Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First trade edition. 8vo. 21 cm. [xxxii] [280] pp. Gray cloth with color illustration of a ship laid down on front cover. Title stamped in white, top edge gilt. Some edgewear, small snag on spine, else a very good copy. BAL 14775. KIMES 348. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917. 8vo. 23 cm. x, (2), 269pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. Very good. More
New York: Coventry House, 1932. Brown cloth with chipping paper spine label. 23.5 cm. 47 pp. Frontis. of an African American balanced on a branch and looking skyward, with bayonets beneath him, plus 3 additional plates and in text illustrations. The Bonus Army made up of mostly of WW1 veterans... More
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1902. 8vo. 23.5 cm. 113pp. Illus. Limited edition, #46 of 250 copies. Reprinted from the original edition of 1666. With introduction and notes by Newton Mereness. Gray paper binding with gilt stamping on cover, homemade paper label on spine. Wear to spine ends and persistent foxing throughout. HOWES A188. More
Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1874. 23 cm. viii, 756pp. Brown pebbled cloth with gilt embossed image on cover and spine stamped in gilt. Some wear to spine ends, front hinge repaired. Very good. HOWES S142. More
New York: Gould, Banks & Co. 144 Nassau Street, and John S. Voorhies, 24 Nassau Street, 1843. Two volumes in one. 23cm. xix, 242pp.; -xxvii, errata, -788pp. Full brown period leather with red label stamped in gilt on spine. Some wear to top of spine, scattered foxing, a very good copy. COHEN 4734. More
Cincinnati: np, 1958. Offprint from "Essays in American Jewish History, To Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Founding of the American Jewish Archives under the direction of Jacob Rader Marcus." 24cm. pp.187-245. Printed gray wrappers. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper: "To John Kohn with regards from EW2." Slight... More
Various Places: Various Publishers, [1834 - 1845]. Folio. Recent blue buckram. All the items are in very good, bright condition, a few pieces with light foxing. A splendid collection, entirely American, from the 1830s-1840s, with the bookplates of William H. Guthman, military collector and dealer on the pastedowns. In the... More
City of Washington: Printed and published by James Wilson, and sold at H. Guegan's Book Store, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1824. First edition. 8vo. 41pp. (ie: 40). Disbound, spine reinforced with linen tape. Previous owner's signature on title page. Toning to text block. Mrs. Ann Mattingly fell ill in 1817 with a tumor... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by John Page, No. 67 Mulberry Street, for Benjamin Franklin Bache, No. 112 High Street, 1796. 8vo. 22.5 cm. (2) 33pp., including half-title. Disbound. A number of American editions issued with no precedence established, preceded by French and English editions. EVANS 30945. KRESS B 3266. More
Albany, [NY]: Published by E. F. Backus, No. 67, State Street. F. Adancourt, printer, 1818. 8vo. 23 cm. xi, 260pp. Full brown sheep with red, black labels and rules on spine stamped in gilt. Some wear to edges , on lower boards repairs made with scotchtape. Bookplate of Edmund W.... More
Litchfield, [CT]: Printed by T. Collier. Copy-Right Secured to the Author, 1796. First edition. 8vo. 23cm. x, [6], 131pp., [1]. Full period sheep rubbed. DECKER 35-466: "Moore’s treatise on surveying is claimed to be the first American work on the subject. It also contains moral instructions." EVANS 30810. KARPINSKI, pp... More
San Francisco, California: Edgar Williams & Co., 1878. First edition. Folio. 44.5 cm. 104 pp. Original 3/4 calf & blind and gilt stamped cloth, spine chipped and worn, corners rubbed, hinges repaired with cloth tape. A total of 8 additional numbered pages of textual information are inserted between pages 26... More
New York: Stanford and Delisser. 508, Broadway, 1858. First edition. 12mo. 19 cm. (2), 95 pp., 6 humorous illustrations. Original orange embossed cloth with gilt title and small gilt illustration on front cover. Slight overall soiling to binding. Sardonic verses on the sexes at Saratoga, Newport and Sharon, with fitting... More
London: Clarke, Beeton, and Co., 148, Fleet Street; and Thomas Bosworth, Regent Street, [1853]. Second English edition. 12mo. 20 cm. viii, 504pp. Original green embossed cloth, gilt stamping on spine. Slight tear to top of spine and to top of front joint, some spotting to front board. BAL 19357. Cloth B. More
Dansville, [NY]: Printed for the Author, 1832. First edition. 17cm. 12mo. 171pp. Contemporary black leather with gilt stamping on spine, and gray marbled boards. Lacks front endpaper. Three hundred and fourteen pre-millenial poems. The author was a Revolutionary War veteran and he includes a few patriotic pieces in among the... More
Northampton, Massachusetts: J. P. Dwyer, 1976. 24cm. xvi, 77 pp. No.15 of 50 copies bound by Carolyn Coman with an extra impression of the print of Leonard Baskin, engraved and signed by Barry Moser, laid in. Brown morocco leather spine with brown cloth covered boards. A small spot in the... More
Northampton, Mass: Andrew Wright, for Daniel Wright and Company. Sold by them, and S. Butler in Northampton; I. Thomas, Jun. in Worcester; by F. Barker, in Greenfield: and by the principal booksellers in Boston, 1798. First edition. 17cm. 12mo. xii, [13]-300 pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers (tender, some chipping to spine)... More
Atlanta, (GA). GA Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Wild Life, nd [1950s]. 12-panel broadsheet, printed both sides, folded to narrow 8vo. Illustrated with various species available in the state; 2-panel map. Includes descriptions of the wildfowl, game birds and animals, seasons, and license requirements. Self-wrappers. Accompanied by two leaflets... More
Salisbury, NC: Frank W. Fuller, 1939). Promotional for this business. 8vo.; 4-page text and price list laid into a folding 8-panel illustrated brochure. Quite scarce; not recorded on OCLC. Illustrated self-wrappers. Very good. More
Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1785. [Price 3 dollars in boards or 3 and a half bound.] Two volumes. First edition. Vol.1: Folding table, [2], [14] subscribers list, [4], iv, [17]-87, 98-364; [8], 5-368 pp.; Vol. 2: [8], 5-368 pp. Full period calf with gilt rules on spine and red... More
Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea-Chesnut Street, 1826. Two volumes bound in one. Vol. 1: [2], xviii, 448 p., [71] leaves of plates; Vol. 2: 361, [1] p., [31] leaves of plates. A lovely survival of an American binding, green paper spine, marbled boards and a printed paper label on spine. Uncommon in trade. More
New York: The Century Company, 1899. First edition. 8vo. Frontis. 327pp., illus. Green stamped cloth with embossed seal in red and gilt on cover, embossed seal on back cover, gilt on spine. Spine slightly faded, offsetting to endpapers from newspaper clipping. Top edge gilt. Very good. More
New York: Printed by William A. Davis for the Author, 1797. [Part 1 All Published]. 12mo. 17cm. [14],13-260pp. plus twenty-four engraved plates of formations and artillery pieces and parts. Contemporary calf, leather label; front joint cracked. A very attractive copy. Plates and pages crisp. The author was a captain of... More
New York: Published by William Burgess, Jr. No. 97 Fulton Street, 1828. Third American edition. Originally published in 1823 under the title: Anna Ross, the orphan of Waterloo. 15cm. 16mo. 156pp., 3 numbered plates and frontis. all hand colored. Illustrated tan boards, rubbed and soiled, publishers advertisements on rear board... More
