Written and printed matter, documents, photos, individual leafs or plates, bookmarks and items used inadvertantly as bookmarks, prescription slips, receipts, playbills, business cards, memos, newspaper clippings.....
viii.480 pgs. Fine hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight. Another timeless handbook for collectors, librarians and booksellers. With 3,500 titles, an additional 2,000 titles have been added to the previous 1989 edition. The 1978, 1986 and 1993 prices are included, as well as new sections on prizes and lists such as Pulitzers, Bookers, Edgars, Hugos, National Book Awards, Caldecotts, PEN/Faulkners, Nebulas, Newberys and Burgess. You are guided on which books to collect, how to identify first editions, evaluate condition and care for your collecti... View More...
Publisher:
New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press: 1905
Seller ID: 2563
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Very Good condition aesthetically pleasing partial set, small red cloth hardcovers, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edges gilt, bindings tight. Vol. II Flaubert has rubbing to cloth of front and back covers, else minimal shelfwear. Frontis portraits with protective tissues intact. Four volumes I, II, III, IV, VI. (Vol V Alphonse Daudet not present). Each volume begins with an introduction, followed by the authors' works. Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece, Seashore Drama, An Episode Under the Terror, La Grande Breteche, The Conscript, A Passion in the Desert; Flaubert: A Sim... View More...
Publisher:
Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office.: 1963
Seller ID: 2607
Binding: Original Wraps, Softcover
Condition: Very Good+
v.78pgs+ large 24'x32" foldout colored map and a 9"x14" foldout table of "The Correlation of the Rock Formations of North-Central Vermont and Adjacent Quebec". Very Good+ condition, clean, undamaged. Envelope in back cover for map and foldout table. Main Sections: Abstract, Introduction, Geology, Intrusive igneous rocks and associated alteration products, Metamorphism, Structure, Asbestos Deposits, Other Mineral Resources, References Cited, Index, Illustrations. Book# 2607. View More...
Publisher:
Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office.: 1967
Seller ID: 2608
Binding: Soft Cover, Original Wraps
Condition: Very Good+
vi.45pgs+2 large foldout maps about 32"x40", in rear envelope, clean, unmarked, undamaged. Sections: Summary, Geology and Mineral Resources: introduction, investigations, geology, mineral resources; Economic Appraisal: introduction, acknowledgments, mining claims, economic appraisal, potential of areas adjoining Pine Mountain Primitive Area-metals, nonmetallics, mineral fuels, conclusions; References Cited; Illustrations. 2 figures within text and 2 large foldouts. Book # 2608. View More...
Publisher:
Chicago and New York, Scott, Foresman & Co. [The Lake English Classics]: 1898
Seller ID: 1991
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
173pgs. Very Good condition blue cloth hardcover, The Lake English Classis Series. Very faint rubbing to spine edges and corners, slight darkening of cloth to spine. Scant remnant of a previous owner's bookplate (art deco style?) on front endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked. Contents: Preface; Introduction: Chaucer, Dryden, The Story of Palamon and Arcite, Dryden's Style, Dryden's Estimate of Chaucer, Suggestions to Teachers, Bibliography; Text [with footnotes]; Notes; Glossary; Index. Laid in is a piece of ephemera-a vintage bookmark-from Scott Foresman & Co. Publishers, advertising Robert... View More...
No place, no date. About 25 pgs. Very good condition staple-bound report, light staining and smudging to green covers. Published circa 1994 by the Endangered Species Coalition presumably to fight the backlash against and scapegoating of the Endangered Species Act reauthorization efforts, in light of challenges asserted by proponents of The Private Property Protection Act, Proposition 300 and various press coverages appearing at that time. Topics to be spearheaded include a brief overview of the Endangered Species Act, medicinal value of species, ecosystem protection, environment as early warni... View More...
196pgs+adv. Very Good condition softcover, original stiff red paper cover. Light wear to edges and corners, bottom of spine chipped. Original paper price tag intact on spine. Internally clean and unmarked, paper is a bit stiff and age darkened. Text block is untrimmed and pages after pg 144 remain unopened (top edges of page gathers are still connected, not cut open to separate pages). Included is a vintage London Transport bus punch ticket, Route 19 1-1/2d, Finsbury Park to Streatham, which was apparently used as a bookmark by a previous owner. Text is in the French language, translated from... View More...
160pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Detailed photography and instructive diagrams throughout. Chapters: Shaped and Themed Books, Accordion-Fold Books, Pocket Books, Thick Sewn Books, Transforming Everyday Life, Cloth Books, Collaborations, Compilations and Exchanges, Layers and Recesses, Containers: Protection and Display, Materials and Methods. Conclusion. Contributors. Index. Metric Conversion Chart. [Please note the dimensions of this book will not fit into a flat rate envelope.] ISBN 0806958138. Book#2604. View More...
