4to. 29cm x 22.5cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in orange to spine, a clean copy with only very light wear, in a bright, clean dustjacket with some scuffing to the edges, light creasing to the upper edge of the rear panel and a touch of sunning to the spine.....
12mo. Original pictorial wrappers; 64pp. Text mildly toned (as usual), bottom edge of rear wrapper a bit foxed, else Very Good or better. Young adult novel dealing with the fascist threat from Germany. Among the scarcest of Trease's many juvenile titles, this was published as no. 4 of the publisher's.....
Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt stamping to cloth (later issues stamped in red).....
Twelve tabloid issues of 8pp each. Horizontal folds (as issued); light wear; Very Good. Bi-monthly publication of the Toronto Women's Caucus, which emerged as a feminist wing of the League for Socialist Action and the Young Socialists' Alliance in 1970. Despite a tiny circulation, Velvet Fist was notable for its.....
Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier of a 40-minute.....
Folio (50cm). Number 207 of an unspecified number of copies. Printed paper portfolio containing 21 loose sheets, including one page of letterpress and 20 halftones after original works by the author. Inscribed on front cover: "A Ben Shan [sic] / mio maestro e mi [illegible]," signed by the artist and.....
Octavo (23cm). Original plum half-calf with marbled paper over boards, all edges lightly sprinkled red; blue marbled endpapers; [iv],612pp; 6 pl. Rubbed, faded at spine, with scattered minor foxing, but sound and clean: Very Good. Contains the first appearances of five short stories by Whitman: "The Tomb-Blossoms," "The Last of.....
First edition, 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary black cloth, private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak, textblock shaken, page edges soiled, old crude tape repair to index page; Good.
Fourth printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. A fine copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $4.95 on front flap). Profiles of Joshua Johnston, Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Augusta Savage, and Jacob Lawrence. Issued simultaneously in cloth and paperback; the hardcover is notably scarce, especially in.....
Octavo. Printed wrappers; [iv, 16pp]. Inscribed inside front wrapper to the Greenwich-village folk-music impresario Izzy Young, dated 1962. Mild discoloration to front wrapper, else Fine.
Five 12mo volumes (17cm) in cloth slipcase. Blue leather-backed cloth, titled in gilt on spines; pp xli,1-755; 756-1543; 1544-2323; 2324-3115 + 303pp (Index). Fine, unmarked set in lightly worn but still Near Fine slipase. A beautifully produced, reduced-format facsimile, containing reproductions of all 3115 engraved plates in the original edition.....
First printing. 18mo (14.5cm). Contemporary half brown calf with brown paper over boards, gilt rules to spine, titled in gilt on red leather spine label; later endleaves; [1]-190 [i.e. 180]pp, with pp. 164-180 mispaginated as 174-190. A-P6. Lacking the final leaf of errata. A sound copy with minor external wear.....
Cloth-backed patterned boards with printed paper spine label; narrow 4to. 40 pp. Four page introduction by Gioia and poems by New Formalist poets including besides Gioia, Disch, Hadas, Leithauser, Steele, Turner, Peacock, Bawer, Martin and eleven others. Printed by Michael Peich on dampened Johannot paper in an edition of 210.....
First printing. Stout octavo (26cm). Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and blind; a.e.g.; cxx,[1]-867,16pp; 3 inserted leaves of chromolithographic color plates. Mild foxing to preliminary leaves, with occasional spots of scattered foxing to text margins. Else a remarkably bright and well-preserved copy of this massive volume, easily.....
Quarto (30.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in orange on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [5],6-363,[1]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities, rear hinge skilfully repaired following the colophon; Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Richly-illustrated catalog of antique tools and instruments from.....
First printing. 12mo (18cm). In brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; viii, 358, [2]pp; with two pages of publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Rachel R. Janes; ownership inscription of Edward Wayne, 1946. Slightly cocked, faded, and rubbed; sewing slightly.....
Signed by Naipaul on title page (undated). First impression. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's blue buckram, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 240pp. A tight, square copy with just mild wear at bottom board edges; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 15s net at base of front flap).....
First Printings. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); brown and black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spines; dustjackets; xviii,380,[2]; xvi,473,[5]pp. Both volumes generously inscribed by the author to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67). Vol.1 reads: "Wayne / With.....
Octavo (20cm). In contemporary sprinkled calf, with double gilt rule around outer perimeter of boards, titled in gold on leather spine label; plain endpapers; [ii], 222p. Title page printed in red and black. A sturdy copy, complete and internally fresh; rubbed at edges, front joint cracked through but holding, loss.....
Octavo. Green linen over boards; dustjacket; 145pp. Tight, attractive copy with pencil erasure to front endpaper and light soiling to upper edge of text block; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped but lightly soiled on rear panel, slightly darkened on spine panel; Very Good Plus.
First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 399pp; illus. Hint of a forward lean, with a touch of sunning to upper board edges; very Near Fine, without the Book Club slug on rear panel. Dustjacket is the correct issue.....
Deluxe Issue, one of 40 numbered copies handbound in boards and signed by Anne Tyler. Quarto; 3/4 handmade paper over boards, quarterbound in powder blue cloth with white printed spine label; 30pp. Fine in a Fine glassine overlay, as issued. The first appearance in book form of this story, which.....