1939. (ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE). ANNALES DE PALEONTOLOGIE, Publiees sous la Direction de Marcellin Boule, Professeur de Paleontologie au Museum National D'Histoire Naturell et Jean Piveteau, Docteur es Sciences, Chef des Travaux de Paleontologie a l'Ecole Superieure des Mines. Tome XXVIII-1939-1940. Paris: Masson et Cie, Editeurs, 1939-1940. 4to., wrappers; illustrated. Slight..... More
1920. ANON. A TRIP OVER THE MOHAWK TRAIL. North Adams, Ma.: Benjamin Lenhoff, [ND. c. 1920?]. Souvenir album illustrated with 27 scenic photographic views (one panoramic) and a map, with illustrated margins depicting the early motor-tourist trade and one page of text. Oblong 8vo., blue stapled paper wrappers printed in..... More
1888. [ANONYMOUS]. LE BAISER. ETUDE LITTERAIRE ET HISTORIQUE. (STIKEMAN binding). Nancy & Paris: Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1888. 4to. 316 pp. Headpieces by Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923). #74 of 300 on Holland paper of a total edition of 315. The author is unknown, but the dedication is signed by "Docteur ****". Signed..... More
ANONYMOUS. CINDERELLA'S OUTINGS. [n.p./n.p./n.d. ca. 1890] 60 pp. 21 cm. Printed brown wrappers. Not in OCLC. Religious poetry and prose. The author previously published "An American Cinderella to Queen Victoria" alone; the poem is reprinted here, with others, and religious prose. New Jeruslaem Church authors series. Rare. More
1904. (ANONYMOUS). THE HIGHROAD. Being the autobiography of an ambitious mother. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1904. First edition. 8vo., green pictorial cloth. Slight foxing at endpapers. Fine. (Kramer 305: "The authoress of this interesting work has not been revealed.") (Women's studies)... More
1844. [Anonymous] MIRANDA AND THE ROYAL RAM. Without illustrations. [N.p., perhaps London]: Puck & Co., 1844. A single leaf, printed on both sides, and folded twice to form 8 pp. Untrimmed. 14 x 11.3 cm. Paper is lightly toned, starting on one fold, and one corner is just nicked. A...... More
1803. [ANONYMOUS]. THE MOTHER'S REMARKS ON A SET OF CUTS FOR CHILDREN. Part II. Two or more syllables. Phildadelphia: Printed for Jacob Johnson, No. 147 Market Street. T. S. Manning, Printer, No. 143 N. Third Street. 1803. Volume 2 only, all text; the cuts are in v. 1. 12mo.: 84..... More
1877. (ANONYMOUS). THAT HUSBAND OF MINE. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. First edition. 12mo., green cloth lettered in black. Edges rubbed with light spotting to the cloth. Very good, overall. (Not in Wright). More
1912. ANONYMOUS [?]. TEST OF THE ACCURACY OF THE TESTIMONY OF BY-STANDERS. [No place: no publisher: c. 1912]. Laid in slip notes: "Submitted by George G. Croker, Old South Building, Boston, February, 1912." Small 8vo., paper wrappers; 13 pp. Wraps have separated, and bear slight soil, wear. Contents clean; about..... More
1807. (ANSTEY, CHRISTOPHER). The New Bath Guide: or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d Family. In a Series of Poetical Epistles. A New Edition. London, Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1807. Octavo. viii,155pp. +8ff. Satirical anecdotes of British spa behavior, with eight fine wood-engraved plates on India paper. A fine copy, bound by..... More
1935. ANTHONY, Edgar Waterman. A HISTORY OF MOSAICS: The First Comprehensive History of Mosaics from 3000 B.C. to the Present. Boston: Porter Sargent, 1935. 332p. includes 80 additional pages of 300 illustrations. 1 of 50 copies, this one out of series and not signed. Bound in full black leather with..... More
1899. ANTIN, Mary. FROM PLOTZK TO BOSTON. With a Foreword by Israel ZANGWILL. Boston: W. B. Clarke & Co., 1899. First edition. 80 pp. 8vo., light reddish brown wrappers printed in black. Extremities of wrappers chipped, darkened. An acceptable copy of a fragile item. Included in the Masterworks of Modern..... More
1914. ANTIN, Mary. THEY WHO KNOCK AT OUR GATES. A Complete Gospel of Immigration. With illustrations by Joseph Stella. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1914). First edition, later printing. 8vo., brown cloth, spine in gilt. Signed by the author at the ffep. Library ink stamps to ffep, no external..... More
1914. ANTIN, Mary. THEY WHO KNOCK AT OUR GATES. A Complete Gospel of Immigration. With illustrations by Joseph Stella. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First edition. 8vo., contemorary half blue leather. Inscribed presenation copy with a short autograph note from the author laid in. In 1894, Mary[ashe] Antin..... More
1951. ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. PICTORIAL REVIEW OF NOTABLE OBJECTS IN ITS COLLECTIONS AND NOTES ON THE SOCIETY'S AIMS AND HISTORY. American and European Decorative Arts: Furniture, Ceramics, Metalwork, Textiles. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1951. Wrappers. Very good plus. More
FE. (ANTIQUES). COLONIAL LIGHTING. By Arthur Hayward. Boston: Brimmer, (1923). First edition. 114 plates. Several stamps of the "Nassau Galleries, Inc.", slightly shaken otherwise very good. More
1972. ANTON, Ferdinand. THE ART OF ANCIENT PERU. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1972). First American Edition. 4to., taupe cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine, in a lightly edgeworn and priceclipped dust jacket. More
1970. ANTON, Ferdinand. ART OF THE MAYA. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American Edition. 4to., oatmeal cloth w/dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Near fine. More
1967. ANTONINUS, Brother. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF BROTHER ANTONINUS: A COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF HIS POEMS WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1967. The Modern Poets Series. Inscribed by the author on half title. 86 pp. 8vo., green and black wrappers. Light rubbing, slight creasing to wrappers. Internally..... More
1964. APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. ALCOOLS; Poems 1898-1913. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964. Translated by William Meredith. Inscribed presentation copy from Meredith to "K and Ted" and original poem by Meredith laid in. 8vo., black cloth, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to spine. Light foxing to endpapers, else..... More
Appalachian Mountain Club. APPALACHIA. Vol. 1, no. 1 - Vol. 14, No. 2. (June, 1876 - June, 1917). Boston: Published for the Club by Houghton Mifflin at The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Each volume of Appalachia contains four numbered issues. We offer a large, early run of the mountain periodical, complete..... More
1989. APPLEGATE, Jesse A. & Lavinia Honeyman Porter. WESTWARD JOURNEYS: Memoirs of Jesse A. Applegate and Lavinia Honeyman Porter Who Traveled the Overland Trail. Edited by Martin Ridge. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1989. The Lakeside Classics: Christmas, 1989. Illustrated, some color. lxiii,416 pp. 12mo., brown..... More
1853. APPLETON, Samuel. THE WILL OF SAMUEL APPLETON; WITH REMARKS OF ONE OF THE EXECUTORS [Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch]. Boston: Printed by John Wilson & Son, 1853. Inscribed by Bowditch (son of the famed American navigator Nathaniel Bowditch), one of the will's executors, to Charles Sprague, banker and poet, on the..... More
1878. APPONYI, Flora Haines. THE LIBRARIES OF CALIFORNIA. Containing descriptions of the principal private and public libraries throughout the state. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1878. 8vo., purple cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine. Ex-library; bookplate to front pastedown and no other marks. Sunned to spine and board perimeters. Shallow..... More