Unpaginated. [circa pre-1906] Very Good condition navy blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front cover, boards affixed with vintage 3-hole binding clips which may allow removal of plates for framing if desired. Light rubbing to corners. Clean and unmarked but for gift inscription on front blank dated Dec. 21st, 1906. High quality cream colored paper. One plate has a one inch closed marginal tear and crinkled corner, image not affected. Nineteen photogravures from artwork displayed in the Louvre circa 1906 exhibition, each attributed to "Ed.Hautecoeur, Photo". Contents: The Virgin and Ange... View More...
adv. xxii. 1100pgs. Fine condition hardcover. Clean, tight, unmarked, prisitne condition. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, endpapers depicting a book auction at Sotheby's circa 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson. Continues to be an essential reference tool for buying, selling and evaluating scarce books, serial publications, maps, autographs, prints based on hammer prices at 35 major auction houses. An introduction and table of abbreviations precedes lists of auction houses, named consignors and season's sales, followed by sections on autographs and manuscripts (Part I) and Books (Part... View More...
Publisher:
New York, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing: 2001
Seller ID: 2603
ISBN: 1579901808
Binding: Hard Cover, Pictorial Boards
Condition: Fine
128pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Pictorial cover and boards with detailed photography throughout. Everything needed for the aspiring hobbyist as well as experiences artist to learn how to make handmade books in a variety of binding forms. Sections: Introduction, Basics, Vocabulary, Tools, Techniques. Project Section: Concertina, Slit Concertins, Star Tunnel Book, Pamphlet and Running Stitch, Tacket Binding, Coptic Stitch, Recessed Skewer Binding. Contributing Artists. Acknowledgements. Index. Colophon. By the author of Cover to Cover. ]Please note the dimensions of this book will not all... View More...
A folded leaflet of Abraham Lincoln ephemera: "Lincoln the Soldier"an address delivered over radio Station WGBS February 12, 1925 by Joseph Lewis (1889-1968), president of the Freethinker Association of America. Fourth printing, the Freethought Press Association, NY. Leaflet is creased from being folded in half, with a smudge to lower right front corner, otherwise clean and unmarked.#2316. View More...
Publisher:
Rockefeller Center, New York, Pocket Books Incorporated: 1949
Seller ID: 2488
Binding: Vintage Paperback
Condition: Good to Very Good
292 pgs. Good to Very Good condition vintage paperback. May 1949 first printing of first Pocket Book edition, with Gertrude the kangaroo logo design inside covers and red text block edges, #586 on spine. Binding sound, light rubbing along spine edges and margins, pages are clean and unmarked, with uniform age darkening along margins. A huge variety of stories, articles and poems in a tiny package by renowned writers and poets, this format was originally intended as a small take-along for a weekend holiday or the like. Table of Contents, Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern, Valedictory by M... View More...
vi.62pgs.Very Good condition hardcover in a fragmented jacket, preserved as intact by a clear archival cover. Published as World War I was winding down, this portaiture, a journal of love letters which are a combination of poignant, endearing and humorous, provides a standpoint of what it was like to be a soldier stationed on the ground in France during WWI. 60 illustrations by Bill Breck bring life to each letter. Book#2582. View More...
Vintage prescription form. Very Good condition vintage oculist's hand written prescription for an eye wash formula, with pharmacist's envelope in which it had been folded, undated, circa early twentieth century. Oculist is Thomas Dixon, M.D. in the Arbuckle Building, 367 to 373 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY . Pharmacist is Thomas Lamb, 84 Livingston St. Brooklyn NY "established 1799". #2444. View More...
Publisher:
Pennsylvania, The Americanist Press: 1967
Seller ID: 1213
Binding: Soft Cover, Stiff Wraps
Condition: Very Good
Sm. 8vo. 81 pgs. Very Good condition softcover in stiff wraps as issued. Limited Edition of 200 copies, a facsimile of the 1860 Rudd & Carleton edition. Publisher's signature penned on limitation page opposite title page. The Americanist Reprint Series. An earnest and thoughtful effortt by Ms. Whitman, a colleague of Poe's, to rectify the notoriously damaging and purportedly inaccurate biography written about Poe by Griswold. Clean and unmarked, with the exception of an inscription on the half title page: "Thomas Michael Kane The Americanists!". #1213. View More...
Publisher:
Boston, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1884
Seller ID: 2557
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
xiii.543pgs. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt and black decoration to front and spine. Attractive, ompact and sound. Unmarked but for previous owner neatly penned on front enpaper. Includes a small clipping of a prayer by Frances Ripley Havergal (1876-1839) a religious poet. Pages slightly and evenly age toned. Closed tear to the middle of two adjacent pages, likely a result of being folded in half at some time in the past, text not affected. A complete collection of works by this poet arranged in sections, including some poems by Elizabeth H. Whittier, as well as various maxims, hymns, ballads... View More...
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