Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1914. Hardbound. Octavo, 19 pp + 4pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX ' ... Discorso del Ministro della Pubblica Istruzione Benedetto Croce Letto nella Sala Dante di Ravenna'b. More
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1945. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo. 219 pages. Dark blue boards in decorative dust jacket. The author's first novel provides an "orignal approach to the immemorial theme of love between white and Negro, and touches upon the special fears and prejudices by which the race problem may be..... More
San Anselmo, CA: Feathered Serpent Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Limited #104 of 275 copies. Miniature (2 3/8" x 1 3/4"). (26)pp. Hand-colored illustrations. Blue marbled papered boards; printed title label. Designed and printed by Susan Acker and SIGNED (initials) by her at the colophon. The first miniature..... More
New York: William Morrow, 1942. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 306 pages. Collectible copy, warmly INSCRIBED "6 August 1942/as exemplified/by Lt. J. G. Harrington,/whom the author was privileged/to have known at the Acadamy./R.W. Daly/New London, Conn." Near fine in dust jacket (mild edgewear and rubbing, small chip missing top, rear jacket spine)..... More
New York: Little Brown and Company, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. A personal & heartfelt authorial INSCRIPTION to former Stanford University President Wallace Sterling. 8vo. 178 pp. Light brown paper boards in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Darby, award winning Hollywood musical director and composer-lyricist, was one of Wolfe's..... More
Pebble Beach: The author, 1992. 1st. Single typed sheet of ~ 150 words. Addressed to a local bookseller, Ms. Davenport with much good humor asks how she can 'get rid of' 'a mass of back copies of GOURMET magazine...' and 'an equal mass of back numbers of CATS magazine-- somebody..... More
Westfield NJ: Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, 1992. 1st. Softcover. Quarto; 22 pages; Staplebound Wraps. Pamphlet #23. More
Prague: Trigon, 2007. 1st. Hardcover. 12mo; 168 pages. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Early reprint. Hardcover. INSCRIBED to the Ansel Adams family "Especially for/the Adams Family/with my war/greeting/Marguerite de Angeli/1950." Additionally signed by Ansel's daughter, Anne. 8vo. 111, (1) pp. 3 color plates; black & white illustrations. Green lcoth with silver lettering in color illustrated dustjacket..... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926. Limited Edition #976 of 3000 copies. 8vo. xx, 218, [6] pp. Introduction by Andre Maurois. 16 color Pochoir plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard); 8 black & white plates by Jean de Bosschere. Beautifully bound by Bayntun in red morocco with gilt ruling..... More
Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. 1-491; 494-959pp. Most articles in English; some in Russian. Grey printed wraps. Light water spotting on upper page edges else fine condition. An extensive work to honour Weststeijn upon his retirement as Professor of Slavic Literature at the University of Amsterdam. Contributors representing..... More
London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd., N.d. (c. 1928). Duodecimo. 4pp (unpaginated). 2 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Original yellow wraps with black woodcut engraving and lettering to front cover; three hole stabbing with string tie. Printed at The Curwen Press. SIGNED by Vincent Starrett, noted author, book collector, bibliographer and..... More
Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 596 pages. Near Fine copy - unread. Text in French. More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906. 1st. Small 12 mo. 33 pp. Printed on Van Gelder paper in old-style roman type, enclosed in rules, after an approved Chiswick format. Gilt decorated green wrappers, publisher's titled acetate dustjacket, housed in publishers titled green slipcase. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket..... More
Paris: Nelson, 1937. 1st. Hardcover. The personal copy of historian Gordon A. Criag, with his signature to ffep. First edition thus. 12mo. 281pp. Beige cloth covered boards; green and purple illustrations and titles to front board and spine; original color illustrated dust jacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (minor..... More
Paris: Honore Champion, 2003. 1st. Hard Cover. Octavo; 477 pages. More
Leipzig: Drugulin, 1909. No. 454 of an Edition Limited to 600 Examples. Complete in two volumes. Octavo; 442, 443pp; frontispieces, titles in red and black, folded plate of the island, including epilogue edited by Hermann Ullrich. A Near Fine copy in 1/2 vellum and patterned paper-covered boards with title to..... More
Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1914. Hardbound. Octavo, 42 pages. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX. More
Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, 1921. Hardbound. Octavo, 34pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Bears bookplate 'The Italian Book Exhibition San Francisco CA MCMXXIX' ' ... come Presidente della Societa Dantesca Italiana, nella Sala di Dante in Orsanmichele pel Secentenario del 1921- Ripetuto a Pisa, a Pistoia, a Venezia, a Bologna, a...... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. First U. S. Edition. 8vo. 268 pp. Green paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. The life of Breaker Morant - poet, horseman, mercenary...murderer? Denton's novel covers the entire range of Breaker's career stretching across three continents..... More
Np: Jake Books, 2009. 1st. Paperback. 12mo, 48 pages. More
Montreal: Editions Ceres, 1988. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 195 pages. Inedita & Rara 3. More
Calexico CA: San Diego State University, 1989. 1st. Paperback. Octavo; 144 pages. 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: 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