Munich and New York: Obpacher Brothers Pubishers, No date [c.1900]. Wraps. [EPHEMERA] [GIFT BOOK]. 16mo (6 5/8” x 4 ¾”); [16]pp; cream-colored stiff wrappers, chromolithograph of a man bowling in the mountains on the front, small vignette of two owls at night on rear wrapper; publisher’s gold string binding; rounded..... More
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
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1964. Cloth. First edition. 32mo (4 1/8" x 3 1/8"); [30]pp; green cloth over board with a vignette of a girl on the front, lettering on the spine; gift inscription in neat fine marker dated 1964 on ffep; color vignette on title page;..... 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..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1883. Miss L.B. HUMPHREY. Three-quarter leather bound. [ANTHOLOGY]. Designs by Miss L.B. Humphrey. [Anthology]: ADAMS, Sarah Flower. Nearer, My God, to Thee. KNOX, William. Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud? LYTE, Henry Francis. Abide With Me. TOPLADY, Augustus Montague. Rock of Ages..... 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
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
Munich & New York: The Art Lithographic Publishing Company, No date [c. 1890s]. Marian CHASE. Wraps. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY] [RELIGION] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Marian CHASE, illustrator. Printed in Germany. 48mo oblong (3 15/16” x 4 7/8”); [8]pp; stiff chromolithographed wrapper die-cut in the shape of a church..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1961. Poetry. Limited Edition. Cloth. [POETRY] [LETTERS]. Limited edition, number 232 of 400. 4to; 187pp; publisher’s alternative half-binding of royal blue cloth with a red overlay; gilt-stamped roundel with the portrait of a cat on front, gilt lettering on front and spine; bottom edge untrimmed;..... More
Boston: The Ball Publishing Company, 1929. Boards. [POETRY] [SIGNED] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. SIGNED by the Author. 12mo; 81pp; white boards, onlay of a cobweb with title and author in black, black cloth shelf-back; deckle fore edge and bottom edge; signed by the author and dated “Most Sincerely Iva H. Drew 1929”..... 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
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 407-429 Dearborn St. 1905. Cloth. [POETRY] [SIGNED] [HUMOR]. SIGNED by Author. First edition. 12mo; 142pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, stamped figure of a boy carrying a pitcher of water with ice on front board; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; author’s portrait in sepia half-tone as fp;..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Cloth. 12mo; xi, [1], 184pp; bright green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown; light shelf wear to boards; very good plus. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. He is perhaps best remembered for two of..... More
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., Publishers to Her Majesty the Queen, No date [c. 1893-1898]. A. SIMPSON, C. KLEIN, etc. Wraps. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY] [RELIGION] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. A. SIMPSON, C. KLEIN, ETC. illustrators. 24mo (5 3/8” x 4”); [16]pp; stiff glazed, color-printed, die-cut and..... 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
[Brattleboro, Vermont]: Privately Printed for Stephen Daye Press, 1940. Wraps. [POETRY] [PRIVATE PRESS] [LIMITED EDITION]. Manufactured in the United States of America by the Vermont Printing Company, Brattleboro, Vermont. One of 300 copies. 8vo (8” x 5 3/8”); 30pp; stiff cream-colored wrapper, untrimmed fore-edge; vignette of a crane on title..... 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
London: Gay & Hancock, 12 & 13 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1913. Charles FOLKARD. Three-quarter leather bound. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATION]. Charles FOLKARD, illustrations. Folio; [16]pp + [12] color plates tipped onto thick gray stock; three-quarters bound in orange calf with marbled boards, 5 raised bands and gilt-stamped spine; half-title and title-page..... 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
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