His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. fine in fine dw, not price clipped, no previous owner markings, a beautiful first edition. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. fine in fine dw, not price clipped, no previous owner markings, a beautiful first edition. More
Stavanger, Norway: Dreyers Grafiske Anstalt), 1929. 1st English-lanquage Edition. Hardcover. First English-language edition, undated. Oblong, pictorial cover and leaves gently toned about edges, with "Please Date for Review Nov 7 1929" lightly stamped front cover, this a review copy which evidences year of publication as 1929. More
London: John Murray, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
London: John Murray, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951. Beuf, Carlo. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Inscribed at ffe to Winthrop Sargeant, noted New York music critic and Sanskrit scholar and signed by Carlo Beuf. Dj slightly soiled. Text clean. Solid copy. More
Bridgewater CT: Daniel Berkeley Bianchi/ Stinehour Press, 1993. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As new copy, #41 of 200 copies, in fitted clear acetate wrapper (and in shrinkwrap before we opened it to confirm all four tipped-in items, including the sample pigskin were present, and they are). Signed by author Bianchi..... More
Albany (and) New York: William Gould and Co (and) Gould and Banks, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, original binding, waurte calf, red leather title, over paper-backed boards, 8vo, 192pp. TExt - 106 pages, Appendices 107- 189, Pub List 190-192. Some spotting here and there, but a solidly bound, unsophisticated..... More
New York: Plandome Press, 1929. First Edition, Limited. Half Cloth. Inscribed by Bijou. "For Mrs. James L. McConaughy,/ with sincere good wishes/ Erenst St. Clair Bijou/ 16 June 1930." Numbered 257 of 500 copies. Some soiling to covers, otherwise really fine. More
(Paris): Privately Printed, 1948. First French Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Uncommon edition of 300 copies, this # 76, of a French translatiion of a collection of the Nobel laureate's poems that had either never appeared before in this form or that were written in the last years of his life..... More
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth stamped in red. Goldsmith facsimile signature tipped into title page, portrait on forntispiece page. Some loss spine ends else near fine copy. Part of The English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley. More
NY: Arrow Editions, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Blackmur on title page with inscribee's ownership and Christmas 1943 date on ffe. Covers and dustjacket tanned about edges, dustjacket chipped about edges with a few closed tears. Internals quite nice. Blackmur's first book of poetry. Set in type by Walter..... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Presentation copy from shoe designer Manolo Blahnik to Andre Leon Tally (1948-2022), fashion journalist, stylist, creative director, and editor-at-large of Vogue magazine. Inscribed by Blahnik on the illustrated endpaper over a full portrait of himself in bold strokes in green ink..... More
London: Collins, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. High-class British trash romance fiction. Worth it for the dustjacket alone! More
NY: Quartet Books Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine, unused copy - as new, really - in fine dustjacket plainly signed by fashion photographer Blake and dated by her '84, the year of publication, on the title page. With a compliments card from Rebecca Blake Studios, 25 W 36..... More
Honlulu: Patten Company, 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers, designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way..... More
NY: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. An unused set each volume still in publisher's glassine wrappers in clipcase that is a wee dusty. WHY PAY MORE FOR LESS???? More
Chicago: The Lakseide Press, 1934. Matthews, Harold J. (linoleum block decorations). 1st Edition. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to author Edgar Lee Masters on the ffe. Book covers a wee soiled, the dustajcket more, which is missing a chunk along the top right edge front panel. More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1970. First Edition. Blue and Tan Cloth. One of 600 copies bound in cloth. Signed and inscribed by printer Joseph Blumenthal. Very, very minor scuff to top spine edge. Bookplate at front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Model copy. More
NY: Frederic C. Biel, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket, inscribed by typographer and book designer Joe Blumenthal to Mike McCabe, owner of the former Lion's Head Books in Salisbury CT, the premises of which are now Johnnycake Books: "for Mike best of country neighbors. Joe..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mint copy in slipcase, still shrinkwrapped. Limitd to 1000 copies, designed by Joseph Blumenthal, printed by A. Colish. More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused book, blue cloth, paper spine label, in better than very good dw with a tiny stain front panel. Neat PON ffe. More
NY: New Masses, Inc., 1926. 1926. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The fourth issue - August 1926 - of the Greenwich Village-based, Marxist magazine founded in 1926 as part of the Workers (Communist) Party of America's publications, whihc featured the work of leftist and Socialist independent writers and artists. The original..... More
Firenze: Il Magheri, 1827. Marbled boards/Leather Spines. 1827-8. 5 volumes in 3 books. Leather spines with pressed gilt titles, marbleized paper-backed boards. Text in Italian. Wear to corners, rubbing to cover edges and spine ends and edges, remarkably clean text with only very occasional scattered foxing. Some light chipping to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dw. A collectible copy. More