NY: Privately Printed, 1907. First edition. Red cloth lettered in gilt. 130pp. Front blank excised, moderate soiling of cloth, a very good copy. 14 essays on horse topics. View More...
St. Michaels, AZ: St. Michaels Press, [1947]. Brown illustrated wrappers, designed and lettered in black. A small 12-page stapled booklet. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Some small stains to wrappers, about fine. View More...
Liverpool: Office of "Cope's Tobacco Plant", 1893. First edition. Original color pictorial wrappers, covers designed and lettered in gold, red, green & black. Title page printed in 3 colors. Several plates at the front (3 are GOLF scenes) and numerous illustrations throughout. Some chipping at the spine ends, a bit of wear to edges, former owner's name and small ownership sticker in front, a very good copy. The inner rear cover bears a Cope's tobacco ad for SOLACE, with a red sticker affixed, as issued. Issued as Number Fourteen of Cope's Smoke Room Booklets. View More...
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Candleriggs, Glasgow: Hobbs, 1904. First edition, limited issue.
Seller ID: 56640
Quarter-calf & red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover designed in gilt. Marbled end papers. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Discoloration to end papers, some light foxing, small snag to the centre of the spine, a clean very good copy. This is copy #1 one of 50 special copies, with a hand-written colophon initialed GH, and "With the Author's Compliments" written beneath. A short review of the book, clipped from a newspaper, is laid in. View More...
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Belfast: Dorman & Co., 1935. First edition.
Seller ID: 55414
Small 8vo., dark green boards, front cover lettered in black. [56]pp. Illustrated with a full-page plate and several photographic illustrations in the text. An illustration of the Curfew Tower in Cushendall, probably clipped from a magazine or newspaper, is pasted to the inner rear cover. A couple of folded page corners, but a fine copy. A historical memoir of this village in Northern Ireland, formerly known as Newtown Glens. A scarce book. View More...
Original pictorial wrappers, yellow wrap-around band. 254pp. + one colophon leaf bearing a small sticker. Worming in margins, in some cases touching text, some soiling, paper browned at edges, old yellowed tape repairs to the wrap-around band, otherwise very good. Contains one plate, of the bomb exploding, and several maps. The cover and all text is in Japanese, save for the title in English at the top of the front cover: NO MORE HIROSHIMA. View More...
This is a group of 21 issues from 1926 - 1933. Original wrappers. A couple show edge wear, a couple are stained on the front wrapper, a few have dampstained fore-edges, condition is basically very good. Issues present are: Summer 1926 / Autumn 1926 / Winter 1926-27 / Spring 1927 / Summer 1927 / Autumn 1927 / Winter 1927-28 / Spring 1928 / Autumn 1929 / Winter 1929-30 / Summer 1930 / Autumn 1930 / Winter 1930-31 / Spring 1931 / Summer 1931 / Autumn 1931 / Winter 1931-32 / Spring 1932 / Summer 1932 / Autumn 1932 / Winter 1932-33. These are quite heavy, so will incur additional postage charges. View More...
Original printed wrappers, stapled. 28pp. Light edge wear, a clean very good copy. In the original mailing envelope with the Foundation's return address in Elizabeth, New Jersey, overprinted, and the Wichita address beneath. Postmarked in Wichita in June,1952. Accompanied by a fold-out ad leaflet listing publications and prices (Current Dianetic Publications. January 1, 1952); also a Late Additions slip, and a business reply envelope for ordering. An uncommon booklet. View More...
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook, (1907). Color pictorial wrappers. 90 pages, plus 6 pages of ads at rear. Paper quite browned, pencil marks on some pages, but an unusually bright and undamaged copy. Many illustrations throughout, badly printed; a very cheaply produced book. One of a number of similar sensational books issued by this publisher. View More...
Original decorative red wrappers, stapled. 24pp. Small upper corner chipped from front cover and first page, a bit browned, light edge wear, otherwise fine. An illustrated POGO booklet by Walt Kelly. Lyndon Johnson photo and quotation on inner front wrapper. A number on the upper back cover is: NYC-504. The clip-out Neighbourhood Youth Core ID card is still intact in the back cover. View More...
London: Macmillan, 1881. Later edition - originally published in 1855. Blue cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Twelve chromolithographic colour plates, and 3 woodcuts. One leaf of ads at rear. Bookplate on front end paper, short inscription on first title page, a clean very good copy. Issued as Volume V in the Works Of Charles Kingsley (It was a set of 28 volumes), with an extra title page at the front for the collected edition. View More...
[32]pp. white paper boards lettered in red. Possibly a wrappers copy bound into card covers. Library pocket and label on inner front cover; very good. View More...
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Turriff: Deveron Press, (1937). Second edition.
Seller ID: 55868
Original printed wrappers. 131pp. Splitting at lower spine, modest edge wear and dust soiling, a very good copy. First published in 1932, this is the 1937 Second Edition, with a new preface. The original editions of this book are uncommon. View More...
Blue cloth stamped in blind, gilt on spine and front cover. Very light wear to tips, but a fresh, mostly unopened copy. Volume XXXVIII of the Third Series, Camden Society. This is Volume 4 only. View More...
[np/nd]. A single leaf, once folded to make a 4-page leaflet. Front page illustrated with the family arms. A short historial work on the Morton family. A couple of short tears to edge, fine otherwise. View More...
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Cambridge: Printed by Metcalfe & Co., 1909 - 1912.
Seller ID: 57007
Four volumes. Red buckram, front covers designed in gilt, spines lettered in gilt. Spines are somewhat faded, many leaves creased vertically from being folded before binding, a few folded page corners, generally clean and very good. Illustrated with a few plates. The President and Treasurer listed in Volume XXXIII is W.H. Balgarnie, who was the basis for James Hilton's "Mister Chips". These are quite heavy and will incur some additional postage costs. View More...
NY: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1912. Original gray printed wrappers, stapled. A little wear to the edges, but fine otherwise. Illustrated with numerous figures in the text. A 16-page booklet. An offprint, reprinted from the Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. XII, Part I. View More...
64pp. Brown wrappers lettered in gold. Shelf wear to spine ends, name penned on inner covers; very good otherwise. Historical overview of this Prussian noble house. MacCauley fought in the Civil War, and later became a Unitarian minister. View More...
