8vo 8" - 9" tall; 101 pages; 1935 Macmillan. HC/DJ 2nd printing. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $1.75 issue price intact to unclipped front flap and with Pulitzer Prize belly band also present. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Usual gutter toning in the endpaper hinges, ubiquitous in books of the 1930's. Pictorial dust jacket lightly toned at spine and edges with several small chips and a short closed tear at edges. Cream colored belly band lettered in red announcing the Pulitzer Prize for Coffin's collection of poems has some toning at spine, light foxi... View More...
B&W figures; photos and facsimile; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 392 pages; Square format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Illustrated with b&w facsimiles of correspondence, reproductions of illustrations etc. NF/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; 2006 McClelland & Stewart HC/DJ. Bright, tight and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with $32.99 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears unread. Fresh crisp copy about as new. F/F View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 210 pages; 1975 Cambridge University Press. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF/NF View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 571 pages; 1972 Alfred A. Knopf. Stout HC/DJ. Reprint; book club edition with unpriced dust jacket. Binding identical to trade edition with full red cloth, title lettered in gilt to spine. Publisher's blue/black top stain bold and undiminished. Dust jacket crisp edged and clean with just mild toning to whites. No marks. VG++/VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 289 & 276 pages; Very uncommon Tauchnitz published edition, issued concurrently with the Chatto London edition. 2 vols in 1. Bound in 1/4 red leather with marbled paper covered boards. Spine slightly cocked; spine edges and surfaces of raised bands are lightly rubbed. Marbled paper boards lightly rubbed corners. Binding firm and enpages neat. Silk bookmark sewn in. Chatto & Windus published the work in 3 vols, 1879; Tauchnitz in 2 vol edition simultaneously. Tauchnitz, who was a personal friend of Collins, was an important publisher of English literary works ... View More...
Color and b&wplates; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 274 pages; 2001 Cypher At Maggs Bros. HC/DJ. Limited edition of the 2001 reissue; this copy among the 25 copies reserved for contributors, with Beerbohm scholar Ira Grushow's name penned on the limitation line at rear. Tightly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket, just slightly sunned at spine and with a razored unobtrusive score across the jacket spine panel. Hint of dust spotting top edge. Illustrated with several color and b&w plates. NF/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages; Snug and very neat in original title-lettered dust jacket; front flap corner clipped but retaining the publisher's $3.00 issue price. Slight shelf wear to jacket spine ends and light toning to the unlaminated cream background areas of the jacket. Just slightly shelf-cocked in the spine; superficial shelf bump to lower front corners of the boards. VG++/VG++ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 2498 pages; 1985 Library of America. Two volumes. HC/DJ 1st edition. Unread copies tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jackets. Slight box storage evidence with superficial horizontal pressure creases across the jacket spine and trace pressure evidence to extremities. 1347; 1051 pp Unread copies. VG++/VG++ or better. ... Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 880 pages; 1st printing of this omnibus edition containing all the stories from three earlier collections, The Black Dog, The Field of Mustard, and Silver Circus. Publisher's yellow cloth with title design stamped in red to cover and spine. Soundly bound and clean, with no marks. Cloth sunned and toning to spine with some brittleness observed with flaking to the spine ends. Contents snug, clean and supple. Fresh mylar cover added to preserve still attractive appearance. Good plus View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 370 pages; HC early printing soundly bound in original dark blue cloth with title lettering in white and decorative corner pieces in blind. White title lettering at spine flaked and faded, rather indistinct. Yext block bright and clean. G++ View More...
12mo 7" - 7" tall; 267 pages; 1st Modern Library edition with 1st eition statement on copyright pages. 1st state dust jacket priced 95 cents on unclipped front flap and with 281 titles in the ML catalog on the reverse surface of the jacket. Snugly bound and neat in red cloth with gray top stain. Dust jacket is clean with light shelf rubbing to edges but with significant sunning and fading to the spine panel. Titles and design distinct but much faded. Light shelf tapping to boards at corner tips; prior owner name penned dimly to front pastedown. 1st ML ed in 1st state dust jacket with faded sp... View More...
Very good. No dust jacket. ; 453 pages; Square and sound. Original heavy blue cloth with titles in gilt to cover and spine. Light shelf evidence/rub to edges and corners. Binding sound but a little shaken. Prior owner inscription and 1902 date on front endpg. Uncommon turn of the century fiction. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 666 pages; 2 volume set. 1st edition. Uniformly bound in publisher's green linen with titles and designs brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Illustrated with tissue guarded frontis plates and plates in text, by A. Castaigne. Volume 2 is just slightly cocked in the spine. Light shelf evidence at edges. Prior ownership inside front cover both volumes. A bright and attractive example. VG to VG+ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 623 pages; 1st American edition. Original heavy yellow cloth with title designs in maroon and gilt. Tile lettering rubbed abd moderately dulled at spine. Soundly bound and unmarked but with spines of both volumes lightly cocked. Light dust spotting/shelf soiling to board edges both vols. Uncommon 1st edition. VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Scarce. Ex lending library copy. Dust jacklet complete and generally bright though the flaps are firmly glued to the pastedowns. Soundly bound and generally decent. Two different rental library stamps to front flyleaf and the remanant of another label to the front pastedown. The whole dust jacket had been laid down on an underlayment of brown paper and then glued to the pastedowns. Boards have pictorial design matching the pictorial elements of the jacket. Shelf rub to the upper and lower board edges. Jacket rubbed at edges and a little to surfaces. Fresh ... View More...
frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 234 pages; Presumed 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket. Publisher's brown cloth with title lettering and border ruling in black; cloth lightly crimped at spine ends. Prior owner name penned to front pastedown. Cream white dust jacket with photo of Emerson's home and title lettering to cover panel. Jacket with light general shelf soiling and mild toning; missing shallow chips from vase of spine panel and lower front corner of the cover panel. Uncommon in jacket. VG+/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages; 1978 Random House. HC/DJ is tightly bound and neat in sharp edged and neat color pictorial dust jacket. Book club reprint. Feels and appears unread; no marks. Jacket lightly toned to whites of spine with a pair of very small drip outlines same. NF/VG View More...
