Wainwright, A. (London): Allen Lane, (1977). First edition. With illustrations and diagrams by A. Wainwright. Tips lightly bumped, otherwise fine in price-clipped dust jacket with just a touch of minor edge rubbing. A very bright, attractive copy of his third novel. Item #30920 More about THE PLAGUE DOGS
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. First edition of the first report, as the Department was established that year. House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 3d Session. Ex. Doc. No. 78; Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agriculture. 48 full-page, etched plates of fruits and farm animals bound at front. 632 pages with additional... Item #52536 More about REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE: FOR THE YEAR 1862
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1926. First edition. Number 339 of 1010 copies of which the first 150 were signed by the author. However this copy is INSCRIBED, "Harry Sloninsky from Richard Aldington Malthouse Cottage 7-7-26." Black cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Yellow jacket and endpapers designed by Frank Mechau. The... Item #54684 More about THE LOVE OF MYRRHINE AND KONALLIS
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 about THE TEXAS BLUEBONNET
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears. Item #51198 More about THE LIVELY YEARS: 1920-1973
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 about IN THE WINDOW-SEAT: A Selection of Victorian Stories
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 about JUST PUGGY
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 about ERASMUS: IN PRAISE OF FOLLY
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 about BILLY RAY'S FARM: With Engravings by Barry Moser
Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson & Co., 1888. Presumed first edition of this "Companion Book to the Holy Bible." Includes 250 engravings after Alexander Bida and Gustave Dore, et al, 12 of which are in color. Bible stories are followed by a small section of "Golden Gems of Religious Thought,"... Item #52785 More about THE BEAUTIFUL STORY, A COMPANION TO THE HOLY BIBLE: To Which Is Added GOLDEN GEMS OF RELIGIOUS...
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First edition. Edited by Steven Moore. Number 30 of 500 hardcover copies with a silkscreen print by Bukowski bound in. Martinelli published some of Bukowski's poems in her literary journal "Anagogic & Paideumic Review." In his letters Bukowski discusses Jeffers' poetry and usually counts... Item #55518 More about BEERSPIT NIGHT AND CURSING: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960-1967
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition. Edited by Seamus Cooney. Number 215 of 300 SIGNED, numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each with a an original color silkscreen by Bukowski. Contains many strong references to Jeffers' work and Bukowski's admiration for him. Brick red cloth backed... Item #55515 More about SCREAMS FROM THE BALCONY: Selected Letters 1960-1970
N. C. Wyeth. (New York): Cosmopolitan Book Co., 1924. Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, first edition thus. Spine just slightly faded and the barest wear on corners and spine ends, otherwise fine with pictorial front panel and endpapers. Lacking the dust jacket. Very nice copy. Item #41196 More about LEGENDS OF CHARLEMAGNE
(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 about ON GOING TO BED
London: Jones & Co., 1822. Illustrated with hand-colored plates, first edition thus. The satirical novelist's first book, originally published in 1778 as EVELINA, OR THE HISTORY OF A YOUNG LADY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD. Includes 6 full-page hand-colored humorous engravings, three signed W. Heath, and a hand-colored extra-illustrated title page... Item #54531 More about EVELINA; OR FEMALE LIFE IN LONDON: Being the History of a Young Lady's Introduction to...
Andrew Wyeth. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941). First edition, limited issue. Number 25 of 650 copies in the "special Delaware edition ... printed exclusively for the Greenwood Book Shop" SIGNED BY CANBY AND WYETH. Very good or better with light edge wear and spine slightly faded; in like dust... Item #53698 More about THE BRANDYWINE; (In the Rivers of America Series
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 about ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Classics and Comics
New York: Dell Publ. Co., 1950. "Dell Surprise Book" number 12, first edition thus. Illustrated by Sheila Beckett. Small, oblong, stapled, pictorial paperwraps. Good or better with shelf wear, soiling, and one small chip. Item #48752 More about ALICE IN WONDERLAND: A Surprise Book
(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 about ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie
New York: A. L. Burt Co. Publishers, (1905). First of this edition. One of a series of one-syllable books. Alice goes down the rabbit hole in a chase (words of more than one syllable are appropriately hyphenated throughout the book). Charming color frontispiece, all other illustrations in black and white... Item #48755 More about ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Retold In Words of One Syllable
Alice B. Woodward. 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... Item #48751 More about ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Franklin Hughes. New York: Cheshire House, 1931. First edition thus: limited edition, #1194 of 1200 copies, with illustrations by Franklin Hughes. Quarto, white silk-moire boards somewhat soiled, scattered foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Very good, lacking slipcase. Item #49723 More about THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: And What Alice Found There
New York: Parent's Magazine Press, (1969). First edition. Gifter's inscription on front endpaper, but otherwise in fine condition. In a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light soiling and a few tiny closed tears at the top of the spine. Item #51694 More about ARM IN ARM: A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and Other Echolalia
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 about OUTLINES FROM THE OUTPOST
London: Robert Hardwicke, 1870. Second edition. With a new, second appendix describing new species discovered since 1865. Illustrated with "nearly 300 figures" by J. E. Sowerby. 16 plates. Most are colored, including the tissue-protected frontis (there are a total of 269 illustrations of fungi on the 16 plates). 16mo green... Item #55412 More about RUST, SMUT, MILDEW, & MOULD: An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi