New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861. Softcover. Good. Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 15, New Series. 4.5 x 7.25 inches, 166 of 168 pp -- lacking final leaf of index and rear wrapper.Some chipping to front wrapper; internally very good. A founding member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and the American... Item #20631
Faux red crocodile leather album, 10 x 14 in., with embossed gilt lettering and metal clasp closure, 40 black paper leaves interleaved with glassine on which are mounted ca. 125 black and white photographs ranging in size from 2 x 3 to 5 x 7 inches. Titled in Russian on... Item #20629
Commercial photograph album, 7.5 x 9.25 in., containing 120 original b/w photographs, as well as a hand-drawn, colored Oktoberfest menu. Photos are approximately 2 x 3 in. Some wear on boards, all 32 pages interleaved with glassine, almost all photographs captioned in a clear hand; very good. A commemorative album... Item #20628
Railway Bureau, Government General of Chosen, 1931. First Edition. 6 x 9 in., 45 pp, in attractive pictorial wrappers, with illustrations from photographs throughout, double-page colored Sketch Map of Chosen at the center. Light edgewear; near fine. As conveniently explained in the Introduction, "This publication has been prepared for the... Item #20627
Tamatave, Madagascar: 1892-93. Four-page newspaper with the first page containing articles in English under the masthead of The Madagascar Mail, the second page containing ads in both English and French, and the final two pages containing articles in French under the masthead of Le Courrier de Madagascar. 12.5 x 18.5... Item #20625
Nakatsucho, Japan: ca. 1910. 7.5 x 10.5 in., oblong, in string-tied faux-leather boards. Some edgewear, one tie replaced and one lacking. Very good. Souvenir view book with two pages of text in Japanese, folding map, and 34 half-tone photographic plates captioned in Japanese and English. Located in the upper and... Item #20624
New York: French Press and Information Service, [1945]. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Some general handling wear; very good. Written for an American audience, this booklet seeks to dispel... Item #20623
Published for the Association of Czechoslovak Spa Visitors and Friends of Karlovy Vary. Undated, ca. 1928. 5 x 9 in., pp 35, [11] (ads), with illustrations from photographs. Wrappers somewhat soiled, faint odor of cigarette smoke; good. Karlovy Vary [called Karlsbad in Germnan and Carlsbad in English] is a spa... Item #20621
Firenze: Tip. Barbera, Alfani e Venturi, 1922. Softcover. Very good. 6.75 x 9.25 in., 32 pp, in photographically illustrated wrappers, with 11 half-tone illustrations in the text. Light dust soiling, wear to spine ends; very good. Describes the work of an asylum for war orphans opened in 1921 by the... Item #20620
Hanoi: F.-H. Schneider, 1900. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 3.75 x 6 in., pp 119, [37] (ads), with five folding maps (four colored) and two folding tables. Original printed wrappers. Some chipping at spine ends. Rare guide to the French protectorate of Tonkin, now northern Vietnam. Intended as the first in... Item #20619
New York: Bangs & Co., 1894-1895. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Three-volume auction catalogue, each volume in original wrappers. All with mild wear to the edges and with prices realized noted in ink in the margins. Some offsetting to wrappers on second volume.n The first sale, held November 23, 1894... Item #20616
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp xii, 228 + ads, with illustrations, folding maps of Mammoth and Wyandot. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped, minor soiling on back cover, original owner's inscription ("D.W. Garrigues, Bot. 12/4/85 at Luray Caverns, Luray... Item #20615
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. First printing. 1066 pp, with notes, index, photographs. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else a fine copy, clean and tightly bound with minimal wear. Dust jacket has two short closed tears to... Item #20614
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1977. Hardcover. Near fine. Franklin Library 100 Greatest Books of All Time series. 654 pp, bound in full navy blue leather decorated in gilt, with all edges gilt, red satin endpapers and ribbon bookmark bound in. Some very minor abrasion to the gilt on the... Item #20609
London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton. Hardcover. Near fine. Undated. 8.5 x 11 inches, in a full red polished calf binding by Bayntun-Riviere, with all edges gilt, goblet and snake design in gilt on front board, marbled endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with 20 full-page mounted color plates by Dulac. Light... Item #20608
Berlin: Editions Ukrainske Slowo, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 15 pp text (Introduction), with b/w author photo, one color plate, and 37 b/w illustrations of Archipenko's work. 9.25 x 12.25 inches, in original cloth boards with titles in black on gold bands. No dust jacket. Mild toning to exterior... Item #20606
Canadian Pacific Railway, 1900. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, 77 pp. with colored folding map. Stated "eighth edition," but we find no evidence of any actual earlier editions.Original pictorial wrappers.Minor damage to paper at lower spine, otherwise very good.. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (b. 1856, Clinton, IA) was an American writer and... Item #20604
Lansing, MI: Michigan State Grange, 1928-29. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Four issues: Volume 8, Nos. 3 & 4 (May/June and Aug/Sept 1928); Vol. 9 Nos. 4 & 5 (June/July and Aug/Sept 1929). Each issue measures 9 x 12 inches and is 16 pages. All have an old vertical folding... Item #20603
Delhi, NY: Delside Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 12.25 x 17.25 inches, oblong. 167 pp, extensively and beautifully illustrared with b/w line drawings and color plates. As-new copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf "To ___, May these spans of time give you a.... Item #20602
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949-52. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Complete set of 15 volumes illustrated in color, housed in five slipcases, some with original dust jackets, most signed by illustrator and/or editor, as noted in the following itemized list: Ali Baba... Item #20601
Washington: Smithsonian, 1934. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8vo, 62 pp, with two plates, in original printed wrappers. Slight wear to edges, else fine. Pages partly unopened. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 92, Number 4. Father Jeronimo Boscana's "Chinigchinich," written in Spanish in 1822 and first published in English in 1846... Item #20599
Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Two volumes, 7.5 x 11.5 inches, bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt. Number 1187 of an edition of 1500 sets, signed by Austen on the colophon. A very fine set in near fine dust jackets (minor... Item #20598
New York: The Grolier Club, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 449 pp, extensively illustrated. One of 1000 copies issued. Fine copy bound in original gray and blue cloth, with top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Slipcase is very good, with a little scuffing, a few chips to outer paper. Laid... Item #20597
Philadelphia: Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1928. Hardcover. Very good. 80 pp, illustrated. 7 x 9.75 inches, oblong. Some nibbling to cloth at bottom edge and spine. Binding sound, contents clean. As explained in the Foreword, Locomotive 60,000 was designed as an experiment to ascertain the gain in efficiency by the use... Item #20596
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928. Hardcover. Very good. Fifth edition. 270 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photos, map of the United States showing 19 National Parks and 32 National Monuments (each of which is described in the text). Original green cloth boards show light rubbing at corners and... Item #20594
