06a (14 results)

Hardcover. 1st edition. VG book. No DJ as issued. FINE inside. Gilt top edge bright & shiny. Gilt lettered paper spine label. Limited to 500 copies. Very Good book, no DJ. Tips & spine ends worn a bit.

Hardcover. 2nd impression. FINE book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart). 2nd impression. DJ price intact. DJ with few very minor cosmetic flaw. 2nd impression. Flawless but for lower front tip bumped. Else flawless; text, pastedowns, text block edges all as new. DJ corners with 1/8" wear chips. See ABE for five scans.

Hardcover. 1st thus. AS NEW book, no DJ, as issued. 1st thus, 9"x8", 320pp. Reprint of the 1806 1st, with much added modern explanatory material. AS NEW book. FLAWLESS. All three text block edges a oerfect white, not the slightst stain. Spine ends perfectly flat, not a hint of rounding. Text without a hint of aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. Bowler explains in his preface that his mother owned the true 1806 1st edition and had passed it on to him. It was his mother's copy Bowler used as the source for his Old Fort Niagara reprint. His, and his mother's, true first is now owned by a west coast rare book dealer who acknowledges the Bowler connection. At book's end is a 16 page glossary of the terms in Rundell's book. There are two keys to identifying the first. The frontis has an 1805 date while the facing title page is dated 1806, This book reproduces both pages. The internet archive does have a copy of the 1806 1st. Interestly their copy has an owner's date of 1805 at the top of the title page. AS NEW book, no DJ, as issued. 1st thus, 9"x8", 320pp.

Hardcover. 2nd edition. NEAR FINE set. IN SPANISH. AS NEW text blocks. Spines sunned to a uniform tan. 9"x7", 584,(18) & 717pp. FLAWLESS but for the spine tanning & scuffed (but no actual wear) extrems. No aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. Even the top edges as clean as new. Both books tend to stay closed when stood on spines, a good sign of little actual use. The 1st edition was published in late 1800s by his father, Antonio Paz y Melio. A 3rd vol was added in late 1900s. Top of the title page states: "Patronato de la Biblioteca Nacional". NEAR FINE books. 2nd ed. 1/2 green leather. Gray linen boards.

Hardcover. 5 page long illus list. (illustrator). 1st thus. FINE book in AS NEW translucent plastic sleeve. Book also AS NEW but for a inked gift inscription. 10"x7", 320pp. This is # 116 of an unnumbered limited edition. Orig published in 1903 by Doubleday, Page. Book enclosed the publisher's clear plastic sleeve. An immaculate book, all three text block edges as white as new. FINE book, AS NEW DJ. Facsimile reprint of the 1903 edition.

Hardcover. 1st edition. FINE book, no DJ. Gilt lettered green cloth. AS NEW inside. 50+ b/w plates & 8 in color, 4 from paintings by H.H. Hart. FLAWLESS BUT: extrems with minor wear. NO aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. "Limited Edition de Luxe".

Hardcover. 1st edition. FINE book. Nice modern rebind in brown morocco. 5 raised ribs, title on a black leather label, author in red leather. 8vo,940pp FINE book. 1st ed.Tight. Mild aging but no foxing, soiling, etc.

Hardcover. FAE. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). DJ edgeworn w $6.95 price. 1st ed. 8.5"x5.5". 591(blank)pp. DJ with many 3/8" closed tears, spine sunned some. Book's gilted spine letters faded a bit, spine ends creased a bit but no tears or fraying. Text block edges clean as new. Top edge black stained. No aging, foxing, etc. Lastly, book stays closed when stood on its spine. If ever read, done with care.

