The KING'S GRACE. 1910 - 1935.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. 1st edition thus (Hanna 94). 327 pp (including index). Color frontis. Crown 8vo. Linen cloth with blue & red lettering. Dust jacket. More
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LETTERS From BEDFORD PARK: A Selection from the Correspondence (1890 - 1901) of John Butler Yeats. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by William M. Murphy.
Dublin Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1972. 1st edition. #364 / 500 cc. 77 pp. Text block unopened. 8vo. 21.7 cm x 15 cm. Quarter bound in linen cloth with pale blue paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Publisher's plain paper dust wrapper [with "Yeats" faintly written on the..... More
The FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1934. 1st edition (Rader 1432). [1-16], 17- 455, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontis + 11 inserted plates and one folding map. 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Red cloth binding, gilt stamped spine lettering. Red topstain. No dust jacket. More
PRECIS De La GEOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE, Ou DESCRIPTION De TOUTES Les PARTIES Du MONDE.
Bruxelles: LaCrosse Et Cie, Libraires - Editeurs, 1839. Nouvelle edition. 6 volumes (complete). 2 fold-out plates. 8vo. Period brown quarter-leather bindings with complimentary brown marbled boards. Marbled eps. From the library of John Fiske, American Historian & Philosopher, with his bookplate and signature (dated June 1863 - a Harvard graduation..... More
ARABIAN JUBILEE.
New York: The John Day Company, 1953. 1st US edition. xiv, [2], 280 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Green dust jacket. More
The LIFE & TRIAL Of JOHN RANN, Alias Sixteen-String Jack, for Robbery; to Which is Added, A NARRATIVE Of The LIFE & TRIAL Of WILLIAM COX, for Robbery.
[London]: Printed for and Sold by J. Ker, No. 90, High Holborn. Gilbert and Reed, Printers, Finch Lane. Sold also by T. and R. Hughes, Ludgate Hill; Willmott and HIll, 50, Borough; Perks, Stationer, 21, St. Martins Lane; S. Elliott, High Street, Shadwell; Barfoot, Norton Falgate; Dixon, Rochester; T. Evans..... More
GALAHAD. Enough of His Life to Explain His Reputation.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, (1926). 1st edition. 304 pp. Crown 8vo. Black cloth binding with red lettering. Pale red topstain. Dust jacket. A story using the King Arthur tale. More
The PRIVATE LIFE Of HELEN Of TROY.
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, (1925). 1st edition (Smith E-210). 304 pp. Crown 8vo. Black cloth binding with red lettering. Reddish orange topstain. Dust jacket. More
The EVERLASTING MERCY And The WIDOW In The BYE STREET.
New York: MacMillan, 1919. 1st illustrated edition (Handley-Taylor, p. 31). 230 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green decorative cloth with pictorial onlay to front board. White dust jacket. Uncommon in dj. More
An APOLOGY For The LIFE Of MR. COLLEY CIBBER, Comedian and Patentee of the Theatre Royal. Written by Himself; and Interspersed with Characters and Antedotes of his Theatrical Cotemporaries; The Whole Forming a Complete History of the Stage for the Space of Forty Years. With Many Critical and Explanatory Notices; by Edmund Bellchambers.
London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. 1st edition thus, being a New Edition. xxiii, [1 (blank)], 514, vii, [1] pp. 7 page index at rear. Frontispiece. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-1/2". Later 19th C. brown buckram cloth binding with black leather title label to spine. TEG. Cibber a...... More
ROBERT BROWNING Essays and Thoughts.
London: Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W., 1890. 1st Edition. #39 / 75 Large Paper copies, SIGNED by Elkin Mathews. xii, 454, 4 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. 4 page publisher catalogue, dated February 1890, at rear. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's brown buckram cloth with gilt spine..... More
JOHN CASADO. Photographs.
(n. p.): Shelcase Publishing, 2005. 1st edition. Limited to 1000 cc. Unpaginated. Printed french-fold format. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 4to. 12" x 10-1/4". Linen cloth binding. Dust jacket. Publisher's plain cardboard shipping box. Casado "is an American graphic designer, artist and photographer, best known for designing logos for the first..... More
GREEN LEAVES: New Chapters in the Life of Charles Dickens.
