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For readers who like to read about books and writers: essays, letters, literary criticism and author biographies. Collected works and an occasional signed or inscribed copy are mixed in.



 

Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest


Elenbaas, Adam

Hardcover. US, Tarcher, 1st, 2010-07-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462671


Price: $11.00 

 

Journal of voyages: containing an account of the author's being twice captured by the English and once by Gibbs the pirate ...


Series, Michigan Historical Reprint

Softcover. US, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, rep, 2005-12-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Small ink mark to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462729


Price: $23.00 

 

Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya


Weill, Kurt

Hardcover. US, University of California Press, 1st, 1996-05-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages, b&w photops. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462767


Price: $15.00 

 

Hyde Park Gate News: The Stephen Family Newspaper


Woolf, Virginia

Hardcover. US, Hesperus Press, 1st, 2006-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462792


Price: $15.00 

 

St Paul Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald


Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Softcover. US, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1st, 2004-09-24, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH EDITORS. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462977


Price: $19.00 

 

Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children. A Domestic Biography


Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. US, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1993-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight warping to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462984


Price: $10.00 

 

Dearest Chums and Partners: Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children. A Domestic Biography


Harris, Joel Chandler

Hardcover. US, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1993-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight warping to covers and light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462985


Price: $10.00 

 

From the Headlands


Blythe, Ronald

Hardcover. US, Chatto & Windus, rep, 1982-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463000


Price: $25.00 

 

Richer, The Poorer, The


West, Dorothy

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1995-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463084


Price: $13.00 

 

Isaiah Berlin: Letters 1928-1946


Berlin, Isaiah

Hardcover. US, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004-06-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 755 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463203


Price: $38.00 

 

FORTY-SEVEN ROSES


SHERIDAN, PETER

Hardcover. US, Macmillan, 1st, 2001-09-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463534


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters To Freya, 1939-1945


Moltke, Helmuth Von

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 2nd printing, 1990-06-30, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. binding cracked at last page. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 463716


Price: $10.00 

 

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker


Mehta, Ved

Hardcover. US, Overlook, 1st, 1998-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463758


Price: $13.00 

 

Well-Made Book, The : Lectures by Daniel Berkeley Updike


Updike, Daniel Berkeley

Hardcover. US, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2002-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463803


Price: $23.00 

 

Gentle Madness, A : Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books


Basbanes, Nicholas

Softcover. US, Henry Holt and Company,, 1st PB, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 638 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear to wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 463920


Price: $75.00 

 

Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times


Kaufman, Andrew D.

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2014-05-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 262 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464153


Price: $25.00 

 

Confederate Bushwhacker: Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War


Loving, Jerome

Hardcover. US, UPNE, 1st, 2013-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464167


Price: $15.00 

 

Latin in Oxford: Inscriptiones Aliquot Oxonienses


Adams, Reginald H.

Hardcover. US, Perpetua Press, 1st, 1994-10-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 100 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464254


Price: $15.00 

 

Edmund De Rothschild: A Gilt-Edged Life


Rothschild, Edmund De

Hardcover. US, JOHN MURRAY PUBLISHERS LTD, 1st, 1998-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's markings and notes in pencil. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464279


Price: $25.00 

 

Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow, The


Post, Laurens Van Der

Hardcover. US, Daimon Verlag, 1st, 1998-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 393 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464281


Price: $13.00 

 

Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir from a Visionary Leader


Browne, John

Softcover. US, Orion Publishing, 1st, 2010-02-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, color photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464295


Price: $25.00 

 

Beginning of the Journey, The : The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling


Trilling, Diana

Hardcover. US, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464309


Price: $13.00 

 

Mascha Kalenko (German Edition)


Rosenkranz, Jutta

Softcover. US, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 1st, 2007-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages, b&w illustrations. Text in German. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 464399


Price: $23.00 

 

Zwischen Selbstzucht und Verlangen: Thomas Mann und das Stigma Homosexualitat : Untersuchungen zu Fruhwerk und Jugend (Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte) (German Edition)


Bohm, Karl Werner

Softcover. US, Konigshausen & Neumann, rep, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. Text in German. Slight foxing to edges and end papers. Previous owner's stamp to front end paper.

Record # 464413


Price: $63.00 

 

Aperto libro ou le latin retrouve


Rudder, Orlando De

Softcover. US, Larousse, 1st, 1991-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages, b&w illustrations. Text in French. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464444


Price: $31.00 

 

Traveling in Italy With Henry James: Essays


James, Henry

Hardcover. US, William Morrow & Co, 1st, 1994-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 413 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464517


Price: $23.00 

 

Russian Avant-garde Books, 1917-34


Compton, Susan

Hardcover. US, The British Library Publishing Division, 1st, 1992-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464558


Price: $23.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Vol. 1


Twain, Mark

Hardcover. US, University of California Press, rep, 2010-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume 1 only. 736 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464617


Price: $31.00 

 

Marks in the Fields, The : Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts


Dennis, Rodney G.

Softcover. US, Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, 1st, 2005-04-30, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to edges and light damp-creasing to rear cover.

Record # 464661


Price: $15.00 

 

Letters from Sea, 1882-1901: Joanna and Lincoln Colcord's Seafaring Childhood


Albee, Parker Bishop

Hardcover. US, Tilbury House Pub; First Edition, 2000-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Record # 464708


Price: $19.00 

 

Lives of Margaret Fuller, The : A Biography


Matteson, John

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2012-01-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 510 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464711


Price: $15.00 

 

Impossible Exile, The : Stefan Zweig at the End of the World


Prochnik, George

Hardcover. US, Other Press, 1st, 2014-05-06, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 390 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464744


Price: $25.00 

 

Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age


Seaver, Richard

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2012-01-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465788


Price: $23.00 

 

State Of California, The : Growing Up Foreign in the Backyards of Eden


Pejovich, Ted

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1989-03-04, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear, rubbing and tanning to dust jacket. small stain to fore edge.

