Roland Clark's Etchings
by Clark, Roland
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1938. Limited. Red and Cream Cloth. Fine. Red and coarse-weave cream cloth binding, in a red cloth case. 718 of 800 copies. Edges and corners sharp, previous owner name blind-stamped at ffe, in a good slipcase with edges and corners worn, left and bottom panel of lid separated at corners, and mild scuffing... Read More
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Every Man His Own Cattle Doctor; or a Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Horned Cattle: Being a Concise and Familiar Description of All the Diseases Incident to Oxen, Cows, and Sheep; with the Most Simple and Effectual Method of Curing Each Disorder
by Clater, Francis
London: E. and H. Hudson, 1814. Fourth Edition. Leather. Good. .in All Its Various Stages; and the Most Efficacious Treatment of Cows Before, at, and After the Time of Calving, and Also of Ewes During the Lambing Season. Edges and corners rubbed, spine leather chipping and flaking especially at bottom end, some scuffing to covers. Front cover hinge... Read More
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AMERICAN BOY Vol 108 Nos 1 -12 (1934)
by Claudy, Carl H. et al (Freemasonry)
Detroit: Sprague Publishing, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. THE AMERICAN BOY, founded in 1900 by William Sprague, was a mainly fiction-oriented juvenile magazine, roughly equivalent to Britain's The Boy's Own Paper. It merged with its rival publication, The Youth's Companion in October 1929. It ceased publication in 1941. This is complete run for 1834, front and rear... Read More
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SONNETS AND VERSES
by Clay, Enid. Gill, Eric (wood eengravings)
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Coockerel Press, 1925. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Very Good. #340 of 450 copies. Covers an cloth spine moderately soiled, paper spine label toned, corners worn. Internals near fine. Lovely Gill decorations and vignettes.
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POEMS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM
by CLEGHORN, Sarah
NY: Women's InternationalLeague for Peace and Freedom (NY STATE BRANCH), 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Cover slightly water-stained about edges and spine. Internals fine.
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TALES OF MY LANDLORD: FOURTH AND LAST SERIES
by Cleishbotham, Jedediah. (Sir Walter Scott)
NY: J & J Harper, 1832. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Uncommon American first editions by the young Harper brothers, a US publisher still in business. Written under a pseudonym by Sir Walter Scott. Uncommon in publishers bindings of paper-backed boards, cloth spine and spine label. Leaves untrimmed. Boards soiled. Vol I and III still firmly bound but covers... Read More
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MEMOIRS OF FANNY HILL
by Cleland, John. Thierry (binder)
London: Published for the Bibliophiles, 1904. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Uncommon edition of the world's best known work of erotic fiction, published for The Bibliophiles as "a new and genuine edition from the original text (London, 1749)" as described on the title page, and handsomely bound by "Thierry" (binder stamp top edge verso ffe). Thierry is... Read More
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A Compendium of Grecian Antiquities (Stereotyped Edition)
by Cleveland, C. D.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1838. Calf. VG. Original or contemporary calf, black leather label spine, xi + 251p. Some spotting largely cnfined to prelims and rears. Solidly bound.
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THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY
by Cleveland, Grover
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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HELLZAPOPPIN
by John S. (Ole) Olsen and Harold O. (Chic) Johnson. (Lambs Club)
Privately published, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Ole (original illustration). First edition, presentation copy. Two copies with printed wrappers bound- in of HELLZAPOPPIN - one copyrighted 1938, the other copyrighted 1940 - custom-bound in full, crushed moroccan leather, gilt ruled, dentelles, heavy marbelized endpapers, with gilt titles front cover - First Copy of the First Edition of... Read More
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THE TWENTy-FIFTH ANNIVESARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE COSMOS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D.C. with a Documentray History of the Club from its organization to November 16, 1903
by (The Cosmos Club)
Washington DC: The Cosmos Club, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Olive cloth, gilt titles cover and spine, gte, 351pp. Nicely preserved all over. No names, bookplates.
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SKY HIGH TO SHANGHAI An Account of my Oriental Travels in the Spring of 1938, with Side Glances at the History, Geography and Politics of the Asiatic Littoral. Written with Charity to All and Malice to None
by Clune, Frank
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Scarce title from prolific Australian novelist, traveller and reporter Clune. Lacking dustjacket, yellow cloth, stamped in black, 8vo. xiv, 379. Profusely illustrated with 61 b&w photographs, endpaper maps. Top edge dusty, internals near fine.
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A FIELD GUIDE TO FERNS (The Peterson Field Guide Series)
by Cobb, Boughton
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Presentation copy to Edith Cobb, wife of author Boghton Cobb, to whom Boughton dedicated his book, with his inscription on the ffe. Ninth printing 1963, after the first of 1956. Green cloth covers, lacking dustjacket.
