New York: Viking, 2006. Hardcover. First Edition. First Pinting. 334 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket sharp and in mylar cover. Text block tight and clean.
Signed by Elizabeth Gilbert on the title page. This memoir was a runaway bestseller in 2006, later made into the hit movie of the same name in 20010 starring Julia Roberts. Fine / Fine. More
Batavia, IL: Ball Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Second Edition. xviii, 422 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012. Hardcover. Third Edition. xxxviii, 312 pp. 4to. Slight bumping to edges of dust jacket and cover board. Clean and crisp within. Very Good / Very Good. More
New York: Rizzoli, 2019. Hardcover. First Edition. 238 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Gossage, John. Washington DC: Loosestrife Editions, 1987. Limited Edition. Unpag. Elephant Folio. Rigid clean plastic dust jacket has some scuffing, protects silver gelatin print that is inset in the front cover which is covered in black cloth, gray embossed titling runs along spine on cover.
Eighteen photorgaphs by John Gossage taken in Berlin between 1982 & 1986. Printed in an edition of 500 copies, this being #426 and signed by John Gossage on the limitation page. More
Haverhill, NH: J.F.C. Hayes, 1841. Full Leather. First Edition. vi, 240 pp. Full leather binding with considerable wear and scuffing, hinge beginning to split at head of spine. First free endpaperhas split at gutter but still tight to text block. Darkening to interior pages, foxing to prelims but hardly present beyond. Various pencil notations to first free endpapers, doodles from its 19th century owners.
An early history of the area that now comprises Coos County, New Hampshire, the northernmost county in the state. Good. More
Dallas, TX: Pressworks Publishing, 1981. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. 90 pp. 4to. Light buff colored blank dust jacket. Quarter cloth binding with list of books within printed on pastepaper cover, very light color variation. Clean and crisp with errata slip laid in.
Published in an edition of 225 copies, 1-200 offered for sale. Unisgned, and appears to be copy "B", see photograph. Fine / Fine. More
Grey, Joel. New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed on the title page by Academy Award and Emmy Award winner, Joel Grey. Fine / Fine. More
London: Privately Printed, 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 205 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy. Fine / Fine. More
London: John Murray, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. lxxviii, 716, 94, 32 pp. Burgundy trade binding with blind embossed borders and floral motifs at corners, gold embossed titling to spine, minor staining to rear cover. Clean and crisp within.
Contains article by John Clark Hawkshaw (1841-1921), the son of John Hawkshaw (1811-1891), explaining his father's proposale for a cross-channel tunnel from England to France. Contains three large folding plates (V, VI, VII) in Fine condition that illustrate the path of the tunnel, elevations and soils through which it would be built, and cross sections of the completed tunnel construction. The "Chunnel," completed in 1994, follows a very similar path. Also contains Benjamin Baker's explaining the now iconic, Forth Bridge that crosses the Firth of Forth in..... More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. xi, 289, x, 349 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copies with dust jackets in mylar covers. Like new. Fine / Fine. More
Eugene, OR: Privately Published, n.d. Spiral Bound. 277 pp. 4to. Black plastic spiral bound volume with heavier paper cover. Numbers that appear to be phone numbers written lightly at head of front cover, very small tear at foot of cover. Slight age toning to pages, inscribed by the author in black ink on title page. Clean within. Very Good. More
Dennis, Wesley. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. 224 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has numerous chips, tears, and losses, now in mylar cover. Brown cloth binding with light wear at edges, clean within.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Very Good / Good. More
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1886. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. xii, 450 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's binding with a blind embossed anchor front and rear, gold embossed titling to spine. Yellow endpapers, with ownership stamp on the front pastedown. Contains four plates, three folding. All in Very Good condition. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1792. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iii-vi, [1], [1]-195, [1]-26, [iii]-v, [1], [197]-460, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Herschel's further observations of Saturn, includes a folding plate engraved by Basire illustrating three views of Saturn during its rotation.
This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Hardcover. First Edition. Third Printing. Tan publisher's binding with typical late 19th century decoration. Slight bumping to corners, clean within.
An important early work on bioluminescence. Very Good. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1860. Three Quarter Leather. Revised Edition. xxii, 461, 494, 526 pp. 8vo. Beautiful three quarter leather binding with marbled paper insets to boards, the same marbled paper endpapers, and the edges of the text block marbled to match. Stunning. Elaborate gold tooling to spine, red title patch for "Irvings Works" and dark green leather title patch for title and volume number; title patch with volume on Volume III has a small divot where it was bumped. Slight scuffing to boards and spine. Heavily illustrated and clean within. This is an ex-library set with small stamps withing, checkout card and date due slip pasted to rear endpapers. This is the "Sunnyside Edition" of Irving's Works. Very Good... More
Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2021. Hardcover. First Edition. First English Edition. 328 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Malaysia: Panyaprateep Foundation, 2017. Hardcover. First Edition. xiv, 827 pp. 8vo. Clean, crips copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: The Punch Office, 1846. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. xii, 142 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustration; frontispiece has a 1" piece missing from the upper left corner. Light offsetting to the title page from the illustrations. Very Good. More
Cruikshank, George. London: How & Parsons, 1842. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 322, [2] ads, 316 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather on each volume has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume, matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Original cover cloth and spine bound in at rear of each volume. Red silk ribbon markers. George Cruikshank illustration to title page and frontispiece of each volume. Fine. More
Meadows, Kenney. London: The Punch Office, 1847. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. Second Printing. 183 pp. 12mo. Burgundy leather spines and corners, spine leather has faded slightly to brown. Five raised bands to spine, gold embossed tooling to bands, titles, and date at base of each volume, marbled insets to each volume and matching marbled endpapers. Bound by Bartlett of Boston. Original front & rear cover cloth and spine bound in at rear of each volume. Red silk ribbon markers. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Kenney Meadows. Very Good. More
London: Werner Shaw Ltd., 1986. Hard Cover. First Edition. ix, 224 pp. 8vo. Very minor scuffing to dust jacket, slight sunning to spine, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Signed by the author on the title page. A wonderful book by the wife of Percy Muir on move of the firm of Elkin Mathews and their family to the countryside in northwest Essex in 1938 and where they stayed throughout World War II. Fine / Fine. More
Bull, Rene. Oxford, England: Bodleian Library, 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. First Bodleian Library Edition. Unpag. Clean, crisp copy. Silk ribbon page marker. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
USA: 1950. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong 8vo. Spiral bound interactive children's book. Housed in its original box that is in Very Good condition.
Readers get to fix the toys by taking the heads (missing one of the original eight) in the "shipping box" and inserting them in the page where the doll needs its head repaired/replaced. No publisher listed for this book, may have been created by a toy company. More