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Undated, but likely from the twenties and probably from a department store or other retailer; a colorful (apparently tempera) picture of a boy and a girl in front of a Christmas tree, with a Santa Claus, a doll, sailboat, biplane, toy soldiers, a cannon and more. An exceptionally attractive, nostalgic..... More
[Book #31912P]
Philadelphia: The Weiller Co., n.d. Approximately (and variably) 10 x 34.” A young man and woman, seated on stools, enjoy fountain treats. Undated, but likely forties or fifties; some wear and minor damage; just good. More
[Book #31908P]
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1881. First Edition. Wright 2522. Publisher’s wrappers; small tear at the top of the title page; very good. More
[Book #31081P]
Boston: Thomas B. Wait, 1829. A handbook for local officials, apparently intended for those primarily in Massachusetts. The front free endpaper and the first blank are trimmed at the top, likely to excise owner’s signatures; some page staining; complete with two folding tables; good; bound in publisher’s (or contemporary) full..... More
[Book #32105P]
New York: Ralph Trautman, n.d. [ca.1881]. Each 5 x 7” engraving is mounted on canvas accordion style with cloth covers stamped in blind and in gilt; with a contents leaf listing the 21 pictured Presidents, from Washington to Chester A. Arthur. Some smudges, but very good. More
[Book #28568P]
London: James Blackwood, 1855. First Edition. A Christmas offering illustrated by “Phiz.” Bound with the front and back wrappers in later 19th century calf by Zaehnsdorf (somewhat worn and soiled); spine in compartments with gilt decoration and inlaid black morocco; top edge gilt; very good. More
[Book #30515P]
Boston: Little, Brown, 1858. First Edition. Essays by editor, publisher and apparent reactionary George Lunt, attacking Theodore Parker, Emerson, abolition and suffrage. Publisher’s cloth; some staining; label removed from front paste-down; very good. Not everyone in ante-bellum Boston was liberal, but history was on the side of those who were..... More
[Book #32520P]
Boston: T.B. Wait & Sons, 1815. “Second Edition.” In contemporary tree calf with a red morocco spine label; very good. More
[Book #36832P]
New Haven: no publisher, 1798. The contents include fifty-five prose pages, a five page play “The Necromancer: or, Harlequin Dr. Faustus,” and seven pages of “Witty Stories.” While apparently complete, this copy might lack a front paste-down and preliminary leaf as well as a final blank leaf; in contemporary, but..... More
[Book #36691P]
London: Robert Barker, 1611. Measuring approximately 10 1/2 x 14 1/2”; six pages; minor staining and small holes along the left-hand margin where staples were removed; in highly presentable condition. More
[Book #31393P]
Akron: Saalfield Publishing, 1921. Very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #31198P]
London and New York: Nonesuch Press/ Dial Press, 1924-1927. Limited to 1200 copies. Five volumes; comprising the Old and the New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha; publisher’s bindings; very good. More
[Book #35559P]
Boston: Ticknor & Co., n.d. [c.1883]. A cloth folder, approximately 10 x 14”, when open displaying a sample cover poster for the periodical (”For Sale Here”), including a mounted “gelatine” photograph detail of Richardson’s Austin Hall at Harvard (”Specimen of Gelatine Plate, Issued with the Gelatine Edition”). Opposite is a...... More
[Book #36923P]
Berlin: Ausstellunghaus Am Kurfurstendamm, 1906. First Edition of this exhibition catalogue of an art movement, not so well-known as the Vienna Secession. Publisher’s printed boards with a cloth spine; some light pencil notes; ink title on the spine; a good copy. Illustrated with reproductions of paintings and sculptures, some of..... More
[Book #32048P]
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1957. First Edition. Wrapppers. Aside from black and white printed pictures, bound in are four color transparency strips, 32 frames in total. Very good. More
[Book #36012P]
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1957. First Edition. Wrapppers. Aside from black and white printed pictures, bound in are four color transparency strips, 32 frames in total. Very good. More
[Book #34884P]
No place of publication [probably Los Angeles]: Golden West Broadcasters, n.d. [probably 1960s]. The plate measures approximately 5 1/4 x 7.” In the center are a batter and catcher, circled by lettering “Baseball’s Greatest Players. A Series from Golden West Broadcasters.” Apparently this firm was owned by Gene Autry, whose..... More
[Book #36813P]
London: Longmans, Green, 1904. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; Wilbur Underwood’s cipher inside the front cover; very good. More
[Book #36414P]
Consisting of the following: Dulau & Co. (London). “Books From the Library of John Lane and other books of the Eighteen-Nineties” and Elkin Mathews Ltd. (London) “Books of the ‘Nineties’.” Both are in wrappers, worn and shabby, but still usable. More
[Book #26909P]
No place of publication: Peoples’ Series: American Views, n.d. [ca. 1890]. An excellent view of the galleries and stacks, with a fuzzy figure working at a table on the floor. Very good or better condition. More
[Book #29504P]
Boston: Redding & Co., 1845. First Edition. Foxed; very good in what appears to the publisher’s deluxe “gift” binding of full red morocco, decorated in gilt and blind; all edges gilt. The anonymous author describes sites in and outside of Boston. More
[Book #36826P]
New York: E.H.T. Anthony, n.d. [ca. 1874]. The stereo photographs, on the publisher’s mount, depict the incomplete bridge, its foot span ready for the adventurous. This was not a walk for the faint-hearted or for anyone with the slightest vertigo. Very good. More
[Book #26859P]
Amsterdam: Den Jb. da Cunha, 1839. A handwriting manual illustrated with 17 folding engravings. Bound in what appears to be the original paper covered boards, which are detaching from the worn spine, still retaining the printed paper label “Schryfkunst.” The printed contents have an occasional minor spot and tear. More
[Book #35932P]
New York: William C. Bryant & Co., 1871. First Edition of the comprehensive first report on New York City's public parks; with the ownership signature inside the front cover of physician and medical missionary Samuel F. Green, brother of first Park Commissioner Andrew H. Green. Profusely illustrated with two large..... More
[Book #35966P]
New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1903. First Edition with Denslow’s colorful illustrations and designs. Publisher’s wrappers; an excellent example, with only very slight rubbing. More
[Book #30489P]