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...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Hardcover in original pictorial dust jacket. General wear to dust jacket at corners and edges. Bottom quarter of dust jacket spine end chipped away and missing. Light color mudging and tonig to the cream background of the jacket's rear panel. Sporadic minor pencil underlining and bracketing scattered in text. Two plays in one volume. G++/G+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; Early printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Reissue from the 1940 Stokes edition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with some shallow nicks and tiny chips to spine ends. Just mild fading to spine panel; a mild stray pencil doodle to the front panel. An attractive and neat copy in dust jacket. VG+/VG View More...
Library of America # 49; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 988 pages; 1990 Library of America # 49. 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 $32.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. About as new. NF/NF View More...
Biblioteca Dei Ragazzi #3; Tipped in color plates and in text line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; No date given; circa 1920's. Biblioteca Dei Ragazzi #3. Publisher's metallic green cloth with thatched pattern and motif of fleur de lis stamped in white and red. Titles in gilt to cover. Publisher's pictorial dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges and surfaces with light toning. A few short closed tears and nicks to jacket. Illustrated with 10 tipped in color plates mounted on heavy stock gray paper. Accompanied by in text line illustrations. Endpage joints tender. Uncommon and ... View More...
Engraved Plates; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1562 pages; 1820 Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 4 volumes, complete. In an edition 1st issued with 20 tissue-guarded black and white steel-engraved plates by Charles Heath after drawings by Richard Westall. Xx, 371; [iv], 388; [vi], 367; [vi], 436 pp. Polished brown calf with gilt rules and extra gilt spines. Boards detached and lacking from Vol I. Rear board of Vol IV detached and front tenuously attached. Extra gilt spines still bright and complete. Vol I & II have light damp lines bottom 1/4 of the plates, not showing on text pages. Vol I has light to moderate... View More...
B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 86 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Snugly bound and neat. Mild general shelf/handling wear to covers; mild edgewear and corners lightly bumped with light shelf rub to surfaces. Contents crisp and clean. Neat unmarked copy. VG+ ...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Library of America # 79 & 80; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2274 pages; 1995 Library of America. Two volumes, numbers 79 & 80 in the LOA series. 1198; 1076 pp. Both volumes 1st printings in the dust jacketed version. Very tightly bound, unread copies in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jackets with publisher's $35 issue prices intact to unclipped front flaps. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket edges. Publisher's silk bookmarks sewn in. Handsome and fresh, a definitive collection. About as new. F/NF ... Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipp... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 356 pages; Paperback is tight, bright and fresh in glossy pictorial covers. Just a hint of wear to exteriors. Appears and feels unread; about as new. An uncorrected proof/ advance reader's edition. VG++ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 189 pages; 1898 Harpers HC in decoratively gilt stamped and illustrated green cloth. Square sound and neat. Just faint shelf rub edges and mild toning to spine. Gilt titles bright; cover ills in three colors. School headmaster or teacher inscription on front endpage. Solid and clean VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages; 1973 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $5.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Trace shelf evidence to jacket edges and a tiny spot of soil to the front edge of the page block. Handsome and well preserved. NF/NF View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 524 pages; Sound decent copy with cloth at spine well toned and darkened but with title lettering legible. Hinges tender in the endpaper joints with evidence of a prior owner's glue mending to partiall split endpage at front. Endpages holding tenuously at rear. Text block sound and unmarked; mild evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Reading or reference copy is near Good View More...
Color Plates; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 607 pages; 1912 Macmillan. Stout small quarto in full blue cloth with elaborate gilt decorative pictorial design to cover and spine. 1st edition thus. Lavishly illustrated with beutiful color plates with lettered tissue guards from art by Warwick Goble. Cloth crimped and rubbed with trace dray at spine ends; a short 2 inch tear to the cloth along the rear joint at crown has been archivally mended with minimal application of PVA. Cloth and gilt at spine a little dulled. Gift inscription to front blank endpage dated Christmas 1912. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. An exceptionally nice copy. NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. A few pages opened a little roughly at front edge with a few more remaining unopened. An exceptionally nice copy. NF View More...
Color Plates; b&w reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 460 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. Snugly bound and clean in original glossy, color pictorial dust jacket. Text in multiple languages, including Slovak, also German, Russian, English and French. Solid neat copy. Illustrated. VG+/VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 529 pages; 1977 Dodd, Mead & Co Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price clipped front flap, rubbed and chipped at edges with furring and partial tears to front flap fold. 1978 gift inscription penned to front endpage; publisher's purple top stain faded. Jacket a bit sun faded at spine. Sound but worn. G+/G+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; 1967 Russell & Russell HC in blue cloth binding. Square snug copy; deaccesioned from an academic college library with call lable base of spine, bookplate front pastedown and mild card pocket removal scar rear pastedown. Solid clean copuy appears perhaps never checked out or read. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1335 pages; In publisher's title lettered card stock covers. Bright clean copies; no marks. Expected mild toning to page stock . Volume I has some mild evidence of prior regluing of covers over spine. Bright supple set. VG- to VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