Hardcover. 1st edition. Title page in red & black. Badger/Gorham was active 1900-1920. Downey (1875-1932) & Willa Cather both self published their first books with Badger. Tips lightly bumped. Scuffed spine ends. Deckled text block fore edge lightly foxed/aged. Spine label's bottom inch worn away. Downey spent her career mostly at U of Wyoming. Searching various sources, ABPC, Rare Book Hub, finds no evidence of her signed books. Nor is her signature found in many autograph dealer's stock. Her papers are at U of WY, who has supplied a holograph copy of a signed poem. This makes it plain her signature is genuine. The holograph copy comes with the book. When she headed the U of WY psychology department the became the first woman to head ANY department in a US college. She was a AAAS member. The 1927 "American Men In Science" rated 100 of the listed 13,500 as exceptional. Downey was one of the 100. In 1999 she was a finalist to be Wyoming's citizen of the century. "Heavenly" was her first book. She later wrote six more books and over 50 articals. Three books were: 1919 Graphology and Psychology of Hand Writing, 1924 Will-Temprament & 1929 Creative Imagination. Last was a career summary. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. Downey SIGNED fep. 8"x5",63pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. GOOD (worn) books. FINE text. Original brown cloth. Lightly foxed pastedowns. 10.5"x7". 430,431-836,268pp. Some inner hinges started but all still sound. Japanese tissue paper reenforces the started hinges. Covers a bit shabby, worn extrems. Text block top edge tinted a light brown, no dust soiling. Other edges deckled. FINE text, uncut & unopened. No aging, foxing, marginlia, etc. LASTLY, all tend to stay closed when stood on their spines. GOOD books. FINE texts, tight. 1sts. 10.5"x7". 430,431-836,268pp.

Hardcover. 1st edition. AS NEW book, NEAR FINE DJ(in Brodart), in an AS NEW clamshell. All these inside a FINE slipcase. 1st edition. 8.5"x5.5", 399pp. 1st ed, same 1963 tp & cp date. 1st state DJ: DJ rear panel lists 7 Soho titles, none on the inner flap. Somewhat unusual clamshell, in that it envelopes all but the book's top edge. Clamshell & slipcase finely done by an uncredited binder. Slipcase "spine" in dark red morroco, with four raised ribs. Gilt lettered title, author, publisher & "1963" in the various panels. CONDITION. Book with one trivial flaw: spine heel rounded just a bit. Spine top straight & flat. Else flawless, immaculate, pristine, etc. ALSO, book stays closed when stood on spine. DJ price intact. DJ with 1/8" chip & few like closed tears. CLAMSHELL AS NEW. SLIPCASE pristine but has two 1/4" scrapes, one above the title's first word, the letter "A", second at very top.

Hardcover. about 69-70 full page plates (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Near flawless book. TEG. Tight binding, Gilt lettered spine. Very attractve front cover. FLAWLESS text & plates. Close to 75 full page b/w photographic plates taken by Johnson. Two very minor flaws. (1). Lower rear tip bumped. (2 ) Scuffed (but NOT worn or frayed) spine ends. DJ of a paper backed stiff cloth. First pix is of the book WITHOUT DJ. DJ shown in pix 2. It has minor edgewear and VERY faded spine lettering. FINE book, VG DJ 1stEd Stiff cloth DJ same as book. 8"x6", 287pp.

Hardcover. Condition: VG set. 1st thus. NO ilustrations. (illustrator). 1st thus ed. VG set. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco, marbled boards. 1 & 2 with a gilt lettered black leather spine label, vol 3 label MISSING. 22X14X2.5(cm). 304,352,353-668pp. Contemporary, if not original bindings. Smooth spines, panels separated only by double gilt rules. Spine label reads: "LETTERS FROM THE BODLEIAN". No illustrations of any sort. All covers with minor wear, 2" closed tear on vol 2 spine top. Tight bindings, no broken or cracked signatures or leaves. Each with modern owner's name plate. Light aging & scattered light foxing but no other type of stain. Very clean set, in out & all 3 edges. Vol 1 fep with lightly pencilled bookseller's notes of Aubrey bibliographic info, more on fep verso.

Hardcover. Knight, Thomason et al (illustrator). 1st limited ed. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart) TEG. Black cloth, eps, pastedowns. Author initialed limitation page. 8vo, 475pp. TEG. Book spine lettering in gilt, as is the front cover image. This limited ed has about 24 full page plates not in 1st trade. In text b/w illustrations the same in both. The fold out battle map is between pages 412 & 413 rather than book's end. Top edge & cover gilt bright as new. Fore & bottom edges, & all of book's contents, as clean & white as new. ZERO aging, foxing, soiling, etc. Inked name & address on half title is sole flaw. Dramatic DJ with $2.50 price. DJ extrems with minor wear, a few 1/4" max chips or closed tears. Same scowling face on DJ & book's cover. Impressive book & DJ. FINE book. Initialed limited illustrated edition. #116 of 250.