New York: Orange Judd Company, 1876. Staplebound wraps. 4to; [3] 242-280 [2]pp; printed paper wrapper; two staple binding; illustrated; light age toning of edges; near fine. The Centennial Edition of this periodical established in 1842. Filled with agricultural advice and tips as well as advertising, home tips, architecture, stories, puzzles..... 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: Henry Holt and Company, No date [c. 1948]. Lt.-Col. Frank WILSON. Cloth. 12mo; x [ii], 13-128pp; pale green buckram, title printed in black on spine; light glue burns on endpapers, ownership in neat ink on ffep; b&w illustrations in text; light shelf scuff to tail spine; unclipped color..... More
[London]: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. First Edition. Quarter-bound leather. First edition. 8vo; 101, [1]pp; quarter-bound pebbled leather and brown textured cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front board; top edge gilt; ownership in pencil and address sticker to ffep; 47 full-page color lithographed illustrations facing a page of text, some illustrations in color;..... More
London, England and New York: A. Raphael, 1901. A. RAPHAEL. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 221, [4]pp; gilt-stamped title, author to brown pebbled cloth over board, vignette of a palm in a circle of the Zodiac signs to front stamped in silver, titled Planetary Hand; gilt upper edge; frontispiece..... More
New York City: Rice Leaders of the World Association, Elwood E. Rice, Founder and President, 1915. Boards. [MARKETING] [ADVERTISING] [WINDOW DISPLAYS] [BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS]. Laid in: Letter on the Rice Leaders of the World Association stationery dated January 10, 1916 to All Contestants in the 1915 Window Display Contest, from Elwood..... More
Both in Amsterdam: Chez Daniel Elsevier and H. Wetstein & H. Desbordes, 1679 and 1684. Vellum. [CHILD EDUCATION] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. 12mo; 262 + 407; contemporary vellum covered boards; title inked on spine; ffep and flyleaf have owner’s notes; light soiling to boards, front board lightly bowed, vellum curling on rear..... More
Jerusalem, Ramat-Gan, Tel-Aviv: "Massadah" and "Alumoth" No date [c. 1960s]. Arthur SZYK, designer and illustrator. Metal. [RELIGION] [JUDAISM]. Arthur SZYK, designer and illustrator. Octavo; [96pp]; hard silver-colored embossed metal jacket inset with Persian turquoise, accented with red, green and white coloring; braided silk bookmark; color illustrated and color text; leaves..... More
Boston: Jenks, Palmer & Co., 1848. Boards. 12mo; 80 + [2]pp; brown marbled boards, brown calf shelf-back; pages bright and clean with a few spots; shelf-wear to boards and spine, endpapers foxed; very good minus. Interesting book on correct speech in the English language. More
Aldershot: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1953. Charles Johnson PAYNE. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; [96pp]; grey buckram over board with title and author to front and spine in black; thick creamy colored paper stock; illustrations in b&w plus 6 tipped-in color illustrations including frontispiece; small ink spot to front..... More
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Sheffield [England]: Not identified, 1950. Cloth. [PRINTING] [BOOKS ON BOOKS]. 8vo (9 ¾” x 5 5/8”); 236pp; quarter-bound pale green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, grey ribbed paper boards; grey endpapers; 2pp printed in color, one fold-out diagram; light vertical crease to front board and light shelf wear; color printed unclipped dust..... More
Boston: The Fraternity Publishing Company, 1913. Leather bound. 8vo; xxxiv, [ii], 37-910pp; gilt-stamped title, Masonic symbol, and owners name to brown pebbled leather over board; 5 raised bands spine; gilt dentelles, brocade endpapers; all edges gilt; steel engraved frontispiece in sepia; 48 b&w plates and 8 tinted half-tone photographic illustrations;..... More
[Lewiston, Maine]: The Lewiston Daily Sun and The Lewiston Evening Journal, 1936. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Long 8vo; [52pp]; tan faux-leather textured wrapper, oval opening exposes the photograph on title page; 50 full page black and white photographic illustrations; soiling to wrapper, small stain to title page bottom; some print..... More
Washington DC: United States Government Printing OFfice, 1936, Later printing, c. 1939. Second Edition. Cloth. Inserted maps and charts, fold-out: Index Map: Coast and Geodetic Survey Charts, 1939; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Inside Route, Key West to Rio Grande, No. 1, 1936 [Florida and Gulf of Mexico]; No. 2..... More
Boston, Mass. H.H. & T.W. Carter, 1871. 12mo; 210, xi pp; blind stamped pebbled brown cloth over board with gilt stamped word “Receipts.” to the spine; bumping of cover corners with loss and loss at head and tail of spine, back hinge loose but holding; very good. Scarce. Only two..... More
New York: W. H. B. Creagh, Publisher, No date [1895]. F. LUND, L. RENAULT. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; [1-4] 4-105 [13]pp; gilt stamped blue cloth over board; illustrated in the text; book plate to front pastedown, ownership in ink to front free endpaper; text followed by 11pp of..... More
Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 47 Washington Street, 1847. Full calf. 12mo; 776 + 4pp ads; calf over board, gilt stamped black calf label to spine; bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown; ownership in ink to front pastedown and ffep; general wear and scuffing to boards and edges, front and top rear..... More
New York and London: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1895. Newton A. WELLS. 1/4 cloth. [ILLUSTRATED] [GARDENING / HORTICULTURE]. 4to (12” x 10 ¼”); [20pp]; quarter-bound tan gilt-stamped buckram, iridescent green textured paper with roses, gilt-stamped title to cloth label; ownership dated “Christmas 1897” to ffep; 6 color lithograph illustrated..... More
Augusta, Maine: The Maine Historic Preservation Commission and The Maine State Museum, 1980. Faux Leather. 4to; [16], 130, [10]; faux-leather over board; pictorial marbled end papers with facsimile book plates of the Willoughby’s; owner’s stamp to recto frontispiece; portrait frontispiece; facsimile of author’s hand- written 1892 pages and watercolor illustrations;..... More
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., Publishers, 1902. Wraps. [DANCE]. First edition. 12mo; 148 + [10] advertising; color pictorial stiff wrapper printed in red and black, rear wrapper a pictorial advertisement for The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway with a vignette of children sitting on a donkey; title and..... More