POEMS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM
NY: Women's InternationalLeague for Peace and Freedom (NY STATE BRANCH), 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Cover slightly water-stained about edges and spine. Internals fine. More
NY: Women's InternationalLeague for Peace and Freedom (NY STATE BRANCH), 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Cover slightly water-stained about edges and spine. Internals fine. More
NY: J & J Harper, 1832. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon American first editions by the young Harper brothers, a US publisher still in business. Written under a pseudonym by Sir Walter Scott. Uncommon in publishers bindings of paper-backed boards, cloth spine and spine label. Leaves untrimmed. Boards soiled. Vol I...... More
London: Published for the Bibliophiles, 1904. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Uncommon edition of the world's best known work of erotic fiction, published for The Bibliophiles as "a new and genuine edition from the original text (London, 1749)" as described on the title page, and handsomely bound by "Thierry" (binder stamp..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, 1838. Calf. Original or contemporary calf, black leather label spine, xi + 251p. Some spotting largely cnfined to prelims and rears. Solidly bound. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
NY: Random House, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Clark Clifford (1906 - 1998) was an American lawyer who served as an important political adviser to Democratic presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter. His official government positions were White House Counsel (1946-1950), Chairman of the..... More
Milano: Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An unused copy in slightly rubbed dustjacket. More
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title from prolific Australian novelist, traveller and reporter Clune. Lacking dustjacket, yellow cloth, stamped in black, 8vo. xiv, 379. Profusely illustrated with 61 b&w photographs, endpaper maps. Top edge dusty, internals near fine. More
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy to Edith Cobb, wife of author Boghton Cobb, to whom Boughton dedicated his book, with his inscription on the ffe. Ninth printing 1963, after the first of 1956. Green cloth covers, lacking dustjacket. More
(New York): Privately Printed, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial covers, endpapers and copiously illustrated in color throughout with comedic vignettes that accompany the wit and humor of Manhattan swells in the 1920s. List of membership in rear is a Who's Who of all of 'em. Unnumbered copy of 800 published..... More
Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis, 1909. Raeburn, Sir Henry (color portraits by). First Edition. Bukrham, Gilt Titles. Nice clean copy. gte. Spine just a wee faded. Color plates. More
Paris: LIBRARIE STOCK, 1924. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed by Cocteau and dated 1923 by him to influential art critic Louis Vauxcelles on the cover. Title page dated 1924. Presentable copy with a repaired spine that had suffered some loss and was laid back down with covers reattached. Some tape..... More
London: Elek Books, 1956. First English-language Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with review slip laid-in. More
Boston: Field, Osgood & Co, 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's mauive pebbled cloth, blind double ruled, with stamped engraved vignette of cattle-drawn buggy with driver and two passengers, likely attributable to engraver John Feely. Covers a tad spotted, leaves toned, gilt titles to spine faded, rear hinge revealed, still soundbinding..... More
Hudson NY: Printed by M. Parker Williams, Register and Gazette Office, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Volume I (1879) bound in purple-cloth, blind-stamped, spine sun-faded. Volume II (1881) in green cloth, blind-stamped, minor edgewear, author compliments ticket bound-in at ffe. Solid copies both. More
London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. DeHondt et al. 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to, original or old marbelized calf, raised bands, gilt, leather label, 4to, lxi + 619p, 8 copper plates. Front cover revealed but holding with string binding. 1/4 " loss of leather at head and foot..... More
New York: Board of Managers, Colonial Dames of New York, 1913. First Edition. Cloth Boards. Paper labe spine, gilt device front board. 432p. Boords soiled, particularly at edges, still a solid copy. More
Boston: Branden Press Publishers, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poetry, which Robert Frost apparently dismissed because of its homoerotic sensitivity Horatio Colony (1900-1977) was an American poet, playwright and businessman. He wrote a novel, Free Forester, as well as eleven books of poetry and two plays. Inscribed by Colony on the..... More
NY: Ivison, Phinney & Co, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very well preserved copy in original pictorial paper, brown cloth spine. Large 4to, 11 pages of text and charts, 35 full page colored maps, the last double-truck. Cover states the atlas is "designed to accompany Colton's American School Geography". The..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully preserved copy in worn and used dustjacket. Lovely illustrations, including dustjacekt pictorial and pictorial endpapers by Walker Bluie cloth stamped in yellow white and balck pictorial in soiled dustjacket (especially at spine) with obvious chips and loss to edges and spine..... More
NY: The Macmillan Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1928 printing after the first of 1925. An unusually well preserved copy in worn dustjacket. Exuberant cover design, decorations and pictures by Russian-born Artzybasheff ingeniously partnered with Irishman Colum in this retelling of Medieval fable. Internals almost as new, Dustjacket soiled, especially..... More
NY: Dau Publiishhing Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Cobalt blue linen, stamped in gilt, beveled edges. 8vo, 123pp. A patch of smudging on the right edge front cover, else near fine. 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
New York: The Viking Press, 1974. Review Copy. Hardcover. Slight fading to top edge of book. Review slip, promotional release, and promotional photo laid in. More
NY: Random House, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by playwright and lyricist Adolph Green to Bob and Jane (Emerson) who ran the Drama Book Shop for decades. Signed by co-author and lyricist underneath Green's inscription. Uncommon, Arguably, Comden and Green's most well-known collaboration with Jules Styne who wrote the score..... More