Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1844. First edition, fourth printing. Originally published by Munroe and Francis in 1838. All printings are uncommon. OCLC records eleven copies of this printing, fifteen of the 1839, and no more than a few copies of any other printing. With seventy engraved vignettes illustrating educational rhymes.....
[ Green Bay, Wisconsin: ca. 1930s]. With over three dozen pages with fabric swatches, sketches, and small artworks (including two paper weaving samples and a watercolor), plus clippings from periodicals laid-in or laid down. Light creasing and wear to pages, light occasional offsetting from fabric samples. A very good, very.....
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[n.p. 1888]. Dated October 1888 on front cover. With eight full-page paper-weaving samples, each in two colors of paper (green, brown, pink, blue, black, white, etc.). Slight dampstaining to edges of wrappers. Contemporary ink ownership signature of a Mary Webb and date to front cover. Internally quite clean and attractive.....
[London:]: G. Clarke & Co., [ ca. 1867]. First edition. Sheet printed with twenty large woodcuts meant to be cut out of the sheet and assembled into two paper puppets (a character named Lord Dundreary and his dog). The puppets, if cut out and assembled, would be about fourteen inches.....
London: Printed by Edw. Midwinter, for John Taylor... 1707. First edition of “a mathematical bestseller in Georgian England and Ireland… [It] was attractive not only to school boys trying to learn mathematics for the first time, but also… to adult readers eager to have an easy, portable mathematical compendium in.....
Guben, [Germany]: F. Fechner, [n.d., ca. 1840]. First edition of this uncommon German imprint in English. With twelve charming hand-colored lithograph plates showing various kinds of boys (“The Young Sailor,” “The Little Scholar,” etc.). Contemporary cream ripple-grained cloth over card wrappers. Cloth elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Contemporary cream.....
upland, California: Blackbird Press, 2007. One of 100 copies, signed in ink by the poet, artist, and Blackbird Press printer Jean Gillingwators on the colophon. This is copy number forty-six. The poem Beauty first appeared in Fairchild’s third book of poetry, The Art of the Lathe, which received numerous awards.....
Paris: widow of Thielman Kerver [Yolande Bonhomme], 19 June, 1525. The text starts with B5, which is December of the calendar. B5-8, C-R8, R8 being a blank. Printed on paper in black and red, in gothic letter. Text within elaborate metalcut architectural historiated borders. With forty-five large metalcut illustrations, with.....
New Yorik: Wm. C. [B]ryant & Co., 1863. First edition. “It has lately become the fashion to say that, with regard to their interest in the present most unhappy war, the women of the North have not equaled those of the South in patriotic interest, labors, and sacrifices,” (p. 1).....
[South Norwalk, CT: Winter 1994-1995]. One of ten copies, signed, printed by Frasconi on Hosho and Arches paper, brown Hosho endpapers. Earth tones represent the native Americans, contrasting with night-time colors of deep purple, black and silver. Frasconi's books are overprinted, adding layer upon layer of color, giving the prints.....
Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1795. First Dublin edition, first published in London earlier in the same year. All editions of this book are uncommon. OCLC records nine copies of the present edition (only five in the United States). This is the author’s only novel. Separate title-pages for each volume.....
First edition of the collected works of Clement I together with the first Latin edition of the works of Saint Justin Martyr. Large wood engraved device illustrating a printing press with three workmen on title page; engraved initial letters hand-colored in red, yellow, and blue; rubricated in red and blue.....
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1861. First edition of Elizabeth Anne Maling’s (1829 – 1866) first work on houseplants. It was a staple of the Victorian “cactus craze,” during which cacti and other succulents gained popularity as houseplants and began to appear in British art and poetry. With an attractive.....
Harrisburg, [Pennsylvania]: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. First edition, first state (with the frontisportrait). Frontisportrait. Minor edgewear. Pencil ownership signature, dated 1889, to front flyleaf. Light marginal toning. A very good, very clean copy of this antislavery novel by an important Black publisher and politician in Philadelphia. Publisher’s brown cloth titled.....
Newport R.I. Printed at the Office of the Newport Mercury, 1807. First edition. Some chipping and rubbing to sheep. Joints somewhat fragile. Largely a clean copy aside from some light occasional foxing. Two ink ownership signatures, one dated 1829 and one dated 1875, to front flyleaf. A very good, clean.....
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Los Angeles, Cal. 1912. Created shortly after Clara Barton’s death for distribution at that year’s Woman’s Relief Corps Convention in Los Angeles. Printed on one side with vignette of Clara Barton and facsimile signature. Minor fraying along bottom edge, some faint toning. A near-fine piece of rare ephemera. Cream-colored ribbon.....
[Boston: American Woman Suffrage Association, n.d., 1885]. First edition. Printed at the offices of the Woman’s Journal for the American Woman Suffrage Association. A couple chips to edges and some faint toning. A very good copy of a fragile, uncommon item. Single sheet, folded. 9 x 10 in. First delivered.....
[Pasadena: The Weather Bird Press, 1993. One of about a hundred copies, twenty of which are deluxe. Signed on the colophon by Gerry. The colophon states that a hundred copies were printed, while entry #77 in the present catalogue (which is for the catalogue itself) states that it was printed.....
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1832/. First edition in English. We could not locate any previously published books by Peabody in the sources available to us; this appears to be her first published book. Spine fsded, some soiling to cloth. Edges untrimmed. Contemporary bookplate of the Library of the.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. First UK edition. First published by Charlton Co. in New York earlier the same year. Binding is attractive despite some minor edgewear. Ink signature dated 1911 to front flyleaf. Bookplate of the Co-Operative College J.J. Worley Memorial Library, dated 1946, to front pastedown. Light occasional.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2013. One of 308 copies. Signed by the artist. This is a companion volume to Wagener’s California in Relief, which was published by the Book Club of California in 2009 and went out of print immediately. With a [4] pp. introduction by Peter Rutledge.....
`Oxford: Alembic Press, 1990. One of 100 copies. With a pressed piece of flowering papyrus head, a pressed strip of papyrus stem, a sample of homemade papyrus by Claire Bolton, and a sample of papyrus paper by Maureen Richardson of Plant Papers. Letterpress printed in Bell type on Five Seasons.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1905/. First edition. In the preface, Dall writes that the present work was the only published record of Fuller’s “conversations” at the time. Smudge to back cover and light rubbing to extremities. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers. A very good, clean, and tight copy. Publisher’s olive-green.....
Paris: Sold by F. Louis... 1818. First edition under this title. The letters collected here first appeared as part of Mary Wortley Montagu’s (1689 – 1762) Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), which also compiled many other letters written by Montagu from 1716 to 1718. The present work collects the letters that would.....
London: Susan Allix, 2021. One of fourteen copies. Signed and numbered by Allix on the colophon. With eight prints, five of which are in Allix’s signature carborundum style. Prints done with etching, linocut, and archival inkjet. Handset and letterpress printed in Gill and Gill Shadow. Papers are Zerkall, white and.....
