bindings

Hardcover. New York, Fred De Fau & Company, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, hardcovers.798 pages total. B/w frontispieces with tissue guards. B/w illustrations throughout. Top edges gilt. Dark green cloth boards, gilt titles on spines, some light shelf wear. Tanning to pages and edges from age. Bindings good. Pages unmarked. Spines straight. A sequel to The Three Musketeers in which the four soldiers were brought together again after years of separation. They will live to repeat the glorious performances of their youth.

Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett, 1st Ed., 1852, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 312 and 322 pages, hardcovers, embossed brown cloth with gilt design on front and gilt lettering on spine. With the six original steel-plate engravings and with title-pages illustrated with large vignettes. First edition with Hobart & Robbins slug on the copyright page. Both volumes state Twenty-Fifth Thousand on the title page indicating a probable fourth printing. The first was five thousand and sold out immediately. Both volumes with chipping and fraying to top and bottom of spines, Vol. 1 with about 1/4" cloth missing at bottom. All corners show wear, spines slightly cocked, but bindings are tight. Clean set, with very minor foxing.

Hardcover. Birmingham AL, The Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full red leather covers with gilt decorations, spine has raised bands; marbled endpapers; satin ribbon marker; all edges gilt; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean. First published in England in 1935. Introduction by Lord Atkin. Albert Haddock, the hero of countless lawsuits in A.P. Herbert's misleading cases, made his first public appearance in Punch about 1924. This collection of Misleading Cases contains many more sly jests at the absurdities of English law and will teach the reader more about the legal processes than lawyers know themselves.

Hardcover. Sussex, England, Amati, Ltd, 1st UK Edition, 1959-69, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,344 pages (all books total). Hardcovers. A widely cited reference work providing information on approximately 9,000 violin makers. The work is based on the extensive notes of violinist and composer William Henley (1874-1957). Henley had in his youth studied with August Wilhelmj, and later became a professor of composition and principal of the violin at the Royal Academy in London. The book was the first to include a significant number of American craftsmen. B/w illustrations (plates) in vol. 7. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded on vol. 1-5, but still quite bright on vol. 7. Bindings all tight. Spines straight. Some tanning and light foxing to edges from age, pages have some light foxing, especially on preliminary and hind pages, otherwise no markings. In beautiful condition.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Free Press Association, 1st, 1886-88, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, complete. Green pebbled cloth bindings solid, original tissue guards in place across from full-page engravings, Volume I, 620 pages, published 1886. Volume II, 808 pages, published 1888. There is some small loss to fore edge of Vol.II, interiors are fine and crisp, no markings.

Hardcover. London, Gordon Fraser, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Full color and black & white examples of fine Victorian book design. Some light foxing to preliminary pages and to blue cloth cover. Clean, tight copy. Traces the evolution of publishers' bindings from the printed paper wrappers which were normal at the beginning of the nineteenth century (when most purchasers of books had them bound by their own bookbinder), through the introduction of cloth by Pickering in about 1820, and on through the heyday of gold and coloured blocking down to the end of the Victorian period. This book will be invaluable to book collectors, bibliophiles, and dealers in rare books.

Hardcover. Rome, privately printed, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, limited to 150 copies; octavo, 142 pages; no dust jacket; beautiful gilt blind-stamped front cover decoration on white linen, beveled boards which are soiled around the perimeter; very tight binding. All edges gilt, ribbon marker. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR and dated 1912. A self-published collection of poetry, 142 pages printed on one side of sheets.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I, in 2 parts, 559 pages total. Green cloth covers, dark green and gilt titles to spine, 180 color plates, endpapers decorated with map of U.S., profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear to covers, otherwise very clean, pages extremely crisp and unmarked, stiff bindings; both books in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 411 pages, hardcover. Color illustrations by John Cecil Clay. Margaret Armstrong cover desIgn. Spine has half-inch tear near author's name. Bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.