St. Louis: F.B. Dickerson, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Illustrations throughout. 528 pp. Binding is tender. Wear to cloth. 3 pages are loose and laid in, and several are chipped around the edges. A fair copy. This is an uncommon first edition book by Chicago newspaperwoman Martha..... More
Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Illustrated cloth. Illustrated plates. 303 pp. Minor shelf wear. Both hinges overopened. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. This is a first edition novel by the prolific Read. More
Clark & Maynard, 1885. Cloth. This is the 1885 edition of Reed and Alonzo's standard grammar textbook. Front cover is significantly rubbed. Loss of covering at top and bottom of spine. Corners are bumped and rounded. Foxing throughout. Some doodles in pencil on back endpaper. More
Estes & Lauriat, 1894. Boards. Cover is scuffed and has some stains. Interior has some foxing and owner's name and stamp on flyleaf. A nice children's adventure from the end of the 19th century. More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1905. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and cover. Illustrated plates and line illustrations throughout. 188 pp. Minor edge wear. Tight and clean. This is an attractive, illustrated collection of children's poetry. More
New York: Doubleday, 1907. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with gilt and silver decoration on front cover. Gilt top edge and deckle fore edge. Frontispiece photo and other photographic plates throughout. 263 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is a first American edition memoir by legendary Italian stage actress Ristori. More
New York: American Book Company, 1909. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Folding color map, numerous full-page and text illustrations. 288 pp. Edges worn. Cock to spine. Hinges overopened but binding is sound. Strip cut from title page and last page. Interior is good. This is a brief, illustrated history of the..... More
Chicago: Donohue Brothers, [1896]. Boards. 4to. 10"x7.75". Pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Many full page, black and white engravings. Unpaginated. Boards are quite chipped. Tight and clean. This is an illustrated Victorian book of Bible stories for children. The engravings by E.T. Roe are particularly of note. More
Paris: La Veure Estienne, 1742. Full calf. In French. Full calf. Raised bands. XLVIII, 548pp. Binder's copy. Boards detached, and binding is split at pp. 218/219. Edges scuffed. Mild soiling to endpapers. Armorial bookplate of John Lord Sheffield, Sheffield Place, Sussex pasted inside front cover. Interior very clean. This is..... More
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London: Printed for T. Evans in the Strand, 1777. Hardcover. 8vo. Contemporary calf. 6-panel hubbed spine with gilt lettering. Blue silk ribbons attached. Vol. I: [11], cxvi, [3], iv, [3], 185, [2] pp. Vol. II: [7], vi, [1], 279, [2] pp. Front hinge of Vol. II overopened but holding. Some..... More
Carl Hirsch, 1904. Cloth. In German. Front hinge cracked, and cloth is a bit rubbed around edges. Stray pen mark on title page. This is a very rare copy of Schmidt's exciting exploration of the "deathly grasp" that "Hindoo heathenism" has maintained over millions. Quite racist, but with gorgeous, if..... More
Dublin: Richard Moore Tims, 1834. New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Leather bound. 8vo. Full leather. 6-panel hubbed spine. 451 pp. Scuffing to edges. Most of leather chipped from bottom spine panel and 1" separation at right edge of spine header. Pencil notation inside front cover. Tight and clean. This is..... More
Edinburgh: William Whyte and Co., 1840. 6th printing. Leather bound. 8vo. Quarter leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Decorative endpapers. 470 pp. Binder's copy. Front board detached. Edges scuffed. Ownership mark on front free endpaper. Interior is very good. This is an early printing of Scottish novelist Sinclair's light-hearted tale..... More
Scribner's, 1903. First Edition. Cloth. Minor scuffing at edges and a small stain on bottom edge. Table of illustrations has a ripped edge. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Many fine unattributed illustrations. This is a collection of stories about "underdogs" of all walks of life. Smith was an author..... More
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Scribner's, 1914. Cloth. This set contains 6 volumes from the Scribner's 1914 23-volume illustrated collection of Smith's complete works. All are in very good condition save for some very minor scuffed edges and a bit of foxing. Tides of Barnegat has a small scratch on front cover. All are bound..... More
New York: Sherman & Smith, 1849. Cloth. 12mo. Publisher’s cloth, title within elaborate gilt design on front cover and spine. Engraved frontispiece and 125 text engravings. 234 pp. Lacking the map. Slight cock to spine and some minor edge wear. Mild foxing throughout. Occasional pencil notations. Tight and clean. A...... More
London: Printed for Thomas Wilcox, 1757. First Edition. Boards. 4to. Nineteenth-century half-calf over marbled boards. xii, 255pp. Front board detached along with first two endpapers. Endpapers not original, added later. Some unobtrusive foxing throughout. Lacks the folding frontispiece. Interior is excellent and otherwise complete. This is a rare first edition..... More
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece and several illustrated plates. [3], 493, [5] pp. Shelf wear to edges, and some small tears with loss at header and footer of spine. Sunning to spine. Hinges overopened but binding is sound. Browning to first..... More
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square, 1811. Hardcover. 8vo. Contemporary calf. 6-panel hubbed spine with blind-stamed decorations. [21], x, [1], 356, [3], cxliv pp. including a map. Front board detached. Wear to leather. Armorial bookplate of Bradby Hall (also called Bretby Hall), which..... More
Chicago: self-published, 1903. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with pastedown on spine and gilt lettering on front cover. Gilt top edge. Numerous photographic and text illustrations. 323 pp. Corners bumped. Spine pastedown rather rubbed. Right edge of cloth spine covering torn from footer about halfway up. Ex-library with a...... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. 341 pp. Closed tears alongside right edge of spine and horizontally across mid-spine. Damp stain to bottom edge. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Tight and clean. This is an antique collection of the..... 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..... More
London: Macmillan, 1892. Leather bound. 8vo. Padded ooze leather binding with gilt lettering on spine and cover. All edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait. 842 pp. Minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Tight and clean. This is a leather-bound printing of the selected works of Tennyson. More
New York: Merrill and Baker, [1890s]. Leather bound. 8vo. Quarter leather. Gilt top edge. Deckle edge. Two volumes in a single edition. Vol. 1: 392 pp. Vol. 2: 414 pp. Scuffing and staining to covers. Chips to leather at header of spine. 1904 owner's name on front free endpaper. Interior..... More
