Middlesex, UK: Private Library Association, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Chambers to renowned collector Harrison Horblit. A very handsome copy. Inscribedy by Chambers, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, pale blue ink lettering, frontispiece, blue topstain. 8vo. 126pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $75.00
New York: Morrow, 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover. A comprehensive and definitive biography of Jackson, well written and based upon careful use of the whole array of source material. (Nevins, Vol 2, 44p). A handsome set. Minor shelf/edge wear, several small light spots at spine, hint of sun at spine, very.....
Price: $45.00
Bisbee, AZ: Pequeno Press, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Publisher. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand dyed leather boards, patterned endpapers, various cut and folded pages. 71x66mm. 179pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 43 of 50.
Price: $100.00
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1911. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Beautifully illustated with 6 full-page Smith plates. HBS 51357DJH; Nudelman A34. A handsome copy of this noted and increasingly scarce classic. Minor shelf/edge wear, white ink at spine shows fading, very small moisture stain at top of text block.....
Price: $250.00
Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies. Essays by E. Harold Hugo, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward F. Stevens, Carl J. Weber, Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence C. Wroth. A very handsome copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, blue cloth boards, patterned paper boards, green endpages, fold-out plate.....
Price: $75.00
Attica, NY: Self Published, 10/93. Stated First Printing. Original Wraps. Written in Attica prison in 1992 and published in 1993. Inscribed, "God Bless You / Mark Chapman / Attica, NY / Dec. 17, 1994" Inscribed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed glossy paper wraps, red ink lettering.....
Price: $500.00
Los Angeles, CA: 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jean Charlot and initialed by Lynton R. Kistler. Bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. White printed boards, tan printed dust jacket, matching printed slipcase. 54x42mm. 140pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 197 of 300.
Price: $450.00
Pittsburgh, PA: Bentley Press, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Hand printed by Wilder Bentley at The Bentley Press. Original prospectus laid in. Light shelf/edge wear, toning at the spine, chips at spine label, tidemarks at bottom of boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, cream paper spine, patterned paper boards.....
Price: $45.00
London: William Pickering, 1852. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate of "Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall" and plate of Howard Faron Peckworth, signature of Lewis Turco in each volume. Turco is a noted American poet and collector (though, strangely, fond of embossing stamps). Overall, a very presentable set of this renowned.....
Price: $225.00
Chicago: H.J. Smith & Co, 1887. First Edition Thus/Reprint. Hardcover. Issued a year before by Smith & Miller (Chicago, 1886). Introduction by Sarah Hackett Stevenson. "[A]dapted from the writings of Pye Henry Chavasse." Noted flaws to pamphlet notwithstanding, a very handsome copy with the routinely missing plate book present. Minor.....
Price: $75.00
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988 [1631]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First complete English language translation of the 1631 work. "The book is based on Ji's notes and experiences from his career as a garden designer, which he discusses at length in his introduction. Since architecture is an integral.....
Price: $275.00
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943, 1958, 1963. First Edition(s). Hardcover. A handsome set of this wonderful set on the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital/Medical School. First volume shows touch of toning typical of war rationed paper. Very minor to light shelf wear, Vol. 1 shows owner signature and bookplate on.....
Price: $200.00
1908: London. First Edition/Rebound. Hardcover. Short lived, yet remarkably important literary journal. Found here is the first year in find binding. Uncommon generally, scarce in as nice a presentation as here. Light self/edge wear, light even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, black leather spine and tips, five raised.....
Price: $175.00
London: Sheed & Ward, nd [1957]. Reprint. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light toning at rear, spine toned, else bright, and clean. Geen cloth boards, brown ink lettering. Small 8vo. 255pp.
Price: $45.00
Culver City, CA: California Spectrum, 1982. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. One of the first books by the now well established Jack Chipman, specialist in Bauer Pottery. A rather handsome copy of this exceptional reference volume. Soft crease at spine, light shelf wear and rubbing , focused at edges, else.....
Price: $45.00
Salem, MA: Geo. W. Pease & Co., 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece is tipped-in cdv of the Major. Uncommon in any condition, very scarce as here. A very handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind.....
Price: $545.00
Leipzig, Germany: In Verlage Caspar Fritschens Wittwe, 1747. First Edition. Calf. Translation of title: Display and interpretation of the monograms, individual and distorted first letters of the names, as well as other features and symbols, under which famous painters, copperplate engravers, and other similar artists have hidden themselves in their.....
Price: $350.00
Baltimore: Privately Printed, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Diamond shaped bookplate of Massmanns at front pastedown. Handset, printed, and bound by F. X. Harrigan. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red boards, label on front cover and spine, green endpapers, tipped in stamp frontis. 60x43mm. 7pp. Numbered limited edition, this being 89 of.....
Price: $175.00
Barcelona: Omega, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in Spanish. Overall, a handsome copy of this significant and scarce volume. Light shelf wear, one corner gently bumped, small bump at upper board, four small spots of wear in thin paper board cover, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge.....
Price: $145.00
Bexhill-on-Sea: Silver Thimble Books, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and numbered by Gordon Murray. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Cloth boards, watercolor inset in upper cover, black paper slipcase with paper label, frontispiece. 62x70mm. 22pp. Illus. (watercolor). Numbered limited edition, this being 12 of 32.
Price: $400.00
Newark, NJ: Privately Printed/The Evening Courier Office, 1867. First Edition. Original Wraps. "President and Historian of the District Medical Society." (See, Cordasco 60-0345). Uncommon in any condition, scarce in original wraps, arguably rare inscribed as here. Overall, a fragile but presentable copy. Moderate/heavy shelf/edge wear, spine missing, two areas of.....
Price: $125.00
New York: BloomsburyUSA, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. N.B. The US edition preceded the UK edition by two weeks. Clarke's debut novel was the winner of the 2005 Hugo Award, 2005 World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award for Best First Novel. It was also a Nebula Award nominee and a Booker.....
Price: $65.00
New York: BloomsburyUSA, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. N.B. The US edition preceded the UK edition by two weeks. Clarke's debut novel was the winner of the 2005 Hugo Award, 2005 World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award for Best First Novel. It was also a Nebula Award nominee and a Booker.....
Price: $125.00
Privately Printed, c. 1930s. New and corrected edition. Hardcover. Account of the fortunes of a poor country girl who arrives in London at the end of the 18th century and of her adventures in the bawdy houses and brothels of the sinful city. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Tor, 1999. First Edition. Original Wraps. Harry Clement Stubbs, best known by his pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. A near perfect copy of a rather scarce proof. Barest hint of sun at the spine.....
Price: $45.00