•  Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in silver; corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed. Front hinge (inside) cracked and back hinge tender; endpapers partially adhered to pastedowns.  (22222)

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Binding:  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and white; designed by Thomas Watson Ball and with his “B” cipher. The cover depicts a richly dressed man at a tickertape machine. Top edge gilt.

•  Bound as above; black stamping showing light wear: a solid, clean copy.  (22208)

A leaflet accompanying the set tells us: “These volumes are an official publication of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York. We would like to extend our appreciation to David D. Ryus, Alan Ternes, and Louis Bilka for their contributions to this work. Editor: Barry L. Kessel and project editor: Philip R. St.Clair.”

•  Publisher's full tan calf, round spines, raised bands, gilt tooling in replication of an 1830s binding. Silk place marker in each volume. All edges gilt. With original prospectus and some advertising matter laid in, and in a brown cloth open-back slipcase. Both books and slipcase in excellent condition.  (22188)

•  ISTC im00464000; Goff M464; H 11040*; Pr 516; BMC, I, 119.   Inner margin irregular and light semi-circular waterstain in lower outside corner away from text. Leaf identified in pencil in lower margin of the recto side.  (26686)

•  Publisher’s cloth, spine with printed paper label; spine and back cover scuffed, spine label darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with institutional stamp. Many signatures unopened. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean; paper embrittled, with a few short edge tears.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 260.   Publisher's quarter leather over printed paper-covered sides; spine extremities slightly rubbed, in slipcase showing a bit of scraping and refurbished at top fore-edge. Very nice.  (13276)

•  Contemporary vellum, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-stamped decorative bands; bindings lightly soiled, with spine labels chipped and rubbed, spines with shelving numbers in white. All page edges stained gold. Front pastedowns with institutional bookplates, title-pages with shadows of pencilled numerals. Vol. III lacking half-title. Intermittent light foxing, most pages clean. (14112)

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 2819g.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers; upper outer corner slightly bumped, spine extremities showing minor rubbing. Pages age-toned, four with areas of offsetting from laid-in newspaper recipe clippings; clean. An attractive copy, bearing the stamp of the distributing Metropolitan agent (Schenectady, N.Y.) on the title-page.  (26052)

TWO nicely accomplished pen-and-ink drawings of ships

One leaf bears a number of small photographs of young men, labelled “1915” — possibly classmates from St. Paul’s?

•  Publisher’s cloth wrappers, front cover gilt-stamped “Autographs”; edges and extremities chipped. Text block partially separated from spine. Some fading to colored pages, with occasional very slight offsetting or ink smearing.

Scarce: OCLC records only one holding of another issue.

•  Half leather over marbled paper boards, stamped with gilt rolls and lettering, rubbed and spine slightly cocked; leather with some loss at spine extremities, corners, and over back joint. Bookplate of a Catholic seminary library on front pastedown, rubber-stamp on free endpapers, ink numeral on first leaf and rear free endpaper, properly deaccessioned. Tiny chip to upper outer corners throughout; light, even faint, waterstaining to lower corners and outer margins. Pleasanter in hand and under eye than it sounds, this isan interesting snapshot of early-'30s Catholic life in, and as viewed from, the American South.  (17149)

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•  Recent quarter calf, round spine; raised bands accented with gilt beading, gilt center devices in spine compartments, and two green spine labels. Combed-pattern marbled paper sides. Lacks the half-title, only; occasional light foxing. A very good copy of an interesting and now uncommon book.  (22228)

•  Original quarter cloth with decoratively printed paper sides, paper chipped over edges. One instance of pencil marking; otherwise clean and unused. (4954)

•  Full library blue cloth, gilt-stamped on the spine, covers pressure-stamped with the name of a now-defunct library, spine with shelving label. Small tear to head of spine. Binding lightly soiled. Bookplate and library pocket present. Possible authorial inscription on front fly-leaf. Remnants of paper adhered to top edge of title-page. Pages clean. Very good. (7372)

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Binding: Contemporary straight-grain black morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-framed compartments, spine compartments blind-tooled in foliate designs, turn-ins with gilt double fillets. All edges gilt.

•  NCBEL, III, 264.   Bound as above, edges and extremities with minor rubbing, bottom spine compartment with small crack, leather (only) starting at front joint (joint itself strong). Front pastedown with early inked ownership inscription. Moderate foxing, more pronounced to first and last few leaves; two pages with offsetting from dried plant matter laid in. A lovely volume.  (24906)

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•  NSTC 2E4287.   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner.  (17041)

•  Wright, III, 3879. Publisher’s green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth showing minor wear overall. Frontispiece with outer edge waterstained; four leaves with some offsetting from laid-in scrap of cloth. Pages with a few scattered small spots, mostly clean.

•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with paper label, in excellent condition save for slight discolorations to spine label. With laid-in prospectus. Pages mildly cockled; scattered, pinpoint spots of something(?) that got into the slurry during the paper-making. A handsome, clean copy.