London: Wirths Brothers, No date [c.1890s]. Stiff wraps. 16mo; [16pp]; cream colored stiff wrapper, chromolithograph vignette of a church spire over a winter scene; all edges gilt; ribbon bound leaves with 3 stab holes, original publisher’s silk ribbon included but has been changed to one not frayed; stiff cream colored..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1947. Boards. 12mo; 120pp; dark red textured board, green lettering to spine; ffep corner clipped; scuffing to edges and corners, glue burn to pastedowns; unclipped dust jacket without price, small closed tears and chipping to edges, light soiling; very good in vg minus dj... More
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
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
Elliott Blaine Henderson, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. First editon. 8vo; 61pp; brown cloth over board with gilt stamped title and author; photographic illustrated frontispiece tipped in; scuffing to head and tail of spine and bumping to cover corners, light crease to frontispiece, chip to top edge title page, very good. More
London: William Heinemann, 1910 December. Arthur RACKHAM. Cloth. 8vo; xii; 62pp; green cloth over board with gilt stamped pictorial cover and spine; bookseller's label on front free endpaper; 51 tipped in plates on green stock, titled guard sheet and descriptive letterpress including frontispiece and a diptych; frontispiece then all illustrations... More
New York: Bennett Book Studios, Inc., 1929. Limited Edition. Three-quarter leather bound. Limited edition 683/750. 8vo; 114 [1]pp; three-quarter bound in navy “Turkey Morocco”, gilt-ruled marble boards, five band spine with gilt rule; matching marbled endpapers; edition page; gilt top, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom; light bump to cover corners with... More
New York: Rae D. Henkle Co. Inc., Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 12mo; viii, 182pp; orange stamped title and author on yellow board; light age-toning of paper, light darkening of boards at upper and lower edges; unclipped dark yellow dust jacket with a quote from Booth Tarkington on... More
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
London: Hodder and Stoughton, No date [c.1909]. Hugh Thomson. First Edition. Cloth. First edition thus. 8vo; xxxv, 142pp; green cloth over board with stamped gilt decoration and title to front cover, title and publisher to spine; 40 tipped in color plates with tissue guards printed with title; very light shelf... More
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
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
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
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
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