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Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York. Very good. 1929. 1st edition. FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapita tion and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method… Read more about this item

Traders Press, New York. Near Fine. 1987. 1st edition. 1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Print ed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boa rds depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engrav ed half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several char ts recording the daily value… Read more about this item

Paris: Adolphe Elahays. Fair. Hardcover. 1860. 1st. First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) . ound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFE T. . olored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The co lor plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the… Read more about this item

Nairobi: The East African Standard Ltd.. Good. 1932. 1st ed. 1st ed. 4to (11 x 15.5 inches). 166 pp. Library binding, orange c loth. With original pictorial covers bound in. Hundreds of period photographs and advertisements illustrate East African agricultu re, hunting, architecture, natural history, sports, etc. [Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar]. This was the second year… Read more about this item

San Francisco: : A. L. Bancroft & Company. Fair. Hardcover. 1878. 1st edition. 1st ed., 8vo, original black cloth with a mariner’s compass blo cked on upper cover, leather spine and corners. 324 pp. [16 advt s] + one leaf with a Mariner’s Compass inserted between pages [ 8]-9 and four pages of testimonials inserted before the title lea… Read more about this item

London: Imperial Publications. 1990. 1st ed., illustrated boards, 8vo. 485 pp..Pristine hardcover edit ion. A guide to identification and values. New copy; issued with out dust jacket. Numbered and signed by both author and illustrat or. [edition size unknown but believed to be 500] .

Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co, Steam Printers and Stationers. 1869. 1st ed.. 8vo, cardboard covers with advtg, 275 pp. Lists of Post Offices on the Pacific Coast, Money Order Offices, General Directory, City Business Directory, State Offices, Sacramento City Government, County Directory, local history and statistics, hundreds of advts. Ex Libris William Neely Johnson, with his signature on p… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid . Good. 1885-1886. 1st edition. A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either fro m historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.). . inburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid 1885-86. 12vo. 54; 48pp; Limited to 275 copies. head and tail-pieces, title-pages pr inted in red and… Read more about this item

London, The Leadenhall Press for Henry Sotheran. Good.. 1893. 1st ed.. 8vo. Original half linen over blue boards, decorated spine and co ver; pp. [viii], 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-colored engravi ngs; A facsimile of the 1815 publication “Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist”, re-using the original copperplate s which were then destroyed. A humorous look at… Read more about this item

Brooklyn, NY: Merganthaler Linotype Co. Fine. 1930. 1st thus.. 12mo. One of 400 copies printed in Linotype Granjon on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Quarter parchment with marbled paper-covered boa rds." Reprint of the original which was published in Frankfort in 1568. Six engraved illustrations representing the printing trade s: the printer, bookbinder, type-founder, papermaker, draughtsman and woodcutter as… Read more about this item