New YorkP: Potter, Ainsworth & Co., 1874. Later printing? The envelope has the copyright date of 1874, but the first edition of the teacher’s guide dates to 1871. OCLC records no copies of this set of cards. Each card printed in black with guides for drawing and penmanship. Ten cards.....
Portland, Oregon: Published by Fisher Music Co., Lithographed by Anderson & Duniway Co., [1905]. First edition of this sheet music as printed for the Lewis and Clark Exposition, second edition overall. The sheet music was originally printed in 1902, but is here printed to promote the Lewis and Clark Exposition.....
[Pasadena:]: Archetyp0e Press. 2008. One of fifty copies. Mounted photographic frontispiece by Alyssa Stefek. Illustrated in various colors, and printed in various type faces. A fine copy. Loose, in golden brown paper folder with leather ties. Sixteen sheets, 21” x 7,” folded to make eight pages, 5 ” x 7.".....
Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1975. One of 140 copies produced by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. “The four stories in the present edition were selected on the basis of most favorable reviews by literary critics, plus an inclination toward textual and geographical variety — Rome, New York, Paris, and England… "{.....
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1985. Printed for the seventy-fifth birthday of Gloria Stuart, no limitation given, but probably around fifty copies, given the limitations of other Laguna Verde Imprenta books. Vignette and printed green leaf ornament on title-page. A fine copy, with two autograph signed manuscript notes on.....
Basin, Montana: Mary M. Atwater, [1932-1936]. Series of printed correspondence lectures profusely illustrated throughout with dozens of pattern designs and diagrams. Contemporary pencil ownership signature of Marilyn Beach (b. 1922) to front pastedown. Very clean throughout aside from toning to first and last leaves. Very good condition. Black pebbled cloth.....
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1914-1930. First edition. With 190 portraits and other plates, several in color. Five folding genealogical tables in a pocket at the back of Volume I. Two charts in rear pocket of Volume IIIA. Spine of Volume I lightly faded. Bottom corners bumped in Volume I......
London: Printed for C. Henderson... 1765. First edition. Folding engraved plate "A Specimen of a Chart of Biography", woodcut initials. Front hinge a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. Contemporary calf, covers and spine ruled in gilt, burgundy morocco label. Octavo. . [4], iii, [1], 213, [1], [10] pp.....
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin Books, 1929, List No.2 from the firm, which opened in 1928, on Hope Street near 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The firm moved several times, ending up in a converted barn on La Cienega Blvd. With the grasshopper device, designed by Lloyd Wright for Jake.....
Pasadena: Grant Dahlstom, The Castle Press, [n.d., but circa 1966]. first edition. Black and white photographically reproduced frontisportrait of Jake Zeitlin. A fine copy. Self-wrapper printed in red and black. Paged untrimmed. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." iv, [12] pp. During the Summer of 1956 I was asked to participate.....
New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1984. Letterpress printed by Dikko Faust at the Center for Book Arts (NYC) on waxed Masa Couer paper in Orplid type. Illustrations printed in red, blue, gold, and silver from neoprene plates. A fine copy. One of 150 copies signed by Batalos, Faust, and Esther.....
New York: J.W. Schermerhorn & Co., 1867. First edition of this textbook on etiquette, character, and how to learn, study, and think. Endpapers with publisher’s ads. Some sunning. Stain to corner of one board. Light toning inside. Inscribed by pioneering educator Mary H. Clark (1813 – 1875): “To Miss Anne.....
[Santa Fe, New Mexico]: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1998. One of sixty-five copies designed and letterpress printed by Pamela Smith. Presentation copy, inscribed “For Sam / Pam The Printer.” Also signed by the translator. Illustrated with two maps, one full-page, a chart, and other drawings by artist.....
[Bremen, Maine, and New York City:]: Red Angel Press, 2013. Title-page vignette in green, three colored woodcut plates. Printed in Bembo type, set by hand and printed on dampened Fabriano Ingres paper. A fine copy. Full green cloth with title in black on spine, and title-page vignette repeated on front.....
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1902. Later edition of this book on the flora and fauna of the ocean for children. First published by in1884. Frontispiece, illustrated title, and 166 text illustrations. Prize bookplate of the Walthamstow Education Committee awarding the book to a Charles Woodbridge at the Forest Road.....
London: Griffith and Farran, 1857. First edition. Publisher’s ticket and contemporary pencil ownership signature (Mary Luttrell) to front pastedown. One plate loose, laid in at original position. A very good, bright copy of an uncommon didactic novels for young women. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Binding is very clean.....
[Seattle:]: [Claudia Cohen, 2010]. One of thirty copies, numbered in pencil on the colophon. Illustrated with pochoir, calligraphy, and rubberstamped words. A fine copy in a marbled board clamshell case with a yellow paper spine label. French folded, wafer-thin vintage laid paper sewn long-stitch onto a vellum structure with three.....
Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis, 1908. First edition. Tipped-in black and white frontispiece and title-page by Guthrie; twenty-eight black and white additional illustrations tipped in. Slight soiling to boards, but a fine copy overall. Original gray boards with a printed Guthrie-designed paper label on front cover. Small quarto. [6], [56].....
[Los Angeles: Printed by Bruce McAllister for the Zamorano Club, 1929. This is the first book published by the Zamorano Club. It was authorized at a club meeting in April 1929 and is dedicated to the Arthur M. Ellis, the president of the club. No limitation given, but certainly printed.....
New York: Appleton, 1883. First American edition of this introduction to biology for children. First published in London by Edward Stanford in 1882. With a frontispiece and eighty-seven figures, most of which are half-page illustrations or larger. Minor marginal toning. A very good, very clean copy, with the cloth bright.....
London: Edward Stanford, 1884. First edition, later printing of this introduction to biology for children that is “grounded in evolutionary theory” and employs a whimsical and “highly imaginative” writing style to engage its young audience (Oxford DNB). First published in 1880. It went through several other editions. With a frontispiece.....
Sacramento: 1896. Twenty-three skillful samples of gift number fourteen in over a dozen colors of paper, including metallic gold, silver, and bronze. Light general wear and some light soiling to samples. A very good, remarkably precise and advanced example of a unique Froebel gift album. Accordion bound in original brown.....
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New York: 1924-1926.]. The Woman Citizen was one of the most influential women’s publications of the early twentieth century. Carrie Chapman Catt founded the periodical in 1917 by merging the suffrage publications The Woman’s Journal (founded in 1870), The National Suffrage News, and Woman Voter. The initial funding for the.....
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1905-1911. Volumes three through six are first editions, the rest are early reprints. First six volumes are in the original printed dustjackets (four complete, one with jacket rear panel missing, one with parts of spine missing). A very good, very clean set.....
London: Dean & Munday, [ca. 1820s]. First edition? There is also a twenty-four-page Derby edition from T. Richardson. We have been unable to establish priority. Both editions are scarce: OCLC records only three copies of this edition (UCLA, the Huntington, Princeton) and three of the T. Richardson (University of Alberta.....
