12mo. Staple-bound, printed wrappers; [12pp]; illus. The trade edition, issued as "Collectors Item No. 1" by Caresse Crosby. Covers unevenly toned, with a small spot of foxing to rear wrapper; small shelf label to base of front wrapper; Very Good. From the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn.....
Fifty-two representative (but non-consecutive) weekly issues of what is generally considered the first freethought newspaper published in the United States. In original, unbound condition; each issue ca. 53cm x 40cm (20-3/4" x 16"); 4pp. Old vertical and horizontal folds, most issues with the ownership signature of a Dr. J. Angier.....
More info about Boston Investigator. Collection of 52 Original Issues, 1836-1844
Broadside, with text mimeographed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Minor handling, else Fine.
Limited to 1111 copies of which this is no. 446 printed on vélin allura. Octavo (20.75cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers in gilt cloth-backed board chemise, fore-edge string ties, printed paper spine label; 229pp.; color frontispiece, decorative title page, numerous color pochoir illus. in text throughout. Chemise a bit soiled.....
More info about Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady [Limited Edition
Quarto (34cm x 26.5cm). Paper over boards (hardcover) with illustrated end papers; 640pp; illus. Very Good copy; gentle shelf wear and soiling to bottom text block; bumped corners. Spanish language only. History of the Spanish Civil War told through 2000 political posters. 2432 color reproductions; detailed indices and timeline of.....
Large broasheet supplement, 26-5/8" x 19-1/2" (ca 67.5cm x 50cm); on newsprint, printed both sides. Text on recto in eight columns, below printed headline; verso is a full sheet of advertisements. Minor edgewear; two small closed punctures to paper in upper portion (no loss); two brief repaired tears to margins;.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue paper covered baords over red cloth spine; titles stamped in gilt spine; author's crest/initials embossed on front board; red top-stain; dustjacket; 279pp. Mild foxing inside front covers; spine tips slightly nudged; topstain is fading to pink; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), light edgewear.....
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Unbroken run of forty-eight biweekly issues, comprising Vol. III, no. 1 (Feb. 15, 1843) to Vol. IV, no.24 (Feb. 22, 1845). Folio (42cm) In original publisher's binding of quarter sheep over marbled boards. Expected external rubbing and wear; internally crisp, clean and ummarked.
Slim 12mo (18.5cm.); original pinkish-purple printed wrappers; [4],42pp. Spine faded (as usual), else Fine. Two biographical essays about Mencken and Nathan, pseudonymously authored by the same.
Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 267. Large, thick octavo (25cm.); original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in black glossy board slipcase; x,342pp.; photographic frontispiece. Spine a bit faded, else a Fine, mostly unopened copy. Slipcase worn with a few panels starting to separate, Good or better. Signed.....
More info about The Fables of La Fontaine [Limited Edition, Signed
Oversize folio (46cm.); white paper-covered clamshell box, embossed thermoformed plastic plate mounted to upper cover, six leaves laid in as issued, to which are mounted thermoformed plates on rectos and versos with the exception of the last leaf, on whose verso is printed the colophon. In original cardboard mailing box.....
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [28]pp, with the two 6-panel fold-out plates intact; illus; text is entirely in English. Light wear along spine-fold, mild handling to wrappers, with a touch of oxidation to staples; Near Fine.
First Impression, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); sage green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],228 + 18pp publisher's catalog bound at rear. Tiny nick to cloth at crown, light wear to base of spine, else a fresh.....
Quarto (27.75cm); photostatically-reproduced sheets (rectos), with text printed in black on 8.5" x 11" white stock, stapled at upper left corner; 10pp. Some oxidation and related spotting around staple, double hole-punch at upper margin; Near Fine.
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12mo (18.5cm). Publisher's brown cloth, decoratively stamped in blind on front and rear covers; title in blind on spine; 74,(2)pp; illus. Board edges sunned; a bit of wear at spine ends; Very Good. Three inserted leaves of plates; one signed by Asher Durand.
Quarto (31cm); turquoise cloth, with black and yellow printed title labels applied to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 82,[2]pp; illus. Moderate offsetting to front pastedown from binders glue, faint discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges, with a gentle bump to upper front board corner and a paper-clip impression.....
Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth limb cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt; viii,200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed with brief cloth peeling, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally sound. Printer's slug at bottom of title page: Elmira, NY: Gazette Company.
More info about Reminiscences of an Octogenarian in the Fields of Industrial and Social Reform
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better.
More info about My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel
Cloth boards; dustjacket; 248pp. Old private owner's stamp to endpapers; more recent ownership label affixed over ffep stamp, and it looks like someone's had a go at removing it, with unfelicitous but not dire results. Else this is a bright, unworn copy, Near Fine, in the uncommon pictorial dustjacket which.....
More info about The Jazz Singer (Novelized By Arline De Haas
Twelve quarto issues (31.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp per issue. Seven of the twelve issues with brass eyelets along left edge, one with eyelets removed; all issues show modest wear, oxidation to staples, some scattered soil, light biopredation, and occasional staining to wrappers; several with vertical folds smoothed-out; small loss.....
More info about The Flaming Sword - Vol.XLII, Nos. 1-12 (January - December, 1928
Octavo (22.5cm.); original grey pictorial boards; vii,[2],68pp. Boards a bit rubbed, spine a hint toned, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by Gordimer laid in.
More info about Sounds of a Cowhide Drum: Poems [Signed Bookplate Laid in
First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in silver and orange on spine, and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [11],12-253,[3]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Tiny wrinkle to spine ends, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.50), with.....
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Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 276pp. Some trivial soil to rear gutter and upper edge of text, with purple rubber stamp of "A. George Volck Incorporated" to pastedowns and endpapers; Near Fine, but for the stamping. Dustjacket is soiled.....
16mo (13cm). Original publisher's brown ribbed cloth with printed paper label to front cover; 160pp. Binding uniformly faded, with spot of staining to front cover below title; thin crack to cloth at upper 1/2" of front joint. Internally clean and tight, with bookplates of both A. Edward Newton and Carroll.....
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