Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1932. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 100 copies printed on hand made paper. Engraved frontispiece, 391p. including index, illustrated with photographic images and engravings of Hunt and several title pages of those books he collected using the exact principles of descriptive bibliography. Essential for..... More
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1884. Octavo. 2 volume set. volume I, xiii, 290pp., volume II, viii, 283pp. with 115 illustrations by John Ashton, mostly unopened. Smith worked with the British Museum's Keeper of Plates to identify the plates and their date for this two volume set. The detailed index..... More
Montreal: John Lovell and Son (printers), 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 309 Pages illustrated with photographic images. Vieth was one of a small number of Canadians to see active duty in the Crimean War. He served with the 63rd West Suffolk Regiment (later the Manchesters). The accounts of the three-day assault..... More
London: Printed for J. Booth, 1815. Octavo. Third edition. Folding map frontispiece, 2 folding panoramic views depicting Waterloo, xcviii, (1)-112pp. Lt. Col. John Booth not only provided very early first hand accounts of the Battle of Waterloo but provided a map and two folding panoramic sketches depicting Waterloo which became..... More
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, 1894. First Edition. Small Octavo. 237 pages, (2)pp. ads. and index. Dr. Reeves was an advocate of municipal hygiene in his hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia, he was the author of a bill for the State Board of Health. In 1885 he founded the Public Health Association..... More
East Aurora, New York: (The Roycrofters, 1899). Limited Edition. Octavo. 150 pages, [2], limited to 620 copies, signed by Ali Baba [Elbert Hubbard], illuminated by Anna l. Paine, made into a printed book by the Roycrofters and completed, then God! this Saint Cassiodorus Day, anno Christi, mdcccxcix (see page 150..... More
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1860. Octavo. New Edition. 408 pages, 7 plates illustrated by Felix Octavius and Carr Darley. A woman of letters and philanthropist. Her marriage to an affluent merchant became difficult since he disapproved of her literary efforts. She nevertheless persisted writing anonymously an historical epic on the..... More
New York: Christian Herald, 1895. Octavo. Frontispiece, 22 pages, with 15 mounted wild flowers from the Holy Land (e.g., the Lily, the mustard seed, cumin, flax, and others. There had been several volumes with hand painted illustrations of holy land flowers and plants but here are the actual examples, each..... More
Pasadena; (1916): Radiant Life Press. Small Octavo. 21 pages. (1)pp. ad. A poem of the author's ode to Saint [George Wharton] James and his pet sparrow. staple bound in gray stiff paper wraps lettered and decorated in dark green and gilt. A near fine copy. More
New York; (1907): Dodge Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. 190 pages, (3)pp. ads. While the author is a mystic and favored by collectors of occult books, it is easily readable and of value for personal self-evaluation. A very nice copy bound in green cloth lettered in gilt color pictorial paste..... More
(New Castle, Virginia, 1989): Cheap Street. Limited Edition. Octavo. The present copy is #23 of 58 copies signed by the author and illustrator Judy King-Rieniets. 78pp. An intersting story with very dark possibilities when science meddles in the most intimate human act -- bearing and delivering a child. Your choice....... More
Notre Dame, IN; (1999): The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. First Edition. Quarto. 400pp. Many full page color plates along with several smaller color and black & white illustrations and photographs. A scholarly treatise on the development of Taos, New Mexico as an artist colony, and the..... More
(Arizona Phonographic Association, Phoenix, 1970). First Edition. Quarto. 208 pages illustrated throughout with photographic images. Signed by Dorothy McLaughlin issued in special binding and slipcase. Dorothy and her late husband collected hundreds of photographs of Phoenix. Most of the original collection is in the Distinctive Collections of Arizona State University..... More
Pasadena: Radiant Life Press, 1916. First Edition. Small Octavo. 62 pages. Unlike the many fine books on the Southwest, here George Wharton James deals with those who have either unnecessary worry or become irritating as they push their ideas on others. The chapter on religion is particularly fascinating as he..... More
(London) nd [ca.1960]: Golden Cokerel Press. Limited Edition. Thin Tall Octavo. Limited to 500 copies of which this is #204. 28 pages, color engravings by John Petts. A fine copy in original glassine which has some wear along edges. This is a reply to Against Women [Araith Ddychan i'r Gwragedd)..... More
London: John Lane and the Bodley Head, 1895. First Edition. Small Octavo. 160 unopened pages, with 16 pages of publisher's ads. Limited to 550 copies for England only. Baron De Tabley is representative of the last stage of Victorian poetry which here has his poem "Circe". The Metropolitan Museum of..... More
New York; (1964): The Viking Press. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 628pp. Kesey attended Stanford University and later served as an experimental drug subject (LSD) and aide in a hospital, an experience that led to his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He was credited with helping to..... More
Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898. First Edition. Small Octavo. 115pp. The author studied art and theology and in 1887 met Bliss Carman, the poet, with whom he later collaborated. Beside publishing his poetry, he translated eight of Maeterlinck's plays into English. A handsome copy bound by B.G. in full..... More
(Azul Quinta Press, Fallbrook, CA. 1965). Octavo. 164pp. A handy field identification guide to the species encountered within the state. The author discusses mechanisms of isolation and inbreeding of various species along with specific fauna where they live and when and how they are found. Bound in blue cloth, spine..... More
Tucson, Az; (1977): The University of Arizona Press. First Edition. Small Quarto. Color frontispiece, 254pp., which includes a bibliography and the district or locality of the minerals. Several of the specimens found have numbers that correspond to the locations on the maps at the rear. There are line drawings of..... More
np(1906): Herbert Russell. Octavo. Salesman sample with blank sheets at rear for salesmen's orders, illustrated with sample photographic images and sample pages of text. This book would have been used for salesmen who sold door to door. Bound in red pictorial cloth depicting fire and devastation in black and gilt..... More
East Aurora, New York: Roycrofters, 1900. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 947 copies. The present copy is number 579 signed by Elbert Hubbard. Portrait frontispiece of William Morris, illuminated title page lettered in black and 4 other illuminated letters within the book. 25(1)pp., bound in the notable Roycroft brown suede..... More
London: Thomas Cadell, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes. 235 and 290, [24] pp. general index. The author was the sixth son of the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1749-1813). This is his fourth work. The author had studied the history of ancient Britain from all the earliest works including..... More
London: Philip Lee Warner /The Medici Society Ltfd. 1921. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies printed in the Riccardi fount on hand made Riccardi Paper. The present copy in #751. Engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette title page, 144pp., bound in full vellum, upper board lettered in gilt, spine and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Color frontispiece, 373pp., (2)pp. publisher's ads. This is the story of Roosevelt's traveling adventures. The first story begins with a trip down the Grand Canyon with his two sons in tow. He then travels across the Navajo desert, his visit during..... More