London. Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1920. Third Edition. x+233pp (+8pp of ads), 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches, red cloth covered boards (hardbound) with color pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket extremities worn with 1 1/4 inch paper loss to tail of spine and 1/2 inch paper loss to head of...
New York. C. S. Francis & Co., 1846. 287pp, 7 1/2 x 5 inches, cloth covered boards (hardbound). Covers lightly rubbed with small chips to head and tail of spine; ink notation to front endpaper, small spots to a few pages, very good, clean condition. A fascinating collection of letters...
Derby (drawn by) and F. E. Jones (engraved by).
Cincinnati, Ohio. Swormstedt & Poe. 1857. Engraved frontispiece, full page and in-text black and white illustrations, 478pp, index, 6 1/2 x 4 1/2, embossed cloth-covered boards (hardbound). Covers lightly worn with small chips and fraying to head and tail of spine;...
Bennet, Harriet M.
New York. Geo. C. Whitney. No date. Ca. 1890. Chromolithographs, unpaginated, 5 x 4 inches, color pictorial stiff card wrappers (softbound). Light soiling to covers, ink inscription to inside front cover; very good condition. A charming tale of courtship by Fred. E. Weatherly accompanied by softly colored...
San Francisco. City Lights Books. 1963. Collection of poems, 6 ¼ x 5 inches, 98 pp., heavy paper wraps. Number 18 in the Pocket Poets Series. Text on verso of rear cover states: "Printed at the Press of Villiers Publications Ltd. Ingestre Road, London, N.W.5, England." On the copyright page...
New York. Ernst Kaufmann. No date. Ca. 1901. Black and white plates throughout, all edges gilt, 320 pp, 8vo, gilt color pictorial cloth-covered boards (hardbound). 1901 owner inscription to half title. Light rubbing to extremities, overall very good condition. Text in German with quotations from German poets including Goethe; the...
[New York]. Jenson Society. 1907. 20 VOLUME SET, limited to an edition of 500, black and white photogravure frontispieces with titled tissue guards, single color plates, top edges gilt, fore edge uncut and occasionally unopened, marble paper endpapers, 8vo, half leather with marble paper-covered boards, gilt lettering and decoration on...
Cattermole, George and Hablot Brown (illus).
Philadelphia. Lea and Blanchard. 1841. First American Edition. Ninety one illustrations including the frontispiece and in-text wood engraved illustrations, vi+362pp, cloth-covered boards with gilt embossed pictorial spine, 10 x 6 inches. Spine has been repaired (tears to cloth glued), interior clean and tight (very...
Homer, Winslow, et al. (illus).
Boston. Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. First Edition. Bound volume of the weekly newspaper for the year 1870 illustrated throughout with black and white wood engravings; 880 pp. Page size for the New Series, begun in 1870, is 14 3/4 x 11 inches. Three-quarter leather...
McCord, P. B. and Ira L. Hill Studio (illus).
New York. John Lane Company. No date. Ca. 1916. String-bound booklet of 32 pp; 7 x 4 inches. Paste-down image of Dreiser on front cover; tipped in photo of Dreiser by Ira L. Hill Studio on verso of title page; tipped...
New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. No date. Ca. 1900. SET OF 19 LEATHERBOUND VOLUMES, one black and white frontispiece illustration with tissue guard, page count: 241, xxi+353, 427, xx+335, 348, 371, 232, 258, 409, 330, xv+183, 277, 287, vii+179, 205, 208, 209, xxvi+165, 131, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2...
Chicago. Esquire-Coronet. 10- 1937. October 1937, color pictorial wrappers as issued, illustrated in color and black and white, 250pp, 14 x 10 inches. Light wear to covers, interior very good. Includes fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Guest in Room Nineteen."
Leipzig. G. Hirzel. 1909- 1912. 5 volumes, approx. 450 to 550pp each, 8vo (7.75 x 5 "), decorative embossed half leather binding, marbled boards, all edges marbled, occasional wear to extremities, but generally fine condition. Spines have four raised bands with three panels of gilt decoration and two gilt lettered...
