New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Joe Mugnaini. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in full linen-weave blind-stamped cloth, one red and the other black, with contrasting spine labels. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Copy #323 of 1500 illustrated with line drawings and 16 full-page color lithographs by Joe Mugnaini with each.....
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, n.d. [@1910]. Gustave Dore. New Edition. Hardcover. A reprint of the Moxon folio edition in reduced size (5-1/2" x 7-1/2") in publisher's decorated cloth designed by Margaret Armstrong. Illustrated with 31 photogravures reproduced from the original designs of Gustave Dore.
Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1906 & 1903. New Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's attractively decorated maroon cloth retaining the original maroon cloth dustwrappers. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. With additions to the First Edition and illustrated with photogravures from works of art.
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. George du Maurier. First British Edition. Hardcover. The American edition was published the previous year. Attractive original gilt-decorated cloth. Illustrated by the author. A novel of Bohemian life in Paris with a supernatural bent involving reincarnation.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. The first in a series of science fiction titles edited by Edmund Crispin. Many of the contributions mark their first appearance in book form, including James Blish's "A Case Of Conscience," a Hugo Award winner.
Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1888. New Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth with 50 drawings in the text.
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1923). Margaret T. Applegarth. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Home Mission stories illustrated by the author.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Maynard Dixon. Hardcover. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10") bound in full tan saddle leather with title and decorations by Maynard Dixon burnt into the leather. Edited from the author's notebooks by Mason Wade with an introduction by him. Illustrated by Maynard Dixon with pen.....
(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1979. Chaim Gross. Hardcover. Large quarto (10" x 12-1/2") bound with a natural-color sheepskin spine with a smooth finish, stamped in genuine gold, and dark brown linen boards imported from the Netherlands. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. Introduction by Franklin H. Littell. Illustrated.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. W. A. Dwiggins. Hardcover. Five octavo (5-1/2" x 8") volumes in a green basket-weave cloth. A new translation by Jacques le Clercq, thought by many to be the finest, most literal, and most complete translation. Copy #323 of 1500 printed by Southworth-Anthoensen in two.....
Ottsville, PA: 10 August 1942. Letter. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the sculptor to an acquaintance congratulating him [Rudy won a Guggenheim in 1942] with much news about his activities. He tells of his good fortune "especially at this time when there are no longer public and private commissions.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes (6-1/4" x 9-1/2") bound in half black morocco leather with gilt decorations and decorated boards. Translated with an introduction, analyses, and summary by Benjamin Jowett. Designed by Bruce Rogers, printed in black and brown, and illustrated with medallions.....
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1941. William Sharp. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in black cloth with silver lettering and decoration. Printed at the Garamond Press. Preface by Vincent Starrett. Copy #323 of 1500 illustrated with sixteen aquatints by William Sharp and SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Allen Lewis. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes (6-3/8" x 9-1/2") in silver pyroxylin cloth embossed to resemble chain mail and stamped in red. Designed and illustrated with linoleum cuts by Allen Lewis. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.
New York: Greeley and M'Elrath, 1856. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet in self wraps; 32 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of Fremont taking more than the first half of the front page and two full-page engravings. A short life of Fremont from his early childhood to his presidential nomination in 1856.....
Cincinnati: Shepard & Co., 1843. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet lacking printed wrappers; 72 pages.
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of this first collection of stories by Baxter who had previously published two books of poetry. This book was the winner of the sixth annual AWP Award Series in Short Fiction. Uncommon in the first.....
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Paperback Original in pictorial wraps of this first collection of stories by Baxter who had previously published two books of poetry. This book was the winner of the sixth annual AWP Award Series in Short Fiction. Uncommon in the first.....
New York & London: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. An anthology with a story by Truman Capote, "The Headless Hawk," predating his first book, as well as Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O.," and excerpt from Faulkner's LIGHT IN AUGUST, and others.
Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr & Hyde, 1872. Early Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in modern blue cloth with a gilt-lettered green leather spine label; 665 pages. "A narrative of marvellous experience among all classes of society, -- criminals in high life, swindlers, bank robbers, thieves, lottery agents, gamblers, necromancers, counterfeiters.....
Edinburgh: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. by the Riverside Press Ltd., 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Parchment-backed boards; largely unopened. Copy #231 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Housed in a red cloth chemise and a specially made red morocco-backed slipcase.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Richard and Doris Beers. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") bound in full black sheepskin leather, grained and crushed, with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine; 256 pages. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with 22 lovely watercolor.....
New York: Octagon Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream paper-backed black cloth boards in a slipcase. Copy #53 of 400 printed at the Godine Press. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poet and facsimiles of the letters.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1930. C. Lovat Fraser. First Edition. Hardcover. White cloth with a gilt peacock on the front cover. Copy #16 of 500 SIGNED by the author. Full-page color illustrations by C. Lovat Fraser.
