Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1993. First edition. 8vo, 44, [3]pp. Facsimiles, photographs, bookplate of Mindlin mounted on penultimate leaf of text. Laid in is the carbon copy of a short, typed and signed letter from Mindlin to Bernard Rosenthal in Berkeley., as well as a copy of Rosenthal's response.....
[Washington, D.C.]: [Government Printing Office], [1888]. 75 loose, sepia lithographs of cattle, each 6x9". Several with stab holes to lower margins, some light marginal soiling and chipping in a few instances, otherwise very good or better. Beautiful, mixed set of highly detailed lithographs of various breeds of cattle by important.....
New York: Del Rey, 2014. First edition. 8vo, 382pp. Signed by Pierce Brown and dated 1/28/14 in red, with Red Mars stamp on title page. Publisher's black paper boards, spine lettered in red, in illustrated jacket. A near fine copy with light pushing at head of spine in like jacket.....
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. First edition. 8vo, 253 plus 2pp. publisher's ads at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with sunning to spine and around edges. Some wear at spine ends and corners. Text block toned, mainly to margins, paperclip indentation to first three leaves with light chip.....
Dallas: William Russell Clark, 1924. First edition. 25x17cm, 32pp. Contributor copy, signed by Clyde Walton Hill on the front cover and inside front cover, with his address in Dallas. Additionally signed by the editor, William Russell Clark on the table of contents. Publisher's illustrated, stapled wrappers, yapped edges. Some notes.....
London: The Cresset Press, [1938]. First edition. 8vo, 258pp. Charts, tables. Publisher's black and white patterned cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Some soiling to boards and page block edge, slightly cocked spine, else very good. Uncommon work from the German writer of novels and books on Catholicism. De Wohl (1903-1961).....
Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1966. First edition. 23x15cm, [iv], 52pp. Single illustration in the text. Glossy, illustrated wrappers with light wear and smudging else nearly fine. Four very early publications by Dean Koontz, here appearing in the Shippensburg State College literary publication, The Reflector. Prior to this issue, Koontz was credited.....
Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1974. First edition, number 6 of 10 specially bound presentation copies signed by 10 contributors. Oblong folio, 16x13," 165, [3]pp. 101 color and black and white facsimiles of works by Shuptrine. Publisher's mauve and purple cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, beveled edges. Marbled endpapers.....
Detroit: International Edugraphic Inc., 1938. 19x31cm. 46pp plus 10 sets of 12 printed, picture postcards in original, numbered envelopes. Green, brad-bound paper wrappers show light soiling and toning. All postcards are unpunched. A nearly fine, complete set. A wonderfully illustrated series of educational cards meant to be punched out and.....
New York: The Rosenbach Company, 1931. First edition. 8vo, ix, 107pp. Blue paper over stiff wrappers, original printed cover label, and later printed spine label. Signature of Elmer Adler to inside front cover. Some soiling to wraps, light chipping at spine ends. Very good. A grand catalogue of an exhibition.....
Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for W. P. & L. Blake... 1800. First edition. 4to, vi, [1], 10-304pp. Lacking half title. List of subscribers at rear. Recent full brown morocco, red spine label lettered in gilt. Marginal staining and chipping throughout. Q2 with two longer tears from outer margin.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First edition. 2vols, 8vos, 358 and 430pp. Photographs by Elizabeth C. Grinnell and Mrs. J.E. Tuell. Foldout map at the rear of vol. 1, index at rear of vol. 2. Laid in is a postcard from the publication era called "Indians Gambling with their.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1941. First edition. 8vo, 234pp. Publisher's green cloth stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, in illustrated jacket. Corners bumped, spine lightly cocked, some pushing at spine ends. Jacket shows some sunning to spine, soiling and rubbing to rear panel, light use at spine ends.....
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1935. First separate edition, limited to 1000 copies. 15x8cm, [2], 14, [2]pp. Red, stapled wraps lettered in silver. Designed and printed by William A. Kittredge. Nearly fine with "Definition of Obscene" written on front cover in pencil. Nicely printed edition of Judge John M. Woolsey's (1877-1945) court.....
Berlin: Fischer und Franke, 1900. First edition. 8vo, 20x17 cm, unpaginated. Publisher's blue illustrated cloth, beveled edges, silver and orange decorated endpapers by Franz Hein. Full page and vignette, black and white illustrations throughout by Franz Hein, Hugo L. Braune, Arpad Schmidhammer and Max Bernuth. Five, full color illustrations representing.....
Reutlingen: Ensslin & Laiblins, [ca. 1910]. First edition. 8vo, 22x18cm, 96, [2]pp. Full page and vignette, color and black and white illustrations throughout by Ernst Liebermann. Publisher's pictorial gray paper boards backed in beige cloth, spine lettered in red, edges stained red, in plain, printed jacket. Boards bumped along edges.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., [1907]. First edition thus. 18x12cm, [4], 104pp. Tables, appendix. Original printed wrappers bound in maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Ornum's Novelty store ticket attached to title page, Hocus Pocus Review ticket attached to rear pastedown. Some marginal soiling and foxing else nearly.....
Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin: Primavera Press, 1931. First edition, limited to 50 presentation copies. 8vo, 74pp. Signed and inscribed by Hanna at the colophon to Mark Daniels and dated in 1931. Printed presentation slip from Dawson's Book Shop laid in at front. Quarter gray cloth, marbled boards, printed label on.....
Boston: The Shortstory Publishing Co., 1902. First edition. 8vo, iv, 42, xxii, [2]pp. Illustrations, advertisements. Cover art by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter. Illustrated, stapled wraps with some soiling and rubbing to edges and covers. Pen mark to edge of rear wrapper. Very good. Notable issue of this American literary magazine which.....
San Francisco: Printed by Charles F. Robbins & Company, 1863. First edition. 9x6," [5], 359, [2]pp. Charts, tables, frontis diagram of the chamber of the board of supervisors. Half calf, brown cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Ex University of California copy bearing withdrawal and perforated stamps, bookplate to front.....
New York: The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, 1938. First edition, limited to 100 signed and numbered copies, this being #11, though unsigned. 23x15cm, [2], 71ff, printed recto only. 60 captioned illustrations. Huxley's printed signature follows his introduction. Spiral bound in maroon card wrappers with silver and blue label.....
London: Henry Newton Stevens, 1884. First edition. 15x11cm, unpaginated. Vignette frontis, intials, headers. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stevens to Robbins Little Esq. Blue/green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, blue and gold leaf, floral patterned endpapers. Some rubbing, light soiling to boards else nearly fine. Finely printed critique.....
San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 2018. First edition, limited to 120 copies. 24x16cm, [8]pp. Printed in three colors, frontis and vignette illustration by Michael Lee. Quarter metallic red, black card wrappers, yapped edges, printed label. Saddle stitched with green string tied off at the head with a red glass chile.....
Los Angeles: The Time-Binder Press, 1946. First edition. Quarto, 15pp. Stapled, mimeographed sheets, facsimile signature of van Vogt on front cover. Browning to pages, light edge wear else nearly fine. A.E. van Vogt's first separately published work, preceding Slan, which was published late in 1946. This fanzine, a speech given at.....
New York: Horace Liveright Inc., 1935. Publisher's proof. 8vo, 454pp. Plain, yellow card wrappers in illustrated jacket, attached at spine. Near fine with some light smudging to wrappers and bumped corners, final leaves uncut. Jacket sun faded on spine, worn and lightly chipped along edges and very good. Uncommon advance.....
