Stuttgart: Johann Benedict Metzler, 1753. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full calf with spine gilt lettering and rules. xlvi, 1016pp. Frontispiece, marbled endpapers. Very good. Binding worn, especially along spine, and spine giltstamping rubbed, with a bit of chipping at spine head/tail, but nevertheless quite tight and handleable and overall attractive; inner..... More

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1869. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering and glazed marbled paper over boards. 535pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; light even age toning; minor foxing, mainly to endpapers and preliminary leaves; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight and attractive first..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Hardcover. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. 8vo. Olive green with white and gilt decorative stamping and oval die-cut color plate tipped to front board. xi, 291pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, 9 full-page color plates, decorative endpapers, border margins. Very good. Almost a "Near fine,"..... More

New York: The Grolier Club, 1891. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full red leather, gilt, gilt medallion. 115pp. Top edge gilt; deckle edges. 3 full-page plates. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear. A tight and handsome first edition, limited to 344 copies, of this typically lovely Grolier production. Rather scarce. More

This renowned American artist and illustrator created the "Gibson Girl," the very image of the turn-of-the-century American female, setting a standard for fashion and hair style from the 1890s through the beginning of the First World War. ANS, 2pp, 4½" X 6 3/4", n.p., n.y. Addressed to "Bob." Very good..... More

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full brown calf with gilt lettering and extensive decorations. 223pp. All edges gilt. Sewn-in satin page marker. Color illustrations, watered silk endpapers. Fine. Wonderfully tight and nice leatherbound edition of this quartet of Western novellas, the other three being "Canyon..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and ornate gilt and black pictorial stamping. x, 285pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece map, numerous illustrations, 12 maps. Very good. Faintest edgewear; jacket text portions neatly tipped to front pastedown and portion of front flyleaf. A lovely..... More

Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1943-45. Hardcover. Edited by Paul M. Angle. Foreword by James G. Randall. Complete 2-volume set. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xlv, 519pp; xi, 560pp. Illustrations (Volume II). Near fine. Volume II spine gilt, as always, dulled, though Volume I spine gilt bright and lovely..... More

Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, [1984]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff salmon wrappers. 307pp. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally near fine. A handsome first edition, entirely in Italian, of the first essay collection whose title references the mythological garden of the Hesperides by this noted Italian literary..... More

This versatile New York attorney and statesman served as Secretary of War (1899-1904), Secretary of State (1905-09) and U.S. Senator (1909-15); among his many achievements was the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in establishing relations between Japan and Latin America. Signature along with ten others on a 4½"..... More

Lamoni, IA: Herald Publishing House, 1916. Hardcover. Illustrations by Paul N. Craig. Small 8vo. Green cloth with red rules and black lettering and decorations. 352pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn and rubbed, though internally fine. A tight, attractive first edition of this scarce fiction..... More

Chicago: KAM Publication, [1963]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. ii, 35pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a bit age toned about the edges, else internally tight and fine. Probable sole printing of this slim "Sheaf of Sermons" by the noted Chicago rabbi and activist (1902-74), who gave the invocation..... More