Birmingham, England: Printed By John Baskerville and Sold By the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1765. Small Folio. [12], [1-2] iii-xiii, 504 pages, [16]. Bibliographic references and indexes. The eighth edition in English, the first by John Baskerville. A very nice copy lacking the errata sheet as is typical (Gaskill)..... More
1905. Color baseball card of the leading players of the 1905 New York Giants who won the World Series 4-1 against the Philadelphia Athletics. Here was the pitching staff of Christy Mathewson, Iron Man McGinnity, Red Amers and Luther "Dummy" Taylor. Fred Bowerman was the catcher and Fred Mertes who..... More
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. First Edition. Octavo. 503 pages, (1)pp index to Washington‘s farewell address and 22pp. ads. The Title page further notes: Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable. One County, One Constitution, One Destiny. A fascinating book which covers areas not usually seen in 19th Century..... More
Richmond, Virginia: B.F. Johnson, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 429 pages, 14 pages index, (4)pp. ads. illustrated. Hampton commanded the famed "Hampton's Legion." Following his recovery from a wound received in the early fighting of the Peninsula campaign in 1862, he was promoted to brigadier general and transferred to the cavalry..... More
Tunbridge Wells, Kent: The Founding Press, 1992. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 48. 10 (1) pages. The text is taken from The Little Review, May and September 1917. This work is T.S. Eliot's only short story from which two sentences must be added..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926. First Edition. Small Quarto. 304 pages. Illustrated. Not only has the author assiduously noted the order of the earliest English language books on the law, but he has tabulated the libraries where they can be found. As the leading professor of Law at Harvard in..... More
Roma: (Tipografia Poliglota Vaticana), 2006. First Edition. Large Octavo. Volume 2. xlvi, 1174 pages. Index. Bibliography. M. Pilar Fox y Fox is not only an archivist but a major historian, not just on the history of women in the Catholic tradition of Mexico but it has significance for all of..... More
Aix: J. David, Imprimeur Du Roy, 1715. Folio. Frontispiece, Xlvii, 522, (21)pp table, (3)pp. (errata) including a privilege extract, (1)pp. to the binder. In 1715, he published, Histoire des plantes which is the first edition of the local flora of the Provenance. It includes an account of the history of..... More
London: John Lane; the Bodly Head, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. 4 preliminary leaves, 151 [1] pages, (16)pp ads, illustrated by Patten Wilson. After 1905 she married William Chesson the close friend of Kipling, but to most her maiden name (Nora Hopper) was how she was best known. She wrote primarily..... More
Boston; (1984): Lothrop. First Edition. Octavo. 250 pages. When Mrs. Rebecca Pomeroy lost virtually all of her family just two years before the Civil War, she sought some form of service to those who also were suffering. With the advent of the Civil War, Dorothea Dix invited her to work..... More
New York: Century Co., 1901. Octavo. 297 pages, 3rd edition, expanded to add his lectures on U.S. Grant, Admiral Dewey, the American character, brotherhood and the heroic virtues and finally on the duties of an American. These additions emphasize a life of service based on virtue not an opportunity to..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Large Octavo. 417 pages, index. Title page adds: with 84 illustrations from Photographs and a map. This book belonged to Robert L. Coates who was with the 131st Signal Radio Intelligence Company. In the maps on the endpapers in the back of..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. Mixed state with pound symbol on sign post 100 pound;, engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, regular title page, 624pp. illustrated by Phiz. Later state, half-title, frontispiece, engraved vignette title page (pound100), regular title page, 624pp., with the 14 line errata, illustrated by..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First Edition. Octavo. Later state, half-title, frontispiece, engraved vignette title page with pound symbol on sign post (£100), regular title page, 624pp., with the 14 line errata, illustrated by Phiz. "Martin Chuzzlewit is a rich old man who has hired a nurse to take care..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1932. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 431(1)pp. The Gods Arrive continues the story of Vance Weston and Halo Spear Tarrant of Hudson River Bracketed. Bound in blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, spine lettering gilt, spine faded, a few spots of soiling and..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 358pp., folding frontispiece, illustrated with over 200 illustrations. He also includes information on of bank notes forged prior to 1817 in which 300 people were hanged. In the first three months of that year there were 128 prosecutions and by..... More
New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1947. Octavo. Greatly enlarged in both text and illustrations, xxiv, 611pp., xxxvii, (1)pp., folding map, fully illustrated, bound in blue cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, in clipped pictorial dust jacket with chips to head and a small chip to bottom..... More
New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. xiii, 236(1)pp., vii, (2)pp. The author came from a long line of family members of printers from the late 18th century on. Hunter recollects printing shops and remembers how he was influenced by William Morris and the Kelmscott press. He later..... More
[Roycrofters, New York, 1900]. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is #583 signed by Elbert Hubbard and beautifully illuminated in green and peach by John Juenker with his signature. A fine bright copy bound in red suede lettered n gilt, housed within original box, though quite..... More
(Flagstaff, AZ., 1989): Northland Pubishing, First Edition. Small Quarto. From the library of Joe Beeler, inscribed by the author "This book was specially bound/for our dear friend,/ Joe and Sharon Beeler./ Many thanks and /may God bless you,/Mike and Billi Joe/McFarland/8-8-89." 136pp. illustrated by Joe Beeler, bound in 1/4 dark..... More
Flagstaff, AZ; (1971: Northland Press. Limited Edition. Square Octavo. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is # 95, signed by Joe Beeler and Ben K. Green and includes an original ink and wash drawing by Joe Beeler. 73pp., bound in 1/4 light brown leather over dark brown cloth lettered..... More
London/New York: John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1905. 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" . 5 1/2" x 4 1/2". Flowers of Parnassus series. 43pp., beautifully illustrated by Jessie M. King who was known for her Art Nouveau style (Glascow School) drawings but she also designed jewelry, greeting cards, fabric..... More
El Paso, TX; (nd): McMath Company. Oblong Octavo. 55pp. illustrated by the author. The famous story of the lost Dutchman's gold mine hidden in the Supertition Mountains. Never found but is still sought after. This is the story of drama, adventure, mystery and murder. Bound in yellow pictorial wraps lettered..... More
Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1914. First Edition. Quarto. . This is a Book of Images of Men of Affairs as the cartoonist sees them, personalities that may be unknown to you, but which live and breathe and have their being in the imagination of the caricaturist. This gives the men..... More
New York: Charles Scribber's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Octavo. 246pp., folding map, with appendices A, B and C along with index. Illustrated by Carl Rungius. This is the tale of hunting, during rain and storm, for special animals; much of the country traversed was unknown to white men, some of..... More