(Philadelphia, PA): Printed for the Philobiblon Club [by the] Bird & Bull Press, 1973. First edition, 1/275 copies (this #168). 8vo. 38, (3) pp. History of the club, list of officers from the club's founding through 1973, and a bibliography of the club's publications. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very... More
Austin, TX: U. of Texas at Austin Humanities Research Center, (c1970-1975). (1) Goff, Frederick R. The Permanence of Johann Gutenberg. 8vo. 29 pp. First annual lecture, 1968, second impression, 1974, 1/250 copies. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Feldman in 1975. (2) Francis, Sir Frank. A Bibliographical Ghost Revisits His Old... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1927. First edition, 1/325 unnumbered copies. (8), 29 pp. [printed double-column]. With 25 folding facsimile leaves, each with a captioned "title" leaf. Study of relations between the United States and France as seen through examples of American newspapers, 1729-1797, 14 from the Revolutionary period, 1775-1785, eight... More
Chicago, (IL): Walter M. Hill, (c1941). First edition. 8vo. xi, 442 pp. Illustrated from photographs, title pages, bindings, portraits, etc., plates. Includes a section of biographical sketches of scientists and their relationships to books. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Original gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (10545). More
New York: R.R. Bowker Co. for the Newberry Library, (1988). Later printing of the 1962 ed. 8vo. 652 pp. [printed double-column]. Fine copy. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. (10550). More
Hartford: [publisher not identified], 1849. 8vo. 23.5 cm. 8pp. Blue wrappers. OCLC lists copies at CT Hist Soc., Yale Univ., Lib. Co. of Phila., TX Tech Univ., and Am. Ant. Soc. Not in KRESS. More
Philadelphia: J. B. Chandler, Pr., 306 & 308 Chesnut Street, [Girard Building], 1864. 8vo. 19 cm. 25 pp., [3]. Disbound. Stitched sheets. Venango County, Pennsylvania was the center of oil production in the 1860s. The first successful commercial oil well in the United States was completed by E.L. Drake near... More
[New York: 1876]. Broadside. 61 x 44 cm. Text in five columns. Over five thousand words. A publication from the third meeting of the Tilden and Hendricks Central Campaign Club, this broadside contains various speeches given at the meeting as well as letters sent by those who couldn't attend. Some... More
New York: Published by S. Whitig & Co. No. 118 Pearl Street. J. Seymour, print. 1811. 8vo. 21.5 cm. 44pp. Disbound. First published in 1790 (Evans 22998), there is also an 1810 edition. Hamilton's proposal for a national bank was accepted only after much debate on its constitutionality and in... More
Washington,[DC]: United States Printing Office, War Department 15 March 1945. Restricted. Original edition. 27 cm. iv, I-78, ll-101, lll-29, lV-53, V-19, Vl -27, Vll - 108, Vlll - 125, lX - 26, 10 plates, X - 45pp. Brown and grey cloth front and rear boards, hole-punched at left margin and... More
Athens, Tenn. published by William P. Reid. John M. Gibbs Printer, 1833. Second edition. 8vo. 22 cm. xii, 298pp. Bound with: A DISSERTATION ON THE PROPHECIES, in References to the Rise and Fall of the Beast, the Cleansing of the Sanctuary, the Beginning and Duration of the Millennium, and the... More
Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln. Press of Knowles, Vose & Co., 1838. 16mo, pp. (4), 188. Brown embossed cloth with gilt stamping on cover. Scattered foxing and a light stain in margin. Francis Wayland was a Baptist minister, President of Brown University for 30 years. Chancellor Kent gave this book... More
Providence, [R.I.]: Printed for the Author, 1814. First edition. 12mo. 16.5 cm. vi, [1], 8-209, [1], 116, viii pp. Contemporary tree calf, leather label, gilt ruled spine. Good example of period binding, paper toned. Loss in margin of pp.55-6, affecting one or two letters in about a dozen words, not... More
[Little Rock, Ark. Parke-Harper Company, 1935]. Green velvet paper bound pamphlet. 28 cm. 152 pp., including photo illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), plans, tables, and diagrams. Arkansas state flag stamped in red on front cover Cover title, in silver: ARKANSAS EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION, April 1, 1934 to April 1, 1935... More
New York: G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, for the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Conference Office, 200 Mulberry Street. J. Collard Printer, 1842. First edition. 8vo. 15 cm. 342pp. Sheep in period style, front joint starting. Previous ownership signature of L. M. Pipkin Darlington, LA. FLAKE-DRAPER 4601. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 42-2788. More
[Washington, D.C. Chronicle Print, 1864]. 8vo. 8 pp. 22 cm. Original self wrappers. Overall toning to text. Pencil signature of Mrs. Thomas John Young on cover. More
Philadelphia: Printed by Jacob Frick & Co., 1828. 16mo. 56, [1] pp. Stitched, remnants of wrappers along spine, text wrinkled. Shoemaker 32096- NjP, PHi, not noting the 'Scale of Votes' leaf at the end. Not in Kress. Not listed OCLC. More
Salt Lake City: Printed at the Deseret News Office, 1872. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo. 23 cm. 71 pp. Original salmon wrappers printed on front. Erosion to spine and scattered foxing. FLAKE - DRAPER 7873. HOWES S-595. More
Philadelphia, [PA]: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. Second edition (?) 12mo. 20.5 cm. [4], 55pp. Single page of extracts from the printed text, dated 1877 and 1885, tipped in opposite title page. Brown pebbled cloth with title embossed in gold around three interlocking circles on front cover; 1/2 in... More
Davenport, [Iowa]: Publishing House of Luse, Lane & Co., 1858. First edition. 8vo. 333, [1] pp. Errata leaf. Original embossed black cloth, with gilt stamping on spine. Two-sheet lithograph frontispiece plus sixteen plates (eight steel-engraved portraits, five tinted lithographs, the rest woodcuts). Wear to spine ends, previous owner's name on... More
Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association, 1887. First edition. 8vo. 22.5 cm. 62pp. Original printed blue gray wrappers. Price 10 cts stamped below imprint. Wear to spine and edges. A condemning investigation by the Secretary of the Indian Rights Assoc. Publishes actual dipatches of Crook, Miles, Howard and Sheridan... More
NP [New York (?) & Detroit, Michigan]: nd [1872]. Broadside, 49 x 24 cm., text in two columns, printing an article from the Evening Post in one column, "Mr. Greeley's Friends," and an article from the Detroit Tribune "Some Sample Reformers. The Men who Support Greeley," in the other column... More
[Princeton, NJ]: Published for the American Philosophical Society by Princeton University Press, 1951. 2 volumes. First edition. 8vo. lxxxvii, 624pp.; pp.627-1295. Illustrations & folding map. A very good set with edge tears to dust jackets. More
Monmouth, Oregon: The Teacher Paper, 280 N. Pacific Avenue, 1969. Single sheet, 56 x 29 cm., printed on both sides. Recto prints an illustration, signed in type by "RAB," of a naked, chubby "Administrator Obsoletus / Semper Vulgaris," wearing only a wreath of leaves about his bald head, perched on... More
Los Angeles, [CA]: The Quivira Society (Publications, 5), 1935. 8vo. 26 cm.124p., folding map, photo illustrated plates, index. No. 563 of 600 copies printed. White cloth spine stamped in gilt, brown paper boards. Bookplate on pastedown of Southwest Museum with pencil notation "withdrawn." Very good. HOWES C254 JENKINS 29 RADER 643. More
