LILLY JO.
Detroit: Harlo, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. First edition. A novel set in Delaware during the 1880s. Illustrated by Jack Lewis. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about LILLY JO
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121903
Detroit: Harlo, (1971). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. First edition. A novel set in Delaware during the 1880s. Illustrated by Jack Lewis. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about LILLY JO
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121903
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, (1981). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. x, 165+(1) pages. First edition. A contextual analysis of literature including history and criticism of works by William Faulkner, Ralph Emerson, John Updike, Herman Melville and others. Indexed. READ MORE about BOOKS SPEAKING TO BOOKS A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH TO AMERICAN FICTION
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 61336
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1921). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. An advertising piece issued by Knopf which contains a two page reprint of Starrett's review of this book "J.S. Fletcher's detective Storeis are Worth-while performances." (Honce 8). This review originally appeared in the Evening Post of December 2, 1921. READ MORE about THE MYSTERY STORIES OF J.S. FLETCHER
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 93212
(Ysleta, TX: Edwin B. Hill, 1930). 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Limited to 100 copies (Myers 48 for Hill; Honce 30 for Starrett). This copy is a presentation copy "Vincent Starrett (another pen) for David Belch." Honce in his bibliography of Starrett devotes an entire section to these Hill productions that were either written by or edited by Starrett or contain bibliographical and biographical notes by Starrett. Hill operated a small private press in..... READ MORE about WHAT'S O'CLOCK?
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 93203
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 8vo. green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering on boards and spine. 266, (4) pages. First American edition (See Stone and Kimball #24 and pp 82-84). Spine slightly rubbed, else a near fine copy. Binding by Margaret Armstrong. READ MORE about WEIR OF HERMISTON: AN UNFINISHED ROMANCE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139652
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1980). 8vo. cloth. ix, 262 pages. Reprint of 1955 edition, published by The University of North Carolina Press. The five essays were developed from papers given by their respective authors at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in December 1952. The combined essays offer a preliminary, but not comprehensive, history of the art of literary criticism as developed in the United States. Authors include: Harry H. Clark, Richard H...... READ MORE about THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LITERARY CRITICISM
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 70870
New York: Praeger Publishers, (1976). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 218 pages. First edition. Tear along lower edge of jacket, else near fine.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, A BIOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 24990
(Rockland, MA: Courier-Gazette, 1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 62 pages. This book is a fictional elaboration of the life of the Brontë's based on historical fact. "It is the author's purpose in this life story to interpret for the younger reader the peculiar strength of individuality and personal initiative against barriers of remoteness and sorrow and disappointment and to show how that spirit entered the art of the writer." Signed by the author. Eight..... READ MORE about A BRONTË TAPESTRY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 88721
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1962). small 8vo. softcover. xiv, (ii), 72 pages. Later printing. Softcover edition. A fine copy. A book on accuracy in the use of the English language. It consist of eight rules of usage, ten principles of composition, a few matters of form, a list of words and expressions commonly misused, and more. Included are revisions, an introduction, and a new chapter on writing by E.B. White. READ MORE about THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138903
Wilmington: Walter Swenehart, (1971). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (48) pages. A book of poetry. Biographical sketch on inside covers by Joe Dannenberg. READ MORE about UP DOWN AND SIDEWAYS, POEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67057
(Wilmington: The Taylor Family, Publisher, 1990). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), i, (iii), 146, (2) pages. First edition. The author relates the true story of her sudden brain hemorrhage which caused her to lose her sight and her total recovery. The author is a native Delawarean descended from John Grubb. Printed by Associates International Inc of Orange Street, Wilmington. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about RECOVERY, LOSS AND RETURN OF VISION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 74928
Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. 8vo. Bound in patterned cloth, decorative gilt spine title. 319 pages. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. First edition, second printing. Wear to head of spine, minor foxing to preliminary pages, else a fine copy. With, "Anne F. Brown," in pencil on front free endpapers. READ MORE about EXCURSIONS
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 137829
Philadelphia: Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards. (ii), 27 pages. Contains a complete membership list of this book collecting club. Rosenbach was President at the time. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE LOST TRADITION OF AMERICAN LETTERS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 10614
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1922. 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 335+(1) pages with 15 additional plates. First edition. Lacks the dust jacket. Very minor shelfwear, spine slightly faded. Else a near fine copy. A brief survey of the life and works of 26 authors. Includes such names as Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Twain, Austen, and more. Includes fifteen black-and-white illustrations, including one frontispiece of the author. Indexed. READ MORE about GLIMPSES OF AUTHORS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 92897
Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1922. 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 335+(1) pages with 15 additional plates. First edition. Lacks the dust jacket. Spine age-darkened and stained. A brief survey of the life and works of 26 authors. Includes such names as Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Twain, Austen, and more. Includes fifteen black-and-white illustrations, including one frontispiece of the author. Indexed. READ MORE about GLIMPSES OF AUTHORS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139441
Dallas: The Friends of the Dallas Public Library, (1982). large 4to. two-toned cloth. (iv), 51+(1) leaves. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. This book records a luncheon held in honor of Lon Tinkle and sponsored by the Friends of the Dallas Public Library. Tinkle, known as a distinguished author, book critic and teacher, was lauded by Dr. Jacques Barzun among others. In addition to fifteen color photographs, a portrait of Tinkle was painted specially..... READ MORE about A DAY IN THE LIFE OF LON TINKLE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 61800
Cedar Rapids: Privately printed for Friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer, 1923. small 8vo. parchment-backed boards. 38, (2) pages. Limited to 300 copies. Brewer on his favorite subject, Leigh Hunt. READ MORE about LOVE OF BOOKS WITH A REPRINT OF LEIGH HUNT'S ESSAY ON "MY BOOKS."
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 13519
Lewiston, ID: LC Press, (2005). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 180 pages. First edition. A Delaware author with the plot starting off in Wilmington, Delaware. READ MORE about BLOODSISTERS, LITERARY NON-FICTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 127387
Washington: Library of Congress, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages. With an preface by John Y. Cole. Center for the Book, Viewpoint Series, No.13. READ MORE about BORN TO TROUBLE, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 33535
New York: Privately Printed for the Typophiles, 1942. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. Typophile Monograph 3. Designed and printed for the Typophiles at the Elm Tree Press by William Edwin Rudge. READ MORE about AN INTERVIEW WITH ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 40141
With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. quarter leather with slipcase. 624 pages (plus nearly 300 pages of text on CD). With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement. Deluxe issue limited to 125 numbered copies, each signed by John Updike. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American..... READ MORE about JOHN UPDIKE, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 92855
(N.P. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 1939). small 8vo. cloth. 24 pages. First edition. Put out by the DuPont Company for the New York World's Fair. READ MORE about MY SCHOOL BOOKS, FROM THE UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 10735
Wilmington: Privately printed, 1958. oblong 12mo. boards, paper spine label. (ii), 98 pages. With illustrations by Gillett G. Griffin. A book written for children. Spine torn away from the binding, yet present. Lightly soiled. READ MORE about THE STORY OF WILBUR, THE BLUE DOG
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 66709
Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1969. 4to. stapled paper wrappers. v, 26 pages. An exhibition catalogue in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the University of Virginia. Reproduced from typescript. READ MORE about THE VIRGINIA AUTHOR, 1819-1969
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 7763
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1924. small 8vo. half cloth over boards. (xii), 217 pages. First edition. A series of parodies of other authors' works by this Delaware author. READ MORE about TWISTED TALES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 65673