Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839. First edition. A little book of life lessons for children. Frontis black-and-white scenic plate, tissue protected. Gift inscription, boards slightly soiled, touch of rubbing to edges and corners, foxed throughout, otherwise very good. Scarce. Item #47756 More about CALEB IN THE COUNTRY: Story for Children
New York: Macmillan Co., 1961. First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Nick Eggenhofer. INSCRIBED by Adams on the front endpaper, " To - - with best wishes. If you ever have to ride the rough string here's hopin' your cinch is tight./ Cordially yours, Ramon F. Adams." Fine in price-clipped... Item #51457 More about THE OLD-TIME COWHAND
New York: Ray Long & Russell Smith, 1931. First edition. Interesting marbled-cloth boards. Faint stain on first blank and frontis verso, still very good to near fine, lacking dust jacket. Item #28611 More about THE OLD-TIME SALOON: Not Wet - Not Dry Just History
Charleston, WV: 1983. First edition. In September 1983, Albee spent a 2-week "Marshall Evans" residency at the University of Charleston, during which he lectured, taught seminars on writing, acting and directing, and directed two of his own plays, "The Sandbox" and "Counting the Ways." This small archive from that period... Item #37406 More about THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED and Autographed Photographs
Galena, IL: The City of Galena, 1937. First edition. Considered his first book or contribution. In the "American Guide Series," a Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project that funded writers during the Depression. Blue paperwraps featuring a silhouette of Illinois; printed on front only in dark blue and gilt. Bit... Item #54241 More about GALENA GUIDE
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, September, 1928. First edition. First appearance of this story by Sherwood Anderson. Paperwraps lightly worn on overhanging edges, front cover splitting at hinge (about 5"), otherwise very good. Item #52937 More about "THE LOST NOVEL": In Scribner's Magazine, Volume LXXXIV, No. 3
New York: Somerset Publishing Co., 1936. First edition, INSCRIBED, "For Herbert B. Elliston from L. L. B. Angas." Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas was born into a family with a banking background. He was educated in both England and France and earned a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University before... Item #54595 More about INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION: Forecasting Movements in Security Prices / Technique of Trading in...
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person... Item #30775 More about ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right
(London): Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 1200 copies in the first printing. Green paper-covered boards stamped in black on front and spine. Near fine with few inconspicuous nicks to paper covering; in near fine dust jacket with clean tear to spine internally repaired with tape. A.... Item #35592 More about THE DANCE OF DEATH
Hartford, Conn. S. S. Scranton & Company, 1887. First edition. An early book detailing General Grant's experiences, by his military secretary Adam Badeau. Numerous illustrations ranging from "The Surrender of Lee" to "Death of General Grant," nearly twenty in all; additionally illustrated with facsimiles from various icons, such as President... Item #49778 More about GRANT IN PEACE: From Appomattox to Mount McGregor, A Personal Memoir
London: Faber & Faber, (1962). First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author in 1964. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket very lightly soiled on back cover and with one tiny closed tear. Item #43110 More about THE VIEW FROM A BLIND I
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. First edition thus. One of 1,000 copies signed by the publisher and the printer. Includes AULD LICHT IDYLLS; A WINDOW IN THRUMS | MARGARET OGILVY; PETER AND WENDY; BETTER DEAD | AN EDINBURGH ELEVEN; TOMMY AND GRIZEL; WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE; MY LADY NICOTINE; SENTIMENTAL... Item #39901 More about THE WORKS OF J. M. BARRIE; [The Kirriemuir Edition, in Ten Volumes
Norman Laliberte. Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, (1980). First edition. Illustrated by Norman Laliberte. Number 21 of 100 copies SIGNED by Norman and Laliberte. Publisher's letter and advertising broadside laid in. This copy in acetate and scarce publisher's dust jacket, which appears to be from the trade edition (there were 2000... Item #51181 More about THE WOE SHIRT: Caribbean Folk Tales
New York: Dial Press, (1980). First edition of his first book. SIGNED by Bausch. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a touch of minor wear. Item #50482 More about REAL PRESENCE
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page to Eda Lou Walton, "For Eda Lou, with my inexpressible gratitude for the best pieces in the book and the death of the Ice-Age. Affectionately, Ben." The printed dedication to the last... Item #45577 More about THE FIVE-FOLD MESH
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874. First edition. His third book. Dark fairy tales collected from his appearances in the British periodical "Fun"; illustrated with satirical wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. It should be noted although Starrett (4) contends an 1873 paperback precedes this hardcover, BAL (1100) proved the... Item #54109 More about COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL
Manchester (England): Carcanet, (1989). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page in July 1990. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps. No hardbound edition. Item #27529 More about SELECTED POEMS
Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt, 1871. First edition. This remains a major reference for American printing history [Bigmore & Wyman p.259, Appleton p58]. Illustrated with 38 full-page plates including a beautiful colored chromolitho frontis, an example of printing for the blind, and a double-spread color facsimile of a leaf from the... Item #52565 More about AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRINTING
New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publ. 1939. First edition. From the library of Chicago artist Arthur Johan Anderson with his bookplate on front pastedown. Three novels and two novelettes by Bromfield. Red cloth near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, a few shallow chips and... Item #30127 More about IT TAKES ALL KINDS
New York: Knopf, 1942. Second printing, originally published in 1937. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. A mechanical playmate is mistaken for the real thing in this Freddy and friends adventure. Near fine in generally edgeworn, good dust jacket with tissue-tape repair to one-inch chip in bottom front corner. Item #33134 More about THE CLOCKWORK TWIN
New York: The John Day Company, (1933). First edition. 14 stories with an introduction by Richard Walsh. A fine copy in nice, bright dust jacket with a split at front spine fold neatly repaired on verso, and just one tiny spot on spine. Item #41524 More about THE FIRST WIFE: And Other Stories
London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1933). First edition. Near fine with light foxing to first and last few leaves and spotting to page top edge; in good or better, price-clipped dust jacket with tear at head of spine with small hole beneath (affecting "D" in "Dead" and "No" in "Novel") internally... Item #41383 More about THE QUICK AND THE DEAD: A Novel
Edna M. Reindel. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / Dial Press, 1930. First edition. His second book, the story of a mechanic's helper who becomes a middle-weight champion prize fighter. Basis for the 1931 pre-code movie of the same name starring Lew Ayres and Jean Harlow. 8vo. blue cloth boards... Item #54995 More about IRON MAN
(No-place: no-publisher, August 4, 1977). Early draft of Robert Towne's screenplay for 1984 movie, "Greystroke," based on Burroughs' novel, TARZAN OF THE APES. Directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Christopher Lambert and Andie MacDowell. Towne, frustrated at being passed over for director, used the pseudonym "P. H. Vazak"--the name of his... Item #52891 More about SCREENPLAY FOR THE MOVIE "GREYSTROKE": Photocopy in Pressbound Report Covers
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1934). First edition. Translated from the Czech by M. and R. Weatherall. "A serious, almost tragic, study of Slavonic peasant life" (dust jacket) in which Jurai Hordubal returns home after 8 years working in America to a life turned upside down and is eventually murdered... Item #54001 More about HORDUBAL