Search Results: Titles starting with E from R & A Petrilla

s.l.: Privately Printed, 1968. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 65pp. This is the author's last book, comprising short essays on various topics. Title-page and cover label printed in red and black. 9" x 6" Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title in red ink, signed Gilbert. [Seldes (1893-1970) was a literary critic and founding Dean of the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.].

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1921. First book edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 21pp; one plate. First published in the AAS Proceedings, April 1920. 9.75" x 6.25

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: x, 89 with indices of binders, previous owners, and authors; 61 full-page b&w illustrations from photographs of early American bindings. Bound in decorated cream wrappers. 10.5" x 7.5" Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Mike Papantonio, October 10, 1972.

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968. Second printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes, quarto. pp: xlvii, (i), 265 with index, 124 illustrations; xv, 178 with index, 51 illustrations. Bound in brown buckram, gilt lettering on spine and decorated title on cover. 11.25" x 8.5" Volumes I and II are dated 1968.

New York: R.R. Bowker, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xxvii, 287 with index; 32 plates showing sheet-music covers. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine, top edges gilt. 10.5" x 7.75

Detroit: Wayne State Univ Press, 1998. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xii, 149 with index, (2) publisher's ads. Bound in pictorial blue cloth, copper lettering on spine and cover. 11.25" x 8.5" First publshed in 1961, and here reissued with a foreword by John C. Dann, Director of the Clements Library.

London: Bibliographical Society, 1939. First Edition. Cloth-backed printed boards. Very Good. pp: xlvi, 65; 100 black-and-white plates. Bound in linen-backed tan boards, spine and cover lettering in black, top edges gilt. 11" x 9

Boston: Ezra Lincoln for the Society, 1823. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good. 128pp. Bound period-style in modern cloth-backed boards, paper label. 8.5" x 5.25" [American Imprints 11941, 14028.].

Boston: Albert J. Wright, State Printer, 1876. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. (30)pp. 9.25" x 5.75" Presentation copy. Written at top of cover: "Hon. Emory Washburn / Compliments of Gardiner Tufts / Visiting Agent." This report includes: Seeking Places for Children; Children Supported by Cities and Towns; Adoption, and Miscellaneous Work; &c.

Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1903. Copyright 1895. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 64pp; 80 b&w views from photographs. String-bound in color-pictorial wraps. Laid in is a turn-of-the-century postcard in color, a view of Pennsylvania Avenue from Treasury. 6.25" x 8.75

Aguascalientes, Mexico: Eugenio Alvarado, 1939. First Edition. Very Good. Broadside, small piece torn from top margin (no text loss); 17 illus from photographs. "Grandiosa Reaparicion de los Maravillosos Pequenos Toreros. Juanito Vela, Pepe Vela y Manolo Torres." Text continues in Spanish. Admission prices are in dollars and cents: for women and children, $1.00 in the shade or 75 cents in the sun. The photographic illustrations include eight views of bulls, captioned by name and number, and nine portraits of matadors, pecadors and bandilleros. 23.5" x 7.75

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. Stated First printing. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 134pp. Bound in black cloth, gilt spine lettering. In the original black, printed dust wrapper. Prior owner's name and 1959 date on endpaper. 8.5" x 5.5

Quincy, Illinois: Electric Wheel Co, 1907. First Edition. Softcover. Good. (12)pp; illustrated throughout text, centerfold in color. Contains detailed descriptions, prices, and several testimonials. Products include: Electric Handy Wagon, No. 1--with Platform; One-Horse Electric Wagon, No. 6; Standard Electric Farm Wagon; Out Best Log Wagon; Wood Hound Farm Truck, No. 7; Combination Log and Lumber Wagon, No. 14; Truck for Mounting Gasoline Engine; etc. Bound in self-wrappers. 7.75" x 5.5". One horizontal fold with faint mark.

Springfield, Clarke County, Ohio: Thomas & Nast / Republic Printing Co, 1868. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 24pp; several woodcut illustrations in the text. A two-page promotional address to patrons precedes detailed descriptions and testimonials to the excellence of the Buckeye Grain Drill and Grass Seed Sower, the Buckeye Cider Mill and Press, and the Improved Buckeye Sulky Cultivator. Bound in pictorial wrappers, showing a Buckeye Cider Mill on the front cover and a horse-drawn Buckeye Drill on the back. 9" x 6" [Not recorded in Romaine, American Trade Catalogs.].

Los Angeles: Printed by Gordon Holmquist, 1947. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: 31, (1) note, colophon. Bound in white rag wrappers, deckled edges; cover, title-page and colophon decorated in blue. 7.75" x 4.5" One of 150 copies only. This is Stricker's third Tudor Grotesque, published posthumously for members of the Rounce & Coffin Club, The Typophiles, and other friends of the author.

NY: Bob Miller, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 34 pages. Contains a foreword about Britt and his career, along with words and music to 14 songs, including: Buddy Boy; Driftwood on the River; Missouri Joe; Pinto Pal; Rocky Mountain Lullaby; and nine more. In the original pictorial covers, 12" x 9" Elton Britt (born James Elton Baker, 1913-1972) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician born in Arkansas. Britt recorded more than 600 vinyl sides and 60 albums for RCA and other labels.

New York: American Tract Society, 1860. Original Cloth. Very Good. 72pp; engraved frontispiece view, tissue guard. Bound in blue cloth, blind-stamped rules and sunburst device on both boards, gilt spine title and decorative rules, buff endpapers; minor spot on cover. 6" x 4" Biography of a young Christian who goes to school in New Haven,, returns home an invalid, is converted on her sick-bed, and dies in 1842 at age 21.

Rochester, NY: A.C. Allyn, 1883. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. (16)pp, folio (13.75" x 10.5"); woodcut illustrations and views, many illustrated ads for cattle, horses, farm implements and machines, parlor organ, etc. Articles include: Springboro (town); Construction of Pig Pens; Clydesdale Horses; Seasonal Changes and Crops; Selecting a Horse; Rochester's Great Dry Goods Emporium; Underground Stables and Stable Cellars; Neglect of House Cisterns; Farm Machinery; Plymouth Rocks; etc. Bound in pictorial green wrappers, sewn spine. [WorldCat finds two holdings of this periodical: Strong Museum and Rochester Public Library.].

Westminster: Charles J. Sawyer, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Two volumes. pp: xvi, (368); viii, 423 with index; 100 illustrations from title-pages. Bound in red cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edges gilt, others rough-trimmed; printed dust wrappers, worn. 9.25" x 6" One of 2,000 sets printed.

London: Longmans, Green, 1884. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xxi, (i), 464 with index; 13 folding maps, plates. Bound in polished calf, panelled spine with gilt decorations, gilt cover rules and rosettes, dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges; top of spine just slightly chipped. 8.5" x 5.5