Record # 465848


Price: $25.00 

 

Long Light of Those Days, The : Recollections of a Vermont Village at Mid-Century


Coffin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, The Elm Tree Press, 1st, 2005-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465849


Price: $25.00 

 

James Agee, Selected Journalism


Agee, James

Hardcover. US, University of Tennessee Press, 1st, 1985-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 183 pages, b&w photos. Heavy sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465857


Price: $15.00 

 

Transatlantic Love Affair, A : Letters to Nelson Algren


Beauvoir, Simone de

Hardcover. US, New Press, 1st, 1998-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 559 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465877


Price: $19.00 

 

Histories, The


SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM, Illust. by: JOHN FARLEIGH

hardcover. Norwalk, CT, The Easton Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1016 pages. Collector's edition. Full leather stamped in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpages & silk ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper otherwise, clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469045


Price: $31.00 

 

Two Plays for Puritans: The Devil's Disciple and Ceasar and Cleopatra


Shaw, George Barnard, Illust. by: George Him

hardcover. Norwalk, CT, The Easton Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. Collector's edition. Full leather stamped in gold, all edges gilt, marbled endpages & silk ribbon marker. Previous owner's bookplate on end paper otherwise, clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 469050


Price: $44.00 

 

Dog Ghosts, and Other Texas Negro Folk Tales: The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas


Brewer, J. Mason, Illust. by: John T. Biggers

Softcover. AUSTIN, TX, University of Texas Press, REPRINT, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Softcover with light edgewear and foxing to papre wrappers. Some foxing to first few pages, otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Black and white illustrations by John T. Biggers.

Record # 470242


Price: $19.00 

 

For the Time Being


Dillard, Annie

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear. Slight yellowing to dust jacket inside flaps. Small folds to some page corners, used as bookmarks. Otherwise tight copy.

Record # 471131


Price: $19.00 

 

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics


Morson, Gary Saul

Softcover. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 554 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor shelfwear. Previous owner's inscription within.

Record # 471412


Price: $13.00 

 

The Laura Elizabeth Richards Memorial


Richards, Laura Elizabeth

Gardiner, Maine, privately printed, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Stapled wraps w/ paper dust jacket. Label on front. 23 pages plus addendum.

Record # 500315


Price: $15.00 

 

The Paris Review (Fall-Winter 1978)


Oates, Joyce Carol, Jay Parini, various

Softcover. New York, Eastern News Co., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages plus notes on contributors and ads. SIGNED BY JAY PARINI on page 80, next to his poem, "Seasons of the Skin."

Record # 500349


Price: $20.00 

 

Memoir of the Bobotes


Cary, Joyce, Illust. by: Joyce Cary

London, Michael Joseph, 1st UK, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 170 pages. Black & white illustrations by Cary. Dust jacket with soil, edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 501723


Price: $25.00 

 

Traveller In Little Things, A


Hudson, W. H.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering, spine fade.

Record # 501726


Price: $30.00 

 

Salad for the Solitary


Saunders, Frederick

Hardcover. New York, Dewitt and Davenport, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, plus ads. Previous owner name stamp on inside front cover. Red cloth cover with gilt title on front and spine. Soiling on front cover and faded spine. Light mildew damage internally. Tight binding but cocked spine. Otherwise good.

Record # 501744


Price: $16.00 

 

Olden Time Series Number Four, The - Quaint and Curious Advertisements


Brooks, Henry M.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Company, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. Small brown cloth volume containing "gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts." Previous owner name in ink. Newspaper article laid in front end pages. Rubbing to corners.

Record # 501794


Price: $12.00 

 

Power in Men


Cary, Joyce

Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hard cover. 274 pages. Corners rubbed. Dust jacket with chipping, light soiling.

Record # 502111


Price: $12.00 

 

Auld Licht Idylls


Barrie, J.M.

NY, Cassell Pub , unknown edition, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Top edge gilt. Black cloth, bevelled boards with gilt lettering on front bottom corner, spine. Top & bottom spine edges edgeworn.

Record # 502136


Price: $15.00 

 

Brothers Grimm, The


Michaelis-Jena, Ruth

NY, Praeger Pub., 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 212 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates, drawings, photos. Blue cloth cover with short tear to top of spine otherwise clean and tight. Dust jacket with photo of Grimm brothers on front. Closed tears to spine, light edgewear to edges.

Record # 502558


Price: $15.00 

 

Proust - The Early Years The Later Years - (2 Vols.)


Painter, George D., Illust. by: Samuel H, Bryant

Boston , Little, Brown & Co., 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Vol I: The Early Years. 435 pages. Dust jacket price clipped, edgewear, chips. Browning to endpapers. Vol II: The Later Years. 424 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear. Black & white photos. Maps drawn by Samuel H. Bryant. Both vols. with previous owner's signature and address label on front endpaper.

Record # 502909


Price: $30.00 

 

Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660


Frank, Joseph

Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Pres, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 482 pages. Review slip laid in. Writing in pen on front fly leaf. Flap of dust jacket with creases. Soiling to dust jacket. Closed tear and small chunk missing from front cover. Edgewear and chipping.

Record # 503031


Price: $20.00 

 

Paston Letters, The


Fenn (Ed), John

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, reprint , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. Brown top edge. In very good condition.

