London: Griffith & Farran, [1858]. First edition of one of the scarcest of Stanesby’s works. Every page richly chromolithographed from Stanesby’s designs by Ashbee & Dangerfield. With decorative borders, initials, etc. Interleaved with protective blanks. Slight rubbing to extremities, though binding is still very attractive. Binding somewhat loose, as usual.....
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Los Angeles: ca. 1920s. Slight wear to edges. A clean, bright, near-fine set of these rare postcards issued by a charitable organization that aimed to keep young women out of prison. Glossy card stock. 5 in. x 3 in. The Los Angeles Business Girls’ Club was founded in 1921 by.....
Fairfax, California: Jungle Garden Press, 1990. First edition. One of twenty sets printed and packaged by Marie C. Dern. A second edition of fifty-five sets appeared in 1991. One card for each letter of the alphabet, plus title card and colophon. Each card printed on a Chandler & Price letterpress.....
Detroit: Pontiac Motor Division, General Motors, 1954. These posters were issued in conjunction with an advertising campaign for a new line of Pontiac models. Pontiac often depicted Native people in their advertisements, in line with the adoption of the name of Odawa war chief Pontiac, or Obwandiyag (ca. 1720 – 176. Beautifully.....
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico Dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1962. Facsimile of the first work on medicinal baths in the Pozzuoli region of Italy. Two volumes, consisting of a manuscript facsimile with seventeen full-page illustrations in gold and colors, blue and red initial letters, and text in Latin, and a text.....
[ Claremont, California ]: Scripps College Press, 2013. Out of an edition of 105 copies, this is number 44. The verso of one leaf contains Kitty Maryatt's and the students' ink signatures. Printed letterpress. The drawings were done by hand with a thin .038 Umbral Signo pen. The color was.....
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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.....
London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1852/. First edition in English. Published in German in 1844. With eight tinted plates (including frontispiece and decorative title). Uniform toning to a few gatherings due to paper quality (a different paper stock from the rest of the book was used in those gatherings). A......
London: Printed for J. Dodsley... 1769. First edition. Some rubbing to spine and extremities, as usual. Red speckled edges. Marbled endpapers. Ink signature of a James Ford (1849) to preliminary blank, along with a quote by William Cowper copied out in ink. Aside from some toning to first few leaves.....
Vancouver, BC:]: Heavenly Monkey, 2006/. One of twenty-nine regular copies. Five deluxe copies and three contributor copies were also produced. Signed on the colophon by Hodgson. With ten postage stamps and corresponding rubber stamps all designed by Barbara Hodgson. Type was hand-set in Gill Sans and Bembo by Hodgson and.....
[Vancouver, BC:]: HM, 2009. Printer’s copy. Total edition of twenty numbered copies and ten lettered hors commerce copies. Printed on double-fold leaves of black and gray paper. With nearly a hundred mounted postage stamps and nine mounted leather skivers hand-tooled in gilt and silver. The title page and colophon set.....
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New York: National Child Welfare Association, 1923. First edition of these posters “showing the children of ten nations at work or play, dressed in native costumes and surrounded by characteristic scenery…and our own happy American boys and girls welcoming them all,” (Journal of the American Association of University Women, 1924.....
London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the employment of Women)... 1861. First edition of the first book printed at the Victoria Press, which was founded by Emily Faithfull (1835 - 1895) in 1860. Faithfull’s preface details her motivations in establishing the Victoria Press, the.....
Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1739. This is an interesting collection of 100 original fables by Giovanni Grisostomo Trombelli (1697-1784), a professor and theologian from the University of Bologna. Trombelli was a patristic scholar who also wrote a much-reprinted treatise on the dating of manuscripts. Engraved title-page vignette and five etchings.....
London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. First edition. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Corners worn, nineteenth-century library armorial bookplates. A good, clean copy. Contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf, gilt burgundy morocco spine label. [2], vi, [8], 534, [+2, errata] pp. "...throughout the years between 1728.....
London: Printed for John Clark and Richard Hett, 1725. First edition, presentation copy. Engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initial letters. Slight offsetting and intermittent browning. Light creasing to a few leaves in in gathering H. The occasional minor stain. Inscribed by the author on the recto of front flyleaf: "To My.....
London: John Russell Smith, 1859. One of 250 copies. An excellent facsimile of Schreiber I, the first edition of the most popular and best known of block book texts, published in the Netherlands around 1466-70. There are nine known complete or partially complete copies of this edition. Spine, corners, board.....
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[n.p. ca. 1895]. These insulting valentines, commonly referred to as vinegar valentines or penny dreadfuls (sharing the nickname with Victorian-era dime novels), first appeared in the 1840s and maintained a prominent place in pop culture well into the twentieth century. They were produced from the cheapest paper and were designed.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First edition. Light edgewear. Contemporary ink ownership signature (Harriet N. Dorrance) to front flyleaf. A fresh, bright, near-fine copy, scarce in the original dust jacket (very good). Publisher’s red cloth titled in gilt. Octavo. xi, 219 pp. The present work collects advice and opinions by prominent.....
Bristol: John Wright, 1906. Second edition, revised. OCLC records no copies of any other edition and only seven copies of this edition: two in the United States (Columbia, UChicago), four in the UK, and one in France. With three text figures. Interesting advertisements for menstrual products, health and childcare manuals.....
[London:]: Nonesuch Press, 1927. One of 1,550 copies. “Most of the eighty-two drawings in this book have never been exhibited and were previously unknown even to Blake’s most studious admirers” (Nonesuch Century). With eighty-two collotype plates reproducing Blake’s drawings. Plates and text printed on Arches paper at the Chiswick Press.....
London: G. Hill, 1889. First edition. With two illustrations of the female reproductive system and a full-page illustration of a pessary. A very good, clean, and fresh copy of an uncommon health manual for women. Original purple cloth with gilt title. Sunning to spine and edges. Yellow endpapers. Octavo. 139.....
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London: T.C. & E. Jack, [1912]. First edition. Date from publisher’s stamp (1/12). With a list of other important suffrage texts, including works by John Stuart Mill, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 90). A very good or better copy of a suffrage memoir by the leader of the.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First edition under this title of the Lewis, which was first published posthumously as Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica in 1834. First edition in English of the Pfeiffer title, which was originally published.....
[n.p.:]: 1955-57. 137 sheets of hand-drawn sketches (sixty-two on 9” x 11 ” sheets, 75 on 5 ” x 8 ” sheets). Most with handwritten design descriptions, notes, and accompanying fabric swatches pinned or taped onto the sheets. Also with price lists, inventories, and printed ads for the Candy Jr......
