Rare books from Open Door Books

Northampton, Mass: Northampton, Mass: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co. 1850, 1850 Decorative Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. American History Biography. Owner's Name. brown embossed boards slight wear, foxing, frontis of President Jonathan Edwards, portrait of Governor Strong, Annals of Northampton Mass. 227 pgs, patrons listed , index, errata, very scarce,. Owner's Name. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

London: London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842, 1842 Decorative Cloth. Good-fair. First Edition. History. all plates loose, but undamaged, needs rebinding, 61 etchings by Leopold Martin plus 25 etchings of Hopes Costumes of the Ancients, library marks from Maine Genealogical Society # 381, spine bumped, scarce copy. Illus. by Leopold Martin. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Good-fair.

London: London: Schott and Co. 1877, 1877 Decorative Cloth. Very Good. First Thus. Theatre. Owner's Name. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. English words to Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen in the alliterative verse of the original 351 pgs, grey/gilt boards slight soiled,rubbed, spine bumped, scarce tight copy 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Owner's Name. First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1845 Two volumes bound in full leather with minor wear, some foxing, smudges. (iv) 5- 76 pgs. (vi) 3 letters, 116 pgs. List of Osbourn's Works. Very scarce OCLC lists 1 holding. James Osbourn 1780- 1850 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

T. Nelson and Sons, 1870 Green, gilt boards with colored litho of Bethany with "Cities of Palestine" in sky of scene, laid in and indented, slight foxing/rubbing to boards, tight. Contents. Jaffa, or Joppa Jerusaleum, Bethany, Bethlehem, Hebron, ect. 26 pgs. Handcolored plates, histories, descriptions, quite scarce. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Privately Printed, 1943 Tan decorated w/blue/yellow Ribbon of Honor. Inscribed, "To Miss Alice Wainwright with my compliments, Richard Derby March 8, 1943." Wake Island, The Fox Holes of Bataan, The Supreme Test of Valor, Subic Bay Saga, To Philip Billings, Brooksville Maine. very scarce. OCLC list 4 copies 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909 Tan cloth spine w/ title plate , geen boards. Inscribed twice by Author: - So : Good-night, - good-morning, ect . [Act IV} in ink fep & With happiest remembrances of a Stratford message, July of 1910. half title page. 201 pgs clean tight copy of scarce provenence.. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Decorated Stiff card/cloth. Very Good.

3043rd AAF Base Unit Contract Pilot School, Basic Polaris Flight Academy, 1943 Red/black flying eagle front board, pictorial endpages desert sky. Dedication page photograph; Lt. Herbert G. Bench. Many b/w photographs of life on base, Commanders, Officers, Staff, Squadrons One - Six, Lancaster, cartoons, Link Trainer, ect. Signed by all Members of Squadron One; Ed Adams, R. N. Allmon, W. J. Anthes, M. C. Adams, E. J. Anderson, C. L. Ashurst, et al. and some others, full page photographs of base life. 64 pgs. Very Rare OCLC lists 0 copies. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illus. by Photographer: Cy La Tour & Son. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Ministerio Da Marinha e Ultramar - Commissao De Cartographia, 1909 Brown paper covers w/ seal : Commissao de Cartographia top front. Color maps of Portugese colonies in Portugese with data and symbols. Convencoes, Colonias Portuguezas e Paizes de Immigracao, Guine Portugueza, Ilmas de S. Thome E Principe, ect. some spine wear, in original envelope. Signed and Very Rare OCLC finds 10 copies. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Very Good.

G. W. Cottrell, 1862 Grey embossed boards tight, spine bumped, gilt decoration title, edge wear. Additional wood engraved title page : Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Notes 328 pgs. Contents. Each Story Having a Maxium and a Moral. Pentamerone orginaly published in Naples between 1634 - 1636 in Neapolitan dialect, Dr Grimm suggested abridgement, Taylor translated from the Neapolitan not from the German. Very Rare OCLC finds 0 copies. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Illus. by George Cruikshank. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Published for Richard Holmes Laurie, 1954 Green card damp stains, spine wear, tight. iv. 92 pgs index. Very Rare OCLC find 2 copies. Woodcuts, III. - Electric Telegraph. This chain of communications established by means of the electric telegraph which is now extending itself over almost the whole of Europe. submarine telegraphic wires have been laid down both in the Great and Little Belts ect. by Steen Bille. Marine Ministry, Copenhagen, 14th May, 1853. Declarations, descriptions, ect. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fourth Edition.. Original Wraps. Very Good.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954 Green/blue/gilt covers. Frontispiece of Kozhevniko Liberary of Selected Soviet Literature Stalin Prize 1950 Author of Ocean's Brother 1939. Extra title page in Russian. Illustrated by D. Piatkin. Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs 605 pgs. Very Rare OCLC finds 10 copies. Illus. by D. Piatkin. Owner's Bookplate. First Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good.

London: Condrup Ltd., 1926 Green illustrated covers, slight edge-wear, covers creased. Laid in typed letter w/ masthead. Sole Agents Stock Terms sheet No. 420 1926. A Combined Catalogue of Woodware, Hardware, & Fancy Stock Lines for which we are Sole Distributors, Cancels, Terms, Contents, ect. Indexies. iv. 70 pgs. engraved illustrations, prices, specs. Hestia, Reliance, Rotunda, Primus, Luther, Con-venient Lamp, Cambridge reading lamps, Luxor Mol-con Slicers, ect. Con est. 1888. Extremely Rare finds 0 copies, a 1956-7 edition is located in National Art Library Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Paper. Very Good.

London: Printed For G. G. And J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-row; and J. Cumming, 40, Holborn Hill, 1800 Contempory calf, five raised bands, gilt tooling, boards tight, speckled fore-edges, no markings or tears. The Fifth Edition, with Corrections and Additions. First published in 1776. mild foxing. (2) Letter to William Cullen, M. D. Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, and First Physician to His Majesty in Scotland, ect. ect. Monk Hill Aug. 1776. vii Preface. xvi Advertisment xviii (1) Contents xxiii B Essay First. Inclosures and Fences. 200 pgs. Essay Second. On Draining Bogs and Swampy Grounds. Introduction, Mr. Elkington pp346. Illustration woodcuts, Essay III. on the Proper Method of Levelling High Ridges. Essay VI. on Quick - Lime as a Cement and as A Manure. Advertisment 591 pgs. Quite Rare OCLC finds 19 copies. of this Fifth Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fifth Edition.. Full-Leather. Very Good.

B. F. French, 1830 Contemporary brown calf w/gilt title plates, rubbing at corners, top spine scuffed/chip Vol. 2 boards all tight. foxing, damp stains. Rare OCLC finds 0 copies of 4 volume edition. Nice solid set of classic work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very Good.