Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. One of Morley's lesser-known titles, in striking black-and orange striped cover design and rare matching dustjacket. Top edge moderately soiled, and some light wear to bottom edge. The dustjacket has a short cosed tear bottom front panel, and the spine..... More
Andrews McMeel, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in pictorial slipcase. Fine, unused copy. Near fine slipcase with a few tiny abrasions to cloth bottom side. Extra shipping charges will apply. More
NY: Scholastic, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Volume 4 in the Lucky Mini-book series buy Scholastic. About 3.5 inches high, 10 panel folding panorama printed in orange and black on tan stock. Corners bumped, some toning. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. DEDICATION COPY from author and Village Voice film critic to his editor and publisher Village Voice founding editor Dan Wolfe. Sarris (1928 - 2012) was the film critic at the Voice beginning in 1960, and the leading proponent of the auteur theory..... More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xxx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber" . Cloth spine lightly stained soiled, covers moderately soiled in price clipped better dustjacket. More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas and Love to xxxx and xxx Jim and Helen" Cloth lightly stained at foot of spine not affecting in a price-clipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Happy Birthday to xx from the Thurbers" and also plainly signed " James Thurber" on the pastedown. . Cloth over soien with some loss and tends and revealed at hinges, still firmly bound in supplied unclipped..... More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers James Thurber". Cloth a bit at spine in unclipped dustjacket with some wear about edges and corners. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Thurber on the half-title: "Merry Christmas to xx from the Thurbers 1950 James Thurber". Book about good, lightly stained/soiled on spine and some edges moderately worn in price-clipped dustjacket chipped about edges. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half title by Thurber to close friends "To xxxx WITH LOVE Helen and Jim th" in black wax pencil with a drawing by him of the dog that is also on the dustjacket cover. Cloth spine lightly stained at..... More
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First trade edition. Inscribed by Thurber's widow, Helen, to close friends "love and Merry Christmas" on the ffe and dated December 1981. Cloth spine faded in unclipped very good dustjacket. More
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first state. blue cloth, pictorial pastedown, 16 color plates and numerous in-text illustrations by Neill. Spine reads "The Reilly & Britton Co.". Three titles on verso of half title, 256 pp. Owner bookplate verso ffe, and same name..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Hardcover. A complete, 12 volume set of the Thornton Edition, in original green cloth with gilt decorations and titles to spine, gte, sides untrimmed. Internals gently toned, as is usually seen. Re-issue of the Thornton Edition first published beginning in 1898. Gilt to spines a tad..... More
NY: Brentano's, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in like dustjacket. Inscribed by author Parr on the fee and dated Hartford May 1942. More
NY: Sun Dial Press, 1935. Reprint Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Well, it almost did or still could. Reprint copy from Doubleday's imprint Sun Dial Press that replicates graphically stunning dustjacket of first edition. Near fine copy all around. More
NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Well, it almost did or still could. Reading copy. Worn corners, black cloth, ring-stain front cover. More
London/ NY: Ernest Nister/ E. P. Dutton. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first or early edition. Large 4t0, chromolithographed pictorial covers, pages disbound. No author identified, nor year of publication. c. 1880-90. Distinctive movable with 8 movable plates, plus text illustrated with line drawings, so that when a tab is pulled..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thurber's anti-war parable, told in pictures. Siigned by him on front pastedown and then also inscribed by him "many happy returns" to close family friends in Cornwall CT (where the Thurbers had a home) and signed "James, Helen and Rosie" on the..... More
Paris: Editionss du Seuil. Soft cover. Undated ,but likely a mid1950s edition, in French, uniquely inscribed in French by James Thurber with his acerbic wit on the free front endpaper "Allons donc, Dr. Kinsey! James Thurber". The French phrase is a colloquial dismissive comment, roughly meaning sarcastically something like "Oh........ More
Edinburgh; London: Caledonian Mercury Press for Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, and Longman, Huirts, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition, metaphysical meanderings of Baron Mackenzie, leading to biological questions about the size of the brain and intelleigence, among other things. Rebound in full mottled leather, gilt..... More
privately printed, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full title: A collection of epigrams presented in the expectation that the reader will recognize himself here with some amusement and occasional dismay. Privately printed in a limited edition for the friends of the Typographic Service Company of New York, a Division of the..... More
Barcelona: Imprenta de Maria Angeli Marti, 1764. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Presumed original vellum over original binding, missing a large piece front cover, binding and covers detached from bound leaves. Internals quite nice. The Martí printing and bookshop business began in 1700, when Joan Pau Martí, her husband, acquired the..... More
NY: The Grenfell Press, 1983. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 4to, 34pp, quarter green morocco spine gilt, with pictorial paper-covered boards. Illustrated by Guy Davenport and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. The slightest abrasion to the leather spine with the slightest wear on one corner and top of spine. Internals as new. #104 of..... More
NY: Chaim & Read, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog. As new. More
Washington DC: The Phillips Gallery, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A near fine, unused copy. More