New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1906.. 1906.. Good. - Small quarto [6-1/2 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide], tan cloth-backed boards with a paper label on the spine. The binding is soiled with the corners of the covers rubbed and the label is darkened & rubbed. 75 pages plus colophon. There is an inscription penciled on the front endpaper & there are asterisks penciled by a few titles. There is occasional light soiling. Good.
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper. First Edition. View More...
(New Rochelle, NY): Spoken Arts Inc., circa [1959].. [1959].. Very good. - sc - Quarto [12-1/4 inches square]. A 33-1/3 rpm long-playing record in original pictorial cardboard sleeve designed by Scott. The sleeve is lightly bumped with some light foxing & soiling to the edges. The disc itself is only very lightly used with virtually no surface noise. Very good. As a young playwright who had had a play performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Lennox Robinson [1886-1958] was appointed Manager and Producer at the theatre by Yeats, and this business relationship developed into a close friendshi... View More...
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (2000).. (2000).. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. xxvii & 288 pages. There is some very light soiling to the fore- edge. Near fine.
Foreword by David Morrell and introduction by Sandra Spanier. Dust jacket present. View More...
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1949.. 1949.. Very good. - Octavo, dark blue cloth (lightly bumped; top edges very slightly faded) titled in gilt, in dust wrapper (chipped & slightly soiled; dw spine & top edge of front panel faded; price-clipped). [viii] & 311 pages (a very few erasable pencil markings). Very good.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
(Bronx, NY): West End, (1975).. (1975).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial orange & black wraps. The front wrap is slightly bumped & there is a tiny tear to the rear wrap. 48 pages. Near fine.
First edition of the author's first book. West End Vol. 3 No. 3, Summer 1975. First Edition. View More...
New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Octavo, pink & white wraps. The wraps are lightly rubbed & soiled with the corners very lightly creased. 304 pages plus colophon. Full-page black- and-white illustrations, including woodcuts by Herman Zaage. Very good. First edition.Inscribed to Dick Higgins by the author on the half- title: Portales TV show April 11, 1979 / for Dick. Affectionately yours, Arlene Zekowski.The book includes Zekowski's neo-narrative novel Seasons of the Mind, along with related essays, three joint radio interviews with Zekowski and Stanley Berne a... View More...
Portales, NM: American-Canadian Publishers Ltd., (1973).. (1973).. Very good. - Quarto, pictorial light & dark green wraps. The spine & extremies are faded. There is a narrow vertical stain to the rear wrap & some light staining to the front wrap. The corners are very lightly creased. [ix], 115 & [3] leaves printed on one side only with the prelims & the material following the text of the work printed on orange paper. There is some light staining to the last 2 leaves of the prelims & the first 3 pages of the text. Cover design & pictorial title by Herman Zaage. Very good. Review copy with a fo... View More...
(Oakland, CA): Inkblot Publications, 1986.. 1986.. Very good. - Octavo, pictorial wraps. The wraps are very lightly rubbed with a tiny stain to the rear wrap. Title, [2] leaves & 76 pages plus colophon & 1- page publisher's catalog. Very good.
First trade edition, limited to 900 copies. First Edition. View More...
New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1968).. (1968).. Good. - Octavo, pictorial paper covered boards in a matching dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped with some light staining and the tail of the spine is creased. The dust jacket is chipped, soiled & stained. [v], 182 & [1] pages plus colophon. There is a stain to the front endpaper with a tiny stain to the fore-edge. Good.
First edition of the author's first book. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929.. 1929.. Very good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in green on a creamy white paper label on the spine. The covers are slightly stained. 135 pages. A previous owner's note is penned at the top of the front endpaper. Very good.
From the library of George R.M. Ewing, Jr., with his pictorial bookplate, designed for him by Rockwell Kent, mounted on the front pastedown. View More...
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.. 1881.. Good. - Small octavo, gray cloth titled in gilt with decorations in blue & brown on the front cover & spine. The binding is soiled & darkened with a small stain to the front cover. x, [i], 119 & [1] pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece by the author. The front hinge is just starting & there is light offsetting to pages 6 and 7. Good. First edition, printed on handmade, watermarked paper and bound by Burn & Co.William Sharp, editor of "Sonnets of This Century" [1887] writes of Blunt's work included in that volume: "These s... View More...
