New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. Original boards. 8vo. 318 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Dark blue cloth with gilt illustration and lettering; original illustrated dustjacket. Previious owner name; minor wear to extremities, a near fine copy in very good dustjacket. Lindbergh's autobiography published only two months after his solo flight across... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. First Nonesuch Edition. Original cloth. Limited to 877 sets, complete with the original steel plate engraved by H. K. Browne ('Phiz') titled "The Eyes of Mrs. Chick are Opened to Lucretia Tox" used in 'Dombey & Son' (includes a pull taken from plate with letter... More
Madrid: Instituto Egipcio de Estudios Islamicos en Madrid, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 176, [6]pp. Near Fine copy. In Spanish. More
Ney York: Random House Inc, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To ***, Best Wishes/Jimmy Stewart." Small 8vo. 31pp. Illustrations. Fine in Fine dust jacket. James Maitland Stewart (1908 – 1997) was an American actor and military officer who is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. He... More
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 546[p + 3-page table of contents and 7 color plates. Text in French. Bibliography; Index. Illustrations. Stiff color illustrated wrappers in fine condition; as new. "Anne Piejus was awarded the 2015 Alfred Verdaguer Prize for Music and Devotion in Rome at the end... 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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. First Edition. Original cloth. 12mo. 216 + 16pp advertisments. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine; A very good copy (hinge cracked at pg. 14/5 and holding; fading to covers; wear to extremities; previous owner name in pencil). BAL 17373 notes two printings... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, (1945). First Edition. Original cloth. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 282pp. Brown cloth with light blue lettering. Light wear to extremities; a near fine copy. Guy Endore has written a psychological novel about "...a lost soul, a woman bedevilled by her other, evil, self."... More
New York: American Artists Group, 1947. First Edition. Original boards. INSCRIBED "An advance Merry Christmas/To W. B. Thorsen/from/Rockwell Kent/1963". Thorsen was the editor and publisher of 'The American Book Collector.' Additional author inscription on 2nd last page "The printer, not I, made her cross-eyed/R.K.." Small 8vo. [28] pp. Covers and..... More
Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; 391pp. Index. Cream wrappers with color illustration to front cover. A Fine copy. This work, the result of an international symposium held in Dijon in March 2012, reflects on the theme of the native region among the writers of the Renaissance, whether... 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
New York: William Morrow, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 412 pp. Black cloth spine over black paper covered boards in illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (light fading to board edges) in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). "According to Edward Abbey, the book is Pirsig's fictionalized autobiography of... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-65. First Edition in book form. Leather bound. 8vo. (iii-viii), 320; (iii-viii), 320 pp. Complete in 40 black & white etched & wood-engraved & plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume); by H.K. Browne ( Phiz ) and Miss Taylor. Lacking half-titles in each... More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Fiore, Peter. Hardcover. 8vo. 472pp. Black & white illustrations. Blue leather covered boards; gilt illustrations to boards and spine; raised bands and gilt titles to the spine; all edges gilt; red textured end papers; original ribbon; editors' note laid in. All edges neat... More
London: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First edition, Limited to 275 copies. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. ix, 489pp. Quarter grey cloth under blue paper covered boards; original dust jacket. Book in near fine condition (original extra paper titles label in rear; many pages uncut); dust jacket in very good... More