The Holy Bible
London and New York: Nonesuch Press/ Dial Press, 1924-1927. Limited to 1200 copies. Five volumes; comprising the Old and the New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha; publisher’s bindings; very good. More
[Book #35559P]
London and New York: Nonesuch Press/ Dial Press, 1924-1927. Limited to 1200 copies. Five volumes; comprising the Old and the New Testaments as well as the Apocrypha; publisher’s bindings; very good. More
[Book #35559P]
Waltham, Massachusetts and Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Waltham Watches, Hamilton Watches, 1941, 1946, 1947. Consisting of the following: Waltham Premier Watches: printed card, folded, a price list, with the return envelope; Hamilton, America’s Fine Watch, clothbound, 34 pages, printed in color, with the price list tucked into a sleeve inside the back..... More
[Book #36991P]
Undated, but evidently assembled in the 1830s or 1840s. The album itself has a tiny book ticket from a Parisian shop, and is presumably of European origin, although the owner might have been English. It is a remarkable, brilliant example, approximately “8 1/4 x 11,” in full green leather, decorated..... More
[Book #35035P]
Paris: Martine, n.d. [c. 1910 - 1920]. First Edition. Oblong pictorial paper-covered boards; each song is illustrated with a vivid pochoir plate by Guy Arnoux, who also drew the colorful front cover. Only very minor wear; nearly fine. More
[Book #31344P]
Publisher’swrappers; a little fading; very good in a custom slipcase with a leather spine and a red morocco title label. With contributions by Cain, Sherwood Anderson, Van Doren, and more. More
[Book #35514P]
Publisher’s wrappers; a little fading; good to very good in a custom slipcase with a leather spine and a red morocco title label. With contributions by Cain, Sherwood Anderson, Van Doren, and more. More
[Book #35515P]
Publisher’s wrappers. Contributors include DeCasseres and Jim Tully. Edited by Mencken. Very good in a custom slipcase. More
[Book #35521P]
Publisher’s wrappers. Contributions include Mead’s “Americanization in Samoa,” among others. Edited by Mencken. Very good in a custom slipcase. More
[Book #35522P]
New York: privately printed, 1964. First Edition. “A record of a meeting of his friends at the Grolier Club, New York City, on December 9, 1964.” Contributions by Knopf, Rumer Godden, Patrick White and others. Publisher’s wrappers; 750 copies printed; very good. More
[Book #26912P]
London: Richard Bentley, 1861. First Edition thus; there was an earlier compilation from Bentley’s Miscellany with different contents. Among the authors represented are Longfellow, Ingoldsby, Heine, “The Irish Whiskey-Drinker,” Mary Russell Mitford and many others. A brilliant copy in publisher’s cloth; aside from a little foxing of the top edge..... More
[Book #37857P]
Cambridge, England: Archdeacon/ Printer to the University, 1777. An excellent copy bound in (what appears to be 19th century) full red straight-grain morocco; covers gilt lined; gilt titling and decoration of the spine; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. A very attractive example, even charming. More
[Book #37996P]
New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1930-1934. Twenty issues; each year enclosed in the publisher’s quarter pigskin and cloth art deco slipcases (some discoloration and minor wear). Each issue has a bookplate; all are fine, and most have the original glassine wrappers. Part five is especially sought after for its David..... More
[Book #37129P]
Philadelphia (presumably): no publisher [presumably the Democratic National Committee or F.D.R.’s campaign committee], 1936. First Edition. Deluxe full leather (or imitation leather); titled in gilt; one of an unspecified numbered edition signed by F.D.R. Aside from light binding wear and trivial page spotting, a fine copy; seldom found in such..... More
[Book #36726P]
New York: Demorest, 1866. This is the November issue. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers; color frontispiece; very good. More
[Book #31720P]
Berkeley, California: The Hart Press, 1948-1966. First Editions. Publisher’s wrappers; various limitations; very good to fine, as follows: 1948 (Bloodgood H. Cutter), 1953 (Walter Colton), 1957 (Robert M. Yoder), 1958 (Richard Steele), 1963 (George Wither), 1964 (V.S. Pritchett), 1965 (Hayes Jacobs), and 1966 (Owen Seaman). More
[Book #28543P]
Various places including Philadelphia, New York, London, others: various publishers, ca.1810-1840. Small 8vo; bound uniformly without any wrappers in 19th century half-morocco and paper covered boards; some owner’s signatures and notes; largely very good; many have frontispieces (some with slight coloring). Consisting of 46 plays, early, if not possibly first..... More
[Book #37124P]
No place of publication: no publisher, 1880s? Measuring approximately 10 x 36,” framed and glazed; in excellent condition but for some minor frame wear. Small oval portraits, identified in calligraphy are mounted on larger mat taking up the total pictured area. The worthies are Bryant, Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Whittier, and..... More
[Book #37883P]
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1924. First Edition. Very minor cloth waterstaining, else fine in dust jacket. A collection of pieces from the publication, including contributions by Lincoln Steffens, J.G. Fletcher, Huebsch, the Colums, Lewis Mumford and others. More
[Book #37364P]
London: Charles Baldwyn, 1824. First Edition. Gift inscription on a blank; bookplate; bound in 19th century 3/4 morocco and paper-covered boards; top edge gilt; minor foxing; very good. Illustrated by Cruikshank. More
[Book #30205P]
All published; November 17, 1879 - December 6, 1879; publisher’s cloth with the armory gilt stamped on the front board; some wear and foxing; very good. This periodical was issued in conjunction with the opening of the armory, a successful fund raiser dedicated to completing its interior. The building was..... More
[Book #37189P]
Washington: Samuel Harrison Smith, 1801. Comprising the 1st and 2nd sessions of the sixth Congress. Two volumes; uncut and mostly unopened; in original plain wrappers (titled in ink); the title page is bound in at the end of the second volume; some wear, but overall in excellent condition. One assumes..... More
[Book #38076P]
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1988. First Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the contributors, including Robert Parker, Robert Bloch, James Crumley, John Updike, Raymond Carver, Derek Walcott and Gerald Ford. Fine. More
[Book #31569P]
New York: Crown, 1959. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with wear and tear and internal mending. More
[Book #36510P]
[New York]: Privately Printed by Kilbourne Tompkins, 1887. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; BAL Holmes, Sec III. Bookplates; small label (”Holmes”) on the spine; very good. The introductory poem is the reprinted “How The Old Horse Won The Bet.”. More
[Book #26019P]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876-1887. First Editions; complete in 37 volumes; original black cloth decorated in red (first 14 titles); original green cloth decorated in black (next 12 titles); original brown cloth decorated in black (final 11 titles); all with gilt title bands on the spines. and in fine or near..... More
[Book #37097P]