Browns Green, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England: Privately Printed, circa 1850. Wraps. This rare dramatic retelling of Beauty & the Beast takes place between Baghdad and Cairo, where an Iraqi merchant in dire straits steals a rose from a bear and must send his favorite daughter (Beauty/Fatima) to live with the... More
Macon, Georgia: Birdsey Flour Mills, circa 1930. Staplebound wraps. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 128pp. No date, circa 1930. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with previous owner's notes in pencil to wraps, creasing and soiling to wraps, and small tear to head and tail of spine. Pages uniformly age-toned, else... More
Chicago: Boylston Steam Specialty Company, 1930. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6". 150pp. Upper wrap printed with the name of E. W. Klein, 152 Nassau Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia. Rather heavy wear to embossed paper wraps with spine backed in gray cloth and lettered in black. Boylston Figure 98 Valve stamped... More
New York: Wilhelm Rabbe, 1859. Leather bound. 5 1/4" X 3 1/2". xxxii, 672pp. Text in German. Printed in two columns. Bound in full embossed leather, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with hard rubbing to edges and extremities, chipping to tail of spine, small open... More
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882. Hardcover. 6 1/8" X 4 1/4". 45pp. Embossed red cloth over boards, with "Lazy Roger" faintly visible to spine. Small tears to extremities of cloth, with bumping, scattered rubbing, sunning, and mild soiling. Hinges cracked, text block loose. Previous owner's notations to pastedowns... More
New York: National Cloak & Suit Co., 1907. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 3/8" X 7". 60pp, plus order forms and size guide. Blank post card for requesting sample materials laid in, with heavy toning to front pastedown. Pictorial staplebound paper wraps show moderate wear, with open tears to corners... More
New York: Peter Arnell, 2002. Hardcover. 13 1/4" X 10". Unpaginated. Inscribed by Peter Arnell to title page. Black cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in blind, wrapped in protective archival jacket. A touch of shelfwear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable copy... More
Winchester, Massachusetts: Winchester Publications, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 1/4". 118pp. Signed by Joe Bellino to front free endpaper. Lacking dust jacket, with "About the Authors" flap laid in. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with mild... More
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". xvi, 230pp. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Goldenrod cloth over boards, with spine lettered in metallic red. A touch of shelfwear to binding, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A presentable copy of... More
London: Folio Society, 1996. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 6 3/4" X 4 3/8". xviii, 54 pages of text and 54 plates. Mild wear to publisher's slipcase. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Light scattered rubbing along edge of spine adjacent to upper board, else fine... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". vi, [ii], 367pp, plus two leaves of ads. First printing, February 1910. Publisher's binding designed by Rome K. Richardson. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamepd in gilt and burgundy. Moderate wear to... More
London: Oldbourne Book Company Ltd., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 222pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with British Book Centre label to front flap, presumably covering price. Small tears to edges and extremities of dust jacket, with light dust soiling to rear panel. Red cloth... More
Dubuque, Iowa: WM. C. Brown Company, 1935. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 423pp. Moderate wear to red cloth covered boards, with mild edgewear and bumping to corners. spine lettered in heavily dimmed gilt. Front hinge a little loose. Slight lean to spine. Writing and bookstore stamp to endpapers. Binding... More
Atlanta: Mildred Huff Coleman, 1996. Second Edition. Spiral bound wraps. 9" X 6 1/2". 196pp, plus 5pp request forms. Inscribed by Mildred Huff Coleman to title page: "Wear a hat & gloves when you read these historic recipes!" Light edgewear to comb-bound stiff pictorial wraps, with small stains to both... More
Shreveport, Louisiana: The College English Association, Inc., 1974. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Moderate edgewear, foxing, and toning to stapled wraps, with nicks to head and tail of spine. Foxing and soiling to edges of text block. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of... More
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1871. Hardcover. 6 3/4" X 4 1/2". 204pp. Embossed green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with edgewear, bumping to corners, small tears to head and tail of spine, and scattered rubbing. Both hinges cracked and text block loose... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 1/4". iv, 315pp. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping to corners. Bookseller stamp and notations to front pastedown. Binding is sound. Pages are clean... More
New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 433pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with small open tears to corners and head of spine, paper remnant to front panel, and light creasing. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in black. Black marks to bottom... More
London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 287pp. Moderate edgewear to price-clipped pictorial dust jacket, with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Tan cloth over boards boards with spine lettered in gilt over black. Hard bumping to corners and... More
Tokyo: Haga Shoten, 1977. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 8 1/2". 211pp. Text in Japanese. Publisher's pictorial slipcase shows moderate edgewear. Several long open tears to publisher issued glassine dust jacket. Deep blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Gentle wear to binding, firm and sound... More
New York City: The Seabury Press, 1981. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 6.106pp. Light edgewear with rubbing and indentations to colorful wraps. Text block is clean and unmarked, bright and tight. This issue of Consilium, a Catholic international journal of theology, focuses on intersections between controversial philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the... More
London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". 346pp. Ex-Central Library of Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham Public Libraries, with associated stamps, markings, and seals. Circa 1920s reinforced library binding, with red buckram over boards, spine lettered in gilt and stamped with library seal... More
Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 240pp. Inscribed by Richard Jay Hutto to Earlene Scott, owner of Scott's Books in Newnan, Georgia, to half-title page and dated 2010. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Binding is tight, firm, and... More
London: The Medici Society, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 7 3/4". xi, 15pp, 7 tissue-guarded color plates, 72 monochrome plates. Very heavy wear to dust jacket, with only 2 1/2" of spine present, edgewear, small tears to extremities, sunning, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Pictorial label to dust... More
Zurich Leipziz Wien: Amalthea-Verlag, 1921. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6 1/4". 253pp, plus one leaf ads. Text in German. Patterned paper over boards with spine backed in green cloth with paper title label. Moderate edgewear to binding, with some tears to paper at edges and bumping to corners. Sunning to... More
