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Marginalia by H.P. Lovecraft

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. x, 377 pp. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine, in unclipped dustjacket showing price of $3.00. Small closed tears (~ 10 mm) and rubbing at head and tail of spine of jacket; toning to spine of jacket; 15 mm closed tear to fold of back panel/rear flap. Some toning and rubbing to spine of book; head and tail of spine have been bumped. Previous owner's initial and last name in ink on ffep as well as rear paste-down. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm. Very Good/Very Good. $275.00

The Discovery of Yellowstone Park: Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

1905. 122 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Top edge gilt, with beautiful bevelled-edge cover; cover very barely rubbed; fore-edge very barely soiled; previous owner's name and information on front endpaper; minor underlining in light pencil on seven pages; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and very clean except where noted. Very Good. SOLD

Greece and the Levant: The Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts by Leonora Navari

London: Maggs Bros., 1989. 446 pp. 34.5 x 25 cm. Textured grey paper-covered boards with black titling to front cover; one of 300 copies. Light rubbing and faint soil to covers and spine; sunning with four small splash marks to spine (~3-10 mm); uneven sunning to front board; small bumps to head and fore-edge of front board. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm. Due to the size and weight of this book, an additional shipping charge will be requested for international orders. Very Good. $1,000.00

Novelas Exemplares - Nueva Impresion Corregida y Adornada con Laminos - 3 Tomos by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Madrid: La Viuda De D. Joaquin Ibarra, 1803. Vol. I [8] 1-325 [3]; Vol. II [6] 3-274 [2]; Vol. III [6] 3-333 [5]. Small octavo, 14.5 x 10.5 cm. Quarter leather with marbled boards and vellum tips; Morocco spine labels in black and green; gilt titling and tooling to spines; contains all 12 plates of etchings. Rubbing to edges of spines; some light wear to edges of marbled boards. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown of all three volumes. Cervantes' dedication and preface have been excluded by the binder. "Cambridge 1935" written in pencil and circled on first blank page of Volume I. A lovely little set of Cervantes' novellas written between 1590 and 1612, and published after the first part of Don Quixote. This set was printed by the widow of Joaquin Ibarra, who took over the printing business with her children after Joaquin died in 1785. Ibarra was responsible for several innovative developments in printing, paper making, and typography, and was the printer to the Court of Spain.. Hard Cover. Very Good. $700.00

Chansons de Salles de Garde, illustrated by Joseph Hémard

Aux Depens d'un Amateur, 1948. 28 x 23 cm. 38 bawdy songs in French with accompanying text color illustrations and 14 illustrated color plates, in glassine-jacketed, stiff card wraps with color illustration to cover, in a paper covered chemise, then housed in a paper covered slipcase. This is copy number 9 of 950 printed. Some rubbing and bumping to case; both small paper panels from the head and tail of the slipcase are missing; minor soil and toning to case. Age toning to spine of chemise. Glassine jacket, card wraps, and interior leaves all in fantastic condition. Light offsetting from illustrations on facing pages. Interior clean, bright, and unmarked.
Near Fine/Very Good. $150.00

The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels - In 2 Volumes, Annotated Edition, by Thomas Ingoldsby Esq. (R.H. Dalton Barham)

Richard Bentley & Son, London, 1876. xix, 427 & xi, 466 pp. 22 x 15 cm. Full leather, 2 volume set, with 5 raised bands and gilt titling to spine; all edges stained red. Rubbing to extremities of covers and raised bands. Split along gutter between front pastedown and front free endpaper of Volume I, which does not affect the binding. Pencilled notation to recto of rear free endpaper of Volume I. Minor splash staining to pp. vii-xi of Volume II. Interiors otherwise clean and unmarked. Bindings quite firm. A beautifully bound set in exceptional condition.
Very Good. $200.00

In Our Terribleness (Some Elements and Meaning in Black Style) by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) & Fundi (Billy Abernathy)

