12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 216 pages; HC/DJ. Apparent and presumed 1st edition. Swift title list on jacket flap lists 28 titles, ending with "Chest of Secrets" ; ad at rear of book lists 27 Swift titles, not including not including"Chest of Secrets". Sound dust jacketed copy in original mustard yellow cloth with "quad" design of illustrations in red and green. Pictorial dust jacket is bright, with a nickel sized chip missing from the top edge of the rear panel and a few very small chips/nicks from the spine ends and corners. There are several short closed tears at ja... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 216 pages; 1859 GG Evans Philadelphia HC in deeply blind stamped brown cloth boards. Titles in gilt to spine dulled. Binding snug and firm. No marks. Mild foxing to frontis and tissue guard. Largely unfoxed text block. Mild rub through to a few spots at board edges. Solid and clean. VG- View More...
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 118 pages; 1980 Penguin Books. Oblong format paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Snugly bound and clean; no marks. Just superficial shelf evidence to cover edges. VG+ View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 341 pages; [SIGNED] 1964 Houghton Mifflin Company. HC/DJ 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by Auchincloss on the front flyleaf for the sister of a good friend. Soundly bound and clean but in a worn dust jacket. Jacket rubbed and chipped at edges with shallow chipping at spine ends, nicks from corners and general surface rubbing. Light sun fading to jacket at spine. Binding a little shalf cocked; boards lightly shelf tapped at tips. VG-/G; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages; 1968 Faber & Faber. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original 4 color title lettered dust jacket with issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light shelf bump top front corner of the page block has resulted in about 20 leaves mid-book with a light stress crease across the corner. Light shelf evidence to jacket externals prior owner's small cursive style name stamp to front endpage. Contents clean and unmarked. VG/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1951 Faber & Faber. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original title lettered dust jacket. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; contents clean and neat. Jacket rubbed and worn with overall general toning, heavier at spine. Jacket with several closed tears at spine and edges; old tape mends to reverse of jacket at spine ends and a few shallow edge chips. An old store price sticker to front jacket panel; front flap with a deep price clip to bottom corner. VG/G View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 123 pages; 1939 Faber & Faber. HC/DJ 2nd printing. Soundly bound and generally neat in original graphic title lettered dust jacket. Jacket price clipped bottom corner front flap and lightly toned and shelf rubbed. Prior owner name penned neatly to front pastedown beneath the front jacket flap. VG/VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 329 pages; 1975 Houghton Mifflin Company. HC/DJ. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright wraparound color pictorial dust jacket. Full cloth binding with 1975 date on title page but with no price to the jacket flap and a book clum indent to the base of the rear board. Book club issue in materials and binding identical to the first. Trace shelf rubbing to jacket at spine ends. Feels and appears generally unread. NF/VG++ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 1937 Doubleday Doran HC . 1st edition. Original blue cloth with titles and spine vignette/illustration in darker blue. Square sound and clean; no marks. Just very mild toning to spine; endpages mildly toned. All else very neat. Lacks DJ - else VG View More...
L'Homme At Son Oeuvre; French Edition; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 392 pages; 1949 Librairie Artheme Fayard . In original printed wraps. Solid copy; no marks. Appears unread. Expected uniform toning to page stock. Prior owner bookplate detached inside rear with light glue residue remaining. Publisher issued onion skin dust jacket just lightly rubbed edges. Significant toning to page stock but generally found in all copies. Thus VG/VG+ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 200 pages; 1948 Sidgwick and Jackson . HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket. Prior owner name stamp to front pastedown; her light pencil underlining in the essay on Auden, on whose work she wrote her doctoral disertation. Else clean and solid with light to moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities. VG-/VG- View More...
Library of America #98; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 869 pages; 1988 Library of America. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing of the LOA edition. Tightly bound and very neat; feels and appears unread. Dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price to front flap is sharp and bright with just a few trace instances of shelf evidence to edges. A handful of pages mid-book a trifle bumped from box storage. NF/VG++ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 180 pages; [SIGNED] 1899 Harper & Brothers. HC. Publisher's limited edition of 500 copies: "Author's Autograph Edition." Author signed limitation bookplate - numbered 337 of 500 - mounted to the front pastedown. Bookplate is done in a striking Arts & Crafts design. Decorative pictorial binding with a Newell designed 4 color pictorial panel to the cover board. Title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. Illustration and gilt are bright. Mild soling to cloth and moderate darkening to spine; mild streaks of smoke staining to rear board and top edge. Contents b... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 464 pages; 2019 Grand Central Publishing. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Bright tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and as new. No marks. F/F View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 611 pages; 6th printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. On the verso of the title page the author has inscribed an appreciation and signed with August 1934 date. Notably this page appears to have been excised, and judging by the folds, sent through the mails. Perhaps the book's owner mailed the page to the author for the signature? The page is reattached to the stub from which it was apparently removed. Dust jacket worn with rubbing at edges and several small chips and short tears. Flap folds loose with a mild accordion fold to the front e... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; 1981 University of Delaware Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original dust jacket. Jacket rubbed and with several ships from edges. VG+/VG- View More...
Willow Leaf Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; 1959 Charles Scribner's Sons. HC/DJ Reprint. Snugly bound and very neat in original color pictorial dust jacket. Bound in heavy pictorial cloth in a design matching the jacket art. Jacket price clipped front flap, lightly toned at spine and with trace shelf rubbing and a few short closed tears at edges. Illustrated from b&w drawings by Nora Unwin. Attractive copy. NF/VG View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 392 pages; Snugly bound in publisher's heavy blue cloth, ornately embellished with pictorial vine and berry designs in gilt and green to cover and spine. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Just very mild shelf evidence to boards at edges. Mild foxing to the untrimmed page bolock edges. Armorial bookplate with Fowler name and "Watch and Pray" motto is mounted to the front pastedown. VG copy View More...
Text in English, [8] leaves of Portraits, Plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1st english language edition. #494 of 650 hand numbered copies of the 1st printing. (copies numbered 401-650 were distributed in the US by Random House) Sound neat copy. Bright blue cloth with very bright gilt titling to spine and gilt blocked fascimile authograph of Baudelaire on cover board. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Retains most of the rare original glassine dust wrapper; only a 2" wide swath missing across the lower edge of the upper board and spine. 2 short strips of old cellophane applie... View More...