8vo; 392pp; blue cloth over..... More
[Warwick, Bermuda]: Warwick Branch, Bermuda Welfare Society, 1947. Wraps. [HOME ARTS]. Wrapper title: Bermuda’s Best Recipes, a compilation of tested and especially recommended recipes Fourth edition. Small 4to; 199, [1], I-XXIXpp, textured cream-colored wrapper, black lettering and vignette of house with palm trees on front; ad for Esso Standard Oil..... More
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, No date [c. 1915]. May Audubon Post. [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. May Audubon POST, illustrator. First edition, thus. 8vo; 186pp; pictorial mustard-colored cloth over board, gilt stamped lettering on front, color stamped illustration of two children with ice skates; lettering on spine in black; ownership in..... More
New York: Hart Book Company, Inc., 1955. Boards. [ACTIVITY BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Cover title: Teach Me Handwriting, For Boys and Girls from 8-13 8vo; [125]pp; colored pictorial boards, the front board lettering is in yellow on a green background, two children sit and practicing writing; endpapers feature red horizontal lines..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. Poetry. Limited Edition. Cloth. [POETRY] [LETTERS]. Limited edition, number 232 of 400. 4to; 187pp; publisher’s alternative half-binding of royal blue cloth with a red overlay; gilt-stamped roundel with the portrait of a cat on front, gilt lettering on front and spine; bottom edge untrimmed;..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1875. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 459pp + [4]pp publisher’s ads; tan cloth over board, silver stamped border and lettering, color pictorial of a lighthouse and water on front board; gift inscription on ffep; b&w frontispiece; map of New England before Table of..... More
San Francisco: Ransohaffs, 1938. Quarter-bound leather. [NON-FICTION] [BRITISH MONARCHY]. One of 200 copies, unnumbered. Folio (13 ½” x 9 ¾”); [28]pp; quarter bound in white goat and natural linen, 4 color wood-engraved printing stamped on the front linen board and again on the page following the title; gilt stamped lettering..... More
London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, No date [c. 1930s]. Boards. [ANTHOLOGY] [WOMEN AUTHORS]. Small 4to; unpaginated; color pictorial boards, yellow background with a smiling girl holding a dog on the front and a girl shoveling sand on the rear board; pictorial pastedowns; color frontispiece, pictorial title page +..... More
London: Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster-Row, 1858. Cloth. [NATURAL HISTORY] [ILLUSTRATED]. 12mo; 62pp + [2]pp publisher’s advertisements; blue ribbed cloth over board, gilt ruled panel with corner floral ornaments, gilt-stamped lettering on front and spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers; hand-colored engraved fp and pictorial half-title with date; 30..... More