Kyoto: Origin Press, 1968. First Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Corman and with three signed etchings by Ryohei Tanaka. A fine copy in a very slightly soiled dust jacket; in the original stapled cardboard slipcase and the wood-grained outer box with a string tie. A modest, unusual.....
New York: Irving Berlin, Inc., 1938. Publisher’s printed stiff wrappers; featuring three new songs from the 1938 RKO musical, along with 25 older songs, each with a reproduction of its sheet music cover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Berlin to a Hollywood publicist and reviewer, “To Jerry [Hoffman] who saw all.....
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London: George Newnes, n.d. [1902]. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; minor rubbing; very good; the interior is in near fine condition. The volume consists of 48 color portraits, each mounted on a leaf with a preceding biographical page. Among the best of these portraits is one of Gillette as Holmes. Unlike.....
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/ The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition; advance copy, possibly for house use; consisting of the printed signatures bound into plain brown wrappers. Minor soiling; very good. Some pencil notes on the first blank concerning a different book and editorial annotations in the text, possibly for reprinting.....
New York: Coward-McCann, 1943. First Edition (presumably preceded by a working script). Cloth spotted; foxed; very good in dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “For Dear Hope and Edgar with love from Phil. East Hampton - 18 July 1943.” An exceptional association: Edgar [Scott] was Barry’s classmate at.....
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First Edition. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket with an unfaded spine; review copy; with review slip, promotional letter and photographs laid in. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1900. First Edition. Ownership inscription on the front free endpaper; a very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition; one of 749 numbered copies signed by the author; nearly fine in a rubbed publisher’s slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
No place of publication: privately printed, 1897. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; BAL 733 (locating a single copy), noting that 100 copies were “Issued as a souvenir of a picnic given by Harper & Brothers for their employees.” Inscribed inside the front wrapper by an executive or editor at the publishing.....
London: Grant Allen, 1897. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Enjoyable short pieces, episodic, but each stands on its own. His nephew, the publisher, found himself in the book trade at his uncle’s urging. Allen was a Canadian much of whose education and life was in Britain. Very good. All books described.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Laid is the four page pamphlet promoting this book. and additionally laid in is a signed holograph letter, to Perkins’s secretary, “The envelope of letters came...I read three, then I broke down and cried, I felt if.....
London: Ward, Lock, 1932. First Edition. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Ownership signature; about fine in a restored dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.