The Illuminated Scripture Text Book with Interleaved Diary for Memoranda and A Coloured Illustration for Every Day. by (CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY; EDMUND EVANS) - [ca. 1875]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 243 pages; VG/VG-; spine red, with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; small chips missing at corners of flap folds; small closed tear at upper edge of jacket front; front jacket joint separated; small chips missing at crown and tail of spine; inch-long closed tear at upper right corner of jacket back; bookseller's sticker at back pastedown; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1347976. FP New Rockville Stock.

Chipping Campden: Alcuin Press, 1930. One of 25 hors de commerce copies (of an edition of 325) specially bound in full red morocco. Quarto (8 x 11 3/8 inches). 192, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Title printed in red and black in large type. Full crimson morocco with gilt spune lettering, front with the Cardinals device in gilt, all edges gilt, Rear tios a but bumped, bit of rubbing to top spine band else a very clean and lovely copy of this special edition.The Alcuin Press was founded in 1928 by Herbert Patrick Reginald Finberg (1900-1974), a former employee at the Shakespeare Head Press. The press was housed in a malt house behind Elm Tree House, High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Using modern machinery, Finberg produced fine books in small editions using hand-set types on hand-made paper.

N.p.: N.p., ca. 1910]. Handmade photograph album trimmed with ribbon, 6.75 x 11 inches containing 28 silver print photographs, all 2.5x2.5 inches, nicely composed and most with lengthy captions. One loose photo. Photos are very good; the album has some of the ribbon trim missing and a center horizontal fold.The album was assembled around 1910 by a British woman associated with a medical mission in northern India, likely Lucknow, and possibly the Church Missionary Society. A caption notes the dress of the local girls being “different from the girls in Lucknow.” The captions mention a Miss Greenwood the medical assistant, a Dr. Webb of the medical office (female), and a Mrs. Mylrea. Amy Lawrence Chapman Mylrea and her husband Reverend C. Garland Mylrea were associated with the Church Missionary Society and joined the Bengal Mission around 1895 and were also in Lucknow around 1910. Mrs. Mylrea was a medical assistant. The group was apparently on a holiday traveling in and around Shimla in… Read More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940. First edition. One of 300 copies. Quarto. [xx], 170, [1]pp. Illustrated with facsimiles, specimens, etc. Publisher's quarter calf over vellum boards, gilt spine and cover lettering, marbled endpapers. An excellent copy.This copy is a presentation copy and thus not numbered. In the colophon we read "[This copy number] ___ is for Francis P. Farquhar. Fred W. Goudy, 10/25/40." This book was set in University of California Old Style types. a font developed by Goudy for the sole use of the University of California Press. This book is its debut. The head of the printing department at the University of California Press and the man who brought this book into the world was Samuel T. Farquhar, uncle of Francis P. Farquhar.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1941. 8vo. vii, [1], 211, [1] pp. Frontisp., illustrated title, plates. Red publisher’s cloth, black lettering, illustrated endpapers (very minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. cover art of Forest Service ranger fighting Montana forest fire by Elwell (very minor edgewear, scuffing), NF/VG copy. First edition, stated, of this exceedingly scarce Hank Winton juvenile mystery set in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana, showcasing the U.S. Forest Service, Forest fires, and early parachuting smokejumpers. Atwater (1904-1976) born in Baker City, OR, and Harvard grad, worked as a Montana racher and trapper, forest ranger, and was WWII 10th Mountain Division veteran. Later through his work at Wasatch National Forest, he became known as the father of the Snow Avalanche work in the U.S., and this title has become very scarce.

New York: The Seven Arts Publishing Co, 1916-1917. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo, 2 vols.; G+; contemporary full navy cloth bindings; spines age-toned brown, with gilt lettering and design; some shelf wear and soiling; all corners of both vols. bumped; scuffing to boards; crown and tail of both spines missing; crease to vol. 2 spine; bindings shaken; both hinges of vol. 1 split; front hinge of vol. 2 split; pages clean; CX consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1346448. FP New Rockville Stock.

Omaha, NE: National Printing Co., 1904. 8vo (8" x 5.5"), green black-stamped cloth illustrating a Western scene of a wagon trail, with gilt lettering spine and front-cover. 151 pp. First edition of Collins's account of his overland journey and other western adventures. "The author was a post trader at Fort Laramie for 10 years. His book is a most valuable journal of his trip across the plains and adventures among the Indians; hunting, mining, and trading experiences" (Eberstadt). In 1911, following Collins's death, the undistributed copies of the first edition were bound up with his Stories of the Plains and distributed to friends, per his will. REFERENCES: Howes C594; Eberstadt 134: 536. CONDITION: Good, moderate wear to extremities, corners bumped; contents bright and clean. An appealing copy.

[Cincinnati: Circuit Riders, Inc., 1962]. Broadsheeet, 43cm x 58.25cm (17" x 23"). Printed on both sides of a single sheet of newsprint; recto reprints a petition originally published in the New York Times for Feb 22, 1962; verso is commentary by Circuit Riders, Inc., a Cincinnati-based Christian-Nationalist conservative movement. Horizontal fold; mild toning to margins; Very Good. The petition, signed by some six hundred public figures including Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin, Denise Levertov, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others, calls for the immediate abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee, accusing its members of dividing the citizenry, denying free speech, and distracting the public from matters of real political importance. Printed on the verso, amid an amalgam of sensational headlines clipped from the press, is a statement by Circuit Riders, Inc. identifying the signers of the petition as members of "militant pacifist organizations," "one-world groups ... dedicated to the… Read More

Chipping Campden: Alcuin Press, 1930. One of 25 hors de commerce copies (of an edition of 325) specially bound in full red morocco. Quarto (8 x 11 3/8 inches). 192, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Title printed in red and black in large type. Full crimson morocco with gilt spune lettering, front with the Cardinals device in gilt, all edges gilt, Rear tios a but bumped, bit of rubbing to top spine band else a very clean and lovely copy of this special edition.The Alcuin Press was founded in 1928 by Herbert Patrick Reginald Finberg (1900-1974), a former employee at the Shakespeare Head Press. The press was housed in a malt house behind Elm Tree House, High Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Using modern machinery, Finberg produced fine books in small editions using hand-set types on hand-made paper.

N.p.: N.p., ca. 1910]. Handmade photograph album trimmed with ribbon, 6.75 x 11 inches containing 28 silver print photographs, all 2.5x2.5 inches, nicely composed and most with lengthy captions. One loose photo. Photos are very good; the album has some of the ribbon trim missing and a center horizontal fold.The album was assembled around 1910 by a British woman associated with a medical mission in northern India, likely Lucknow, and possibly the Church Missionary Society. A caption notes the dress of the local girls being “different from the girls in Lucknow.” The captions mention a Miss Greenwood the medical assistant, a Dr. Webb of the medical office (female), and a Mrs. Mylrea. Amy Lawrence Chapman Mylrea and her husband Reverend C. Garland Mylrea were associated with the Church Missionary Society and joined the Bengal Mission around 1895 and were also in Lucknow around 1910. Mrs. Mylrea was a medical assistant. The group was apparently on a holiday traveling in and around Shimla in… Read More