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Indianapolis, New York, 1970. Unpaginated. 20 x 24 cm. Black cloth covered boards with silver titling to spine, in an unclipped dustjacket. Considerable rubbing to spine and outer panels of dustjacket; wear to head of jacket spine; closed tears to tail of front cover, the largest being 1.5 cm from the bottom; dampstaining to jacket folds which are only visible on the verso of the jacket. Rubbing and some toning to the head and tail of the boards and spine. Removeable mirror from first page not present. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding is firm. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. $350.00

Beyond the Rim by Thomas Dolliver Church

The Cora L. Williams Institute for Creative Education, Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, California, 1921. 38 pp. 18 x 13 cm. Heavy light brown card wraps with decorative design in black. A short book of poetry written by the famed landscape architect Thomas Church when he was in his teens. Light bumping to the head and tail of the covers. Gift inscription in dark blue ink on the first page, reading "Merry Xmas + Happy / new year / From / The Churches / 1921". Presumably this was written by the parents of Thomas Church, as he was still in his teens. Corrections to the text have been made in blue ink on pp. 20 and 29. Laid in is a handwritten unsigned letter in green ink with a 5.5 cm closed tear; most of which is a poem on the occasion of a sixteenth birthday. Interior otherwise clean. Binding firm, with only faint signs of rust.
Very Good. SOLD

Stylized Furniture By Metropolitan - 1951 Furniture Catalogue

Metropolitain Furniture Manufacturing Company, San Francisco, California, 1951. 28 unpaginated pp. + 8 pp. of prices. 22.5 x 30 cm. Black textured ring binder catalogue with 28 pp. of black and white photographs, plue 8 pp. of pricing; gold titling to front cover. Mild bumping and light soil to cover of binder. Light soil to interior, mainly offset rubbing from photographs. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. A wonderful example of 1950s furniture and its pricing.
Very Good. $150.00

Elektrony I Dziury W Pólprezewodnikach (Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors) by William Shockley

Warsaw, Poland: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1956. 583 pp. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. Light brown cloth-covered boards with brown titling to cover and spine; text in Polish. Light sunning to spine of book; tips and head and tail of spine have been bumped. Age toning to edges of text block. Offsetting on front paste-down and front free enpaper from a shipping label from Bell Telephone Laboratories to William Shockley which has been laid in. This being Shockley's personal copy of the Polish translation of his seminal work, his name is inscribed on the front free endpaper. Interior is otherwise clean and unmarked, although the pages are age toned. Binding is firm. Errata slip tipped in between the final page and the rear free endpaper. An exceptionally scarce Polish version owned by Nobel laureate himself. Very Good/No Jacket. $750.00

Every Day with Emerson compiled by Harriet A. Townsend

Buffalo, New York: White-Evans-Penfold Co., 1902. 97 unpaginated pp. 13 x 7.5 cm. Full leather with gold tooling and 3/4 pasted paper covers, raised bands, and gilt titling to the spine; top edge gilt. 4 x 2 mm chip to head of spine; 2 cm split along head of joint of front cover. A few minor ink marks and dog eared pages. Binding firm. A beautiful copy of a scarce title, this is a pocket-sized collection of 365 quotations from Emerson, compiled and published as a fundraiser for the Women's Union of Buffalo, New York. Harriet Thompson was the president of both the Women's Union and the Literary Club of the Church of the Messiah, and was an advocate for women's rights all of her adult life. The Union was responsible for successfully lobbying for a state law establishing equal guardianship rights for women in the case of divorce. Very Good. $150.00

Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, London, 1972. xvii, 28, 116 plates by Blake. 46 x 36 cm. One of 518 total copies, printed on Arches pure rage paper made specially to match the paper used by Blake. This is copy number 340, which is unbound in the French style in a quarter Morocco portfolio and presented in a matching box, which is also housed in the original wooden shipping container. Due to the size and weight of this item, additional shipping will be requested for expedited and international orders.. Limited, Numbered. Quarter Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Blake, William. $1650.00

