Gillingham, Dorset: The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (28.5 cm); 199 pp.; illustrations; photographs; maps; dust jacket. Foam green cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. A near fine copy with just a hint of sunning to board edges. Scarce original dust jacket is very good with... More
American Telephone & Telegraph Co., Long Lines Plant Department, 1931. First edition. Octavo (20 cm); 88 pp.; illus. Green, black-printed wrappers with holes punched to the top and bottom; some penciled scribbling to title page, else clean throughout. No other copies found in the trade; only four located in OCLC... More
[n.p.]: Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co., 1890. First edition. Oblong (28 x 17.5 cm); unpaginated [24] pp.; chromolithographs. Cord-tied illustrated covers. This scarce album was offered by Arbuckles Notion Department as a premium and contains illustrations of all 50 cards in the zoological series, arranged four to a page with the... More
Dresden: Emil Pahl, 1925. First German edition. 8vo.; brown paper over brown cloth boards, 304 pp. With Adolf Hitler’s bookplate to front pastedown, at the bottom of which a previous owner has inexplicably penciled “Cristallnacht [sic], 9 Nov 1938.” INSCRIBED by the author on the ffep, “Dem Führer in Verehrung..... More
New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. Fourth printing. Octavo. Blue buckram boards pictorially printed in red; x, 244 pp.; photographs. An About Fine copy with some very slight rubbing to extremities. The scarce dust jacket is unclipped ($1.00 stamped in black) and is easily Very Good. Some slight rubbing and... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Twelvemo. Green paper boards pictorially printed in black; 159 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Very Good+ copy with toning to board edges in a Very Good, unclipped ($1.75), dust jacket, which is also toned and has one mark of soiling... More
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Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age... More
Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies at Rutgers, 1978. First edition. Quarto (28 cm). Saddle-stitched wrappers; 58 pp.; maps, tables, illus., photographs. Some sunning and very faint soiling to wrappers. Scarce in the trade with no other copies currently available. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First edition. 12mo. Green cloth stamped in gilt; xi, [6], 70 pp.; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy. Light flaking of gilt; dust-soiling to top edge; browning to endpapers from jacket flaps; plates are a trifle foxed. A card has been tipped... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 57, [5] pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. Reading the Riddle of Nature II. Wonders of the Microscope III. The Bacteria IV. How the Plant Feeds V. The Leafy Canopy VI. The Evolution... More
London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems... More
Windsor, Ontario: Redloh Publishing Company, 1946. First edition. Octavo (23 cm). Blue textured wrappers printed in black; viii, 173 pp.; illus. The author's extensive research on the causes and cures of cancer, With many illustrations and photographs. Wrappers show only the slightest hint of rubbing with a small chip to... More
San Francisco: Liberty & Property, [196-?]. Fourth printing. Tall, stapled wrappers (23 x 10 cm), 17, [1] pp. Anti-miscegenation pamphlet from Dr. Bela Hubbard, who argues that voluntary segregation is the only practical solution to prevent race-mixing, which leads to the degeneration of both races. Published by Property & Liberty... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First edition. Octavo (19.5 cm); xvi, 178 pp.; frontispiece + 44 illustrations; dust jacket. Burgundy, blind-ruled cloth with black-stamped front board and gilt-stamped spine. A very good copy with some light dust-soiling to cloth; jacket offsetting to endpapers; owner's name to front endpaper, else... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1852. First English language edition. Octavo; viii, 158, [2] pp.; one illustrative plate and numerous woodcuts. Publisher's blind-ruled, green, pebbled cloth; gilt titling to spine. Top corners are chipped and rounded with some chipping to crown (slight loss, not affecting title); dust-soiled top edge; owner's name... More
San Francisco: Far Horizons Books, 1982. Second revised printing. Octavo. Perfectbound paperback; 284 pp. The author traces humanity's evolutionary development and argues that man can only act altruistically when he abandons religion and embraces science and rationalism. A Very Good copy with covers slightly rubbed, clean throughout. More
Chicago: The Aries Press, 1982. First edition. Comb-bound wrappers, 137, [5] pp, charts, tables. Scribbled numbers to title page, some underlining and marginalia. One copy in OCLC at Rice Univ., none others in commerce. Scarce. The author researched hundreds of earthquake horoscopes in order to predict where and when major earthquakes... More
Parry, New Jersey: John R. Parry, 1897. First edition. 19 x 14 cm; 157, [1], pp.; ill. Stapled, perfect-bound black wrappers with dulled lettering to front wrapper and dulled design to rear. Wrappers rubbed with some white flecking and chipping to top edge; dampstaining throughout with a small chunk missing... More
London: Lindsay Drummond Limited, 1948. Third edition. Octavo. White cloth boards stamped in black; 163 pp.; map; photographic plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with gently bumped corners and cheap war-time paper browning in a Very Good, unclipped (12s. 6d.), rubbed dust jacket with small chunk missing to crown... More
[Pennsylvania]: Hon. Daniel H. Hastings, 1898. First edition. One leaf folded to make two pages; illustration. Some grubbiness and soiling, still Very Good. A warning written for soldiers about the poisonous Manchineal tree, which grows along the Sea Shore in Cuba, and the West India Islands. The author describes the... More
New York: Orange Judd Publishing Company, Inc., 1928. First edition. 12mo. Purple cloth decoratively stamped in orange; 127 pp, [1] (advert); 11 plates, illus.; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with dust-soiling to top edge and some browning and light foxing to a few of the plates. In the scarce... More
Philadelphia: The Farmer Company, 1893. First edition. 8vo (23 cm); red pebbled cloth stamped in gilt, 367, [1] pp, photo frontis of the author; illus. A firsthand account of the author's decision to take up farming and the practical knowledge he's learned along the way. Cloth lightly rubbed & a.... More
Trenton: John L. Murphy Pub. Co., 1892. First edition. Folio (30 cm); 402 pp.; L (50) plates, most with numerous figures. Black, gilt-stamped cloth with gilt to spine nearly worn away. Cloth is dust-soiled with wear and fraying to edges and upper front joint; front hinge cracked, but secure, rear... More