THE ARMAGEDDON RAG
NY: Poseidon, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. ADVANCE READING COPY. Apparently unread. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
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Le Don Quichotte romantique, ou voyage du Docteur Syntaxe, à la recherche du pittoresque et du romantique. Poëme en XX chants, traduit librement de l'anglais, et orné de 26 gravures, par M. Gandais.
Paris: Chez l'Auteur et Pelicier, 1821. 1st Edition Thus. No Binding. The French adaptation of a poem by William Combe, a satiric interpretation of the saga of Don Quixote. Disbound copy, requiring complete bindng. 8vo, viii + 146 pp with title frontispiece and 24 lithographed plates by Engelmann and Malajean..... More
QUARTET: Four Stories. [Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Last Asset, Afterward]
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1975. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. 140 copies. Fine. Discrete bookplate front pastedown. Publisher's prospectus for the title laid-in. More
SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND: AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND MANNERS OF HIS AGE (4 volume set)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo, 4 volumes, handsomely custom bound in brwon three-quarter crushed leavant at Putnam's Bindery, 2 volume Clarendon Press edition divided and boundin 4 volumes, gte, 5 rasied band, gilt titles and pressed devices to spine. Stamp of G. P. Putnam Sons on..... More
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERY FINN
NY: Charles L. Webster, 1885. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, early issue with the following points. The heading for Chapter VI (6) on the first contents page (p.9) reads "Huck Decided to Leave." On page 13, the Illustrations list, "Him and another Man" is incorrectly listed at page 88. On..... More
THE HIGHWAYMAN'S FATE; OR, HURRAH FOR THE ROAD (The New York Boys' Library Vol 111, No. 70
NY: Norman L. Munro, 1877. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Juvenile periodical, issue No 70 of Vol III, of Munro's Boys Library series. Prolific juvenile adventure author Lea is not identified by name but rather as "by the author of Dick Turpin" a boy's series for which he was best..... More
The Olive of Minerva or The Comedy of a Cuckhold
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976. 1st Edition Limitd. Hardcover. Number 5 of 50 copies, signed by Dahlberg, apparently unread in publisher's glassine wrapper, which is toned and partially separated at front fold. More
SCRUTINY: A QUARTERLY REVIEW complete run, 76 issues (and) SCRUTINY: A RETROSPECTIVE.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Complete run of SCRUTINY (1932 - 1953) 76 issues, in original wraps, plus SCRUTINY: A RETROSPECTIVE (1963) inscribed by it s founder and editor F.R. Leavis to James Smith, professor of English Literature, with Smith's typed manuscript of the essay that..... More
COMMENTARII TOTIUS S. SCRIPTURAE, ex optimis quibusque authoribus collecti, luculentissimo supplemento locupletati a doctissimo patre Renato Josepho Tournemine. atque in tres tomos distrbuti in hac novissima editione (Tomus Tertius)
Venetis Old: 1771. Hardcover. Old (18thC?) half calf over marbelized boards, worn, missing leaher over spin, 6 raised bands, still firmly bound, internals lightlly foxed but still quiet good. Volume 3 only of the 1771 edition. More
WHAT MAKES SAMMY RUN?
NY: Random House, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of arguably the best or most influential book on the movie business, inscribed, with a nod to the authors' famous character Sammy Glick, to Tay Garnett, one of the leading directors ("The Postman Always Rings Twice') of Hollywood's Golden Age and..... More
IS A SHIP BURNING?
NY: Dodd Mead, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. AUTHOR"S COPY. Signed on the ffe "My own copy. Richard Sale" Lacking dustjacket, very good, some threading to cloth at spine head. More
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE Eversley Edition - 11 volumes complete
London: Macmillan, 1902. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. A near fine set, apparently unread, publishers maroon pebbled cloth, with gilt titles to spine. The slightest of wear to spine tips - no names, bookplates, etc. The 10 volume set of Shakespeare's works edited by Herford plus Mabie's supplemental volume XI "William..... More
Querido doctorcito. Frida Kahlo y Leo Eloesser. Correspondencia/Correspondence (Spanish/ English edition)
Mexico: DGE Ediciones, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy. Covers slighty rubbed. Internally, appears unread, unused. More
SEABISCUIT: AN AMERICAN LEGEND
NY: Random House, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. True first edition with first issue points. Fine, apparently unread, copy in UNclipped ($24.95) dustjacket (no audio book mention on rear pane)l. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. More
Stevenson, Robert Louis, Celia Thaxter et al
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Vol V No 4. 2. Includes a ashort poemn by Thaxter called "Crowned" and an artiecle on mountain climbing by William Williams, plus an installment of Stevenson's "Master of Ballantrae" and other articles. More
Stevenson, Robert Louis et al
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Vol VI No 2. Two interesting articles on lawn tennis and fishing in Florida, plus an installment of Stevenson's "Master of Ballantrae" and other articles. More
"Nelly's Hospital" in OUR YOUNG FOLKS April 1865
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Original publication of Alcott's short story "Nelly's Hospital" in the April 1865 edition of Our Young Folks, about a young girl who starts a hospital for animals. Better than very good condition. More
" Littlle Pussy Willow" Parts I and II in OUR YOUNG FOLKS
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Two copies of Our Young Folks - Sept and Oct 1866 - that contain the first tow parts of Stowe's Little Pussy Willow, published in book form in 1870. Better than very good condition. More
"Episodes in an Obscure Life" in SUNDAY MAGAZINE Part VIII - Vol VI
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1870. Issue dated May 1, 1970. Printed covers, chipped about edges. Internals near fine. Vol VI Part VIII, pages 449 - 512. Illustrated with several etchings. Prelims includeLippincott book titles and adveertisment for Trollope's "Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblewaithe" More
BRAVE NEW WORLD
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1932. First US Edition. Hardcover. Publishers brown cloth, gilt device front, gilt titles spine. Lacking dustjacket. Gilt to spine darkened. Spine slightly cocked. Small dent to upper edge rear cover. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1918. Later Printing. Soft cover. Original printed covers, some soiling and chipping to spine but extant. Two volumes, complete. 1843 date and "copyright edition"; September 1918 catalogue on rear cover. More
THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: A CHINESE BOOK OF LIFE
London: Kegan Paul Trench, Trubner & Co, Ltd, 1945. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated with 11 b&w plates and 4 text illustrations. Internals near fine. Worn dustjacket with closed tears and chips along edge but presetable. Gift inscription in blue ink dated 1947 on ffe. More
Clarke, Arthur C. (Kubrick, Stanley)
NY: New American Library, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue dustjacket,. Red NAL at bottomof spine, $4.95 price upper right corner front dw flap. Owner inscription dated Jan 1969 "a gift unto myself" Almost near fine internals, attractove dustjacket w/ a few short closed tears. More
The Keats Letters, Papers and Other Relics Forming the Dilke Bequest in the Hampstead Public Library
London: John Lane, 1914. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. #11 0f 320 copies. Folio, vellum spine, modest edgewear, inner hinge splitting but sound. Internals near fine. 58 collotype facsimiles, 14 reproductions of portraits of Keats. More
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
NY: McGraw Hill, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by author Spencer on title page. Basis for the 1962 film with Olivia de Havilland, George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux, and then basis for the stage musical nominated for multiple Tony Awards. Clipped dustjacket, slightly worn/ chipped at corners. No owner names..... More