Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
![Item #30079 Catalogue of Famous First Editions Rare and Standard Books; [catalogue LXVII = 67]....](/pictures/thumb/30079.jpg?v=1648559180)
Chicago: Ernest Dressel North, 1923. First edition. Paperbound. N.p. (429 items), a few plates of fine bindings. Covers soiled inside and out, creased; upper rear cover corner chipped off. Chiefly literature. The plates show bindings by Cobden-Sanderson, Sauty, Bradstreet's, Riviere and Son, and two embroidered bindings (one from the 17th..... More
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London: G. Michelmore & Co., n.d. [ca. 1930]. First edition. Soft cover. 264p, 386 generally long entries. Very occasional penciling. Comprises "many important Business, Political, and Literary Documents and Letters," including the Goodricke and Banks papers, early charters, a Hans Christian Andersen collection, fine bindings, illuminated manuscripts, a Luther collection..... More
Vienna: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, n.d. [early to mid-1930s]. First edition. Soft cover (covers dusty, age soiled). 381 detailed entries, 37 line ills. + 15 pls. Large folding frontispiece from a ca.1575 table of the planets. Blank order card laid in, also an addenda sheet adding one item. "Including astrology, calendars..... More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 80p + many ills. Base of spine chipped, mended. Covers soiled. "Sotheran's Price Current of Literature, No. 815 is dedicated to the memory of Henry Cecil Sotheran, who died in St. George's Hospital on October 15th, 1928, as the result of a...... More
Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1911. First edition. Soft cover. 335 items, several ills. In German. "Besonders alte Original-Manuscripte, seltene Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts, eine Abteilung spanische Musik, Original-Tonwerke von Beethoven und Wagner, Etc." Partly from the collection of Burgos musicologist Don. Federico Olmeda, who died in 1909 in his 40s. Can be..... More
Westborough, MA: House of Whittemore, n.d. [mailed with 2-cent stamp; ca. 1940s-50s]. First edition. Soft cover. 42p, 7 ills. on covers. Old handling soil; handwritten mailing address. Laid in: 4-page typed list of about 100 "hard-to-find titles, good to fine condition") with several ills. Hundreds of items, chiefly 19th-century American..... More
Amsterdam: Internationaal Antiquariaat, n.d. [ca. 1958?]. First edition. Soft cover. 45p, ca. 20 line ills., a few printed in red. Covers faded; corners bumped throughout. 70 items. With indexes of countries, towns, printers, publishers, and some subjects. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate..... More
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Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. First edition. Soft cover (dusty, age soiled; spine chipped). 472 entries, 23 line ills. Pages age browned. Blank order form laid in. "A collection of rare and valuable books relating to South and North America from the time of the discovery up to the year..... More
Brattleborough, VT: Ken Leach, 1983. First edition. Stapled sheets. 46p, no ills. Duplicated typescript, as issued. Light handling wear. Bookseller's catalogue of "odd volumes of American books, published in two or more volume sets prior to 1850, in original bindings." 805 items, including titles by Jane Austen, James Fenimore Cooper..... More
Beverly Hills, CA: Harry A. Levinson, n.d. [mid-1960s?]. First edition. Soft cover. 87p + 90 large pls., including cover. Over 340 annotated entries in many fields of the humanties and sciences; subject index. More
Windham, CT: Elizabeth Moody, 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 52p, several line ills. Showcases winners of author and illustrator awards for children's books; also a few other awards, such as the National Book Award. Chiefly books published before 1976. No other copies online at the time of this listing. Can..... More
Paris: S.A.Georg, 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 65p + several large pls. of early 19th-century French bindings in various styles (mosaic, Empire, etc.), 1 in color. Another color plate reproduces a Gavarni lithograph. Bookseller's large-format catalogue. Disbound but complete. A good rebinding project, or just for reference... More
N.p. [London?]: W.H. Smith, n.d. [1919 or later]. First edition. Bookmark. Bookmark listing for sale 24 ex-lending-library titles. They are by popular authors of the day, among them Anthony Hope, George Chamberlain, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, E.F. Benson, etc. Not all publication dates checked, but the latest found is 1919. . A..... More
