Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Company, [1901]. First Edition. First printing (with the comma closer to "N.Y." than to "Brooklyn" in the copyright notice), binding A. Octavo (21cm). Original dark green cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine, pictorial paper onlay on front; blank endpapers; [xvi],245pp; frontispiece and 12 color plates. Lightly..... More
![Mohawk [Advance Copy with Publicity Letter and Signed Bookplate Laid In]. Richard RUSSO](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Vintage Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing, advance issue, a trade paperback original. Octavo (20.25cm); pictorial card wrappers; [6],419,[7]pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Light wear, small scuff to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine, with the publisher's publicity letter folded and laid..... More
Pippa Passes, KY: Mountain Press, Alice Lloyd College, 1965. First Edition. Second collection of poems by the former professor of English and Humanities at Alice Lloyd College. Cohen (1928-2007), in addition to his outspoken personality, was known during his time at ALC to be an outspoken advocate against strip mining..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Murray, and Cochran, for W. Bisset, and D. Ogilvy, Dundee, 1768. Octavo (21cm). Contemporary full leather, gilt title on red spine label, blind roll to board edges; plain endpapers; 293,[3]pp; 2pp at rear announcing the publication by subscription of an edition of Bunyan's works; with frontispiece..... More
London: Constable & Company, [1922]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in orange; plain endpapers; 276pp. 20th-century bookplate to front pastedown. Straight, spine lightly sunned, light discolorations to endpapers, front hinge slightly cracked before half-title: Very Good. First edition of Mansfield's third collection of short stories, with..... More
New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1921. First American Edition (bound from English sheets). Doolittle's third collection of poems, several of which first appeared in the pages of The Dial, Poetry, Contact, The Nation, The Sphere, The Anglo-French Review, and The Egoist. The book was dedicated to her long-time lover..... More
Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue, one of 500 copies. Slim octavo (21.5cm); glossy unprinted white card wrappers; blue paper dustjacket, with titles printed in black; [8],9-24,[4]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with just a hint of sunning to spine, and publisher's postcard..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First, Limited Edition. "Where would history and biography be unless there were collectors," Sandburg asks in the introduction. Barrett, a lawyer, was an important Lincoln letter and memorabilia collector. His collection was a great resource for Sandburg, as well as for almost any..... More
Chicago: Bancroft Company, 1893. Folio (41cm). Two volumes, complete. Original half black morocco, maroon cloth over boards, double gilt rules to boards and spine, all edges sprinkled brown; red marbled endpapers; vol. I: 508pp; vol. II: 509-1000pp; extensively illustrated with halftone photographs. Ownership signatures of William H. Martin, 1893 (a..... More
Paris: Chez J.-P. Migne, 1862. Folio (37cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; coated endpapers; [2]pp preliminary text ("Avertissement") and 77 leaves of plates, printed recto-only; two folding. Also included here (though not called for in the table) are two large albumen photographic facsimiles, one reproducing a rendering of the interior..... More
London: Grant Richards, 1922. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Original green cloth, stamped in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; [i]-[viii],312pp. Bookplate of Canadian collector Charles Boddy Fisher to front pastedown. Straight but lightly rubbed, spine sunned, chips to head, scattered foxing: Good or better. The second collection..... More
![At Paradise Gate [Signed]. Jane SMILEY](/pictures/medium/56636.jpg?v=1641872941)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Signed by Smiley on title page. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 224pp. Fine copy in crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $12.95 on front flap), slightly toned at margins else Near Fine. The Pulitzer Prize winning author's second book. More
New York: G. Arnold Shaw, 1915. Second edition (i.e. printing), one month after the first. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth hardcover, titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 722pp. Tight, straight, and ummarked, Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. More
London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2001. First Edition. First impression. Small square 12mo (15cm). Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 143pp. Fine. Collection of five "pornographic" stories edited by Zadie Smith, including contributions by Matt Thorne, Toby Litt, Rebecca Ray, James Flint, and Daren King. More
New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [x],147,[7]pp, with photographic title page and two plates of stills. Light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, with..... More
!["Employment in the Small Bookstore" [in] Twelve Poems, Volume 1, Number Three. Very Late Spring,...](/pictures/medium/56632.jpg?v=1641873004)
Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1975. Octavo (23cm). Sewn, printed card wrappers; 25pp. Fine. Single issue of this periodical poetry anthology. In addition to Johnson, contributors to this issue include Robert Hedin, Richard Hugo, William Bronk, others. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Plum cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Mild offsetting from jacket flaps to endpapers; faint foxing to prelims; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, issued without a printed price on flap; lightly..... More
Boston: James French & Co., 1855. First Edition. 18mo (15cm). Original grey cloth, blindstamped; plain endpapers; 148pp; relief frontispiece. "C. H. Brizzell" in contemporary pencil on rear flyleaf. Tight but lightly cocked, cloth rubbed, front board bent, dampstaining to first few leaves at gutter, occasional staining: Good only. Allegorical stories..... More
New York: Doubleday, McClure, 1899. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, designs and titles printed in orange and black on tan linen; 339pp. Spine imprint "Doubleday / & McClure, one of two states noted by Blanck (no priority). A sound copy, somewhat age-darkened on spine, lightly..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Ribbed orange-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 354pp. Mildly dulled on spine and with a bit of dusting to boards, still a straight, solid, Very Good copy. The last novel published under Norris's..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8". Octavo (23cm). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (hardcover); 272pp; teg. Fore edge untrimmed. A clean, solid, bright copy; spine cloth barely sunned; Near Fine. Discreeet ink ownership stamp to front pastedown of a W.D...... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. First Edition. First printing. Blanck's issue "B", with sheets bulking to 3/4". Octavo (23cm). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (hardcover); 272pp; teg; frontis and three inserted leaves of plates. Fore edge untrimmed. A clean, solid, bright copy, gilt still bright on spine; easily Near Fine. Small..... More
Jerusalem: Palestine Journal of Botany, 1949-52. First Edition. Octavo (26cm). Two printed card portfolios, each containing a 12pp printed pamphlet and 50 loose botanical plates, of which six are in color on coated paper, the remainder black-and-white line illustrations printed on uncoated bond. Mild wear and soiling to portfolios; occasional..... More
![Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims [Presentation Copy]. John ALTGELD,...](/pictures/medium/56611.jpg?v=1641872940)
Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1890. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original green cloth, titled in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers; 320pp. Contemporary ink inscription to f.f.e.p.: "Compliments of the Author." Straight and tight, cloth rubbed, textblock detached from case at front hinge, rear hinge half split, else..... More
New York: Vanguard, 1950. First Edition. Inscribed by Farrell in ink on front endpaper to Rosalie and Lew Carliner "with affectionate regards," undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 302pp. Subtle offsetting from jacket to endpapers, else..... More
