Full tree calf, gilt on burgundy title label mounted on upper spine. Nicely preserved copy with mild rubbing to corners, edges, and joints, top board a bit warped. 288 pp. Typical foxing to contents. Firm binding. Former owner's address inscription penciled on front flyleaf. View More...
Small Books on Great Subjects, Vol. VII. 121 pp., publisher's catalog at rear. Dark green cloth. Chipped with approx. 1" strip of loss along front joint at top spine extremity, a bit of chipping at bottom extremity. Cloth modestly soiled, with chipped title label on spine. Cloth split and neatly mended along joints. Vintage Racine College book plate on front pastedown, no other library marks. Clean interior save for pencil annotations on one rear blank following text and slight text loss to final leaf, which concludes the publisher's catalog at rear. Presumed 1st edition. Acceptable reference ... View More...
Limp black leatherette, lettered in gold foil. Former owner's address and gift inscription, address label inside front cover, otherwise as issued. viii,912 pp. New Testament rendered into Ohio Dutch (a variant of Pennsylvania German), with English translation in marginal columns. 2nd ptg.: 2002. View More...
Limp black leatherette, lettered in gold foil. Brand new, as issued, unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap. viii,912 pp. New Testament rendered into Ohio Dutch (a variant of Pennsylvania German), with English translation in marginal columns. Accompanied by "Ich Kann Pennsylvania Deitsh Laysa (A Self-teaching Primer)," booklet, 8vo, 18pp. View More...
Limp black leatherette, lettered in gold foil. Brand new, as issued, unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap. viii,912 pp. New Testament rendered into Ohio Dutch (a variant of Pennsylvania German), with English translation in marginal columns. Accompanied by "Ich Kann Pennsylvania Deitsh Laysa (A Self-teaching Primer)," booklet, 8vo, 18pp. View More...
Full smooth black calf, front cover lettered in blind. Rubbed edges, some rounding/exposure to corners, repaired separation to upper front joint. Firm binding. xxx,358,[2] pp. 1844 gift inscription and later owner stamp on front flyleaf, binder's stamp (John Bird, Hatton Garden) on front pastedown, signatures and notes in pencil on rear blanks and endpapers. First issued 1717, relatively scarce. View More...
Undated. Original typescript abstracts reproduced two per page. Approx. 60-75 pp. Lightly soiled stiff paper wraps. Stapled binding, oblong format. View More...
1842 Scottish Bible. Full leather, covers lettered and decorated in blind, 5 raised spine bands. Leather typically flaking along joints and rubbed along edges and spine extremities, with some creasing to spine panel. Endpapers foxed and darkened, text block edges darkened by age. Short period gift inscription on front blank, otherwise unmarked. [iv],687,230,57 pp. Old and New Testaments printed 1842 in Edinburgh by Anderson & Bryce from the quarto edition of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, Psalms (at rear) printed 1839 in Dunedin. View More...
Burgundy cloth-effect boards, lettered in silver foil, oblong format. Gift inscription inked on half-title, otherwise as issued, dust jacket now in mylar. 184 pp., illus. 1st ed. View More...
Purple cloth, lettered and with front cover medallion in gilt, top text block edge in gilt, deckled text block edges. Cloth is mildly sunned/tanned along spine panel and edges, sunned a bit unevenly on rear cover, with slight indentation along rear fore-edge, otherwise just slight shelf wear. xiii,226 pp., illus. Commemorative volume from the 200th anniversary event held at the Grand Lodge in 1931. View More...
Brown pebbled cloth, both covers decorated in blind, spine panel lettered in gilt. xvi,17-271 pp. Cloth backstrip is split vertically along portions of binding, cloth along front joint split and with evidence of neat mending, firm. Mild rubbing to bottom corners and heel of spine. Former owner's calling card taped to front fixed endsheet. Firm binding, clean interior. Main title page shows 1820 Hone imprint, but neither the paper nor the binding is consistent with an issue of this era, appears more likely a reprint from the 1870-1895 era. View More...
Black "alligator" flexible leatherette, lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing along corners and spine extremities, vertical crease to back cover. Former owner's signature inked on front blank, otherwise unmarked. Undated, ca. 1930s-40s. 234 pp. Scarce. View More...
Color illus. boards. A few slight stains to text block edges, otherwise as issued, a nicely preserved copy. 510 pp., illus. Printing not stated, but with ISBN on back cover, so issued sometime after about 1970. View More...
Dark red cloth, lettered/illus. in black and gold. Cloth modestly soiled, with rubbing to corners and joints, shallow loss at heel of spine. Soiled front blank, with light corner creases to the first several leaves. 500 pp. In case you've been convinced by conservative parents' organizations that Satan entered the classroom only in the past few years, here is proof positive that he has been attempting to destroy our nation's public schools for more than a century, here under the guise of "Romanism." This propaganda was published as part of the larger assault on Catholicism that accompanie... View More...
Full calf, gilt on black title label mounted on upper spine. Leather shows typical rubbing along edges and joints, with exposure at three corners ranging slight to moderate. Former owner Mary Ann Fellows signed front flyleaf and mounted her book plate on front fixed endsheet. Main title shows several short closed tears along binding edge and may have been trimmed along fore-edge; interior generally clean, with edges typically dulled by age. Firm binding. Of the 2 plates separating Old and New, one has edge tears, and the other is incomplete. Worn but not abused, still useful. View More...
Orange cloth, lettered in black, deckled text block edges. Tanned spine panel, corners somewhat curled, mild wear. Text block a bit toned, flyleaves darkened. Former owner's signature, 1891 date inked on front pastedown. viii,269,16 pp., catalog at rear. Undated with no copyright, ca. 1890. Scarce. View More...
Originally issued 1833, this copy obviously vintage but undated; we would date to circa 1860s-70s. Burgundy cloth, blind ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine panel. Cloth shows modest surface rubbing with a few marks, rubbed corners and extremities, spine panel age-toned and somewhat flecked. 141 pp., frontis. illus. of Knox. Clean text block, much nicer than typically found. View More...
Pale orange cloth, lettered in gold foil. Cloth along spine panel is slightly sunned, otherwise as issued. 23 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Gift inscription on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Original cardstock slipcase is slightly age-toned, otherwise as issued, thus Near Fine. View More...
Brown cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear, spine panel mildly sunned, text block edges somewhat dulled by age. Corners intact, binding firm, interior clean. Former owner signature on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. xii,17-392 pp. (as given - complete), illus. w/ reproductions of engraved plates. View More...
Dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly rubbed corners and spine extremities, former owner's signature inked inside front cover. 1st ptg. (matching dates). xiii,408 pp. View More...
