London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. First edition. Many woodcut illustrations in the chapbook style throughout. With an extensive bibliography. Some rubbing to head of spine and some general shelfware. Dark green coated endpapers. Foxing and toning to edges. A very good copy. Original pictorial green cloth decoratively stamped in black.....
London: Leadenhall Press, 1891. First edition. With 32 facsimiles of nautical song broadsides mounted on brown paper stubs. With a total of 200 half-page illustrations, initials, headpieces, and tailpieces (some by Joseph Crawhall). Some yellowing to vellum, as usual. Some wear to seam where vellum meets paper on front board.....
Pasadena: The Rounce and Coffin Club, 1982. One of 125 copies printed for members of the Rounce and Coffin Club to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Club. Another issue, limited to 200 copies, was bound in wrappers. With a tipped-in leaf from the 1824 printer’s manual opposite the first.....
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Waterbury, Connecticut: Waterbury Mfg. Co., 1941. This is a workbook of a student training to be a machinist. The lessons focus on fractions, physics, and geometry, as well as the practical use of specific machines. Lower cover detached. Soiling to boards. Some soiling and toning to leaves and some creasing.....
York: Published by Wilson, Spence and Mawman, [n.d., 1795?]. Later edition, probably pirated, of a book originally published in 1756. There were many reprints of this work, but all are rare. The present edition is cited in five locations, three in the U.K., and two in California (the Huntington Library.....
Paris: A la Librairie d’Education d’Alexis Eymery..Et chez lAuteur... 1817. First edition of a rare book outlining a course of education for young girls. We were unable to locate another copy of this book in OCLC, RLIN, COPAC, KVK or even the Biblliothèque Nationale. This is an abridgement of the.....
[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Laboratory Press, September 14, 1930. One of fifty copies printed for the occasion of Porter Garnett’s wife’s birthday. The names of those who were to receive this book are printed on a terminal page, with the recipient for this particular book printed in red. This was Ruth Arens’.....
New York: John Wiley, 1848. First published by Wiley in 1844. A collection of quotes from British and American poets organized into fourteen sections with questions as headings, including “What is your character? (Gentleman),” “What is the character of your lady-love?” and “What is your destiny?” Each section contains sixty.....
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[ Honolulu: ]: 1938 ]. This manuscript version of “The Tar-Baby and the Rabbit” was written and illustrated as a gift to “Nancy,” probably the granddaughter of the manuscript’s creator. “When your Mother was a little girl I used to tell her some Uncle Remus stories,” the inscription reads. “I.....
[Philadelphia:]: Privately Printed for The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1890. First edition. Engraved frontisportrait, title in red and black, with gilt colored vignette. Corners, spine ends lightly worn. A very good copy, tight and clean. Original brown cloth with gilt spine, top edge gilt. Quarto. [298] pp.
[n.p., France: ]: 1937-1938. This unique sample album was seemingly created by a student in a sewing or home economics class. Dates on the sample labels indicate that the class ran between November of 1937 and January of 1938. With twenty-four fabric samples of sewing, embroidery, and weaving. Each sample.....
Austin: Published in co-operation with the University Art Museum of the University of Texas, [1965]. First edition. Color frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Minor rubbing to extremities of d.j. Cloth. Quarto. xiii, [1], 476 pp.
[Munich:]: Privately Printed [at the Bremer Presse], [1930]. One of 155 copies. Signed by the compiler. With 103 reproductions of etchings and drawings by John Leech. Decorative titles and initials by Anna Simons. Printed on Zanders hand-made paper. Small, light stain to spine. Otherwise fine in publisher’s matching board slipcase.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. First regular edition, one of 1,000 copies. A deluxe edition of fifty copies was also published: it was finely bound and with an original leaf from the true first edition of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.'. With color illustrations of each item, including several tipped.....
London: Abelard-Schuman, [1961]. First edition. Light shelfwear. Near fine in fine d.j. Boards. Octavo.
[Plaistow, England:]: Duckworth, 1928. Spine a bit faded. Otherwise fine. Original decorative cloth with paper label on front cover. Octavo. [2], x, 24 pp. Index. Three lithographic portraits. Special edition, limited to seventy numbered copies with a duplicate suite of plates housed in a folded-over back cover. Each of the.....
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First edition. Some dampstaining to boards. Toning to endpapers. Very clean inside. A very good copy. Original cream-colored paper boards, neatly rebacked, with modern paper spine label. Octavo. 58 pp. After a perusal of my list I think every gentleman will agree with me that Ladies.....
[Andoversford, Gloucester: Whittington Press, 1990]. One of fifty-five copies of this special edition, out of a total edition of 530 copies. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper in a variety of faces and colors. Displays over twenty types. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, Hellmuth Weissenborn and others.....
. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. One of 175 copies. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol’s wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill’s Perpetua. A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Quarter black Oasis goatskin.....
