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
Atlanta: The League of Women Voters of Georgia, 1966. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Mild wear to yellow pictorial staplebound wraps, with edgewear, toning, foxing, and stain to rear through rear free endpaper. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice copy of this 1966 guide to... More
London: Robert Davies, [1866]. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. 7" X 5". 160pp. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy sunning and fading to cloth, with mild edgewear, bumped corners, some spots of soiling, and tear to bottom 1/2" of spine, no losses. Hinges very tender. Bookseller notations pencilled... More
[Alamogordo, NM]: White Sands National Monument, United States National Park Service, 1980. Staplebound wraps. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 25pp. Stapled red pictorial paper wraps. Creasing, moderate edgewear, and light scattered rubbing to wraps. Rusting to staples. Binding is sound. Pink pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of... More
![Your Hidden Skeleton: A Novel Autograph Book which Revewals the Secret Skeletons of Your Friends Through Their Handwriting [The Ghosts of My Friends]](/pictures/thumb/4120_1.JPG?v=1539910763)
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, Circa 1913. Hardcover. 6 5/8" X 4". Unpaginated, 48 leaves for signatures. No date of publication listed, circa early 1900s, with gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1913, and "skeletons" ranging from 1913-1915. This format was also published under the title "The Ghosts... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 284pp. Moderate edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with very small closed tears to top edges. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding... More
New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, N.D. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". 270pp. Blue cloth over bevelled boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear, scattered rubbing, and bumping to corners, with heavy rubbing and mild soiling to rear. Front hinge tender. Toning to endpapers. Bookplate of The Pacific... More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8". xiv, 306pp. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with 3 /4" X 1 3/8" loss to head of spine, small open tears to extremities, scattered rubbing, and light dust soiling. Pencilled note to front flap. Green... More
![Representative Essays on the Theory of Style [Ex Libris Joseph J. Mason, Seal & Serpent Society, Cornell University]. William T. Brewster.](/pictures/thumb/3308_1.JPG?v=1516491676)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". xxvii, 354pp, plus one leaf of ads. Deep green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, bumping to corners, scattered rubbing, crease to spine, and mild soiling. Binding is... 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
New York: powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Inc., 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 12". Unpaginated. Pictorial cloth over boards. A touch of shelfwear to binding. Hinges a touch tender. Binding remains firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first printing of this collection of erotic photography... More
New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 267pp. Hard bumping and mild rubbing to corners and edges of brown cloth hardcover binding. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Front board rather loose. Binding remains sound. Previous owner's label to front paste-down. Small stain... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1960. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 272pp. Mild edgewear and sunning to unclipped dust jacket featuring the art of David Knight, with dust soiling, foxing, and small closed tear to rear panel and very shallow chipping to head of... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1901. John Henderson Betts. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". ix, 463pp. Light blue cloth over boards, stamped in dark blue, with cover and spine lettered in white. Fading to dark blue and white to cloth, with mild edgewear, mild scattered rubbing, and bumping to... More
![The International Monetary Fund, 1945-1965, Volume I: Chronicle, Volume II: Analysis; The International Monetary Fund, 1966-1971, Volume I: Narrative, Volume II: Documents; What is the International Monetary Fund?; The Atlantic Council Policy Papers, The Floating Rate System, The International Monetary System in Transition, The International Monetary System: Exchange Rates and International Indebtedness [IMF and the Atlantic Council set]. Margaret G. de Vries, Keith Horsefield, David D. Driscoll.](/pictures/thumb/3728.JPG?v=1528925619)
Washington DC: International Monetary Fund; The Atlantic Council of the United States, 1969, 1976, 1997, 1978, 1980, 1983. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 7 1/4", xviii, 663pp; xviii, 621pp; xxii, 699pp; viii, 339pp (Books). 9" X 6", 23pp (What is.., two copies). 10" X 6 3/4", 22pp (Floating Rate). 9 1/4"... More
Wein: Herder & Co., 1958. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 6 3/4". 76pp, plus ads. Text in German. Paper over boards, with film separating at edges and near spine at upper board. Small tears to head and tail of spine. Lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 6". 108pp. Green cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in green, white, and gilt with encircling, flowering vines, a stunning binding by Margaret Armstrong, with her mark. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to... More
![Medico-Legal Aspects of the Ruxton Case [Bodies Under the Bridge; Jigsaw Murders]. John Glaister, James Couper Brash.](/pictures/thumb/3944_1.JPG?v=1532204772)
Baltimore: William Wood & Company, 1937. Hardcover. 10" X 7 1/4". xvi, 284pp. Black embossed cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to bidning, wth corners turned in, warping to bottom corner of rear board, soiling, and scattered rubbing. Toning to endpapers. Previous owner's stamp to front... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1872. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 5 3/4". 124pp. Half bound in leather with dark gray cloth over boards, with hinges attached to heavily chipped spine by tape. Heavy rubbing to boards at extremities. Faded marbled page edges. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's label to front pastedown... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8" X 5 1/2". 56pp. Signed by Daniel Halpern to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with a few very small closed tears and chips, sunning to spine, and one 1"... More
Bombay: India Book Distributors (Bombay) Ltd., 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 3/8" X 10". 247pp. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with small tears to head of spine and top edges of flaps at fold-over, as well as dust spotting and surface wear. Black cloth over boards with upper board and... More
![North Carolina in the Mexican War, 1846-1848; Civil War Pictures; North Carolina in the American Revolution [North Carolina, 3 Volumes]. William S. Hoffmann, D. L. Corbitt, Elizabeth W. Wilborn, Hugh F. Rankin.](/pictures/thumb/3725.JPG?v=1528925619)
Raleigh, North Carolina: State Department of Archives and History, 1959, 1961, 1962. Paperback. 9" X 6". 48pp; viii, 89pp, plus fold-out map; 75pp. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with edgewear, scattered rubbing, and light toning. Creasing to spine of Civil War Pictures. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean... More
Arlington, Virginia: Thirdear, 1970. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 3/8". 37pp, plus 3pp ads; 40pp. Modereate edgewear, toning, and dust soiling to paper wraps. Edgewear heavier to No. 5, with chipping at head and tail of spine and front wrap separated from staples. Both bindings remain sound, with... More
Glasgow and Dalbeattie: Fraser, Asher & Co., 1911. Tom Hutcheson. First Edition. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 1/2". 111pp. Inscribed by the author to front free endpaper and signed to title page. Green cloth over boards, with wrap-around paper tartan label and cover and spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear... More