Record # 503431


Price: $13.00 

 

Life In A Liberty Bodice: Random Recollections of a Yorkshire Childhood


Burniston, Christabel

Softcover. Beverley, England, Highgate Publications, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback. 232 pages. Black & white illustrations by Myrtle J. Barter. Very light soiling to covers.

Record # 504006


Price: $15.00 

 

Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women: A New York Review Collection


Dinnage, Rosemary

New York, New York Review of Books, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 296 pages. Book and dust jacket in excellent condition.

Record # 504084


Price: $12.00 

 

Down Along the Mother Volga: An Anthology of Russian Folk Lyrics


Reeder (Ed), Robert

Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 246 pages. Translated and edited by Reeder. Introductory essay by V. Ja. Propp. Foxing, faded spine, small closed tears to dust jacket.

Record # 504127


Price: $15.00 

 

Newspaper and Responsibility, The


Douglass, Paul F.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Caxton Press, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 114 pages. Gilt top edge. Gilt titles on spine. Light wear to spine and corners. Light browning to edges of pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 506560


Price: $12.00 

 

Life of Charlotte Bronte, The (Two Volumes)


Gaskell, E. C.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co, 1st US, 1857, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes Black & white frontispiece with tissue-guard. Heavy soiling to covers. Tears along spine. Wear to corners, spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 508828


Price: $60.00 

 

Some Records of the Later Life of Harriet, Countess Granville


Oldfield, Susan H.

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 286 pages. + ads Illustrated with black & white drawings, frontispiece with tissue guard. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Top edge gilt. Cloth cover with gold lettering on front and spine. Bottom spine edges worn, bottom corner edges bumped.

Record # 509069


Price: $33.00 

 

W. H. Hudson - A Portrait


Roberts, Morley

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 310 pages. Ltd to 1,500 copies. Previous owner's notation on back flyleaf. Red cloth binding with white spine label.

Record # 509126


Price: $20.00 

 

Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, The


Rust, Ralph L.

NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 592 pages. Black & white photo of Emerson on frontispiece. Dust jacket price clipped, with closed tears, chunks gone, edgewear.

Record # 509158


Price: $19.00 

 

Skin For Skin


Powys, Llewelyn

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 147 pages. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Brown cloth binding with yellow lettering, pictorial detail on front. Corners bumped.

Record # 509217


Price: $15.00 

 

Stricken Deer , The - or The Life of Cowper


Cecil, David

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 341 pages. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Dust jacket with edgewear, big chunk gone from bottom edge, soil, spine fade.

Record # 509227


Price: $24.00 

 

Alice Meynell - A Memoir


Meynell, Viola

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Illustrated with 11 black & white photographs. Maroon cloth boards with spine and cover labels, minor soiling to lower right corner. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper.

Record # 509377


Price: $25.00 

 

British Letters Illustrative of Character and Social Life


Mason (Ed.), Edward T.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 297 pages. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. Spine soil. Edgewear to spine edges. Corners lightly bumped.

Record # 509413


Price: $13.00 

 

Walt Whitman's Prose


Shephard, Esther

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st , 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 453 pages. Illustrated with black & white photos. Browning to front and back endpapers. Maroon binding with light spotting to front, spine. Spine fade.

Record # 509457


Price: $25.00 

 

Living Dangerously


Fiennes, Ranulph

New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 509669


Price: $16.00 

 

Homes & Haunts of the British Poets


Howitt, William

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Co, 3rd, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 706 pages, bound in leather. Raised bands and tooled designs with gilt on spine. Marbled boards, slightly worn, marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Edges of cover worn and corners slightly bumped. Gutter starting to open at pages 2-3 and 240-241. Previous owner's inscription on blank preliminary page.

Record # 509975


Price: $32.00 

 

From My Journal


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Dust jacket with small tears. "The record of a year of adjustment for an individual and for the world."

Record # 510666


Price: $8.00 

 

Tom Sawyer Abroad


Twain, Mark (Ed. by Shelly Fisher Fishkin)

NY , Oxford University Press , 1st thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The Oxford Mark Twain, hardcover. Facsimile reproduction of the first American Edition. Introduction by Nat Hentoff, afterword by M. Thomas Inge. One of 29 volumes in the series. Like new in dust jacket.

Record # 510726


Price: $25.00 

 

Diary of Tolstoy's Wife 1860-1891, The


Werth, tr., Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Payson and Clarke, 1st, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st edition. Badly faded covers. Edgewear. Light browning to pages.

Record # 511142


Price: $10.00 

 

Basileon - A Magazine of King's College, Cambridge 1900-1914


NA

Hardcover. London, Scolar Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Cloth boards. Dust jacket spine sunfaded at spine and along top edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511535


Price: $15.00 

 

Star Papers - Or. Experiences of Art and Nature


Beecher, Henry Ward

Hardcover. NY, Derby & Jackson, reprint, 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 359 pages, hardcover. A collection of newspaper articles from The New York Independent.

Record # 602685


Price: $15.00 

 

Anne Sexton: A Biography


Middlebrook, Diane Wood

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 6th, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages, Illustrated in b&w. Very good condition in very good dust jacket.

Record # 603071


Price: $13.00 

 

Browning Cyclopaedia: a Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning, The


Berdoe, Edward

Hardcover. London, George Allen, reprint, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 577 pages, two previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, moroon cloth top edge gilt, gilt design on spine, chip to top of the gutter in the rear end papers.

Record # 603153


Price: $14.00 

 

Long Recessional, The: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling


Gilmour, David

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 351 pages. B&w photographs and drawings throughout. Blue cover with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has light soiling and marks. Short tear to top right corner of front cover of dust jacket.

