Evanston, IL: The Schori Press, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Burgundy faux leather boards, gilt lettering, printed endpapers. 48x43mm. 63pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 63 of unknown [?200?].
Price: $25.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Three-act comedy, set in a house on a Cornish estuary (starring Gertrude Lawrence). Originally published in Great Britain in 1949. A very hansome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, on small, closed.....
Price: $45.00
Self-published, nd [circa 1930]. First Edition. Original Wraps. Early 20th century fetish erotica, this involving submission and flagellation. Identified as 'Book 1', but there is no record of a later volume, nor is there any indication that it was, in fact, 'translated from the French.' Early mimeo sexually explicit series.....
Price: $65.00
[Privately printed], 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited and privately printed edition of one thousand copies for sale only to adult collectors of curiousa and students of psychology. Illustrated in color with bright color block mono printing. Scarce and out-of-print, limited edition novel for those engaged and otherwise interested in sadomasochistic.....
Price: $200.00
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Light soiling at boards, wear to head and tail, ex libris marks, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative element, frontispiece. 8vo. 219pp. Illus. (b/w and sepia plates). Index.
Price: $45.00
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., 1889. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Several dozen steel engravings by Lynch. With noted endpage replacement notwithstanding, a very handsome copy of this wonderfully illustrated volume. Light shelf/edge wear (focused at head, heel and tips), front bottom corner shows minor rubbing/stain, appears to be repaired endpages/pastedowns, else.....
Price: $150.00
Philadelphia, PA: Blanchard and Lea, 1860. Revised and enlarged edition. Hardcover. Overall, a rather handsome copy of this noted medical dictionary. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear, tips through, few small stains, small pull at rear, light foxing and age toning at preliminaries, ownership inscription at ffep else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full.....
Price: $50.00
Augusta, ME: Privately Printed, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Difficult to find in presentable condition. Minor shelf/edge wear, engraved bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece. 4to. xiii, 338pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $45.00
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959-1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparently purchased as a set just as Vol. 4 was being issued (based on ephemera laid in). Each volume includes approximately 150 types. Ultimately, this series spanned 6 volumes. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJs show minor shelf/edge wear, else.....
Price: $225.00
Leipzig: Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1797. First Edition. Calf over boards. Translation to English: Latest news from and from Switzerland: topographical, physical and political content: with special regard to the cantons Basel and Bern, an excerpt from Durand's Statistique elementaire de la Suisse. In German. Durand, a French Protestant minister, was born.....
Price: $550.00
A. S. Barnes and Company, 1952. First edition. Full Leather. Wonderful text covering period sports heros from all major and many minor sports played in the US. A very nice copy of a very scarce volume. Wear at head and heal of spine, edge wear at all corners (some through.....
Price: $75.00
New York: William Wood & Co, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes fifteen full-page drawings from nature by H.P. Quincy. A century or so before CAT scans and MRIs, this work offered detailed tomogrpahic images. Remarkably important (and one of the great titles in publishing). First edition of a classical work.....
Price: $225.00
San Diego, CA: The Ash Ranch Press, 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Binder/Printer. Faded gilt lettering and decorative elements on spine, else tight and unmarred. Red leather boards, matching gilt red slipcase, patterned endpapers, frontispiece, handmade paper. 60x50mm. 78pp. Lettered deluxe edition, this being S of 26.
Price: $150.00
Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Original Wraps. First printed book of renowned pen & ink and watercolor artist Marcel Dzama. Emerging as one of this generations great illustrators, in recent years he has come from obscurity to being one of the hottest and more significant young.....
Price: $525.00
Chicago, IL: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece designed by Frank Hazenplug. "In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not.....
Price: $75.00
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. An early and important work on New Zealand (Maori social life, Hokianga, etc.). Overall, a rather handsome copy. From the collection of Edouard Stackpole, renowned whaling scholar, curator of Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT. 1951-1966) and director of.....
Price: $1,750.00
New York: American Metrological Society, 1892. First Edition (presumed). Original Wraps. A rather uncommon late 19th century primer on the metric system...scarce in orginal wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, small split at head, light even toning to wraps, two small moisture spots, else tight, bright and unmarred. Tan printed wraps, black.....
Price: $25.00
New York: University of the State of New York, 1910 (Part 1) and 1914 (Part 2). First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with full page color plates from drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. A massive work and significant reference on the ornithology of New York, with distribution information, maps and county tables.....
Price: $225.00
Bangor, ME: Privately Published, 1924 [1931]. First Edition. Hardcover. "This edition with frontispiece and the author's autograph bound up June 1931." This signed edition was created from unbound, first edition signatures to which were added the limitation page, frontispiece and chapter XI (not included in the TOC). The additional chapter.....
Price: $350.00
Bangor, ME: Privately Published, 1924 [1931]. First Edition. Hardcover. "This edition with frontispiece and the author's autograph bound up June 1931." This signed edition was created from unbound, first edition signatures to which were added the limitation page, frontispiece and chapter XI (not included in the TOC). The additional chapter.....
Price: $450.00
University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1969. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf wear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. Bibliographical Note.
Price: $25.00
Boston, MA: Christian Science Publishing Society for the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, 1916. Later Printing. Hardcover. Compiled from the 1910 edition of Science and Health as finally revised by the author. More philosophy from Mary Baker Eddy, as the founder of the Christian denomination and.....
Price: $40.00
Boston, MA: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, 1896. First Edition [presumed]. Hardcover. "Miscellaneaous Writings" is often considered a companion book to Eddy's foundational work on fundamental healing through the application of Christ Jesus' demonstrations: "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". Mary Baker Eddy, the.....
Price: $30.00
Boston, MA: Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, 1934. Later Printing. Leatherette. Original 1934 edition of this seminal religious work by Mary Eddy Baker, devotee and founder of the Christian Science doctrine. This work contains the full explanation of Christian Science and its biblical foundation for spiritual.....
Price: $45.00
New York: E. B. Treat, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. "Another of those emotional presentations by a volunteer female nurse in the field" (Nevins, Vol. 1, 105). This mildly misogynist review notwithstanding, a very handsome copy of this minor classic. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of fraying at head and tail, ownership.....
Price: $175.00