Fine Binding from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1913. Limited edition, one of 1250 sets, this hand numbered 61. Twenty-six volumes, I through XXVI (of 28), octavos (8.75" x 6.25"), variously paginated, each volume illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. Publisher's three-quarter crushed dark blue morocco & marbled paper over boards by… Read more about this item

New York: Published under the direction of the American Historical Company, 1939. First edition thus. Quarto (11" x 8"), 523 pages, with illustrations from portraits. Publisher's three-quarter crushed black morocco & blue cloth, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in four compartments. Text in two columns. Top edge gilt. Edges & joints moderately… Read more about this item

Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1898). "Cambridge Edition." Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), xvii & 887 pages, with frontis portrait & illustrated title page. Publisher's reddish-brown full crushed morocco, the spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in all compartments, the covers ruled in gilt. Marbled endpapers, gilt inner dentelles, all edges… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. "This limited edition ... has been privately printed and individually signed by the author." Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), [17] & 6 - 714 pages (as issued), with numerous full page illustrations by Walt Spitzmiller. Publisher's full brown leather, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt.… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. "This limited edition ... has been privately printed and individually signed by the author." Octavo (9.75" x 6.75"), [17] & 6 - 733 pages (as issued), with numerous full page illustrations by Charles Reid. Publisher's full brown/ brick leather, the spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated in… Read more about this item

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. "Limited edition ... privately printed and personally signed by the author exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society." Octavo (9" x 6.25"), [17], 337, & [2] pages, with color illustration preceding the title page. Publisher's full green leather, the spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, elaborately lettered & decorated… Read more about this item

New York: Published by Kirk & Mercein, 1817. First American edition. Two volumes bound in one comprising volume III, books v & vi, each book with illustrated title page. 24mo (5.75" x 3.75"), 284 pages. Contemporary full tree calf, the spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label, & embellishments in gilt. Binding lightly rubbed, hinges beginning to crack (still secure), internally occasionally… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1910. Octavo (8.75" x 6.25"), unpaginated. Publisher's gilt-lettered light gray/ blue cloth with a pictorial illustration applied to the front cover Five pages with brief ink annotations, otherwise a Fine, largely unused copy. A spectacular example of a publisher's binding, this with floral endpapers initialed in print by designer Bertha Stewart who also contributes… Read more about this item

[Hilo ?], Hawaii, Maumee Valley Chapter, 1993 (taken from spine label), number 15 of 250 signed in ink by binder Jesus Sanchez at the front pastedown. 8vo, 30 blank leaves, with printed card laid in. Koa wood backed in goat, with a pair of gilt-lettered spine labels: "YPO" & "Hawaii, 1993." A few unobtrusive scratches, otherwise fine. "The Maumee Valley Chapter… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924 - 1925. First edition of volume 3, early printings of volumes 1 & 2. Complete in three octavo volumes, variously paginated, with frontispieces, plates, portraits, & facsimiles. Contemporary three-quarter crushed brown morocco & marbled paper by R.R. Donnelley & sons (with label tipped to the first blank page of all volumes), the spines… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1956) Revised edition. 8vo, xvi, 612 pp., Later full crushed blue morocco, the spine in 6 compartments seperated by raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt in all compartments, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker sewn in, original cloth bound in the back. Binding slightly sunned, early and late leaves browned in… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo, xii, [1] - 345; vii, [1] - 307 pp. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco & marbled paper over boards by Charles E Lauriat (signed), the spines in six compartments separated by raised bands, lettered or decorated in gilt in all compartments Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers Spines mellowed to a rich… Read more about this item

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1900-1910. Later printings but one. Nine volumes, 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"), variously paginated, uniformly (and exquisitely) bound by Ernst Hertzberg & Sons (signed in blind on the recto of the rear free endpaper) ca. 19-teens. Full dark brown crushed morocco, the spines in five compartments separated by raised bands, lettered in gilt in one compartment,… Read more about this item