New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, title, publication year and series # stamped in black onto spine, 8vo (9-1/4 inches tall), pp. 59, (i) Publisher's Note. Volume with toning to text and slight fade to upper edge of cloth. Price-intact DJ... More
Columbus, OH: self-published, 1997. Paperback. Saddle stapled illustrated self-wraps, 8vo (8-1/4 inches tall), pp. 87; a few small stains and light creases with a 1cm closed tear at foot of lower wrap and pencil price of "Can $3.00" Articles include Damage Control: Cycles of Self Abuse in Punk Rock; Fifty... More
New York: George H. Doran, (1927). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, 12mo (7-5/8 inches tall), pp. 317. The first edition, with "Copyright, 1927", publisher's device and "A" on copyright page. Volume with light rubbing to... More
New York, NY: H. W. Wilson Company, 1931. Paperback. This issue with an early Vicki Baum bio, Boy Scouts list of Government publications, Ella Young ("A Reincarnated Druidess" Irish poet and Celtic mythologist) and a pull-out The Wilson Bulletin Index for Vol. I-V 1914-31. Printed paper wraps, 8vo (9-3/4 inches... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1891. Maurice Leloir. First Altemus Edition. Hardcover. Cream cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in silver, gilt and green onto upper board and spine, publisher's device stamped in blind onto lower board, all edges gilt, square 8vo (9-1/8 inches tall), pp. 296, decorative green and gilt... More
New York: Selmar Hess, 1896. Hardcover. 3/4 leather with cloth over boards, title stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers, captioned tissue guarded engravings throughout, 4to (11-3/8 inches tall), pp. vi, 204. Edges rubbed and worn, shallow dent to top board, tail of... More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. F. A. Chapman. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt and blind onto covers and spine, headbands, aeg, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, 8vo (8 inches [24 cm] tall), pp. 47 [printed on heavy card - recto... More
Canada: Canadian Press, 1979-1986. Photograph. A small collection of sixteen credited B&W "CP Photo" images of famous authors. All measure approximately 3-3/4 x 2-3/4 inches wide with credits typed onto recto or verso. All images have been roughly trimmed to size and are in very good condition. Images include... ... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (c. 1925). Reprint. Hardcover. Copyright page with "Published June 1913" and no other printings noted, but circa 1925 printing as "Books by Willa Sibert Cather" page has titles up to "The Professor's House" (1925) and the corrected spelling of "chince-bugs" on page 60... More
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, (1993). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Black patterned paper over boards, title and decorations stamped in silver onto spine, 8vo (9-3/16 inches tall), pp. 415, indices. Volume with gift insc. ffep. Price-clipped DJ is rubbed with a touch of edge wear. Celebrates the amazing career of... More
Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Sigmund Abeles (Gravures from Etchings). First Thus. Hardcover. Quarter goat skin with gilt decorated cloth. Slipcase: near fine with minor shelf wear. Number 1,585 of 2,000 copies printed, monthly letter - Oct. 1974- loosely laid in. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1942. Second Impression. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards, gilt to spine, 12mo, pp. 397. Roll to spine, bookseller's tag at foot of rear pastedown; unclipped DJ is toned with small chips, creases and tears. More
Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Gray patterned paper over boards, title stamped in red onto spine, 8vo (8 inches tall), pp. 313. Signed by the author on the title page. Great period jacket artwork by Ingrid Paulson. From the front flap "In 1847 a famine... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. Phiz (Hablot K. Browne). First Edition. Hardcover. Green pebble-grained cloth over boards, half-bound in black calf with six compartment spine, title stamped in gilt onto spine, headbands, marbled edges, 8vo (8-3/8 inches tall), bound from parts, pp. xiv, (xv-xvi - eratta leaf), 624, illustrated with... More
London: Faber And Faber, (1973). First UK Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards, author's signature stamped in white onto upper board, title stamped in white onto spine, 12mo (7-3/4 inches tall), pp. [1-8], 9-243, [244], all edges trimmed, "First published in Great Britain 1973" to copyright page. Black wrap-around dust... More
Paris: Olympia Press, (1959). First Thus. Paperback. Green printed wraps, 12mo (6-7/8 inches tall), pp. 301, "Francs : 1.500 / Not to be sold in the U.S.A. or U.K." printed at bottom corner of back cover. Volume with bumps to spine ends and one corner, a few pages noted with... More
New York: Triangle Books, 1942. Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in brown, all edges stained red, 12mo, pp. 301. Book and jacket toned and spotted with Christmas sticker to ffep under front flap, jacket with small chips. More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1934). First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with title in gilt to spine, top edge stained red, stated first, 8vo (8-3/4 inches tall) pp. 324, index, illustrated with 7 B&W plates and a frontis. Volume with some toning and foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves, slight... More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1848. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The first US edition, still nicely attired in the publisher's original blind stamped cloth with the misattribution of 'By the author of "Jane Eyre." ' printed on the title page and stamped in gilt onto the... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Collected. Hardcover. Dark green cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped in gilt onto upper board and spine, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 12mo (7-3/8 inches tall), all volumes have captioned, tissue-guarded frontis' and are printed on laid (machine), watermarked paper. All volumes with... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1910. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarter gray cloth with paper over boards, title stamped in gilt onto top board and spine, author's facsimilie signature blind-stamped onto lower board, color pastedown to top board, small folio (13 inches tall), unpaginated, captioned and tissue guarded... More
Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, (1974). Helmut Hirnschall. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A signed first edition copy of the author's first book. Brick colored cloth with spine lettered in gilt, title stamped in blind onto upper board, square 8vo (9 inches [22.8 cm] tall), pp. [5], 6-95, colored endpapers, illustrated... More
San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books/City Lights Books, 1970. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Perfect bound illustrated wraps, 8vo (8" tall), pp. 210, ads, illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. Light soil and two faint creases to cover. Ginsberg "on the road" and trippin' through India in 1962-63. More
Seven Persons, Alberta: Seven Persons Repository, (1973). Limited Edition. Paperback. Illustrated wraps with title and decorations printed in brown onto upper cover, 4to (11 inches tall), pp. 80 front cover stamped with woodblock-styled print of two people experiencing the wilderness from a canoe. Clean and unmarked throughout. Limited edition of... More
Middlesex, England: Viking Penguin Inc, (1987). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (9-1/8 inches tall), pp. 541, colored endpapers. Volume with the letter "R" in black felt pen to front pastedown; price-intact DJ (£10.95 net) with only minor rubs... More