NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. Solid clean copies, in dustjackets with faded spines, some chipping, one with a 1" piece missing spine foot. More
Dearfield MA: The Deerfield Press, 1996. 1st Edition - Limited. No Binding. 300 copies, of Heaney's poems that he read at Deerfield Academy, 13 December 1996. Measures 13.25 x 10.75", floated, matted, framed under glass. Apparently fine (not taken out of glass). Signed by Heaney under the English version of..... 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
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1920. Later Printing. Hardcover. Later printing, likely late 1940s or 1950s, as Magical Mimics of Oz, published in 1946, is last book listed on rear dustjacket flap. Redish cloth, with pictorial pastedown with orange background, all illustrations in black (no color). Sound copy, in..... 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
NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of author's first book. A fine copy in near fine, unclipped dustjacket housed in brown, half leather slipcase with gilt to its spine. Unblemished book, red stain on top edge bright and clear. No names, inscriptions or bookplates..... More
privately assembled and bound. Hardcover. Privately assembled portfolio of residences and other structures designed by the arhcitectural firm of Duhring, Okie & Zegler Architects, mid 1920s with pull sheets (from the likes of Architectural Forum and The American Architect) and tipped in b&w photographs of residences mostly in the mid-Atlantic..... More
London: Mansell Publishing with Sotheby's, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, slight wear at corners. Solid, clean copy. More
London: Hanover Gallery, 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Large sheet folded into 12 panels, listing 10 paintings from the collection oif Mr and Mrs James Bonford, 6 of them pictured in b&w. Moderately soiled. For the exhibition 9 June - 6 July 1959. More
London: Hanover Gallery, 1957. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Short closed tear top edge, moderately soiled, stapled spine, 12 pages . Llists 15 works, 6 of them pictured in b&w for the exhibition 21 March - 26 April 1957. More
Grove Press, 2006. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. New. Boxed, still shrinkwrapped. More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1949. 1st Edition Thus, Limited. Hardcover. 15 volumes in 5 slipcases published 1949 - 1952. Internals fine in all, slipcases mildly and uniformly worn. Lacking glassine wrappers. 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
NY: Playbill, 2006. Soft cover. ORIGINAL IRV DOCKTOR ILLUSTRATION DON PASQAULE METROPOLITAN OPERA SIGNED Irv Docktor (1918 - 2008) was an American illustrator and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His versatile work appeared in hundreds of books, but..... More
NY: Playbill, 2005. Soft cover. Irv Docktor (1918 - 2008) was an American artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His versatile work appeared in hundreds of books, but he was best known for dustjackets like Patricia Highsmith's..... More
NY: New York Philharmonic, 2006. Soft cover. Irv Docktor (1918 - 2008) was an American artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His versatile work appeared in hundreds of books, but he was best known for paperback covers..... More
NY: NY Philharmonic, 2004. No Binding. Irv Docktor (1918 - 2008) was an American illustrator and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His versatile work appeared in hundreds of books, but he was best known for hardcover dustjackets, like..... 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
NY: Playbill. No Binding. Irv Docktor (1918 - 2008) was an American illustrator and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His versatile work appeared in hundreds of books, best known for hardcover dustjackets like Patricia Highsmith's "Strangers on a...... More
New Brunswick NJ: Griggs & Dickinson for Joseph C. Griggs, 1825. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Disbound, remains of string ties laid-in, 11 leaves, folded once, for 22 (unnumbered pages). Illustrated from engravings. Besides the monthly calendar features include essays on man's body, wifery, a new species of hedge, dispepsya, reports..... More