- 26 words penned on a partial sheet of letterhead, approximately 3-1/4 inches high by 3-1/2 inches wide, with his London address printed in red at the top. The letterhead is mounted on a piece of card of the same size. Signed B. W. Proctor. The note is lightly soiled & its left edge is a bit darkened. Some partial words are penned on the verso of the mount with glue stains where it has been removed from an album. Good. Proctor writes that he regrets to say that his daughter died five years ago. Therefore the only signature that I can send you is that of your obed servt / B. W. Proctor. Bryan ... View More...
RARE CHRISTMAS CARD SIGNED BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS & HIS COMPANION ALICE DAVIS - Octavo, 6-3/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. Two handsomely printed sheets, with the text of Alice Davis' Christmas greeting printed below her attractive pictorial device on the first page and Edgar Lee Master's poem "Purest Love", the first lines of which read "Purest truth, purest hope, purest faith, / Purest flame, like invisible fire;..." printed on the second page. The two sheets most probably formed a single card. The sheets were likely separated in order to be silked and, once silked, reattached to again fo... View More...
Munich: Phantasus-Verl., 1922.. 1922.. Fair. - Quarto, 11-1/2 inches high by 8 inches high. Hardcover, bound in decorative patterned boards with a printed title label on the front cover. The spine has perished and is thus lacking. The covers are heavily soiled and darkened with wear to the corners. 257 & [2] pages plus the colophon printed on fine paper, illustrated with numerous full-page and textual woodcuts by Albert Fallscheer and Hans Tempel after pen drawings by Ottomar Starke. The texblock is cracked. Number 293 of a limited edition of 430 numbered copies. The sixth of the Phantasusdruc... View More...
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898.. 1898.. Good. - Small octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed & bumped with a black stain & 2 tiny black marks to the front cover. The head & tail of the spine are lightly chipped. xviii, [1] leaf & 260 pages. The front hinge is cracked & the rear hinge is just starting. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper with the date 1899. Good.
First edition of the author's first book.
Mr. Dooley's opinions on matters of the day are written in Irish dialect. First Edition. View More...
- 12mo, 7-1/4 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed tan wraps. The darkened covers are detached. 29 pages plus the colophon. The darkened pages are starting to split along the top inner edges. Good only. First edition of Michael Fraenkel's 1st book appearance and the first book of the Carrefour press. The Newberry Library suggests the date of publication as 1930.In 1930 Michael Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels founded the Carrefour Press and published their manifesto making the point for artistic anonymity.Inscribed, signed and dated by Michael Fraenkel on the half-title: ... View More...
New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street, 1857.. 1857.. Good. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt with profuse decorations in gilt on the spine & with decorative frames stamped in blind on both covers. The binding is rubbed & bumped with some light staining & with 2 small tears to the front cover. The spine is faded with the tail lightly chipped & a small tear to the head. iv & pages [v]-405. The fore-edge is soiled & there is scattered staining & foxing throughout. Good. First American edition.Scottish historical fiction set during the reign of James V, 1513-1542. First Edition.... View More...
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, 1885.. 1885.. Very good. - Tall octavo, softcover bound in blue wrappers titled in gilt with vignettes in gilt on the front wrap. The wraps are rubbed, bumped & lightly creased with their edges darkened & chipped & with a piece out of the bottom corner of the rear wrap. vi, 32 & [2] pages, including black- and-white vignettes & caricatures. The contents are very good. Limited edition of 75 large paper and 275 small paper copies. This 25 cm. copy is presumed to be a small paper copy.Originally published London, 1750, with the printed signature Abraham Johnson. A f... View More...
London: George Bell and Sons, 1909.. 1909.. Good. - Small quarto [5-7/8 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide], dark gray cloth titled in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. There are several stains to the rear cover & there is a stain near the head of the spine with a small area of the surface rubbed away. 56 pages plus 2-page ad for the book. Illustrated with a brown-and-white frontispiece with a tissue guard. The endpapers & the verso of the flyleaf are somewhat darkened. There is offsetting from the frontispiece to the title & the tissue guard is creased. There is o... View More...
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1838.. 1838.. Good. - Octavo, soft bound in gray wraps with a printed label on the front wrap. The wraps are chipped & stained with small pieces out. The back strip is perished & the lower half of the front wrap is detached. There is a heavy stain to the top edge of the label, partially affecting 2 letters of the title. 60 pages plus 12-page publisher's catalog. There is scattered foxing & light staining & a number of page corners are lightly creased. Good working example only. First separate and first U.S. edition. Scarce wraps issue. First Editi... View More...
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