SONG OF THE SLY MONGOOSE
Mount Horeb WI: Perishable Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As new copy, with original invoice on Perishable Press letterhead laid-in. More
Mount Horeb WI: Perishable Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As new copy, with original invoice on Perishable Press letterhead laid-in. More
NY: American Sports Publishing Co 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Four consecutive annuals - 1916 - 1919, containg revised rules for wach year. Uniform format, pages tones as always seen, some incidentail wear to covers, sound copies all around. More
NY: J & J Harper, 1832. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon American first editions by the young Harper brothers, a US publisher still in business. Written under a pseudonym by Sir Walter Scott. Uncommon in publishers bindings of paper-backed boards, cloth spine and spine label. Leaves untrimmed. Boards soiled. Vol I...... More
NY: George Rutlledge, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Squarish, cloth-backed illustrated paper boards, decorated and illustrated by Crane in great detail and color, 56 pages. Undated, no other edition statement, hence 1878, first edition. A very well used copy, covers soiled, edges heavily worn and string-tied binding loosening, so sold as-is..... More
London: George Allen, Ruskin House, 1897. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition, 6 uniform volumes, gte, sides uncut. All parts, including pictorial, pink covers, bound in decorative binding of cream cloth with pictorial inset stamped in gold and titles in red to each volume. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Spines were..... More
NY: Broadway Magazine, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Five monthly issues, April 1899 - Sept 1899, some covers trimmed. Loas of photographs of long-forgotten actors, and lots of advertisements. Bound in red cloth, gilt titles front and spine. The cover for the April issue is missing, otherwise nicely preserved. More
NY: Broadway Magazine, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Six monthly issues, Oct 1900 - March 1901, some covers trimmed. Loas of photographs of long-forgotten actors, and lots of advertisements. Remarkably well-preserved. More
London: William Heinemann, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bianco's first illustrated book; her illustrations apparently moved de la Mare to compose these poems. About the nicest copy we could expect to see in original dustracket, which has expectedly imparted the faintest of toning to the edges of the white covers. Little..... More
Boston: W. A. Wilde, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An exceptionally well-preserved copy, single blind-ruled, patterned green cloth, gilt titles in scarce pictorial dustjacket which reproduces frontispiece. THE collectible copy. One of a series of giftbooks by Eaton published by Wilde, More
NY: Macmillan, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Publsihers tan cloth stamped device and titles in brown, xii + 300, illustrated with 154 full page plates, decorations and insets. Missing patch of cloth foot of spine and front cover stained with a modest size light colored blotch, but binding solid..... More
London: Osgood McIlvane & Co, 1892. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this major work of book design by Walter Crane in the Art Nouveau style, in uncommon dustjacket. 8vo, x + 210p. Elaborately designed covers, teal and brown stamped on cream cloth. Decorative patterned endpapers, 19 full page color..... More
London: Headley Brothers. First Edition. 8vo. cloth backed boards, a wee soiled. internals quite nice, some spotting confined to prelims and rears. x + 147 + 4p pub ads. illustrated 4 color plates, 29 half-tones. More
Zurich: Diogenes, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY MEHRINg on the ffe: "With compliments from Walter Mehring ASCONA - Ticcina August 1961" Near fine book in very good dustjacket. More
NY: W.W. Norton, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Apparently unread copies of both the UNCORRECTED PROOF (printed stiff paper covers) and FIRST EDITION (fine in fine dustjacket). More
Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unread copies, as new. In black, cloth-covered slipcase. More
Berllin: Im Propyläen-Verlag, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to, original binding, decorated cloth spine over paperbacked boards, profusely iullustrated, incl 9 tipped in color plates w/ tissue guard. Important 20thC German survey of international architecture, largely Geman, including modernist work of Max Bromme, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Wassilij Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald, Constable and Co.; Cadell and Co (1819-33), 1819. Early and first editions. Hardcover. 41 volumes, uniformly bound in full calf, mid 19thC. All volumes with the ownership name of Mary Ellen Lowell dated 1854, she being presumably a member of the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan. Volumes numbered I...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. New Edition Revised and Enlarged. Brown Cloth. Spine faded, some fading and faded spotting at covers, cover corners lightly worn, mild foxing to pastedowns and free endpapers. Text clean, no previous owner signatures or inscriptions. More
NY: Rider and Driver Publishing Co, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 4to, brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped titles and pictorial pastedown front cover, 399 pages, copiously illustrated. Printed at the Brooklyn Eagle Press, Pages 1- 16 are advertisements for all manner of product and services to horse riders and drivers..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. COPY OWNED BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER WITH ALS FROM AUTHOR PRESENTING THE BOOK. First edition, large 4to, purple cloth elaborately decorated in gilt, aeg, with numerous, full page "illustrations of localities and scenes around Stratford Upon-Avon by the helioytype..... More
San Marino CA: CALIFORNIA BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound copies for June 1941, January 1943, 1945 Annual, January-June 1947 (6 issues), July-December 1947 (6 issues), January-June 1948 (6 issues), July-December 1948 (6 issues), January-June 1949 (6 issues), and July-December 1949, and unbound copies for all of 1950 (12..... More