Wilson, Mary G. W. (illus).
Boston. Le Roy Phillips. No date. Ca. 1910. Color illustrations, 36pp, 5 1/2 x 3 inches, color pictorial paper wrappers (softbound). Upper hinges starting to split, owner inscription on front endpaper, very good condition. Includes short works/excerpts by Francis Bacon, Charles Lamb, Robert Herrick, George...
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cramer, Aikens & Cramer. 03- 1891. Volume III, No. 3, of "The Newspaper Library," March 1891. Stiff card covers, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 32 pp. Very good clean condition. Volume contains "A Lying Vision" by the Irish novelist and politician Justin McCarthy, "Colonel Starbottle's Client" by...
London. Ward, Lock, and Co., No date. Ca. 1878. First Edition. 184pp + 14pp advertising at rear, 6 3/4 x 4 inches, color pictorial paper wrappers (softbound), preserved in a heavy board slip case; leather spine on slip case with leather gilt-lettered title label. Chip to cover fore edge; paper...
Doubleday, Doran. 1904 - 1912. 11 VOLUMES, black and white frontispiece illustrations in all, additional black and white full page and partial page illustrations in one volume, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, blue embossed cloth-covered boards (hardbound). Very good condition: some corners lightly bumped. Eleven blue cloth bound books...
Reinhart, C. S. (illus).
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1889. First Edition. 8 black and white plates, 184pp with 2pp of advertisements at rear, 7 3/4 x 5 inches, gilt lettered red cloth covered boards and spine (hardbound). Very good condition with slight bump to front cover upper right corner...
New York. Harper & Brothers. 1894. First American Edition. vi+325pp, some pages uncut, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, decorative gilt lettered green cloth covered boards and spine (hardbound). Cover edges and spine faded; faint foxing to endpapers, otherwise very good, clean condition. First American (BAL 10608): Clark (Edinburgh) imprint at...
New York. Carleton. 1863. 308pp, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, decorative embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine (hardbound). Covers lightly soiled, head and tail of spine frayed, edges rubbed, corners softly bumped, scattered soiling. Binding tight. Overall good to very good condition. Edmund Kirke was a pen...
Galanis, D. (illus).
Paris. Editions Eos. 1926. 9 black and white plates with tissue guards and in-text illustrations, 123pp, 9 x 5 1/2, stiff card wrappers (softbound) with glassine protective cover. Two pages unopened, light toning to plates from tissue guards, light dampstaining to top edge of back cover and...
Smith, Jessie Wilcox; Alice Barber Stephens et al (illus).
Boston. Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1904. Old Manse Edition. Black and white plates with titled tissue guards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, lvii+323+343, xxiv+326, xxvi+345+360, xxiv+381, xxiv+467, xxxii+354, xxvi+294+359,xxi+517 (index), xxiv+360, xiv+515, xvii+433, xv+405, xii+323, xv+439, xiv+585 (index), viii+425+436+421+459 (index), 7...
Vienna. Sigmund Benfinger. nd. Ca. 1900. Five volumes in three. Many black and white full page and in-text wood-engravings, decorative endpapers, xiv+419, 259, 278 pp, index, 4to (10.5 x 7.5"), marbled text block edges, gilt decorative embossed red cloth-covered boards. Light wear at extremities (two corners bumped with light fraying...
New York. Carleton. 1869. First Edition. iii-xxii+17-635pp, index, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, embossed cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine (hardbound). Overall light rubbing to covers, head and tail of spine frayed, cover corners bumped, front hinge starting to split but still attached. Interior tight and clean with...
No Place of Publication. Self-published. No date. Circa 1960s? Book, illustrated with black and white photographic illustrations, 74 roneod typed pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, pictorial paper covers with cloth binding. Author's name handwritten, presumably by author, on title page. Very light wear to covers; overall excellent/ unused condition...
