(Aspen): ( Roaring Fork Peace Coalition and Colorado Coalition Against Wat in Iraq), 2003. No Binding. Fascimile, approx 11x17" the Apres X-Games Peace Rally Feb 1, 2003 in Aspen, CO sponsored by the Roaring Fork Peace Coalition and Colorado Coalition Against Wat in Iraq. The repro poster has a repro..... More
(Dublin): (Guiness Museum), 1982. No Binding. Glossy fascimile, approx 16x20" for the exibition on the Guiness Museum Visitors' Centre Feb to Aug 1982 fully entitled A JAMES GAPE AT GUINESS AND DUBLIN - WINE OF THE COUNTRY. Poster designer initals lower right corner PJW. More
NY: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY FROM PRESIDENT McKINLEY TO HIS PERSONAL SECRETARY JOHN ADDISON PORTER. Inscribed in black ink on the fly by President McKinley "For Hon John Addison Porter with sincere regards. William McKinley, July 2, 1900. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, half brown leather..... More
Chicago: LAKESIDE PRESS / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dark green cloth, gilt ruled front with publisher device, gilt titles to spine. Binding shaken, bottom corners worn, some loss spine ends. A few abraded spots to spine and remnants of a white stamp "26" with Chicago..... More
NY: The Century Co, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 10 volumes, uniform, green cloth, gilt rules and titles to spine, sides untrimmed. Gilt to spine dulled, spine cloth moderately soiled. Each volume solidly bound. Books apparently unread. No previous owner names or booplates. More
NY: Pocket Books, 1988. 1st Edition, Paperback. Soft cover. Special Advanced Reading Copy, stated on font cover and copyright page. Not only an as new copy but still packaged in its tightly fitting purple cardboard envelope, with purple yarn extending out of die-cut hole front side (to be pulled down..... More
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paper-covered boards with an illustrative design that is an exemplar of how Japanese design influenced book decoration. With it's sever diagonals in black and white interspersed with dream-like illustrations of snow-capped mountains and the moon, the design has, presciently, a Surrealistic..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hanford... for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies... and E. Harding, 1800. Hardcover. 8vo, xxii, 262 , (1). Dewitt Clinton's copy with his signature in black-ink on the upper right corner of the title page. Bound by Sagorski & Sutcliff. Full tree calf, inner gilt dentelles..... More
Boston: Little Brown, 1957. No Binding. Original dustjacket art by commerical artist Irv Doctor for Ricahrd Bissell's SAY, DARLING. Two studies; one in black and pink ink on tissue paper(8x12", with ragged top edge), the other pen and ink and water color on stiff board (10.5 x 12.5"), both signed..... More
NY: Grosset & Dunlop. No Binding. Original dustjacket by commerical artist Irv Doctor, on light canvas paper backed in the approximate actual dimension of the dustjacket. Black ink and water color. Some archival tape repairs to the verso of the original art. Offered with three pristine, unused copies of the..... More
Monument Beach MA: prinnted by the author, 1898. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Broken spine, requires rebinding. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Mustard cloth, pictorial stamped in brown, white and gilt. Moderate soling, firmly bound. 12 full page illustrations. Conntemporary ownership signature ffe and private lending librrary ticket of Stimis and Chapman , Syracuse, NY on pastedown. More
Valley Falls RI: Alex S. Arnold, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, stamped in black front, gilt titles spine, yellow endpapers, 8vo, 195pp. Cancel insert of blurbs from press reviews before preface. More
NY: Cornish Lamport, 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Elaborate blind stamped brown cloth, front and back, gilt spine titles. Double, 2-tone chromo forntispieces with tissue guard. 240 pages. Edges and covers moderately worn. Intermittent foxing. Solid binding. More
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Chromolithographed color polished cloth, pictorials front and back, printed by Forbes Co, Boston. Undated, circa 1880. Neat pencilled inscription ffe to (presumably) a student "for punctuality 1881". Unpaginated, illustrated with steel engravings, some full page. Worldcat lists only 3..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1852. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1852. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over red cloth. Spine battered, front coverholding - just. rest firmly bound. 8vo, iv (pub list) + 261 + 22 (pub list, last..... More
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1878. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1878, title page states "reprinted from 'Peterson's Magazine''. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over gray cloth, moderately worn, soiled. Firm binding. More
London: Longmans. Green, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. WWI memoir of a British air pilot. Stunning commercial dustjacket art. Book fine, dustjacket with modest edgewear. More
NY: Triangle Books, 1939. 1st reprint edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket art by Bip Pares (1904-1977), British commercial artist. Her most visually striking work was done in a highly commercial British art-deco style, which is on clear display here. Third printing 1939 of the Triangle reprint edition after the first by Little..... 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
NY: Bill, Witter & Co, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blind-stamped leather, gilt-pressed with red leather label to spine. With foldout colored lithograph of San Francisco in 1854 t with a short tear along one fold, plus color forntispiece. 706p, plus 1 page publisher list. Leather rubbed all over, binding firm..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1892. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First appearance of Owl & The Pussycat, arguably Lear's mots famous nonsense poems combined with Duck & Kangaroo. The Owl and Pussycat, which he wrote which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, first appeared..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Solid clean copies, in dustjackets with faded spines, some chipping, one with a 1" piece missing spine foot. More
Dearfield MA: The Deerfield Press, 1996. 1st Edition - Limited. No Binding. 300 copies, of Heaney's poems that he read at Deerfield Academy, 13 December 1996. Measures 13.25 x 10.75", floated, matted, framed under glass. Apparently fine (not taken out of glass). Signed by Heaney under the English version of..... More