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London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. Ist UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dw. A collectible copy. 100 copies, this number68 signed by Kinnell. More
London: Rapp & Whiting, 1969. Ist UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dw. A collectible copy. 100 copies, this number68 signed by Kinnell. More
Paris: Victor Dalmont, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to, contemporary binding, leather spine over decorated boards, 13 plates each doube-paged of Bonnin's plans for the port of Cherbourg. Engraving by Dulas. Firmly bound, scattered foxing throughout. Rare. More
NY: Random House, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon copy of pre-Luce Boothe's play that followed "The Women". Intended as a "political allegory about Facism in America" according to Heywood Broun in the forward, the comedy was short-lived but made into a film in 1941 directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring..... More
Paris: Libairie Hachette, 1924. Gorguet Pinxit (frontispiece portrait). Dutriac. Deuxieme Edition. Publisher's Cloth. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt pressed titles. With a frontispiece "portrait de Guynemer de Gorguet des planches en coleurs de Dutriac'. 187 pages. Leaves gently toned, covers a wee soiled. Solid binding. More
Buenos Aires: SUR, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. The fourth issue printed in the first year of publication, published by Victoria Ocampo. Borges was a contributor from the first issue, years before his success as a novelist. A near fine copy, in its origial glassine which has absorbed surface soiling..... More
London: Henry Baldwin, 1793. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. The Second Edition, Revised and Augmented. Worn original or contemporary calf, red leather label spines. Both covers detached on Vol I front on Vol II, and front on Vol IIU, hence a possible rebacking candidate, more likely rebinding all over. More
London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. The third edition. 13 volumes including index volume. Publisher's green cloth front and back covers, gilt to front. Brown moroccan spine, gilt titles and devices. 1,922 colored plates. Internals near fine, except for index volume where the upper right corner of..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1925. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. The scarce limited edition of this Boulestin title, only 20 copies, this numbered 6 and signed by Boulestin on the limitation page. Printed on hand-made paper, with a special frontispiece designed by J. E. Laboureur. 8vo, sides untrimmed, boards covered in distinctive..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing January 1931. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket. Frontispiece by French artist Jean Emile Laboureur. Rust-colored cloth, slightest wear spine tips. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
London: Cassel, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce Boulestin first edition in dustjacket. 8vo, cream-colored cloth flecked in blue, with burgundy leather label and gilt titles to spine. Dustjacket pictorial and frontispiece by Laboureur. Book near fine - little sign if any of use. Dustajcket dust and a tad soiled. 2..... More
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Univ of Washington Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. As new in near fine dw. More
Boston: Cummings and Hillaird, 1822. First US Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, rebound c 1940s in 3/4 red leather, raised band, gilt compartments to spine, top edge cut and gilt, rest original. Gift inscription dated 1948 on a prelim. An attarctive, solid copy, internals near fine. More
NY: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Cracknell, Alan. First American edition. Hardcover. Way 60s design, a three-tiered menu guide, so a host can mix and match recipes. Camp! More
Belfast: Fred Bradbury and Municipal Techinical Institute, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. staed fifth thousand on title page, second edition with a new preface to this "new edition" before the preface to the first. Short 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 292 + xxi. With tables and figures in how to calculate..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First US Edition. Cloth. Jacket toned and slightly rubbed. More
NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated..... More
Hartford: Prospect Press, 1938. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 350 copies, rough weave tan cloth, pictorial poastedown. Spine a wee tanned, else fine, apparently unused copy. Women's sea travel, to China and back. More
NY: Gomme & Marshall, 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth spine, paper label, over brown paper-backed boards, teg, sides untrimmed, xxvii, 286. This annual is most notable for four of Frost's earliest poems: Birches, The Road Not Taken, and The Death of the Hired Man. Modest edgewear and short split..... More
Cambridge MA: Issued by W.S.B., 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth spine, paper label, over brown paper-backed boards, teg, sides untrimmed, xxiv, 205. Paper spine slightly stained, else a solid clean copy, More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first in the Nurse Matilda series. A lovely little book, near fine all around, save some light abrasions to dustjacket spine. With red ribbon marker. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
Vienna: Universal- Edition A. G., 1928. Hardcover. Rebound copy, lacking paper covers, with 220 stamped in the middle of the right margin on page 31, thus indicating either one of 300 copies of the first printing, or perhaps less likely , one of 500 copies of the second printing. Rebound..... More
NY: The Spiral Press, 1927. Fiene, Ernest. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Some edgewear and shallow loss to paper-backed boards top edge and corners. Early Spiral Press imprint, this #16 of 425 copies, of Elizabethean poetry . Personal copy of its publisher Joe Blumenthal and his wife Ann bearing Joe's very..... More
St. Louis: Fred P. Kaiser, 1902. Hardcover. Complete 10 volume sets, "University Edition" , green cloth, gilt-stamped titles spine, gilt top edge, sides untrimmed. Apparently unread. (Can you blame them?) The kind of set, typically sold by subscription turn of the century before last, that rich people would have bound..... More
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated second impression on title page. British publication imported for sale in US with Van Nostrand Company NY stamped beneath Corosby Lockwood and Son. 8vo, pub green cloth, xii + 242 + 2p pub list, illustrated, foldout plate in rear. Uncommon..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1930. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. White cloth, stamped in gilt. Gift inscription dated 1936 ffe. Dusty top edge, covers and internals quiet nice. With the publisher's note on text bound into the back of spine. More