[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2006-2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 314; 403, [3pp advertisements] pp. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition, as new copies of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition in the Classic Science Fiction series by Leonaur. The Venus series, describing the adventures of scientist/adventurer Carson Napier... More about Carson of Venus (Complete in 2 volumes
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1946. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 439 pp. Tan cloth with blue & gilt lettering & decoration in publisher's color illustrated dustjacket. Wear to extremities; some age toning; previous owner name in pencil; else a near fine copy. "This is the first novel... More about B.F.'s Daughter: A Novel (SIGNED
London: Presso H. Berthoud, 1818. Nuova Edition. 12mo. iv, [1], 188 pp. Three quarter maroon leather over marbled paper covered boards. Minor wear to extremities; previous owner bookplate for William Mode Spackman, American author, & name; light foxing to endpapers; pencil notation on pg. 64; else a near fine copy... More about Ultime Lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920. Original cloth. 12mo. 166pp; (2pp Publisher's Advertisements). 4 color plates (including frontispiece titled "Marley's Ghost") and 4 wood-engraved plates by John Leetch. Blindstamped maroon cloth with gilt illustration and lettering; green endpapers; AEG. Minor wear to extremities; fading to spine; else a near fine... More about A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2006-2007. First Edition Thus. Complete in 4 volumes of 7 novels. 8vo. Various paginations. Blue cloth in color printed dustjackets. The set is in fine condition, as new copies of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition in the Classic Science Fiction series by Leonaur. Pellucidar is... More about Pellucidar: The Inner World (Complete in 4 volumes
[UK]: Leonaur Ltd., 2007. First Edition Thus. 8vo. 335 pp. Blue cloth in color printed dustjacket. Fine condition, an as new copy of the surprisingly hard to find hardcover edition in the Classic Science Fiction series by Leonaur. "Perhaps the most imaginative of the 'Planet' series - the entire 'Moon'... More about The Complete Moon Trilogy
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 about Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in...
London: John Cassell, 1852. First British Edition with George Cruikshank illustrations in book form. 8vo. [i-v] vi-xxiii [xxiv] [1] 2-391 [392] pp. 29 black & white wood engravings (including frontispiece and title page with black & white wood engraving captioned "Eva and Topsy") by George Cruikshank. Also includes an extra... More about Uncle Tom's Cabin (Extra Illustrated
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Dear Charlie - with affectionate warm wishes/this new book of mine/Alec Waugh." 8vo. 342 pp. Green cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (small chip to lower front edge; minor wear to extremities; light fading to spine)... More about That American Woman (INSCRIBED
London: Jones and Co., 1822. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. 8vo. 522 pp. Hand-colored engraved additional pictorial title and 6 hand-colored plates after W. Heath. Bound by Worsfold of London in full tan calf with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to spine; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; AEG. A near fine... More about Evelina, or Female Life in London; The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to Fashionable...
london: Jonathan Cape, 1951. First British Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 494 pp. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities, more so to spine ends). The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel depicting the events on board a fictitious World War II U.S. Navy minesweeper and a subsequent court-martial for mutiny. The book... More about The Caine Mutiny
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1930. First Edition Thus, Limited to 1000 copies. Small 8vo. 495 pp. Designed and illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins. Black cloth spine over decorative paper covered boards, housed in publisher's slipcase. Near fine in somewhat faded and worn publisher's slipcase. Includes some of Poe's most beloved tales -... More about Tales
[Princeton]: [University Press], [1951]. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies of which this is Number 68. Small 8vo. [28] pp. Frontispiece portrait chosen by Abeel's widow as his most characteristic likeness is after a painting by Edward Steese in 1925, who also selected and edited these poems with the help... More about Poems (with SIGNED original photograph of Abeel
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 225 pp. White cloth with black lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (age toning; light wear to extremities; darkening to spine). The author's first novel "... is a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book;... More about Wolf: A False Memoir
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. 8vo. 154, [1] pp. Cream cloth with red lettering to spine in color illustrated dustjacket designed by Warren Chappell. A fine copy in good only dustjacket (front flap separated but present; wear, chips and short closed tears; some loss to spine... More about The Stranger
New York: Stage Publishing Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. 4to. 4to. 132, [2] pp. Illustrations (some in color). The personal copy of Beatrice Mathieu with her custom bookplate; TLS to Miss Beatrice Mathieu from the editor tipped in. Special publsher's binding of padded pale green moire cloth with gilt illustration... More about Stage: 1911 Number, August 1936
Oakland, CA: Published by the author, 1905. First Edition. Original wrappers. INSCRIBED "For Miss Lyke / May Gibbons Cooper). Small 8vo. 50 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including 4 original photographs with location written in pencil, most likely by the author). 11 poems. Handmade paper. Stiff green ribbon tied wrappers; color... More about The Wind of the West Sea and Other Songs (INSCRIBED
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 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 certain kinds of steadfastness and fidelity... More about Crossing to Safety
New York: Random House Inc, 1987. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To ----/gratefully/Wallace 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 certain kinds of... More about Crossing to Safety (INSCRIBED
New York: New Directions, 1945. First American Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. 292 pp. Photo-illustrated plates. Tan cloth with blue & brown lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A near fine copy (minor wear to extremities with chipping to spine ends). A memoir written by the author about his year-long road trip... More about The Air-Conditioned Nightmare: Volume One
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 about The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes (14 volumes
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 182 pp. 6 illustrated plates (including frontispiece); Pronunciation of Proper Names. Publisher's review slip affixed inside front cover. Green pictorial covers in near fine condition (minor wear to extremities; slight darkening to spine). Here are 15 stories detailing "...dramatic... More about Heroic Deeds of American Sailors