Search Results: Reference from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Montreal: no publisher (the author ?), 1915. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 111 & [1] pages, illustrated. Original reddish brown cloth. Text in French.
Small split in the upper joint, slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, spine faded, hinges cracked (still secure), text toned, a good or better copy.
Blanchard (1883 - 1952, was a Canadian priest and the author of several works devoted to the protection of the French language and culture in Quebec.

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, published by R. Desilver & R.H. Small, Lydia R. Bailey, Printer, 1827. First Edition. 8vo, viii, 237 pages & [1, omissions] pages. Contemporary full tree calf with a gilt-lettered maroon spine label. Shaw & Shoemaker/ American Bibliography 29175; Nipps/ Lydia Bailey: Checklist of Her Imprints 389. Binding rubbed & scuffed, joints cracked, upper cover nearly detached, shallow losses at spine extremities, front free endpaper nearly detached, previous owner's name in old ink at front pastedown, browning & foxing throughout, otherwise Good & still quite serviceable.
This book was printed by Lydia R. Bailey, an early American female printer who was competitive in a trade dominated by men. She took over her husband's failing business upon his death.

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1971. First edition, one of 1590 copies, this out of series & unnumbered. Folio (14.5" x 10.5"), 18 unnumbered pages & 60 facsimiles with adjacent descriptive text. Publisher's brick cloth backed in gilt-lettered blue cloth, in slipcase with applied title label at the front panel.
Binding very slightly spotted, otherwise fine in good or better slipcase which is soiled & rubbed.
"Broadsides contain some of the most fascinating material relating to life in early America. These single sheets of paper, usually printed on one side only, make it possible to view colonial society from a different vantage point than that usually afforded by the materials of military, political, and diplomatic history. Subject matter of these pieces of ephemera ranges from advertisements to the edifying warnings of criminals' confessions; official proclamations, instructions for school masters, comments on important contemporary events, information for immigrants, ballads and… Read More

London: Kegan Paul,Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75") viii & 333 pages, indexed. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine.
Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine.
Sydney Grew & wife Eve also wrote a book on Bach which was a title in the Master Musicians Series.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library/ Bibliographical Society of America; London: British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. First edition. Small folio, xiv, 318 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket
A fine copy in like dust jacket"The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realise that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market " ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

London: The Victoria and Albert Museum and Frederick Warne, 1985. First edition. Small 4to, 240 pp, illustrated throughout (some in color). Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine, with pictorial device of Peter Rabbit on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket Upper cover slightly splayed, faint dampstain affecting the lower margin, dust jacket with trace edge wear, better than good " the most comprehensive catalogue of Beatrix Potter material ever to have been published " ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

New York: Columbia University Press, 1937 First edition 8vo, 109 unnumbered pages, with occasional illustrations in text. Publisher's light brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered dark brown paper. Spine a bit faded, otherwise near fineEpstean donated his library to Columbia in 1934. The collection included acquisitions from Stephen H. Horgan, William Gamble, Josef Maria Eder, and Gabriel Cromer.

Boston: Privately Printed, 1916. First edition. Folio (13" x 9.5"), [10] & 204 pp, illustrations in text throughout Original gilt-lettered tan paper over boards backed in brown cloth
Binding moderately soiled, offsetting at endpapers, pastedowns, & adjacent to illustrations, otherwise very Good

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Later edition. 22 volumes bound in 11 (2 volumes per book), complete. Quartos (10.25" x 7.5"), variously paginated. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt within dark blue blocking on the spine. Text in two columns.
Please note, this set is Ex-Library (marked "withdrawn") with the bookplate of the United States Embassy in Paris at the front pastedown of each volume, card sleeves at the rear pastedowns, occasional rubber stamped marks, & paper labels on the spines.
Ex-Library (see above). Bindings a bit shaken, spines lightly browned, modest soiling, otherwise Very Good.
An indispensable reference of enormous value to students, catalogers, teachers, researchers, & American history aficionados.
Kindly inquire for a shipping quote at cost for this 47 pound set.

Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop, 1982 & 1983. First editions, complete in two quarto volumes (11" x 8.5"), xvi, 120; xvi, 95 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in pictorial dust jackets.
Modest sunning at the spine & upper margins, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jackets, a bit toned, with minor edge wear.
An indispensible reference for the book collector, dealer or librarian.