London: Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1931. 1st edition thus (NCBEL III, 830). #209 / 535 cc. [8], 123 pp. 10 illustrations, facsimiles, &c. 8vo. 9" x 5-7/8". Original blue-grey paper-wrapped boards with paper title label to spine. No dust jacket. More
COMMISSION APPOINTMENT Twenty Third Regiment of Colored Troops.
1864. Parchment broadside, with mss ink entries for names, unit assignment & date of commission. Masthead eagle. Certificate: 15-3/4" x 9-3/4" Now all housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. This original 1864 Civil War parchment appointment is for John Hoover First Lieutenant of the 23rd Regiment Of Colored Troops..... More
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AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED [ANs]. Addressed to Wm. Vernon, the Newport Merchant.
[Newport RI ?]: 1747. Single sheet, holograph writing to one side, address to recto. Now framed between two pieces of glass, so visible from either side. Typed caption underneath recto & verso. Frame: 14" x 16-7/8". Letter: 7-3/8" x 10-1/8". Modern-ish wooden frame, with gold fillet. "William Vernon, of Newport..... More
SPALDING'S OFFICIAL BASE BALL GUIDE. Sixtieth Year. 1936. Spalding's Athletic Library. No. 100x. Price 35 cents.
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 105 Nassau Street, 1936. 1st printing thus. [4], 321, [15], 64 pp. Adverts throughout. Last section "Official Base Ball Rules". Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. Drawing of baseball diamond. 6-3/4" x 5". White paper covers printed in red & blue. More
TALKING To The MOON.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. 1st edition. 244 pp. 8vo. Linen cloth binding with light blue stamping. Pale red topstain. Light blue dust jacket. More
MR. HEAPHY'S GHOST. The London Artist's Own Version of an Extraordinary Affair: Together with the Correspondence Between Charles Dickens and Mr. Heaphy.
Chicago: Religio - Philosophical Journal, (n. d.). 1st separate printing [presumed], ca 1883. Not in Gimbel. [3] - 10 pp. Text double column. 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Printed wrappers, stapled [probably later]. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. "Of all the remarkable stories of the alleged appearance of ghosts..... More
GOOD LIVING. A Contact Book.
London: Contact Publications LImited, 1948. 1st printing (Sellery & Harris C316, for the Bowen piece). xxviii, 80, xxix - xlvii, [1] pp. Illustrated, with some color. 4to. Hardback. Red & yellow dust jacket. Bowen contributes 'The Forgotten Art of Living', "an essay on what does and does not constitute happiness..... More
The LONG LOVE. A Novel.
New York: The John Day Company, (1949). 1st edition. One of 500 presentation copies for use by the publisher. 128 pp. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
WITH An AMBULANCE On The FIRING LINE.
[New York ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1917 - 1919. Broadsheet, with page numbers at the base of each side, apparently an extract from a magazine. Verso with 2 home styled, Italian & English architecture, designed by John Theodore Hanemann, with blueprintes available from Rayne Adams, The Delineator, New York City..... More
The WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONGRESS. London, 9th to 16th June, 1900.
London: Committee of the National Temperance League, (1900). 1st printing (presumed). 40 pp. Large folding map laid into handmade folder to inside rear board. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Illustrated printed glossy-paper boards. At the time of cataloguing, we find only 1 institutional holding on OCLC (University of Wisconsin, Madison). More
PHILIP The KING.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1927. 1st US Illustrated edition (cf. Handley-Taylor p. 35). SIGNED / Limited Edition, #198 of 375 cc. SIGNED by both the author & the illustrator. 45, [1] pp. Illustrated by Laurence Irving. 11-3/4" x 9". Black cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine..... More
OLIVER MADOX BROWN. A Biographical Sketch. 1855 - 1874.
London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C., 1883. 1st Edition. x, [2], 228, [2 (adverts)] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Brown. Inserted plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original light-blue fine weave cloth binding with gilt stamping. Floral patterned paper eps. Oliver Madox Brown the son of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox..... More