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
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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
FALSTAFF'S WEDDING: A Comedy Being A Sequel To The Second Part Of The Play Of King Henry The Fourth. Written In Imitation Of Shakespeare
London: Printed for J. Wilkie, F. Blyth, T. Lowndes and W. Owen, Becket and De Hondt, T. Lewis, J. Walter, J. Almon, 1760. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., vii + 83.,rebound jhalf leather porbabbly mid 19thC. Cover detached. Internals near fine. More
THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
(London): (Jacob Tonson), 1711. First thus. Hardcover. A Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, originally published in 1647 in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio. This is likely an extract from the 10 volume edition of The works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr..... More
THE SATURDAY BOOK (23rd year)
London: Hutchinson, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy from author and British swell Beverly Nichols (1898 - 1983) to art-collector, artist, inventor, author, designer and American swell Nancy Hays Hammond (1904-1985) on the ffe: "For N.H.H. With Christmas greetings from B. N....one of the many contributors of this little book....... More
The singular history and gallant and ludicrous life of the celebrated Moll Flanders : giving a full and particular account of all her amorous adventures, her various marriages, (particularly to her own Brother)...
Southeark: G. Stevens, 1810. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. (continued from title page) ...Her Voyage to Virginia: The Discovery of her Mother, Who has been transported there - and numerous other particulars. Forming the most interesting narrative, ever printed And combining at once, a Detail, conspicuous for singularity of Adventure and..... More
MY DOG TULIP
London: Secker & Warburg, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy in price-clipped dustjacket very lightly soiled and a wee tanned to spine. Sharp copy. More
MY HOUSE HAS TWO DOORS
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book very good in worn dustjacket with chipping at corners. INSCRIBED by Suyin and dated by her May 1, 1980 on the ffe. Uncommon signed. 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: "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
THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN: The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions I. Sense and Sensibility; II. Pride and Prejudice; III. Mansfield Park; IV. Emma; V. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (Large Paper Edition)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. One of the most sought after sets of Austen's works, the originla 1923 edition. Internals near fine, including the movable forntispiece for Mansfield Park. No previous owner names or bookplates and desirble thus. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbleized boards, corners moderately worn..... 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
CANNNERY ROW
NY: Viking, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second issue binding of bright yellow cloth with blue titles. Covers a tad soiled. Dustjacket slightly toned with some modest wear at spine ends and edges. 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