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Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dian Wakoski. Small 8vo. [7] pp. Color illustrated string-tied wrappers in fine condition. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dian Wakoski. Small 8vo. [7] pp. Color illustrated string-tied wrappers in fine condition. More
Chicago: Monastery Hill Press, (1940). First Edition Thus. 12mo. 148pp. Charming color illustrations by Philip Reed. Printed at the Monastery Hill Press by John B. Reed and Philip Reed. Beautifully bound in full gilt decoated red morocco with color morocco only of a dancing Mr. Fezziwig; top edge gilt; housed..... More
New York and London: George D. Sproul, 1902. 1st. Leather bound. First Edition Thus; Autograph Variorum Edition. Introduction by Percy Fitzgerald and SIGNED by him; Bibliographhical Note by F. G. Kitton and SIGNED by him; three original copper-engraved frontispieces SIGNED by the illustrator, Harry Furniss (volumes I, III, and V)..... More
London: Merrill & Baker, 1900. 8vo. Sample title page for Volume II of "David Copperfield", numerous plates (some in color) with titled tissue guards (lacking one plate) ; 8 pp text, a two-page facsimile letter from Dickens to George Cruikshank and 2 pp facsimile of the orginal manuscript for "Bleak..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1841. 1st. Hardcover. 2nd issue. 8vo. Illustrated with 14 plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz and Hamerton. Half-calf over marbled boards; gilt lettering & decoration to spines. A very good set (dampstaining to corners of several plates; darkening to plates; light wear to extremities & fading to spines)..... More
Athens OH: Ohio Univ Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xx, 256 pages. More
Boston: L. C. Page & Co., 1902. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 259pp; 11pp advertisements. 8 full-page illustrations (including frontispiece with tissue guard) by A. Van Anrooy. Blue cloth with gilt and red decoration of a knight on his horse on front cover; white lettering and decoration; top edge gilt. A group..... More
Venice, FL: Opuscula Press, 1983. First Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies. SIGNED by Maurice Dunbar and Robert Hanson, printer. Miniature book (2 7/8 x 2 1/8"). 61 pp. Frontispiece tipped-in photograph of Steinbeck and illustration of Steinbeck's signature drawing of a flying pig. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering to..... More
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1980. First Edition Thus, Limited Edition. 8vo. SIGNED by the author. Full brown leather, gilt lettering and decoration, silk moire end papers, silk ribbon, aeg. Includes 'Notes from the Editors' pamphlet. A fine copy, as new. More
Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1998. 1st. Paperback. First Edition 12mo; xiii, 274pp. Fine copy, inscribed on title page '--for the Lymans, Jing/and Dick,with a tip of/the McClanahat!!-/-with a nod to Bill Wyman!-'. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 20th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images..... More
Rochester NY: Camden House, 200. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; xii, 336 pages. Ex-library copy w/usual marking, o/w As New - unread. Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with Delivery Confirmation Tracking Number - Images available upon request. More
A Ridiculomanie, : Chez Georges l'Admirateur, rue de la Raison Perdue, à l'Enseigne de l'Antithèse, [1742]. Date on spine states "1742" and "1742" handwritten in pencil at bottom of title page. 12mo. 60 pp. Text in French. Title page printed in red and black; woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces, and initials. Early..... More
Newark, NJ: New Jersey State Normal School, 1932-1933. First Edition. Original wrappers. The issues are dated Nov. & Dec. 1932 and Jan. & April 1933. 8vo. Each issue is 16 pp. Includes business advertisements. Cover artwork by Joseph Domarecki, a student at the college. Later in his life, Domarecki was..... More
Saint Paul: Itasca Press, 1945. 1st. Hardcover. Small octavo. 338pp. Green cloth in color printed dustjacket. Early novel by Feike, who would later Americanize his name to Frederick F. Manfred; winner of the American Academy Award. A fictionalized account of Feike's time spent in a sanatorium. More
New York: Doubleday, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 429pp. Grey cloth in color printed dustjacket. Book is near fine in very good dustjacket (wear to extremities; crease lower front corner; short closed tear). The third and most dramatic volume of Feikema's trilogy, 'World's Wanderer;' he would later Americanize his name to..... More
New York: New Directions, 1968. First Clothbound Edition. 8vo. 116 pp. Index to titles and First Lines at rear. Yellow cloth with black lettering in publishers illustrated slipcase. Darkening to spine; rubbing & wear to slipcase; a very good copy. Ferlinghetti's collection of poetry, originally published in 1958, contains some..... More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1964. First Edition. 8vo. 280 pp. Photographic illustrations. The front cover depicts Ezra Pound walking in Venice in 1963. Stiff photo-illustrated softcover in fine condiition (faint rubbing; appears unread). Includes articles by Ferlinghetti, Pound and Celine, Rimbaud, Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Neal Cassady, Frank..... More
Berkeley: Printed for A.M. Bender by Wilder & Ellen Bentley, 1938. 1st. Original wraps. First Edition Thus, Limited to 150 handprinted copies for Albert M. Bender by Wilder & Ellen Bentley with Vignettes by 'Hans.' 8vo. 28pp. Illustrated wrappers, stab-stitched. Spine mostly split & held together with stab stiching; wear..... More
London & New York: George Routledge, 1884. Two hundred and fifty copies of this Edition of Henry Fielding's Novels have been printed for sale in Europe, and one hundred and fifty for sale in the United States of America; this copy being No. 102. Complete in 5 volumes. Large 8vo..... More
London: Bickers and Son, 1871. New Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece of the author in Vol. 1. Full tree calf with gilt ruling & floral corners to boards; five gilt edged raised bands to spine & gilt floral decoration within panels; spine labels in red & black with gilt lettering;..... More
Targ Editions, 1985. First Edition Limited to 250 copies hand bound at the Grenfel Press. SIGNED by the author. Tall 4to. 21 pp. Printed on all-rag Fabriano paper by Four Hands Design Studio. Hald line spine over green paper coverd boards; in publisher's glassine dustjacket. A fine copy. "There are..... More
New York: Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890. 1st. Cloth. Octavo. (vi) 298pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt. Most of these essays originally appeared as a series in the Sunday issues of the New York Times. More
New York: September 22, [1978]. 2-page ALS penned just two weeks before the successful Broadway opening of First Monday in October (Fonda's last live stage appearance). Written on letterhead from The Wyndham hotel in New York along with envelope addressed to James Stewart at his Beverly Hills, CA address. Housed..... More
New York: Harper & Row, (1976). First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 297 pp. Brown cloth spine over light brown paper covered boards; in publisher's color illustrated wraparound dustjacket. A fine copy. In Richard Ford's first novel, he tells the violent, comic, and deeply moving story of two men..... More
New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. 1st. Hardcover. First edition thus. 12mo. 340pp. Contains two novels of the peninsular campaigns. Minor wear to board edges; decorative owner bookplate else fine in very good dust jacket (corners clipped; wear to extremities; age toning to rear cover; light fading to spine)..... More