Record # 603184


Price: $16.00 

 

Poets' Country: The Homes and Haunts of the Poets


Lang (Ed.), Andrew, Illust. by: F.S. Walker

Hardcover. New York, NY, Dodge Publishing Company, Reprint, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Green-brown cloth hard covers with gilt title and front cover color illustration on paper. Color illustrations. Some staining and discoloration on pages and inside cover.

Record # 604040


Price: $13.00 

 

Universalist and Ladies' Repository, The: Volume X.


Bacon, Rev. Henry and Miss S.C. Edgarton (editors)

Hardcover. Boston, MA, A. Tompkins, 1st, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 12 issues (Volume X). June 1841 - May 1842. Collection of essays, religious writing, music, poetry. Leather spine with gilt decoration and lettering, and black spine label with gilt lettering. Brown marbled board coverings with leather corners. Foxing to end papers and several pages, including title page. Small "F.H. Marshall, Book Binder" sticker label on top left corner of inside front cover. Cover edges worn. A couple pages have corner creases.

Record # 604065


Price: $40.00 

 

Gleanings from Popular Authors - Grave & Gay


NA

Hardcover. New York, Cassell, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Features stories by: Dickens, Longfellow, Byron, Blake, J. Fennimore Cooper, Poe, and many more. One plate loose. Gilt edges. Light foxing throughout. Bottom corners bumped and worn.

Record # 604212


Price: $16.00 

 

Madman of Ch'u - The Chinese Myth of Loyalty and Dissent, A


Schneider, Laurence A.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604321


Price: $32.00 

 

Abroad in America: Visitors to the New Nation, 1776-1914


Pachter, Marc

Softcover. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1976, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 347 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Beige pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Light wear to borders, else like new. Newspaper clippings laid in. Collection of the stories, impressions and observations of 33 illustrious visitors to America, who were subjects of the National Portrait Gallery"s Bicentennial Exhibition. Text augmented by historic paintings, prints and photographs.

Record # 605625


Price: $16.00 

 

Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Caras of Open Court


Henderson, Harold

Hardcover. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 205 pages. Gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy, like new.

Record # 606633


Price: $25.00 

 

Scenes Along the Road


Charters (editor), Ann

Softcover. New York, Portents/Gotham Book Mart, Reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 52 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Herbert Hunke, and other characters associated with the Beat movement. Front cover has 2 small stain spots that have also left impression on front endpaper. Small tears (1/4") at top and bottom of spine that do not effect interior of book. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 606832


Price: $35.00 

 

Shiksa Goddess or, How I Spent my Forties


Wasserstein, Wendy

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607574


Price: $30.00 

 

Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admirality in the Reigns of Charles II and James II


Pepys, Samuel

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 844 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing, soiling to blue covers, spine-label slightly peeling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607714


Price: $25.00 

 

Memorial of Andrew J. Shipman: His Life and Writings


Pallen, Conde B.

Hardcover. New York , Encyclopedia Press, Inc., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, no dust jacket. Wear, rubbing and soiling to edges and spine. Front hinge cracked. Interior very clean.

Record # 607719


Price: $12.00 

 

Perfect Murder - A Study in Detection


Lehman, David

Hardcover. New York, Free Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 242 pages. Dust jacket worn with small tears at top of spine and some light fading. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607787


Price: $12.00 

 

Vanished Present - The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, A


Pasternak, Alexander

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Front endpaper creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607864


Price: $12.00 

 

Gridiron Nights


Dunn, Arthur Wallace

Hardcover. New York, Stokes, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 371 pages. Humorous black & white illustrations. Dust jacket quite torn and missing chunks, with tape repairs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608192


Price: $35.00 

 

Homing of the Winds, The


Sitwell, Sacheverell

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Light foxing/spotting to yellow cloth covers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608246


Price: $12.00 

 

Holmes-Pollock Letters - The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock 1874-1932 - 2 Volumes


Howe, Mark DeWolfe

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 - 275 pages. Previous owners Bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light fading to spine cloth. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 359 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light fading to spine cloth. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608259


Price: $25.00 

 

Cambridge Sketches


Stearns, Frank Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 374 pages. Illustrated with 7 black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608312


Price: $30.00 

 

Romance of an Old Time Shipmaster, The


Paine (Editor), Ralph D.

Hardcover. New York, Outing Publishing, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Front and rear hinges cracked. Cover cloth age darkened.

Record # 608702


Price: $30.00 

 

Okay, Let's Try It Again


Lange, Willem

Softcover. Hanover, New England Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608986


Price: $15.00 

 

Jesse Stuart's Kentucky


Clarke, Mary Washington

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609061


Price: $12.00 

 

T.S. Eliot - A Bibliography - A Revised and Extended Edition


Gallup, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. Some light underlining and notes in pencil. Price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear with small chips missing along edges.

Record # 609066


Price: $20.00 

 

Sixty Acres - more or less - The Diary of a Week-end Vermonter


Lent, Henry B.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by author. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket worn with chipping and short tears along edges.

Record # 609141


Price: $20.00 

 

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow - Nature Writing and Autobiography


Allister, Mark

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609167


Price: $15.00 

 

Pastoral Days or Memories of a New England Year


Gibson, W. Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, Reprint, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 153 pages. Illustrated with black & white engravings by various artists. Previous owners name on prelim. page. Narrow damp stain along very bottom edge of first 8 pages - this does not effect text or illustrations. Front cover features four color illustration with gilt highlights. Spine title with gilt intact. Minor foxing to endpapers. A very nice copy.