The Child of the Pogrom by Louis Volat

Hollywood, California: The Saverg Press, 1935. 170 pp. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. Red cloth-covered boards with decorative pasted paper cover to front board and pasted paper spine label. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine; mild dampstaining to front cover and tail of spine label. Front and rear hinges have cracked, but have been repaired. Light age toning to interior; otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm. A lovely copy of an exceptionally scarce book.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. $260.00

Materials Toward a History of Witchcraft, 3 Volume Set collected by Henry Charles Lea

New York, London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1957. (v-xliv), 1548 pp. Taupe cloth-covered boards with silver titling to spine in slipcase. Open edges of slipcase have been rubbed, with splitting to the paper which wraps over the edges of the case; rubbing and bumping to boards of case and case corners. Sunning to spines of all three volumes; 5 mm tear to head of spine of volume three; 10 mm circular stain to spine of volume three; bumping to heads and tails of spine of all three volumes. Boards are still relatively bright and undamaged. Interiors clean and unmarked. Bindings of all volumes firm. Due to the size and weight of this item, additional shipping will be required for expedited and international orders.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. SOLD

Women of Japan: Nine Original Color Woodcuts Handprinted in Japan - Volumes One and Two - Earliers Masters and Later Masters, introduction by Alfred Werner

New York: H. Felix Kraus Books - International, 1950. Unpaginated. 46 x 31 cm. Quarter cloth with gold paper-coverd boards. Rubbing to edges of boards; bumping to tips and heads and tails of spines. Light soiling to boards and plates on covers. Mild age-toning to endpapers. Some discoloration from adhesive to the white paper that the plates have been mounted on before being tipped in; the woodcut plates themselves have not been affected by this. Binding relatively firm. Overall, a lovely set of the two volumes. Due to the size of these items, additional shipping may be required for expedited or international orders.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. $400.00

Complete Story of the Martinique and St. Vincent Horrors by William A. Garesché

Chicago, Illinois: Stahl, L.G., 1903. 462 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to front cover and spine. Mild rubbing to boards and spine; bumping to head and tail of spine; tips bumped. White stain to turn-in of rear board. Previous owner's name in black ink to ffep along with price sticker. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm.. Hard Cover. Very Good. $35.00

The Heroines of Domestic Life by Mrs. (Emily) Octavius Freire Owen

Routledge, Warne, & Routledge , London, New York, 1861. xii, 403 pp. 17 x 11.5 cm. Purple decorative cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine and cover; 7 engraved plates. Sunning to spine and edges of boards; chipping and nicking to head and tail of spine; tips have been rubbed and are lightly curled. Light soiling and toning to edges of text block. Front hinge appears to have cracked and been repaired; names of two previous owners written in pencil on ffep; toning in three places within text block where flowers were once pressed. Binding still firm. Very Good.
$60.00

L'Art Graphique d'Emile Lahner

Les Amis d'Emile Lahner, France, 1980. 228 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. White card wraps with black titling to spine and cover; 376 black and white images by Lahner; preface, presentation, and index in French. Very light 6.5 cm crease to front cover near spine; slight bend to back cover running parallel to fore-edge. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding firm with no creases. A lovely copy. Very Good Plus.
$50.00

The Life of Robert Fulton...Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York: Comprising Some Account of the Invention, Progress, and Establishment of Steam-Boats; of Improvements in the Construction and Navigation of Canals, and Other... by Cadwallader D. Colden

Kirk & Mercein, 1817, New York. vi, 371 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Full stained calf with gilt titling and tooling to spine; all edges stained; includes frontispiece and fold-out. Rubbing to all edges; ~2 cm dimple to front board. Offsetting from leather to ffep and rfep and the proceeding/preceeding page. Moderate toning and offsetting throughout text. large chip or insect damage to tail of pages 367-371 (1 x 3 cm at it largest). Binding still firm. A still handsome copy in fantastic condition. Very Good.
$300.00

