Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages; 1946 Doubleday & Company. HC/DJ 1st American edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Text is clean and neat; no marks. Several mild stress wrinkles to cloth over boards and a mild shelf bump top front corner. Jacket edge rubbed with shallow nicks and short closed tears. VG/VG- View More...
B&W Figures, Half-tones and folding chart; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; 1908 Dayton C. Miller. HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original dark blue cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Mild shelf bump top front corner. Front flyleaf removed. Illustrated throughout with b&w figures, half-tones and a folding pictorial chart. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 514 pages; HC 1st edition.Soundly bound in original blue cloth with pictorial design to upper board in blind; title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. T.e.g. Cloth lightly rubbed at corners with trace fray at spine ends. Endpages toned; just expected mild toning to page stock. VG- View More...
Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages; 1st edition. Oversize paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, fresh and neat with just a whisper of shelf evidence to covers at edges. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Trace shelf soiling to cover. Handsome copy. The very uncommon first mail order publication from Joe Bonomo. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages; Snugly bound and clean in original floral patterned dust jacket with $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner name and address penned to front endpage; a few early leaves opened a little roughly at the front edge. Dust jacket lightly toned to spine edge with shallow chipping and a few closed tears at edges. VG+/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 284 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original black cloth with titles in orange to cover and spine. Orange lettering at spine fading to yellow. Slick orange endpapers clean and neat. Mild shelf bump to top front corners. VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 286 pages; 1970 E. P. Dutton. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Text fresh and clean; no marks of any kind. Cloth just very slightly fading top edges of boards; superficial shelf tap top front corner of page block. Jacket with superficial shelf rubbing edges and surfaces. Handsome copy. VG++/VG++ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages; 1st edition. Inscribed and signed on the front flyleaf - "To Jane and Ogden // You will find all that needs to be said in the verses // Frankie and Carl" and signed again on the title page with the title repeated in manuscript and signed in full. Snugly bound and clean; dust jacket with arresting and attractive art deco illustration by John Funk has shallow nicks at corners and spine ends. Some closed cracks and short splits to spine panel held nicely under archival mylar jacket cover. Frontispiece by Funk reproduces the jacket pictorial design. NF... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; A neat, solid copy in bright, attractive dust jacket. Just very slightly cocked in the spine. A hint of wear and mild toning to the dust jacket. Signed by author. NF/VG++; Signed by Author View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 470 pages; N glossy pictorial covers. Signed by Bova on the title page. Snugly bound and clean with uncreased spine and just light edge and surface wear. A short mild scrape to the front spine edge. Expected mild toning to page stock. Signed 1st. VG; Signed by Author View More...
Advance Uncorrected Proof; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 422 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof. In glossy pictorial covers. Bright tight and fresh; unread copy. No marks. Uniformly crisp and fresh with just trace storage/shelf evidence to cover extremities. Very nearly Fine View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 321 pages; HC 1st edition. Soundly bound in original light gray cloth with titles in silver to spine. Usual and expected toning to endpage hinges usually seen in books from the 1930's. Light soiling to cloth at board edges; publisher top stain a little dulled. Lacking dust wrapper but otherwise near VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; 1984 Viking HC/DJ 1st printing. Bright, solid copy in a clean, crisp dust jacket. $16.95 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Light foxing to pastedowns underneath flaps and light dust soiling to top edge. Spine slightly out of square. VG to VG+ copy in an about Fine dust jacket. Boyle's 3rd book. View More...
4to 11" - 13" tall; 103 pages; 1930 Editions Kra. 1st edition. Large format paperback in the scarce, original glassine dust jacket. A notoriously fragile publication, this example has been very well preserved by virtue of the intact glassine dust cover. The usual and expected halo toning to the page stock. A mild nick to the dust jacket and cover stock at the crown. A small prior ownership ink stamp in the gutter of page 1. Several pages unopened along the top edge. Though suffering from the usual halo toning, this is really a nicely preserved copy, quite uncommonly seen in the original dust ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 239 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket withpublisher's $6.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed at edges with a pair of short nicks to the bottom edge of the rear panel. Lightly toned to jacket spine surface. Solid clean copy. VG++/VG View More...
B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 437 pages; 1927 Elizabeth Ann Guild. Large octavo HC/DJ. In a rarely seen dust jacket variant and with different pagination and layout from the more commonly seen edition of 1927. A bold large font notice "Six Burly Men" on a cut paper slip is tipped onto the front flyleaf and not bound in as a page in the book. The dust jacket is in dark brown paper lettered in yellow, with the front flap presented in the form of a prospectus for the book and with the $5 price indicated in the text of the front and rear covers. I presume this an earlier copy than the... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 292 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Turnbull and Spears at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Trace crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour 117.0] VG- to VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages; Inscribed and signed by the author on the recto of the 2nd free endpage. Soundly bound and generally clean and neat in original dust jacket. Cream linen boards with title design in black and gilt; publisher's red top stain still solid and bright. Binding a little shaken in the spine; light foxing to the front edge of the text block. Dust jacketlightly rubbed at edges; two vertical stress creases to the front flap of the jacket which retains the $4.50 issue price despite a shallow corner clip from the top corner. An old secondary price inconspiocuouly marke... View More...
Library of America # 103; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 914 pages; 1998 Library of America # 103. HC/DJ 1st printing of the LOA edition. Very tightly bound, unread copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Trace shelf evidence to jacket surfaces. About as new. F/NF View More...
