Tomb of the Fathers - A Lydia Duluth Adventure
Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski. More
Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski. More
Richmond: The Hermitage Press, 1912. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Brown cloth stamped in gilt; 305,[1]pp; frontispiece and 8 black and white halftone plates. An upright, unfaded copy with superficial abrasion to cloth over front board, rubbing to head and tail, partial crack to front hinge: Good or better..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo. Linen backed pictorial boards, with photographic portrait inset device; dustjacket; xxv, 15-338pp; illustrated endpapers and jacket design by Ethel C. Taylor. Contemporary ownership signature to verso of half-title, bit of flecking to upper edge of text block, else a...... More
Auburn, NY: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. Later edition. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in blind with gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; 243+[12]pp, frontispiece. Spine lolled, backstrip and upper margins sunned; soiling and surface wear; extremities bumped and rubbed. Textblock damped and foxed throughout, with some soiling and slight pulling..... More
Minneapolis: Carl Waring Jones, 1941. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial cloth; 135pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Sincerely Yours / Al Baker," dated in year of publication. Two small ink-stains to front board, else light aging and wear; VG, lacking the dustwrapper. Exercises in hand-magic by one of the more popular..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1873. Reprint (originally London: 1863). 12mo; publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; 144pp; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of wood-engraved plates. Wear at head and heel of spine; bottom corner of front board rubbed through; just Very Good. An early entry in the Scottish..... More
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. First American Edition. Nautical tale by the prolific English sailor and author, often writing under the pseudonym the "Old Sailor." This a minor work for children, recounting the adventures of young Frank Fairfield, who becomes a cabin boy and sails to Jamaica, falls ill with..... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. First Trade Edition. An extraordinary association copy of this exquisitely-illustrated edition of Baum's beloved 1900 novel. Among his many accomplishments, Holder (1930-2014) was responsible for directing and designing the original Broadway production of The Wiz, an African-American retelling of The Wizard..... More
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
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1966]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in olive pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [8],181pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears and creasing; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Paranormal young adult novel twice adapted for television, in 1971 and 1996. More
New York: Friendship Press, [1936]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's tan pictorial wrappers printed in brown; viii,168pp. Light wear to extremities, occasional unobtrusive red pencil underlining throughout, else Very Good or better. Collection of folk tales and stories by missionaries in Africa. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Tall quarto (31cm); pictorial paper-covered boards; cat and dog patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [46]pp; illus. Wear to spine ends and upper corners, some insect damage to lower board edges (resulting in some spotty board exposure), though contents are immaculate; Very Good+..... More
New York: Viking Kestrel, 1985. First Hardcover Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31.25cm); glossy pictorial boards; dustjacket; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, tiny tear to upper rear joint, with neat gift inscription on verso of half-title; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.95), lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing to crown..... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, illustrations and text stamped in black, in pictorial dustwrapper; 398pp, frontis.,5 plates. Boards rubbed; dustwrapper soiled and worn, with chipping and short tears to extremities; mild foxing throughout textblock, some pages dogeared. Overall Very Good. Author Josef Berger..... More
[Phoenix, NY]: Frank E. Richards Publishing Co., [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; [4], 219pp.; illus. A bit dust-soiled, else Fine. Juvenile novel recounting the experiences of Jacques "Ebony Jack" Duval, a black man from Massachusetts lured to the West in the antebellum years. More
New York: Platt and Munk, (1930). Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards; [20]pp; illus. Minor rubbing to covers; Sunday school gift inscription on front endpaper, dated 1936; Very Good. An attractive copy of this vintage pedagogical picture book teaching the exchange value of labor. Illustrated by the British artist Eulalie Minfred Banks..... More
Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1820. 32mo (10.5cm.); pictorial vernacularly stitched wrappers printed in brown; 13,[3]pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. Quite worn, lacking rear wrapper, crude contemporary stitching starting to unravel, upper wrapper rather damaged by biopredation and laid down on contemporary piece of plain stock, several small losses to margins of..... More
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1899. First Edition. First printing, with no printing statement on verso of title page. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's embossed red cloth, titled in gilt with applied photo-pictorial cover illustration; 288pp; illus. Old ink-stains to cloth on front cover and spine; ink inscriptions to endpapers; still a tight..... More
Rutland: Geo. A. Tuttle & Co., 1855. The blind Vermont author's second published work, aboult Lizza, the daughter of a "Gypsy," inspired by the success of the blind Boston author Helen De Kroyft. Unlike De Kroyft, however, Pratt wrote not to alleviate poverty, but to "devote...to the causes fo self-culture..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth, titled and blocked in gilt and dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.25cm); indigo cloth, with titles stamped in pale blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 28pp. Faint lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly spine-sunned, with edgewear, tears at lower rear joint and rear flap fold, and..... More
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1971]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],247pp. Price-clipped dust jacket with later price cancel (£1.50); old Strand price sticker to front pastedown, else Near Fine. Third title in the author's Watchmen series, originally published in the U.S. in 1969..... More
New York: James Miller, 1866. Edition and printing unstated; likely the second U.S. printing.12mo (18cm). Publisher's embossed cloth gilt; engraved extra-title and frontispiece; 300 pp, [8 pp ads]. Bright copy, with just mild rubbing to cloth at spine head and heel; foxing within, mostly on prelims; Very Good. OCLC notes..... More
Zaria: Printed by Gaskiya Corporation and Published by the Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, [n.d. but 1967]. First Edition. Brief account, written for juvenile audiences, of a small part of the Fulani Campaign (1804-1808), which took place in modern-day Nigeria and Cameroon. OCLC finds 9 locations in US institutions. Slim octavo..... More
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed color-pictorial boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 155pp; photo illus (halftones). A tight, clean copy, boards lightly scuffed on bottom edge, else Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper; shallow chips at spine ends, a closed tear at upper edge of front panel;..... More