Record # 609194


Price: $50.00 

 

Catalogue of the Browning Collection


Barnes, Warner

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. One of 1,000 copies printed. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609231


Price: $12.00 

 

Highways and Byways or Saunterings in New England


Gibson, William Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages. Black & white illustrations by the author. Damp stain along left edge of first 13 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Ghost darkening from previously laid-in items on pages 122, 63, and illustrated title page. Gilt edges. Rubbing to cover corners and at top and bottom of spine. Overall, very good.

Record # 609234


Price: $40.00 

 

Invented Lives - F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald


Mellow, james R.

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 569 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. slight degree of fading to spine. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609331


Price: $15.00 

 

West Winds - California's Book of Fiction - Written by California Authors and Illustrated by California Artists


Whitaker (Editor), Herman

Hardcover. San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages. Features 8 tipped-in plates. Front cover paste-down illustration intact. Titles in gilt on cover and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610052


Price: $38.00 

 

Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing


Schechter (Editor), Ronald

Softcover. Boston, Bedford/St. Martin's, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610059


Price: $15.00 

 

Birth of Reason & Other Essays by George Santayana


Cory (Editor), Daniel

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610062


Price: $15.00 

 

On signs


Blonsky (Editor), Marshall

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 536 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs, and drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610066


Price: $13.00 

 

Minor Lives - A Collection of Biographies by John Nichols


Hart (Editor), Edward L.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 367 pages. Dust jacket worn, with darkening to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 610115


Price: $13.00 

 

Greville Diary - 2 Volumes, The


Wilson (Editor), Philip Whitwell

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume I - 568 pages. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on front cover. Spine age darkened with fading to title. Clean, tight copy. Volume II - 602 pages. Green cloth covers with title in gilt on front cover. Spine age darkened with fading to title. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610230


Price: $31.00 

 

Writer; A Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing - By a Gentleman of Massachusetts, The


Boston Spectator

Hardcover. Boston, Boston Spectator, 1st, 1822, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 131 pages. Ex-library copy. Original board covers repaired with library tape along spine. Library bookplates and marking to endpapers and preliminary pages. Front cover spine fragile. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610522


Price: $44.00 

 

Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger


Seeger, Alan

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd Printing, 1917, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Maroon cloth covers with titles in gilt. Light rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610533


Price: $50.00 

 

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Which contain, among other curious relations, Accounts of the Policy and Manners of the Turks - Drawn from Sources that hav

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Aurora Book Stores, 1st Thus, 1801, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 only. 147 pages plus 2 pages of ads. Brown leather covers. Red spine label with title in gilt - chip missing from bottom third of label. Pages tanned. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Missing half of rear endpaper. 2 1/4" X 1/2" piece missing at top of title page. Narrow separation at very top of rear cover hinge - approximately 3/4". Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610542


Price: $100.00 

 

Victor Chapman's Letters from France


Chapman, Victor

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages plus 5 pages of ads. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners partially erased inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Darkened spine label. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610543


Price: $50.00 

 

Americana Esoterica


Van Doren, Carl/Various Authors

Hardcover. New York, Macy-Masius, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. Limited to 3000 copies - this being hand numbered #53. Front cover paste down and endpapers by Rockwell Kent. Wine colored cloth covers. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610834


Price: $31.00 

 

Chelsea 79


de Palchi (Editor), Alfredo

Softcover. New York, Chelsea Associates, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY WRITER AL CLEMENTE FEATURED IN THIS COLLECTION. includes: "A Photographic Retrospective - 34 Portraits by Gerard Malanga". Light wear - narrow wrinkle along edge of page 229/230. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611412


Price: $15.00 

 

Chained Library - A Survey of Four Centuries in the Evolution of the English Library, The


Streeter, Burnett Hillman

Hardcover. New York, Burt Franklin, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 368 pages. Hardcover. 93 black & white illustrations and plans. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612819


Price: $63.00 

 

Tender Hour of Twilight - Paris in the 50's, New York in the '60's:A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age, The


Seaver, Richard/Jeannette Seaver (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, New York, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613183


Price: $19.00 

 

House of Elrig - An Autobiography of Childhood, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Brown dust jacket with red and back lettering over red cloth covers with stamped decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Black and white photographs inside. Clean and bright interior.

Record # 613302


Price: $15.00 

 

Lives on the Line -The Testimony of Contemporary Latin American Authors


Meyer (editor), Doris

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613685


Price: $13.00 

 

Spell of the Open Air, The


Various Writers, Illust. by: Harry Rountree

Hardcover. London, T. N. Foulis, 1st, ND, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 43 pages plus 2 pages of publishers ads. Covers are decorative blue silk cloth over stiff wraps. Title in gilt on front cover. Features 4 full color illustrations by Harry Rountree. Spine with some fading, light chipping. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614157


Price: $44.00 

 

Billy Watson's Croker Sack (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Burroughs, Franklin

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with light wear & price-clipped. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751157


Price: $50.00 

 

Doctor's Dilemma, The - Getting Married, & the Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet


Shaw, Bernard

Hardcover. London, Constable and Company, First Thus, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Gilt top edge. Light soiling to boards, light fraying to heel & head spine edge, light bump to front top corner. Previous owner's signature dated 1911 to front flyleaf. Moderate toning to edges of front flyleaf, light toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751160


Price: $23.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry


Pack, Robert/Jay Parini

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with light wear to edges. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Otherwise, very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751224


Price: $38.00 

 

Man Working, 1919 - 1962: William Faulkner - A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collections at the University of Virginia Library


Faulkner, William/Linton R. Massey (Editor) & John Cook Wyllie (Introduction)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia/Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered board with black printed titles to canvas ivory cloth spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Related ephemera laid-in. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751235


Price: $94.00 

 

Antiquity of Proverbs, The


Marvin, Dwight Edwards

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 329 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Light wear to edges, faint, marginal toning to edges throughout. Tight binding, tight signatures, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751272


Price: $31.00 

 

Synonyms and Antonyms - Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites


Smith, C. J.

Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, Second Edition Revised, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Previous owner's stamp to front endpaper. Light toning throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751276


Price: $15.00 

 

Old Deccan Days, Or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India


Frere, Mary

Hardcover. London, UK, John Murray, Reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with green cloth covered boards. Heavy sunfade to spine edge. Gilt titles to spine. Some light soiling to boards. & dim, faded titles to spine. Illustrations in black, white & gold print throughout, by Catherine Frances Frere. Light toning throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 751519


Price: $25.00 

 

How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published


Pelkey Bicknell, ed., Treld

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Co-edited by Felicity Trotman. Color and B/W illustrations. Like new.

Record # 802147


Price: $13.00 

 

McCully Report: The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905


McCully

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Edited by Richard von Doenhoff. Previous bookseller's bookplate on front flyleaf. Dust jacket soiled.

Record # 802225


Price: $19.00 

 

Age of Opulence: The Bell Epoque in the Paris Herald 1890-1914


Dorsey, Hebe

Hardcover. New York , Harry Abrams, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 illustrations, 16 in full color, from the archives of the International Herald Tribune. Burgundy cloth covers with gold lettering on pine. Dust jacket back scuffed otherwise excellent condition,

Record # 802615


Price: $19.00 

 

T.E. Lawrence


Edmonds, Charles

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1936, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages, b&w frontispiece, 5 illustrated maps. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 803050


Price: $13.00 

 

Alan


Benson, E. F.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Co, 1st, 1925, Dust Jacket: None, 356 pages. Cocked spine, wear to edges and corners of cover, cover slightly discolored, front hinge cracked, loose, foxing to top of page block.

Record # 803052


Price: $19.00 

 

Lettres a Une Inconnue Par Prosper Merimee de L'Academie Francaise


Taine, H.

Hardcover. Paris, Calmann Levy, na, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, French text. Two volumes. Leather binding. Raised bands. Marbled covers and end papers. Gilt top edges. Light rubbing to extremities.

Record # 803337


Price: $38.00 

 

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman


O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co. , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 green paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dj with photograph of author.

Record # 803797


Price: $26.00 

 

Hudson Review, The (Volume 3, no.1)


n/a

Paperback. London, Dennis Dobson, Spring, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Cover tanning around edges.

Record # 803937


Price: $13.00 

 

L'Orlando Furioso, Con Note e Discorso Proemiale


Ariosto, Lodovico

Hardcover. Firenze, G. Barbera, na, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1016 pages w/ index. Cream cloth, All edges red, Red ribbon bookmark. Cloth very soiled. Previous owner's signature front flyleaf. B/W frontispiece of Ariosto, tissue guard.

Record # 803998


Price: $38.00 

 

Ritratti Letterari


Amicis, Edmondo de

Hardcover. Milano, Fratelli Treves, 3rd, 1881, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. 3/4 blue leather, marbled boards. Spine missing, back board detached, front board almost detached. Text block still intact, unmarked. Pages are browned. Previous owner's signature prelim page.

Record # 803999


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoirs of Princess Natal'ja Borisovna Dolgorukaja


Townsend, Charles E.

Paperback. Columbus OH, Slavica Publishers, Inc., Reprint of 1913 ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. White covers. Top corner of front cover has crease. Foxing to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight unmarked. B/W photos of gravemarker at end. One map and family tree.

Record # 804007


Price: $58.00 

 

Yankee Doodle's Literary Sampler of Prose, Poetry, & Pictures: Being an Anthology of Diverse Works Published for the Edification and/or Entertainment of Young Readers in America Before 1900


Haviland, Virginia and Margaret N. Coughla

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 466 pages w/ index. Red cloth w/ embossed picture of a boy on cover and gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dust jacket is protected in myler cover. One brown strip of discoloring runs the width of the dj, presumably from tape. Clean, unmarked, tight copy of the collection of stories selected form the Rare Book Collections of the Library of Congress.

Record # 804037


Price: $51.00 

 

Guide to Archives and Manuscripts in the United States, A


Hamer, Philip M. (ed)

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 775 pages. Good shelf worn dust jacket.

Record # 804117


Price: $16.00 

 

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Elise


Canetti, Elias

Softcover. London, Calder and Boyers, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Green wrappers, perfect binding, letters translated by Christopher Middleton. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806235


Price: $15.00 

 

James Thurber: A Bibliography


Bowden, Edwin T.

Hardcover. Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 353 pages. Orange acetate-protected dust jacket, blue cloth covers with gilt titles, 5 sections titled "Original Books," "Writing in Periodicals," "Drawings in Periodicals," "Contribution to Other Books," and "Translations in Books." Price-clipped; a very clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Record # 806251


Price: $20.00 

 

Renegade in Power: The Diefenbanker Years


Newman, Peter C.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 2nd pr, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. SIGNED BY NEWMAN ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket. Edgewear, chipping and mild rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's pencil notations to rear endpaper.

Record # 807280


Price: $25.00 

 

Celebrating Children's Books


Hearne, Betsy and Marilyn Kaye (editors)

Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books, first, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. A collection of literary criticism about children's books. The book is a tribute to Zena Sutherland. In very good condition, very clean pages and tight bindings. Dust jacket in very good condition.