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Year Book Dutch Treat Club Annual 1926
by Cobb, Irwin S./, Ring Lardner, Rea Irvin
(New York): Privately Printed, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Pictorial covers, endpapers and copiously illustrated in color throughout with comedic vignettes that accompany the wit and humor of Manhattan swells in the 1920s. List of membership in rear is a Who's Who of all of 'em. Unnumbered copy of 800 published. Corners with moderate wear, covers... Read More
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Memorials of His Time: New Edition with Introduction By His Grandson Harry A. Cockburn
by Cockburn, Henry
Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis, 1909. First Edition. Bukrham, Gilt Titles. Near Fine -. Raeburn, Sir Henry (color portraits by). Nice clean copy. gte. Spine just a wee faded. Color plates.
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THE HAND OF A STRANGER
by Cocteau, Jean. Brown, Alec (translation)
London: Elek Books, 1956. First English-language Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review copy, with review slip laid-in.
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DESSINS
by Cocteau, Jean. (Vauxcelles, Louis)
Paris: LIBRARIE STOCK, 1924. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Good. Inscribed by Cocteau and dated 1923 by him to influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the cover. Title page dated 1924. Presentable copy with a repaired spine that had suffered some loss and was laid back down with covers reattached. Some tape residue from inexpert previous tape repair upper... Read More
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OUR NEW WAY ROUND THE WORLD
by Coffin, Charles Carleton. Feely, John (engraved cover stamp)
Boston: Field, Osgood & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's mauive pebbled cloth, blind double ruled, with stamped engraved vignette of cattle-drawn buggy with driver and two passengers, likely attributable to engraver John Feely. Covers a tad spotted, leaves toned, gilt titles to spine faded, rear hinge revealed, still soundbinding. Inscribed in penccil by the author... Read More
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The Print-Collector's Bulletin, an illustrated catalogue of painter-etchings for sale by Frederick Keppel & Co
by Frederick Keppel & Co
NY: Frederick Keppel & Co, 1908. First Editon Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Joseph Pennell et al. Keppel's complete gallery portfolio for 1908 bound aplhabetically by artis. 8vo, paper-backed boards, paper label spine, illustrated in duotone. Covers soiled / stained a bit, internals fine.
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FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY Volumes I and II
by Collin, John F. (Columbia County, NY)
Hudson NY: Printed by M. Parker Williams, Register and Gazette Office, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete in two volumes. Volume I (1879) bound in purple-cloth, blind-stamped, spine sun-faded. Volume II (1881) in green cloth, blind-stamped, minor edgewear, author compliments ticket bound-in at ffe. Solid copies both.
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The Comedies of Terence Translated Into Familiar Blank Verse
by Colman, George
London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. DeHondt et al., 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, original or old marbelized calf, raised bands, gilt, leather label, 4to, lxi + 619p, 8 copper plates. Front cover revealed but holding with string binding. 1/4 " loss of leather at head and foot of spine. Internals very good, with... Read More
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THE HISTORY OF MR. JOHN DECASTRO AND HIS BROTHER BAT, COMMONLY CALLED OLD CRAB. THE MERRY MATTER WRITTEN BY JOHN MATHERS; THE GRAVE BY A SOLID GENTLEMAN (3 volumes complete)
by John Mathers. (George Colman)
Boston: Printed and published by Wells and Lilly, 1815. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first American edition, the same year as the British. Origina bindings, leather spine and tips over rose-colored paper over boards, uniformly worn and solid bindings all. Leathewr scuffed, and corners worn, but a fully sound, unsophisticated set.
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J. H. Colton's School Atlas, Designed To Accompany Colton's American School Geography Comprising Upwards of One Hundred Steel Plate Maps, Profiles and Plans
by Colton, G. Woolworth
NY: Ivison, Phinney & Co, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. A very well preserved copy in original pictorial paper, brown cloth spine. Large 4to, 11 pages of text and charts, 35 full page colored maps, the last double-truck. Cover states the atlas is "designed to accompany Colton's American School Geography". The covers are soiled with shallow... Read More
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DAU'S BLUE BOOK COLUMBUS AND SUBURBAN TOWNS 1912
by (Columbus, Ohio)
NY: Dau Publiishhing Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Cobalt blue linen, stamped in gilt, beveled edges. 8vo, 123pp. A patch of smudging on the right edge front cover, else near fine.
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THE FORGE IN THE FOREST
by Colum, Padraic. Artzybasheff, Boris (illustrated by)
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good -. 1928 printing after the first of 1925. An unusually well preserved copy in worn dustjacket. Exuberant cover design, decorations and pictures by Russian-born Artzybasheff ingeniously partnered with Irishman Colum in this retelling of Medieval fable. Internals almost as new, Dustjacket soiled, especially at spine, with closed tears... Read More
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