Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 12mo; 148 [1]pp; gilt stamped green cloth over board; publisher's monogram at foot of spine, wove paper flyleaves; brown endpapers; ownership on front fly dated Dec. 25, 1876; light shelf scuffing to cover; near fine. First state, BAL..... More
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
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
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
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
No place listed: Not published, manuscript, 1928, August. D. LESLIE. Stiff wraps. Designed and printed by D. Leslie, August 1928. D. LESLIE, calligraphy and illustrator. 8vo; [34pp]; red-textured stiff wrapper, hand lettered with title and author; all edges gilt, deckle fore-edge; leaves sewn to wrapper with thick red silk twisted..... More
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
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
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, & Company, 1876. Cloth. 12mo; 138, [1]pp; gilt-stamped green cloth, title and vignette of cherubim blowing a trumpet and carrying lilies, gilt stamped spine; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; title page in red and black; all verse within black border; ornamental tailpiece; light scruff to spine tail;..... More
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
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
No place listed: Elliott Blaine Henderson, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. First edition. 8vo; 61pp; brown cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and author to front; frontispiece a photographic illustrated portrait on glazed plate; scuffing to head and tail of spine, bumping to cover corners, light crease to fp, chip to top..... More
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1895. 1/4 cloth. 12mo; 50pp [iv]; quarter bound white gilt stamped cloth with grey cloth over board, gilt and black stamped cover; illustrations throughout text as well as full page in black and white; printed recto only; ink inscription dated Christmas 1894 to free front endpaper; gilt..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. First American edition. Boards. First American edition. 8vo; 29pp; decoratively blind-stamped rust-colored cloth boards, beveled edges, stamped gilt title and author to front board and spine, title in a gilt-stamped vignette with birds and a nest to rear board; all edges gilt; glazed yellow endpapers; text..... More
[Rockland, Maine]: The Courier-Gazette, 1965. Anna PARKER. Comb-style plastic wraps. 8vo; 67pp; illustrated peach textured heavy paper stock, black plastic comb-style binding; each poem illustrated; light finger soiling to rear else fine. Held 3 WorldCat libraries. Norma Kalloch (1922-1986) was a poet living in Thomaston, Maine, at the time of..... More
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926. Donald MAXWELL. First Edition. Boards. First edition. 8vo; xiv [i], 94pp [2]; gilt-stamped title, author and illustrator to front board on royal blue buckram; 24 color half-tone illustrations tipped in; heavy cream-colored stock; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; scuffing to head & tail of..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Cloth. 12mo; 209, [1] + [6]pp publisher’s ads; gilt-stamped green-grey metallic thread cloth; upper edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom deckle; gift inscription to ffep; sunning to rear board, age-toning to paper; very good. Collection of Kipling’s poetry, including 18 Barrack-Room Ballads. More
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
New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, No date [1896 - 1914]. Cloth. 12mo; ii, 301pp; gilt-stamped green cloth over board, portrait of a native American to the front in a gilt badge; ownerships to front endpapers including a book plate; frontispiece illustration of Longfellow, title page in two colors..... More
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
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: 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
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: 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