Kate Greenaway. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons 1885. First Edition. [24] pages. 4 x 3 inches. Original cream coloured glazed pictorial boards. Yellow cloth spine and turquoise endpapers. Page edges tinted yellow. Spine worn with insect damage and soiling. Covers with some loss to glazing but generally..... More
Kate Greenaway. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons 1884. First Edition. 10 leaves plus wrappers. 5 3/16 x 3 1/2 inches. Light green imitation leather self-wrappers with title and picture of two girls carrying baskets of flowers stamped in gold on front cover. Rear cover blank. Both covers..... More
[no place of publication stated]: National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA] (1975). iii, 25 pages. 8 1/2 x 11, oblong. Stapledd pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper showing NASA TOURS bus operated by TWA with a launch vehicle on the right side. Small sticker for "NASA TOURS" lower right. Minor overall wear..... More
[no place of publication stated]: LeRoy Phillips [1785-1790, but a 20th century reprint]. Later printing. Not paginated. 4 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches. Grey printed wrappers with title "The New England PRIMER | Twentieth Century Reprint | LeRoy Phillips" on the front. Device of The Athenaeum Press on the rear..... More
Boston [Massachusetts]: J. E. Tilton and Company [between 1865 and 1867?]. [4], 5-128 pages. Frontispiece plus three plates extra to the pagination each printed on one side on a darker paper (opposite title and pages 12, 35, and 106). 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Publisher's salmon/brown boards with gilt..... More
New York, Toronto, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1950. First Edition. xxii, 329 pages. 8vo. Publisher's grey cloth with spine labeling in red and gilt. Previous owner name and company on front pastedown. A clean working copy with some overall wear to the binding. Very Good. Cloth.
Part of..... More
Washington DC: Butterworths 1962. First Edition. viii, 235 pages. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. A sound exlibrary copy with the usual markings. Good. Boards.
"The use of protective atmospheres in chemical and metallurgical industries has been widespread for very many years, but new requirements over the last decade, largely initiated by..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan 1968. [6], 183 pages. Publisher's wrappers. 8vo. Wear to the extremities, an old label on rear cover. Clean internally, a sound working copy. Good. Wraps. More
Portland: S. H. Colesworthy 1878/1879. [6], [7]-96 pages. 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 inches. Cloth over orange papered printed boards. Previous owner's name and date (1883) penciled on second flyleaf. Marginal damp-staining lower right corner throughout. Occasional foxing. Covers dirty with some wear to edges of boards. But still a...... More
New Haven: S. Babcock (1844?). 64 pages. Pagination includes 8 leaves of plates. 5 5/8 x 4 1/2 inches. Publisher's printed wrappers. Worn, foxed throughout, with no spine. Stitched. This example is interesting in that it appears that the original wrappers, printed in a blue ink on blue paper, have..... More
Boston, [Massachusetts] and Cleveland, Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett Proctor & Worthington 1854. First Edition. [12], [13]-111,[1-blank] pages. 8vo. Publisher's original cream blind stamped cloth boards with gilt spine decorations and gilt embossed decorations front and rear. All edges gilt. Covers now soiled with spine sunned, corners..... More
New York: Gordian Press 1986. lix, 279 pages. 8vo. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. A new copy. Fine. Cloth.
Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol 4 (Writings in the Broadway Journal NONFICTIONAL PROSE Part 2, The Annotations). PLEASE NOTE: this is just the annotations..... More
Okayama, Japan: Atelier of Yu Fujiwara 1979. Not paginated. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Quarto. Publisher's cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket in the original cardboard slipcase. Minor wear overall, but a very presentable copy. Laid in is a copied letter from Fujiwara thanking his lifelong friends for their..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: College Lafayette 1884. 8 pages. Printed grey wrappers. Wrappers crudely glued (reglued?) to the text block. Mild overall soiling. Good. Wraps.
The brochure notes the school will open August 18, 1884 at 4 Park Square in Boston, Mass. The rear cover notes tuition fees for small classes..... More
Elizabeth, New Jersey: American Type Founders [no date stated]. 68 pages. Oblong 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publisher's original orange printed paper covers with stapled spine covered with black cloth. Front cover coming detached. A seriously worn and well used copy, soiled, stained, but complete. A note on the front..... More
New York: Dover Publications 1936. Later printing. [6], [1]-138 pages. Publishers grey cloth binding with black spine lettering. Tan dust jacket present, price clipped (as often the case), with the usual publisher catalog advertisements on the reverse of the dust jacket. Some staining and browning to the dj. Clean internally..... More
1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library 1901. First Edition. [12],45, [3] pages. 8vo. Publisher's tan printed flexible wrappers with embossed decorations. An uncut, unopened copy. Minor wear to the extremities, some soiling to the covers, a very nice example. Laid in is a small leaflet noting the German catalog..... More
1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library 1901. First Edition. 143, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's dark grey flexible wrappers with embossed emblem of Booklovers Reading Club and other titles. Minor wear to the extremities, a very nice example. Very Good. Wraps.
Course V of the "Booklovers Reading Club Hand-Book"..... More
1323 Walnut Street, Philadelphia: The Booklovers Library 1901. First Edition. 125, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's light blue flexible wrappers with embossed emblem of Booklovers Reading Club and other titles. Minor wear to the extremities, a very nice example. Near Fine. Wraps.
Course III of the "Booklovers Reading Club Hand-Book"..... More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House 1948. First Edition. Winter 1948: 100 pages. Spring 1948: 100 pages. 9 x 6 inches. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers, stapled with wrappers glued on. Mild spotting to the page edges, some "basement" smell but not offensive to our nose. The first issue with some wear..... More
Woonsocket, RI: American Wringer Company 1923. First Edition. 48 pages. 10 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches. Printed decorative wrappers. Errata tipped in page 26. Small paper label on front wrapper, rear cover creased, several small tears. Laid in are price lists and accompanying letters from Sept 1st 1925 and (with..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co. 1897. First Edition. 46, [2-blank] pages. Oblong 8vo. 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Embossed wrappers in green, yellow and red. Stapled, with two holes punched at the spine and a decorative string tied through them. Staples are rusted, covers are faded..... More
Hescox, Richard (illustrator). Framingham, MA, U.S.A. NESFA Press 2004. First Edition. 360, [2] pages. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles in the original dust jacket. A few spots to the inside of the dust jacket, and some minor scuffing to the dust jacket. The slipcase is in very good condition..... More
Melrose, Florida: Theodore R. Crom 1980. First Edition. xiv, 678 pages. Folio (12 x 9 3/8 inches). Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt decorations. An inscribed copy from author Crom to tool dealer Phil Stanley: "To Phil Stanley - in a good swap for some "pre-owned" metal. Hope, Phil, you..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1921. x, 521, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth. Previous owner name and address inked on front flyleaf. Bookseller ticket (De Wolfe & Fiske Co, 2 Park St. Boston, Mass) on front flyleaf. Otherwise a clean copy. Very Good. Cloth... More