Les Cahiers De Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke

Les Cent Une, Paris, 1984. 165 pp. 33 x 23 cm. Unbound in the French style, and printed on handmade rag paper with Les Cent Une watermark, in a stiff card portfolio, and housed in a pinkish-grey paper covered clamshell box. This is copy 116 of 136 copies printed for Les Cent Une, Société de Femmes Bibliophiles, and has been signed by George Ball as well as the president and vice president of the society. Les Cent Une was created by Princess Schakhowskoy in 1926, and publishes a previously unpublished text every two years accompanied with illustrations by a contemporary artist. The clamshell box has some uneven sunning to the spine and extremities. The portfolio and text are in exceptional condition, with all 11 illustrations present with their tissue guards. Includes a laid-in invitation to a recption held by the Baroness Philippe-Amédée Reille which appears to be in celebration of the publication of the book. A beautiful book from one of France's oldest bibliophile associations. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping will be required for expedited and international orders. Near Fine.
$400.00

Stereoskopische Bilder Gehirn-Schädel-Topographie

Verlag Von J.F. Bergmann, München und Wiesbaden, 1920. Paperback. Condition: Good. München und Wiesbaden: Verlag Von J.F. Bergmann, 1920. 13 pp. booklet, 15 plates. 13.5 x 18.5 cm. 15 stereoscope plates with booklet in box folder. Considerable rubbing with light soil to box; staples on "spine" side of box show considerable rust. Foxing to front and back of cover of pamphlet; the numbers 24.11.20 are penciled on the upper right corner of the cover. Various degrees of foxing to all 15 plates, however the photographs of the dissected head are all clean and sharp, and only the cardboard has been affected. Text in German. Unbound. Good. Seller Inventory # 625214
SOLD

Transit Glory by Edward Marshall

Carp & Whitefish, New York, 1967. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Heine, William (illustrator). New York: Carp & Whitefish, 1967. 13 cards (one folded). 18 x 9.5 cm. Light grey envelope with black ribbon containing thirteen cards printed in dark blue on white card. A complete set containing all eleven poems plus the Title Card and "The Fool" card. Some light soiling, rubbing, and bumping to envelope, otherwise in fantastic condition. Portfolio. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Heine, William. Seller Inventory # 625178
$320.00

More Dangerous Thoughts by Mike Quin (Paul William Ryan)

The People's World, San Francisco, 1941. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Rosalie Todd and Chuck (illustrator). San Francisco: The People's World, 1941. 158 pp. 20 x 13.5 cm. Blue and grey paper wraps. Signed and inscribed on ffep by Mike Quin to Giacomo Patri, an artist who taught at the California Labor School and author of the linocut novel, "White Collar". Mild shelfwear to covers; rubbing and light creasing to spine. Light foxing to top of text block; mild age toning to pages. Binding is tight and firm. . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Rosalie Todd and Chuck. Seller Inventory # 625205
$60.00

The Land of the Lamas or The Opening of Thibet to the Gospel by Reverend D. Le Lacheur

The Christian Alliance Publication Company, South Nyack, New York, 1898. Paperback. Condition: Good. South Nyack, New York: The Christian Alliance Publication Company, 1898. 63 pp. 21.5 x 15.5 cm. White paper wraps. Chipping to head and tail of spine and along top joint on front; several ring-shaped stains to front cover; creasing to front cover; paper loss to corners. Staining to title page (bleed-through from cover stains); several pages have folded corners as well as chipped corners. Gift inscription in ink on verso of title page, which reads "Mrs. Georgia M. Moriarty. / In memory of Convention / days. / Your friend / Mary Grant Cramer / October 11th 1898". Mary Grant Cramer was the younger sister of American president Ulysses S. Grant, and was married to Michael J. Cramer, who Ulysses S. Grant appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to Denmark. . Soft Cover. Good. Seller Inventory # 625208
$200.00

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