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Metuchen, New Jersey, 1932. 8vo. 210 x 125 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 inches]. 67 pp. Original blue paper covered boards, title label pasted to front board; binding showing some light wear, blue covers a bit soiled. Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies, this copy numbered 233. Part..... More
New York: 1962. 8vo. 235 x 160 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 55 pp. Illustrated frontispiece and 24 plates. Tan linen cloth binding, title gilt on spine. Stralem, Harvard class of 1924, began collection in a minor way after graduation and focused on building a collection of England..... More
Boston: C. F. Libbie & Co., May 10 and 11, 1905. 8vo. 240 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 123 pp. Original printed wrappers; some soiling and discoloration of the wrappers, spine a bit chipped, yet sound. This copy with a presentation bookplate inside the back wrapper..... More
New York: 1852. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. [2], 235, [1] pp., [viii], 48 pp. Original leather-backed boards; leather spine rubbed and dry, with the text block light foxed throughout. Amazing collection of books for sale in the early 1850’s, when the explosive growth in American..... More
New York: 1885. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm. [8 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. 58 pp. Missing front wrapper, text block unopened; some staining to title-page; printed on good paper. First edition of the first catalogue devoted to American literary firsts. Includes substantial author collections of Emerson, Dunlap, Cooper, Whitman..... More
Salisbury, Conn. The Cantina Press, [1938]. 16mo. 140 x 105 mm., [5 ½ x 4 ¼ inches]. 72 pp., printed on tissue. Unadorned orange paper wrappers; 2 preliminary leaves and last leaf with some discoloration of the paper stock, otherwise very good. Beautifully and creatively printed catalogue by the Cantina..... More
Cambridge: 1899. 8vo. 240 x 145 mm., [9 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. xvii, 205 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of the portraits of “Six Great Authors.” Original boards, cloth spine, paper label on upper board’ covers soiled and a bit stained; sound and good copy. Useful bio-bibliography of..... More
New York: Bangs & Company, 1885. 8vo. 240 x 150 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches]. 201 pp. 2057 lots plus 20 lots of instruments. Original coated paper printed wrappers; spine chipped with 2-inch piece missing from top of spine and chip at bottom; edges of paper stock a bit..... More
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1871. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. vii, 444 pp. 3434 lots. Early 20tgh century green linen cloth, original wrappers bound-in. Ownership stamp of the Rev. J. B. Troy and the library stamp of Charles College, Cantonsville, Md. on the..... More
