N.P. n.p., (1940). small 8vo. cloth. (iv), 93 pages. McKeown lived in Wilmington. This collection resulted from his various speechs given while at Dickinson College and Dickinson School of Law. Stained along spine which extends into the book. READ MORE about DICKINSON DOINGS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 44216
New York: The Shakespeare Association of America, 1969. small 4to. cloth. xviii, 418 pages. First edition. Has 27 illustrations and 21 articles on Shakespeare and Shakespeare bibliography. Also includes a bibliography of the writings of McManaway. READ MORE about STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THEATRE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9579
Selected and annotated by Guy Jean Forgue with a personal note by Hamilton Owens.
New York: Knopf, 1961. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. xxxviii, 506 pages. Selected and annotated by Guy Jean Forgue with a personal note by Hamilton Owens. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about LETTERS OF H.L. MENCKEN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137457
Mit drei Originalradierungen des Verfassers.
Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 2002. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover label. 117, (5) pages. Mit drei Originalradierungen des Verfassers. Written in German. Limited to 1100 copies. This copy is signed by the author. With an afterword. Contains three original etchings by the author. With a black fabric bookmark. READ MORE about KALEIDOSKOPISCHE SCHRIFTEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100676
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. 8vo. Bound in burlap covered boards. 201 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about DISPUTED QUESTIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137464
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. xvi, 171 pages. First edition. Near fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about MERTON, BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137472
Saint-Omer: Imprimerie et Lithographie H. D'Homont, 1889. 8vo. original front cover present; back cover lacking. 44 pages. New edition, revised and corrected. Study of this 16th century manuscript. Presentation from the author on the front cover and on the half-title. Front covers partially detached; chipped around edges. Back cover lacking. READ MORE about DERNIER MANUSCRIT DE L'HISTORIEN JACQUES MEYER, RECHERCHES SUR LE MANUSCRIT 730 DE LA...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 87676
Wilmington: Annie E. Michener, (1903). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. "Dedicated to the Children, the World Over, Who Love the Fairies." A lengthy poem by this Delaware author. READ MORE about THE FAIRIES' SECRET
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 68924
New York & London: Harper & brothers, 1937. small 8vo. black cloth, blue paper covered boards, black cloth tips, paper spine label. 126 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Harper's first edition code "F-M" READ MORE about CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137448
New York: Harper & brothers, 1931. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 52 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize winning American poet. She was the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."..... READ MORE about FATAL INTERVIEW
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137421
New York & London: Harper & brothers, 1923. small 8vo. black cloth. 39 pages. First edition, later printing. Front hinge tender. Ownership inscription in ink on the front free endpaper. "L-X" on the colophon. READ MORE about A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES; POEMS AND SONNETS
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New York: Crowell, 1962. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 271 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about RESTLESS SPIRIT; THE LIFE OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
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New York: Harper & brothers, 1939. 8vo. Bound in black cloth-backed, blue boards, paper spine label. ix, 94 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else near fine. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize winning American poet. She was the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote..... READ MORE about HUNTSMAN, WHAT QUARRY?
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New York: Harper & brothers, 1940. 8vo. black cloth, blue paper covered boards, black cloth tips, paper spine label. viii, 65 pages. First edition. With bookplate, "Ex Libris H. B. KIng, Jr." A fine copy. Printed From Type. READ MORE about MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS; 1940 NOTEBOOK
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New York: Random House, 2001. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 550, (3) pages. First edition, later printing. A fine copy in fine jacket. READ MORE about SAVAGE BEAUTY: THE LIFE OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137878
New York: Harper & brothers, (1954). 8vo. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over blue boards. 140 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else Near fine. The volume consists of the last poems of the author that she was preparing for publication at the time of her death. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize winning American poet. She was the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known..... READ MORE about MINE THE HARVEST, A COLLECTION OF NEW POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 137418
New York: Harper & brothers, (1954). 8vo. Bound in publisher's original black cloth over blue boards, dust jacket. 140 pages. First edition. With bookplate on front free endpaper, "From the library of Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft." Near fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. The volume consists of the last poems of the author that she was preparing for publication at the time of her death. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize..... READ MORE about MINE THE HARVEST, A COLLECTION OF NEW POEMS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137419
New York & London: Harper & brothers, 1942. 8vo. paperback. 32, (1) pages. First edition. A near fine copy. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize winning American poet. She was the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." READ MORE about THE MURDER OF LIDICE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 137428
New York: Harper & brothers, 1928. 8vo. Bound in black cloth-backed, blue boards, paper spine label. ix, 94 pages. Reissue of this collection of poems. Near fine. Woodcut frontispiece. St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a Pulitzer prize winning American poet. She was the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She..... READ MORE about RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 137429
New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1934. small 8vo. Bound in three-quarter black cloth and gray-green paper-covered boards, tan spine label. 91 pages. First edition. With bookplate, "Ex Libris H. B. KIng, Jr." A fine copy. Printed From Type. READ MORE about WINE FROM THESE GRAPES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137877
London: Tankbooks, 2010. miniature books. paper wrappers. 500+ pages. Four (of six) volumes that were featured in this miniature book series. All in fine, unopened, condition. The authors included are: Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King - The Phantom Rickshaw - Black Jack, Joselph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro - The Undefeated, and Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis - In The Penal Colony. READ MORE about TANKBOOKS. TALES TO TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY. FOUR VOLUMES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138702
New York: Loring & Mussey, (1935). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. Chapters on New Grub Street, Methods of Work, Publishers, Notebooks, etc. By the author of MOROCCO BOUND. Jacket is soiled with small tears; endpapers yellowed. READ MORE about THE ART OF AUTHORSHIP
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9673
Paris: Les Arts et le Livre, 1927. small 8vo. leather with four raised bands, with original paper wrappers bound in, top edge gilt, front edge uncut, bottom edge deckled. 245 pages, with 15 additional plates of illustrations. Edition limited to 1100 copies, of which this is number 1016. Printed on Vélin de Rives. Provocative illustrations in pencil accompany this novel in the Le Miroir des Muirs series. Worn along hinges. READ MORE about L' EUROPE GALANTE, QUINZE LITHOGRAPHIES HORS TESTE ORIGINALES DE
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 55292
New York: George H. Doran, 1923. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper labels on front cover and spine, dust jacket. 137 pages. First edition, first issue. (Lee no.37). Eighty-five poems by C. Morley, with several silhouette illustrations and a title page vignette. The dust jacket gives the title as "Parson's Pleasure" (note the difference in the position of the apostrophe); the paper labels on the cover and spine misspell the title in the same..... READ MORE about PARSONS' PLEASURE
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Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure by Christopher Morley and made into a Calendar for sundry Paramours of Print.
New York: John Day Co., 1930. 12mo. cloth. (375) pages. Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure by Christopher Morley and made into a Calendar for sundry Paramours of Print. Lee no.94. An almanac of 366 quotations (mostly literary), one for each day plus an introduction, selected by Morley. Lacking the dust jacket. Soiling to the cloth boards. READ MORE about A BOOK OF DAYS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 52913
