ALL BUT THE WALTZ: ESSAYS ON A MONTANA FAMILY.
New York: Viking, 1991. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 240 pages. First edition. Near fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about ALL BUT THE WALTZ: ESSAYS ON A MONTANA FAMILY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137471
New York: Viking, 1991. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 240 pages. First edition. Near fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about ALL BUT THE WALTZ: ESSAYS ON A MONTANA FAMILY
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A Facsimile after the unique copy in the Vienna National Library of the earliest known block-book printed in colours. Introduction by Ottokar Smital. Two volumes.
Paris: The Pegasus Press, 1927. 8vo. original paper over boards, spine & cover labels, full diced vellum by Hübel and Denck; together in original folding, lined slip-case. Text volume: 22 pages; facsimile is 12 leaves. A Facsimile after the unique copy in the Vienna National Library of the earliest known block-book printed in colours. Introduction by Ottokar Smital. Two volumes. Limited to 150 numbered copies. A near fine set. Full coloured collotype plates by Bruckmann..... READ MORE about SYMBOLUM APOSTOLICUM
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 139148
New York: George H Doran Co, 1915. 8vo. decorated cloth boards. 359 pages. First edition. Spine lightly faded, minor soiling to boards. Else a near fine copy. Binding design by Frank Hazenpwg. READ MORE about THE PRICE OF PLACE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139648
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. large 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 405 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about GROUP PORTRAIT WITH LADY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137283
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 313 pages. First American trade edition. Fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about THE SAFETY NET
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137402
New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 353 pages. Reprint of the 1884 edition. Biographical information on French authors of the 17th century. READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE DES AMATEURS FRANÇAIS AU XVIIE SIÉCLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 978
London: Eliot Stock, 1887. small 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. viii, 257 pages. First edition. History of the book dedication. One chapter devoted to Dr. Johnson's dedications. Minor cover wear. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. Back inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about THE DEDICATION OF BOOKS TO PATRON AND FRIEND A CHAPTER IN LITERARY HISTORY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 751
Cleveland, OH: Burrows Brothers Company, 1902. 8vo. cloth. 44 pages. First edition. Minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards. Some foxing. A good copy of this scarce book. B&w illustrations. READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF THE WORKS OF STANDARD AUTHORS IN FINE BINDINGS EXECUTED BY THE BEST AMERICAN AND...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139203
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906. small square 8vo. paper boards. 94, (2) pages. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Spine lightly age-darkened and lightly worn at the head of the spine. Covers lightly soiled. Else a very good copy. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Cover design by Will Bradley. Volume dedicated to Russell's friend W. B. Yeats. George William Russell (10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935) who..... READ MORE about THE EARTH BREATH AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139286
Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894. small 8vo. publisher's cloth, gilt on cover and spine. 128, (1) pages. Third edition. Neat ownership incription in ink on front free endpaper. Slight spotting to front cover, but gold stamping is brilliant. Spine slightly age-darkened. Else a lovely copy. This is the first book that Will Bradley designed for Stone & Kimball. READ MORE about WHEN HEARTS ARE TRUMPS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 139282
A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1907. 8vo. publisher's cloth. 351 pages. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. A later edition. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Spine slightly faded, with minor shelfwear, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about THE STORY OF AB
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139274
A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man.
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1917. 8vo. publisher's cloth. 351 pages. A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man. A later edition. Bookplate of Miss Ruth Batchelder in corner of front pastedown. Very minor rubbing, else a fine copy. READ MORE about THE STORY OF AB
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139284
Ljubljana: Drzavna zalozba Slovenije, 1972. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 142, (6) pages. Presentation from the author to Siegred Taubert on the half-title. A Slovenian compilation of essays on books, reading and the publishing industry. Includes translated essays by Marshall McLuhan, Stanley Unwin, Robert Escarpit, and Paul Hazard. Quotations printed in purple. READ MORE about CAS KNJIGE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 74556
Edited by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey & illustrated by Harold M. Brett.
Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Co, 1921. 8vo. cloth. 351 pages. Edited by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey & illustrated by Harold M. Brett. Spine lightly age darkened. Else very good. Bound in color illustrated boards, illustrated endpapers. With Standard Printed Inscription, by Madge Bellamy. READ MORE about LORNA DOONE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137475
A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1930. large 8vo. quarter vellum over marbled paper covered boards. (viii), 175, (2) pages. A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS. First Edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Light discoloration to vellum, else a fine copy. This particular copy is inscribed by Alfred F. Johnson (British bibliographer and historian of typography) to Essie Johnson, 1931. Publisher's note on the text tipped in at the rear. This volume was the..... READ MORE about THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 84581
Westport: Greenwood Press, (1970). 8vo. cloth. x, 198 pages. Reprint of the 1952 first edition. A fine copy. A look at the development of American philosophy, journalism and American social thought. READ MORE about AMERICAN NON-FICTION, 1900-1950
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 61190
New York: The Century Co., 1904. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 486 pages. The English Comedie Humaine edition. Faint moisture staining to lower edge. Spine label lightly chipped, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about JANE EYRE
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137946
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 336 pages. First edition. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper, else fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about UNDER THE WINTER MOON
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137566
(Bridgewater, CT): self published, (1953). First edition limited to 1200 copies and printed by The Spiral Press. A fine copy. This is the fourth in a series of personal credos being produced at The Spiral Press in pamphlet form. With a drawing by Fritz Eichenberg and printed on Curtis Rag paper for the friends of the Press and of the Author. READ MORE about WRITERS AND THE FUTURE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132255
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 300, (3) pages. Includes contributions by Vonnegut, Baker, Waugh, Burgess, Malamud, Bellow and others. Spine of jacket lightly faded. Light jacket soiling, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about PAGE 2, THE BEST OF "SPEAKING OF BOOKS" FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 13454
New York: The United Feature Sydicate, 1935. 8vo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards, slipcase. xii, 89, (3) pages. Limited to an edition of 1188. Spine lightly faded. Rubbing to spine ends, else a near fine copy. Printed at Crosby Gaige's Watch Hill Press. READ MORE about TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING ADDRESSED TO...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 93623
Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones.
N.P. Ohio State University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xviii, 327 pages. Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. First edition. An important look at publishing and the author in America during the 19th century. With an embossed private library stamp. READ MORE about THE PROFESSION OF AUTHORSHIP IN AMERICA, 1800-1870 THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM CHARVAT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8252
Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming, 1956. 8vo. paper wrappers. 236 pages. University of Wyoming Publications, vol. XX, No. 1. Minor toning around the edges, else near fine.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about STUDIES IN LITERATURE OF THE WEST
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136327
Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1850. 8vo. original red cloth stamped in blind with gilt decoration on front cover and on gilt decorations on spine, all edges gilt. 378 pages. Reprint of the 1847 first edition (See BAL 1633). Complete in One Volume. In a well preserved publisher's binding by Ducomb & Collins. Bookseller's ticket of Wm. Murray of Lancaster, PA, on front pastedown. READ MORE about POEMS BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE AUTHOR
Price: $65.00 save 50% $32.50 Order nr. 105957
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. 12mo. original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth , yellow endpapers. (iii), 222+(1) pages. BAL1683. First state, pg 213, line 5 "veielo". Binding A. Gold stamped lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Minimal foxing and soil. READ MORE about THIRTY POEMS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 93699