Original Art. No date but circa 1940s. Original gouache painting on illustration board depicting a heavy duty resistance welder, probably manufactured by the Simmons Machine Tool Corporation of Albany, NY. Measures 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24"). Signed by Lili Rethi on the lower left corner. Rethi was famous..... More
New York: Printed for the Author, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 636pp. Original brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides and in gold on the spine. Sixteen illustrations and a folding map of Harlem. Wear to corner tips, light soiling to cloth, the spine was rebacked but the original..... More
San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, 1865. First Edition. Flexible cloth. 100pp. Original brown limp cloth decorated and lettered in gold, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers. A story in verse of California's Volunteer company that fought in the Civil War with the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry. Long inscription in pencil..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936. First US Edition. Hardcover. 337pp. Full brown large-grain calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. A fine copy. In Hubin, 1994, p. 696.; Octavo. More
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. xv, 525pp. Beautiful green half morocco over marbled boards, covers tooled in blind, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold and with gilt animal motifs. Signed and inscribed by Count Felice Scheibler on the half title page. With 250 wood engravings..... More
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Reissue. Unpaginated (52pp including covers). Original pictorial covers. Collects several strips in color. Interestingly, Frederick A. Stokes issued a warning to the trade about this title specifying that it had already been published under a different title and did not contain any..... More
Milano: Molina, 1821-1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Collana degli Antichi Storici Greci Volgarizzati. Three volumes bound in one. xlvi, 192pp; 248pp; x, 364pp. Contemporary full vellum with red and green leather labels lettered in gold on the spine. Engraved foldout map of the Persian Empire in volume 1; engraved foldout plate..... More
Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. vi, 114pp. Blue cloth with paper label affixed to front panel. Small stain to front endpapers, light scattered foxing throughout, cloth and label a bit soiled. A very good copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. More
Milano: Corriere Della Sera, 1929. First Edition. Newspaper. The set includes fifty-two issues. 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 Sergio Tofano, Sor Pampurio by Carlo..... More
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. Illustrated by Alken, Henry. First Edition. Hardcover. 326pp + 4pp ads. Red cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine. Illustrated title and frontispiece, five inserted color plates and forty-three illustrations on wood by Henry Alken, engraved by Cook and Co. Housed in a...... More
Fitchburg, MA: J. Garfield Printer, 1836. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 111pp. Original yellow wrappers, stitched. Wear along the edges, scattered foxing throughout more pronounced on the first and last few leaves, name in pencil on front cover, lacks back cover. A good+ copy. Uncommon. Sabin 93600. ; Octavo. More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. 270pp. Original brown publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt on the front panel and the spine panel. With thirty-one large foldout maps and sketches including New York bay and harbor, Hudson river from Haverstraw to Poughkeepsie, Florida peninsula, Florida reefs..... More
Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swains, [1793]. First Edition. Hardcover. 175, iii, [3], 178-291, [ii], [1], [24]pp. Contemporary full calf with red label lettered in gold on the spine. The Acts of the Second Congress are of particular importance because they codified the first ten amendments to the..... More
Kinderhook, NY. Print. Edition limited to 10 numbered copies. 3/16" Gator mounted giclée print. Measures approximately 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18"). Condition is fine. More
Kinderhook, NY. Print. Edition limited to 10 numbered copies. 3/16" Gator mounted giclée print (image and limerick mounted separately). Measures approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10"). Condition is fine. More
Kinderhook, NY. Print. Edition limited to 10 numbered copies (this being #2). 3/16" Gator mounted giclée print. Measures approximately 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18"). Condition is fine. More
San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1979. Illustrated by Hill, Cathy. First Edition. Hardcover. First hardcover edition, limited to 700 copies. Signed by Jack Vance on the title page. 190pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine panel. Frontispiece and dustjacket art by Cathy Hill. A fine copy..... More
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 600 numbered copies. Signed by Jack Vance on the limitation page. 389pp. Yellow cloth lettered in metallic green on the front panel and the spine panel, yellow endpapers. Wraparound dustjacket art by Steve Hickman. A fine copy in..... More
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Publications, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Stapled wraps. A complete set of the Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers series published in 1990-1991. Includes issues #1 to 19, all in high grade.; 17 x 26 cm. More
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..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875. First US Edition. Hardcover. Issued simultaneously in cloth and wrappers. 110pp + map and publisher's advertisement. Original decorated brown cloth stamped in gold and blind on the front panel and decorated in gold on the spine panel. With forty-eight illustrations. Owner's inscription (dated..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. 139pp. Original cloth stamped in blind on the sided and gold on the spine. Frontispiece and one inserted plate. The story of the life of Uncle Jack, an African man who was sold as a slave in the 1770s and brought..... More
Binghamton, NY: Whispers Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Signed by F. Paul Wilson and Stuart Schiff on the front pastedown endpaper. 365pp. Black cloth lettered in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, orange endpapers, top edge stained orange. The first appearance..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in the United Kingdom as Right Ho, Jeeves. 321pp. Full red morocco, spine decorated in gold, with raised bands and gold lettering, marbled endpapers, rounded corners. The second novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. A fine copy. McIlvaine..... More
