New Arrivals
AN AFRICAN TREASURY
NY: Crown, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Langston Hughes on the ffe at the top and bottom margins of the illustrated panels in green ink: "Happy Holidays to the Lloyd K. Garrisons - Sincerely, Langston Hughes, New York, Christmas 1960". Ownership copy of Lloyd Garrison, The The New York..... More
AN AFRICAN TREASURY
NY: Crown, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by Langston Hughes on the ffe at the top and bottom margins of the illustrated panels in green ink: "Especially for LLoyd this African book inscribed in Africa - Sincerely. - Langston. First Dakar Festival of the Negro in the Arts. Senegal. 1966."..... More
Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things, The Messenger, Home Deep Blue (5 titles)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A collection of the poet's first five books, all first editions, internals near fine in better than very good dustjackets (most near fine). No previous owner names or bookplates. Valentine's first book, Dream Barker, is neatly inscribed and dated April 1965..... More
HERE IS NEW YORK
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The true first edition, first printing, mostly found in later printings or, most commonly, book club. Near fine book - no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. UNclipped dustjacket (price $1.00), spine just a wee faded and very shallow sliver from..... More
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORYOF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS (4 volume, boxed set)
Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unread copies, as new. In black, cloth-covered slipcase. More
THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL CHINA: The Early Chinese Empires Qin and Han, China between Empires The Northern and Southern Dynasties, China's Cosmopolitan Empire The Tang Dynasty, The Age of Confucian Rule The Song Transformation of China, The Troubled Empire China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and China's Last Empire The Great Qing (6 volumes complete)
London / Cambridge: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Apparently unread copies. Near fine dustjackets, internals fine. More
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON ATLAS
Washington, DC: United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, blue cloth with gilt titles, unpaginated, 50 plates (pages) that are described on the title page as "A collection of 85 maps including 28 made by George Washington, 7 used and annotated by him, 8 made at..... More
Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville, Georgia, October 23, 1907, in Memory of the Men of Connecticut Who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons, 1861-1865
Hartford: Published by the State (Connnecticut), 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The actual, original edition, published in 1908, large 8vo, blue, ribbed cloth, gilt-pressed titles and vignette to front and titles to spine. Two frontispieces of sepia photographs of the Union soldier sculpture monument (one of his face in close-up) separated..... More
Charles Frohman presents Maude Adams in J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
NY: Charles Frohman, 1907. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Oblong, paper covers, front with pictoriasl paste down, yap edges which have seen some shallow loss. Internals fine, amply illustrated with scenes from Frohman's hugely successful production. Stapled spine, red braid extant in inside but missing on the exterior. More
ADAMS: DEMOCRACY et al, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES durin the administrations of Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES during the administrations of James Madison 1809-1817 (3 volumes)
NY: The Library of America, 1983. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 3 volume set, fine copies, apparently unread. More
REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1941-1963 and Part Two: American Journalism 1963- 1973
NY: The Library of America, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. More
REPORTING VIETNAM Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1959-1969 and Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975
NY: The Library of America, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread. More
REPORTING WORLD WAR II Part One: Amerrican Journalism 1938-1944 and Part Two: American Journalism 1944-1946
NY: The Library of America, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set, apparently unread. More
OLD NEW YORK: False Dawn (The Forties), The Old Maid (The Fifties), The Spark (The Sixties), New Year's Day (The Seventies)
NY: D. Appleton, 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes complete. Uniformly issued, blue linen, paper label front and spine. Very good condition, though the last volume is missing the left third of the spine label. More
INTERSECTION
Asheulot: Golgonooza Letter Foundry, 1989. 1st Edition Limited. Soft cover. Fine copy. Signed by both author and artist. 200 copies. More
Manual for rifle practice Including suggestions for practice at long range and for the formation and management of rifle associations
NY: W.C. & F.P. Church, Army and Navy Journal, 1878. Sixth Revised Edition. Hardcover. Sixth revised edition, terra-cotta cloth, some loss at spine head. xviii + 19 - 303p + 13p adv, last leaf excised. Gift inscription to prep school rifle club member on ffe dated 1943. Covers titles stamped..... More
SKIN OF GRACE
Columbia MO: University of Missouri Press, 1967. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson with a charming illustration of a half moon in blue felt pen resting on a cloud in red, observed by a block stamp of the Chesthire Cat (from Alice in..... More
HOUSEHOLD TALES OF MOON AND WATER
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson with a charming illustration of a sleeping half moon on gentle waves in blue felt pen, stars above and inscription below in red. Near fine book in near fine dustjacket. More
SWIMMING LESSONS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
NY: Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with good wishes for good plays" with a block stamp of Alice (in Wonderland) in flight with the quotation " 'who invented water? ' " encircled in purple crayon and Willard's inscription encircled in orange..... More
19 MASKS FOR THE NAKED POET
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. Shekerjian, regina (illustrtaed by). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with thanks for all you taught me about playwriting when you read mine" warm wishes" with Willard's charming illustration of a delightful face of the sun in black ink..... More
A CHILDHOOD OF THE MAGICIAN
NY: Liveright, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in better than very good dw. More
CARPENTER OF THE SUN
NY: Liveright, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to fellow Vassar instructor theater director Clinton Atkinson "with warm wishes" with charming black penned illustration a delightful face of the sun outlined in red felt marker as balloon on a string held by arm outstretched all observed by a block-stamped Tin Woodsman..... More
COLORED SCULPTURE
np: The American Foundation of Arts, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Exhibition catalog, designed by Hiram Ash, for exhibition of 22 sculptures, curated by artist and scholar Sidney Geist. One sheet, folded to oblong, printed on one side only, rear panel Geist's text, front panel 8 rectangles stacked alternating in..... More
FIFTY YEARS OF CONCRETE: THE CEMENT LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
NY: The Cement League, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. History of the importance of concrete to the major contractors and builders of skyscrapers, office buildings and major commercial and industrial building projects in Manhattan and burroughs. Linen-backed covers, gilt titles, 67 pages . Thumbnail sketch on major contractors like Turner Construction..... More