New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1964. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; black stamped illustration to pale blue buckram over board, title stamped on spine with author and publisher; frontispiece and illustrations throughout the verse, some in blue, brown and black and some in... More about Childhood is a Time of Innocence
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. Joan Walsh ANGLUND. First Edition. Cloth. First edition, later printing. 12mo; [30pp]; black stamped illustration to orange cloth over board, title on spine with author and publisher; gift inscription to front pastedown; color frontispiece in red, green and black; illustrations throughout the... More about Christmas is a Time of Giving
No place listed: W. Praze, [1841 / 2]. Kamenotisk, lithographer. First Edition. Stiff wraps. English: Memories of the Year 1842. 3 5/8” x 2 ½”; 32pp; stiff glazed embossed wrapper with hand-colored decorated flowers to front and rear; pale pink endpapers; two pp dance card at rear with light penciled initials;... More about Pomnenky Na Rok 1842, (English: Memories of the Year 1842
London: Ernest Nister, c. 1890. Stiff wraps. No date [c. 1890]. Printed by E. Nister at Nuremburg (Bavaria). 12mo; [16pp]; gilt stamped stiff scalloped-edge wrapper with chromolithographed pastoral scene in a fan shaped cartouche to front; gold cord binding; all edges gilt; decorated title page; 7 full page sepia illustrations... More about My Gift and Greeting, And Other Gems of Thought from the Poets
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1885. First Edition. Stiff wraps. First edition. 12mo; [40pp]; gilt embossed decoration of flowers to white pebbled stiff wrapper, gilt-stamped title and author; silk ribbon tie through all layers; gilt all edges; relief printed illustrations and poetry to recto only on stiff card stock;... More about The Unknown Way
London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1843. Kenny MEADOWS. Leather bound. 12mo; 76pp; gilt stamped contemporary calf, 5 banded spine, red leather label, gutters and spine professionally restored; dark teal endpapers; inside dentelles; original cloth front wrapper bound in after text; light scattered foxing to verso free endpapers and fly leaves... More about Hints to Servants; Being a Political and Modernised Version of Dean Swift's Celebrated...
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: The Macmillan Company, 1928, February. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xix [i], 191pp; gilt-stamped title and decorative lozenge on navy blue cloth over board, gilt-stamped spine; deckle fore-edge; ownership to front pastedown; marginalia in pencil on a few pages; light rubbing to spine head and tail; age-toning... More about Readings From the New Poets
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Charles ROBINSON. Cloth. 12mo; 229 [3]pp; tan glazed cloth over board, gilt-stamped child holding candle to front, gilt-stamped decorated spine and rear board; gilt tops, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; illustration to free front endpaper and rear flyleaves; gift inscription to free front endpaper; bookseller’s... More about Lullaby-Land, Songs of Childhood. Selected by Kenneth Grahame
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
Portland, Maine: Elwell, Pickard & Company, 1888. Cloth. 8vo; [i-iii] iv-viii 856pp; blind stamped border on beveled edged green cloth over board; all edges gilt; decorative endpapers; light bumping to corners, shelf rubbing including to head and tail of spine, light soiling of edges, smudges to endpapers, damp staining to... More about The Poets of Maine, A Collection of Specimen Poems from Over Fourt Hundred Verse-Makers of the...
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1895. Cloth. 182pp; red cloth over board with gilt stamped title to front cover and spine, decorative border of green tobacco leaves to front cover also a black stamped design of tobacco and pipe; gilt upper edge; slight sunning to spine, damp staining to upper edge... More about Pipe and Pouch the Smoker's Own Book of Poetry
London: Ernest Nister, c. 1890. R. A. BELL. First Edition. Cloth. Printed by E. Nister at Nuremberg (Bavaria). First edition. 4to; [54pp]; gilt and color stamped pictorial cover on blue cloth over beveled board, gilt-stamped title to spine; all edges gilt; gilt-stamped brocade ribbed navy-blue liners; gift inscription to verso ffep;... More about The Golden Treasury of Art and Song
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: Frank Shay, 1922. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. 12 mo; [16pp]; paper wrappers; light soiling and chipping to wrapper at edge; very good. 500 copies of the first edition was printed, housed in a quarter leather slipcase with chemise. More about The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
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: Harper and Brothers, 1928. Fifth Printing. Three-quarter cloth. Fifth printing, October. 12mo; vi, 69pp + publisher's colophon; three quarter black cloth with blue paper over board, paper label on spine; deckle edges; toning to front and rear fep, scattered light foxing, age toned paper; very good minus. More about The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems
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
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: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; xi [iii], 85pp; lavender ink stamped black cloth over board with publisher’s colophon to front cover, author, title, and publisher to spine; fore-edge untrimmed; unclipped dust jacket with price of $4.95, light chipping to corners and head and tail... More about Ariel
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
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2009. First American Edition, 2nd Printing. Cloth. First American edition, second printing. 12mo square; [64pp]; red pebbled cloth over board, vignette of a white bell with a heart stamped to front board; title, author and colophon to spine in white; patterned endpapers; printed in color, full... More about This is For You
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