London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First English Language Edition. Cloth. 12mo. 143 pp. Price-clipped, small tear at bottom right of dw. More about The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles; Translated by Isabel Quigly
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 about Howdy Honey Howdy
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 about Selected Poems
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 about Rip Van Winkle
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 about High Spots of American Literature, A Practical Bibliography and Brief Literary Estimate of...
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 about The Queen’s Book of the Red Cross, With a Message from Her Majesty the Queen, and Contributions...
[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 about Aria Da Capo (A Play in One Act), The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany), No. 14, August 1920
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 about A Few Figs From Thistles
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 about The Lamp and The Bell, A Drama in Five Acts
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 about The Beggar at the Gate
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 about Animal Farm
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 about The Poems of Doctor Zhivago
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 about Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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 about Flowers from Field and Woodland
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 about The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, with LIfe
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 about The Lady of the Lake, A Poem, The Eighth Edition
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 about Spruce Head, Selections from the poetry of Wilbert Snow
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 about The Inner Harbor, 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 about Maine Coast
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 about An Attic Philosopher in Paris, or A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal of a...
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 about Persistent Faces
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 about My Life and Hard Times & Other Observations