Mrs Leicester's School; Introduction by Richard Chase
London: Harvill Press Ltd., 1948. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xiii, (i), 131; beige cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. A nice printing. More
London: Harvill Press Ltd., 1948. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xiii, (i), 131; beige cloth lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. A nice printing. More
Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Second printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp. iv, (1-3), 301; four page Publisher's catalogue inserted and dated January, 1852; blind stamped brown cloth, gilt; yellow end papers;. BAL #12102. This is a book-length narrative poem based on a Middle High German romance by Hartmann von Aue..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First American edition, Limited Edition, 1/1000 signed copies. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, 367; frontispiece portrait; terra-cotta cloth with a black spine label lettered in gilt, in a slipcase, untrimmed edges; Very good, spine sunned, some edgewear to slipcase, overall a very nice copy... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), (2), 3-261; yellow cloth lettered in burgundy in a dust jacket;. Five McPhee essays from the New Yorker Magazine collected here. From green grocer markets to nuclear power to pinball, McPhee never disappoints. More
London: Methuen & Co, 1926-1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes; Quartos; pp; 43; 34; 33; original quarter tan cloth and brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label at center cover, with decorations by Shepard of Pooh and Christopher Robin; “Fourteen Songs” is a seventh edition, the others are first editions; printed..... More
London: Frederick Warne and Co., c1885. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xxx, (ii), (2), 3-604; Steel engraved frontispiece portrait and One hundred original illustrations by John Gilbert and Birket Foster; full decoarted black morocco, lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles, yellow end papers; Moderate edge wear, corners bumped;..... 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: Alexander V. Blake, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; vi, (vii), 8-251; “embellished with numerous engravings on wood”; black cloth boards decorated in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt;. One hundred fourteen brief fables, each with an application, Quite entertaining. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1939. a limited edition of 1500 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist, this is copy #1162. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; lvi, (ii), 260, (i), colophon; Illustrated by John Farleigh with a frontispiece and numerouse wood engravings throughout the text; green linen with a green..... More
London: Downey & Co. Ltd., 1897. John Leech. First Edition, thus. Hardcover. Ovtavo; pp; xxiii, (i), 599, (i), colophon; Illustrated with twenty-six etchings by John Leech; blue cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; A very bright, clean, tight copy;. More
New York: Random House, (1946). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xv, (i), 622; frontispiece portrait; cream cloth with a blue spine title tile lettered in gilt in a dust jacket, top edge stained blue; Jacket has a bit of edgewear, previous owner's name on front free fly leaf;. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Hardcover. Twenty-six volumes, complete; octavo; illustrated with frontispieces; gilt ruled red cloth, top edge gilt, spines decorated and lettered in gilt, fore edges untrimmed; An unusually bright set;. The volumes are as follows; Contents: I. New Arabian nights. --II. Treaure Island. --III. More new..... More
London: John Murray, 1833. George Cruikshank. Eighteenth edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; xxxi, 170; Illustrated, Cruikshank illustrations, six wood engravings in the text, and frontispiece portrait after Harlowe; three quarter red morocco and marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt;. Cohn 759. "...carefully revised, with an original preface and Notes by..... More
Pleasantville: Reader' Digest Association, Inc., 1986. Cloth. (1986). Octavo (6" x 9.25"), half black faux leather and olive green cloth. Gilt titles and cover illustration. "Marbled" endpapers. 304pp. Illustrated in the text by E. W. Kemble. Ribbon marker. Very good or better. With the 4p. "Reader's Digest World's Best Reading"..... More
New York: Library of America, 1982. Seventh printing thus. Cloth. (New York:1982). Octavo (5" x 8"), navy cloth, gilt, in cream colored slipcase, also gilt. Decorated endpapers. 1082, (iii)pp with colophon. Very nice copy with ribbon marker. The colophon page is a little wrinkled at bottom corner. Slipcase is cery..... More
Berkeley: University Of California Press, (2010). Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. xviii, (ii), 736, (iii), index, colphon; photographs; black cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket;. Twain's "Uncensored Autobiography in its entirety"! More
Philadelphia: Joseph Healy; Boston: Weeks, Jordan; New York: John S. Taylor, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo, pp. 180; original publisher's brown cloth with a tight floral pattern, with a gilt lettered title within an ornamental box at center of the front board; edges worn, moderate wear, foxing throughout, A collection..... More
London: MacM and Co., Limited, 1920. Later printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4" x 6.25"), Three-quarter red morocco with marbled boards and endpapers. Top edge gilt. 388pp. with appendix and glossary. Very good with a little rubbing on the top of the back joint. A very nice dated binding... More