Animals from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, no date (ca. 1886). First editions. Octavos (8.75" x 5.75"), single sheets folded once vertically forming 4 pages each, illustrated. OCLC records narrow holdings for numbers 1. 3, & 4 only as of 4/7/2024 Moderately toned & soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good. George Thorndike Angell (1823 – 1909) founded the… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, printed by Wright & Potter, April 4, 1881. First edition. Original folio broadside measuring approximately 15 inches by 9.5 inches printed recto only on medium paper. Not found in OCLC as of 3/30/2024. Old folds, Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including creasing & a one inch tear, otherwise good or… Read more about this item

[Lewiston: Central Maine Fair Association, 1907]. Folio broadside measuring 19 inches by 8 inches printed recto only on thin paper, with photographic illustration of a Pit Bull in spiked collar. Text in three columns. Not found in OCLC as of 4/6/2024. Old folds, slightly soiled & toned, offsetting on the verso, otherwise very good. "The management of the Central Maine Fair Association… Read more about this item

Boston: Privately Printed by The Chapple Publishing Company, Ltd., 1915. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 7"), xvi & 410 pages, with frontis & 92 illustrations from photographs on 16 plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt, with a photographic illustration applied to the front cover. Laid-in is a signed form letter on the author's letterhead with "My Esteemed… Read more about this item

Brattleboro, Vermont: Published by Geo. H. Salisbury, 1845. sextodecimo (6.5" x 4"), 324 pages, profusely illustrated from wood engravings. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Binding rubbed & soiled, gilt dull, margins sunned, shallow losses at spine extremities, foxing & toning throughout (heavy at times), about good & still quite useful. Illustrators include Thomas Brown, George Loring Brown, & John… Read more about this item