Rare books from Monroe Bridge Books

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ITALIAN IMMIGRANT. xiv, 329pp bound in original blue cloth. BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. Covers show corner wear, slight bow to front cover, small paper label on spine, interior water stains on page edges, paper label inside cover, small sticker to inside back covers. There were never any library pockets in this book.

Tacoma Park, MD: Self Published, 1968 375pp in original illustrated blue cloth, with BINDING & HINGES TIGHT. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. Contents include a History of the Organ & Piano, Design & Construction of the Piano, Sound Relationships, Using the Tuning Hammer, Tuning Theory, Repairing and more. Covers slightly rubbed, inscription on inside cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894 IN GOOD CONDITION. xx, 296pp, bound in original decorative cloth, frontis has tissue guard intact, complete with 23 plates as called for, with head & tail-pieces throughout. Covers show bumped/worn corners, edgewear, dimmed gilt on spine, light surface rubbing, hinges are tight, a few signatures starting.

Baltimore, MD: Munsell Color Company, Inc., 1942 IN GOOD CONDITION. 19 color charts dated 1929, separated by clear mylar sheets, in the original 6 ring binder. COLOR REFERENCE.

Boston: New England Conservatory of Music, 1900 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, in a protective mylar sleeve. 84pp on fine glossy paper, in original stiff wraps, with binding & hinges tight. Owner's name on cover. MUSICAL NOTATION.

1910 IN GOOD++ CONDITION. Circa 1910? Accordian folding book, measuring 4-1/4 inches tall, by 2 inches wide, with 24 folding panels, depicting 6 hand-painted, ink and watercolor scenes of graphic, erotic sexual positions. The male genitals are not exaggerated, the scenes are depicted unclothed, while laying on rugs, leaves and fabric. The females depicted have unbound hair, sometimes wearing a red ribbon in it. No text on panels. Covers are paper over boards, with Chinese characters on front and back covers. Small corner damp mark, not affecting the images, slight rubbing to edges, occasional light foxing. COLORS ARE STILL VIBRANT.

Philadelpha: R. P. Desilver, 1837 IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION. viii, 474pp, bound in original decorative cloth, with binding and hinges tight. Cloth tape backstrip, corner wear, damp marks, ownership on ffp. Includes List of Subscribers. Title continues: In the Histories of May, Temple, Whitelock, Borlace, Rushworth, Clarendon, Cox, Carte, Leland, Warner, Macauley, Hume and Others: Particularly in the Legendary Tales of the Pretended Conspiracy and Massacre of 1641. Third Edition.

Edinburgh: Rob't Purdie IN FAIR TO GOOD CONDITION, with mylar jackets. SCARCE. Circa 1820. First Edition, with address of Publisher as 70 Princes Street. viii, 4pp, 108pp, [2] 4pp, 102pp; [2] 4pp, 108pp, [2] 4pp, 104pp. Uniformly bound in 3/4 leather and marbled paper, raised bands on spines, title vignettes. Covers rubbed, corner wear, wear to upper/lower backstrip edges, lacks ffp's, interior foxing, occasional notation, light corner damp mark first few leaves in one volume. With ARMORIAL BOOKPLATES of Charles A. Ward. ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT. With musical notation.

Ireland: Baile Atha Cliath, 1906 IN GOOD + CONDITION. vii, [1], 100pp, bound in purple cloth, with binding tight. Text in English and Gaelic. Covers show upper/lower backstrip edge wear, cracked hinges, pages age darkened, foxing, occasional closed tear. SCARCE.

Mexico: Editorial Pedro Robredo, 1939 IN VERY GOOD ++ CONDITION. Volumes I, II and III. Pages uncut, hence it's never been read. This Edition LIMITED to 100 copies. 409pp, [7]; 428pp. [4]; 416pp, [4], all uniformly bound in original stiff paper, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Slight age darkening to covers, vol. I has small edge tear where backstrip meets the cover. THE HISTORY OF NEW SPAIN. Text is in Spanish.

New York: Felicie, Inc., 1973 OVERSIZED. 322pp, printed on fine glossy paper, bound in color illustrated cloth, with binding and hinges tight. The dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and is NOT price clipped. Illustrated with color photographs and Dali's art throughout. THREE ORIGINAL 8 X 10" PHOTOGRAPHS LAID-IN. 1) b/w photo of the book with its dust jacket [has small edge stain]. 2) b/w photo of Dali standing above a spread of food, photo used in the book. 3) b/w photo of Dali and a woman, both seated and relaxed, with the woman holding a striped cat (Dali's wife Gala?), photo not used in the book. COOKBOOK WITH RECIPES THROUGHOUT.

[Lakewood, Colorado]: Centipede Press, 2008 LIMITED EDITION, this being #286 of 500 Copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Scarce, with only 3 copies in OCLC. 592pp, [3], bound in black textured paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight, silk ribbon intact, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. American Horror Tales.

Kerala, India: Original Manuscript Circa 18th - 19th Century. From the Collection of Jacques Marchais [1887-1948] who in 1938 opened an Indian and Tibetan Art Gallery in Manhatten, to fund her desire to build a center of Tibetan Art on her property in Staten Island, showing her label on the wooden cover. The polished, bevelled wooden boards measure 9-1/2" long by 1-1/4" top to bottom. The stack measures 2-1/4" thick with the wooden covers, and 1-3/4" thick without the wooden covers, with a jute cord running through two holes in the book. With 82 leaves total, which were inscribed with a sharp stylus, then covered in ink made from oil and lampblack, wiping off the excess to reveal the Malayalam script. A few small annotations in pencil, in English, reveal some of the translations, *"Errhine for Coma" [Errhine means to be stuffed into the nose] *"Fever pill" *"Cure for sundry genital disorders" and *"Ginger powder". Malayalam script is… Read More

San Jose, California: The Institution Behind the Rosicrucian Organization, 1964 1964 to 1973. Numbers 13 through 325. All show a center fold, as this is how they were mailed out by the publisher. Staples are now rusty. [SCARCE]

San Jose, California: The Institution Behind the Rosicrucian Organization, 1965 1965 to 1973. Numbers 1 through 156 and 158-167, includes the 1968 Topical Outline of the Eleventh Degree in Numerical Sequence, An Aid to Review Reading, 13pp. Also includes Pronunziamento dated July 26, 1965 [11th Degree, No. 17]. All show a center fold, as this is how they were mailed out by the publisher. Staples are now rusty. [SCARCE]