Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in dark blue, blue topstain; [8],286pp. Very slight lean to spine, spine a hint sunned, topstain almost entirely faded, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy, albeit lacking rare dust jacket. Novel of the Harlem Renaissance by the white author. COAN, p......
One of 150 copies in the "regular" issue (from a total edition of 175). Folio (40cm). Illustrated card portfolio containing 12 loose lithographic plates and a single sheet of letterpress, as issued. General external wear and dusting to portfolio; contents clean and fresh.
Octavo (21.5cm); black and gray illustrated paper-covered boards, with title label at upper spine; 96,[2]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine and upper rear cover, light wear to spine ends and board corners, with minute board exposure to lower corners, a few tiny stains to lower front cover, and a tiny.....
12mo (18cm). Original printed paper wrappers; 193pp. Endpapers and wrappers (versos) are ads. Pulp paper text somewhat tanned and brittle, with minute chips to corners (away from text); cover wraps lightly chipped and soiled; Good.
More info about An Account of the George-Hewitt Campaign in the New York Municipal Election of 1886
Photolithograph in colors; 56.5cm x 37.5cm (ca 22-1/4" x 15-1/2"). A vivid, unfaded example, free of wear; Fine.
Two 12mo volumes bound in one as issued; original brown blind-embossed cloth, pictorial spine stamped in gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed with corners showing, some small losses to cloth at spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown (Joseph M. Smith). First American single-volume edition.....
37 octavo bifolium issues (21.5cm.) bound together in contemporary half red morocco over blue gilt-lettered cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; additional related ephemera and newspaper clippings, including one typed letter from "The writers of FRAGMENTS," tipped and bound in by previous owner Georgia Atwood.....
More info about Fragments [Complete Run - Inscribed & Signed
The collection is comprised as follows: 1. Typed note signed on Mencken's personal letterhead dated Baltimore, November 3rd (1937), consisting of nine lines of text. Previous mail folds and some minor discoloration, else Very Good. 2. Typed note signed on Mencken's personal letterhead dated Baltimore, November 4th, consisting of seven...
More info about Collection of Four Pieces of Signed Correspondence to His Secretary Polly de Roode
"Of this first edition of Sinclair Lewis' earliest known published writing one hundred copies privately printed" of which this is no. 6, octavo (19.5cm.); white decorative self-wrappers, fore-edge untrimmed; unpaged. Numbered and signed by Harvey Taylor. Fine. Poem originally published in the Yale Literary Magazine, March, 1904. First Printings of.....
First Printings. Five octavo volumes; original tan cloth boards; printed dustjackets (save Book V, which has a pictorial jacket). Uniformly Near Fine copies in original dustwrappers, all unclipped but with moderate toning to spines and extremities; Book I also with a small scuff to rear jacket panel, partially eliding one.....
First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket signed in image by Walter Cole; 304pp. A hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities including tiny loss at top margin of upper panel, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better.
Octavo (20.5cm.); disbound wrappers, sheep and wastepaper remnants to spine, all edges speckled grey; [4],143pp. Foxing and light soil to title page (serving as cover), else Very Good and sound, internally fresh.
Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 274pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in a crisp, clean dustwrapper, Near Fine but for a spot of erosion at crown of spine panel.
Octavo (ca. 21cm.); removed; 30pp. Some rather heavy uneven foxing to early leaves, brief paper repair to title page (serving as upper cover), else Good or better. Inscribed by the author in pencil on title page (recipient illegible). SHOEMAKER 12187.
Fourth edition. Octavo (22cm) in two volumes. In contemporary brown calf, seven sets of double gilt rules to spine, titled in gilt on red leather spine label, numbered on black leather spine labels, blind tool to board edges, all edges sprinkled grey; plain endpapers; vol. I: [i]-xvi, [1]-580pp; vol. II.....
Autograph letter, signed, accomplished on first and third panels of bifolium sheet (measuring 24.5x20cm. when folded), approx. 750 words. Postally used on rear panel; previous mail folds with rather long subsequent splitting, some minor soil, loss as a result of wax seal affecting approx. five letters, else Good and legible.....
More info about Autograph Letter, Signed, to Edmond-Charles Genet
Octavo (20cm.); original maroon pictorial cloth embossed in orange and gilt; [6],557pp.; color frontispiece. Spine a hint cocked, a few scratches to rear cover, else a Near Fine, attractive copy. Originally published in 1900.
Octavo (19cm); russet cloth, with titling and decorations in gilt, black, and gray on spine and front cover; [x],204,[4]pp ads. Light wear to spine ends and extremities, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), with some faint, scattered foxing to endpapers; Very Good+. An attractive copy of Hearn's first novel.....
First Impression. Octavo; horizontal-ribbed maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green topstain; dustjacket; 304pp + 4 ads. Spine gilt a bit dulled, scattered foxing to text edges, with some trivial offset to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket shows some shallow chipping at the crown, with a few tiny.....
Octavo (21.5cm.); untrimmed stitched self-wrappers; 18pp. Coin-sized loss at top margin of last few leaves touching page numbering, two small wormholes affecting imprint, old dark stain to a few internal leaves, else a Good or better, unopened copy.
Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth, mustard pictorial dust jacket printed in blue, blue topstain; [8],219pp. Jacket spine a bit toned with small chips at crown, biopredation to bottom inch of upper jacket flap fold, very brief damp spots to topstain, light spotting to textblock, else a Near Fine copy in Very.....
Octavo (ca. 22cm.); recent two-toned paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, retaining original endpapers; ix,[10]-270pp. Corners bumped, textblock evenly foxed, else Very Good and sound, this copy issued without slip of advertisements before title page.
A run of twenty-eight weekly issues in original pictorial paper wrappers, comprising: Vol. VIII no. 1 (Jan 7, 1892)-8; 10-26; Vol IX, 1-3 (July 21, 1892). Each issue paginated as follows: i-iv; [1]-16; v-viii; front and rear matter containing adverts. Occasional light soil and marginal flaking to covers, but a......
Quarto (28cm). Green cloth boards lettered in red; dustjacket; 16pp text, 240 plates. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To my favorite American artist, Ben Shahn, from a fellow-artist, Joseph Solman," undated. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.
