NY: The Gilliss Press, 1912. 1st Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Limited edition, only 50 copies, privately printed by The Gilliss Press for private distribution. The author, Edwin Babcock Holden, is identifed as E.B.H. on the author's note page (after the title page). Contents are Curtis's eulogy of (or address about)...
Munich: F. Bruckmann AG, 1930. Soft cover. Warmly inscribed by artist Adam to an American society lady on a trans-Atlantic crossing; "For my neighbor at the / Captains table on board/ S.S. Europe/ Mrs L. Y. Dunlop/ from Richard B. Adam/ S/S/ Europe/ December 15-21/ 1930" Dark brown paper covers...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Short 8vo, blue-green cloth, gilt title to spine, no dustjacket, 197pp w/ 10 engravings by Gill. Spine and edges faded, solid binding, internals better than very good, no names, inscriptions or book plates. Single leaf advertising "Eric Gill: Mason Sculptor" by Thorp is bound-in.
NY: Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. Soft cover. ADVANCE UNCORRETED PROOFS. Printed paper covers. As issued by Knopf marketing and publicity. Scarce, especially in as nice, apparently unread, condition. From the 2017 Nobel Laureate for Literature.
Princeton NJ: Princeton Tiger Publishing Company, 1901. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Booklet, w/ tan pictorial covers printed in red and brown, stapled spine, unpaginated, 40 pages, with 16 full page pen&ink illustrations w/ blank versos of college girls at: Wellesely, Baltimore, Smith, Cornell, Mount Holyoke, St. Andrews (Scotland), Mills, Heidelberg...
Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Company, 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, apparent mixed state. Gray cloth titles stamped in black, gilt device, titles in black on spine. 77 pp, 26 lines type per page. Translator name misspelled "Mamah" on title page. Better than very good copy. Clean boards and...
Phildelphia: John Conrad & Co, 1802. 2nd Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Hardcover. 8vo, original binding, half red leather, gilt ruled wi/ titles, over marbleized boards, 191 pp, 3 full-page engraved illustrations. Boards soiled, leaves toned and spotted, firmly bound. OCLC lists one copy of this version of 1802 edition.
NY: Pynson Printers, 1929. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine copy, 4to, single sheet, single fold, with mailing envelope. Fine condition. Undated, announcing the first issue for Feb 1930, so we assume this was printed latter part of 1929.
NY: Pynson Printers, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to, 20 issues, complete run of the original series. Internals all nea fine, some issues have toned glassine's chipped and torn, some spines variouly toned, overall the covers are better than very good. Isseu 5 has David Milne drypoint, "Hilltop", signed by the...
NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, publisher's black cloth in original dustjacket (unclipped with $3.50 price). INSCRIBED BY Sydney Franklin, one of Hemingway's bullfighter subjects (and the first American bullfighter) on captioned p.388 with the his photo in the arena opposite page. "To Mrs. xxxxx/ with...
NY: David Kemp, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in scarce dustjacket. Yellow cloth, distjacket a wee dusty, rear panel a tad wrinkled, and lighet wear to spine tips. Fascinating b&w pix of Depression-era swells form society photographer Zerbe, with an intro form his pal Lucius Beebe. Blind-stamped PON ffe.....
NY: D. Appleton-Century, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce, true first edition of Beebe's classic work, inscribed by him in 1939 on the ffe. "To xxxxx/ 'there isn't a train I/ wouldn't take, no matter/ where it's going' / Lucius Beebe/ 1939" Original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, a....
London: R. Ware, 1746. 2nd Edition? Hardcover. Second or later edition of Langley's classic builder's manual, this well-used copy missing front cover, prelims, title page, starting with Introduction page authored by Tho. Langley and dated Nov 2, 1746, so this edition postdates that. Short 8vo. 2-33 + Plates 1- 99...
NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1874. Hardcover. Lovely set of publisher's decortaive binding, green cloth, stamped in black and gilt front and spine, blind to rear, cobalt grey endpapers. Slight est wear around edges. Many volumes appear unread. A collectible set in decorated binding.
NY/ London: Grossman/ Cape Goliard, 1968. Hardcover. Tidy collection of this short-lived co-publsiging venture for "cutting edge" poets on both sides of the Atlantic. Various dates, late 60s- early 70s, about 75% hardcover, all in very good or better condition in dustjacket where issued. Titles by author as follows: Blackburn...
Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter, 1865. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Three volumes of the 1865 edition, each in uniform publishers binding, in elaborately stamped (fornt and back) full leather binding, five raised bands to spine, gilt titles. aeg. Vol III is third volume of Micahux's) 180pp, plates 103 -156. Volume IV and...
American Printing History Association, 1994. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. 200 copies, 29 loose broadsides with 4 page preface in fine clamshell box. A few broadsides have rough edges as having benn hastily returned to box by a previous owner (certainly NOT this bookseller!) but the collection does contain the...
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1844. Tenth Edition, With Revisions and Enlargements. Hardcover. Tenth edition, in original publisher's narrow-ribbed, dark brown cloth, gilt title to spine, original, plain tan endpapers, vii + 295. INSCRIBED BY MRS. SIGOURNEY, neatly in pencil to "Mrs. Mary Ann Crosby, with the/ love of Mrs. Sigourney"...
NY: A.C. Armstrong (printed at the Sign of the Grasshopper by Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press), 1885. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Limited edition for the US market, this #330 or 375 copies printed for America by Unwin Brothers at The Gresham Press after the original 257 copies (signed) published by...
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1860. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two volumes, stated Copyright Edition title page. 16mo, full vellum, variant binding, covers double-ruled in gilt and red with corner devices, marbelized endpapers, gilt to spine in five panels, aeg. Volume 1: xii + 292 with 34 albumen prints, incl. frontispiece of author...
NY: Macmillan, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second print, 1904,after the first. Publishers deocrated binding gilt and stamped on grren clothg signed "TBH". INSCRIBED BY GREENE in 1906 on ffe. Cloth a tad soiled, internals near fine, overall better than very good.
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1958. 1st Edition, 1st Issue. Soft cover. First edition, first issue of Wiene's first book of poems, with expurgated "cock" in "cocksuckers" and without the line drawing of Wiener. Cover photo by Jerry Burchard. Plain rear cvoer lightly toned, else fine.
London: Gollaird Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 45o hardbound copies. Fine, unused copy in publisher's glassine, gently toned about edges. Poet's first book.
NY and Lonodn: Grossman Publishers in association with Cape Goliard, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book near fine, dustjcacket toned across top edge.
Andover MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1977. Soft cover. SIGNED BY MORGAN in pencil on front cover and INSCRIBED by her in black ink on its verso. Covers a tad toned, overall better than very good.