London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind.
Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise very good.
"The following little work is intended to embrace a collection of the lingual localisms; popular superstitions, fairy-lore, and other traces of Teotonic heathenism, to this day preserved among the rural population of Northamptonshire ..." ~Excepted from the Preface.

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf.
A fine copy.
A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1892. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 5"), XIV, 291, & [1] pages plus two double page plates, with 71 illustrations in text. Publisher's very elaborate brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black. Text in German, edges of the text block stained red.
Light edge wear & rubbing, brief archival tissue reinforcement at the verso of the first folding plate, previous owner's name, place, & date in ink at the front free endpaper, otherwise very good.
An exhaustive & profusely illustrated treatise & a superb example of a late 19th century pictorial cloth binding.

New York: Morgan Library & Museum, (2008). First edition. Small folio, xi, 150 pp, illustrated throughout mostly in color. Gilt-lettered light brown cloth, in pictorial dust jacketA fine copy in fine dust jacket. "A comprehensive study of the composition of the first book by each of Babar's two authors - father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff - complete with over two hundred color photographs of manuscript drafts ad drawings, transcriptions of all preliminary and final French text along with English translations, and two illustrated essays that provide the cultural context of one of the most successful children's series of all time." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages plus 13 plates. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in dark gray cloth, with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's prospectus dated 1907 laid-in. Edges uncut.
Binding soiled & moderately rubbed, text block beginning to crack in a couple of places (still secure), previous owner's bookplate at the front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise good or better. Prospectus soiled & folded.
An important association copy from author Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow, whose bookplate is applied to the front pastedown. Noted for portrait painting, Conrow's art can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book & Art Shop, (1966). First American Edition. Tall quarto (12.5" x 10.25"), 192 pages plus numerous plates providing 750 illustrations of which 135 are in color. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt within black blocking on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket & original plain, thick card box. Top edge gilt.
A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with light edge wear including a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panel.
"This sumptuous book provides a carefully documented and profusely illustrated history of European gold boxes, principally of the eighteenth century, since this was the siecle de la tabatiree and discusses in detail the many beautiful materials used in conjuction with gold, and the various techniques of their manufacture and decoration. The methods of hallmarking adopted are examined, together with the question of maker's marks and date-letters. Seven hundred fifty plates accompanying the text." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. "Revised Edition," first thus, this a review copy with slip laid in Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xix, 479, & [1] pp, generously illustrated Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth.Cloth lightly soiled, edges of the text block slightly foxed & briefly soiled, otherwise Very Good.Originally published in 1972, this edition adds over 100 pages & includes: Separate publications, First-appearance contributions to books and pamphlets, First appearances in magazines and newspapers, Keepsakes, Interviews, Articles that include Fitzgerald material, Blurbs, English-language editions of story collections published in Japan, Published plays based on Fitzgerald stories, & Movie work.

Baltimore: FTJ Publications, (1997) First edition, this copy signed in ink at the title page by Horowitz. 4to, [8], 232 pp., profusely illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket lightly rubbed at the spine extremities & tips. "With more than 950 color photographs, this richly illustrated book unlocks a relatively unknown and unrecognized are of antique tobacciana" ~from the dust jacket

New York: Dutton Studio Books in association with Hirschl & Adler Galleries, (1991). First edition. Quarto (10.5" x 9.25"), 156 pp., illustrated throughout from photographs often in color. Publisher's brick cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in near fine dust jacket which is slightly faded at the spine.
A splendid exhibition catalog with "87 color plates and 42 halftones." Richard Guy Wilson, who supplies the Introduction, is Commonwealth Professor in Architectural History at the University of Virginia and a a noted architectural historian.

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary refers." Publisher's light brown cloth lettered in gilt & decorated in blind.
Binding soiled, spine cocked, small splits at the joints, corners bruised, minor foxing, otherwise about good & still quite useful.
The author notes in his preface that he has "introduced into this work some descriptions of local custums, sports, and pastimes, which may tend to rescue from oblivion these fast-perishing relics of a bygone period."