Chicago: Institute of Applied Science, [1920s]. 19th edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 21 staple-bound pamphlets without wraps (as issued). Minor wear to outer pages, with some small chips, closed tears, and fingerprint smudges. A few notations in pencil in margins. Pamphlets are complete, clean, and bound together with string. This is a complete correspondence..... More

Norwich: Published by the author, 1810. First Edition. Leather bound. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Large folding woodcut frontispiece with bits of hand-coloring plus second folding plate, also with hand-coloring. 184 pp. Edges scuffed. Front board detached, along with front free endpaper and frontispiece. Signatures of previous owners (dating to 1812) on front..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Numerous maps throughout. 303 pp. Minor shelf wear. Small rectangular section cut from bottom of title page and last page, not affecting text. Tight and clean, unmarked. This is a scholarly history of New England..... More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 1889/1892. 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

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: 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