Paris: Librairie Drouint and New-Editions, 1912 [1920. First English Language Edition. Original Wraps. Miss is a famed French spanking novel by Sadie Blackeyes, a pseudonym of Pierre Dumarchey, published in 1912 by Collection des Orties Blanches and illustrated with six illustrations by Louis Malteste. It is the first part of.....
Price: $125.00
New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. A 'scholarly' discussion of the inherently different characteristics of blondes and brunets and the evolutionary and environmental causes...and of the evolution of white and 'dark-skinned' races. Includes such sections as "Why Excessive Light Exterminates White People," "Faults and Weaknesses.....
Price: $45.00
Portland, ME: Printed and Published by Thomas B. Wait, 1807. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fifth US edition, first to be printed in the [then] District of Maine. An important early Maine and law imprint. In original [presumed] bindings. Overall, a very handsome set. Light shelf/edge wear, ownership signatures at ffep.....
Price: $750.00
Franklin, NH: The Hillside Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed cloth boards, frontispiece. 56x49mm. 52pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 125 of 375.
Price: $75.00
London: William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Bound in gilt-lettered quarter deep scarlet calf over black moiré silk covered boards, deep scarlet leather label blocked in gilt to the centre of the upper board; 96pp., illustrated throughout with colour and b/w reproductions of Blake's drawings and watercolours. Contents: Morton.....
Price: $7,500.00
Los Angeles, CA: Theosophy Company [Theosophical Publishing Society], [1990] 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. This volume "purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan, Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature." "A photographic reproduction Of the Original edition.....
Price: $35.00
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1930/1931. First Edition. Original Wraps. Text in French. From the library of Susan Mary Alsop. Born Susan Mary Jay in Rome in 1918, she was the daughter of Peter Augustus Jay (and Susan Alexander McCook) and granddaughter of Augustus Jay (and Emily Astor Kane), both statesmen, legates.....
Price: $125.00
![Item #10386 Entrails: the magazine of happy obscenities and captured dragons [V1 #2]. Gene Bloom, ed](/pictures/medium/10386.jpg?v=1629304507)
New York: Whisper Shit Press, 1966. First Edition. Original Wraps. Includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Clarence Major, Douglas Blazek and Harvy Tucker, among others. Also includes Tuli Kupferberg's "prevue Fug song," "Street Fuck" Light shelf/edge wear, light even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed yellow wraps. 4to. 86pp. Illus.....
Price: $125.00
Port Clinton, OH: BNR Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Murray Teigh Bloom is described in a 1993 New York Times article as "a freelancer's freelancer," is the quintessential independent journalist. His writings have appeared in almost every major magazine and he has written several books, including Rogues to Riches, The.....
Price: $750.00
Madison, MN: The Sixties Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Early work by two of the country's luminaries. Does not show the bowing of the boards so typical of this issue. An uncommon issue generally, quite scarce in this condition. Ownership signature at ffep, hint of glue toning at endpages, else.....
Price: $325.00
Long Beach, CA: Safari Press Inc, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Sequel to James Mellon's "African Hunter." This large and richly illustrated work includes writings from noted hunters from Southern Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, North Africa and West Africas. A handsome copy. Small bump at top edge of front board.....
Price: $175.00
Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. With a commentary by Henry Howard Harper. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at spine, one closed tear to tissue guard, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, vellum spine, blue paper boards, frontispiece, tissueguards. 8vo. 208pp; 148pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $75.00
New York: Khelcom Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Ba Suri A-Chali" means "Suriland Peace Only". "Ba Suri enquires as to cultural continuity through statements of elders, songs forming an oral tradition centered around their livelihood, and especially the education of the youth. To this end, the sections are as follows: 1.....
Price: $6,500.00
New York: Khelcom Press. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Each of its thirty leaves yields tow printed surfaces by virtue of the fore-edge fold. Sixteen original copper-plate photogravures were made and printed by the photographer, who also carved the fourteen woodblocks of imagery and sacred text drawn from Ge'ez scrolls and books.....
Price: $3,500.00
New York: Khelcom Press, 2004. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text in Arabic and English. Photography by Peter Bogardus, calligraphy by Cherif Assane Fall. "The photogravures were printed from copper and the text from wood at Khelcom, New York in 2004-05 on Kumohadamashi paper. Takuji Hamanaka printed the woodcuts by Peter Bogardus.....
Price: $3,500.00
Chicago, IL: H.W. Bolton, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Author tells of the 16th Maine Volunteers. A handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear (focused at head and tail), ownership signature at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, brown cloth spine, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering, silver gilt and red.....
Price: $125.00
Morro Bay, CA: Miniature Book Society, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled endpapers. 65x58mm. 41pp. Limited edition of 400.
Price: $125.00
Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Abraham Small, 1819. First American Edition. Hardcover. (Sabin 6333) First US Edition following 1818 London edition in two volumes. R. H. Bonnycastle (1791-1848), an Englishman and officer int he Royal Engineers, relied heavily on other primary source volumes (e.g. Humboldt) in developing this work, but.....
Price: $750.00
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France: nd [circa 1820]. Unique. Hardcover. Almost certainly a French military officer's field latrine...blending humor and function. It is possible it was created for a young man's Grand Tour, but much more likely of military origin. Late 1700s binding has been repurposed to create a folding thunderbox. All elements fit.....
Price: $12,500.00
Freeport, ME: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. A very presentable copy of this wonder look into the life of a sail captain. One small area on front board lightly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light/moderate shelf/edge wear, several small chips (mostly at head and.....
Price: $25.00
Hanover, NH: Amy Borezo, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The artist's book 'Raising the Supine Dome' depicts the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller's first attempt to construct a geodesic dome with a class of students at the experimental school, Black Mountain College, in 1948. The actual construction was a failure because the.....
Price: $750.00
Hardcover. Volume 54 of the Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society. Minimal shelf/edge wear, minor glue toning at pastedowns, emboss mark of note printer Walter Thompson, else tight, bright and unmarred. 169pp plus np plate and description pages. Illus. (color plates).
Price: $65.00
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, 1793. First Edition Thus (Second Revised and Augmented Edition). Hardcover. Engraved portrait frontispiece, after the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (by J. Baker). Includes the fold-out 'Round Robin' plate (Vol. II) and a fold-out plate containing facsimiles of Dr. Johnson's handwriting (Vol. III). The last.....
Price: $2,000.00
Dublin: J. Exshaw, 1772. First Irish Edition. Hardcover. Period bookplate of "Buchan Hepburn Bar't". Pencil notation at rear reads, "collated & perfect [??] B.. Quaritch" A handsome ocpy of the smaller Irish imprint, published contemeraneously to the larger London edition. (Sabin 6869) From the collection of Edouard Stackpole, renowned whaling.....
Price: $1,750.00
Portland, ME: B. Thurston & Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy by the author, possibly a variant binding (complete with gold wax seal at spine). Noted flaws notwithstanding, a handsome copy of this rather scarce volume. Light shelf/edge wear, moderate wear/chipping at head and heel, tips through, spine lightly.....
Price: $425.00