8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages; Inscribed by Welty on the title page to Jere Real. Jere Real was a professor of Literature and Film at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college for speaking and teaching engagements. He had a long acquaintance with Ms Welty. Solid copy in original pictorial dust jacket. Real's several lines of annotation to the front flyleaf with page references. Those several pages and a few others have a passage or phrase bracketed or noted. Mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Jacket just lightly rubbed at corn... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages; Inscribed by Welty on the title page to Jere Real. Jere Real was a professor of Literature and Film at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college for speaking and teaching engagements. He had a long acquaintance with Ms Welty. Solid neat copy in original dust jacket with $5.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. A few tiny pin-head sized spots to the brown top stain. Binding ever so slightly cocked in the spine. Mild handling evidence to jacket edges and some very light shelf soiling to the j... View More...
Library of America #101 & 102; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1985 pages; 1998 Library of America #101 & 102 HC/DJ Two volumes. 1009; 976 pp. Both volumes 1st printings of the LOA edition. Tightly bound and crisp in original pictorial dust jacket. The volumes feel and appear unread. Just trace box storage evidence to jacket extremities. About as new. NF/NF View More...
Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1st "A" printing. Superb copy is tight and fresh with crisp edges and bright surfaces; feels and appears unread. Just trace shelf evidence to board edges. Expected mild tning to page stock. An unread copy with trace shelf evidence. Otherwise about as new. NF View More...
Color Illustrations; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages; Bright, tight and fresh HC in immaculate DJ. A lovely copy; unmarked inside and out, with crisp, beautifully illustrated pages. Remainder dot bottom edge. F/F. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Color Illustrations; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages; 1973 Atheneum. Square format HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original pale green cloth with titles in dark green to cover and spine. Wersba's spare, fantastical prose on verso and Mayer's dreamscape color plates on each facing recto. Solid clean copy with no marks but lacking dst wrapper. Hard to find title. VG View More...
Library of America # 122; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 848 pages; New copy, . Hardcover in jacket still in publisher's sealed shrinkwrap. Prior owner purchased all of her LOA titles as they were released and all aare 1st printings. NEW View More...
Color Reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 235 pages; 1986 University of Washington Press. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. Published to coincide with a major retrospective travelling exhibition of 1986 and 1987. Lovely copy lavishly illustrated with b&w and color reproductions. F/NF View More...
B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages; 1928 William Reeves. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original pebbled red cloth with titles and rules brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to cover. Prior owner has added illustrations from another work on Schubert to the front endpapers and tipped on to the blank verso of several plates. Illustrated with a number of drawings on glossy stock most by Ruby Margaret Whittemore. Mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Solid and very neat. VG++ View More...
B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages; 1945 Harper & Brothers. HC 1st edition stated. Soundly bound in original beige colored cloth with pictorial title design in green and light orange. Lightly shelf cocked in the spine; cloth moderately soiled cover with a stray crayon line and a penned name. Cloth toned at spine and with title lettering fading. Partial crack to endpages at rear; rear endpages bound in upside down. Light handling evidence to pages. Illustrated from Garth Williams line drawings. Good only View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages; 1953 M. S. Mill Co. & Wm Morrow. HC 1st edition. Scarce hardcover 1st edition of White's first novel, adapted for the screen as "mask of Dust" starring Richard Conte. Original black cloth backstrip lettered in white to spine and orange paper covered boards. Spine slightly cocked. A couple of mild scuffs to boards at front top corners. Prior owner name penciled neatly to front endpage. Lacking dust jacket, else VG-. Scarce in hardcover 1st edition examples. View More...
Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 179 pages; 1892 Charles L. Webster. HC 1st edition, 2nd state. Soundly bound in original olive green cloth with embossed series design in black and green to cover and spine and with titles brightly in gilt. Cloth crimped and lightly rubbed at spine ends; corners lightly shelf bumped. 2nd issue with inserted ad at front mentioning availability of Webster published titles from the firm of David McKay. Webster catalog ads at rear. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontis portrait of Whitman. Cloth a bit dulled at spine. VG- View More...
B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages; [SIGNED] 1942 The Limited Editions Club. 2 volumes, oversize 4to in publisher's slipcase. #605 of 1500 copies issued, signed by Edward Weston on the limitation leaf at rear of Vol II. Soundly bound in original toned photo illustrated paper covered boards with leather title labels to spines. Light/moserate shelf rubbing to edges of leather spine labels and just mild shelf rub to paper over boards at spine ends and corner tips. Publisher's brown cloth covered slipace a little shelf rubbed at edges and with some mild silverfish predation patchiness... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages; HC in decorative pictorial cloth with dark green clover pattern set on a lighter green cloth and decorative gilt title design to cover and spine. Mixed 1st issue, 1st edition. The egregious flaw of omitted text from page 325 remains uncorrected; pagination is 327 and the publisher colophon appears on page [328]. The mistake on the copyright page is corrected with "&" present in place of the earlier "and" ; misprint on page 186 remains. Most examples of the misprinted text with omitted passage were destroyed, making this mixed state with cor... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Hardcover in glossy, color pictorial boards. 1st printing with A125125 code on the lower corner of the front pastedown. Marred by prior owner's placement of a reinforcing strip of blue canvas tape over the spine. The contents however are exceeding clean and neat. The boards are bright and clean to surfaces, lightly rubbed along the edges. The contents are printed on very heavy, glossy card stock. The colors are very bright and vibrant. This 1st printing of Wilkin's classic was not matched in quality in later printings. Unfortunate placement of tape; we have lifted th... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 448 pages; 1st printing. Unread ccopy in immaculate dust jacket. Jacket is crisp edged and uniformly bright with publisher's $27 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. As new. F/F View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; 1991 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Oversize, square format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tight bright and fresh in clean, crisp-edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with $18.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Seven word gift inscription penned neatly top edge of the dedication page. Profusely illustrated with color artwork by the Dillons. Attractive copy feels and appears unread, flawed only by the gift inscription. NF/F ...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Color Illustrations; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages; 1991 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Oversize HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $18.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. A gift inscription penned to the blank verso of the front endpage. Just a hint of shelf evidence to jacket edges; contents crisp and fresh. Aside from the gift inscription the book is entirely as new. VG++/NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 48 pages; Tan linen backstrip and brown paper covered boards. 1st Edition stated with complete HBJ letter line. No Caldecott label to the jacket. This example was bound with a reinforced binding designed for library use, but sold at retail. There is a dark star debossed to the rear board and printed to the back panel of the jacket, which is understood to signify a copy designated for sale to the library trade. The book is bright and tight; no marks. Dust jacket is price clipped front flap, has a small mild nick to the front flap fold, a 2" closed tear top edge... View More...
