Fine Books and Collections Volume3 Number 2 March/April 2005
Eureka, California: OP Media, 2005. Softcover. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Articles on the top 50 book auction sales and remembering AB Bookman. More
Eureka, California: OP Media, 2005. Softcover. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Articles on the top 50 book auction sales and remembering AB Bookman. More
New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1983. Softcover. First edition. Square stapled wrappers. Near fine. New York Galleries, May 25, 1983. More
New York: Sotheby's, 1987. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Spine faded, small pen mark on title, else very good. Contains color illustrations Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Samuel Clemens manuscript of "The 30,000 Bequest", works by Ezra Pound, Tennyson, Swift, and more. Prices realized laid in. More
New York, New York: Sotheby's, 1988. Softcover. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. More
Ashland, Mass. The Trading Post, 1939. Unbound. First edition. A single leaf folded to make four pages. Two horizontal folds, some offsetting, very good or better. 208 items offered for sale written by turn-of-the-century authors, among them John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Harding Davis, Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, S. Weir..... More
New York: The Walpole Galleries, 1918. Softcover. Octavo. Stapled printed wrappers. 27, [1]pp. Wrappers a little soiled, else near fine. Bid sheet laid in. More
New York: The Scribner Book Store, [no date - circa 1935]. Softcover. First edition. Printed wrappers. Unpaged. 184 items. Illustrated. Foxing to the wrappers, one page corner creased with a small pencil note, very good. Catalogue 100 of the New York bookstore, with notable rarities across the spectrum of classical..... More
CA: Lucerne Group, 1991. Softcover. First edition. Complete set of twelve for the year 1991, Volume One. Quartos. Stapled wrappers. Some issues lightly soiled on rear wrapper, still near fine. Useful to the collector of these authors: Jack Finney, John McPhee, Shirley Jackson, Anne Tyler, Mari Sandoz, Dorothy B. Hughes..... More
CA: Lucerne Group, 1991. Softcover. First edition. Complete set of twelve for the year 1991, Volume One. Quartos. Stapled wrappers. Some spines lightly faded, light dampstain on top edge of front wrapper on issue twelve, still a near fine set. Useful to the collector of these authors: Jack Finney, John..... More
Tucson, Arizona: Firsts Magazine, 1994. Softcover. First edition. Complete set of twelve for the year 1994, Volume Four. Quartos. Stapled wrappers. Numbers 1, 4, and 10 are missing front wrappers, still a very good set. Useful to the collector of these authors: Kenneth Roberts, Mario Vargas Llosa, B. Traven, Virginia..... More
Tucson, Arizona: Firsts Magazine, 1997. Softcover. First edition. Complete set of twelve for the year 1997, Volume Seven. Quartos. Stapled wrappers. Some spines slightly faded, still near fine. Useful to the collector of these authors: Sherwood Anderson, John O'Hara, Ayn Rand, Theodore Dreiser, Max Brand, P.D. James, E.L. Doctorow, Leigh..... More
[No place: no publisher], 1984. Unbound. Framed broadside. 8" x 5". Framed to 16" x 13". Fine. Device designed in 1828 for William Pickering. Pickering's reputation was sealed with his printing of the Diamond Classics: miniatures with text so small they can barely be read with a magnifying glass, but..... More
New York: The Book Publishers' Bureau, 1945. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine. More
Philadelphia: Freeman Fine Arts, 1996. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. 81pp. Slightly bowed, else near fine. Addendum laid in. More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2004. Softcover. First edition. Wrappers. 222pp. Slightest of wear, a fine copy. More
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1875. Hardcover. One bound volume of six monthly issues (January-June, 1875). Octavo. 864pp. Contemporary dark green half morocco and light purple pebbled cloth, decorated gilt spine, light green endpapers. Binder’s ticket: “Robinson Bro’s & Clark … Green Bay, Wis.” on front pastedown. The spine and..... More
Washington, D.C. Association of American Geographers, 1970. Softcover. Revised edition. Octavo. 214pp. Printed wrappers. Faint stain on the edges of the last half of the leaves, else very good. More
Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., (no date-circa1990s). Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 45pp. Wrappers lightly soiled, near fine with the rear wrapper stamped with poet Daniel Hoffman's address. More
Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., (no date-circa1990s). Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Address label on rear wrap, sticker closure on foredges, else near fine. More
Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., (no date-circa1990s). Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 35pp. Address label on rear wrap, sticker closure on foredges, else near fine. More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George S. MacManus Co., (no date-circa1990s). Softcover. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 60pp. Address label on rear wrap, sticker closure on foredges, else near fine. More
Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Friends of the Omar N. Bradley Foundation, 1995. Softcover. Quarto. 39pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. About fine. More
Venice: Ferd. Ongania, 1906. Hardcover. Maroon velvet boards decorated embossed in gilt. Illustrated, top edge gauffered. Gilt is rubbed at the raised areas, velvet slightly worn, hinges cracked, a very good copy. One of 500 copies. More
Cedar Rapids, Ia. Privately Printed for the Friends of The Torch Press, 1953. Hardcover. Introduction by J. Christian Bay. Small octavo. Quarter black cloth and decorated black papercovered boards. Fine in chipped original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 400 copies. More
Cedar Rapids, Ia. Privately Printed for the Friends of The Torch Press, 1953. Hardcover. Introduction by J. Christian Bay. Small octavo. Quarter black cloth and decorated orange papercovered boards. Fine in chipped original unprinted glassine dustwrapper. One of 400 copies. More