NY: American Sports Publishing Co 0. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Four consecutive annuals - 1916 - 1919, containg revised rules for wach year. Uniform format, pages tones as always seen, some incidentail wear to covers, sound copies all around. More
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1882. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 4to, decorated tan cloth by Abbey with gilt-stamped flowers emitting from a sunburst, aeg. Heavy volume with undue weight to spine, resulting in slightly shaken spine. Tan cloth is moderately soiled, uniformly all around, and bottom corner edge show moderate wear. Intrernal..... More
Reading PA: Fantasy Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unblemished copy, apparently unread. Brick-red cloth, gilt titles to spine. No names, bookplates, inscription, etc in an unclipped dustjacket. The most collectible condition we should expect to see. More
NY: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine, apparently unused book, in dustjacket that is a wee faded to spine, else near fine. Square 4to, unpaginated, hundreds of pages and hundreds more illustrations of quintessential 1960-1970s commercial art, much published by Esquire magazine. An essential to any..... More
NY: Dial Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, without the pasted-in copyright statement on copyright page: no issue point determined that we know of. Near fine book in very good, presentable dustjacket that has some shallow chipping spine head, some modest edgewear and minor soiling most noticeably on the..... More
NY: Dial Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of the1969 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award play inscribed by playwright Sackler on the ffe: "for Marshall with ever increasing admiration - thanks". We can speculate that Marshall might be Marshall Brickman, accomplished screenwriter (Oscar for "Annie Hall") and playwright (Tony..... More
Rochester NY: Charles A. Green, 1886. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Trade catalog featuring the Niagara White Grape of upstate NY from Rochester's purveyor of fruit farm, garden and nursery plants and supplies. Catalog, approx. 6x9", printed light green covers, stapled spine.48 pages. Besides the Niagara species, Green presents other aspects..... More
Springfield IL: McGregor Brothers, 1898. Soft cover. Nursery catalog, approx. 7x10" , with richly detailed floral illustrations, printed on fragile paper in black ink, 32p, satpled spine, covers separating, and some minor loss at spine. More
NY: John Scheepers, Inc, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, floral patterned, dark green, faux brocaded silk covers. decorated endpapers, 215 pages, loads of full page color prints. Inserted in rear is 24 page Scheepers catalog. Near fine all over. THE collectible copy. More
NY: Art in America (Whitney Communications), 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As new copy. Cover art of Robert Indiana. Foldout print that reproduces a work by Paul Jenkins. 146pages. More
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Penn's landmark work. A fine, apparently unused book (no names inscriptions or bookplates). Dustjacket has a short closed tear top edge front panel, and the spine is wee tanned. In slipcase with pictorial pastedown with the slightest edgewear with original price sticker..... More
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1940. Later Printing. Hardcover. Undated, copyright 1917, later printing, likely 1940. Better than good copy, solid binding with all the b&w illustrations (no color prints) crayon-colored by a juvenile owner. 8vo, pictorial pastedown of Princess Dorothy and frog, green cloth, stamped titles in black..... More
NY: 7 Poets Press, 1975. A fine copy, pictorial covers, unpaginated. First published appearance by Olds' poetry. More
NY: Hatch-Billops, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A fine copy, 56 pages, illustrated covers and text, b&w photo of poets in rear. More
NY: Covici Friede, 1929. 2nd Trade Edition. Hardcover. The second edition that Covici published with Friede following Covici's 1928 first edition, limited, illustrated by Reginald March. Colophon states second trade edition 2000 copies, this copy hand-numbered 653. This edition, not illustrated, dropped provocative 8-lines in two stanza at the end..... More
Paris: Presses de la Cite, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition of a book of sayings composed by French actor and singer Maurice Chevalier. Copy owned by the legendary Marlene Dietrich, inscribed to her by Chevalier on the half title: "Pout toi - Merveilleuse Marlinou que ne sont pour..... More
NY: William Morrow, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, blue covers, titles stamped in red, with Dubious Bridegroom last title on Perry Mason titles listed in rear. Inscribed on the ffe by Gardner to the legendary Marlene Dietrich with his tribute to her volunteer efforts in WWII: "To Marlene Dietrich..... More
NY: Crown, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy of the first edition of the first novel in Auel's Earth's Children series in unclipped dustjacket. No names, bookplates, A collectible copy. More
NY: The Century Co, 1917. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth covers, pictorial stamped in blue and brown and American flag in red, white and blue, most of white stripes worn away, else quiet nice, as are internals, 8vo, 299p, 250 illustrations of all manner of US military instruction, with infantry..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page by Fry to Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria Riva. Better than very good book in unclipped, soiled dustjacket. More
Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College, 1954. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Some modest staining and spotting around the edges of covers, front and back. Some modest staining at the margins of the pages with b&w reproductions of Rene Laubies's art. More
Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns, 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First German translation of Wilde's short story, "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." , first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891). The story..... More
1979. No Binding. Script for Miller's play, signed by him on the title page, and numbered (in separate hand) 65/200, presumably indicating this was limited to 200 copies. 102 pages. The play was first produced by the Harold Culman Theatre and opened at the Dockstreet Theatrei n Charleston SC on..... More
(London): The Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany), 1920. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Aside form some chipping and folding along the edges of the covers, a near fine copy of an early work by Millay, published by The Chapbook as No 14 in its series, August 1920. Housed in a cloth-backed, three-fold..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Millay on the title page underneath author name and dated by her Nov 26, 1927. Lacking dustjacket, spine label toned, clean internals. More