Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 19 April, 1494. Fourth incunable and first Koberger edition. Also first quarto edition, notable for being small and easier for scholars to take with them. The Repertorium in postillam is not an edition of the Postilla but rather a subject index to it, organized in dictionary (A.....
Provo, Utah: Tryst Press, 2006. One of fifty copies. Printed in Cochin and Garamond types on handmade paper. The pigments used in painting the decorations are for the most part made from precious and semi-precious stones. A fine copy. Quarter burgundy calf over decorative beige silk boards, design of olive.....
Antwerp: Ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1796. First published in 1614. Title-page in black and red, with engraved vignette. Full-page engraving of Christ's Crucifixion. Engraved initial letters and tail pieces. Text in black with headlines, capitals, and section headings in red. Includes liturgical chants for "Officium sepulturae" and "Benedictio aquae," with music.....
London: Macmillan, 1892. First edition of a scarce book. This title eluded Sadleir, and OCLC lists six copies in American libraries. Spines cocked, endpapers foxed, back hinge of Volume III cracked. A very good copy. Publisher's green diaper cloth. Spine and covers stamped in gilt. Three volumes, twelvemo. viii, 267;.....
London: Macmillan, 1888. First edition of an uncommon title. OCLC lists twelve copies in North America. Spines cocked, binding extremities lightly rubbed, but still a fine, bright copy. Publisher's taupe cloth with spine and covers stamped in gilt. Three volumes, twelvemo. 4], 313, [1], [2, ads]; [4], 316; [4], 306.....
La Haye: Paris: veuve Duchesne & De Hansy, 1774. First edition, published in an edition of 750 copies. This work was written in collaboration with J.-H. Marchand and is an imitation of Memoires d'un homme de qualité by Abbé Prevost, a sentimental novel that recalls Manon Lescaut. 2], ii, 48.....
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Seattle: The Book Club of Washington, 2015. One of 75 deluxe copies in cloth with hand-stenciled, hand-colored illustrations by Jennifer Kennard, signed and numbered by Kennard on the colophon. 25 deluxe copies in sheets were also produced for binding by independent bookmakers, plus 250 regular copies in paper wrappers. With.....
[Portland, Oregon: For the author, 1916 ]. Revised edition. One of 1,000 copies printed for Sanger by an Oregon union organizer, possibly with funds provided by Marie Equi (Helquist, p. 274). The Portland edition is unique because it was revised by Equi and includes a statement by her specifying that.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 20`4. Deluxe edition, lirnited to fifty copies in this binding, with two additional essays, and with an original leaf from the hrst edition of Alirc't Aduenturet in lY/onderland. Color facsimile frontispiece of a watercolor and ink drawing by Walter Crane illustrating nine nursery rhymes tipped-in; 110 additional.....
New York: A.C. Armstrong and Sons, 1889. Later edition. The first edition was published in a two-volume set in Edinburgh in 1881. The title-page of the present item states that it is the second edition, though it seems that several earlier single-volume editions, published in both New York and Edinburgh.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. With a frontispiece and 12 plates, one of which is a foldout color map of the Euphrates region, plus a fold-out chart of Arabian thoroughbred horse pedigrees. Some rubbing to extremities, mostly.....
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Cincinnati: Curts & Jennings, 1897. First edition. With frontispiece and 16 plates from photographs taken during Nind’s missionary travels. Also with a small map headpiece at the beginning of each chapter showing the geographical setting of that chapter. Some soiling to cloth, and a small black stain (probably ink) on.....
Stockton, California: Five Mile Creek Studio, 1996. First edition. One of 60 copies. A fine copy of a lovely, charming book in the original stiff paper folder and with a miniature printed prospectus card. Concertina book format, readable from both front and back, in handmade paper over boards. 5 in.....
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.....
[ Cleveland: The Welfare Federation Community Fund, 1929 ]. First edition. With 8 reproductions of photographs and drawings, mostly of women helping children. A bit of toning to margins inside, but overall a clean, near-fine copy of a rare item. Original printed paper wrappers with an illustration of a mother.....
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[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1914]. First edition. This article was published in 1914 but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. It is also often misattributed to Edward C. Pickering, though the text of the present work explains that it was.....
[New York:]: Harper & Row, [1974]. First edition. A set of five of these cards were reprinted in 2015 by Fotofolio, but the complete set has never been reprinted. 45 postcards and one title card, all 7 in. by 5 in. Title card and 23 postcards printed in color and.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. First edition of the Julia Smith translationl. Strip of dampstaining, about 1 inches wide, along fore-edge of lower board. Red speckled edges. A very good, bright, and fresh copy of the first full translation of the Bible ever published by a woman. Dark brown cloth.....
[Indianapolis? Christian Woman’s Board of Missions, [n.d., ca. 1900-1910]. Third edition. At least six editions were published in total. All editions were undated, with a date range of 1900-1920 on OCLC listings. Note that all copies would have had to predate 1919, as that was the year the Christian Woman’s.....
Montpelier" Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press, 1887. First edition. In Divorce: An American Tradition, Glenda Riley notes that Corresponding Secretary of the NDRL, Samuel Warren Dike (1839 – 1913), wrote the annual reports (pp. 109-110). Some toning along spine and chipping at extremities. A very good, clean copy of.....
New York: Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, [n.d., ca. 1941]. Broadside printed with four diagrams of the female reproductive organs in black with red accents. Creasing where the broadside has been folded for storage. The paper on which the broadside is printed was cut imprecisely, leaving the top and bottom edges.....
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1928. First edition. Binding is very bright and clean. A bit of predation to tail edge and ten or so leaves. A very good, clean copy in the original dust jacket (very good, with just some chipping to edges and light toning) designed by.....
London: Emily Faithfull, Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1863. First edition of this collection of poetry and short fiction that includes the first appearance of pieces by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Harriet Martineau, Anthony Trollope, Mary Cowden Clark, George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Isa Craig, and other contemporary writers.....
[ Poughkeepsie:]: Hansman and Pralow, Printers, 1908. First edition. With 16 illustrations, including one full-page, from photographs of landmarks on the journey. Some toning to edges of wrappers and to margins, but overall a clean, tight, near-fine copy. Original bluish gray paper wrappers with decorative borders and title in green.....
Hartford: Published by L. Stebbins, 1869. First edition. With frontispiece and 20 plates. Fading to spine and some rubbing to extremities. Edges sprinkled brown. Some light toning to plates and some offsetting to their versos from text, but overall a very good, clean, and tight copy. Publisher’s purple cloth stamped.....