Record # 807632


Price: $12.00 

 

On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture


Young, Art

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black boards with white binding, small gilt pictorial to front cover, many page ends uncut, black book ribbon profusely illustrated with b&w plates, burgundy slip case with black pasted labels. Light soiling to spine, very slight rubbing to boards, pages crisp and unmarked, edgewear to slipcase.

Record # 807703


Price: $40.00 

 

Sundance Choice, A Brief Research Guide


Connelly (ed.), Mark

Softcover. Belmont, CA, Thomson Wadsworth, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages. Slight rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked, neat binding; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Record # 808676


Price: $12.00 

 

War and Colonel Warden, The: Based on the Recollections of Commander C. R. Thompson


Pawle, Gerald

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 422 pages, plus index, b&w photographs. Dust jacket has chipping, tears and old tape on top edge. Red top edge, slightly stained; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809013


Price: $15.00 

 

Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia


Smith, Roff

Hardcover. Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809076


Price: $12.00 

 

Letters on Various Interesting and Important Subjects


Freneau, Philip

Hardcover. New York , Scholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, reprint, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 142 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket fair only with heavy chipping to spine and edges. Slight discoloration to endpaper, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 809664


Price: $20.00 

 

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century


Paston, George

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton and Co., 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 375 pages. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decor to spine and front. Minor wear to covers, else a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 810076


Price: $15.00 

 

Indecent Pleasures: The Life and Colorful Times of William Targ


Targ, William

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan Publishing Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 428 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 810127


Price: $12.00 

 

Pasternak: A Pictorial Biography


Ruge, Gerd

Hardcover. New York , McGraw Hill Book Company, 1st thus, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light wear to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810139


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Times of Kin Hubbard, Creator of Abe Martin


Kelly, Fred C.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus and Young, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 179 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing to pictorial dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front paste down. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810140


Price: $12.00 

 

Torch in My Ear, The


Canetti, Elias

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. light edgewear, scuffing to pictorial dust jacket, minor foxing to edges. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810179


Price: $12.00 

 

Articulate Energy: An Enquiry into the Syntax of English Poetry


Davey, Donald

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with slight foxing on bottom back cover. Slight browning on edges of front and back dust jacket flaps. Green boards with green writing on spine. Writing in pen on page 9. Stamping on dust jacket and front flyleaf.

Record # 850110


Price: $25.00 

 

One for the Road


Cook, Reginald L., Illust. by: Edward Sanborb

Softcover. Vermont, Middlebury College, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 49 pages. Bound backwards and upside down. Tan stiff wrapper. Slight soiling to front edges. Sun fading along spine.

Record # 850125


Price: $12.00 

 

Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures


Ruskin, John

Hardcover. New York, NY, Merrill and Baker, reprint, 1871, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three Lectures: 1. Of Kings' Treasuries; 2. Of Queens' Gardens; 3. Of the Mystery of Life. 179 pages. Red cover with gilt title to front and spine. Top edge gilt. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850594


Price: $15.00 

 

Shakespeare's Life, Art, and Characters, Volumes I and II


Hudson, Rev. H. N.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ginn and Company, 4th, 1872, Includes volumes I and II. Approx. 1000 pages. Brown boards with faded gilt title to spine. Soiling to top edge. Overall, clean, nice copies.

Record # 850611


Price: $30.00 

 

Memoir of Robert Wheaton, with Selections from His Writings


unknown

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering. Pieces from top and bottom of spine missing. Rubbing to cover corners. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 850652


Price: $30.00 

 

First Time Around, The: Some Irreverent Recollections


Wechsberg, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 381 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850752


Price: $12.00 

 

Hell Among the Yearlings


Randolph, Edmund

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 406 pages, several b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850799


Price: $25.00 

 

Skyward


Byrd, Richard E.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 388 pages, b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850800


Price: $35.00 

 

Adrift on an Ice-Pan


Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801


Price: $60.00 

 

Pioneers: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865


Angle, Paul M.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 290 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing to fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850803


Price: $30.00 

 

Colorado Volunteers in New Mexico, 1862


Hollister, Ovando J.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Light foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850804


Price: $30.00 

 

F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1905-1928


Roosevelt , Elliot (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 674 pages, b&w photographs. Blue covers w/ faded gilt lettering, rubbing to corners. Light foxing to top edge. Rear hinge weak. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850896


Price: $15.00 

 

Riverby


Burroughs, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Gilt top edge. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Pencil marking to several pages and inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850902


Price: $15.00 

 

Meaning No Offense


Riddell, John, Illust. by: Covarrubias

Softcover. New York, John Day Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 177 pages. Boards illustrated with duotone illustration, black cloth binding, b&w illustrations by Covarrubias. Spine lightly cocked, light edgewear to covers, previous owner's signature to front endpaper, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851273


Price: $20.00 

 

Duc de Saint-Simon: Historical Memoirs


Norton, Lucy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volumes in slipcase. 535 and 525 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Blue top edges. Light edge wear to dust jackets. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 851365


Price: $40.00 

 

Joffre


Recouly, Raymond

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages, b&w frontispiece. Chipping, tears, light soiling to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851380


Price: $20.00 

 

Earth-Hunger and other essays


Sumner, William Graham

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 377 pages, b&w frontispiece. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners, several small dents to edges. Front hinge starting to crack. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851416


Price: $12.00 

 

Biblical Allusions in Poe


Forrest, William Mentzel

Hardcover. New York , MacMillan Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Back cloth. Spine title slightly faded, light wear to edges and spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 851465


Price: $50.00 

 

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully (Volume 3)


de Bethune, Maximilian

Hardcover. London, 1757, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3 only. 416 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing, edge wear to covers. Hinges starting to crack. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Discoloration to endpapers and title page. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851525


