New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896-1901. Limited Edition. Twelve volumes. Number 9 of 100 hand-numbered sets on Japan. Publisher's vellum (parchment) over boards, with printed paper spine labels. Engraved bookplate to each volume (Micajah Pratt Clough) by Edwin Davis French. Brief (3/4") split to base of front joint, Vol. 1;..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth, pictorial design laid down on paper; pictorial endpapers depicting a lobster joust; [i]-[xii], 1-199,[200]pp; frontispiece and 8 color halftone plates. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead to f.f.e.p. verso, not obscuring endpaper design. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed, spine..... More

New York: Street & Smith, [1903]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in tan, green, and blue, gilt-lettered spine; [6],ii,[7]-268pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit rubbed, some spotting and minor discoloration, spine rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else contents near fine. About Very..... More

Boston: Plays, Inc., 1977. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm); red publisher's cloth with black lettering/illustration, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; 64pp. Mild handling wear, sunning; dustwrapper has slight soiling, with scratch to front, creasing and chipping to edges, large sticker on back panel; interiors clean. Overall Very Good or Better. Author..... More

Boston: J. H. A. Frost, 1826. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In contemporary sheep, titled in gold on red leather spine label; plain endpapers; [i]-xii [13]-288pp. Straight and sound, though scuffed and moderately foxed: Very Good. With contemporary ownershp inscription of "Mary D. Holmes, Middleborough, Mass." This scarce anthology..... More

Breslau: Ferdinand Hirt, [1933 but ca. 1935]. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in black; 228pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some shelf wear at spine ends and corners, light soil, else Very Good and sound. Library label and ownership rubberstamps of the Salzburg Hitler Youth organization to front pastedown..... More

Libanon [Lebanon, PA]: Joseph Hartman, 1821. 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; [28]pp.; pictorial front pastedown, text printed in German blackletter. Boards rubbed with upper cover paper lettering mostly effaced, spine partly perished, a number of leaves separated but present, general toning and faint dampstaining throughout. A Fair to..... More

New York: Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, [1919]. Fourth (1946) Printing. 16mo (14.5cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers; mixed paginations; full-page illus. throughout. Spine edges rather rubbed, the whole a bit toned and soiled, most heavily so to rear cover, contemporary ownership inscription inside upper cover, else Near..... More

Boston: C.H. Peirce and G.C. Rand, 1848. Reprint (first published 1843). Small octavo. Publisher's blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine titles; iv,315pp; woodcut frontispiece and extra-title; iv, woodcut text illus. Moderate rubbing and wear to cloth; scattered mild foxing within; Very Good. Profiles of Montezuma, Pocahontas, Pontiac, Logan, Tecumseh, etc, fifteen..... More

New York: Abondocani Press, 1983. First Edition. Limited to 426 copies of which this is no. 132. Small oblong 12mo (12.5x15cm.); original brown pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; illus. Very Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Postcard prospectus laid in. Wordless short story. TOLEDANO A88b. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1971]. First Edition. Square octavo (20cm.); original boards in pictorial dust jacket; 63pp.; illus. Minor discoloration to rear jacket panel, spine slightly sunned, else Near Fine. Sequel to Fletcher and Zenobia (1967). TOLEDANO A40a. More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1969]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],246pp. Young adult novel portraying the aftermath of the violence between black and white adolescents in a small town. More

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, [1886]. French-language edition, printed in London by Edmund Evans. 24mo (10.5cm). Original glazed paper boards, backed in orange cloth; yellow coated endpapers; 24pp; color wood engravings throughout. A straight, bright copy, lightly rubbed, with a few smudges: Very Good or better. More