BALLOON TOP
1978. ALBERY, Nobuko. BALLOON TOP. A novel of growing up in Japan. New York: Pantheon, (1978). First American edition. 8vo, tan cloth; 255pp. Ink inscription. Fine, in a lightly soiled jacket. More
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BUCH IKKARIM, GRUND-UND GLAUBENSLEHREN DER MOSAISCHEN RELIGION
1844. ALBO, Rab. Joseph. BUCH IKKARIM, GRUND-UND GLAUBENSLEHREN DER MOSAISCHEN RELIGION. Frankfurt: n.p. 1844 (On facing half-title: tipped-in slip under Frankfurt "Verlag von Otto Spamer in Leipzig"). xxxxiv + 688 pp. 8vo., rebound in workmanlike black cloth spine with marbled paper covered boards. Ex-library, only evidence is hand lettered spine..... More
SHÔKEI GAFU 勝景画譜
18. [ALBUM, PAINTING] NAKAJIMA Yûshô 中島有章. SHÔKEI GAFU 勝景画譜 Orihon folding painting album in gafu style, full of lovely views of Japan. 28.2 x 16.8 CM. Preliminary and final decorated pages, plus a 2 page table of contents and 42 double page color paintings ( each 28.2 X 33.4 CM) (~11""..... More
AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps
1872. ALCOTT, Louisa M. AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps. Boston: Robert Brothers, 1872. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gilt. A lovely bright copy with a touch of wear at the extremes. (BAL 171). More
AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps
1872. ALCOTT, Louisa M. AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG; Shawl-straps. Boston: Robert Brothers, 1872. First edition. 8vo., blue cloth, spine in gilt. A slightly cocked copy, that otherwise is very pleasing with a touch of wear at the extremes. (BAL 171). More
LITTLE MEN
1871. ALCOTT, Louisa M. LITTLE MEN: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First American edition, with Sig. mark 1 ; it follows the first British edition by one month. Frontispiece and three plates inserted. [4] pp. adv., [2], 376 pp. 16mo., green cloth, lettered in gilt..... More
PICKLES
ALDIN, Cecil. ALDIN, Cecil. PICKLES. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton [n.d. ca. 1909]. 48 text pages (versos numbered to XXIV); title page and 24 litho plates. The 24 lithographs are printed on an olive green ground in black white and several colors; the title page is printed in..... More
PROSE WORKS
19. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. [PROSE WORKS]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, v.d. (1901-1913). Complete in seven octavo volumes. Frontispiece portrait in vols. 1 & 7. Publisher's binding of green ribbed cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; uncut and unopened. A fine and fresh set in age-browned, spine-sunned..... More
SISTERS' TRAGEDY AND OTHER POEMS
1891. ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey. THE SISTERS' TRAGEDY: With Other Poems, Lyrical and Dramatic. London: Macmillan and Company, 1891. First edition, inscribed by the author, December, 1906. 8vo., 205 pp., green cloth. Many signatures unopened. Slight foxing at endpapers, slight over-opening. A bright, very good copy. (BAL 356)... More
GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 7TH EDITION
1803. ALEXANDER, Caleb. A GRAMMATICAL SYSTEM OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: COMPREHENDING A PLAIN AND FAMILIAR SCHEME, OF TEACHING YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES THE ART OF SPEAKING AND WRITING CORRECTLY THEIR NATIVE TONGUE, 7TH EDITION, CORRECTED BY THE AUTHOR. Boston: I. Thomas & E. T. Andrews, Jan. 1803. 96 pp. 12mo...... More
BOBBIE A GREAT COLLIE
1926. ALEXANDER, Charles. BOBBIE: A GREAT COLLIE. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. 114 pp. 12mo., orange cloth stamped in blue and blind. Fine except for a touch of wear to bottom of spine; cloth and lettering clean and bright. Light thumbing to endpapers. Interior clean, with four halftone..... More
PAUL GAUGUIN: SA VIE ET LE SENS DE SON OEUVRE
1930. ALEXANDRE, Arsene. PAUL GAUGUIN: SA VIE ET LE SENS DE SON OEUVRE. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1930. Number 57 of 150 copies, on Arches paper. 276 pp. 4to., stiff printed wrappers. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge and heel of spine. Some edges unopened. Monochrome illustrations. More
PRINTING AND THE PROGRESS OF MAN
ALICKE, Walter. PRINTING AND THE PROGRESS OF MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF 680 FINE & RARE BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING FIVE CENTURIES. CATALOGUE 269. Vaduz: Interlibrum [n.d.] [unpag] 8vo., stiff wraps with paper dust jacket. Near fine, slight bowing to front..... More
MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH
1848. ALISON, Archibald. THE MILITARY LIFE OF JOHN, DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. First American edition. 410 pp. 8vo., half calf with gilt rules, raised bands, gilt black leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards and edges, endpapers marbled to match. Boards and leather worn, rubbed..... More
GREAT CATHEDRALS OF THE WORLD
18. ALLEN, Fred H. THE GREAT CATHEDRALS OF THE WORLD. 2 vols. One Hundred and Thirty full page plates executed in photogravure; with explanatory and descriptive text. Folio, 3/4 morocco, black cloth, decorated cloth endpapers, spine in gilt, a.e.g. Ex-lib. A very good copy with some soiling and scuffing to..... More
EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS
1937. ALLEN, Frederick Lewis, et al... EARLY AMERICAN ROOMS. A consideration of the changes in style between the arrival of the Mayflower and the Civil War in the regions originally settled by the English and the Dutch. With articles by Allen, Elliot Bisbee, Joseph E. Chandler, Kenneth Conant, et al...Portland..... More
BEDFORD VILLAGE
1944. ALLEN, Hervey. BEDFORD VILLAGE. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1944). The second of three books, issued spearately, to constitute Sylvania, Vol. I. of THE DISINHERITED. First edition, inscribed to Robert Frost on the ffep. Color frontisp. [viii],305 pp. Octavo, tan cloth, title printed in blue to spine and upper..... More
ONTOGENETIC AND OTHER VARIATIONS IN MUSKOXEN
1913. 963. ALLEN, J. A. ONTOGENETIC AND OTHER VARIATIONS IN MUSKOXEN, WITH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE MUSKOX GROUP, RECENT AND EXTINCT. New York: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, March 1913. New Series, Vol. I, Part IV. Folio, grey wrappers lettered in black. Illustrated with 8 black..... More
GENTLEMAN'S CALLING
1662. [ALLESTREE, Richard?]. THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. London, Printed by R. Norton for Timothy Garthwait, 1662. 12mo. [xxiv]176pp. +[4]ff. Second edition. Fine engraved frontispiece and title, with allegorical figures and scenes in architectural frames, dated 1660, the date of the first edition. With two additional plates of prophets. Allestree, a Royalist..... More
LIVELY ORACLES GIVEN TO US. OR THE CHRISTIANS BIRTH-RIGHT AND DUTY
1679. [ALLESTREE, Richard] By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, &c. THE LIVELY ORACLES GIVEN TO US. OR THE CHRISTIANS BIRTH-RIGHT AND DUTY, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. The Theater at Oxford, 1679. 3rd edition. [8] + 226 pp + [1] pp. With engraved..... More
CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
1859. ALLIBONE, S. Austin. A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, And British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, From the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1859. 3 volumes. Containing 30,000 biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects. Consecutive pagination to..... More
CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S ADVENTURES IN CONNACHT & ULSTER A.D. 1588.
1897. ALLINGHAM, Hugh. CAPTAIN CUELLAR'S ADVENTURES IN CONNACHT & ULSTER A.D. 1588. To which is added An Introduction and Complete Translation of Captain Cuellar's Narrative of the Spanish Armada and His Adventures in Ireland, by Robert Crawford, M.A., M.R.I.A. &c. With Map and Illustrations. London: Elliot Stock, 1897. Inscribed presentation..... More
CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE
1941. ALLISON, John M.S., ed. CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF A PRINCE, Correspondence of the Princess of Nassau-Saarbruck 13 June-15 November 1758. New Haven: Yale, 1941. 8vo., brown paper boards. Some pages unopened. A touch of foxing to pastedowns, negligible rubbing to boards, one page carelessly opened. Near fine in dust..... More
NEW ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN FOUR PARTS
1733. ALLYNE, JAMES. NEW ENGLISH DISPENSATORY, IN FOUR PARTS. London: Printed for Tho. Astley at the Rose, and S. Austen at the Angel and Bible, both in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1733. First edition. 8vo., xiv + [2] + 646 + [56] + [2] pp. Title continued: "Containing, I. a more..... More