Joshua Hirschstein, Owner Member: IOBA
(541) 683-3131
London, England: The Punch Office, 1855/1853. John Leech. Hardcover. Octavo, Volume I (1855): pp. xii + 320. Volume II (1853): pp. xii, 304. Each volume contains ten hand-colored steel plates and many woodcuts by John Leech. Red half calf over red marbled boards. Four raised bands and two black panels..... More
San Francisco, CA: Paul Elder and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. "Man and Horseradish are most Biting when Grated" - Richter Octavo, 8" x 4 3/4." pp. Quarter red cloth over illustrated paper boards. Fading to spine and boards. Minor wear to extremities and corners bumped. Faint black stain to..... More
Chicago, IL: Consolidated Book Publishers / Book Production Industries, Inc., 1945. Paperback. Paper covers (8 3/4 in. x 6 in.) Dozens of Cartoons, poems, stories - ALL around the theme of having a cold! Story "Mother Makes a Mustard Plaster" by Clarence Day. Lovely front cover color cartoon by Sue..... More
London, England: 1867 - 1869. Leather-bound. Quarto. Bound issues. Front and rear boards both cross-ruled in black with owl motifs to each corner compartment. Beveled edges, very scuffed. Inner dentelles. Scuffing to boards and front board almost entirely detached. Marbled endpapers in the nonpareil style of burgundy, buff, eccru, turquoise..... More
London: Printed by Thomas Davison of Whitefriars for Thomas Boys of Ludgate Hill, 1820. Cruikshank. First Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo. Full contemporary butterscotch calf, triple ruled in gilt, with small medallions at corners. 24 cm. 240pp. 5 raised bands (six compartments) with floriated gilt devices in compartments 1, 4, 5 &..... More
London, England: W. Pearson, for J. Tonson at Shjakespear's Head, over-against Catherine Street in the Strand, 1719-20. Leather-bound. Sixteenmos; (7 1/2 in. x 4 3/4 in. // 175 x 99 mm. Six volumes. Half-bound smooth brown calf over morocco. Evidence of past rebinding. Rubbing to extremities, especially corners. Volume I...... More
Los Angeles/New York: Stanyon Books/Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated turquoise boards. Small octavo. Some edgewear to bottom, cover bright. In price-clipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket. Photo-illustrated with movie stills and memorable quotes. More
New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1931. Stitched. Octavo, 8.2 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 43. Orange paper board over dark brown spine. DArk brown title and stuck figure with refrigerator image to front. Touch of chipping to spine ends; small dent to bottom edge. Light sunning to front. Black..... More
London, England: The Leadenhall Press, E.C., 1891. Kenneth M. Skeaping. Leather-bound. 12mo, 7.5 in. x 5.6 in., pp. [1] (advertising), 169, 1-14 (advertising). Illustrated in blue ink with tissue-guarded frontis, nineteen additional full page plates, and dozens of in text line drawings. Gorgeously rebound by Henry Southeran Ltd. in dark..... More
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1945. Early Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 8 in. x 5.3 in., pp. 278. Green cloth boards with gilt chicken silhouette to front and gilt title to (light green) faded spine. Light rubbing to corners and a small nick to top of spine. pp. 287. Previous owner's..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. Second Large Printing. Good Plus. Octavo, 7.75 in. x 5 in., pp. 285. Navy blue cloth boards with red title to front and spine. Light shelfwear to edges. Publisher's red top-edge. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Light age-toning to pages. Rubbing and..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. Hardcover. Small folio, 12 in. x 8.75 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with full- and half-page carton drawings. Wartime Book edition. Olive-brown paper covers with black spine; New Yorker's emblem to front cover; gilt title to sp[ine. Light rubbing to edges with bottom corners just showing. Previous..... More
London, England: Putnam & Co., Ltd., 1945. William Kermode. Twenty-Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Slender duodecimo, 7" x 4 1/2." White cloth boards. Original illustrated paper dust jacket, good, chip to front top left corner affecting top of "TH" and 2 closed tears to top of rear board. 2 tiny closed tears..... More
London, England: Souvenir Press, 1989. Ronald Searle. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 9 in. x 12 in., pp. 124. Fifty-nine full-page color cartoon illustrations, and humorous glossary on book collecting. Auburn boards with gilt title to spine. Slight bump to bottom of spine. Owner inscription, dated 1995, on front endpaper. 1/4..... More
London, England: James Murray, 1851. Twenty-Second Edition with Additional Notes. Hardcover. 16 mo (7 in. x 4 1/2 in.) Navy ribbed cloth over boards, ruled in blind with corner decorations. Gilt letterin to spine. Rubbing and wear to extremities, but yet solidly bound. A 19th century version of the 20th..... More
Chicago, IL: The Howell Company, 1915. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. A small (6.75" x 4.50") back-pocket book of movie-industry-related anecdotes. Title page states that the author, J.J. (John James) White, is also the author of "Funabout Fords, etc." Brown cloth with blue image of Charlie Chaplin on the silver screen..... More
London. Printed for W. Printed for W.Dickenson in Witch-Street, 1733. Pamphlet. Folio pamphlet, 12 3/4 in x 8 1/4 in. Disbound. pp. [2], 8, 13-18. Missing pp. 9-12. Top right corner bumped. Small tear to rear fore edge of rear leaf. Crease to bottom left corner of pp. 13-16. Pages..... More