Pendle Hill, Australia: Doug & Helen Parker, 1982. Edition Not Stated. Stiff wraps. 8vo., 123pp., illustrated. -- Short diagonal crease to the rear cover. "This book recounts the history of a very active house sect which rejects any name and which has become world wide through the activity of its..... More
New York: Graphic Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., lite blue cloth, 160pp., illustrated. -- Contents: Net Fishing, Line Fishing, Hooks - Baits - Lures, Big Game Fishing, Fresh Water Fishing, Spear Fishing, Torch Fishing, Fish Ponds, Unusual Techniques of Old Hawaii, Octopus - Eel - Crab and Lobster, The..... More
Mitchell, Oregon: Hilltop Printing, 1996. First Edition. Comb bound wraps. 8vo., 261pp., illustrated. Table of Contents: Recipe for a Small Town. Early Settlement of Our Area. Town of Mitchell. Logging Around Mitchell. Churches in Mitchell. The Radical Change in Farming. Mitchell Floods. Trapping and Hunting. Crafts Mitchell Style. Recreatiion. --..... More
San Francisco: Van der Plas Publications, 2000. Second Printing. Hardcover. Royal 8vo., 209pp., blue paper over boards. "The book contains a comprehensive collection of illustrations derived mainly from the French cycling press and English and French manufacturers catalogues. The illustrations depict technical solutions of bicycle component and accessory design details..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, No Date. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover. circa 1870's. 12mo., 130pp., leather backed illustrated boards, index + 11pp. publishers catalog. Scuffing to surface and corners rubbed. Tips of spine lightly rubbed. Front hinge tender (not cracked). Verso of title page blank with some pencil markings (could..... More
Los Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., frontis portrait of the author, 108pp. + one unnumberd page with a printed poem, "Afterglow". -- Head and heel of spine moderately rubbed. Cloth covers have flecks to the cloth (see photos). -- Otherwise a firm, sound copy. More
River Forest Illinois: Dominican University Archives and Special Collections, 2012. First Edition, First Printing Limited to 1000 copies. Stiff wraps. Tall 8vo., 52pp. + colophon page, illustrated. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1897. First Edition (First Thousand). Hardcover. 8vo., 125pp. including index +16pp. short title catalogue of the publications of John Wiley and Sons arranged under subjects. More
London: R. Dodsley, 1744. First Edition. Full leather. 12mo., 299, 364pp., contemporary full leather bindings, engraved title pages. Volume 1 has original floral end-papers. Volume 2 lacks the floral endpapers and has only 1 blank endpaper. -- Vol. 2 has title page and following page loose (can be tipped back..... More
Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 1998. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to., glazed boards, 69pp., illustrated by Shigeo Nishimura. -- This is a story about a girl called Sakak, an A-Bomb survivor, who later died from Leukemia. "This book gives information on the historical background of the production of the A-Bomb..... More
Eugene, Oregon: Nature Unlimited Ink Publishing, 2013. Fifth Edition. Spiral bound wraps. 8vo., 132 pp., color illustrations throughout the text. -- Signed on the bottom of the title page by the author. More
New York City - San Francisco: Vorpal Gallery, 1992. Stiff wraps. 4to., 15pp. drawings (18 counting the front and rear cover). -- Vorpal Gallery Exhibition Catalog October 11 - November 10, 1990. -- Three sheets laid in loose listing Exhibitions, Television, Theatre, Publications, Commissions. More
Kristiania, H. Aschehoug & co, 1897. Frst Norwegian Edition. Hardcover. Royal 8vo., 526 + 553, 3/4 cloth & marbled boards, 2 v. fronts., illus., plates (part col.) ports., 3 color folding maps, folding diagram > Rids af Fram. "Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a...... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 250pp., frontispiece, illustrated by Pelagie Doane, lime green decorated covers, decorated endpapers with Judy coming down stairs with a flashlight. Unclipped dust jacket "5050 in upper right of dj flap & "110-150" at bottom lower flap. Top fore-edges purple. Dust..... More
Guatemala: Tipografia Nacional, 1928. Cloth-backed boards. 8vo., 560pp., portrait illustrations, indices, fe de erratas. Colophon: Se Acabo de Imprimir este Libro en Los Talleres de la Tipographia Nacional el 31 de Diciembre de 1928, Siendo Director Don Nicolas Reyes O. -- Signature of Ricardo Castañeda Paganini, (born 1908) on the..... More
Self Published, 2005. First Edition. Wraps. Square 4to., 66pp., illustrated with b&w and color photographs. "Lee Gibbs worked the past 75 years as a rancher and farmer. He is now 81 years young [at the time this book was published 2005], but started helping his dad on the home ranch..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition (Published January, 1925). 8vo., 233pp., olive colored cloth w/red borders, lettering in black, lettering on spine in gilt. Illustrated. -- A few signatures at rear of the book gently pulled (see photo). Else a clean and bright copy of the classice agricultural book..... More
Springfield, Mass - New York - Chicago: Phelps Publishing Co, 1907. Edition Not Stated. Original wraps. Short 8vo., 320pp., index, abbreviations and measures, illustrated with photographs. -- Some moderate wear to the outer extremities. -- Better than average condition for this type of publication. More
Philadelphia: De Silver, Jr., & Thomas, 1833. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 312pp., shiny cloth over boards. First free endpaper has signature of S.N.A. Downing, MD, Denver Colorado. -- Overall Moderate rubbing to the extremities, including the front and rear boards. Outer spine joint has cloth partially separated from..... More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo., 574pp., profusely illustrated, appendix. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1900. Cambridge Edition. 8vo., 548 pages, 3/4 leather with marbled boards, frontis portrait engraving of the author with tissue guard, editors note, table of contents, extensive index, index of first lines, index of titles. Head and heal of..... More
Golden Press: Western Publishing Company, Inc, 1968. Boards. 24 books, 480 pages in full color. Pictures by Garth Williams. -- Rubbing to box and tips of spines. -- Good to Good+ Condition. More
Waco: Standard Publishing Co, No Date. Edition Not Stated (Assume only Edition). Original wraps. 8vo., 14pp. -- Light horizontal crease to covers. Corners lightly bumped. -- No other notable defects. -- Meek served in Co. K, 5th TENN INF. C.S.A. A number of the poems are written about his service..... More
New York: Mouton, 1983. First American Edition. Hardcover. quarto, 235pp., illustrations, notes, appendices. -- "The book includes arabesques and calligraphs by Anwar Dil with Fuller's commentary. Comprehensive notes, illustrations, and four of Fuller's essays are also included"-dust jacket. -- Tiny bit of wear to the extremities of the dust jacket..... More
Chicago: Laird & Lee, Publishers, 1895. First Edition. Flexible cloth. 16mo., 368pp., incredibly helpful, very extensive alphabetical index. Covers some dust soiled; more so on the rear than the front. Worn/rubbed around the extremities. Covers some faded. -- A fragile item in better condition than most copies. Recipes for: Famers..... More