A Paris: Chez Didot, 1737. Spine a bit scuffed, just a hint of foxing. Tipped in bookseller's description. A very good copy. Late nineteenth-century quarter morocco over decorative boards, gilt spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Twelvemo. 4], xxiii, [1, blank], 270, [4, privilege du Roy], [1, errata] pp. First.....
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, [1963]. One of 150 copies. Spine a bit faded, small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Near fine. Publisher's sea green cloth with spine stamped in gilt and front cover in blind. Quarto. ix, [1], [104] pp. Altschul, the founder of the press, notes in his foreword.....
Third editions of both works, the first "augmented with many hundreds of words, observations, letters, &c." Third edition, first issue of the second work, with the title printed in black (the second issue title page was printed in black and red). Ray states in the preface to A Collection of.....
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: 1740. First edition. Issued in this form of separate parts by Peck himself. Apart from his valuable biographical researches, Peck included various pieces which he mistakenly at tributed to Milton on the basis of style alone. Despite this the two works together marked an advance in Milton studies in England.....
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.....
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.....
