Garden City, NY: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. 329pp. Black cloth stamped in yellow on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained yellow. The seventh book featuring Fu Manchu. Name and date on front free...
New York: A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, (1934). Hardcover. 329pp. Black cloth stamped in yellow on the front panel and the spine panel, top edge stained yellow. The seventh book featuring Fu Manchu. Light toning to endpapers, a hint of foxing to fore edge. A near fine copy in good+...
New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2018. First Edition. Softcover. 153pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Small bruise to lower front corner else a fine copy. ; Oblong quarto.
Venetiis: Per Joan. Antoniu et fratres de Sabio, 1526. First Edition. Hardcover. [4], 64 numbered leaves. Later half vellum over marbled boards. Engraved title page, initials, woodcut printer's device of Lorenzo Lorio and Battista Putelletto at end, featuring Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a breaking wheel, and the palm of martyrdom...
London: T. Becket, 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. [6], 98pp. Old brown half calf binding, engraved title page. With the armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus on the front pastedown endpaper. Lacks half-title and ads, some wear to extremities, extremely mild foxing. A clean very good+ copy. Bound with The Honey...
London: Printed for Iohn Grismand, 1621. First Edition. Hardcover. [26], 317 (but actually 315), [11], 182, 185-264, [12]pp. Recent chocolate brown half calf over marbled boards, blind tooling on the sides, spine with five raised bands, gold lettering and decorations. Engraved title in compartments representing the history of creation by...
Pawling, NY: Published by the Author, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. 507, [1]p. Original green cloth stamped in blind on the sides, lettered in gold and stamped in blind on the spine. Frontispiece of the city of Poughkeepsie and numerous illustrations. Lacks the folding map. Light edge wear, spine ends bruised...
London: Printed for T. Woodward, 1724. First English Edition. Hardcover. [18], 163, 252, 152pp. Contemporary full speckled panelled calf with large fleurons at corners, spine in six compartments with raised bands and gold decorations, speckled edges. Frontispiece of Hernan Cortès engraved by George Vertue, six engraved foldout plates, and a....
Milano: Corriere Della Sera, 1927. First Edition. Newspaper. The set includes issues #1 to 42 and 49 to 52. The Corriere dei Piccoli, founded in 1908 by Silvio Spaventa Filippi, is considered the first comic published in Italy. Among the characters appearing in these issues are il Signor Bonaventura by...
Boston: Balch Brothers Co., 1905. Hardcover. Thirteen volume set. Brown half morocco over marbled boards, spine with Art Nouveau motifs stamped in gold, gilt lettering, silver and green decorated endpapers, top edges gilt. Each volume with numerous photographs and illustrations mostly in b&w. Small loss to the spine ends of.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 357pp. Original black decorated cloth stamped in silver on the front panel and the spine panel. A pulp adventure-cum-romance novel set in Venezuela. From the flap: "(Stribling) matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning in an adventure of oil...
Napoli: Per Francesco Benzi, 1681. First Edition. Hardcover. [10], 161pp. Contemporary full limp vellum, sprinkled edges. Initials, head-pieces, tail-pieces, one plate with an engraving. Includes a series of anecdotes, mostly religious in tone, on the values of charity, a chapter on the states of the souls of purgatory, and more...
Lakewood, CO: Millipede Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, this being #33. Signed by Thomas Tessier on the limitation page. 292pp. Black cloth with color illustration affixed to the front panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Introduction by Jack Ketchum. A fine copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing but with price on front flap. Dark blue cloth stamped in gold on the spine, top edge stained blue, map affixed to rear free endpaper. Upper front corner bruised, some faint creases to last two pages and rear endpapers...
San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. xxii, 297, [1]p. Brown cloth stamped in black on the front panel and the spine panel. Signed by fifty-seven contributors including Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Michael Bishop, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Brian Stableford, Rachel Pollack, China Mieville, Michael...
Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Petrum Justice, 1749. Hardcover. [6], x, 320, 6pp. Contemporary full calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Frontispiece and sixteen insterted engraved plates. Covers are well worn, several names on the front endpapers and dates on the rear endpapers. Lacks the author's portrait. A good copy. ; 24mo.
Bruxelles / Paris: Dero-Becker / Aubert, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial boards. Fifty plates with more than three hundred illustrations by Madou, Lauters, Tavernier, Leroy, and others. Text in French. The plates are clean but for some very mild toning. Front cover almost completely detached, toning to endpapers and...
Washington, DC: 1831-47. Hardcover. Light brown half calf over marbled boards. A collection of twenty-six congressional speeches from the years 1831 to 1847 including: Speech of Mr. Allen, of Ohio, on the Bill to Separate the Government from the Banks; Speech of Mr. Wall, of New Jersey, on the Bill...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. Illustrated by Benett, Leon; Philippoteaux, Paul. Hardcover. Uniform Edition. xviii, 432pp. Bright red decorated cloth stamped in black on the front and in gold and black on the spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations and facsimiles of ancient drawings. In two parts. Translated from the...
Patavii (Padova): Apud Joannem Manfrè, 1721. First Edition. Hardcover. Four parts in one. [16], 107, [6]pp index; [4], 121, [9]pp index; [4], 149, [10]pp index; [4], 101, [7], [43]pp + corrigenda. Half vellum and patterned paper over boards, spine lettered in gold, marbled edges. Light scattered foxing throughout, tiny worm...
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First US Edition. Hardcover. 342, [1]p + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Original dark green boards, paper label lettered in green and red affixed to the spine panel, top edge gilt, decorated endpapers. Collects nine essays: Locomotion in the Twentieth Century, The Probable...
Boston: American Tract Society, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. xx, 330pp. Dark green cloth stamped in gold on the spine panel. Two foldout maps, four inserted plates. Mild scattered foxing, light soiling to cloth. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo.
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005. Illustrated by Morris, Harry O. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 448 numbered copies. Signed by F. Paul Wilson on the limitation page. Light brown cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel. Color illustrations and dustjacket art by Harry O. Morris. A fine copy...
Roma: Dai torchj di Carlo Mordacchini, 1821. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second enlarged edition. xxiv, ciii, [4], 107pp + 54 plates. Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, red label lettered in gold affixed to the spine. All edges uncut. Engraved title, thirteen large engraved vignettes, fifty-four plates (three of which are...
New York: The Circle Publishing Company, 1909. Illustrated by Both, Armand. First US Edition. Hardcover. The first P. G. Wodehouse's novel published in the United States. vi, 349, [1]p. Tan pictorial cloth stamped in black and red on the front panel and the spine panel. Frontispiece and five inserted plates...
