1947: Trail's End Publishing Co., 1947. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Quarter morocco over red cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and cover. Frontispiece portrait from a painting by Charles Russell, 4 additional full-page portraits. 180 pp. Clear tape over spine. Ex-library, with sticker on spine, sticker on cover, bookplate inside front cover..... More
New York: Stokes, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration and color pastedown. Color frontispiece and 8 photographic plates. 317 pp. Minor edge wear and bumping to corners. Lean to spine. Foxing to endpapers and occasional light foxing throughout. Hinges overopened with some tearing to paper..... More
West Concord, MA: Hadley Press, [1929]. 2nd Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 8.5"x6". Purple cloth. Gilt lettering to front cover. Frontispiece. [13], 12-70, [2]. Minor edge wear. Several superficial stains to front cloth. Additional notes pasted on recto and verso of title page, as issued by publisher. This is a scarce case study meant..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1976. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Taupe cloth. Dust jacket. 522 pp. Wear and some chipping to jacket edges. 1" closed tear top right front jacket cover, 1/2" closed tear top left front jacket cover, and 1" closed tear at center of jacket spine header. Price clipped. Front hinge overopened..... More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Grey cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 227 pp. Minor shelf wear. Price clipped. Red scuff on rear jacket cover. This is a first edition collection of critical essays about Samuel Beckett, including a selected bibliography. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and red boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Photographs. 445 pp. Slight cock to spine. Minor shelf wear. Lengthy gift inscription by author on front free endpaper. This is a signed first edition biography of controversial Communist leader Castro by the late journalist..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Eggshell quarter cloth over eggshell boards. Pictorial dust jacket. 622 pp. plus errata. Shelf wear to jacket edges. Brown stain on top and right block edges. This is an early edition of New Direction's definitive printing of Starkie's critical biography of French poet Baudelaire..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. Reprint. Cloth. 8vo. Olive cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on spine and cover. Gilt top edge. Photographic and illustrated plates throughout. 223 pp. Minor nicks and scuff to edges. Tight and clean. This is an early reprint of Melville's critical biography of Thackeray. More
New York: Hyperion, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Half maroon cloth over navy boards. Pictorial dust jacket. Many photographic plates. 212 pp. Light shelf wear. This is an out-of-print photographic retrospective of the life of Walt Disney written by two Disney company veterans, with a foreword by his close friend Bradbury..... More
Philadelphia: Altemus, 1894. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. Brown cloth with silver lettering and decoration to spine and cover. Frontispiece. Hand-pressed paper. 296 pp. plus advertisements. Scuffing to edges. 1" dark scuff on rear cover. Corner of p. 83 creased. Tight and clean. This is a handsome reprint of Mitchell's (pen name IK Marvel)..... More
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London: John Murray, 1813. First Edition, 2nd issue. Full leather. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf. Gilt tooled hubbed spines. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Brown silk ribbons attached. Vol. I: engraved frontispiece, viii, 253, 1 (advertisement); Vol. II: engraved facsimile of Nelson's signatures, viii, 280 (5 advertisements). Vol. I front hinge is..... More