Reference from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket. Incudes: Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930; Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957. Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in… Read more about this item

New York: Bell Publisihing Company, (1967) "Revised Edition." Quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 128 pages, including 175 illustrations from photographs. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Very slight edge wear, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. As described by the New York Times, Peter Gowland (1916 - 2010), was "America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer." "In this… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Verlag von J.J. Weber, 1892. Sextodecimo (6.75" x 5"), XIV, 291, & [1] pages plus two double page plates, with 71 illustrations in text. Publisher's very elaborate brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt & black. Text in German, edges of the text block stained red. Light edge wear & rubbing, brief archival tissue reinforcement at the verso of the first… Read more about this item

London: J.R. Smith, 1849. First edition, this copy with presentation in ink at the ffep: "R. Higginson, Esq / With the author's / kind regards." Octavo (8.25" x 5"), xiv, [1, "Addenda et Corrigenda"] & 151 pages plus 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. With frontis map depicting "Part of Teesdale in Durham. Showing the District to which the Teesdale Glossary… Read more about this item

London: John Russell Smith, 1851. First edition. Sextodecimo (6.5" x 4.5"), xvi & [1] - 200 pages. Errata slip tipped to p. xvi. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in blind. Binding moderately soiled, small stain on the lower cover, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, short annotation in old ink at the ffep, otherwise… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Book & Art Shop, (1966). First American Edition. Tall quarto (12.5" x 10.25"), 192 pages plus numerous plates providing 750 illustrations of which 135 are in color. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt within black blocking on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket & original plain, thick card box. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in near fine… Read more about this item

Kyoto, Japan: Uchida Art Co., Kyoto Handicraft Center, no date (ca. 1970). Single sheet measuring 55 inches by 6.75 inches accordion-folded into decorated paper over boards measuring 7 inches by 5.25 inches, with a printed paper label on the upper cover. Provides 2 pages of text in Japanese & English & 18 woodblock prints in various states tipped to decorated… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages… Read more about this item

New York: Prof. Rohrer's Institute of Beauty Culture, (1924). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 80 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color). Publisher's gray cloth-patterned paper over boards backed in maroon paper, lettered & decorated in gilt. Binding moderately rubbed & soiled, stain in the margin from the front pastedown diminishing through page 7 (not affecting text), otherwise good or better. A… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf. A fine copy. A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

New York: Harmony Books, (1984). First edition. Tall quarto, (12.25" x 9.5"), ix & 181 pages, profusely illustrated (often in color). Publisher's pink cloth lettered in plum on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. "The Illustrated History of Girlie Magazines presents three hundred of the most sizzling and provocative, full color and black and… Read more about this item

New York: Amphoto, (1971). First edition. Oblong octavo (7.25" x 8.75"), 151 & [5] pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Binding slightly spotted, small stain & minor foxing affecting front pastedown, ffep, & half title page, otherwise very good in corner clipped dust jacket (price intact), soiled, toned, rubbed, with edge… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). Third printing, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Arnold Palmer at the second blank page. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 252 pages, illustrated. Publisher's white cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's small name & address label at the front pastedown, unobtrusive brief stain at the front edge… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul,Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. First edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75") viii & 333 pages, indexed. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Slight wear at spine extremities & corners, foxing/ offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine. Sydney Grew & wife Eve also wrote a book on Bach which was a title in the Master Musicians… Read more about this item

New York: Wm. A. Pond, (1864). First edition. Small oblong quarto (6.75" x 10"), 79 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps. Small losses at the spine, wraps soiled, modest edge wear, previous owner's signature in ink at the left side of the front cover (possibly A.H. Douglas who sold musical instruments in New Jersey), occasional foxing, last leaf with 1.25… Read more about this item

Montreal: no publisher (the author ?), 1915. First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"), 111 & [1] pages, illustrated. Original reddish brown cloth. Text in French. Small split in the upper joint, slight fraying at spine extremities & corners, spine faded, hinges cracked (still secure), text toned, a good or better copy. Blanchard (1883 - 1952, was a Canadian priest and the author… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Later edition. 22 volumes bound in 11 (2 volumes per book), complete. Quartos (10.25" x 7.5"), variously paginated. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt within dark blue blocking on the spine. Text in two columns. Please note, this set is Ex-Library (marked "withdrawn") with the bookplate of the United States Embassy in Paris at… Read more about this item

Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, (1996). Second printing. 4to (11.5" x 8.75"), xx & 948 pages, illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Couple of minute bruises at the top edge of the rear cover, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket with just a hint of edge wear. An exhaustive, well-illustrated account.… Read more about this item

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1971. First edition, one of 1590 copies, this out of series & unnumbered. Folio (14.5" x 10.5"), 18 unnumbered pages & 60 facsimiles with adjacent descriptive text. Publisher's brick cloth backed in gilt-lettered blue cloth, in slipcase with applied title label at the front panel. Binding very slightly spotted, otherwise fine in good or better slipcase… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop, 1982 & 1983. First editions, complete in two quarto volumes (11" x 8.5"), xvi, 120; xvi, 95 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in pictorial dust jackets. Modest sunning at the spine & upper margins, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jackets, a bit toned, with minor… Read more about this item