New York: Viking, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. An interesting volume (often mis-identified as having a "pencil sketch" on the title page (in fact a very "pencil sketch-like" printed image...)). A very handsome copy of a rather scarce volume. Tiny crescent of water touch at side of text block lightening edge.....
Price: $75.00
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Wonderful biography of this noted publisher. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Full black leather binding, gilt lettering, marbled endpages, silk ribbon bound in, teg. 8vo. 222pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 59 of 100.
Price: $45.00
New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece portrait of Lillian Bennett. Covers 19th cent. American books having at least three colored plates (including frontispieces). Includes extensive annotations and plate counts, but no collations. Children's books and books with tinted plates are *not* included. Overall, a handsome copy.....
Price: $75.00
London: Heinemann, 1970. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Re-issue of his famous novel. Foreward by Micheál MacLiammóir. Of Benson, Terence de Vere White said, "Whenever I stopped reading to laugh aloud, I measured the pages still unread, not to see how much more I had to accomplish, but from a simple.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Random House, January 13, 1994. Hardcover. Edition currently undetermined. Copy bears no numberline typical of RH volumes but in area it would be found is "C9" (this is either a later printing *or* an interation of a pre-pub. edition as it was a gift of the author). Inscription.....
Price: $75.00
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1921. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Third book of the press. A collection of seventeen stories. A rather handsome copy of one of the press's more poorly bound books...difficult to find in good condition. Light shelf/edge wear, minor toning/soiling to the boards, touch of dust staining at top.....
Price: $75.00
New Hyde Park, NY: Fred H. Berger, 1992-1993. First Edition. Staplebound. "Propaganda Magazine was the first gothic periodical in the United States. It was founded, published and edited by Fred H. Berger, and was in-print from 1982 to 2002. It also covered the punk, industrial, dark wave and neofolk musical.....
Price: $80.00
Trieste, Italy: c. 1926-1931. Original mss and/or first printings. A unique aggregation of primary and secondary sources documenting Italian architecture, geography, and cultural life during the pre-World War II occupation, specifically in the area of Trieste, Italy. Condition varies by material type, manuscripts are in exceptional and legible condition with.....
Price: $1,000.00
London: Jarrold & Sons, 1894. First Edition/First State. Hardcover. Approx. 75 drawings by Rackham (and numerous by others). (Latimore & Haskell, 3) Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce Rackham title. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning/sunning to spine, else tight, bright and unmarred. Grey cloth boards, black and.....
Price: $450.00
Paris: Bibliotheque Larousse, 1918. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Text in French. Light shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, ownership inscription at ffep, textblock evenly toned (typical of the issue), discrete pencil notations throughout, else tight and clean. Quarterbound, black leather spine, marble boards and endpages, five raised bands, gilt lettering, frontispiece. 8vo.....
Price: $45.00
London: Elliot Stock, 1881 [1486]. Fascimile Reprint/First Thus. Hardcover. Finely produced facsimile of the edition printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486. This work was the earliest British sporting book, a cornerstone to any sporting collection. Overall, a rather handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom tips bumped and.....
Price: $250.00
Rotterdam: Titus Eliëns, 1990. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. Text in Danish. A rare collection of period images, floor plans and bio. A pristine copy. William Stout Architectual Books bookplate at spine on rear wrap verso, else tight, bright and unmarred. 75pp. 25cm. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
Baltimore, MD: William Wood and Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of toning to textblock edges, two moisture spots at top of textblock, owner signature at front pastedown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, in blind decorative elemetns, frontispiece. 8vo.....
Price: $125.00
London: John Murray Ltd., 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Design depicts church arches and windows with the black curves and spires and church roof structure with the black ink lines. The colours used and onlays reference stained glass windows." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full transparent vellum over watercolour; Louise.....
Price: $4,250.00
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Cornerstone work on Marshal and eminently readable. Vol. I [1916]: Frontiersman, Soldier, Lawmaker, 1755-1788. Vol. II [1916]: Politician, Diplomatist, Statesman, 1789-1801. Vol. III [1919]: Conflict and Construction, 1800-1815. Vol. IV [1919]: The Building of the Nation, 1815-1835. Minor shelf/edge wear, ownership bookplate(s).....
Price: $145.00
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Colonel Harold P. Sheldon. Minor shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, gilt toned, ownership plate at front pastedown, endpages evenly toned (typical of the issue), else tight, bright, and unmarred. Red pebbled cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements.....
Price: $200.00
Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. A very handsome copy of this rather scarce volume. Very minimal shelf wear, small nick in spine, minor wear at head and heel, owner blind stamp and notation on ffep, hint of toning at text block edges, else tight, bright.....
Price: $245.00
Boston: Hard Tack Publishing Co, 1901 [1889]. Early Reprint. Hardcover. "The best source on the army life and feeling of a Federal soldier; this delightfully written and humorously illustrated (C.W. Reed) work has rightfully become a classic." (Nevins, Vo 1, 59p). A very handsome copy, one of the brightest we've.....
Price: $225.00
Laupen/Bern: Iris Verlag, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Stiff cardstock boards with bound-on DJ. A handsome copy of this significant exhibition catalogue. Minor toning to cream boards, discrete ownership signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred. White DJ with color pictorial onlay, black and red ink lettering. 4to. 10pp plus.....
Price: $25.00
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stunning textblock. Elegant design and lovely engravings. Overall, a handsome copy. Light toning to boards, spine lightly toned, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase shows moderate wear, top edge missing, bottom edge split, light shelf/edge wear, light toning to label, else.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Gallery Books, 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. A day by day chronology of of the civil war. A very engaging, if superficial exploration of the war. A very handsome copy. Very minor shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, else bright and clean.....
Price: $35.00
Octon, France: Verdigris, 2006. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The date of publication, according to the artist and printer, was Feb. 5, 2006, which was the third anniversary of Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council. Parts of that speech are printed in black on the blood red recto of the.....
Price: $3,250.00
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Edmund Wilson's first book and Bishop's second. A collection of prose and poetry about death. Overall, a nice copy of this rather uncommon volume. Stunning illustrations. Light/moderate shelf wear (three corners through), spot of white paint at heel, spine label faded/toned.....
Price: $45.00
Detroit, MI: [Black Workers Congress], 1975[?]. First Edition. Original Wraps. Front covers bears a black and white woodcut image print of “V.I. Lenin” by Lumturi Dhrami. Inside text is clearly composed on a typewriter. Back covers list other publications by the Black Workers Congress (BWC). The Black Workers Congress was.....
Price: $50.00
Ithaca, NY: Physical Language Laboratory Seven, 1998. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "Leda Black, originally from New Mexico, moved to the DC area from Upstate New York in 2010. She studied philosophy as an undergraduate and was trained in the book arts in graduate school. She operated a letterpress printing and.....
Price: $750.00