Book Specimens: First Edition (54 results)

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 32 pages. Subjects; Typographica. Book Design. Printing History. Practice Periodical Books. Type Specimens. Books Catalogues. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 32 pages. Subjects; Typographica. Book Design. Printing History. Practice Periodical Books. Type Specimens. Books Catalogues. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Spine chipped at head. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Anthology. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17114.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Ex-library copy, with neat labels on eps, some foxing to eps and rear paste down bubbling slightly, otherwise a very clean copy. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on sunned/brighter spine. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 36 pp. 596 items. With an Index of Portraits. Wrappers duststained, a little marked, and separated down spine, otherise Good.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by AMS Press Inc., 1967. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. No dust jacket.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 32 pp, 12 plates (including 1 folding0, ills. 102 items. Wrappers stained, contents Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, rose cloth stamped in gilt and white, pictorial on-lay on front cover, as issued, frontispiece, [viii], 206pp. The illustrations are in halftone. A good+ copy of a handsomely and thoughtfully designed book. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in mauve buckram with illustrated pastedown to cover. White stamped titles to cover and spine. First edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Light spotting to boards. Examples of lace and its historic uses illustrated throughout. 8vo. 206 pp. Including index.…

Cloth. Condition: Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. (viii) + 344pp., maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Extremities rubbed and bumped, colour has leached from a large area of back board and in several spots on front, due to damp ( no longer an issue). Slight foxing to page edges and eps, pages darkening, otherwise very good. Dustjacket is unclipped, quite worn with darkened, rubbed spine, losses to spine ends, foxing and wear round edges, some grubbiness but still intact. .…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 25x20cm, 230 pages.

ILLUSTRATED HARD COVER. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Collectible first edition. Ilustrated front board a tad faded, back hinge weak, O/W, SOLID AND QUITE CLEAN, LOADED WITH VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. 382 PAGES. SCANS ON REQUEST, THANKS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Maroon cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, under cream dustwrapper with red lettering. 8.75ins x 6.25ins, viii, 344pp. Previous owners name on inside flap of dw. Dw has been tape repaired to the spine and has areas of loss to the top left of the front cover and the base of the spine. Under these areas of loss the maroon cloth has faded. Contents of book VG, dw tatty.…

First edition, royal 8vo, xvi, 196pp., original publishers cloth, a fine copy. From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark green covers with blind stamped ornament and gilt title to spine. Boards show some smudges, scuffing, edgewear. Corners are bumped, worn, with exposed board. See photos. Spine has gilt text and is sunned with crushed ends. See photos. Binding is fragile, with some cracking at front cover, stitches visible at many openings. See photos. Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, staining, writing, owner's marks. Engraved Title page illustration has intact tissue guard, lightly foxed. Interior exhibits scattered moderate foxing and staining. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have a few marks.** PS2026.0812** 360 pages. 4.5 x 7.25 inches** First edition. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth with blind stamped ornament, gilt title to spine. Features an engraved title page vignette depicting the three hills of Boston. This is the second issue of The Boston Book, a reader's anthology featuring prose and poetry written by notable local authors of the era. Boards show wear especially to corners, with sunning at the spine. Binding is intact, with some signs of cracking, visible stitches. Interior shows sporadic foxing. Condition is overall Very Good Minus.** Edited by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, this volume contains writings by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Sprague, Sarah Josepha Hale ("Mary Had a Little Lamb" creator), Edward Everett, Richard Henry Dana (author of "Two Years Before the Mast"), and many more Boston authors. As the Preface states, the book is a "compilation of specimens of the modern literature of the Metropolis of the North."** The beautifully inked inscription on the front endpaper reads, "Mrs. Clarissa S. Hutchinson, presented by her Son Alexander." Clarissa Sage Hutchinson (1784-1844) was married to Titus Hutchinson (1771-1857), a lawyer, politician, judge and member of the Liberty Party in Vermont. The youngest of their six children was Alexander (1816-1850), who gave this book to his mother when he was twenty-one.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010543"**.…

First Edition. Music Book Printing, with Specimens, Stanhope Press and F. H. Gilson Co., 1915, first edition, all edges gilt, some staining to a lower section of the front cover, some bowing to the covers, else vg in chipped glassine dust-wrapper.

