New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. small octavo; pp; (viii), 147, (i); blue cloth and brown paper covered boards decorated with three stars, top edge stained red, spine lettered in gilt in an unclipped dust jacket. A short but arresting work of fiction by the Nobel laureate. More
Chicago: Regan Printing House, c1885. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 7-315, viii, index; dark green cloth lettered on the spine and the upper board, decorated endpapers;. This book was very well utilized and a vestige of the late 19th century American Kitchen. There are nearly 1000 recipes, presented 3 per page without... More
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 99; sage cloth lettered in red and black, in a dust jacket. A nice copy! More
New York: Random House, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 511; red and blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt;. A masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War. More
(New York): New Directions printed by the Peter Pauper Press, (1956). First Edition. Octavo; pp; 93, (i), colophon; blue cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1958. First edition, later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 544; map endpapers; gray cloth lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket;. A very nice copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set during the Gold Rush. Adapted in 1963 into short-lived television series with a young... More
Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 1960. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vi, 244, (i); illustrated with eight drawings and two maps; burgundy cloth and puce paper covered boards, lettered in gilt. Author was assigned by the Chicago Tribune to cover the Wyoming Gold Rush of 1868. More
New York: Parents' Magazine Press, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 48; twenty-one full page color plates, with black and white cuts in the text margins; terra-cotta cloth, lettered in gilt. Inscribed by the author on a preliminary; Interesting concept, beautiful illustrations;. More
London: John Murray, 1862. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; v, (vi-xi), 12-268; portrait frontispiece; full pebbled brown morocco, gilt ruled boards with the royal crest of Prince Albert in gilt at center of both boards, a gilt lettered spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, a signed binding by... More
Troy N. Y. Nims & Knight, 1889. Unrecorded. Stiff wraps. Octavo; pp; 53; illustrated half title, and thirty-two additional black and white plates and cuts, the full page illustrations are designed by C. A. Northam & J. Francis Murrphy, the title page and those cuts in the text by Edward... More
London: J. C. Nimo & Bain, 1882. Limited edition, 1000 copies, type distributed. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 394;illustrated with a frontispiece etched portrait of Sterne and five additional etchings by E. Hedouin; three quarter red crushed morocco and red paper boards and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, spine lettered in... More
Montpelier: E. P. Walton and the Author, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; 310, (ii); folding frontispiece Map of Vermont, Three plates engraved by M.M. Peabody after illustrations by E.F. Johnson. Map of Vermont signed: Peabody sc.; full brown leather, edges stained yellow, with a black spine label lettered in... More
Exeter N.H. J. & B. Williams, 1828. Hardcover. 32mo; pp; (iv), 288; illustrated with a frontispiece and an illustrated half-title, Added t.p., with vignette, dated 1827; full black morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Nicely printed and very well designed, in very good or better condition. The Williams Brothers... More
Worcester: Putnam, Davis and Company, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6" x 8.25"), 331pp. with index and appendix A. Flora of Worcester County and B. Wild Trees and Shrubs. Illustrated. Frontispiece and 8 photographic plates with titled tissue-guards. A lovely privately printed book limited to 500 copies after an edition... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 158; Illustrated in duo-tone by F. C. Yohn; red gilt decorated cloth, top edge gilt; Cover designed by Decorative Designers with their logo. A love story set in the Cumberland Gap of Kentucky. Horses, moonshine, jealousy; feuds and pistols! More
Augusta: Homan and Manley, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 404; frontispiece portrait; brown cloth, gilt, decorated in blind. Drew's memoir of a trip to London and the Crystal Palace via Montreal and Quebec. A valuable account of London and the Exhibition. This is a curious copy. It is adorned... More
(Hamden Ct.): Anchon Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (viii), 119; black cloth lettered in gilt; in a dust jacket; A beautiful inscribed copy. The personal experiences of an American infantry soldier of the 10th Mountain Division in WWII. He recounts the final skirmishes against the retreating German Army... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. viii, (3), 4-310; three quarter blue morocco and blue boards; Top edge gilt, marbled end papers. Raised bands, spines decorated and lettered in gilt by Maurin;. A Signed binding. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn with his Introduction. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott Company, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, blue gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. 190pp. Someone, possibly the author has indicated in ink, the poem "If the Curtain Could be Lifted" in the list of contents. Inscribed and dated by the author. The poems are somewhat spiritual in nature. Some were written... More
New York: George S. Hurlbert & Co. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 150; Frontispiece; Illustrated in color and black and white; pictorial green cloth; Errata slip. Juvenile treatment designed to interest children in these species. More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1910. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xxi, (i), (2), 3-323; frontispiece plus twenty-eight black and white plates; decorated blue cloth, gilt. Profiles of Women from the ancient times through history. A beautifully designed book reminescent of Margaret Armstrong. "The Greek Lady," "The Roman Lady,"... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; xiii, 312, extensive bibliography, index; profusely illustrated with three hundred eight color and black and white photographs; navy blue linen, lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, in a pictorial dust jacket. "Wealthy Americans began building opulent country estates in the... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Second Edition, but first Macmillan edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 131, glossary; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; photographs by Cpl. Edward J. Freeman and Pfc. John H. Birch Jr.; quarter gray blue cloth and pictorial boards; lettered in silver. This copy is inscribed... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1905. This edition, designed by Bruce Rogers, utilizing Brimmer type, and limited to 335 numbered copies, this is copy #97. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (iv), 231, (i), colophon; three quarter blue crushed morocco and marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. First edition, one of one thousand (1000) copies Signed by the author, this is copy #947. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, (ii), 387, index; illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and forty-one additional black and white photographs; blue buckram with a paper spine label in original... More