8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; HC/DJ. Presumed 1st edition. Snugly bound in original terra cotta colored cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. No statement of edition on copyright but with 1921 year on title page. Original cream paper dust jacket lettered in green and orange is missing a very large swath along the bottom third of the front panel, bottom 2 inches of the spine and the bottom 1 inch area of the rear panel. Publisher's $1.75 issue price intact to unclipped front flap; top edge ruffled and worn with shallow chipping at crown of spine and vertical creasing to the spi... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages; A bright, neat, snug copy in its original dust jacket. Prior owner's small circuar name stamp inked to front endpage. Jacket spine mildly sunned. Light shelfrub to jacket edges and mild toning to the unlaminated jacket surfaces. VG+/VG View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 525 pages; Signed and inscribed on the front endpage by the author to fellow novelist T. Everitt Harre, dated April 1935. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket. Binding a little cocked in the spine. Beige paper dust jacket is toned and lightly shelf soiled with spine panel sunned; title lettering remains bold but lighter color printing of the author name is considerably faded. Jacket is nicked at edges with several short closed tears and shallow stress creases at edges. Shallow damp stain to the top edge of a handful of pages at front. Inscribed association copy... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pages; 1985 Chatto & Windus. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with sunning and color shift to spine and edges of front panel; front flap price clipped. Mild toning to page stock. VG/G++ View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 476 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Temple Press at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Mild crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends with mild fray to cloth at crown. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1911 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Se... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages; Presumed 4th edition, with Akenside's name recorded on the red and black printed title page as "Akinside" - but lacking the half-title page. One page publisher ad following the text of the poem. Rebound in a handsome modern 1/2 polished calf with five raised bands and gilt tooled morocco title label over marbled paper boards. Title page trimmed hard in the right margin with engraved vignette off center and only a sliver of margin to the image. Contents snug and neat; decent margins remain in the text. Handsomely rebound. VG thus View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; 1884 Roberts Brothers. HC 1st edition. Variant olive green cloth binding with decorative pictorial title design in gilt and black to cover and spine. Shallow fray to cloth at spine ends and corner tips. Prior owner has mounted a type written descriptive catalog label to the floral paterned front endpage; above this label is a rectangular abrasion from a label or bookplate removed. Light remanant of a different plate removed on rear pastedown. Blank front endpage torn out likely to remove ownership inscription. A few signatures starting at front edge. Illustrated... View More...
B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; HC. Early printing with Willcox Smith illustrations. Stout HC in original green cloth with pictorial design to cover in 3 colors and decorative titles in gilt to spine. Mild shelf tapping to boards at corner tips and light crimping to cloth at spine ends. Illustrated with 12 b&w plates on glossy stock from designs by Jessie Willcox Smith. Prior owner bookplate to front pastedown. A considerable number of pages opened roughly along the bottom edge with corresponding short closed tears shallow jagged chips etc. A few pages mid-book with light spo... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 480 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $29.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. F/NF View More...
1882 Henry Holt HC. 1st Edition. From "Leisure Hour Series." Series advertisement listing on front endpg indicates this copy is a 1st Edition. Binding is square, sound and firm. Dark yellow cloth boards have very little shelfsoiling, w/ decorative black stamping. Sunned and edgeworn at spine. Pgs. 279-282 are partly detached, slightly frayed along fore-edge from shelf wear. Usual light age-toning to text, no marks or stains. Two interesting period bookseller's labels to front paste-down endpg. An excellent copy, VG; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 548 pages; 1882 Henry Holt HC. 1st Edition. From... View More...
Color Plates; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 151 pages; 2004 The Folio Society. Oversize slipcased HC in quarter brown morocco backed spine and silk moire cloth covered sides. Tightly bound and fresh; an unread and unused copy. Housed in original crisp edged and sharp slipcase with color pictorial cover by Blake. Originally published by Folio in 1998, this copy given a more handsome binding and reissued 2004. Translated by Henry Francis Cary with an introduction by Robin Hamlin. Superb copy; as new and fine in all respects. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international ... View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 322 pages; [SIGNED] 2015 Atria Books. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by Allende on the title page. Very tight bright and fresh in immaculate dust jacket. Unread copy feels and appears entirely as new. F/F View More...
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 265 pages; Mass market sized paperback in illustrated covers. Inscribed (warmly) and signed by the author on the front endpage; dated 1982. Bright clean copy suffers only a touch of mild toning to the page stock. NF; Signed by Author View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages; [SIGNED] 1951 E. P. Dutton & Company. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Signed by the poet on the front flyleaf. Original dust jacket with light general toning; lettering at spine faded and generally effaced. Mild shelf rubbing with a few small nicks at edges. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author View More...
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 124 pages; As originally published by Harper as # 49 in their Library of Select Novels. In original title lettered wrappers; no date to title page nor copyright. The rear coiver advertises the May 1867 issue of Harper's Magazine. Spine edge rubbed with some mild furring and shallow loss at spine ends. Text printed in two columns. No catalog of Harper Select titles at front, though there are ads for regular harper titles inside front and for the magazines to the rear cover. Wrappers shelf soiled and tattty at the edges with small nicks and rubs. Moderate damp s... View More...
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; 1st state. In publisher's original blue cloth with publisher's colophon in blind to cover; gilt title lettering at spine dulled but legible. 1st state with top edge colored a light aqua blue. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown of noted Dunsany collector, Montgomery Evans II. Sound clean copy with light shelf rub to cloth at spine ends and usual dulling of titles at spine. VG- View More...
French Edition; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 167 pages; 1962 Cambridge University Press. HC in original pictorial paper boards. Snug binding with clean contents and externals. No marks. VG+ View More...
