New York: Harper and Brothers, (1918). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; xvi,207pp. Two ownership signatures to front endpaper, else tight, straight and unmarked; Very Good or better. In the scarce printed dustwrapper, slightly chipped at extremities with a few brief, closed tears; Very Good. Among the hundred..... More

Columbia, S.C. The R.L. Bryan Company, 1919. First Edition. Inscribed by the author, "With Best Wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Khaki cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xv,201pp; folding map, frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Thin partial splits..... More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1919. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For Miss Katherine Blackwell," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Square octavo (23cm x 20cm). Cloth-backed, glazed pictorial boards; [94]pp. A very nicely-kept copy of this fragile book: bottom board corners are just rubbed through at tips..... More

Philadelphia: Published for the Author by Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1840. Second Edition. Second edition of this textbook on conchology printed under Poe's name, based on Thomas Wyatt's Manual of Conchology. Poe, desperately in need of money, allowed his name to be used in order to popularize the book; he..... More

London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; xvi,503,[1]pp. Bilingual, with facing Swahili and English translation. Ownership inscription of Mrs. S. Stock on front pastedown. Sound but externally rubbed and mildly dusty, internally clean: Very Good. Steere (1828-1882)..... More

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. First printing, omitting the story "Brown of Calaveras." Octavo (18.5cm); publisher's embossed terra-cotta cloth, [viii],[1]-239pp; brown coated endpapers, flyleaves. Quite good, with an early mend to cloth at upper front joint (external); front endpapers thinly cracked at hinge; small chip to rear..... More

London: Edward Arnold, 1894. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt; dark blue coated endpapers; xlvi,351,[1],28,[4]pp; 32pp of publisher's ads at rear; 2 photogravures, folding color map, 16 halftone plates, numerous in-text halftones. Sound but with a slight forward roll, spine lightly faded, bumped and rubbed..... More

London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., N.d. [c. 1902]. No edition or printing stated. Square 12mo (15cm); full deep blue cloth; printed paper spine label; xxvi,345,[12]pp; text block edges uncut. Few minor spots of soil to cloth; spine label a shade darkened, still tight, straight and Very Good. In the publisher's..... More

Winchester, VA: Farmers and Mercahnts National Bank, [1965]. First Edition. 12mo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; [8]pp; frontispiece portrait. Slight toning at wrapper margins, else about fine. Extremely uncommon memorial tribute to Churchill by Virginia's famous segregationist Governor and Senator Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966). Published in the brief interval between..... More

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1913. First American Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xl,267,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 30 illustrations. Spine ends gently nudged, some light scattered dust-soil to rear cover, with the edges of the front..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Ocatvo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 256pp. Remainder stamp to upper edge of text block, else a fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.95 on front flap), crisp, unfaded and unworn. A new-appearing copy. Smith's fifth regularly-published book, a collection..... More

New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 329pp. Tight, clean copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), slightly faded on spine panel. An attractive, Near Fine copy of the author's third novel. More

New York: Harper and Row, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; salmon top-stain; 399pp. Square and tight with some faint surface abrasions to front board; top-stain faded near gutter; Very Good+. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), Near Fine. Kumin's second novel. More