Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 1985. Hardcover. Collector's Edition, all 49 volumes, each apparently unused, unread, uniformly bound, all with ribbon markers, most with unused bookplate laid-in (NOT affixed). 5 dark brown leather: Stars and Planets, Geology, Atmosphere, Venomous Animals, and Rocks and Minerals. 8 tan leather: Freshwater Fishes, Pacific Coast... More about ROGER TORY PETERSON FIELD GUIDES 49 volumes complete set
Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unread copies, as new. In black, cloth-covered slipcase. More about THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORYOF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS (4 volume, boxed set
London / Cambridge: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Apparently unread copies. Near fine dustjackets, internals fine. More about THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA: The Early Chinese Empires Qin and Han, China between Empires The...
Washington, DC: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, blue cloth with gilt titles, unpaginated, 50 plates (pages) that are described on the title page as "A collection of 85 maps including 28 made by George Washington, 7 used and annotated by him, 8 made at... More about THE GEORGE WASHINGTON ATLAS
Hartford: Published by the State (Connnecticut), 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The actual, original edition, published in 1908, large 8vo, blue, ribbed cloth, gilt-pressed titles and vignette to front and titles to spine. Two frontispieces of sepia photographs of the Union soldier sculpture monument (one of his face in close-up) separated... More about Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907, in Memory of the Men of...
NY: Charles Frohman, 1907. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Oblong, paper covers, front with pictoriasl paste down, yap edges which have seen some shallow loss. Internals fine, amply illustrated with scenes from Frohman's hugely successful production. Stapled spine, red braid extant in inside but missing on the exterior. More about Charles Frohman presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn't...
NY: The Library of America, 1983. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 3 volume set, fine copies, apparently unread. More about ADAMS: DEMOCRACY et al, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES durin the administrations of Thomas...
NY: The Library of America, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. More about REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1941-1963 and Part Two: American Journalism...
NY: The Library of America, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread. More about REPORTING VIETNAM Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1959-1969 and Part Two: American Journalism...
NY: The Library of America, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread. More about REPORTING WORLD WAR II Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1938-1944 and Part Two: American Journalism...
NY: The Library of America, 2006. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. All volumes as new, all but one in publisher's shrinkwrap. More about WILLIAM FAULKNER The Library of American Series - 5 volumes - complete run, including SOUND AND...
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1931. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth , gilt titles, 274 pp, loads of b&w photos. Laid-in is US GPO 1932 brochure on Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota, 12 pages, stapled spine, illustrated with maps. Also laid-in is double-sidedprinted single sheet (folded in half) with... More about THE NATIONAL PARKS PORTFOLIO wih WIND CAVE report and BLACK HILLS map laid-in
NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine book in UNclipped dustjacket, that is a tad age-toned. Solid, clean copy - no names, inscriptions or bookplates. More about THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANAEL WEST (The Day of the Locust, et al
Tower, 1943. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Third printing of the first reprint edition of Steinbeck's third novel, first published in 1933. Fine book in very good dustkjacket, with a very slightly faded spine and moderate chipping spine ends. More about TO A GOD UNKNOWN
NY: Viking, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second issue binding of bright yellow cloth with blue titles. Covers a tad soiled. Dustjacket slightly toned with some modest wear at spine ends and edges. More about CANNNERY ROW
NY: D. Appleton, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes complete. Uniformly issued, blue linen, paper label front and spine. Very good condition, though the last volume is missing the left third of the spine label. More about OLD NEW YORK: False Dawn (The Forties), The Old Maid (The Fifties), The Spark (The Sixties), New...
Asheulot: Golgonooza Letter Foundry, 1989. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. Fine copy. Signed by both author and artist. 200 copies. More about INTERSECTION
NY: W.C. & F.P. Church, Army and Navy Journal, 1878. Sixth Revised Edition. Hardcover. Sixth revised edition, terra-cotta cloth, some loss at spine head. xviii + 19 - 303p + 13p adv, last leaf excised. Gift inscription to prep school rifle club member on ffe dated 1943. Covers titles stamped... More about Manual for rifle practice Including suggestions for practice at long range and for the formation...
Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson with a charming illustration of a half moon in blue felt pen resting on a cloud in red, observed by a block stamp of the Chesthire Cat (from Alice in... More about SKIN OF GRACE
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson with a charming illustration of a sleeping half moon on gentle waves in blue felt pen, stars above and inscription below in red. Near fine book in near fine dustjacket. More about HOUSEHOLD TALES OF MOON AND WATER
NY: Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with good wishes for good plays" with a block stamp of Alice (in Wonderland) in flight with the quotation " 'who invented water? ' " encircled in purple crayon and Willard's inscription encircled in orange... More about SWIMMING LESSONS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Shekerjian, regina (illustrtaed by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with thanks for all you taught me about playwriting when you read mine" warm wishes" with Willard's charming illustration of a delightful face of the sun in black ink... More about 19 MASKS FOR THE NAKED POET
NY: Liveright, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in better than very good dw. More about A CHILDHOOD OF THE MAGICIAN
NY: Liveright, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with warm wishes" with charming black penned illustration a delightful face of the sun outlined in red felt marker as balloon on a string held by arm outstretched all observed by a block-stamped Tin Woodsman... More about CARPENTER OF THE SUN
Remington, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Product catalog/ user manual for the Remington 25 Featurama electric typewriter. 25 loose stiff sheets printed both sides in solid colors of blue, black, orange and brown with photos or graphics in the style of Henry Dreyfuss, Paul Rand, perhaps Hiram Ash. c. 1965... More about REMINGTON 25 FEATURAMA