8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages; 1818 John Murray. London. 1st edition. One of 10.000 copies of the 1st, this copy in a later variant. Bound in original drab paper covered boards with spine toned and small chips missing from the paper covering at spine ends and mid-spine with half of the printed paper title label lost. Boards scuffed and rubbed at edges. Bound with 4 pp of Longman publisher ads at front dated April, 1818 and with single leaf 2pp ad at rear. 4 (ads) , [i-iii], iv-xiv, [2], (1-2) , 3-257, [3] pp. Single leaf, 2 pages of ads at rear. Soundly bound; edges untrimmed. 6 lines on errata... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages; 1811 Brannan and Morford, Philadelphia and E. Morford, Willington, and Co. , Charleston. 1st US edition, from the 3rd London edition. Bound in original letterpress printed, paper covered boards. An early 20th century spine rebacking of buff paper with new endsheets laid down. Complete with original half-title. [2], viii, 86, [bl] pp. Publisher's printed paper over boards show some light soiling and toning to upper cover with shallow chipping to paper at front corners and abrasion at edges; lower board comprising a catalog ad for recent titles by E. Morford ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue - with imprint moved from [70] to verso of p. 71. Retains half-title page. Bound in later cloth backed, paper covered boards with paper title label to the thin spine. Without the original wraps and the 8 page inserted Murray catalog. Small horizontal abrasion to the upper board; presumably a paper title label had been mounted to the center. Board edges lightly rubbed at edges, maroon quarter cloth rubbed and a little thin at spine ends. Small chip missing from the top edge of the half-title. Contents bright and clean; complete save fo... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue. Recased in modern 1/4 brown polished calf and brown cloth boards. 2nd issue, the trade printing, with Byron's name on title page but without watermark in the paper of the text block. Lacking half-title page. Contents clean and generally bright, though with a very mild and faint damp line in the lower spine corner of the title and dedication leaves and with trace rippling to the same portion of the book's pages. A well done rebinding if somewhat utitlitarian. Trace rub to cloth at corner tips. Davison imprint between double rules on t... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; 1919 Robert McBride. HC. 1st edition, 2nd issue. Original marron cloth with a thatched weave; titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. 1st edition of 1919 but the 2nd issue with the broken line in the tuling on page 144 and the depth of the book 1 3/4 inches. Still a very well preserved example with only superficial shelf evidence at tips. Binding snug and contents quite neat. Prior owner has stamped his surname with a very small inkstamp in the gutter of the dedication page. VG+ View More...
Color Plates and b&w reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 288 pages; 1966 Pantheon Books. Oversize HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and neat in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $15 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Bright and clean in oatmeal colored linen cloth with titles in blue, black and white. Dust jacket has a small triangular chip missing bottom edge of front panel, with light shelf rubbing at spine ends. Mild sunning to jacket spine. Publisher's "H" ink stamp to pictorial front endpage likely refers to the chip on the jacket as a "hurt" copy.... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages; 1922 D. Appleton & Company. HC 1st edition, 1st printing with Appleton (1) on final printed leaf. Snugly bound and neat in original blue cloth with titles blocked in gilt to cover and spine. Cloth lightly crimped at spine ends; gilt a trifle dulled at spine. Illustrated with color frontis and b&w plates from photos printed on glossy stock. VG to VG+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; [SIGNED] 1968 Little Brown HC/DJ 1st edition. Warmly inscribed by Hawley to author and fellow prominent Lancaster PA figure, Samuel Slaymaker. Solid clean copy in a clean neat dust jacket with just mild rub at spine ends and edges. VG+/VG; Signed by Author View More...
Ken Holt Mystery Stories #16; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages; 1961 Grosset & Dunlap. HC 1st edition with title list at front ending with this title, "Silver Scorpion." Soundly bound in original tan tweed patterned paper covered boards title lettered in green. Light toning to spine and edges of boards. Illustrated with pictorial endpapers, frontis and a few in text drawings. Mild shelf evidence to edges. No marks with bright clean text. VG- View More...
B&W Plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 107 pages; 1937 Associated Authors. Small format HC snugly bound and fresh in quarter orangel cloth backed spine and pictorial peach paper covered boards. 1st edition. Handsomely illustrated with b&w plates from art work by Bob Campbell. Tightly bound and fresh; cloth at spine a trifle darkened. Sharp and fresh, uncomon early collection of nature writings and lectures by the author. VG++ or better View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; 1952 Random House HC/DJ 1st printing of the dramatic treatment done by Capote, first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 27, 1952. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's$2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light general toning to the whites of the jacket design; mild shelf rubbing jacket edges and very small instance of silverfish predation to several letters of the title at spine. Trace residue of the black adheive commonly used in the edge of older period dust jacket protectors, visible to bottom edge of the board... View More...
B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 170 pages; Large-format paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, snug and clean; no marks. Mildly reader-creased spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1989 Harry N. Abrams. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. Lushly illustrated from color art work by Graeme Base. About as new. F/F View More...
Modern Library 79.1; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 351 pages; Circa 1925/26 Modern Library. Flexible brown leatherette. Binding style 4 with Bernhard running man on cover and Bernhard illustrated endpages. Cloth rubbed at edges with shallow chipping yo spine ends. Moderate vertical creasing to spine edge and rear board. General toning to endpages and light toning to page stock. With Tenniel illustrations including the long-neck Alice on page 35. Prior owner name top edge of front endpage. Some scattered pencil underlining and occasional notation in the Wonderland but not the other tit... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 351 pages; 1924 Boni & Liveright. 1st Modern Library printing. Flexible green leatherette in binding style 3 with B&L scribe logo centered to the front cover. A well loved copy worn from prior reading and use. Spine slightly concave with a light vertical crease, some rubbing and mild loss to gilt title lettering and trace fray at spine ends. Some rippling to the cloth over the covers; Brodzky pictorial endpapers a little distresses from the flexibility of the covers. Several short closed tears to pastedowns mended with archival japanes kozo judiciously a... View More...
Chromo-lithograph; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 56 pages; 1890 [1899] Macmillan & Co. , New York. 1st edition, American issue. [12], 56, [5], [2] pp. Illustrated with enlarged plates from Tenniel's original drawings, here printed in color. Chromolithograph illustrations on front and rear cover designed and colored by Thomson. Published using the original 1889 toned sheets printed by Edmund Evans, which were rejected by Carroll. Four thousand of the original 10,000 sets were sent to America and published with a replaced New York title page dated 1890. The other 6000 sets were held back and not iss... View More...
A367X; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 153 pages; 1968 Award Books A367X. 1st edition paperback original. Mass market paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh with flat uncreased spine and sharp edges. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF View More...
A406X; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 154 pages; 1969 Award Books A406X. Paperback original 1st printing. Mass market paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, tight and fresh with flat uncreased spine and sharp edges. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Soundly bound in tahtched purple cloth with title panels in gilt to cover and with title lettering in gilt to spine. In scarce original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket moderately sunned at spine; with light general toning to surfaces and considerable rubbing and wear at edges. Shallow nicks and chipping along jacket edges and spine ends; scrunching and closed tears to jacket top front corner. See photos for jacket condition. Hardy's 1s... View More...
