NY: Williiam Morrow, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED on the title page in red ink to MGM musical actress Jane Powell and her husband Dick Moore: "for my dear oness Jane and Dick - always love. Roddy" then SIGNED in full by McDowall under his printed name and dated 1993... More
NY: Williiam Morrow, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. PRESENTATION COPY from photographer McDowall to MGM musical star Jane Powell who is one of the portraits photographed by McDowall in the book and her husband Dick Moore. INSCRIBED on the title page in red ink: "for my dears Jane and Dick with... More
NY: Bigelow Smith & Company. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Edition de Luxe, 1000 copies in royal blue half leather over blue cloth, gilt decorations, leather labels to spine, gte, pink ribbon markers. Leather to spine sun-dulled and scracthed a tad, else near fine set - apparently unread - in publishers... More
Boston: Cornhill Company, 1918. 1st Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Scarce, privately published collection of poems and other letters and musings from 1894 to 1918 by Mary M. Bergholz (1839 -1926) of Waterbury Center VT about her life and foreign travels to visit her son Leo on his assignments as US consul... More
NY: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title from publisher R. H. Russell, a tale of a "harmless but demented" Irish country vagrant huntsman adapted from "Tipperary Joe" a verse song introduced by Irish novelist Charles Lever in his 1843 novel JACK HINTOM GUARDSMAN. Lever (1806 - 1872)... More
NY: Scribners, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A set of three of F. A. Stewarts books that are a collection of his drawings and prints of famous hunts. Uniform 4to (the HARK volume slightly larger) in dustjackets. The first two volumes 1937, HARK 1938. Hard to find dustjackets, variously, have chips... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. A 1941 satire, using canine species to represent nations during WWI: Oliver, an airedale, realizes what Der Pootsch (Hitler) really meant in his book "My Dogfight" and how the Caninian (Americans) needed to come to their senses and assist the... More
Rhinebeck, NY: Four Directions Press, 2017. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A heartwarming novella from the celebrated artist, inspired by locales in Queens where the artist grew up. SHINE is the story of an almost 12 year-old shoe-shine boy living with his crippled father in Corona, an impoverished, mostly Italian, outlying... More
Cincinnati: Morgan and Sanxay, 1835. Hardcover. 1835 edition, original covers, printed over leather spine, oblong 8vo, 199pp + 40, with general index. "Stereotyped edition" Text block solidly bound, leaves somewhat browned. Front cover holding but barely. Covers heavily soiled and a creased fold heightwise down the middle of the front... More
NY: Harper& Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, Newberry Medal winner. Inscribed "To Julie, proudly, Jean Craighead George" on ffe. Newberry gold sticker on front panel of dustjacket, the front flap of which is clipped at the bottom, still showing 1172 there and a $4.95 price at top. Some... More
NY: Duffield, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the first stage adaptation of Austen's famous novel. Green cloth, pictorial pastedown, stamped titles. Covers soiled, especially at spine. Still, a solid copy, with contemporar ownership and address on ffe. Some penciled edits and annotations, obviously from a dramaturge or director... More
NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1911. Bedford, F. D. (illustrations by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the beloved story of Peter Pan, and basis for countless stage, movies and animated film adaptations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decorations cover and spine. Green cloth a wee speckled to front... More
NY: Macmillan, 1904. First Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Limited to 100 copies, this #51. 8vo, three quarter brown grain moroccor over marbleized boards, matching marbelized endpapers, raised bands, gilt to spine, the slightest of wear at corners, teg, sides untrimmed. Illustrated with frontispiece, plus 29 b/w halftones, 327 pages. Internals fine. American Sportsman Library. More
NY: Random House, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket with a PON and address on the front pastedwon. More
NY: Stanley Bradlet Publishing, 1890. Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Hillen, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane (illustrations from sketches by). Edition de Grand de Luxe, 100 copies, this #98. Full leather- half brown pebbled to spine with gilt, rest red pebbled with gilt stamped as follows: "Presented to Owen H. Knight Post 58... More
Chicago: McDonnell Bros, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes [6}, 380; iv. 381-836 pp. Illustrated with 998 scenes, maps, plans and portraits. Small folio, 41- x 300 mm, bound in publisher's pebbled, russet cloth, stamped in gold on spine and covers. cloth worn at corners and spine ends. More
NY: The Century Co. 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four vilumes complete set in publisher's decortaive olive cloth with gilt front and spine, gte, decorative endpapers. Hundreds of illustrations. Solid clean set, PON top of fly leaf. More
NY: Library of America, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An as new, apparently unread, copy in fine dw, SIGNED BY ROTH on the title page. More
NY: Random House, 1953. Hardcover. Near fine - apparently unread - first edition (NOT Fireside Theatre Book Club), no names, etc., lacking dustjacket. More
NY: Random House, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very good first edition (not Fireside Theatre Book Club), no names etc, lacking dustjacket. This play based on Isherwood's BERLIN STORIES, then this the basis for the musical CABARET. 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
London and Berkeley: Sotheby Park Bernet and University of California Press, 1973. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. First edition, two volumes in dustjackets in cloth covered box with title label. Books apparently unused, box scuffed a tad. More
Privately published, 1938. Ole (original illustration). 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, presentation copy. Two copies with printed wrappers bound- in of HELLZAPOPPIN - one copyrighted 1938, the other copyrighted 1940 - custom-bound in full, crushed moroccan leather, gilt ruled, dentelles, heavy marbelized endpapers, with gilt titles front cover - First... More
NY: Samuel French, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sparkling copy of a comedy written by the first playwright of Native American heritage (1/8 Cherokee on his mother's side) to have plays produced on Broadway, and generally regarded as the first Native American dramatist. A native of Oklahoma, the stories he heard... More
NY: Random House, 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Inscribed across the top od the pastedown and ffe by Sondhem "For Jane and Bob, with best wishes - Stephen Sondheim" Jane and Bob Eastman were proprietors of the Drama Book Shop located in Times Sqaure for... More