Dresden: Hartwig & Vogel A.-G. ca. 1930. First edition, oblong 8vo; pp. 16 & 48 plain photographic plates; loose as issued in green stiff paper chemise embossed in gilt on upper cover, pamphlet staplebound in self-wrappers; fine. Title on upper chemise cover: "Hartwig & Vogel A.G. Dresden: Schokolade, Kakao, Dessert."...
Pontarlier: Typographie Alexandre Faivre Fils, 1843. First Edition. Paperback. Small octavo; [2],36pp.; recent grey wrappers; fine. Signed and inscribed by the author "Souvenirs d'affection" on title page. Apparently unrecorded personal account of a journey begun in September, 1842, to Italy by way of Switzerland, published to be distributed amongst the...
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Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as...
Kirkby Stephen: J.W. Braithwaite, 1884. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's maroon cloth triple-ruled in black and lettered in gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; [2],134,[1],[33](ads)pp.; color folding map frontispiece, text illus., pictorial ads printed on various colored stock bound in rear. Cloth a bit soiled and slightly rubbed, spine rather faded, a......
Londres: 1781. Octavo; publisher's drab card wrappers, manuscript spine title; 204pp. Some worming to upper cover with small loss at top fore-edge corner, a few small chips to spine, inoffensive 19th-century shelf labels to title page, else a Very Good, untrimmed copy in the original binding. This edition issued a....
Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company, [1901]. Touraine Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1250 sets of which this is no. 898. 36 volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth, paper spine labels printed in red and black; illus. throughout by various artists. General shelf wear, spine labels uniformly dust-soiled, a....
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Parisiis: Apud Ioannem Iost, 1637. Editio Quarta. Thick quarto; full contemporary triple-ruled sheep, unadorned spine in five compartments, all edges speckled red, retaining original endpapers as well as a wastepaper front free endpaper; [4],1011,[61]pp.; engraved title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, text printed in double columns. Leather somewhat edge...
New York: American Bible Society, 1852. 105th Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's black elaborately blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine; 591,[5],184pp. Boards rather rubbed at extremities, foxing throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. Bible and "book of ages" of the Captain Charles (1811-1873) and Janet (1809-1896) Cook[e] family. Family Record leaves at...
New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 369pp. Some minor foxing and tiny soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed with an autograph quote signed by Gary on half title addressed to Edmond and another...
Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. Hardcover. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly...
Monte Carlo: Éditions du Livre, ca. 1948. First edition thus limited to 3150 copies of which this is no. 1484 of 3000 copies printed on "vélin sans bois," 8 volumes, 8vo; illustrations by the author and others; uniformly bound in original cream wrappers printed in red and black, glassine dust...