New York: William Morrow, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 250pp. INSCRIBED by the author. Black cloth spine over blue paper boards in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket (faint wear to upper edge & spine). Next day shipping. Celebrating our 15th year - all domestic orders ship with..... More
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d., [ca. 1890s]. First Edition. Miniature. 3 3/4 x 3 1/4". [10] pp. 5 full-page chromolithographs. Illustrations by T. R. Kennedy, etc. Designed at the Studios in England and printed by the "Rafolith" Process at the Fine Art Works in Saxony. Color..... More
Pomfret, CT: Privately Printed by the "Anonymous Committee" 1927. 1st. Hardcover. First edition; limited to 100 copies. 12m o. 41pp. Quarter black cloth under brown paper covered boards; black title to front board. All edges neat and clean; minor wear to spine ends; with notations speculating about authors' identities; near..... More
Pomfret, CT: Privately Printed by the "Anonymous Committee" 1927. 1st. Hardcover. First edition; limited to 100 copies. 12mo. 41pp. Quarter black cloth under brown paper covered boards; black title to front board. 3 handwritten notes identifying some of the poets laid in. All edges neat and clean; minor wear to..... More
New York: John Lane Company, 1913. Will Crawford. First Edition thus. 12mo; 80p; frontis and 2 other illustrations by Will Crawford. Both books are bound in red cloth titled in gold with green leaf motif and are in Very Good condition. The dummy includes the 3 illustrations and 16pp of..... More
Seattle: The Alice Harriman Co, 1909. B.C. Bubb. First Edition. INSCRIBED on ffep 'May some song 'o/mine linger in your/heart,/Alice Harriman' . Slim quarto; 70pp. Illustrated with 17 half-tones and drawings by B.C. Bubb. A Near Fine copy in publisher's 3/4 red cloth and paper-covered boards titled in gold and..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 475 copies. 8vo. 106pp. Introductions by James d. Hart. Each of the introductions is printed on one of several colors, and contains a portrait drawing of the author. Tipped on facsimiles of representative pages from the original publications..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922. Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo. 51pp. Illustrations by J. Montgomery Flagg. Blue illustrated cloth win pictorial dustjacket. SIGNED by the author on ffep. The actor's pony shares his story of life before the camera. More
San Francisco: Bray & Beran, 1930. Edgar Vaughn Simpson. First Edition thus. Octavo; [10]pp. Printed in orange and black on one side, on 7 unnumbered double leaves (Chinese style) with Chinese characters on margins of pages and on cover. A Near Fine copy in printed orange and gold wrappers, string-tied..... More
San Francisco: Alta California Book and Job Office, 1864. First Edition. 8vo. 31pp. Includes a poem by Bret Harte and an oration by Rev. Henry W. Bellows. Original printed wrappers in quarter orange leather slipcase. Very good condition (lower front hinge starting to separate; chipping to spine head; light soiling;..... More
Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. 1st. Hardcover /. Quarto; xviii, 772 pages. New and unread. More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Hearfelt, full-page inscription by the author. 8vo. 272 pp. Illustrated by Loren Barton. Near fine in publisher's illustrated dustjacket (wear to spine ends; light fading to spine). A fictionalized biography of Jack Jouett's remarkable ride to save Thomas Jefferson, Patrick..... More
Boston: james R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 1st. 12mo. 23pp. Woodcut illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Maroon leather with 5 raised bands & gilt lettering to spine; TEG; marbled endpapers; original yellow wrappers in fine condition, preserved. Slight spine fading, small decorative gilt-illustrated leather bookplate else fine. Author's first book..... More
Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1844. Second Edition. 12mo; xii, 343pp. A Good copy in 3/4 calf and paper-covered 'tree calf' boards, spine with elaborate design and title lettered in gold. Extremities well-worn, cardboard showing at corners, pencil notes to rear pastedown; 'Edmund Seckt/1848' to ffep. With twelve page foreword by..... More
London: David Nutt, 1895. First Edition Thus. 8vo. xxix, (3), 290, (1) pp. Chapter initials. Englished by Thomas Underdowne, anno 1587. With an Introduction by Charles Whibley. Three-quarter black leather with gilt ruling, decoration & lettering; TEG; marbled endpapers. A fine copy (spine lightly faded). Volume V of the Tudor..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Henderson in year of publication. 8vo. 128 pp. A fine copy in fine lightly toned dustjacket. The poet's first book, "De Mayor of Harlem" covers seven years of poems, documentaries, tales, and lies. Born in 1942 in Harlem, Henderson's first..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo; xii, 313pp. Bibliography; Index. Library markings, otherwise A Fine, unread copy. "While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as..... More
Berlin: Verlage der Insel bei Schuster & Loeffler, 1899. First Edition. 12mo; 960, 94pp in somewhat soiled 1/4 vellum ('Heymel' written to spine) and Art Nouveau-inspired paper-covered boards in black and brown with matching endpapers; a Very Good copy. with all edges gilt. Decorations by E. R. Weiss. Lacks cardboard..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. 1st. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 592pp. Red cloth in color printed dustjacket. The dramatic story of a man sentenced to two years of passionate life in the Sahara Desert. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2019. First Edition, Limited Copy "E" of the hors de commerce edition, comprising 20 copies lettered A to T. SIGNED by Peter Hiller, Gail Jones, and Norman Clayton Large 4to. 192 pp. Color and black & white photographic illustrations. Edited by Gail Jones; Afterword..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey History and Art Association; The Jo Mora Trust; Carpe Diem Fine Books, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. First Edition, limited to 400 copies. Quarto; 44pp, stapled wraps. Photograph on front cover of Mora on board the cruise ship 'Silverwillow' at his typewriter. Staplebound wrappers in fine condition, as..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891-1908. Leather bound. The Riverside Edition, complete in 14 volumes. 8vo. Various paginations. Engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards in 4 volumes. Dark Blue three-quarter morocco over blue cloth boards; gilt lettering to spines; marbled endpapers; TEG. Engraved previous owner bookplates in each volume else a...... More
London and New York: Cassell, Petter, and Gaplin, n.d. 1st. Hardcover. Series 1 & 2 bound as one volume. 4to. viii, 416pp; vi, 384pp. Many black & white illustrations. Three-quarter brown leather and black pebbled cloth; gilt ruling; 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. A very good plus..... More
Louisiana: Triumph Over Tragedy Steering Committee, [2009]. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies, Original cloth. SIGNED by the author. Designed and handmade by Adrienne Hooker, Assistant Professor of Art, Louisiana Tech University and several of her students. The selected visuals for this graphic novel were done by students of various..... More
Boston: Hale, Cushman And Flint, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 275 pp. Index. Witha Proem by R. B. Cunninghaeme Graham. Illustrations. Vellum boards; TEG; pages unopened; marbled endpapers in brown dustjacket with green illustration & lettering. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light wear to extremities & darkening to..... More