![Son of a Smaller Hero [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Mordecai RICHLER](/images/noimage.png)
London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [12],13-232pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, tiny stain to upper edge of textblock, with some faint offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); brick red cloth, with tiltes stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-208pp. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), contemporary owners ink name to upper front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks..... More
New York: Baker & Scribner, 1848. photograph 16? Octavo (20cm. In publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards and titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [i]-xvi 17-336 pp; 17 plates (3 folding). With the nineteenth-century bookseller's ticket of Stoddard & Babcock, Syracuse, and the early twentieth century bookplate..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. First American Edition. From the second French edition. Quarto in twos (32cm). Rebound in dark red buckram, titled in gilt on leather spine label; plain endpapers; [i]-xii [13]-449, [41]pp; with 40 color lithographs printed by P. S. Duval. A sound copy, rebound and rubbed with..... More
N.p., n.d. (London: 1846): British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Octavo (21cm). Printed, sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. Occasional creasing to page corners; partial split to first and final leaves at bound edge, otherwise minimal evidence of use or age; Very Good. A direct attack on the Commissioners of the Free Church of..... More
Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1918. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon blind-embossed cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; vi,447pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the very uncommon dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities and with two thin triangular losses to rear panel (with slight loss of..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856. First Edition. First issue. 12mo (19cm). In brown publisher's cloth with the Ticknor blindstamp to boards, titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; viii 9-356pp; steel-engraved frontispiece and 13 full-page wood-engravings. A sound, bright copy with a gentle lean, rubbed with loss at head, patterned..... More
![Marbled Paper [Limited Edition, Signed]. James MERRILL](/pictures/medium/55162.jpg?v=1631659025)
Salem, OR: Charles Seluzicki Fine Books, 1982. First, Limited Edition. One of 200 copies. Quarto (25.25cm); letterpress printed sheets, string-tied into stiff pictorial card wrappers; [20]pp; illus. A Fine copy. Brief collection of poems, illustrated after photographs taken of funeral masks unearthed at Mycenae. More
St. Paul: Coffee House Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18.75cm); blue boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. A few tiny remnants of binders glue to rear cover, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $12.95). A collection of poems..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First American Edition. "A traffic accident leaves Robert Maitland stranded and injured on a littered, undeveloped traffic island beneath three converging highways. He survives on radiator water and food litter and by manipulating the two other castaways he meets on his island, a...... More
New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1854. 16mo (15cm). In original green cloth, blindstamped on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; 207pp; wood-engraved frontispiece depicting "Gold Miners at Work." Ink inscription to f.f.e.p., dated 1855. A straight, sound copy, much rubbed, foxed throughout: Good. With a chapter on "The..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Third Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); batik paper-covered boards and black glazed cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-110,[2]pp. Contemporary owners ink name and address to upper half-title page, small rubbed spot on lower front board, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is..... More
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. Octavo (21cm). In contemporary green printed paper wraps; 110, [2]pp; with two pages of ads at rear, and ads to inside rear wrapper. Text block sound, but front wrapper detached, rear wrapper reattached, both chipped; lower corners of both wrappers and first eight leaves cropped..... More
![Eclipse [Limited Edition, Signed]. John BANVILLE](/pictures/medium/55151.jpg?v=1631744947)
London: Bridgewater Press, 2000. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.5. Octavo (22.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and publisher's logo embossed onto front cover; red topstain; [10],11-222pp. A Fine copy without dustjacket..... More
Boston: Waite, Peirce and Company, 1845. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (16cm). In original brown publisher's cloth, ornately blindstamped on boards, titled in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; [i]-xii, [13]-268pp; lithographic frontispiece. With ink ownership inscriptions to front pastedown. A straight, sturdy copy, rubbed, with large patch of discoloration to..... More
Newton, IA: Tamazunchale Press, 1987. First Thus. #44 of 250 copies. Miniature (6.5cm). In white goat, tooled in gilt on front and spine, all edges gilt; Cockerell marbled endpapers; [iv] 7-31, [3]pp; photograph of a glass paperweight tipped in as frontispiece. Covers very lightly bowed, else Fine. Bound by the..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. First Thus. Octavo (19cm). Publisher's navy-blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 239pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original, priced dustwrapper (7/6 net), quite nicely preserved with a bit of rubbing at edges and flap-folds and an inocuous spot of rubbing to rear..... More
New York: Covici & Friede, 1937. First Edition. A two-act comedy set in the midst of a political uprising in Ecuador. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and opened at the Guild Theater in October, 1937, with Leslie Banks in the lead role. The show lasted only 46..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Fair, 1843. 12mo (20cm). In yellow paper-covered boards, printed in black, all edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers; viii, 208pp; frontispiece portrait of Charles Follen. With nineteenth century bookplate from the Lawrence Academy to front pastedown. Sturdy, but lacking paper over spine, with small blue stain to outer..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. First Impression. Slim octavo (21.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],[5],6-24,[2]pp. Light wear to extremities, gentle sunning to spine, with some light dust-soil to wrappers, and faint foxing to text edges; Very Good+. Well-preserved copy of Woolf's satirical essay, issued as No.7 in "The Hogarth..... More
Chicago: R. G. Badoux & Co., 1888. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). In red cloth, stamped in black and gold, all edges marbled; tan endpapers; 269pp; 25 relief illustrations on inserted leaves. Published by subscription. A straight copy, rubbed and darkened, with a few small stains, spine sunned and..... More
![Two Poems of the Air [Limited Edition, Signed]. James DICKEY, Monica Moseley PINCUS, poems,...](/pictures/medium/55135.jpg?v=1631659025)
Portland, OR: Centicore Press, 1964. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and calligrapher, this being copy no.133. Oblong quarto (30.5cm x 15.25cm); offset printed sheets bound stiff decorative paper-covered boards; [viii],84,[6]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine. Handsome fine press..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1917. Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm). In smooth light brown cloth, titled on paper spine label; plain endpapers, with extra spine label tipped in; viii, 254pp; with numerous relief illustrations. A straight, tight copy, bumped at edges and extremities, minor dirt to spine..... More
Oberlin: Published by the author, 1886. Third edition. 18mo (16cm). In brown cloth, titled in gold on front board; plain endpapers; 75pp; with frontispiece portrait, and folding map of Africa at rear. A straight copy, cloth much rubbed and scuffed, both hinges cracked through, small tear (0.5cm) to margin of..... More
Boston: S. W. Tilton & Co., [1877]. Stated fourth edition, revised. 12mo (19.5cm). In green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front, boards bevelled; yellow endpapers; [1-11], 22-43, [13]pp; 7pp of ads at rear; 28pp of color illlustrations of ornament patterns, and a few in-text wood engravings. An appealing copy..... More
