1st Edition. Soft cover. Featured in this lot is the typed Shane's manuscript, "The Swift Manuscripts in the Morgan Library" , undated (c1951) 8 pages, with minor edits and corrections, editors notes bottom of title page. Shane begins his essay by acknowledging Belle Greene, director of the Morgan Library, who..... More
NY: The Hispanic Society of America, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce limited edition of the early work of Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881 - 1958), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Scarcer, still, as it is inscribed by Jimenez. Octavo, tan linen with gilt titles front and..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Well-preserved, and apparently unused, copy of a provocative treatise on the cold and flu by Professor James Eustace Radclyffe McDonagh FRCS ( 1881 - 1965), British surgeon and medical writer, best known for this work and another on syphilis. Blue cloth, gilt titles..... More
NY: The Derrydale Press, 1929. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited editon, 850 copies. Red clothe covers in slipcase with pastedown title label. Book appears unused. Slipcase is worn and stained with no effect to the book. More
NY: Hyperion Books, 1941. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. 1750 copies, tis #1037. Covers a little soiled, internals fine, including all the erotic tipped-in plates. In publisher's cardbord slipcase, which is soiled and stained a bit. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy - apparently unread - lacking dustjacket. No names, inscriptions, bookplates. Perfect for rebinding, if that's your thing. More
Boston: State Street Bank, 1915. Soft cover. 64 page illustrated brochure about the whaling industry, largely focused in New Bedford and Nantucket, published not too long after the whaling industry had seen its demise with the advent of oil. An early, popular history of the whaling commerce. Some loss to..... More
Paris: Loudmer, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fabulous catalogue for the auction sale in Paris in 1993 of the Surrealism collection - first editions, illustrated books, manuscripts, correspondence, etc - 857 items in all. Handsomely produced, covers decorated with corrugated cardboard, acetate cover with printed titles in black and red. An..... More
NY: Crown, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, fifteenth printing. SIGNED BY THEN ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA on title page. Tidy owner name upper right corner free front endpaper. Appparenly unread in unclipped dustjacket. More
Boston: Little, Brown, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, near fine copy in sharp dustjacket with a few short closed tears and the slightest loss head of spine. Neat gift inscription on the blank fly, Chriistmas 1946. More
NY: Tudor, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy, as new in cloth-covered slipcase. Part of an apparently short-lived series on artists by Tudor Publishing, a much higer grade pf production than normally seen in this period from that publishing house. 224 pages, luscious b&w photography, with extensive list of..... More
London: Lownes, Lathum & Young, 1628. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thick folio, original calf. Engraved title by Walter Burre dated 1614 and printed title dated 1628 containing an engraved portrait of Raleigh by Simon Pass. 8 engraved folding plates. 32p + 555, (folding maps at 56, 108, 152, 218, 350) +..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1854. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. First edition, second issue (1854 on title page, copyright 1853) in original brown grained cloth, blind-ruled with gilt nautical design, and gilt titles to spine. 8vo, xi + 552p, illustrated with all plates and folding map extant. Minor loss to cloth..... More
Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with receipt leaf with Bewick's thumbmark, facsimiles of signatures, and seaweed stamped on engraved nighttime scene. This receipt page is inscribed at the top to "The Rev. H. D. Griffith". A very nice copy..... More
London: John Murray, 18953. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Volume 2 only in distinctive original binding of brown cloth, "flecked" in yellow with gilt decorations and title front and spine, deep orange-rust colored endpapers, 8vo, 298p + 32p pub list in rear, double title page, one in typographic pictorial red across from..... More
NY: D. Appleton & Co, 1857. Early US Printing. Hardcover. Stated third thousand on the title page. Publisher's brown blind stamped cloth with illustrated vignette and titles stamped in gilt on front, title to spine. Double title pages, illustrated w/ 14 plates throughout text + engravings to title pages. Loss..... More
No Binding. Photograph of Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870 12.5cm x 15.5 matted, below which is stiff paper strip measuring 12.5cm x 3.5 cm signed by Dickens, about 14 months before his death, in a feeble hand and dated by him "Twentieth April 1868". The date of the signing puts..... More
NY: Scholastic, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A used copy of an Advance Reader's Edition that took the publishing world and juvenile lit by storm. This copy was well used, indeed. Previous owner name in juvenile hand upper right corner ffe, corners dog eared, creases and a short tear to..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very nice copy, light green cloth, in unclipped ($3.95) dustjacket, no names, inscriptions or bookplates. Internals bright and clean. Stated 26th printing on copyright page. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Three-volume boxed set of the Second Edition, Revised with a new foreword by Tolkein. 2 volumes are a Fiifth Printing, one a Sixth. Solid, clean copies each, in unclipped dustjackets, in the publisher's black box with title label. Strips of tape residue to..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, green cloth, gilt titles front and spine, 749p, illsutrated. Solid, clean copy. More
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, "pocket" size, green cloth, stamped gilt front and spine, 466p, illistrated. Gilt to spien dulled a bit, neat bookplate pastedown, little used copy (if at all). Solid copy. More
Washington: GPO, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, 352 pages, illustrated, original owner name 1903 date on the flyleaf. A fine copy. More
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1565. 1st Edition. Hardcover. When seen this Plantin is typically the 1566 printing, this copy being the rare first edition printed in 1565. Small 8vo, 149, (3) each page with woodcut border, and with 58 square shaped emblems by A Nicoli and Van Kampen. Bound in red..... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1803. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 4 only of 6 volume set, with the bookplate of the library of the defunct Hroswitha Club (1944 -1999), which was founded by women bibliophiles and dedicated to the study of women in the history of the book and beyond..... More