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
NY: Garnett & Gow, 1889. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt, 393 pages, loads of advertisements. Gilt on covers is mostly gone, internals near fine, solidly bound. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. #100 of 200 copies, signed by Aldington on limitation page. Green woven linen, moderaatley solied at spine, else near fine (an apparently unread copy). More
London: Gay and Bird, 1894. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First English edition of the American classic with new illustrations by A. B. Frost. Publisher's decorated cloth stamped with black devices and gilt titlles, gte. Solid binding. Collectible condition. More
Editions Denoel, 1964. First Edition - Limited. 8vo. Small 8vo, paper wraps, original glassine, 176 pages. Affectionately inscribed (in French) to American playwright Hugh Wheeler (Sweeny Todd, A Little Night Music), screenwriter and mystery novelust know as Patrick Quentin) on the title page. More
Lyon: Chez B. Corman et Blanc, 1833. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Folio, half leather over marbleized boards. xxiv, 390, 63 plates, this lacking plate 9, and plates 8, 11, 12, 48 and 61, cut from binding and laid-in. Text block separated from casing. Some edgewear to loose plates but all are..... More
Wassaic NY: Fotobs Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Companion titles, both unused, with gift inscriptions. More
London: Privately Printed (by Waterlow & Sons) by the Author of 'Hunting Hawking Shooting', 1930. Limited Facsmile Edition, First Thus. Soft cover. Facsimile, reduced in size but proportioned, of the original illustrations of Henry Thomas Aiken (1784-1851) published by S. and F. Fuller in 1820 on rollers or mounted as..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. A near fine copy, decorated endapers, neat pon fly. frontispiece portrait of authro w/ tissue guard, 128 + 6 pub cat. BAL 457. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Spine faded. Corners and edges sharp. Number 100 of 210 copies. Signed by Aldington. Some darkening of top edge, front cover. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Text clean. More
Wagon & Star Press West Los Angeles 1953. Hardcover. Special ltd ed of 14 copies, this numbered XIII by Dexter Allen signed by him and illustrator Fritz Faiss. Almost as new. 8 vo in hand cut paper. In self wraps. More
NY: The Century Co, 1917. Raemaekers, Louis. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 of 2 only. Cloth boards, gilt-pressed author name in uncommon cloth (canvas) wrapper with like gilt pressing. Title label flaked from spine else a fine unnumbered copy (1000 printed). gte, sdes untrimmed, 30 full color tipped in plates..... More
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1953. First Edition. Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles. An apparantly unused copy - free of prev owner names, bookplates - in slightly rubbed unclipped dws. xvii + 236; xvii + 206, index. Illustrated. Best parts: b&w photographs of mid-war, Bauhaus and Deco inspired furniture and..... More
Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1827. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first American edition title page. 12 mo, 216p, red leather-backed printed paper covers. Some of the paper over boards is perished, what remains is heavily soiled, rear cover holding by one binding tie. Contemporary ownership label with decorative surround, typical of..... More
Joliet: P F Volland, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Unusually well-preserved copy, in broken pictorial box (top and bottom intact, sides unattached or missing). Covers fine. Internals as new, really. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. spine of dw faded, a light waterstain around the margins, not affecting text block. More
New York: W.W. Norton, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1905. Revised Edition, First Thus. Hardcover. Brown, rough weave cloth darkened, solidly ribbon-bound, internals near fine. More
NY: Abelard-schuman, 1963. Rosell, Ingrid. First English Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unread copy. More
Vienna: Munk, 1911. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. This copy distinctively is hardbound with the cover design pasted on cream linen, with three-quarter blue cloth, gilt ruled. We could not determine if this is a publisher's variant binding or a custom rebinding of an original edition. With the 12 fabulous full-page..... More
NY: World Publishing Company, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, third printing. First-hand account by the Commander of USS Nautilus (SSN 571), the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole (on 3 August 1958). Laid-in is a TLS from..... More
NY: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Apparently unread book in very good, moderately soiled dw. SIGNED BY ANDERSON on the ffe. Catholic Actors Guild stamp with Manhattan address on pastedown. Before the Boys in the Band, this was about it. Still, it endures. The Catholic connection adds a nice..... More
NY: Random House, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Anderson to Jane and Bob (Emerson) who managed the Drama Book Shop, the go-to bookstore for theatre professionals and aficionados in Manhattan, for many years. More
Decorah IA: StoryPeople, 1995. First Edition. Soft cover. Three uniform volumes, softcover, each a later printing, each initialed "with love BA" on its title page in cloth covered slipcase stamped in gilt. Books as new, slipcase a littlke soiled and moderately worn at one corner. More
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1933. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy. Shows little if any signs of use. 322 pages, lots of illustrations. More