Paris, France. Henri Plon, Imprimeur-Editeur, 1863. First Edition. Leather. (2) + 278 pages. French text; historical information on the climatology of Spain, and of various regions, cities, coastal areas and a chapter on the mineral waters of the country. Title page with the small previous owner name-stamp of collector George.....
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;.....
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.....
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";.....
London, England: Printed for Robert Cadell, et al, 1831. A New Edition. Leather. xxiii + 514 + (1) page double-column poem,"Farewell to the Reader" + (8) pages of Caddell's publisher's announcements. With the half title & a useful index; the author's Preface to the seventh edition adds the line-title &.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
A Paris: Chez Pierre-Francois Didot Le Jeune, Libraire Imprimeur De Monsieur, Quais Des Augustins, 1785. First Edition. Leather. xvi + 256 pages, with the half-title; French text. Medical climatology & physiological researches concerning tropical climates, especially in the Caribbean, by Jean-Barthelemy Dazille (circa 1733 - 1812) French marine medical surgeon.....
France. A group of 5 early French poetry pamphlet publications, bound in one volume; The complete titles & publication details follow: Fetes de Venus. Inspirations de Catulle. A Paris, Chez Pelicier, Libraire, Place du Palais-Royal. 1825, 20 pages; Conjectures sur L'Auteur de la Veillee de Venus et Sur L'Epoque a......
Kobenhavn: Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1905. F. 261 pages; Danish text throughout; original printed orange paper wraps bound-in; approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; in full polished fine-grain caramel-brown morocco leather; gilt cover titles surrounded by a laurel wreath, back cover with gilt illustration of a crab, claws extended; gilt.....
Denmark: Various, 1935. F. 'Soya' (Carl Erik Martin Soya) (1896 - 1983) Danish author, epicure, playwright and social-satire moralist. "…Soya's works are a mixture of primitiveness with refinement, uncertainty & intransigence with forbearance, courage with compassion… A Rabelais-like character comedian and fabulant who is constantly haunted by a misanthropy akin.....
London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. In three volumes, 436 + 414 + 428 pages + publishers' catalogue at back of Volume III; each volume separately indexed; "Edited and Revised by Robert W. Lowe with Fifty Copperplate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings"; handsomely rebound by Lamb & Buck Bindery in burgundy.....
New York: George H. Doran, 1922. F. 245 pages, mostly unopened; Spanish novelistic travel literature by Dos Passos, before the Civil War, with political commentary and literary musings; "...Richly colored scenes, quiet interludes at wayside inns, mountain and valley, old towns rich in story...alert observation of the new currents in.....
Isla Vista California: Turkey Press, 1981. F. (42) pages; Copy No. "B" of 26 copies half-bound and lettered A-Z, signed by the author and including a hand-colored drawing by Doug Edge; printed in red & black type throughout; Additionally warmly inscribed and signed by the poet on the copyright page.....
Kisumu Kenya East Africa: Edward Konigsberger, 1950. F. Group of material which describes the African artifact and souvenir business of this company, based in Kenya; including: June, 1956 "Konigs" catalog, 12 pages, black and white illustrated throughout, heads & plaques in ebony, masks, drummers, women, busts, head carvings, nudes, old.....
New York: CBS Television, 1959. Comprising two items: 1. A 16 mm film of the show, in the original metal canister labeled "Positive Release Print Program Person to Person CBS Television Film Service Operations...Serial Number 59 01 23 Genevieve" and also with some Air France labeling; evidently the film had.....
New York: Random House et al, 1951. Collection of items by Paul Engle including: The World of Love, Random House NY 1951 39 pages, First Printing stated on copyright page, inscribed "For Frank and Bill, with words of love from all of us Paul Engle Iowa City 1951", dustjacket with.....
Mexico: Author Published, 1960. (4) + 122 pages; the first page a real-photo head & shoulders portrait of the "Rev. Bishop and Dr. M.H. Franz" in priest's garb with white collar; the author recounts his awakening to a life of service to mankind, apparently via a mystical experience aided by.....
