Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926. First Edition. SIGNED on a decorative presentation bookplate affixed to the front pastedown (no recipient name). Brown cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's brown and black illustrated dustjacket. Some darkening from binder's adhesive inside covers, else a fine copy in unusually fine dustjacket (2 tiny splits at..... More
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1900. Ninth Edition. INSCRIBED "Miss Stebbins/with the kindest regards of/John Bartlett/Sept 29, 1900." Thick 8vo. xv, 1158 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Stamp of Lucy Ward Stebbins on ffep; Miss Stebbins was the..... More
New York: Intercultural Publications, 1952 - 1955. First Edition. Volume 12 was published in London. Cover illustrations by Alvin Lustig. Previous owner name & stamp in two issues. Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; light general wear). Perspectives U.S.A. was a magazine of art and..... More
London: Cassell and Company, ca. 1891. Early reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 340 pp. 4 plates. 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards; 5 raised bands, gilt ruling & lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. A near fine copy (minor foxing). The author (1858 - 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist who became one..... More
London: Privately Printed, 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition #219 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Small 8vo. 25 pp. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board; TEG. Decorative bookplate of Paul Heymann. A very good copy (darkening to spine, less so to covers). A previous owner..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This, my second attempt at novel writing, was done in a great hurry and doubtless shows it but in it is a character like Cherry Malotte, who persisted in being written over again in "The Winds of Chance." Rex Beach' 8vo..... More
Whitewater WI: Wonderside Productions, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Oblong quarto. More
New York: W. J. Watt and Company, 1909. 1st. Cloth. 8vo. 317pp. Color frontispiece with tissue guard by Howard Chandler Christy; 2 black & white illustrations by Bert Knight. Original brown cloth with color portrait pastedown, gilt decoration and white lettering. More
San Francisco: Privately Printed for Edgar Newton Kierulff, 1966. Limited Edition No. 7 of 50 copies. Paperback. Not for Sale. For Private Distribution Only. Small 8vo. [15] pp text. INSCRIBED "To David and Dorothy/Magee, with my/affectionate regards/Edgar N. K./ April 25th 1966." Printed and bound by The Mercury Press. Cream..... More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 123 pp. INSCRIBED by Humphries on ffep. Red paper boards in red & white dustjacket, black lettering. Near fine in very good dustjacket (sunning to spine; wear to extremities; some watermarks). Adaptations by Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon, Genevieve..... More
New York: Farar, Straus, & Giroux, 1942. 1st. Boards. Octavo. ((xiv) 487pp; 483pp. Bound 3/4 red leather, boards single-ruled in gilt, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, t.e.g. Includes Benet's narrative poem of the American Civil War, "John Brown's Body", published in 1928 for which he won a Pulitzer Prize..... More
Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961. 1st. Original wrappers. 8vo. 40 pp. stiff yellow wrappers with brown lettering. Uneven darkening to covers; a near fine copy of the author's scarce first book. Number 2 in 'The New Frontier Series in American Literature.' George Harold "Hal" Bennett (1936 – 2004) also wrote under..... More
New York: Viking, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 472pp. Photo-illustrations. INSCRIBED by the author. Black cloth spine & cream paper covered boards in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Biography of Stegner, arguably the greatest contemporary writer of the American West, author of more than two dozen works including..... More
Atlanta: Banner Press, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Warm, lengthy inscription, including a brief poem, to Mrs. Phillip M. Stone (to whom 'Pictures in Words' on page 23 is dedicated). 12mo; 28pp. Near Fine copy (offsetting to ffep from several newspaper articles on author) in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold..... More
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; vii, 349pp; First Edition. Library markings, but unused and otherwise a Fine copy. More
Blida: Editions du Tell, 2004. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 556 pages. More
Bologna: Cisalpino, 2000. 1st. Softcover. Octavo, 591 pages. More
Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Company, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 332pp. Red cloth in illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (price-clipped; small piece missing at center of rear cover; minor wear to extremities). The author's first published book. "A story of unrequited love, of searing, terrible passions which..... More
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, [ca. 1887]. Hardcover. 12mo. 353pp. Red cloth with ornate black decoration and lettering; gilt spine label. More
Milan: Cisalpino, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; xxiii, 620 pages. near Fine, unread copy. Volume 81 of Quaderni di Acme. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. First Edition. Small octavo; 300pp. A Very Good copy (light rubbing and extremity wear) in pale green cloth (not noted by BA 1109); front and spine panels stamped in gold. Binding variant A (no priority). More
England: Holland Studio Craft, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 167pp. Color illustrations by the author/artist. SIGNED. Maroon cloth in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
England: Holland Studio Craft, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 200pp. Color illustrations by the author/artist. SIGNED. Brown boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Octavo;x, 246 pages. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1938. Reprint. Original wrappers. Octavo; 18 pages Staplebound wraps, ex-libris Middle Eastern historian J. Heywourth-Dunne with his label (and small bookseller's label) to front cover. A very good copy. Reprint from: Revue des études sémitiques. More