London, etc.: Cassell, 1918. First edition. Red cloth lettered in black. An old pencil note to the title page, some dust soiling of covers, a bright very good copy otherwise. Illustrated with several maps. View More...
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild, & Stewart, (1914). First Canadian edition, utilizing the sheets of the American edition. Brown cloth, spine lettered in black. Frontispiece & 3 illustrations. Some marks on cloth from adjacent tape, but a clean very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket, the spine of which is very faded. The jacket has been internally reinforced with tape, which has yellowed, and there are short tears and chipping to the edges. An uncommon book, especially in the jacket. Tales of criminals and drug addicts who have come back to society. One of the illustrations depicts creature... View More...
Porous green plain wrappers, stapled. Tipped-in frontispiece of Hugh Mack. Staples rusted, chipping to upper spine and edges, very good. A very uncommon genealogical work. View More...
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New Delhi, Bombay, etc.: Allied Publishers, (1963). First edition.
Seller ID: 56909
Original grey cloth, spine lettered in black. Frontispiece portrait of the His Holiness Marishi Mahesh Yogi. Slight wrinkling of cloth, ownership name on front end paper, a very good copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket, the jacket missing small pieces from the upper corner and top of spine. The spine of the jacket is a bit faded. The Indian first edition of this important book, very uncommon. View More...
Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, (1948). Original pictorial wrappers designed in colour, lettered in black & red. Issued as Tresors de Mon Pays 28. Small repair to base of spine, crease in back cover, light edge wear, a nice clean copy otherwise. 65 photographs. View More...
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NY: Modern Library, (1936). First Modern Library Edition.
Seller ID: 56637
Blue cloth designed and lettered in silver, binding style G3. Ownership signature on front fly, a nice clean copy in a slightly chipped and edgeworn dust jacket. The dust jacket is of the 1936-1939 style. The inside of the jacket advertises 242 works. Price on inner front flap: "One Dollar A Copy / Slightly Higher in Canada". On copyright page: "First Modern Library Edition / 1936". View More...
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Philadelphia: Saunders, 1926. First edition.
Seller ID: 57051
Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece, several illustrations. Wrinkle in cloth on front cover, ownership stamp and label on front end paper, a bit of underlining in red pencil, a bright very good copy. This copy bears the Mayo Clinic ownership stamp of Georgine Luden, who is mentioned in the book. A later presentation inscription and label are from the 1980s. Uncommon. View More...
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907.
Seller ID: 55812
Original printed wrappers. Wear to spine, chipped at lower spine, ink number on spine, a very good copy in general. Issued as: Smithsonian Institution / United States National Museum / Bulletin 57. Many illustrations in the text; 14 inserted plates at rear. View More...
London: Temple Press, [c.1914]. Gray cloth, designed and lettered in red & black. Some repair to upper spine, a clean very good copy otherwise. Ownership inscription dated 1914 on front flyleaf. Many illustrations, interesting ads. View More...
1902. A 42-page booklet, stapled, in pale green printed wrappers. One folding plate on blue paper, printed in black & red. Ownership signature on the front wrapper, light edge wear, about fine. This booklet prints the deed, mortgage, etc. for the construction of a grain elevator in Portland, Maine. It contains the details of a contract between the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Company, the New England Elevator Company, and The Grand Trunk Railway Company Of Canada. The folding plate is a map showing the intended site of the elevator, by the GTR Passenger Station on India Street in Portland,... View More...
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London: The Bodley Head, (1956). First edition.
Seller ID: 50341
Yellow boards, spine lettered in black. Some discoloration of boards, jacket browned at edges and rear panel, small stains; in general, a decent, very good copy. Numerous illustrations, some in colour, one folding. Dust jacket art by Mervyn Peake. Traces the colourful history of this dramatic clown through the ages. View More...
Original wrappers, the front cover a design of a French flag. Slight chip at top of spine, ink stamp on front end paper, a very nice clean copy. A translation of Nyrop's "Frankrig" (Copenhagen, 1915). View More...
Orinda: Press of the Golden Key, 1979. Olive wrappers designed and lettered in green. A tipped-in piece of papyrus, from the Papyrus Institute, Cairo, serves as a frontispiece. Limited to 150 copies, 100 of which were for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, San Francisco. Signed by Olmsted on the title page. One little wrinkle to front wrapper, a stain to the upper edge which extends down the center pages (a spill on the booklet while opened? not very noticeable); fine otherwise. View More...
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New Haven: Price, Lee & Adkins, 1894. First edition.
Seller ID: 50780
12mo. Blue buckram designed and lettered in gilt. beveled edges, top edge gilt. Frontispiece & several plates, as well as small vignette illustrations. First signature starting, popped out a bit, trifling shelf wear, a little rubbing to back cover, otherwise a nice bright copy. A pleasant little book. The illustrations are from drawings, engravings and photographs, by at least 10 different contributors. View More...
London: Marshall Brothers / Leicester: Alfred Tacey / NY: Revell, [c.1900]. First edition. Small decorative wrappers, stapled. 36 pages, plus an ad leaf at the rear. Some staining to covers, staples rusty, a few pencil marks within, very good generally. Ownership inscription on the first leaf dated 1908. Concerns the Parable of The Sower. A short religious pamphlet which has been reprinted several times; this original edition is uncommon. View More...
Plain, unlettered, marbled paper wraps, stitched. A fine copy. This is copy 8 in an Edition of 35. "Dorothy Perkins" is the pseudonym of Harriet May Austin .... "This story is based on actual events which took place when Hattiemae and her sister Adele were interned in Germany after the outbreak of the First World War". A 36-page booklet. View More...
30pp. Small green wrappers, stapled, lettered in black. Some rusting of the staples, browned at edges, very good. This is enlarged from the first edition, which was issued in 1925 under the editorship of Heywood Sumner. Includes New Forest fiction, also Anonyma. A useful little checklist. View More...
Paris: Ceros / Librairie Plantureaux, 2005. 48 pages. Square, flexible pictorial boards, pictorial end papers. Frontispiece & numerous plates. Issued as: VENTI - 11. A fine copy. Reproduces some extraordinary and occasionally outrageous photos by Petit, who was a caricaturist and photographer in 19th century France. View More...
93pp., stapled, porous printed wrappers. Fading to spine and front wrapper, short tears at the base of the spine, a clean very good copy. Uncommon. View More...
