New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth over navy boards. Pictorial dust jacket. 215 pp. Jacket price clipped with several tears. 1/2" loss at header of jacket spine and 1" triangular loss at bottom center of rear jacket cover. Several other small closed tears..... More
New York: Broom Publishing, 1923. First Edition. Boards. 8vo. 8.25"x6.5". Blue boards with vellum spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Original dust jacket. Four woodblock illustrations by Andre Derain. Translated and with notes by Matthew Josephson. 158 pp. 1.5" chip on jacket spine header and 1/8" loss midway down jacket spine. Other..... More
New York: John B. Alden, 1891. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 7.5"x5.25". Olive cloth with gilt lettering and embossed black decorations on spine and cover. 268 pp. Several small stains on covers. Hinges overopened. Foxing to endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. The is a first edition of Elder David Bartley's allegorical religious novel about..... More
![The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson [complete in 14 volumes]. Ralph Waldo EMERSON](/pictures/thumb/986.jpg?v=1567713999)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1883-1887. Full leather. 8vo. 8.25"x5.5". Burgundy morocco with gilt lettering, 6-panel hubbed spine, and gilt top edge. Marbled boards and endpapers and several illustrated plates. Occasional light foxing to endpapers and very minor scuffing to some corners. Spine header of volume 7 scuffed. Tight and clean, appears unread. This..... More
![The Works of Victor Hugo [set of 8]. Victor HUGO](/pictures/thumb/988.jpg?v=1567714048)
Philadelphia: University Library Association, [1880s]. Cloth. 8vo. 8.25"x5.75". Green cloth with pastedown on spine. Gilt top edge. Several illustrated plates. Covers have some superficial stains and scratches. Pastedowns' foxed. Minimal foxing to some endpapers. Man Who Laughs 1 and Bug-Jargal have small bored holes on bottom edge. Tight and clean. This..... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. This is a first printing (no errata leaf) of Mill's autobiography bound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Corners are bumped, and buckram is loose at top of spine. Hinges are weak but binding is holding well. Owner's..... More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. 8.75"x5.75". Maroon boards with pastedowns on spine and cover. Yellow dust jacket. 256 pp. Very light edge wear to jacket. Corners of flaps are clipped, but not price clipped. This is a scarce first printing of Miller's short story collection. This edition..... More
![The Dramatic Works of Moliere [complete in 6 volumes]; A New Edition with a Prefatory Memoir,...](/pictures/thumb/1093.jpg?v=1570900327)
Philadelphia: George Barrie, [1878]. Cloth. 8vo. 8.75"x6.25". Dark green pebbled cloth with spine pastedowns. Gilt top edge. Steel engravings by Horace Vernet, Desenne, Johannot, and Hersent. Hand-pressed paper. Minor edge wear and scuffing to all covers. Spine headers and footers all have a bit of tearing. Hinges overopened. Cover of Vol..... More
Random House. First Edition. Cloth. This is a lot of 12 first edition novels and short story collections by classic American author John O'Hara, many of them first printings. All are complete in dust jacket and in very good condition with good jackets. Several titles have a gift inscription from..... More
![How the Steel Was Tempered [complete in 2 volumes]. Nikolai OSTROVSKY, R. Prokofieva](/pictures/thumb/64.jpg?v=1523723460)
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952. Reznichenko, A. Hardcover. Set of 2 hardcovers (parts 1 and 2 of the novel) without dust jackets, handsomely embossed. The cover of volume 1 is rather stained, and both are stamped on flyleaf: "Distributed by 'NEWS-FACTS,' 753, Bathurst St., Toronto." Both are illustrated and..... More
![The Yale Shakespeare [complete in 40 volumes]. William SHAKESPEARE](/pictures/thumb/1090.jpg?v=1570901164)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Revised Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. Various paginations. Spines are sunned on all volumes. A few stray pencil marks, and some notes in pencil inside front cover of Julius Caesar. Typewritten book report on Ditto paper laid inside..... More
New York: Tyrant Books, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Paperback original book and 45 RPM record in unopened shrink wrap. Book is 8vo. 6.5"x5.5". 222pp. Record sleeve is 7.75"x7.75". Shrink wrap is torn in 2 places, but book and record have not been removed and are in new condition. This is a signed..... More
Norton, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of the first Easy Rawlins mystery signed and inscribed by the author: "To Jessica, my friend and fellow writer. Here's looking forward to your first book & bright future. Love Walter, June 26, '90" More
Viking Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second state (no period between "talk" and 'this" on line 11 page 112). Dust jacket is price clipped and has slight rubbing around corners. There is a small stain on dust jacket cover over second "o" in "Moon." Lean to spine. This..... More
Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is price clipped, has a small brown stain on front cover, and slight loss at bottom left and top right of spine. Former owner wrote her name and address on inside cover and on page 97. Spine is cracked at very back..... More
![The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson [complete in 12 volumes]. Alfred Lord TENNYSON](/pictures/thumb/984.jpg?v=1567713995)
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1892-1898. Full leather. 8vo. 9.25"x6.5". Navy morocco with gilt lettering, 6-panel hubbed spine, and gilt top edge. Decorative endpapers and several illustrated plates. Japan paper. Occasional light foxing and very minor scuffing to some corners. Tight and clean, appears unread. This is the complete set of the Edition..... More
![The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier [complete in 9 volumes]. John Greenleaf WHITTIER](/pictures/thumb/985.jpg?v=1567713997)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892-1894. Full leather. 8vo. 8.25"x5.5". Brown morocco with gilt lettering, 6-panel hubbed spine, and gilt top edge. Marbled boards and endpapers and several illustrated plates. Occasional light foxing to endpapers and very minor scuffing to some corners. Middle hub is scuffed on volume 7. Tight and clean, appears..... More