Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1006 pages; 1st editions both volumes. 692 & 314 pp. Handsomely printed in double columns with tissue guards between each printed page. Uniformly bound in original heavy green cloth with beveled edge boards and titles brightly in gilt to spines. Light ex-library ownership indications with catalog label base of spine and minimal attachments to endpages. Both volumes snugly bound and generally neat with mild pulling to cloth at spine ends and light rubbing to cloth at extremities. Aside from ex-library indications a VG set. G++ thus. .. Oversize book will requir... View More...
French Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 249 pages; 1956 Picard. In original printed wraps. Solid clean copy; no marks. Evidence only of casual perusal. VG+ View More...
3rd Edition; B&W Photograph frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 235 pages; HC. 3rd edition. Snug, solid and neat in red cloth with title-lettering in gilt; spine unlettered, as issued. Corners lightly bumped and worn; spine ends slightly pulled. A few notes in colored pencil to front endpapers and sporadic light notations to three pages in text. B/W frontis. Several pages of publisher ads at rear. A novel about a Utopian community established off the coast of California. VG- View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 297 pages; 1906 Avisador, Habana. 2nd edition. Soundly bound in period 1/4 leather backed spine and marbled paper covered boards. Horizontal rules and titles in gilt to spine. Patterned ensheets; original titled wraps bound in. Light to moderate toning to endpaper edges; light general toning to page stock. Light shelf rubbing to binding externals. Quite uncommon in the original edition. VG View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 246 pages; [SIGNED] 2007 McClelland & Stewart. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $32.99 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread. Signed by the author on the title page without inscription. Sharp copy. NF/NF; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 335 pages; Square, sound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in royal purple cloth with title lettering brightly in gilt to spine; no marks. Jacket is just very slightly nicked at edges with light to moderate sun fading to the green background at the spine panel; title lettering remains bold. Jacket price clipped front flap. Author's first novel. NF/VG+ View More...
Twayne's United States Authors Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages; Bright solid copy, with just minimal library indications. Lib. stamp top edge of page blocj and base of title page. Dust jacket immaculate. No other library marks. One page mid book has a wrinkle pattern consistent with a cold drink being momentarily set atop the page to kep the book open. G+++/NF View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages; HC/DJ 1st and only edition. Rare. Bound in publisher's bright orange cloth with decorative title lettering brightly in gilt to cover and spine. In the original brown paper dust jacket lettered in black and ruled in red. A tight, clean copy with just superficial crimping to cloth at spine ends. A shallow swath of the dust jacket is missing along the top edge of the front panel. A light damp discoloration to the lower third of the jacket's spine panel does not show any effect on the book's cloth or contents. Quite rare, this posthumously published novel is ... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 777 pages; 1957 Alfred A. Knopf. Stout HC/DJ 3rd printing. Snugly bound and neat in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Contents clean and unmarked. Jacket mild toned and lightly shelf rubbed edges. Superficial small damp exposure top corner rear board with trace offset of green from cloth to the top edge of the last handful of pages. VG/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 351 pages; 1957 Librairie Nizet. Larger 8vo paperback in title lettered wraps. Snugly bound and clean. No marks. Much of the books pages unopened at edges. Expected light general toning to page stock. VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; Advance Review Copy. 1st edition, 1st printing - pre-publication. Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated falp-fold covers. Publisher's promotional letter laid in at front. Unread copy is crisp and fresh. As new. Fine View More...
French Edition; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 302 pages; 1965 Societe D'Edition D'Enseignement Superieur. In original printed wraps. Bright, clean copy; no marks. Appears unread and about as new. View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages; 1974 Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket with publisher's $7.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket with just mild toning at spine and shallow fray at crown of spine panel; superficial shelf rubbing to jacket edges. Denham's 2nd novel with blurbs by David Markson on the rear panel and by Donald Honig on the front flap; apparently Denham's literary agent was Elaine Markson. Laid in at front is a clipping about Denham's much later 2006 memoir and a saucy photograph apprently clipp... View More...
French Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; 1962 Presses Universitaires De France. Bound in original glossy, pictorial wraps. Solid clean copy; no marks. Evidence only of casual perusal. VG View More...
Chromolitho Frontis and B&w plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 144 pages; Circa [1906] McLoughlin Brothers. Larger octavo HC soundly bound in original green cloth with decorative pictorial design red, black, blue and white to cover and title design in black to spine. Titled at spine and cover as "A Christmas Carol." Chromolithograph frontis from A Christmas Carol suggests a printing date of 1900 -1909. Around 1909-1910 we have observed that the McLoghlin titles replaced the chromolitho printed color plate with a color litho platePeriod floral patterned endpapers with usual expected toning and b... View More...
Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 500 pages; [1861] T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia. With several engraved plates by Leech & Maclise. Snugly bound and very neat, recased with original publisher's brown cloth laid down over new boards and spine. Decorative pictorial title designs brightly in gilt to spines; boards embellished in blind. This set professionally recased in matching color cloth, retaining most of the original cloth. Tissue guarded frontis and extra engraved title page. Endpages refreshed. Prior owner bookplate to front pastedowns over evidence of an earlier bookplate removal. Han... View More...
B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 188 pages; 1914 H. S. Nichols, New York. HC 12mo in original ribbed red cloth with borders in blind and decorative pictorial titles in gilt; all edges gilt. 1st edition, thus. One of several volumes of Dickens' works published by Nichols in faithful facsimile from early/1st editions. Includes a new introduction with bibliographic information. Original engraved title pages reproduced along with the text and plates.Snug, neat copy with light sunning to cloth at spine but otherwise very sharp. VG+ View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; 1977 Simon & Schuster. HC/DJ 3rd printing. Snugly bound and clen in original dust jacket with publisher's $8.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Small remainder mark bottom edge. Jacket lightly toned at edges with a touch of sun blanching at spine. Boards with mild fading to the slate black color at top and bottom edges; mild splay at front edge. VG-/VG- View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages; 2011 Alfred A. Knopf. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's$25 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears unread; no marks. Hint of shelf evidence to jacket extremities. About as new. F/NF View More...
