Forge Books, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 495 pp. with glossary. The third of Patrick Taylor's charming novels set in the cozy Irish town of Ballybucklebo and feauring the village doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his assistant Doctor Barry Laverty and sundry charming characters.....
Prentice-Hall, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement as is correct for this publisher). Hardcover. 204 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine nin very good dust njacket, crisp, with a very short cloed tear top edge and some spine sunning. One of the scarcer of the Golden Year Series of.....
St Martins Pr, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. Hardcover. 235 pp. Fine in crisp, bright dust jacket, few small light stains rear panel. The fourth in this lively, entertaining series of mysteries set in Elizabethan England and featuring bookholder/sleuth Nicholas Bracewell and the company of players known as.....
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1955. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with publisher's logo on copyright page. Hardcover. xiii+ 493 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with engravings from photographs by Stow Wengenroth. Fine in very good dust jacket with minor wear at the extremities. The 48th volume in the Rivers.....
New York: Henry Holt, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dark turquoise cloth with facsimile signature and spine lettered in gilt. 337 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Fine, some offsetting to the endpapers. In very good dust jacket, small chip foot of spine. Autobiography of financier, statesman, leader in.....
NewOrleans: Hope Publications, 1973. Softcover. Color illustrated softcovers. 96 pp. with reading list, index. Good, signs of use with some cocktail staining and tidemarking. One page folded under and a recipe circled in ink. Short pieces on drinking history in New Orleans but essentially a book of cocktail recipes.
Random House, 1988. Hardcover. Hardcover. 246 pp. with index. Later printing. Fine, text a bit embrowned, in very good dust jacket.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 450 pp. Fine but with a defaced ownership signature top corner of front free endpaper. In very good dust jacket. True-life story of Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo (1929-1972), a Columbo crime family mafioso, and his wife Jeffie. The.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Hardcover. 282 pp. Fine in lightly toned dust jacket, faint partial cup-ring staing, shallow wear head of spine. Scarce autobiography of legendary movie comedy legend Buster Keaton (1895-1966). Born into a vaudeville family, Keaton was best known for his silent.....
New York: Blakiston, 1946. First edition thus. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth. First edition thus, the movie edition of the novel originally published in 1939. Photo illustrated dust jacket featuring Robert Young and Dorothy Maguire, stars of the 1946 Twentieth Century Fox movie in which they reprised their roles from.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. First edtition and the photoplay edition, a novelization of the silent movie comedy starring Harold Lloyd and illustrated with scenes from that film. Pictorial endpapers. 274 pp. plus 6 pp. of ads at rear. A truly hilarious film about a young.....
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1849. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Thick octavo in dark brown blindstamped cloth with spine lettered in gilt. 620 pp. with index. Five plates following the index plus additional folding plate. Numerous small woodcuts in the text. A tight, internally bright copy, professional restoration.....
Valencia: Salvador Fauli, 1769. Leather_bound. Two volumes , 18 mo. in original binding of three quarter dark tan calf over tan paper covevered boards hubbed spines, leather title and volume labels "Cervantes Novelas" stamped in gilt. Text block edges stained red. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece portrait.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, (1876). First edition thus. Hardcover. Scarce. No date (circa 1870-1876). First edition thus with statement on the verso of the title page "Republished from the London Edition, Revision by the Committe of Publication". 18 mo. (4" x 6"). Hardcover in violet cloth, 76 pp....
New York: Harper & Bros, 1878. Leather_bound. Red limp leather self folding covers. Illustrated advertising endpapers. Sequentially paginated 540-1001 + 24 (index) + 173 PP. section of adverts including many for hotels illustrated with engravings; two sheets of blank lined notepaper bound into the inner rear cover. Illustrated throughout with.....
Putman, Conn. William Harrison Taylor, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in dark maroon cloth lettered and decorated with image of the capitol building in gilt. 293 pp. plus fold out plan of Representatives Hall. illustrated on each facing page with a photographic portraits of Governor Lorrin A. Cooke, State officals.....
Watertown, HY: Knowlton & Rice, 1844. revised. Leather_bound. Hardcover in original full leather binding with black leather gilt lettered spine label. 18 mo. (4 x 6 1/2"). xi (with Life of The Author by bhis daughter)+ 212 pp. Frontis and three addtional full page woodcuts. First edition thus, the "Revised.....
Phillips Publishers, 1950. Hardcover. Oblong hardcover in color illustrated paper covered boards. Interconnected pages of five three dimensional pop ups Santa's Castle at the North Pole, Santa's Workshop. etc. Interior is clean and complete, front cover has two small peeled spots and wear about the edges. Charming.
New York: Wessels Company, 1902. First American edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in maroon cloth lettered in gilt. The first American edition, published the same year in Great Britian by T. Fisher Unwin. A fine, tight bright copy (see additional information below), frontispiece photographic portrait of Brown, xi+ 288 pp. plus final.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in black cloth with spine lettered in silver. The true an dcorrect first edition with "First Edition" stated on copyright page and no other printings listed and correct code "O44" inner margin of p. 311. Generally fine, touch of bumping to the.....
New York: Fenno, 1916. Hardcover. Hardcover in tan cloth lettered in gilt and black and decorated with image of a Snarlie. Illustrated endpapers. Carries only the 1916 date. List of four "Circus Animal Stories" with this book first and ending with "Umboo The Elephant" on list on first front page.....
New York: World Editions, (1950). Sheet_music. Color illustrated softcovers. Copyright page lists Shasta 1949 dated but this edition 1950. 121 pp. Science fiction pulp, No. 5 in the Galaxy series of sci-fi novesl. Very good, some light craeseing to the raer cover and minor faults to the front cover.
Candlewick, 2005. Hardcover. Overszied hardcover in glossy illustrated boards. Fine, unused. An interactive pop-up book. The covers open to a pop up of the Globe Theatre as it appeared in Shakespeare's time. Adjacent to the theatre is a booklet that opens to a guided tour by Richard Burbage, laeding actor.....
Baltimore: Practitioner Publicshing, 1880. Wraps. Printed wrappers. The first issue (Volume I, No.1, January, 1880) of this monthly journal offered with Vol. 1 No 6 (June 1880) and Vol. II No 1 (January, 1881). Vol. 1, No. 1 is very good, both wrappers present, some chipping along the spine strip.....
Boston: William Chadwick, 1848. Softcover. String bound, 31 pp. in printed wrappers. Very good, chip to the inner corner of the rear wrap not affecting text. Transcription of a lecture on public health issues in 1848. Particular attention is paid to warming and ventilating rooms with recommendation to employ pipes.....
