The Ship That Sailed To Mars
London: Harrap, n.d. [1923]. First Edition. Minor foxing and binding wear; gift inscription on the front free endpaper; closer to very good than good. 2000 copies were printed. More
[Book #35229P]
New Arrivals
The Nursery "Alice"
New York: Macmillan, 1890. First Edition; American issue. Tenniel’s illustrations coloured by E. Gertrude Thomson. Publisher’s illustrated boards; Owner’s signature on the half-title; very good or a little better. In much better condition than often found. More
[Book #35228P]
Alice's Adventures Under Ground
London: Macmillan, 1886. First Edition. Offsetting from a previously laid in clipping on the half-title; nearly fine. More
[Book #35227J]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1869. First Edition printed in America; publisher’s decorated green cloth. Previous owner’s contemporary inscription on first blank; light rubbing; top of front hinge mended; a very good to fine copy. [with] Through the Looking-Glass. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1872. First American Edition; first state. Contemporary pencil..... More
[Book #35226P]
New Year's Gift...Intended for Youth
Boston: Marsh and Capen, n.d. Publisher’s printed wrappers; some staining; good. Owner’s light 1826 ownership signature on the title page. Illustrated with woodcuts. More
[Book #35224P]
Juvenile Anecdotes...For the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Rising Generation
Albany, New York: E.W. Skinner, 1822. “Example Strikes All Human Hearts...Abridged for the Use of Sunday Schools.” Publisher’s printed wrappers; stained and chipped; fair condition; three (of four) parts. Uncommon. More
[Book #35223P]
Feder Und Stichel
Frankfurt Am Main: Trajanus Presse, 1952? First Edition. No. 19 of 500 numbered copies, Small oblong folio; finely printed in two colors; 25 plates; presentation copy; inscribed at length in German by Zapf in 1956. Very nearly fine. More
[Book #35222P]
The Age of Chivalry. Part I. King Arthur and His Knights. Part II. The Mabinogeon; Or, Welsh Popular Tales
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859. First Edition. Publisher’s pebbled brown cloth; decorated in blind; spine title in gilt; red edges; brown endpapers; illustration in black and white; clipped memorial poem pasted onto a preliminary blank leaf; nearly fine. Presentation copy; inscribed on the first blank, “Mrs. F. Haven with..... More
[Book #35221P]
A Field Guide to the Birds
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1939. “Revised and Enlarged.” Given the publisher’s printed date on the title page, this is presumably the first edition of this revision. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “To Bo Cook with the best wishes of Roger T. Peterson.” Recipient’s 1940 ownership signature and bookplate; some cloth..... More
[Book #35220P]
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
London: John Murray, 1927. First Edition; published the same day as the Colonial and American editions. Minor foxing and wear; owner’s signature; very good. More
[Book #35219P]
Jane Eyre. Edited by Currer Bell
London: Smith, Elder, 1847. First Edition; three volumes; publisher’s cloth; the fly-title of the publisher’s catalogue is dated June, 1847 and the catalogue itself is dated October, 1847. This set has the very uncommon “Calcutta Review” ad inserted (while copies lacking it are not considered incomplete, it is preferable to..... More
[Book #35217P]
Boston School Kitchen Text-Book: Lessons in Cookery
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First Edition. Publisher’s illustrated paper-covered boards with a cloth spine; contemporary owner’s signature; tiny chip at the edge of the front free endpaper; minor wear; an excellent, very good, copy of a book, which, given its purpose, is usually nearly worn to death. More
[Book #35216P]
Jack the Giant Killer..
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932. First Edition of this illustrated publication; complete with four working pop-ups; gift inscription on the half-title; a bit shaken; very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #35215P]
American Photographs
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938. First Edition. Minor foxing; very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #35214P]
Bicycle Thieves
New York: Macmillan, 1950. First American Edition. Basis for the 1948 Italian neo-realistic film, The Bicycle Thief. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with minor chips and tears. More
[Book #35213P]
Such, Such Were the Joys
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953. First American Edition. Minor cloth staining; very good in dust jacket. More
[Book #35212P]
The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster
Boston: Little, Brown, 1857. First Edition; two volumes; publisher’s cloth; some fraying; a very good or better set. Presentation copy; inscribed by the editor, son of Daniel Webster, “To Hon. Franklin Pierce, President of the United States from his obliged and grateful friend & servant, Fletcher Webster, Dec 18, 1856.”..... More
[Book #35210P]
The Return of Tarzan
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1915. Later edition. Front hinge broken; worn; good. Inscribed by the author to his daugher. More
[Book #21049P]
The Outsider and Others
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1939. First Edition; 1200 copies printed; bookplate of fantasy artist Hannes Bok with his pencil notes on the stories opposite the contents page and on the rear endpapers; minor stains on the endpapers; a little bumped; about fine in a dust jacket with slight wear and..... More
[Book #35209P]
Dream Days. With Illustrations and Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard
London: John Lane, 1930. Limited issue; one of 275 numbered copies signed by both the author and illustrator. A nearly fine copy. More
[Book #35208P]
Death Comes For the Archbishop
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Bound in full reddish-orange morocco by Bayntun; all edges gilt; spine stamped with gilt Catholic motifs; fine. More
[Book #35207P]
The Intrusion of Jimmy
New York: W. J. Watt, 1910. First Edition. Just shy of very good. Presented by the author to a contemporary writer, “To Charles Neville Buck from P.G. Wodehouse (Death to Seth).” Buck, hardly remembered these days, wrote novels, and other pieces set in his native Appalachia. The cursed “Seth” in..... More
[Book #35206P]
Stuart Little
New York: Harper & Bros. ca. 1970. Reprint. Fine in a dust jacket with trivial wear and tear. Inscribed by the author, “____, With greetings from E.B. White.”. More
[Book #35205P]