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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1846. First Edition. Large, thick quarto. 12.75 x 9 x 4 inches. Condition: Good. Publisher's dark brown Morocco. First book edition of Harper's Illuminated Bible (first issued in 54 parts). "Dated 1846 with, at foot of title, 'entered ... in the year 1843 by Harper and Brothers.' Frontispiece and illuminated title to each Testament. Table, Index and Concordance at the end. With Apocrypha." (Hills 1161) Illustrated with 1600 engravings by J. A. Adams, more than 1400 of which are from original designs by J.G. Chapman. 844, [1], 128, [6], 256, 3, [1], 8, 14, 34 pp. Inserted and not included in pagination: presentation leaf, main frontispiece, main half-title page, main title page, contents leaf, Apocrypha, family register pages, New Testament frontispiece, New Testament half-title page, and New Testament title page. Full leather boards with elaborate gilt tooling front and rear. Gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Black glazed endpapers. Two frontispieces, main and New… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 185 pp. Near Fine / Very Good+. Original dark green cloth-backed boards with orange lettering on spine. Original dust jacket intact with price of $4.50 on front flap. Very slight edge wear to top and bottom corners of spine, else tight, clean. Dust jacket shows signs of shelf wear at top and bottom of spine, rubbing in spots, a one-centimeter closed tear and one-centimeter crease in a corner of the spine. Light browning at front hinge and to head of dust jacket flaps. Published by Doubleday for the Crime Club. Harry Patterson's second book to be published in the U.S. under the pen name, Jack Higgins. Also published as The Sicilian Heritage. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 40 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Good+. Inscribed in pencil, with full signature in ink, and dated by author on front free endpaper recto, "to Peter, hello!, Maurice Sendak, Nov.'73." Publisher's original oatmeal linen binding with circular color pictorial onlay to front board. Light brown endpapers. Fully illustrated in color by author. Full color pictorial dust jacket has all points present (per Hanrahan) for first issue: front flap clipped on bottom corner, price of $4.95 intact at top, 1070 at bottom left; seven titles listed on rear flap. Silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on front dust jacket panel, indicating that this copy was not distributed until after the award was given. Binding tight and square. Case has sharp tips and no edge wear. Boards clean with exception of a small smudge at lower center of front board and a small spot of stain at the center of the top edge of the… Read More

Indianapolis, IN: Douglas and Maguire, 1833. Second Edition, carefully revised, corrected and enlarged. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. Good. Original light brown cloth over board. 200 pp. Cloth stained, spotted, and edge-worn. All corners soft. Tips and some edges rubbed through. Lacking spine label. Turn-in partially detached at foredge of front board. Binding solid. Hinges loose but secure. Damp stains to endpapers. Small blue pencil markings to front pastedown. One-inch closed tear to foredge of front pastedown with paper detached from board. Two half-inch diameter unidentifiable stamps to front free endpaper. One-inch rough diameter missing material in front free endpaper, as if a third stamp had been excised. Creasing to front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked with significant foxing throughout. Howes S230. Quite scarce.

New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. xi, 276 pp. Fine / Fine. Sewn binding. Full blue cloth over board. Gilt-stamped spine lettering. Illustrations in color and black & white. Part I: Materials. Part II: Paint Manufacture and Application. Appendices. Notes. References to Illustrations. Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes. General Index. Geographical Index. Uncut foldout of 48 color samples at end of book. Protected in original thin white cardboard slipcase.