Old Bookshelf

A Dicshunary of Reformed and Simplified Spelling

Clark, Andrew C. · 1914

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

New Milford, Connecticut Self-published First Edition Tall 4to 198p. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Darkstaining along edges and to page edges, contents are mildly toned and have an occasional damp or dark stain, but mostly clean and binding is sound. A curious book attempti...

Ten Months in Brazil with Incidents of Voyages and Travels, Descriptions of Scenery and Character, Notices of Commerce and Productions Etc.

Codman, John · 1867

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Boston Lee and Shepard First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 208, 7pp ads. Brown cloth, gilt spine lettering, 6 engraved plates with tissue-guards including frontispiece. Heavy staining to upper rear board, other less severe spotting and fading to covers, some slight spli...

Memorial of Samuel Mills Capron

Twichell, J.H. (Editor) · 1874

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Hartford The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 120p. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, black ornamentation. Some dampstaining to cover and margins of pages (mainly first and last few pages), light foxing to endpapers, contents age-toned but ot...

à l'amitié

Carco, Francis Carco · 1945

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Pierre Seghers Éditeur Limited 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall André Warnod Unpaginated, French languaage. Card stock wraps. Couverture souple, très bon état. Numéro 546 de 625 exemplaires. Pprinted on rag paper by Papeteries Johannot à Annonay, of which this is number 546. Bla...

The Life of Pasteur

Vallery-Radot, René · 1920

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Doubleday, Page & Company 484p. Blue cloth. Fading mainly to spine, splitting to endpapers, contents age-toned. What's interesting about this volume, is the inscription on the front free endpaper : "Pasteur said: Study great men and worship them, little realizing t...

The Domestic Manufacturer's Assistant, and Family Directory, in the Arts of Weaving and Dyeing :Comprehending a Plain System of Directions

Bronson, J.&R. · 1817

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Utica William Williams 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 204p. Full calf, errata slip affixed to rear pastedown. Covers worn, spine label lacking, last 10 pages missing, text is yellowed, occasioally foxed, lower corners of page 7-8 and 155-156 missing with slight loss of text, pa...

Guest Informant Greater New Orleans 1968-69 Edition

Guest Informant · 1968

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New Orleans, Louisiana Guest Informant 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 119p. Spiral bound pictorial hard cover. Light shelfwear to covers, contents show very slight darkening to a few margins. Information for visitors on dining, shopping, entertainment, cultural events, with nume...

Eighty-Seventh Annual Report of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company for the Year Ending December 31, 1946

Chicago and North Western Railway Company · 1946

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Chicaago Chicago and North Western Railway Company 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 40p. Stapled pictorial cover. Cover very lightly soiled, contents are clean. Very Good

Eighty-Eighth Annual Report of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company For the Year Ending December 31,1947

Chicago and North Western Railway Company · 1947

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Chicago Chicago and North Western Railway Company 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 40p. Stapled pictorial cover. Cover very lightly soiled, contents clean. Laid-in is the original notice of the annual meeting of stockholders, and proxy statement. Very Good

Animal Friends Picture Book

McLoughllin Brothers · 1920

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Springfield, Massachusetts McLoughlin Brothers Inc. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Unpaginated 16 pages including cover. No date, circa 1920s. Stapled wraps. Covers moderately soiled, contents have occasional thumb print in some margins but mostly quite clean, owner's name ne...

Barnum Festival; First Annual Celebration in Honor of the Great Phineas Taylor Barnu,

Partridge, Bellamy and Fitton, Clifford W. · 1949

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Bridgeport, CT Oblong 8vo 44p. unpaginated. Yellow card stock wrapper. Light soil to cover and mild toning to contents. Souvenir program of the first Barnum Festival, illustrated. Laid-in is a Festival bulletin listing some of the events taking place during the Festival fr...

State of New York Department of State Engineer and Surveyor Laws and Regualtions for the Improvement of the Erie, Oswego and Champlain Canals

Department of State Engineer and Surveyor · 1910

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Albany Department of State Engineer and Surveyor 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 75p + approx. 35p orders and instructions. No date, approximately 1910. Flexible cloth cover, gilt lettered. Covers clean, contents age-toned, owner's name on front free endpaper. Laws, specificati...

Passages in Foreign Travel. (Volume I only)

Jewett, Isaac Appleton · 1838

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Boston Charles C. Little and James Brown 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 319p. Green embossed cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Covers and a few corners spotted and lightly edgeworn, contents are foxed, slight internal separation but binding is holding, some pencil doodlings and own...

Round the World

Kingston, H. G. · 1875

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott & Co. 444p. Brown stamped covers, gilt spine lettering, frontispiece with tissue-guard. Edgeworn and mildly soiled, some internal separation but holding, text is toned but unmarked. Illustrations by John Andrew. Good No Jacket

Conversational Drawing

Freedman, Edward H. · 1949

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Farrar, Straus and Company First Edition 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 159pp. Paper over boards. Corners lightly rubbed, spine ends lightly chipped, contents mildly toned, binding is tight. Dust jacket is chipped along edges, largest missing is 2 inches from top of rea...

Big Jim Turner

Stevens, James · 1948

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Garden City, NY Doubleday & Company First Edition Blue card stock tall galley proof, paper label to front cover. Moderate fading to covers and light soil, contents are clean. Uncorrected proof for advance readers. Good No Jacket

Range Drifter

Thompson, Thomas · 1949

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc. Tall blue card stock galley proof. Light soil and fading to cover, first 2 pages slightly loose, contents clean, brief editing notes on front free endpaper. Uncorrected proof for advance readers. Very Good No Jacket

Gleams of Sunshine for the Cabinet Organ Simplified and Arranged By E.Mack

Mack, E. (Arranger) · 1881

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

W.F. Shaw 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 101pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Covers worn, binding shaken, contents have smudges on many pages and dampstaining to last pages, but text is complete, owner's name and date (1882) on front endpapers. Contains 50 compositions for cabin...

Pinafore Rhymes: Indoor Scenes

1890

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York E.P Dutton and Company 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall No date, circa 1890. Stiff pictorial sewn wraps, 4 leaves of chromolthographs plus 2 chromos on inside front and rear covers. A different nursery rhyme accompanies each illustration. Cover is chipped along edges, mai...

The Heritage of the Desert

Grey, Zane · 1910

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York and London Harper & Brothers 298pp. Later printing. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Boards are sound and square, a one inch stain to lower front corner and very small one to lower rear corner, covers are otherwise very clean. Very faint slight fo...