NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, first edition, second issue. 8vo, unadorned maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, gte, sides untrimmed. Ownership copy of Henry R. Towne, mechanical engineer and founder of Yale Lock Manufacturing Company, with his bookplates both volumes. Slight stain rear cover volume 1..... More
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A beautifully preserved pairing of collections of sayings, month by month, about the other sex by the other sex, both uniform in format, binding and condition. Small 8vo, maroon cloth, elaborately decorated front cover in gilt border around green field with title..... More
London/ Philadelphia. Gibbings & Company Ltd/ J. B. Lippincott, 1896. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Printed in England for both US and U K distribution. Beautifully preserved Art& Crafts-designed production of the Arabian tales. Small 8vo, light green cloth, boldly-stamped titles in darker green and blue front covers w/ more..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, black cloth with gold title labels printed in black front and spine. Tiny nick to label on front cover. Solid copy, no names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Limited edition of 176 copies, this #4, signed by Lessing on the limitation. Spine a bit dusty, else as new. More
Geneva: The Bibliophile Library, 1985. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First edition in this format and with these illustrations by The Bibliophile Library after the original edition of 1970. Faux leather, aeg, ribbon marker. Plainly signed by author Wiesel on the fly leaf. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A finely preserved copy, charcoal, polished linen, beveled edges, gte, sides untrimmed, 8vo, vi (2) 137 (2). Trace spotting to endpapers, else clean interiors throughout. Solid, very attractive copy. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Plainly signed in his inimitable, florid style on the ffe by Wolfe. Top edge sunned, else near fine in near fine, unclipped dustjacket. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing of Wolfe's second book. Solid clean copy, bright green and gilt to black cloth covers in UNclipped dustjacket ($3.00) that is moderately chipped, mostly at corners and spine head. More
Paris: Les Editions G. Cres, 1924. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 2 volumes, bound in three quarter dark greeen morocco over marbleized covers by Flammarion, original paper covers bound-in, gte, ribbon marker, xlv, 285 (2); ii, 373 (2), fabulous de Becque illustrations and decorations in an Art-Nouveau style printed in salmon..... More
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Limited large paper edition, 105 copies, this # 60. Three quarter vellum, gilt spine titles, gte, sides uncut, 327p. Bookplate pastedown of the Mrs. Theodore Thomas Memorial Library established by the White Mountain Garden Club in 1934. Trace remnants of..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1899. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, rust-colored ribbed cloth, gilt pressed titles front, back and spine, dulled a bit on spine. Title page partially separating but holding. Neat owner name upper right corner ffe. More
Canoga Park CA: Orirana Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2000 copies, this as new. Laid is a USPS postcard stamped June 5, 1967, typed and signed by Matthiessen to Harold Corbin - poet, antique collector, devotee of Frost - at Lake Forest Academy in Illinois where Corbin at the time..... More
Toronto: Musson Book Company, 1911. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. First Canadian edition of the trade edition with the Thorpe illustrations, on same British plates, printed by Constable in Edinburgh. Wide 8vo, green cloth, gilt pictorial and title front cover, gilt titles to spine, xvi (1) 166 (1). Plates mounted on..... More
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1850. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First volume of the hugely influential literary, political and cultural monthly in publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped with gilt. Cloth over spine damaged with some loss, attached with clear tap. Requires rebacking or as-is as a reference copy. Internals a few spots here..... More
various: various, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Contempary binding of half leather over marbleized covers of three "bestsellers" of mid-19thC. First, Samuel Lever, Handy Andy, NY: Appleton 1845.380. Second, (Joseph Holt Ingraham) Montezuma, the Serf; Or, the Revolt of the Mexitili: The Tale of the Last Days of the Aztec Dynasty..... More
Viking Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First US edition, fifth printing, after the first 1931. Near fine copy lacking dustjacket. Plainly signed in purple ink by Zweig. Tragic novella which tells the grim tale of mutual doom of Dutch doctor in colonial Malaysia and a colonial government official's wife for..... More
Boston: Dana Estes. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. nd, circa 1905. Five volumes only of the Illustrated Cabinet Edition of the works of Jane Austen: MANSFIELD PARK Vol I and II; PERSUASION; LADY SUSAN THE WATSONS LETTERS Vol I and LETTERS Vol II. Light green cloth, Arts and Crafts style floral..... More
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 7 parts in 9 volumes - original edition 1901, half faux-vellum over brown covers, sides untrimmed. This copy with duplicate frontispieces portraits of Horace from etchings by W. H. W. Bickell (3), James Fagan, Edmund H. Garrett, Howard Pyle, with the extras..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 1st British Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, 1250 copies, this unnumbered. Half-leather over floral-patterned covers. First British edition after the first Belfast 1897 edition. Leather worn, especially spine ends. Firmly bound, good reading copy. More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1946. 1s US Edition Thus. Hardcover. 7 volumes complete simply yet elegantly bound in half black leather over black cloth, gilt ruled spines. 1500 copies, this #847. More
London: Printed for Printed for Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, 1761. First English Edition. Hardcover. A very nice set in contemporary leather bindings of first Englsh- language editions of Voltaire translated from the French by T. Smollet, Rev. Mr..... More
London: Methuen and Co, 1898. The uncommon first edition, issued in two volumes, contemporary red, half leather, gilt to spine, marbleized endpapers, gte, sides untrimmed. A few spots to the title page and frontispiece in volume 1, else near fine. Leather to spine scuffed a bit. Solid bindings, binder unknown..... More
London: Downey & Co. Ltd., 1898. 1st Edition This =. Hardcover. A handsomely three-quarter leather bound set of The Thornton Edition with anonymous binder stamp "Bound in England'. Cordovan red leather over marbelized covers, double-ruled, endpapers to match, gte, rest untrimmed. Internals gently toned. Some hingewear here and there. Not..... More
London: Published for T. Cadell . et al. 1823. Hardcover. Handsomely bound, 3 volumes set of the poems collected in this new edition for publishers Cadell and others in 1804. Blue, polished full leather,blind-tooled inner boarder framed by decorated quadruple rules front and rear covers, more gilt and red leather..... More