Cleveland: Thompson Products, Inc., 1935. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Wilbur Cotton/My very best wishes/Peter DePaolo/March 17, 1939." Small 8vo. 271 pp. black & white photo-reproductions. Orange cloth with black lettering. Front hinge cracked; some fading to spine; mild lean to spine; business stamp for Hastings on ffep; else a very..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch Edition #869 of 877. Original cloth. Limited to 877 sets, complete with the original woodcut entitled "On Dangerous Ground" engraved after Luke Fildes (includes a pull taken from the woodcut with letter of authenticity signed by Arthur Waugh); and Nonesuch Dickensiana: Retrospectus and..... More
Kansas City MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005. First Edition. 4to. 491; 479; 481 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Brown cloth spines over orange boards; each volume has a color illustration on front covers; gilt lettering on spines; housed in publisher's slipcase. A fine set in slipcse with a...... More
Boise, ID: LithoCraft, Inc., 1995. First Edition. SIGNED and dated by Francis Whitaker. 4to. 122 pp. Black & white photo-reproductions. Two articles about Whitaker are laid in. Black leather with gold lettering. A fine copy. The autobiography of one of the United States' leading artist blacksmiths. Francis Whitaker (1906 –..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966. First Edition thus. Octavo; xxxi, 506pp. A Fine copy in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gold at spinel dust jacket toned with a few edge tears & tiny chips, but complete. A compilation of the history of Islamic authors and writings, A Literary History of..... 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
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 8vo. ix, 381 pp. 8 photographic plates. Beige cloth with green lettering & ruling in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. Light wear to extremities else a fine copy. "Earth Horizon" is both an account of Mary Austin's personal life and of her development as a writer. As..... More
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. INSCRIBED "To ----/with every good wishWallace Stegner. 8vo. 277 pp. Fine in fine dustjacket. A story by one of the grand masters of American fiction about "... the pleasures and perils and occasional penalties of closeness, about love and loyalty, about..... More
Shelburne, Ontario & Sauk City, WI: George A. Vanderburgh, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2002. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To ***, from a couple of ardent fans! Buzz Rainer/Eldon Dedini." Below the signatures is an 8-line prose written most likely by Buzz Ranier. 4to. (52) pp, unpaginated, printed single sided. Introduction..... More
Concord, N.H. Rufus Merrill, ca. 1840s. 12mo. 16 pp. 8 woodcuts (including front cover). Title page stating "Part III. Stories About Dogs," with no imprint statement. Advertising for Rufus Merrill Toy and Juvenile Books on rear cover.Printed tan wrappers, stab-stitched. Light wear else a fine copy. Sections titled: The Dog;..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1990. Limited Fortieth Anniversary Edition #1083 of 1500 copies. SIGNED by Asimov on the limitation page. 8vo. 223 pp. Tan cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; lacking the slipcase. Originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title "Grow Old with..... More
Warren, OH: Fantome Press, 1989. First Edition, Limited #325 of 500 copies. SIGNED by the author on front cover. Tall 12mo. 8 pp. Color blockprints by Young Sook Shin. The handsewn binding was done by Marjorie James. Tan string tied wrappers with red woodblock print & black lettering on front..... More
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First Edition. 8vo. [32] pp. Red and black Art Nouveau frontispiece, title page and borders. Publisher's wrappers with red, green, black & gilt decoration and lettering. Minor wear; a near fine and lovely copy of an uncommon volume of poetry by..... More