Titles starting with 1 from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

$125.00. ?Charlottesville: s.n., 1861. . 8vo, single fold AMERICANA ... more information

$350. London: The School, 1914. . 4to (9 x 6 7/8 inches) teal 3/4 leather, marbled boards; t.e.g.; the very slightest wear on front bottom outer corner. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. BINDERÕS TICKET ... more information

$100.00. London: James Nisbet and Co., 1861. . 8vo, green, stamped cloth, resembling straight-grain morocco, gilt; inner hinges cracked; some abrasion to head and tail of spine, corners bumped NATURAL HISTORY ... more information

$75.00. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1942. . 8vo, bright apple-green cloth; dust jacket with minor loss over corners POETRY ... more information

$750.00. Winchester: For the author, by J. Foster, 1814. . 12mo in half-sheets, orignal calf, worn; lacking free endpapers; some dampstaining and foxing to text, latter due to poor quality of the American paper used; two late 19th century bookplates on front pastedown, small paperrepair to bottom outer corner of title VIRGINIANA ... more information

$200.00. Wrightsville, Pa.: The Ladies, 1883. . 12mo, dark brown cloth, worn, and spotted; pages age-browned and stained, very well-used and loved volume; closed tears, mostly in margins, some chipping COOKBOOKS ... more information

125. New York: Privately Printed, Press of the Woolly Whale, 1937. . 8vo, stiff black card stock with blind embossed title at top left; stitched with white cotton string. MINT condition PRESS BOOKS ... more information

$450.00. S.l.: S.n., . . Oblong 8vo, marbled boards, new red leather spine RAILROADS ... more information

$425.00. Various Places: Various Publishers, . . 8vo, mid-19th century marbled boards, blue leather spine and tips, expertly rebacked AMERICAN LITERATURE ... more information

$75.00. Washington: U.S. Government, 1850. . 8vo, in an orange library pamphlet folder (no shelf-marks) RAILROADS ... more information

$150.00. Fredonia, N.Y.: The Company, 1889. . Tall 8vo, pale green printed wrapper with most attractive aesthetic period design on front cover by wood-engraving firm of W. C. Scranton, N.Y. and bunch of grapes on back wrapper TRADE CATALOGUE ... more information

$225.00. Graecii [Graz]: : Apud Haeredes Widmanstadii, 1712. . 24mo in half-sheets, full contemporary calf; spine tooled with 3 raised diamonds on three leafed panels RELIGION ... more information

$150.00. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society, 1947. . Folio, full red leather, Virginia arms in gilt on the front cover and seal on the back; spine gilt; some wear to edges VIRGINIANA ... more information

$125.00. Fredonia, N.Y.: The Company, 1884. . 8vo, original pale green wrappers with an attractive woodcut front cover of bunch of grapes arranged in aesthetic period design. by New York engravers W. C. Scranton, and on back cover, excellent rendition of Moore's Early, bunch of grapes. TRADE CATALOGUE ... more information

$150.00. Kansas, Mo.: [The Company]; Published for Van Noy-Interstate Co. by the Ambertype Co., Brooklyn., N.Y., . . Oblong small folio (8 1/4 x 10 inches) cream stiff wrappers, front printed and pictorial; three-hole punched, secured with brown silk rope RAILROADS ... more information

$300.00. Paris: Chez FroullŽ, 1785. . 12mo, full mottled calf, worn, both outer hinges cracked, but holding and firm, small section missing at head and tail of spine; bookplate on front pastedown together with cancelled University of Virginia plate; rubberstamps on title MAPS ... more information

$150.00. Norristown, Pa.: David Sower, Jr., 1831. . 8vo, marbled paper-covered boards, very worn; vellum spine; foxed throughout with some dampstaining AMERICANA ... more information

1,500.00. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Son, Portugal Street, LincolnÕs-Inn, 1799. . 8vo, full contemporary calf, front hinge expertly strengthened; red leather spine label; armorial bookplate of Cadwallader D. Colden on front pastedown; some waterstaining to the first few and last few gatherings LAW ... more information

$150.00. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. . 8vo, printed pink wrappers, front inner top corner chipped, minor chipping on spine and front edge if wrapper LAW ... more information

$100.00. New York: The Society, 1891. . Large 8vo, pale-green wrappers, soiled and with several chips out of front BOOK COLLECTING ... more information