TWO ALICE STATUES IN CENTRAL PARK (and) ALICE IN CENTRAL PARK - STATUES IN WONDERLAND (2 titles)
Wassaic NY: Fotobs Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Companion titles, both unused, with gift inscriptions. More
Wassaic NY: Fotobs Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Companion titles, both unused, with gift inscriptions. More
London: Macmillan, 1876. Holiday, Henry (illustrations and cover pictorials by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's brown cloth, with different pictorials front and back stamped in black, aeg, black endpapers. Cores bumped and slightly own, spine a wee darkened. Book shop ticket lower right corner front pastedown for G. A Poynder, Second-Hand..... More
NY: Macmillan and Co, 1885. Later Edition. Hardcover. Title page states "New edition in one volume." Green cloth over boards, gilt title on spine, gilt Cheshire Cat on front cover, and blind embossed Queen of Hearts on back cover. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass each have their..... More
NY: M. Witmark & Sons, 1905. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial softcover, cloth spin e, large 8vo, 131 pages. Vocal score for Mitchell's staged, musical version of Alice in Wonderland, in three acts. Cover art by Edgar Keller. Cover's worn, binding loosening. Scarce - seldom found in the marketplace, and..... More
London: Macmillan, 1893. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A solid pair of fist editions, in uniform bindings of Sylvie and Bruno (18930 and its sequel Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893). original salmon red linen covers with figures centered and triple ruled both front and back; gilt spine titles, aeg. Spines moderately soiled..... More
NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Clean, sound, better than very good copy in hard-to-find dw that mathes design of book covers - somewhat soiled with some incidental narrow loss here and there along edges. more at spine tips. Quite presentable as a collectible copy. More
NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid, clean copy - no name, inscriptions or bookplates - lackind dw. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fitzgerald's first book. Ownership copy pf American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic essayist, and all around intellectual Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990) with his and his wife Sophia's name in his hand on the ffe, which also has an..... More
Woodstock VT: The Countryman Press, 1981. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. This copy P of 26 lettered copies reserved for use of the author, artist and publisher, boxed. Signed by poet Levertov and artist Coolidge on the colophon. (The more common limited version was 176 copies). Also inscribed by Levertov at..... More
[Port Townsend]: Copper Canyon Press, 1981. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. 10 copies printed on Hayle paper, this numbered 1 and signed by Levertov on the colophon. (The more common version of about 240 copies was printed on Frankfurt paper.) Also inscribed by her on the ffe to close friends American..... More
New York: The Newspaper guild of New York, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Chunks of jacket missing. Gentle toning throughout text. More
NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both author Lewis and author Smith on the half title. Burgundy cloth, silver stamped titles. Spine a wee faded, dime-size discoloration front cover. Internals fine. More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid copy, the book itself quite nice with little of the wear to the stamped orange as is usually seen. First issue, with the "C" instead of a fully formed "G" on spine title. First dustjacket, with $2.50 price. Dustjacket is soiled and..... More
London: Chat, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Ownership copy of publisher and poet James Laughlin (1914-1997), founder of New Directions, which published modernist poets like William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings. This copy was owned by Laughlin as a strudent..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. just the slightest bit of wear at spine ends and corners, not price clipped, no previous owner marks. More
Chicago/ NY: Lakeside Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near fine copy, no bookplates or names, apparently unread in cardboard slipcase that has been tape repaired at the seams and around the paper label on the slipcase. More
NY: The Johnson Company Publishers, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by artist Charles Smith, best known for his woodcuts, to intellectual extraodinaire Lewis Mumford on the last page of the book below Smith biography. Bue cloth covers a wee dutsy but oterwise nicely preserved by dint of chipped and browned..... More
NY and Washington: Wenner - Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research with the collaboration of the National Science Foundation, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed in Volume 1 by one of the four organizers of the symposium, William L. Thomas, Jr, to another organizer all-around intellectual and philosopher Lewis Mumford..... More