One sheet folded to make four pages. Vol. I No. 12,14,16 [15 May, 1 June, 1July 1973]; and Vol. III Nos. 5,6,7 [15 Sept, 1 and 15 Oct., 1975. Light tanning and staining to each.. View More...
32 pages. 8 x 5 inches. Two stories and two poems, with one illustration at centre. No printing / publishing info. stated, and I can find no record of the publication. Handwritten former owner note to top right of first page: "bought May 28, 1968 / read May 28 1968". Else unmarked. View More...
32 pages. Small chip off tope centre front cover and first leaf, and off lower outer corner first leaf (not affecting text). Light soil to covers and first 3 leaves. Staples rusted but secure. 12 x 8.5 inches. View More...
Ten issues of the uncommon Furniture of the Times; A. McArthur Co. at Adams Square, Boston. Earliest is July, 1918 and the latest August, 1919. "A monthly magazine dedicated to thrifty homemakers". Illustrations, stories, suggestions, thrift-tips, advertisements, recipes. "A girl simply has to have some place to entertain her friends, or life isn't worth living!" Covers present but detached from October, 1918; pencil notation inside front cover of Dec. '18; a piece cut out of page 5/6 of August, 1919; and short closed tears to margins.They measure 9.75 x 6.75 inches; 9 pages each. An interest... View More...
8 pages plus covers. Sold at the Depository, 56 Pater Noster Row, and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, and by the booksellers. Marked as No. 79 on front cover. Inspirational moral tale of a father who after seeing his son abuse a black man hires the man to dig potatoes and offers him the opportunity to flog his son - an invitation the man declines, much to the surprise and instruction of the son. A scarce, early piece in support of humanitarian racial consciousness. No stated date (c. 1830) and no printer listed. Sewn wraps, with fading to front and fraying to rear; interior is clean with very light ... View More...
161 pages. Illustration at page 116. Cloth over board stained and rubbed; paper label chipped top left. Old inked signature [John Smith] to first front free endpaper. Front hinge slack, withlower cord severed. Tidelines at rear from page 100. 7 pages of adverts at rear for temperance groceries &c. in Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, and Albany. No author indicated. View More...
219 pages and four pages of ads at rear. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind, with gilt to spine. All edges gilt. Cloth rubbed, faded, lightly stained. Binding is sound. Lacking front and rear free endpaper. Frontispiece foxed, tissue guard retained. A child's enthusiastic pencil scribble to both pastedowns and to seven pages.Appleton's Complete Letter Writer at head of title. Title page not dated. Entered According to Act... is dated 1844 and appears on a strip of paper that has been pasted on title page verso. View More...
Thirty four issues of The Carpenter. Earliest is November, 1929 and the latest January, 1951. A cornucopia of trade union information, photos, adverts {Stanley tools, &c.}, correspondence and articles. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. Covers rough on the earliest {Nov, 1929} but thereafter good with expected age-toning and moderate wear; original staples holding fine. This lot includes the August, 1931 Golden Jubilee Number with gilt on front and rear covers. They measure 9 x 6 inches; ranging from 32 to 96 pages each. An interesting glimpse into the Union spanning 22 y... View More...
vi, [7]-[260]; iv, [1]-308 pages. Spine title: Physiology Courtship and Marriage. Title page date 1868, entered according to act [by Piper] date also 1868. Front title: Courtship and Marriage. This edition appears not to have been issued with frontispiece. Foxing to textblock edges; first few and final few leaves and lightly throughout. Binding is sound, with light soil to cloth. Charming inscription to front free slate endpaper: N.H.[?] Paker, Won at the Shubenacadie Rifle Competition of 1871. View More...
xi, 354 pages. Transpapent laminate peeling from covers. Light foxing to endpapers and edges; half-title mildly soiled. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. View More...
213 pages. 11.2 x 8.6 inches. Large format softcover. Uncommon volume by Father Andrew Greeley. Creasing to covers; tear to rear cover centre top: it doesn't go through the cover, but a strip of the upper portion is lacking so the white underside shows through. Otherwise the book is clean and unmarked. View More...
vii, 295 pages plus photo plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Good only: head and foot of spine frayed; cloth split along joints. Binding sound, hinges sturdy, no inscriptions save for unobtrusive pencil underlining of a few short passages. Chapter titles include: The "Amateur Prostitute"; Prostitution; White Slave Trade; Drugs; Perversion [i.e. lesbianism]; &c. View More...
317, [1] pages. Blue cloth with gilt to front and spine - moderate soiling and rubbing. Paper split along front gutter but binding sound; light foxing to front endpapers; smudge to colophon; else clean and unmarked. Second edition stated on title page. Uncommon volume of etiquette. View More...
Little Blue Book No. 1313. Copyright 1928 [Haldeman-Julius]. 32 pages, 5.2 x 3.5 inches. Besides the title-essay, and "Christian Gentleman", is the essay "The Crime of Disbelief". Light pencil to front cover and to a few spots in margin, else clean and unmarked; with customary tanning of pages and sunning to covers. Staples are not rusted and holding fine. Postage will be less than the default price listed. View More...
x, 265 pages. Jacket chipped at head and foot of spine and rubbed at tips, now in archival sleeve. Former owner's unobtrusive signature top right front endpaper, light marginal soiling to a couple leaves but overall clean and unmarked in sound binding. This is the March 1929 first reprint of the 1928 first edition. View More...
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