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
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
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: Stokes, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration and color pastedown. Color frontispiece and 8 photographic plates. 317 pp. Minor edge wear and bumping to corners. Lean to spine. Foxing to endpapers and occasional light foxing throughout. Hinges overopened with some tearing to paper..... More
New York: Adventure, 1929. First Edition. Wraps. This is a set of 4 Adventure Magazines, an American pulp magazine which ran from 1910-1973. Adventure was published twice a month, on the 1st and 15th. The issues contained in this lot are all from 1929, during the tenure of famed editor..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown, 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Grey cloth. Dust jacket. Two-color illustrations. 119 pp. Jacket in fair condition, with several large tears and a 2" triangular loss top left corner of rear jacket cover. Contemporary Marshall Field sticker inside rear jacket flap. Book is very..... More
Westvaco, 1972. Cloth. 8vo. Red cloth with blind stamped decoration on cover. In slipcase. Ornamental designs by Henry Louis Sullivan. 171 pp. Slipcase has some superficial dents and stains and a crack beginning on top edge. Book is near fine, except for previous owner's information embossed in corners of front matter..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1967. 6th printing. Cloth. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind embossed decoration on cover. Dust jacket. Illustrations by Sendak throughout. 43 pp. Jacket has some chipping and closed tears around edges. Minor soiling inside front and rear gutters. Tight and clean. This is an early..... More
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Chicago: Louis Lloyd Co., 1871. Cloth. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped decoration on front cover, blind stamped rear cover. Illustrated plates by S. Eytinge Jr. Edge wear to all volumes, with some chipping to corners, header and footer of spine. Front hinge of Dombey and..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1905. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover. Some text printed in red. Photographic plates. 190 pp. Minor edge wear. Tight and clean. This is a fascinating, finely printed collection of Riley's romantic poetry featuring many early photographic plates (called "Life Pictures"..... More
New York: Collins, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. White quarter cloth over green boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Color plates. 80 pp. Price clipped. Minor wear to jacket edges. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. This is a signed collection of illustrated fairy tales by the prolific Yolen, author of The Devil's Arithmetic and..... More