NY: Harper& Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in very good unclipped dustjacket. Top edge moderately soiled. INSCRIBED by the Solomon to her editor at Harper's, Kitty Benedict on the ffe: "For Kitty - With so much affection - and lets hope, after this - novels! Many..... More
NY: Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in better than very good, unclipped dustjacket with a short close tear top of spine. Red on spine unfaded for a title where the dustjacket spine is usually seen faded. Plainly signed by Cheever on the free front endpaper. Awarded the..... More
NY: Knopf, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very good, used copy in worn by good, distinctive because of its bookplate from the National Headquarters of the Women's Auxiliary American Services with a bald eagle and proclamation "Books Are Weapons" With the AWWS Nat'l Headquarters Library Stamp, 345 Madison Ave, NY..... More
NY: Harper & Row, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by author William Manchester "with very best wishes" on the half title. An uncommonly well-preserved first edition of a title which became an instant bestseller and was reprinted many times. Book is apparently unread, dustjacket unclipped ($10) with a short closed..... More
London: National Gallery, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As new copy, apparently unused. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, gray linen with gilt titles and devices front and back. xii, 210. Lacking rear endpaper. Copiously illustrated with b&w photos and diagrams. Inscription dated 1948 ffe. Small stain bottom edge front cover. More
NY: Viking, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Associaton copy. Inscribed by author DeLillo to fellow author Ann Arensberg and her husband publisher Dick Grossman on the half title: "To Ann and Dick/ Best ever/ Don DeLillo" Arensberg won the Americna Book Award 1981 for her first novel "Sister Wolf". She had..... More
Edinburgi: Excudebat, George Mosman, Bibliopola, 1692. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 12mo, full calf leather, (1), 364 (2), lacking prelims, last page recto index, verso errata, verso, last page with contemporary or newer financial notations, 1854 ownership signature front pastedown, other older ownership names in rear. Front hinge tender, rear..... More
NY: Viking, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First novel of Ann Arensberg (1937 - 2022) and winner of the National Book Award in 1981. Dustjacket spine sunned as it almost always seen with this title, else near fine. Signed by Arensberg on the ffe. More
Boston: John L. Shorey, 1871. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound volumes IX and X of the juvenile monthly bound in green cloth, with gilt devices and title front, back and spine. A fine example of publisher's decorative cloth binding of the period. 8vo, 188 (2). Pub list in rear. Illustrated. An..... More
Oxford: Phaidon, 1980. Facsimile Edition, Limited. Hardcover. Facsimile edition, limited to 445 copies, this #413. Folio, approx 11 x 13', quarter leather, cloth boards, lacking slipcase. Reproduces Repton's 1803 edition, a watershed in landscape architecture and design theory and practice, including movable plates. With a new introduction by John Martin..... More
NY: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo, oblong, printed in brown ink, some colored pages with yellow and green, unpaginated. Minor spotting to endpapers and covers, dustjacket moderately soiled with moderate wear at corners and spine ends. Uncommon title in the Adshead Brownie series. No names..... More
NY: Viking, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommoin first edition, Wiese's fourth book. Oblong 8vo, near fien copy - no names or bookplates - in price-clipped dustjacket that has a few closed tears and slight loss spine ends. A very presentable copy. More
NY: Oxford University Press, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon first edition, near fine copy in price-clipped dustjacket that is gently toned about edges and spine, and a few short closed tears here and thee. No names or bookplates. DOGS. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1945. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, matching endpapers, gte, gilt to spine, (xii), 26. Errata statement printed at bottom of xii. Top edge slightly darkened/soiled, and marbled boards a wee dulled. Internals fine. No names or bookplates and desirable thus..... More
London: Macmiillan, 1933. Later Printings. Hardcover. Two uniformly bound full leather later printings of WONDERLAND (1937, 189,000th thousand) and LOOKING GLASS (1933, 127th thousand). 8vo, full, red polished calf, tripled ruled covers, 6 compartments with gilt to spine, aeg, marble endpapers, inner dentelles. Queen device in gilt front cover LOOOKING-GLASS;..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. Hardcover. #340 of 750 editions. 10 volume manuscript edition in original green, small pebbled cloth, edges uncut, brown leather labels with titles in gilt. Spines have dulled to tan and leather labels are variously darkened and chipped with some loss to gilt. Internals are near fine..... More
NY: The Paris Review, 1962. No Binding. Poster, approx 24 x 36", printed by The Paris Review, of Christo's work that depicts an issue of the literary monthly wrapped in plastic, bundled with rough twine, against a backdrop of crinkled brown paper. Mounted on 1/2" board, shrink-wrapped. Two small punctures..... More
Richard Feigen Gallery, 1969. No Binding. Poster, approx 25 x 38", for the exhibit at the Richard Feigen Gallery, April 30 - May 31, 1969, of the work of artist Claus Oldenburg, featuring his work "Inverted fireplug, as skyscraper" Mounted on 3/8" board, shrink-wrapped. Poster toned, stained lower edge, most..... More
Chicago: R. R. Donnelly and Sons (The Lakeside Press), 1903. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 117 volumes of the Lakeside Classics - complete run of green, red, blue, brown and mint green series, 1903 - 2019. Books in the first series (1903 - 1927) bear the same bookplate on the pastedown in..... More
(Hartford CT): unknown. No Binding. 10 mounted images of Connecticut structures, each two-tone, approx 6.75 x 5" mounted on stiff boards approx 10 x 8" labeled on verso or identified as follows: Trumbell Electric Company (new factory built in 1905); the State capitol buidling; Hartford County Courthouse; 12 Garden St..... More
London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694. Second English-lanquage Edition. Hardcover. Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694., London.12mo, half leather, gte, 8.25 x 14.5cm.(vi), clvi, (i, with errata), (xxiv), 230; viii, 9 - 208. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais with quote from Theodorus Beza dated 1552. First edition in English. Owbership name..... More
London: Winsor and Newton. Fourteenth Edition, Revised and Augmente. Hardcover. 12mo, yellow half calf (turned tanned), marbled edges. nd (circa 1890s). Water-colours painting is stated 14th edition, 50pp, 18 illustrations. Oil painting is 77pp, illustrated. The Winsor and Newton catalog for brishes, pencils, drawng papers, paints, etc. is 101pp, amply..... More
NY: Abbey & Imbrie, 1911. Soft cover. Two-tone pictorial covers, stapled spine, approx 5 x 8", 176 pages, mostly b&w, profusely illustrated, 2 pages of flies in color. Loss to front cover around edges, and paper over spine, still firmly bound, internals clean. More
