8vo 8" - 9" tall; 477 pages; 1925 Macmillan. Early reprinting of the original edition. Soundly bound in original red cloth with title design in gilt to cover and spine. Introduced by Dobson and with b&w illust by Hugh Thomson. Binding just slightly out of square and a little shaken. Prior owner name penned neatly to front endpage. Mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 410 pages; 2015 Clarendon Press, Oxford. HC/DJ.Vol. IV [4], 1788. Paged continuously with Vol III, the 2 volumes together detail the single year of 1788. This vol paged (after preliminary pages) 347 -757 and including an idex to both vols. Superb unread copy entirely as new. Tight, bright and fresh in immaculate dust jacket. Entirely as new. F/F View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 453 pages; Full leather binding is well worn with front board detached and rear board haning by threads. Leather at spine dry and cracked; title labels missing. Text block snug and clean; prior ownership ink stamp top corner of front endpage. Text block VG but binding poor. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Printed for the author by ITESA, Santo Domingo. Paperback in matte title lettered wraps. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author top edge of the preface page. Wraps with spine unlettered, as issued. Light rub and stress to spine surface at ends. Mild horizontal stressing across the spine. Solid clean copy. VG-; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages; 1921 John Lane, the Bodley Head. HC 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original olive green cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. Cloth a trifle sun toned at spine; mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Solid and neat. VG or better 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; [ASSOCIATION COPY - Queen Adelaide with her bookplate and signature] 1821 & 1823. John Murray & John Hunt. Two volumes in one, including the more difficult John Hunt published "The Island". 1st edition, 1st variant of Marino Faliero with Doge speech in 151 in 5 1/2 lines. Soundly bound in period 1/2 polished calf over marbled paper boards; ruling across spine in gilt and blind with black morocco title label. "Faliero" bound with half-title but lacking ad leaf at rear; "Island" lacking half-title and adverts leaf at rear. xxi,[1],261,[1]pp.; ... 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...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 2nd printing (before publication). Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket has a thin swath missing from the bottom edge of the front panel and a dime sized chip missing front the lower front corner. Shallow chip missing from the crown of the jacket spine panel. Binding snug and contents clean with no marks. VG+/VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original brown cloth with decorative borders and rules in blind to boards; gilt title lettering to spine dulled but legible. Light mottling/fading to cloth boards; spine a bit faded and dulled. Light shelf rubbing to cloth at tips and spine ends. Prior ownership of mid 19th century Belles letres society with a bookplate to front pastedown, annotated with a variety of numerals, some of which have been inked out. Text bright and generally clean with just occasional mild instance of spotting. G++ to VG- 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...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 417 pages; 1965 The University of North Carolina Press. Oversize HC in slate gray cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Mild shelf rubbing to cloth at spine ends and trace dulling to gilt at spine. VG- View More...
Engraved frontis and title page; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 323 pages; HC in original green cloth with pictorial and floral designs in blind to boards and spine; title lettering in gitl to spine. vi, 7 - 323 pp. followed by one page of ads for the Fireside Series. Soundly bound copy with wear and a hint of fraying to cloth at spine ends and tips. Corners slightly bruised. Short narrow run in the cloth in the front hinge. One signature starting slightly mid-book. Uusal light general toning to page stock with scattered mild foxing. Extra engraved title page and tissue guarded engraved frontis. ... View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 213 pages; Soundly bound in original brown cloth. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine ends; light fraying and bumping to corners. Prior ownership of a small college Philosophical Society with bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing and toning to page stock. Uncommon in original edition. Good or a little better View More...
Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 624 pages; Inscribed very warmly on the title page to Jere Real and dated 23 April, 1985. The inscription thanks Real for bringing her to Lynchburg in 1984 as a guest and helping her to become the Thornton Writer in Residence for 1985. Jere Real was a professor at Lynchburg College; he coordinated visits and played host to the authors who appeared at the college as part of the Thornton Writer-in-Residence and Guest Reader program. Soundly bound and clean with mild shelf/handling rub to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket stressed and crimped at sp... 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...
