London & Edinburgh: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826. Copyright date of 1826 but with "Corrected to 1832" printed below in a bolder typeface; volume about 8 1/2" x 11" size, maps slightly smaller, printed one to a page, on one side only; Containing 43 colored maps and two.....
London: John Murray, 1821. F. xxi + 261 pages + (1) page of publisher's announcements at back, listing the titles of Byron; couple of leaves of the "Notes" on Dante piece unopened; page 151 with the longer speech by the Doge, indicating the second issue of the first edition; George.....
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1886. F. 116 pages; useful index; illustrated with 25 tissue-guarded colored lithographic plates of various bird eggs, collated complete; the author's "...chief aim has been to render this work as useful and true to nature as possible...endeavored to confine myself strictly to the eggs.....
New York: Signet-New American Library, 1981. . xviii + 265 pages; humorously inscribed and signed on the half-title page by Truman Capote, "For the (underlined) Miss Jones with good wishes from an admirer of beauty and mystery The (underlined) Mr. Capote"; accomplished in Capote's half-printed half-script hand, penned in blue.....
New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase. 329 pages; with useful glossary-index and bibliography. Graciously inscribed & signed in his very precise calligraphic hand by the author on the front endpaper: "To: Douglas & Lily As yes is to tea you were to Japan Rand February.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. xxxii + 373 pages; inscribed on the front endpaper "Mrs Wagstaff with the high consideration of John Dean Caton"; tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by H.B. Hall; illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations; information on the natural history of the.....
South Framingham Massachusetts: Caxton Society, 1909. Group of literary booklets from the Caxton Society; averaging 25-35 pages each, usually with a frontispiece illustration; bound in illustrated paper wrap covers, side-string sewn; subjects include: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig; Chinese Philospher's Son-Goldsmith; Poor Richard's Almanack; Thoreau, Character and Opinions; Essays of.....
Buffalo, New York: D.T. Stiles, 1861. F. 136 pages + errata slip tipped onto final pastedown; bound in contemporary publishers' cloth, gilt spine titles; some edge, tips wear to covers; good condition.
A handwritten note, interestingly written from Carnegie Hall and dated May 2 1912 and with a artists' palette-style "Dana" in the signature; evidently the addressee had asked Gibson about using an image he'd drawn; to a Mr. Abbott, and describing the process for using the art, fees & copyright notice;.....
New York: F. Greenfield. Large folio edition, approximately 16 1/2" x 10" size; 45 pages of text and tissue-guarded black and white plates, each page printed one side only; copy number 145 of an issue of 500 of this third edition; author's presentation inscription on front endpaper "Compliments of the.....
London: J. Dodsley, 1774. F. In two volumes; vii + 568 + 606 pages; frontispiece portrait engraving by Vitalba after the painting by Hoare; "Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the originals now in her possession."; Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chsterfield (1694-1773) British statesman, wit and letter-writer, formed.....
No Place Listed: No Publisher, 1976. (48) pages; illustrations in pencil and color crayon of these two Russian children's stories; each prefaced by a blank page with the title in pencil and the author of the tale; finely-accomplished pencil work and a good understanding of the story-line in the artwork;.....
1974. F. A portfolio livre d'artiste; Limited edition no. 73 of 100 examples of this issue; signed by Maurice Clavel (1920-1979) French writer and journalist, philosopher; and by artist Jacques Verniere; (from the colophon): "...Cet ouvrage constitue l'edition integrale du commentaire du film de Maurice Clavel realise pour l'emission de.....
Paris France: Journal Officiel, 1871. Newsheet No. 114, newspaper format, printed two sides; French and especially Paris news, with reportage on the international scene as well, during this short-lived (March 18-May 28 1871) very politically and historically influential period in France; noticing various decrees, bailiffs appointed notaries, practical concerns regarding.....
Hartford Connecticut: State of Connecticut, 1910. F. 525 pages + "Laws Relating Specially to Railroads" 176 pages, both sections indexed; especially interesting two folding maps in pockets, accomplished in colors: Steam Railroad Map approx. 25 1/2" x 36" & Street Railroad Map approx. 25 1/4" x 33 3/4"; original publisher's.....
Waterloo New York: Waterloo Library and Historical Society, 1884. 22 page pamphlet; with black and white line woodcut portraits of George S. Conover and Fred H. Furniss; beneath both portraits in pencil a contemporary hand has written an Indian name and clan, Furniss being Turtle Clan Seneca and Conover Wolf.....
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. F. 274 pages; presentation gift inscription in pencil from Florence Doubleday, dated 1925 on front endpaper (Florence Van Wyck Doubleday (2nd wife of Conrad publisher F.N.Doubleday); (From the dustjacket information): "...Conrad's last novel, a romance of the Mediterranean in the days of Napoleon";.....
New York: D. Appleton, 1873. 199 pages; illustrated title page, accompanied by a full-page black and white plate by F.O.C. Darley, engraved by Morse, and with more Darley plates within; originally produced by Cooper in 1823, one of his first efforts and the first of what became the group of.....
New York, N.Y. The Century Co., 1918. 108 pages; illustrations in blue and gold-yellow throughout by the Canadian-born illustrator Palmer Cox (1840 - 1924) "... literary historians pay tribute to Cox for his pioneering role in the creation of nondidactic children's literature. Cox's purpose in creating the Brownies was to.....
Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC), 1977. F. Poster in colors, for La Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) 1976 Tomas Gutierrez Alea film. A77 printed in bottom left corner;. Approx. 20" x 30" size; strongly-printed screened image of candelabra, color bleed-through on reverse; some edge-creasing and.....
Cuba: ICAIC, 1980. F. Poster screen-printed in colors, text in Spanish; Bachs 80 at lower left margin.. Approx. 19 3/4" x 29 3/4" size; some color-bleed on back; some edge-wear and edge-wrinkling; in very good condition.
Garden City Long Island New Yo: Curtiss-Wright Aeroplane & Motor Corporation. Large photograph of this aeronautical manufacturing facility in Garden City Long Island; with the identification in the photo at bottom right; approx. 16" x 19 1/2" size overall, with 3/4" approx. margins on sides and top, about twice that.....
Delray Beach, Florida: Author Published, 1991. Typed Draft. Post Bound. 403 pages; with a useful bibliography and about 40 pages of interesting alphabetically-organized place names of East Hampton Town, giving the location and occasional historical anecdote about each. Inscribed and signed on the title page by the author, "George, I......
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1934. F. 286 pages; signed by the author on the title page; playing-card figure dustjacket art by Chesney; "First Published" on copyright page; From the dustjacket information: "...represents an entertaining commentary upon the danger of match-making..sympathetic study of whimsical and lovable human nature."; dustjacket with some.....
Paris and London: Le Livre Du Bibliophile Georges Briffaut, Editeur, 1929. 113 pages, some unopened; Limited edition No. 272 "Trois cent quatre-vingt-quinze exemplaires sur Velin d'Arches, Contenant L'Etat Definitif des Eaux-Fortes"; title page printed in red and black, nice decorative red & black initial ornamentation; Imprime par Coulouma, Maitre Imprimeur.....
