Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1878. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Likely firts edition in book form: copyright page dated 1878, title page states "reprinted from 'Peterson's Magazine''. Rebound late 19thc half red leather over gray cloth, moderately worn, soiled. Firm binding. More
NY: Triangle Books, 1939. 1st reprint edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket art by Bip Pares (1904-1977), British commercial artist. Her most visually striking work was done in a highly commercial British art-deco style, which is on clear display here. Third printing 1939 of the Triangle reprint edition after the first by Little..... More
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first in the Nurse Matilda series. A lovely little book, near fine all around, save some light abrasions to dustjacket spine. With red ribbon marker. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Bill, Witter & Co, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blind-stamped leather, gilt-pressed with red leather label to spine. With foldout colored lithograph of San Francisco in 1854 (with a short tear along one fold) plus color forntispiece. 706p, plus 1 page publisher list. Leather rubbed all over, binding firm. Episodic..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1892. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First appearance of Owl & The Pussycat, arguably Lear's mots famous nonsense poems combined with Duck & Kangaroo. The Owl and Pussycat, which he wrote which he wrote for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby, first appeared..... More
London: George Smeeton, 1820. Facsimile Edition and First Thus. Hardcover. Facsimile edition about 1820 printed by Smeeton of that published in 1533 by William Rastell 8vo, 16 unumbered pages in Gothic type, bound in quarter leather with gilt spine titles over orange boards. Title on spine reads "Mery Playe betwene..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Third edition, dated 1853 title page, 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, xiii, 306, 24 (supplement), 9 (publisher's list). Coverds slightly soiled, corners moderately worn, firm binding, moderatley foxed/spotted throughout. A solid, unsophisticated copy. More
Buffalo: D. Ransom, Son & Co, 1890. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Wraps stained, leaves browned (cheap paper stock), publisher's stitched spine. More
NY: Stepping Stone/ Random House, 2008. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Galley pages for #40 in Osborne's Merlin Mission series, with her line edits in pencil and inscribed in ink by her on the title page. Also included is a prototype for the cover (tan ice?) that was discarded in favor..... More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page and dated in September 2010. Book fine, apparently unused, in dustjacket that is sunfaded about an inch deep around the perimeter of the front panel. More
London: Mansell Publishing with Sotheby's, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, slight wear at corners. Solid, clean copy. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 8vo, publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, 171 p. Inscribed by author Prime underneath the statement printed on the verso of the ffe for the subscribers of The New York Observor with the compliments of the publishers and the..... More
NY: Thomas Longworth, 1821. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in old calf, pasted onto the front cover a leaf of a full page advertisement for J. Wilson "original introducer of the economical three dollar hats.... at 160 Broadway". Pasted on the read cover is a leaf full-page leaf of a cartoon..... More
NY: A. S Barnes & Co, 1867. Soft cover. 5 penmanship or drawing units, same size and formats, from diferent publishers executed in well-schooled juvenile hand.1) No.1 National Drawing Book Elementary Studies After Designs by Tomas Monk. AS Barnes NY copyright 1867 2) Spencerian System of Penmanship American Educational Series..... More
1875. No Binding. Undated note, (circa 1875) two sided, on polished sheet approx 7x4.5" from author Anne Thackeray, daughter of the famous William Makepeace Tackeray, with embossed letterhead with her address in South Kensington, London "8 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington Gentleman I write to acknowledge/ with many thanks the safe/..... More
London: John Murray, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, not published until 1929. Near fine copy with the bookplate of American bibliophiles and Grolier Club member Sherman and Anne Lyon Haight of Manhattan and Litchfield, CT. Dustjacket moderately soiled. More
London: Tupper and Sons, 1850. 1st Edition. Hardcover. THE GERM was a short-lived magazine of poetry, published in four issues January -April 1850, by William Michael Rossetti (who also edited the magazine) and other members of the Brotherhood, including his brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Thomas Woolner and James Collinson This..... More
New Haven: Ives-Sillman, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Pete Mondrian (1872 - 1944) LIMITED EDITION, this number 1 of 150 copies, with an introduction and an essay by Henry Holtzman (1912-1987). 10 color silkscreens. 432mm square. Original paper folders housed in beige linen portfolio; original black slipcase. Prints fine, cloth near..... More
ny: Fundacion Sigma, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine, virtually as new, copy. CENTRAL AMERICA FISHING. More
Millerton NY: Aperture, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An Aperture Monograph. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Tidy bookplate front pastedown. More
Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy, apparently unused, in printed, smoky glassine, lightly chipped at corners. SIGNED BY PHOTOGRAPHER TATGE and dated Florence 2008 by him on title page. ITALY RURAL PHOTOGRAPHS NATURE. More
Boston: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1918. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. "A New Edition, Illustrated", the preferred one, edited and with annotations by Bayley and Goodspeed. Green cloth, almost as new. An apparently unused copy, not ex-lib as is usually offered. More
Wesr Cornwall CT: Locust Hill Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Anthology of literary criticism from peers like Robert Creeley and scholars. Fine, unused copy. Publication #28 in the Locust Hill Literary Studies Series. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A clean, very good copy lacking dustjacket. Uncommon children's title about Renard the fox. More
various. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four titles by the Welch dramatist, author and poetThomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) ( 1903 - 1949), son of a quarryman from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire (Gwynedd today), in north Wales. He is primarily renowned in the present day for his novels about..... More