(New Orleans: Privately Printed (for Charles Heartman, Heartman's Historical Series No. 50), 1936. First edition, "limited" (without a statement of number). 8vo. (6), 9-77 pp. Illustrated from photographs, title pages, ephemera, advertisements, etc., plates. Describes 13 of the "Blue Books," directories and advertising works for New Orleans "houses of ill..... More

London: John Russell Smith, 1865. 22cm. (8), 308, (32, the bookseller's catalogue) pp. [text printed double-column]. 6598 items of Americana, replete with 17th and 18th century rarities; the 32-page catalogue offers material from a range of general antiquarian areas. Ownership signature of bookseller "Patrick Traynor / 29 & 30 Essex..... More

New Orleans, LA: Great Acquisitions Books, nd [ca. 1995]. Bookseller's catalogue. Small 4to. 45 pp. Illustrated. Offers 250 priced items, almost all with some connection to Louisiana. Old ink markings on front wrapper, two items circled in ink, else very good. Original decorated wrappers, stapled. (#5457). More

[Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird], August 1, 1872. "Henry Carey Baird's Catalogue" [running title]. 16mo. 12 pp. Hunter and Co. was apparently jobbing Baird's list of approximately 200 titles. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. More

New York: Grolier Club, 1891. First edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Describes 110 items. Original printed cream wrappers, stitched. Very good. (1547). More

NY: Derrydale Press, 1930. Catalogue 5. 8vo. 25 pp. List of titles to date with descriptions and prices and "out-of-print" notations. Printed wraps. Very good. More

Newburyport, [Mass.]: Entered according to Act of Congress by Thomas & Whipple booksellers, nd. Original blue wrappers sewn. 8 x 21 cm.; engraved title page, [16] engraved plates, Ownership signature, "George W. Chaplins Copy Plate 1812" (scattered doodling on covers and endpapers.) Due to a binding error the title page..... More

Paris: Gumachian & Cie. nd [1930]. First edition, 1/1000 copies (this 1/900, unnumbered, copies on papier velin). 4to. 2 volumes: xx, (4), 446 pp. [catalogue printed double-column]; (2), 15 pp., 336 plates. Color frontispiece to volume two, some of the other plates in color. A massive landmark bookseller's catalogue of..... More

Macon, GA: Lewis H. Andrews, [1858]. Broadside on card stock, 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches, employing at least six sizes and styles of type, with "Job Printer" central, the whole enclosed within four borders, an outer wide green ornamental border, a broken green rule, a wide red ornamental border..... More

Nashville, TN: The company, 1890-1909. Manuscript record of the stockholder and board of directors meetings for this 20 year period, many entries recorded and signed by J.H. Baird as secretary. Small 4to. (93) pp., with additional typed minutes, reports, and financial statements tipped-in or pasted in. Original charcoal cloth copybook..... More

Utica, (NY): Printed and published by William Williams, 1819. Oblong 4to. 47, (1) pp. Original printed drab wrappers (rubbed, spine partly eroded, fore-edges frayed); owner's name at head of front wrapper, some light foxing, but a very good copy. First edition of a Williams publication for the German flute (he..... More

[New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1896. Publishers promotional broadside. 20 by 15 3/4 in printed in red and black with a pictorial scene of a cowboy and Indian staring off into the sunset. Very good with a little toning and a few small edge chips. Subtitle of the published..... More

Minneapolis, (MN): Pentagram Press, 1988. First edition, one of six copies, from the deluxe lettered edition of 26, reserved for presentation "to friends of the press," this one inscribed "For Donn," and signed on the half-title by the printer, Michael Tarachow, as well as by 15 contributors. 8vo. (38) pp..... More