THE PLAGUE DOGS.
(London): Allen Lane, (1977). First edition. With illustrations and diagrams by A. Wainwright. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Bright, attractive copy of his third novel. Item #30920 More
(London): Allen Lane, (1977). First edition. With illustrations and diagrams by A. Wainwright. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Bright, attractive copy of his third novel. Item #30920 More
New York: Ray Long & Russell Smith, 1931. First edition. First printing in marbled cloth boards. Illustrated by Rea Irvin, Gluyas Williams, John Held, Jr., et al. A paean to bar culture written in the waning days of Prohibition. Very good or better with faint stain to front blank pages..... Item #28611 More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926. First edition. Number 339 of 1010 copies -- this one INSCRIBED BY ALDINGTON TO HIS FRIEND, the philosopher and writer, "Henry Slonimsky/ from/ Richard Aldington/ at/ Malthouse Cottage/ 7-7-26." Slonimsky was a professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the Jewish Institute of Religion in..... Item #54684 More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "To Audrey, with many bluebonnets, Jean Andrews" on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #37668 More
London: Oxford University Press, 1960. First edition. Children's book, edited by Avery and illustrated by Susan Einzig. Light offset to endpapers, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. A very bright copy. Item #30476 More
London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1953. First edition. Descriptions of and directions for cultivating various species. Illustrated with four full color plates, 40 black-and-white photographs, and numerous drawings in the text. Bookplates of Ruby Fleischmann (signed in the plate "Sydney E. Letts, Pinx. Sculp") and Conrad B. Link on front..... Item #45948 More
Beistle, Mary Alice. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, (1939). First edition. Paper covering on boards rubbed in several small spots on edges and small "Property of ---" stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in dust jacket with tanned spine, a few small closed edge tears and a tiny hole..... Item #34887 More
Middletown, Connecticut: Robin Price, 2005. First edition. First separate publication of Bloom's short story which first appeared in Ms. magazine. Number 37 of 125 copies SIGNED BY BLOOM, TIERNEY, & PRICE. This copy additionally inscribed "this copy for Allen K. Mears" on colophon by Price who designed, letterpress printed, and..... Item #55875 More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1925. First edition thus: edited and with essay of appreciation by Bridges. With 29 illustrations, including the picture by Holbein etched in the author's time, to which is added Mr. Angarola's drawings of his conception of the period & drawings by way of contemporary comment by Gene..... Item #54686 More
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2003. First edition, and only edition. Bringhurst’s translations from the Ancient Greek of surviving fragments of the circa 475 BC poem generally titled “On Nature” written by the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, Parmenides of Elea. ONE OF 26 COPIES in the “Deluxe” issue SIGNED BY BRINGHURST, WAGENER..... Item #55883 More
Decatur, Georgia: Wisteria Press, 1997. First edition. Letter "Z" of 26 COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER and housed in handmade clamshell box, each copy SIGNED BY BROWN AND MOSER and with TWO LOOSE LITHOGRAPHS SIGNED BY MOSER in glassine envelope laid in (one is the frontispiece illustration, the other appears..... Item #53542 More
(London): Andre Deutsch, (1982). First edition. "A wealth of general bedlore, illustrated with colour plates which shows scores of beds from antiquity to present." Small imperfection in rear board, otherwise fine in dust jacket with ink mark through price on front flap. A very bright, interesting book. Item #27794 More
New Jersey: Margrace Corporation, (1985). First American edition. A textbook for the study of ALICE. Text on one page, illustrations on the next. Questions on the rear pastedown. Fine in pictorial boards. No dust jacket, if it was issued in one. Item #48905 More
(Mantova: Maurizio Corraini, 2002). First edition. Korean artist Suzy Lee's book of photos and drawings for children and adults; with text on only the last two pages ("Is all our life, then . . . but a dream?") in English with Italian translation beneath. Inspired by the whimsey of Lewis..... Item #48903 More
London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., 1920. Later printing; originally published in 1913. Illustrations by Alice B. Woodward, who is best known for her illustrations in THE PETER PAN PICTURE BOOK, which was also published by Bell. Seven full-page black-and-white drawings, plus frontis and front cover; several in-text illustrations as..... Item #48751 More
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, (1969). First edition. Near fine with previous owner's gift inscription on front endpaper; in very good to near fine price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and minor edge wear. Item #51694 More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1972. First edition thus: illustrated by Robert Shore. Number 316 of 1,500 numbered copies SIGNED BY Shore and Ward Ritchie, who designed and printed the book. Introduction by Leo Gurko. 4to gilt-stamped quarter blue leather; blue sailcloth-covered boards; 9 color plates, including frontis. Fine in..... Item #72125 More
Chicago: Lakeside Press/Donnelley & Sons, 1961. First edition, a Lakeside Classic issued for Christmas 1961 with historical introduction by Harwell. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine, gilt top edge, tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of General J. E. B. Stuart. Fine. Item #52666 More
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., (1998). First edition. Artist's book. "The Republic" is a sensuous dreamland to which, in the author/artist's imagination, he and his wife escape. To make this same trip, "You will need a poetic license, ...and you will find one within." Literally. In a little..... Item #71628 More
(London): Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Issued in 4 monthly parts -- this copy with parts bound together by Bradstreet in three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt-stamped spine, 5 raised spine bands; endpapers marbled; top edge gilt; retaining cover of first part (only) which is bound in at..... Item #54534 More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition. Six full-page illustrations, including the frontispiece, by Howard Chandler Christy tipped in. Small 8vo green cloth boards stamped in gilt, red, and dark green on front and spine. About very good with old damp stain along upper and outside edge of rear..... Item #55004 More
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1826. First edition of the first American textbook of gynecology. Dewees was as Adjunct Professor of Mid-wifery at the University of Pennsylvania. Includes chapters on tumors, displacement of the uterus, prolapse of the uterus, milk abscess of the breast, et al. 557 pages including index and..... Item #51657 More
London: A. D. Innes & Co., 1894. First edition. Illustrated with 22 plates including a tissue-protected frontis photograph. Decorative green cloth (silk?) boards stamped with gilt on front and spine. Very good or better with sunning to cloth at spine and front cover but gilt still bright. Overall still an..... Item #52571 More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1896. First U.S. edition. 12 full-page illustrations by Sidney Paget. Red buckram stamped in silver and gold. Name on half-title, endpapers a little darkened, spine slightly toned with light wear to ends; still, very good or better with front cover bright. Item #51447 More
Edinburgh: W. Sutherland, 1823. First edition. Includes the "Dramatis Personae," presumably from the Caledonian Theatre perfomance, and the play itself but not any music. Illustrated with twelve unattributed hand-colored plates, including the frontis. Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, above which he's penciled, "of..... Item #54555 More