Price: $60.00 

 

Contributions Towards a Bibliography of the Taylors of Ongar and Stanford Rivers


Harris, G. Edward

Hardcover. London, Crosby Lockwood, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 65 pages, b&w plates, fold-out genealogical tree in front. Green and black covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Yellow top edge. Clear plastic dust jacket w/ front flap slightly bent. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851539


Price: $25.00 

 

Travelogue Storybook of the Nineteenth Century, The


Haviland, Virginia

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851541


Price: $15.00 

 

Library Essays About Books, Bibliophiles, Writers and Kindred Subjects


Harper, Henry Howard

Hardcover. Boston, The Torch Press, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 194 pages. In slipcase. Printed on textured paper with rough cut edges. Foxing to top edge. Light spotting to endpapers. Soiling to spine. Wear and fading to slipcase. Else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 851731


Price: $20.00 

 

Climate of Violence


Fowlie, Wallace

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st pr, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Maroon top edge. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851766


Price: $20.00 

 

Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell


Targ, William (ed.)

Hardcover. Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851773


Price: $20.00 

 

Selected Works of William Herman Bloom


Bloom, William Herman

Softcover. Middleton Springs, VT, William Herman Bloom, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Contains four works: Wit, Wisom & Whimsy, After all, It's Only Brain Surgery, The Life and Times of Samuel W. Bloom, and The Great American Malpractice dilemma. B&w photographs and illustrations. Torn price sticker on back cover. Some wear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851844


Price: $50.00 

 

Horse Tradin'


Green, Ben K.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Decorative stain to top edge. Light rubbing, soiling to dust jacket in brodart. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851847


Price: $30.00 

 

Young Sea Dogs: Some Adventures of Midshipmen of the Fleet


Pears, Randolph

Hardcover. London, Putnam, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 251 pages. B&w illustrations. Spotting to edges. Light wear to cover edges. Chipping, wear, rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 851911


Price: $12.00 

 

Four Tales


Zelide

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Roughly cut edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Light edgewear and damp stain to front cover

Record # 851960


Price: $12.00 

 

Various Fragments


Spencer, Herbert

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 209 pages. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Light foxing to endpapers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 852000


Price: $18.00 

 

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq.


Braybrooke, Richard Lord (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 815 pages. Green cloth covers w/gilt lettering on spine. Light edgewear to covers. Residue on endpapers. Small stain on fore-edge. Else clean and tight.

Record # 852077


Price: $12.00 

 

Mens Creatrix: An Essay


Temple, William

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, Reprint, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 367 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and tear and fading. Minor pencil underlining throughout prologue and first chapter. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852322


Price: $15.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering and minor fraying on spine edge. Dust jacket is faded and has small tears on edges. Inside is nice and clean. Written by a Professor of the United States Naval Academy. Diverse topics include poetry, pirates, plays and oceanography.

Record # 852487


Price: $40.00 

 

Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science


Hayles (Ed.), N. Katherine

Paperback. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852653


Price: $12.00 

 

Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature


Jackendoff, Ray

Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Crisp, clean copy in great condition.

Record # 852654


Price: $18.00 

 

Pictures and Legends from Normany and Brittany


Macquoid, Thomas & Katharine, Illust. by: Thomas R. Macquoid

Hardcover. Piccadilly, Chatto and Windus, 1st, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages, plus 36 pages of list of books from publisher. Gilt decorated cover, title on spine and top edge. With 34 illustrations by Thomas R. Macquoid. Previous owner's signature on front front fly leaf, corner and edge wear. Slight foxing throughout and faded spine. Otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 852829


Price: $50.00 

 

Books of the Sea: An Introduction to Nautical Literature.


Lewis, Charles Lee

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, United States Naval Institute, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some wear to corners and edges. Residue from sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise inside is bright and clean. A tight copy.

Record # 853017


Price: $35.00 

 

Shady Side, The: or, Life in a Country Parsonage


N.A.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, John P. Jewett and Company, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, No author name given, but referred to as a "Pastor's Wife." 348 pages. Green cloth cover, embossed design, beveled edges. Cloth faded on spine, some wear to edges and corners. Some foxing on front and rear pages, very light foxing on some places throughout. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and title page. A nice copy.

Record # 853124


Price: $20.00 

 

Berkshire Fields, In.


Eaton, Walter Prichard, Illust. by: Walter King Stone

Hardcover. Boston, W. A. Wilde Company, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated by Walter King Stone. 312 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt design, wear to corners and edges. Shadowing on front and rear endpages. Ex-library sticker on front endpage. Inside pages are bright and clean, many b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 853245


Price: $20.00 

 

Anchors Aweigh!: Tales of Wooden Ship Days


Swan (editor), Oliver G.

Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 235 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and tear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853401


Price: $20.00 

 

Fabre's Book of Insects


Stawell, Mrs. Rodolph, Illust. by: E. J. Detmold

Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Company, 1st thus, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, with 12 tissue guarded color plates by Detmold throughout and gilt decorated cover and titles. Retold by Stawell from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's "Souvenirs Entomologiques". Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, minor corner and edge wear and fray, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 853727


Price: $60.00 

 

Into the Unknown: The Evolution of Science Fiction from Francis Godwin to H. G. Wells


Philmus, Robert M.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 174 pages. Minor foxing on edges and dust jacket edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853740


Price: $12.00 

 

T. H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake


Huxley (Editor), Mrs. Julian

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st US, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages, with sketches by Huxley and maps. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 853865


Price: $30.00 

 

Diary of Anais Nin, The


Stuhlmann (Editor), Gunther

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 357 pages, with photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853963


Price: $12.00