Edinburgh: John Grant. Thornton Edition. Complete in 12 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Edited by Temple Scott. Half-titles and titles printed in red and black. Photogravure and half-tone frontispieces, photogravure and manuscript facsimile plates showing various buildings, external and internal, associated with the sisters Bronte. Three-quarter green morocco over green cloth..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1930. 1st. Hard Cover. 8vo. (xiii) 278pp. Illustrations. Tan linen spine with red lettering; marbled boards; top edge stained red in scarce color printed dust jacket. "...an intimate, authentic record of three adventurous years in one man's career, as well as a vivid picture of the..... More
New York: S.A. Rollo & Co., 1859. Later edition with the same text as the first edition published in 1850. Original cloth. This copy was owned by William H. Brewer, noted author of "Up and Down the California Coast in 1860-1864" with his signature on ffep. Small 8vo. [2 leaves]..... More
Medellin; Sarasota, FL: Compania Litografica Nacional; Dodson Trust. Complete in 5 volumes. 4to. Various paginations. 1000+ color plates and anatomic drawings. Black cloth in color printed dustjackets. All volumes are in fine condition. This is a heavy set and may require additional shipping. Calaway Homer Dodson (1928 – 2020) was..... More
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London & New York: George Routledge, 1884. Two hundred and fifty copies of this Edition of Henry Fielding's Novels have been printed for sale in Europe, and one hundred and fifty for sale in the United States of America; this copy being No. 102. Complete in 5 volumes. Large 8vo..... More
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1912. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. xxiii, 72 pp. Illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; color plate mounted on front cover; TEG. Ex-libris (blind stamp of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Scineces; small ink number;..... More
London: Arrowsmith, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xii, 532 pp. 9 black & white plates (including 4 from wood-engravings of drawings by Lady S. Murray). Green cloth in green dustjacket with black ruling & lettering; map endpapers. Near fine in good plus dustjacket (separated along rear joint; some loss to spine..... More
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1915. First Edition. Complete in three volumes. 4to. 466, 480, viii, 505-935 pp. Illustrated with portraits and photographic plates (with tissue guards). Vol. I: Historical Information; Vol. II & III: Biographical Information, with Index. Three-quarter maroon leather with maroon moire cloth covered boards; gilt lettering..... More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1892. First Edition with Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 8vo. 78, [1] pp. Printed on rectos only. Full page and in-text iIlustrations by Howard Pyle. Tan suede with brown lettering & decoration, gilt lettering to spine, black endpapers; in..... More
Saint Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1916. 2nd. Original boards. Second Edition, Limited to 365 copies; reprint of the very rare 1846 original edition printed in Waterloo, Illinois. 8vo. 316pp, [i]p of publisher's advertisements. Black & white tissue-guarded illustrative plates; map. Frontispiece and facsimile of 1846 title page included. Quarter black..... More
Pasadena, CA: Published by the author, 1911. 1st. Original boards. First Edition. INSCRIBED by James 4to. 377 pp + 5 pp advertisements. Photo-illustrations on most pages. Tan cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear to extremities; white marks to front cover; minor bumping to corners; a very good copy. A souvenir..... More
[Sydney, Australia]: K.P.M., ca. 1919. 1st. First Edition. (7 1/4" x 9 3/4"). 62 pp. With numerous illustrations from photographs; many color maps, including folding map of the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia). Illustrated title page signed (in the print) J.H. Pateman and dated '19 (assuming this is 1919). Original..... More
New York: The Baker & Taylor Compan, 1911. First Edition. 8vo. 415 pp. Index. Photographic plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Gilt, black, tan and green pictorial binding; map endpapers. Light wear to extremities; top edge gilt; a near fine copy. Lee Meriwether boards a steamer in Brooklyn for Italy..... More
London: John Macrone, 1835. First Brydges Edition. Leather bound. First Brydges Edition. 12mo. Various paginations. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges. With Imaginative Illustrations by J. M. W. Turner. Bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco with gilt ruling & lettering; 5 raised bands to spine; All Edges Gilt. A lovely..... More
New York: Mabie Todd & Co., 2007. 3rd. Hardcover. Third Edition. 4to. ii; 245 pp. Bibliography; Index. 750 illustrations (some in color); maps. A fine copy in dustjacket; still in original shrinkwrap. The most complete history of a single pen company in print. This 3rd and final edition of this..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1901. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. xi, 186pp. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora with 24 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) in monotone and black & white in-text vignettes and head & tale-pieces. Original yellow-tan cloth with orange fox decoration to spine and front board; orange baby..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 380pp. Index. INSCRIBED "To ***/Best wishes and/regards/Sincerely/Leon." Laid in is a TLS with envelope thanking the owner for their support in his 1976 campaign for U.S. Congress. Also laid in is a Vote Democratic slate door hanger for the campaign. Photo-illustrated wrappers in very..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955-1957. 1st. Original cloth. First Editions. vii, 480; viii, 470; 769 pp. Bibliography; Index. Black & white photo-illustrated plates. Text in French. Yellow cloth in color illustrated dustjackets. Uniformly very good plus, with slight wear to extremities; short closed tears). The first three volumes in..... More
N.p. Publisher not known, 2007. 1st. Lucite. First Limited Edition. Oblong 4to (12" x 17"). 125 vellum pages, depicting illustrations of tools and methods for bonsai. Text in Chinese and English. Thick hinged opaque lucite covers with etched title in chinese and english on front board. Minor scratches else a...... More
San Francisco: Published by the author, 1877. First Edition. 12mo. 192 pp. 9 woodcut plates (including frontispiece; 1 fold-out plate, lacking the left fold; fold-out map of The Laguna [Pond] of Dolores. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Wear to extremities; small snag to spine; else a very good..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Oblong 8vo. [56] pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering in original color illustrated dustjacket. Minor wear along board edges else fine in near fine dustjacket (small crease and short closed tear..... More
St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1975-95. First Editions. Small octavos; various paginations in printed stapled wrappers. Generally Fine copies. 'The series is designed to offer bibliographic aids of different types to students of life and thought in the late medieval and early modern period. It aims to produce finding..... More
San Francisco: Humble Publications, 1974. 1st. Paperback. 8 issues. 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrations. Light color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition. An uncommon run of early North Beach coffee house poetry. The "Coffee Gallery" was arguable the heart of the early North Beach Bohemian art movement. Here was the stage..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., (1906). First Edition. 8vo. 35, [1] pp. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt decoration to front cover & gilt lettering to spine & front cover. Minor rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy. Booker T. Washington believed a religious..... More