Paris: Librarie L. Conquet, 1891. Vierge, Daniel. Limited Edition. Half Leather. Navy blue moroccan half-leather over marbleized boards, bound by Champs. Limited edition. 482 of 500 copies on Velin du Marais, initialed in ink by publisher under limitation number. 12mo, with original bright red pictorial wraps bound in front and..... More
Boston: Cornhill Company, 1918. 1st Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Scarce, privately published collection of poems and other letters and musings from 1894 to 1918 by Mary M. Bergholz (1839 -1926) of Waterbury Center VT about her life and foreign travels to visit her son Leo on his assignments as US consul..... More
Basil: J. J. Tourneisen, 1793. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Uncommon early edition from the Tourneisen printers of Basil, Switzerland. Rebound, early 20thC half leather over blue moire silk covered boards, sides untrimmed. Leather over spines moderately faded. Internals quite nice. Spines darkened and some. 8vo. lvi (2) 252 (1); (iv)..... More
NY: E. Steiger, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. With lyrics by Gottlieb Conrad Berkmeier. Short 8vo, green cloth, stamped in gilt and silver, 86pp, each page with red border, many decorated capitals and vignettes throughout text. Covers moderately worn, more so at spine ends, leaves lightly foxed. Rev..... More
New York: The Theatre Magazine, 1913. First Edition. Cloth. 12 issues bound by publisher into two green cloth volumes, with dark green decoration on front board, spines just a bit darkened, clean internally, with the bookplate of Jean and Lilly Dache Despres, all of the original color covers bound in..... More
Boston: Manning & Loring, and Lemuel Blake, 1808. Hardcover. Old calf, red leather label spine, 8vo, 312p, lacking ffe and blank rears, torn, title page and next 3 pages torn, one of them, the dedication page missing lower right corner. More
Philadelphia: Henry Perkins, 1838. First Edition. Publisher's Binding. Scarce American publication, derived from Berquin's "L'Ami Enfans', constituting an instructional manual for young people, using French drama (especially Moliere) to elucidate moral and historical principle. 12mo, 330 pages, in original publisher's binding, pebbled cloth and gilt-ruled leather spine. Some loss at..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. fine in fine dw, not price clipped, no previous owner markings, a beautiful first edition. More
Stavanger, Norway: Dreyers Grafiske Anstalt), 1929. 1st English-lanquage Edition. Hardcover. First English-language edition, undated. Oblong, pictorial cover and leaves gently toned about edges, with "Please Date for Review Nov 7 1929" lightly stamped front cover, this a review copy which evidences year of publication as 1929. More
NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in better than very good dw. Inscribed by Beston to his friend and fellow author Frances Hamerstrom (1907-1998), a naturalist best known for her study of the great prairie chicken and research on birds of prey. On the..... More
London: John Murray, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
London: John Murray, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951. Beuf, Carlo. First Edition. Yellow Cloth. Inscribed at ffe to Winthrop Sargeant, noted New York music critic and Sanskrit scholar and signed by Carlo Beuf. Dj slightly soiled. Text clean. Solid copy. More
Bridgewater CT: Daniel Berkeley Bianchi/ Stinehour Press, 1993. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As new copy, #41 of 200 copies, in fitted clear acetate wrapper (and in shrinkwrap before we opened it to confirm all four tipped-in items, including the sample pigskin were present, and they are). Signed by author Bianchi..... More
NY: Doubleday Doran, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon title from the author of The Velventeen Rabbit in uncommon pictorial dustjacket by artist Ludovic Rodo who illustrtaed the book. Yellow and sivewr patterned covers, balck cloth spine - near fine, no names inscriptions or bookplates. In dustjacket moderately soiled, mostly at..... More
Albany (and) New York: William Gould and Co (and) Gould and Banks, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, original binding, waurte calf, red leather title, over paper-backed boards, 8vo, 192pp. TExt - 106 pages, Appendices 107- 189, Pub List 190-192. Some spotting here and there, but a solidly bound, unsophisticated..... More
Philadelphai: Wilmer Atkinson Co, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, small 8vo, publisher's green cloth stamped pictorial and titles in red and black. Cover reads BIGGLE HORSE BOOK NUMBER ONE BIGGLE FARM LIBRARY. 128 pages, illustrated. Superbly preserved, apparently unused copy. More
New York: Plandome Press, 1929. First Edition, Limited. Half Cloth. Inscribed by Bijou. "For Mrs. James L. McConaughy,/ with sincere good wishes/ Erenst St. Clair Bijou/ 16 June 1930." Numbered 257 of 500 copies. Some soiling to covers, otherwise really fine. More
(Paris): Privately Printed, 1948. First French Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Uncommon edition of 300 copies, this # 76, of a French translatiion of a collection of the Nobel laureate's poems that had either never appeared before in this form or that were written in the last years of his life..... More
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, brown cloth stamped in red. Goldsmith facsimile signature tipped into title page, portrait on forntispiece page. Some loss spine ends else near fine copy. Part of The English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley. More
NY: Arrow Editions, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Blackmur on title page with inscribee's ownership and Christmas 1943 date on ffe. Covers and dustjacket tanned about edges, dustjacket chipped about edges with a few closed tears. Internals quite nice. Blackmur's first book of poetry. Set in type by Walter..... More
London: Collins, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. High-class British trash romance fiction. Worth it for the dustjacket alone! More
NY: Worthington Co., 1890. Waugh, Ida. First Edition. Hardcover. Gold cloth backstrip over glazed pictorial covers. unpaginated (20 pages), lovely Waugh illustrations. Edges of covers worn, covers lightly soiled, else near fine - internally unblemished, tightly bound, no previous owner names, bookplates or inscriptions. The superior copy. More
Honlulu: Patten Company, 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers, designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way..... More