New York: D. Appleton, 1899. First edition. International Education Series, edited by W.T. Harris, No. 45. Eleven full-page illustrations and two figures in text. Slight rubbing to binding extremities, front inner hinge cracking, but sound. A very good, remarkably bright copy. Publisher's dark green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and.....
New York:. First edition. Wear to head and tail of spine and extremities. Joints cracked but sound. Foxing throughout, most significantly to endpapers. Still a decent copy of an uncommon work by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, a scientific writer, leader in women’s educational reform, and the sister of Troy Female.....
New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1855. First edition. xi, [1, blank], 450, [6, ads]; vi, 437; [3], [1, blank], 478 pp. Bibliography and index. The ads in Vol. I are in BAL’s State B, no sequence determined. Light rubbing to corners, minor wear to spine extremities with a few.....
Provo, Utah: Tryst Press, 2001. One of 230 copies printed. Color engravings. Printed letterpress on handmade paper by Robert Buchert. A fine copy. Quarter purple silk over red paper-covered boards. Title in black on front cover. Octavo. [54] pp. This is a compilation of the poems of James Whitcomb Riley.....
Salem [Mass.]: Printed for the Author, 1853. With two illustrations printed on inside of wrappers. Uniform toning and some foxing to front cover. Lacking lower cover. Some toning to the first and last few leaves, and a bit of foxing, but otherwise clean throughout. Faint pencil signature on verso of.....
London: William Heeinemann, 1898. First U.K. edition. Though the author was British, this book was first published in America by Appleton in 1897. Edges lightly foxed, light shelfwear. Former owner's signature, dated March 15th 1908. A very good, bright copy. In a publisher's variant binding of dark blue cloth with.....
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Designed in England, Printed in Germany, [n.d., ca. 1895]. First printing? The present item was probably part of the Panorama Toy Booklets series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. The title-page indicates that it is “No. 25.” A set of twelve of the Panorama Toy.....
London: Dean & Son, [1855]. With 22 hand-colored engravings of children at play. First and last leaves pasted down to insides of wrappers, as issued. Some toning to wrappers. Small piece missing from rear wrapper, just slightly touching the text of the ad. Some toning and dust-soiling throughout, as well.....
London: Grant Richards, [1902[. First edition. With 24 color-printed engraved plates included in pagination. Toning to endpapers. Lacking rear free endpaper. A very good, clean, and bright copy of an uncommon work. Original color pictorial boards with cloth spine. A bit of light rubbing to extremities. Oblong quarto. 52 pp.....
London: Willoughby and Co., [1849]. First edition. Etched frontispiece, full-page etched title, and 2 etched plates (between pp. 50-51 and 88-89), all finely hand colored. With wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces throughout, some by Edward Townsend Hartshorn (1828 - 1900) and some signed “S. White.”. Some rubbing to gilt. Also lettered.....
London: Ernest Nister, [n.d., ca. 1905]. First edition. Some light rubbing to boards. Red cloth spine. Gray-and-white floral endpapers. Some cracking at gutters. Light toning to margins. Contemporary gift signature on front free endpaper (“To Philip From Dorothy Verdon”). A very good, bright, and clean copy of this scarce children’s.....
London: Grant Richards, 1902. First edition. The ad for the Dumpy Books for Children series in the present item notes nineteen titles so far, which date from 1897 to 1902. Twenty-one additional books were also published by Grant Richards and then, later, by Chatto & Windus and Sampson Low. The.....
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [n.d., 1874]. First edition. Spine reinforced with archival tape. A bit of creasing to wrappers and throughout and a bit of light toning, but overall a very good copy of a fragile item. Original stiff paper wrappers printed in color with title and illustration. 10.75 inches.....
Gainsborough: Printed by H. Mozley, 1809. Second edition. Both the first edition and the present edition are very scarce. OCLC lists only two copies of the first edition (one at the British Library and one at the Morgan Library) and two copies of the present edition (one at UCLA and.....
London: John Harris, [n.d.., ca. 1823]. The text on the printed wrappers identifies this item as the second edition, though there is no edition statement on the title-page. OCLC provides the publication date of 1823, though a date is not specified in this item itself. With a hand-colored, half-page woodcut.....
London: John Harris, 1824. Fourth edition (based on the date on the title-page), though there is no edition specified anywhere in the present item. OCLC lists previous editions with publication dates of 1819, 1820, and 1822. Note that the list of titles pasted down on the inside of the wrappers.....
Boston: Leonard C[rocker] Bowles, 1830. Apparent first edition. A companion volume (No. II) was published in the same year. Engraved frontispiece. Rear wrapper is printed with publisher’s ads. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small tears and creases. Slight foxing and intermittent minor soiling, short closed 1” tear.....
Paris: A la Librairi e d’Education d’ A. Eymery, 1818. First edition of a scarce book by Madame Dufrénoy, intended as an aid to mothers educating their children, especially young adolescents, at home. Twelve engraved plates. Labels with minor chipping, some offsetting to edges of endpapers. A very good, attractive.....
London: John W. Parker... 1848. First edition of the leading textbook of economics in the English-speaking world for the best part of fifty years. Complete with the initial blank in the second volume. A very good, crisp copy. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt-ecorated spines with burgundy morocco labels.....
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.....
