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 about HARPER'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
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 about Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (4 vols
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 about Novels 1967-1972, When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, The Breast
NY: Random House, 1953. Hardcover. Near fine - apparently unread - first edition (NOT Fireside Theatre Book Club), no names, etc., lacking dustjacket. More about WONDERFUL TOWN
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 about I AM A CAMERA
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 about Die Dreigroschenoper. (The Beggar's Opera). Ein Stück mit Musik in einem Vorspiel und acht...
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 about Inigo Jones. The Theatre of the Stuart Court. Including the Complete Designs for Production at...
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 about HELLZAPOPPIN
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 about ROADSIDE
NY: Random House, 1959. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Inscribed across the top od the pastedown and ffe by Sondheim "For Jane and Bob, with best wishes - Stephen Sondheim" Jane and Bob Eastman were proprietors of the Drama Book Shop located in Times Square for... More about GYPSY
Hudson NY: Printed by M. Parker Williams, Register and Gazette Office, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Volume I (1879) bound in purple-cloth, blind-stamped, spine sun-faded. Volume II (1881) in green cloth, blind-stamped, minor edgewear, author compliments ticket bound-in at ffe. Solid copies both. More about FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY Volumes I and II
Chicago: Sanders Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, 1914, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original publisher's binding- blue cloth, gilt titles, pictorial pastedown. Stains to edges her and there not affecting text block. Solid copy. Scarce. More about THE STORY OF THE HEREFORDS
NY: Charles Scribners Sons, 1899. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. The Outward Bound Edition, 36 volumes, complete. Volume 1, 1899, Plain Tales from the Hills, concluding with Volume 36, 1937, Something of Myself, plus index. uniformly bound in burgundy cloth, front cover single-ruled in gilt with gilt-encircled vellum elephant head, spine... More about The Writings In Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling (The Outward Bound Edition, 36 volumes...
London: Press Centre Limited for Photography, 1954. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Oblong 8vo, stiff pictorial covers in publisher's glassine. Corners a tad worn and glassine torn at rear panel, else near fine. Internals fine. Female nude, luscious b&w photoes, printed in Switzerland. More about THE EYE OF LOVE: A Love Poem in Photographs
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Lacking dustjacket, spine edges of cloth slightky faded, else fine, A clean, sturdy copy. 10 diagrams from Gill engravings. More about CLOTHES: An Essay Upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn...
London: Macmillan, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Some light white spots to binding, edges lightly foxed, else fine. Dustjacket slightlly faded spine, with light water mark near foot, but no chips or tears. Scarce in dustjacket. Author's first book. More about BRIDE OF QUIETNESS
Toronto: Macmillan, 1927. 1st Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Fine copy, #8 of 100, signed by the author on the limitation page, in fine dustjacket in slipcase, which is toned about edges. Uncommon, especially in limited edition as nice as this. Newfoundland poetry. More about THE IRON DOOR (AN ODE
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition #344 of 500 copies, slightest spotting top edge, else fine all around, in unclipped dustjacket. Offered with a fourth edition of the softcover, fine too. More about THE DAINTY MOSTERS (first edition hardcover and 4th edition softcover
NY: Steuben Glass (Corning Glass Works), 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine, unused exhibition catalog, of Steuben's crystal pieces featuring Inuit or Eskimo themes, the primary interest of Steuben's then president, James Houston. More about JAMES HOUSTON: A RETROSPECTIVE
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently read copy in near fine unclipped dw, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title. More about THE WHTE DAWN: AN ESKIMO SAGA
London: Grey Walls Press, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed at Chritsmas 1949 by Treece. Dustjacket slightly toned, as are leaves, else near fine. More about NEW ROMANTIC ANTHOLOGY
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 1st Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Revised edition. Stout 8vo. Red stiff cloth covers slightly soiled, more so at spine. Internals near fine, all foldout maps extant and in original folds. An apparently unused copy. With original ribbon marker still in place. More about Terry's Guide to the Japanese Empire including Korea and Formosa
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. 1st Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Revised edition. Stout 8vo. Red stiff cloth covers slightly soiled, more so at spine. Internals near fine, all foldout maps extant and in original folds. An apparently unused copy. With red, white and blue striped ribbon marker still in place. More about Terry's Guide To Cuba, Including The Isle Of Pines, With A Chapter On The Airways And The Ocean...
NY: Family of Kurt Volk, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Privately published memorial album, unknown limited edition, distributed as keepsake to family and friends. Large 4to, rough cream-colored cloth, gilt cover titles, sides untrimmed w/ full page mounted b&w photo of typographer and publisher Volk, 18pp. Internals as new, cloth tad..... More about KURT HANS VOLK 1883-1962
NY: Kurt Volk, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book conceived by typographer and publisher Kurt Vol, designed by Meyer Wegman, edited by Charles Brodie. Printed on Okawara, handmade paper. Bound in moire silk, stamped in gold. As new in black, glossy-paper backed box, which is slightly rubbed. THE collectible copy. More about THE HAPPY PRINCE