New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. First edition. 12mo; 109pp; green buckram quarter bound, green paper over boards, label to spine; untrimmed fore edge; light foxing to top and fore-edge; very good plus. Wilbert Snow was an interesting man, a Mainer born in Whitehead Island..... More
London: Charles Griffin and Company, No date [c. 1890]. 35th Edition. Full leather. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] [BINDING]. Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, printer. D. [David] Weinstein, binder. 8vo; 682pp; red pebbled leather blind-stamped boards, gilt-stamped title to 4 raised band spine; tri-color headbands; gilt edges; double vertical fore-edge painting; gilt-stamped dentelles; marbled endpapers;..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. Half Bound Leather. 12mo; 144pp; half-bound in brown calf with green marbled boards, gilt title to spine; speckled edges; lovely double-comb marbled endpapers; a light shelf wear to cover, verso of free endpapers are dark stained from the marbling process with some offsetting..... More
No place listed [New York]: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1945. William STEIG. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; [184pp]; brown glazed buckram over board with printed in orange on front cover and spine; cartooning characters printed on recto only; unclipped dust jacket; light shelf wear to head and tail of..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press by special arrangement with Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. N.C. WYETH. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; xii, 328pp; gilt stamped borders and title to black grained leather, color pictorial onlay to front; 3 raised band spine with gilt title and ornament; all..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. N.C. WYETH. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; xiv, 289pp; gilt-stamped green grained leather, color pictorial onlay to front board; gilt stamped 3 raised band spine; pale peach moiré linings; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; 14 color plates including frontispiece; 2..... More
Mt. Vernon, New York: Printed for Members of the Limited Editions Club, 1965. Lynd WARD, illustrator. G.B. STERN, introduction. Limited Edition. Cloth. SIGNED Limited Edition: 773/1500. 4to; xix, 303 [1]; black watch tartan cloth with gilt bordered spine label; 16 full-page two-color lithographic plates; signed by the illustrator with colophon..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. Fritz EICHENBERG. First Edition thus. Leather bound. First edition thus. 8vo; [xvi], 343pp; gilt stamped brown grained leather with 4 raised band spine; dark peach moiré linings; all edges gilt; silk bookmark; color illustrated author’s portrait frontispiece; b&w illustrations; small nick to gilt fore..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1980. James Thurber. Pictorial boards. 8vo; 253pp; cream cloth over board with stamped illustration to front and back covers and gilt stamped title, author and publisher to spine; colored endpapers; owner’s book plate to front pastedown; lime green slipcase; fine in very good slipcase. Classic humor..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Martin Frost. First American Edition, 3rd State. Full leather. First American edition, third state. Octavo; 366pp; dark green grained calf, gilt border, 5 raised-bands and gilt-stamped spine with 4 ornaments; all edges gilt; double fore-edge paintings; marbled endpapers; original publisher's green cloth..... More
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927. First Edition. Cloth. First edition thus. 8vo; vi [ii], 397pp; black cloth over board, color pictorial onlay to front, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; color pictorial endpapers titled “The Kremlin”; color pictorial plate for title page; 9 color illustrated plates; light shelf wear to boards;..... More
New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1982. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, first printing. 8vo; xiii [iii], 240pp; blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped facsimile signature to front, title to spine; unclipped dust jacket with a photographic illustration of Vonnegut on rear; fine in fine dj. ISBN: 0-440-01780-7... More
New York: A New Directions Book, 1950. LUSTIG [Elaine Lustig Cohen]. First Edition. Cloth. [Elaine LUSTIG Cohen], dust jacket design. First edition. 8vo; 148pp; black cloth over board, yellow design to front, title on spine; unclipped color printed dust jacket; bumping to front bottom corner, light rubbing to corners, light..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1873. Boards. 12mo; viii, [i], 10-377, [1]pp + [8pp] publisher’s ads; black stamped leafy design around a central gilt-stamped ship stern on red cloth over board; brown endpapers; color pictorial half-title plate; 4 chromolithographed plates; rubbing to corners and joints, light foxing throughout..... More