English Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar by Lindley Murray - 1855: Consisting of exercises in parsing; instances of false orthography; violations of the rules of syntax; defects in punctuation and violation of the rules respecting perspicuous and accurate writing

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, gilt spine label, t.e.g. Sketches by Fritz Kredel. First edition. One of 660 copies printed. As new in glassine and slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 96.

Middle Hill: Typis Medio Montanis, excudit Eduinus Offer - Edwyn Offer Middle Hill Press, 1828 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. [ii], 16, [4] pages. The final four page section is loosely inserted and titled Manuscript codices Abbatiae Sancti Eligii Circa Ann 1778. Spotting, particularly to the final section. Some creasing. Loosely held in drak blue paper wrappers. Holzenberg 37.

Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Limited, Numbered, Signed. Fine but for slightly shelf rubbed bottom edge, in a fine jacket. Number 37of only 50 numbered and signed copies. The first published study of C. P. Snow. Includes a bibliography by Bernard Stone..

A Comprehensive and Refreshed Catalog for Collectors, Dealers and Scouts, near fine condition trade paperback 192 pages, illustrated. From a nonsmoking home.

The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field. First edition. xiii+253 pp.+2 pl. h.t. 19,5x13,5 cm. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), with gilt lettering and decoration. Some wear to extremities. Top edges gilt. Fore-edge and bottom-edge untrimmed. Some numbers written and a stamp on endpapers. Very tight binding. Pages bright and clean.

J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1871. Book. Good+. Three-Quarter Leather. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Three three-quarter-leather hardcovers with gilt lettering and decorations to spines; 5 raised bands each; marbled boards and endpapers; outer edges of text block are marbled as well; slight foxing to pages just off the marbled endpapers; 1871 on title pages; 1870 on copyright pages of volumes I and II, 1871 on volume III; over 1000 pages each with total of 3140. Good plus condition: leather is mildly worn with a little loss; marbled boards are clean and bright with loss of paper to bottom edges of boards; all are straight and tight, clean and unmarked; no tears. Will require extra for shipping. Not available for international shipping..

[A tale] Illustrated by Dugald Stermer. 69 pp. 6,9x4,7 cm. The Somesuch Press, Dallas, Texas, 1984. No. 212 of 325 numbered copies, printed from Trinité type by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem Holland and bound by Reliure d'Art du Centre S.A., Limoges, France.
--- Text in english. Leather bound, gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. All edges gilt. Numbered and signed copy. No wear. Unmarked.

Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy, in jacket with insignificant traces of use..

A Bibliographical Catalogue. Volume 1: World, Europe, Africa. xiii+299 pp.+20 plates h.t. Volume 2: Asia, Oceania, Antarctica, America. xiv+301-675 pp.+36 plates h.t. 33x23 cm. Reprinted Dawsons of Pall Mall, Folkestone & London, 1972.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), gilt lettering on spine. B&W illustratrions. No wear. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

Volume 1 only of 2 volumes.
Half title, volume 1 title-page, 379 pages, [1], errata, [4], list of subscribers. Leather covered boards with buckram spine (presumably for repair or strengthening), inner joints strengthened with tape, joints of rear end-papers also strengthened with paper repair tape. Neat repair to small tear on title-page. End-papers browned. Considerable wear to covers – rubbing, splitting and some marks, corners heavily worn with loss of leather and board. Binding firm however. Ink and pencil annotations to front and rear end-papers, Internally very clean, with minor staining to pages 28-33.
Ex-library book with library sticker to inside front cover. Library stamp to title-page and library markings on spine.
Dibdin wrote a good portion of this weekly which lasted only 24 numbers. The philanthropist Thomas Bernard and Dibdin were associated together on this publication. Dibdin said that he wrote two thirds of the magazine. This volume contains issues no. 1, January 24th 1807 to 12,… Read More