First edition. vii + 344pp; addenda; 3 appendices. Maroon cloth. With ownership inscription of Wm. C. Daniel Watson to title page. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Caxton Press Christchuch 1952 First Edition illus (bw & col) VG (pink boards w red logo on front board, white cloth spine w author and publishers name in red, sl worn, extrems v sl faded, head and foot of spine v sl bumped, edges and prelims sl foxed) in VG- DW (white cover w Bensemann image in maroon on front, dirtied over years of use, pieces missing from spine, some closed tears, plastic protected).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Half leather, well rubbed and bumped all over. Paper toned. Marbled endpapers. Both hinges professionally repaired. Pencil dedication on first blank page. Otherwise no markings or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, original 3/4 red morocco, spine in six panels simply gilt stamped, as is the upper cover (reading "LIBRARY. N.Y.S. AGRICULTURAL STATION. FROM THE AUTHOR"), marbled endpapers, 621pp. As well, a free front endpaper with De Voe's signed ink inscription to the same. A blog written by Michael Lorenzini, easily accessed in cyberspace, provides an extensive account of De Voe, highly recommended to anyone with a special interest in American food history: titled "FROM MARKETFIELD TO GREEN MARKET. PART II. THE MARKET MAN," it portrays a man whose reach into foodstuffs was extensive, and smart, and even influential. Brown, CULINARY AMERICANA #2367. SABIN 19824. A Very Good copy.…

First Edition. First Edition. Illustrated with 70 engravings. [xii], 206 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Arntzen P701; Chamberlin 1973; Lucas p.116; Franklin 7360* ("most complete or worthwhile"); Ehresmann Applied and Decorative Arts 2385. Arntzen P701; Chamberlin 1973; Lucas p.116; Franklin 7360* ("most complete or worthwhile"); Ehresmann Applied and Decorative Arts 2385 Light purple cloth, with onaly. Almost fine Illustrated with 70 engravings. [xii], 206 pp. 1 vols. 4to.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 344; a near flawless copy in original red cloth gilt. The 35-p. historical and grammatical introduction is followed by an extensive vocabulary of the Scottish dialect.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Folio. Poor condition. Frontis plate detached, stained and edge chipped. Body of the book has separated from the spine with hinges intact. 2" piece lacking from the crown and foot of the spine. Water staining throughout. Priced accordingly. RARE. hme.

First Edition. James T. Fields, editor The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature First edition, 1850, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, includes work by Hawthorne, Holmes, Whittier, Longfellow, Dana, Emerson, and others. Rubbing to the spine, otherwise intact, Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. heavy rubbing to extremities and full length of spine with some loss of color and minor fraying at top and bottom of spine, interior tight and clean with no markings, 32 pages, how music is printed, produced to assist the preparation of manuscript music for printing, covers a brief history of music publishing in the US, characters and how they are combined to produce the completed page, preparation of copy, pagination of hymn and tune books, proof reading marks, 8 pages of specimens, comparative sizes of music types, shaped notation, directions for securing copyrights, and services available from the company Size: 6.5 x 8.5.…

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half cloth over marble boards with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 12 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Books. Book ornamentation. Bookbinding Methods Education. Book ornamentation. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy bound in half cloth over marble boards with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 12 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; Books. Book ornamentation. Bookbinding Methods Education. Book ornamentation. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First edition, small 4to, [2], xlv, 20, 8pp., limited to 500 copies printed on Japon vellum, large fold-out title page, numerous specimens (2 large folding), original buckram, spine faded, untrimmed.

No Binding. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lacks boards and end papers. Complete and legible text. xx, [3], 6-238, [2] pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations. Foxing throughout, some marginalia.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original steel blue buckram covers, paper spine label. 8vo. 10½'' x 6½''. First edition of this most important and attractive specimen book printed in three colours, folding title page, folding capital letters leaf, and folding press devices. First Century Roman Inscription plate missing, spine sun faded and in Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BOOKS (Binding, Collecting, Printing, Paper).…