The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles; Translated by Isabel Quigly
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First English Language Edition. Cloth. 12mo. 143 pp. Price-clipped, small tear at bottom right of dw. More
Literary Works
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Howdy Honey Howdy
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905, October. Leigh Richmond MINER, photographic illustrations and Will JENKINS, decorations. Cloth. Reprint. Publication date pf August 1905 on p125. 8vo; [125pp]; gilt stamped title and author on tan cloth over board, color stamped cottage with onlay photographic illustration of a woman in a.... More
Selected Poems
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1931, February. Cloth. SIGNED. 8vo; 213pp; quarter bound in green cloth with gilt stamped spine, paper over board with gilt stamped facsimile signature to lower front cover; green top edge; owner’s signature to free front endpaper; SIGNED by author, “Robert Frost/Boston/1932” in blue ink... More
The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, With a Message from Her Majesty the Queen, and Contributions by Fifty British Authors and Artists, in Aid of the Lord Mayor of London’s Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
No place listed [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939, November. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 4to; 255pp; red stamped light blue buckram with title on front cover in a cartouche over which is a crown and a red cross below, title and publisher on spine; 12 full page illustrations in color... More
Aria Da Capo (A Play in One Act), The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany), No. 14, August 1920
[London]: [Harold Munro], 1920, August. [Albert RUTHERSTON, wrapper design]. Wraps. First edition thus. Square 8vo; ii, 24, ii; color printed paper wrappers; yapped edges; first and last leaf pale green paper; 6pp advertisements; production notice on verso title page; lower edge untrimmed; yapped edges chipped and small tears, light stain... More
A Few Figs From Thistles
New York: SALVO: Frank Shay, 1921. Second Edition. Wraps. Second edition (first edition issued in 1920). 8vo; 16pp; green printed wrappers; advertisements for other Shay publications to inside front wrapper, back wrapper includes a cartoon by Sinclair Lewis of himself at Frank Shay’s dated January 8, 1921; light age toning... More
The Lamp and The Bell, A Drama in Five Acts
New York: Frank Shay, 1921. First Edition. Wraps. First edition, first issue. 8vo; 71pp; green paper wrapper with printed title, author and publisher on front cover; title and author in black to spine; wrapper overlaps pages; 2 bookplates to inside front wrapper for William H. Weikel and a Miguel Covarrubias... More
The Princess Marries the Page, A Play in One Act
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. J. PAGET-FREDERICKS. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. First edition. 8vo; xii [2], 51pp, quarter-bound yellow cloth with dark green boards; bookseller’s label to front pastedown; fore edges and bottom rough trimmed; light soiling to spine, small dent to upper edge front cover, light age toning... More
The Beggar at the Gate
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 99pp; black glazed cloth boards with silver stamped gate to front cover and title, author and publisher to spine; unclipped dust jacket with author’s photograph on front flap; age toning of paper, light scuff to head of spine;... More
Animal Farm
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. First American edition. 12mo; 118pp; black cloth over board with title stamped on spine; gift inscription in ink to free front endpaper; lacking dust jacket, gilt on spine faded, light shelf wear to bottom edge; very good. More
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
Kansas City: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1967. Cloth. Hallmark Edition. 12mo; 61 [1]; illustrated brown cloth over board with title in a cartouche on the cover, title to spine; unclipped photograph illustrated dust jacket, photo of Boris Pasternack to back jacket; illustrated endpapers; brown and white illustrations throughout; small ink gift... More
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1939. Harry Clarke. Reprint. Cloth. Reprint. 4to; 412 [2]pp; gilt stamped spine on black cloth over board, decorative label to front cover with title and an illustration for Morella; black endpapers; black page tops; untrimmed fore edge; 44 black and white full-page illustrations and 8... More
Flowers from Field and Woodland
New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1888. Susie Barstow SKELDING. First Edition. cloth. 8vo; [1-9] 10-128pp; decoratively stamped cloth over board with gilt, black and blue color, gilt stamped title to spine; all edges gilt; decorative floral endpapers; 12 full page illustrations of flowers with tissue guards, including frontispiece;... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with LIfe
New York: Hurst & Co., No date [c. 1880s]. Later printing. Reprint. 12mo; viii, 536pp; gilt stamped and decorated mustard cloth with “Scott” on the front cover and spine; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard plus 4 additional illustrations; decorative red border to pages; bumping... More
The Lady of the Lake, A Poem, The Eighth Edition
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co. and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and W. Miller, London, 1910. Leather bound. 8vo; [viii] [1-3] 4-433pp; gilt stamped border on smooth brown calf, gilt stamped spine with title; ownership in ink on title page; rubbing to cover, sunning to spine, wear to head... More
Spruce Head, Selections from the poetry of Wilbert Snow
Rockland, Maine: Seth Low Press, 1959. cloth. 8vo; 100pp; gilt stamped title and author to spine on pale green cloth over board; ownership in pencil to free front endpaper; heavy textured pages; unclipped dust jacket with photographic illustration of author on front and short bio on the rear; light sunning... More
The Inner Harbor, More Maine Coast
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
Maine Coast
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 114pp; black textured cloth over board with gilt stamped title and author to cover and spine; untrimmed fore edge and bottoms; light creasing of some pages, light age toning of pages, light sunning of spine and loss... More
An Attic Philosopher in Paris, or A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal of a Happy Man
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
Persistent Faces
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
The Song of the Brook
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881. A.F. Bellows, J. D. Woodward, Miss L.B. Humphrey, F.B. Schell. Cloth. 8vo; [40pp]; gilt stamped title and author to stamped green cloth over board, intricate stamped design in black and red with gilt bird; decorative endpapers; all edges gilt; printed recto only; illustrated with engravings; scuffing... More
My Life and Hard Times & Other Observations
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
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