![[Book #14655P] Pansy's Wish: A Christmas Fantasy, With a Moral. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH](https://sternrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Boston: Published for the Mass. Homeopathic Hospital by Marion & Co., n.d. [probably 1870]. First Edition; presumed second printing; original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. The Bibliography of American Literature (#270) devotes a lengthy discussion to the printing history of this book. In brief, the book was produced by the..... More
[Book #14655P]
Boston: S. Burdett, 1832. Third edition, “Revised and improved by the American editor.” From the library of Longfellow bibliographer Jacob Chester Chamberlain, and with his custom yellow cloth dust jacket with “Longfellow” underneath the title on a morocco spine label. This copy appeared at auction with Chamberlain’s other books at..... More
[Book #36559P]
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886. Second edition; updated from the 1880 first edition; with an original photographic portrait of Burton; publisher’s printed paper covered boards; some soiling and minor wear; a very good copy of the first Burton biography. More
[Book #37510P]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; very good. More
[Book #23739P]
London: Grant Richards, 1897. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Bookplate; very good. Decent copies of this book, the stories in which are episodic, are very uncommon. More
[Book #27866P]
London: Grant Richards, 1897. First Edition. Queen’s Quorum. Very good. The stories, while complete in and of themselves, are episodic. Decent copies of this collection are uncommon. More
[Book #31845P]
London: Raphael Tuck, n.d. [1894]. First Edition. Publisher’s stiff wraps; the front cover of which is a chromolithograph as is one of the illustrations. Some spotting and foxing; very good. In the “Breezy Library.” Allen was born and spent his early years in Ontario and is generally accepted as a...... More
[Book #37268P]
Boston: Lothrop Publishing, 1898. First Edition. Contemporary gift inscription; very good. An uncommon Allen title. More
[Book #27096P]
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894. First Edition. 600 copies were printed for England; bookplate; very good; spine ends a little chipped. More
[Book #31262P]
London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author “T. Bloom With Grant Allen’s kindest regards. Christmas 1881.” Minor foxing; very good to fine. Given that he was born and brought up in Canada, he is justifiably claimed as a Canadian author, although most of his..... More
[Book #37492P]
London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author “T. Bloom With Grant Allen’s kindest regards. Christmas 1881.” Minor foxing; very good to fine. Given that he was born and brought up in Canada, he is justifiably claimed as a Canadian author, although most of his..... More
[Book #37493P]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Some cloth spotting and wear; nearly very good. An excellent, poignant association copy; presented to Frost by the author. Inscribed in pencil, "Signed with all affection and the deepest of respect for Robert Frost on the occasion of a vist to him..... More
[Book #12884P]
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1948. First Edition. With a jacket design and frontispiece by Wyeth. Presentation copy; inscribed by the illustrator, “For Bayard, who runs a swell shop, from the boy who is always in a rush. Warmest greetings, Andy, 1949.” Small piece of tape on one page, else..... More
[Book #36309P]
New York: Putnam’s, 1948. First Edition. Very good or a little better in dust jacket. More
[Book #21061P]
New York: Carleton, 1885. First Edition. Wright 86 (noting only two holdings at the dtae of Wright’s publication). Publisher’s cloth; ownership signature; very good. More
[Book #32049P]
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1841. First Edition. Original cloth; contemporary owner’s signature; trivial spotting and wear; a fine copy. Wright #17; B.A.L. 501. The author’s name appears only on the spine. Allston was born in South Carolina, but is long associated with Boston. He attended Harvard and..... More
[Book #35897P]
New York: Vanguard, 1934. First Edition. Pencil owner’s inscription; nearly fine in dust jacket. A parody of Anthony Adverse. More
[Book #33923P]
Hollywood: Aaron Spelling Productions, 1970. Ambler’s own copy of this screenplay. His wife, Joan Harrison, was the producer. Bound in full leather; about fine. More
[Book #36239P]
Chicago: Columbia Educational Books, 1942. First Edition. Containing several speeches and reports related to the war, with a section for autographs towards the end. Among those who have signed this volume are Dorothy Stickney, Howard Lindsay, Tallulah Bankhead, Dorothy McGuire, Josephine Hull and Boris Karloff. Very good. More
[Book #21584P]
London: Hollywood Productions, 1946. First Edition of this novelization. Publisher’s color pictorial wrappers; some staining and wear, but very good. Well-illustrated with scenes from the film and with portraits of the stars. While far from the best of the Marx Brothers films, this was by no means the worst either..... More
[Book #28481P]
London: Gollancz, 1959. First Edition. Fine in a very lightly worn dust jacket with a small bookshop sticker at the bottom of the front flap. More
[Book #35853P]
London: Gollancz, 1958. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket with slight browning. More
[Book #35854P]
London: Trigram Press, 1967. First Edition of this counter-protest poster printing the text of a letter, limited to 200 copies; approximately 12 x 30”; marginal tears; very good to fine; rolled. Signed in print by Amis as well as by Robert Conquest, John Braine, Edmund Crispin and others. More
[Book #27180P]
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1932. First American Edition of a novel dealing with a Dutch woman’s struggle against conventionality at university in early 20th century Delft. Very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #30338P]
While undated and unsigned, the work must date between 1941 - 1945. Patriotic, if crude, it is constructed within a cigar box (9” tall x 5 1/2” wide x slightly over 2” deep), the bottom of which is an abstract, colorful background to the painted cardboard figures, which are about..... More
[Book #24212P]