viii, [2], [11]-96 pages. Stated on printed title page: "New edition, with coloured illustrations" i.e.: colour frontispiece and colour title page. One of Warne's Bijou Books. No stated date of issue. 3.8 x 2.7 inches; all edges gilded. Professionally stabilized: loose signatures tightened and front endpaper re-hinged. Loss to foot of printed title, likely as bound, with no loss of text. 79 short humorous role-play scenes. View More...
iv, 284; ii, 260, ii pages. Green leather over marbled boards; gilt to spine with raised bands. Leather scuffed; all edges marbled. Foxing to verso of marbled free endpapers and to the adjacent blanks. Binding sound and contents clean. Please inquire for accurate shipping rates overseas. 11 x 8.75 inches. View More...
[44] pages. Professionally rebacked with paper spine replaced to style; front endpaper repaired, rear endpaper replaced. Former owner's pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Attractive and sound. View More...
iv, 111 pages, with Rudd & Carleton catalogue at rear. Illustrated half title. Geo. W. Alexander NY binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Unobtrusive evidence of label removal from rear pastedown; head of spine frayed; binding sound. 7.5 x 5.2 inches. View More...
viii, 102; 89; 99 pages. The three Boner books bound in one. Copyright 1931 by Viking, this is the Blue Ribbon reprint. Spine sunned; publisher's topstain faded; extremities rubbed; worm hole to lower edge. Binding sound; no inscriptions. View More...
xii, 194 pages. First edition thus, with Preface dated June 1841: "It is hoped, that this little book may be of some service in promoting the study of the literature of Greece in the Unites States." Text in Greek; notes in English. Cloth and paper spine label worn; pencil notation to endpapers and occasionally within. Heavy foxing to first few and final few leaves, and occasionally throughout. Tideline to lower inch of most leaves. An acceptable working copy in sound binding. View More...
168 pages. First hardcover edition: September 2011 [stated], with full number line. Slight ding to upper corner of rear panel. Author's signature on bookplate on front endpaper. Else clean and unmarked. View More...
216; 165 pages and two leaves of ads at rear. Publisher's green cloth with bevelled boards; gilt to front and spine; brown slate endpapers. Extremities rubbed; no inscriptions; binding sound. Spanish Ballads, American Ballads, Miscellaneous Ballads; and Aytoun's parody of the Spasmodics. No stated date of issue [c. 1875]; verso of Firmilian title page gives an extract from the North British Review for September 1866. View More...
252 pages. Light rubbing and shallow chipping to unclipped jacket, with foxing to spine panel verso. Book is clean and unmarked, in sound binding. 8 x 5.5 inches. View More...
Phrenological Illustrations: 1826. Illustrations of Time: 1827. Scraps I: 1828; II: 1829; III:1831; IV: 1832. The three works complete (without original wraps, tissue guards, adverts) including title page for each of the four parts of Scraps. Finely "Bound by Wood, London" stamped to front turn-in. All engraved plates coloured. Professional minor repair to a few closed tears. Endpaper hinges replaced with bookcloth. Rebacked with hollow and new kidskin spine created; old spine reattached. 10.4 x 14.5 inches. View More...
viii, 120 pages. Moderate wear to covers, small chip off base of spine. "Return to..." name top right first leaf. Split between pp. 44/45. Tan semi circular stain to pp. 51- 58. First printing stated, June 1977. An interesting collection of early computer humour, with 36 artists represented. Great R. Crumb rear cover T.V.-hating advert for Creative Computing. View More...
528 pages, with slip tipped in at rear: "The Author hopes to publish an additional volume of Pleasantries; but, to make this certain, he has to ask friends for aid in the shape of anecdotes and incidents." Frontispiece portrait of the author. Cloth rubbed through at extremities, but overall very good, in sound binding, with small personal library plate to second front endpaper. 8.75 x 6 inches. View More...
xii, 230 pages. Unobtrusive gift inscription top right front free endpaper [the light blue endpapers feature a map of black lines: the inscription is in black]. Else unmarked, in sound binding and unclipped jacket. View More...
xvii, iv, 242; 219, [3] pages. Foxing to endpapers, first few and final few leaves. Lower joint of I and upper joint of II starting but still well attached; spine ends chipped. View More...
[6] 448 pages; half title present. Jacket good only: splitting, chipped, tideline emanating from foot of spine. Offsetting from flaps to endpapers; binding sound; no inscriptions. Jacket now housed in a removable archival sleeve. 8.3 x 5.75 inches. View More...
153 pages. Canadian issue, in uncommon jacket chipped and rubbed at extremities. Hinges split to mull but holding. Sunday School inscription to first leaf. View More...
153 pages. Canadian issue, in limp suede with author's name in cursive along spine and pictorial image and title on front similar to the cloth design. Suede ties are complete and the binding sound. Light soiling and chipping to first leaf, with Christmas 1902 inscription. View More...