Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. 392 pp. No jacket. Ex-library with sticker on front cover, marking on spine, bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, embossment on title page, and card pocket pasted inside rear cover. Tight and clean. This is..... More
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1864. Half leather. 8vo. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Gilt tooled hubbed spines. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece portrait in each volume. Vol. I: 527 pp. Vol. II: 547 pp. Scuffing to edges. First few leaves of Vol. I are loose and laid in. Ex-library with card pockets..... More
Lafayette, IN: James, Emmons, & Co., 1868. Cloth. Large 8vo. Brown contemporary cloth. Gilt design on front cover. Full-page and text illustrations. 584 pp. Cloth covering spine is loose. Boards are splitting and loosely attached. Minor foxing throughout. Interior is very good, and boards are in comparable condition to most other..... More
1947: Trail's End Publishing Co., 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Quarter morocco over red cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Frontispiece portrait from a painting by Charles Russell, 4 additional full-page portraits. 180 pp. Clear tape over spine. Ex-library, with sticker on spine, sticker on cover, bookplate inside front cover..... More
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Company, 1922. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Maroon cloth. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover. Frontispiece photographic illustration of paining from the National Portrait Gallery, folding map in color, and 4 additional portraits. 152 pp. Ex-library, with sticker on spine, sticker on cover, bookplate inside front cover..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1973. First Edition, 4th Printing. Cloth. Large 8vo. Grey cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Many photographic and illustrated plates throughout. 452 pp. Minor edge wear and scuffing to jacket. This is a first edition of the definitive guide to the history of stage magic. Christopher's thoroughly researched..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Large 8vo. Grey cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. Many photographic and illustrated plates throughout. 452 pp. Small chips along top jacket edge and a 1" closed tear on rear cover. Some sunning to top edge and a dark scuff on..... More
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, 1857. First Edition. Cloth. Large 4to. Brown cloth with embossed decorations. Many steel engravings, woodcuts, and color lithographs throughout, as well as fold-out maps and charts bound in. Part I: [xvi], 258 pp. Part II: [xiii], 174 pp. Cloth covering spine is removed, but binding is not affected..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Folio. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt decoration on cover. Many photographic and illustrated plates throughout. 264 pp. No jacket. Ex-library, with sticker on spine and cover, stamp on top and bottom block edge, bookplate inside front cover, card pocket pasted..... More
Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. Cloth. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth. 400 pp. Binding has been repaired by previous owner. Chipping to cloth around edges. Ex-library, with stamp on bottom block edge, sticker on front cover, sticker inside front cover, and embossment on title page. Minor foxing throughout. This is an 1854 book of..... More
New York: Putnam, 1908. First Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Gilt top edge. Many photographic and illustrated plates throughout. xiii, 319 pp, plus 8 pp. of ads. Ex-library with sticker on front cover, ref. mark on spine, and card pockets pasted inside..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. Cloth. 4to. Grey decorated cloth. Many illustrated plates, both in color and black and white. 152 pp. Ex-library, with a sticker on spine, sticker inside front cover, card pasted on front free endpaper, and sticker on Contents page. Minor edge wear and some scuffing. Tight and clean, with..... More
[Springfield, IL]: H.W. Rokker, 1887. Cloth. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Portrait illustrations. 726 pp. Ex-library, with sticker on spine, library bookplate inside front cover, card pocket pasted onto first free endpaper, and embossed stamp on title page and p.726. Front hinge splitting at top, threatening..... More
Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Red cloth. Deckle edge. 351 pp. Top of spine covering removed. Edges scuffed and corners bumped. Ex-library from the John Crerar research library at the University of Chicago. Crerar bookplate pasted inside front cover and several withdrawal stamps in front..... More
Chicago: Fergus, 1889. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated plates and maps throughout. 551 pp. Front hinge splitting and threatening to detach. Rear cover detached. Cloth covering of spine loose on left edge but attached on right. Attractive bookplate of previous owner (Chalkley Jay Hambleton..... More
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Chicago: Fergus, 1889/1892. First Edition. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated plates and maps throughout. 1316 pp. across 2 volumes. Vol. I: Scuffing to edges. Corners bumped. Ex-library, with sticker on front cover, catalog number written on spine, and card pockets pasted inside front cover and front free..... More
New York: M.W. Dodd, 1848. First Edition. Leather bound. 8vo. Contemporary full calf with blind-tooled decoration. 534 pp. Scuffing to leather. Corners bumped. Some splitting to leather at hinge, though binding is unaffected. Foxing throughout. This is a first edition of Hopkinsian theologian Weeks' influential treatise on the importance of revivals..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Flexible padded ooze calf with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Rounded gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated plates. 348 pp. Leather edges scuffed. Corners bumped. Several small closed tears to leather around edges. Covering chipped at header and footer of spine. Previous owner's..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1885. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Flexible padded ooze calf with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Rounded gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated plates. 772 pp. Leather edges mildly scuffed. 1" closed tear to covering at header of spine. Previous owner's gift inscription on 2nd free..... More
New York: Heritage Press, 1946. Cloth. Large 8vo. Illustrated cloth. Full color illustrated plates throughout. 550 pp. Minor wear to edges. Previous owner's information inside front cover. Minor soiling to endpapers. No Sandglass bulletin present. Tight and clean. This is a Heritage Press limited edition of Chaucer's classic work. The illustrated cloth..... More
New York: N.D. Thompson / E.B. Treat, 1889. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cloth. Large 8vo. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and decorations to spine and cover. Many illustrated plates. 454 pp. Scuffing to edges. Corners bumped. Hinges overopened with tearing to paper. Title page loose and laid in. Some foxing..... More
Raleigh, NC: State Department of Archives and History, 1958. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Black and white photos and illustrations with captions throughout, with a fold-out map. Unpaginated with bibliography. Minor sunning to front cover. Some chipping to paper covering of spine and edge wear. Pen notes inside front cover blacked..... More
New York: American News Company, [1920s]. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt to spine and embossed decorations on spine and front cover. 417 pp. Minor edge wear. Lean to spine. Hinges overopened. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Contemporary sticker from "Fred Seckel's Newstand" (which apparently offered, among..... More
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New York: Macmillan, 1920. "New edition" Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very minor shelf wear to bottom edges and corners. Each volume bears the signature and attractive bookplate of Frederick R. Whitman, a history teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1917-1945. This is..... More
New York: Monocle Periodicals, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. 80 pp. This is a collection of 3 issues of American political satire magazine Monocle, which ran from 1956-1965. These issues fall under the editorial tenure of Marvin Kitman, the Pulitzer-nominated critic and humorist. All issues are in very..... More