PREPOSITIONS. The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky.
New York: Horizon Press, 1968. 1st US Edition. 158, [2] pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. White dust jacket with blue printing. More
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DEEPER INTO The FOREST. Indian Files Books No. 1.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1948. 1st Edition. 76, [4] pp. 8vo. Red cloth spine over grey & yellow patterned paper boards. Dust jacket. More
MARVEL ENCYCLOPEDIA. SPIDERMAN, A To Z. Volume 4.
New York: Marvel Comics, (2003). 1st Printing. 240 pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily in color. Royal 8vo. 11" x 7-3/8". Full color composition binding with large image of Spiderman to front board. Full color glossy paper dust jacket. More
The MAORIS Of NEW ZEALAND.
Christchurch, et al... Whitcome and Tombs Limited, 1910. 1st Edition. xxiv, 356 pp. Illustrated, including map, p. 24. 8vo. Later quarter calf over brown cloth boards. Marbled eps. TEG. More
KINTU. A Congo Adventure.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1935). 3rd Printing. 54, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrated by the author. 8" x 6". Original publisher's green cloth binding with printed yellow paper title onlay to front board. Dust jacket. The author a Newbery Medal winner, in 1938 for her Thimble Summer. More
The RESOURCES Of CALIFORNIA: Comprising Agriculture, Mining, Geography, Climate, Commerce, &cl, and the Past and Future Development of the State.
San Francisco: A. Roman and Company, 1869. 1st printing of the 5th Edition, with an Appendix on Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory. Cf. Howes II, p. 284. xxiii, [1], 504, [8 (adverts)] pp. 12mo 7-5/8" x 5". Original publisher's green pebbled cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering... More
OUR BRIDGES [Cover title].
Moulin - Bardell, (1937). 1st printing (presumed). Unpaginated, though 20 pages [of 24]. 10 columns of text. 23 b/w images, all featuring the 2 bridges, from various aspects & perspectives (including covers). Landscape format: 10-7/8" x 14". Black & white photographically illustrated covers, stapled. More
A TALE Of TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens. Classics Illustrated Featuring Stories by the World's Greatest Authors. No 6.
New York: Gilberton Company, 1968. 47, [1] pp. Profusley illustrated with comic illustrations. 10" x 7". Color illustrated paper wrappers, stapled, with black title lettering to front wrapper. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
TRAVELS Of A CONSULAR OFFICER In EASTERN TIBET.; Together with a History of the Relations Between China, Tibet and India.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1922. 1st Edition. xxiii, [1], 248 pp (including Index). With original maps [including fold-out, in rear pocket] of Eastern Tibet and Photographs Taken by the Author. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Printed white paper dust jacket. "The author of this book..... More
The LIFE Of DAVID C. BRODERICK. A Senator of the Fifties.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1911. 1st edition (Cowan II, p. 401). [13], 246 pp. Frontis + 14 inserted plates. Crown 8vo. 7-7/8" x 5-1/8". Burgundy cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine and board. More
PICKINGS From The PORTFOLIO Of The REPORTER Of The NEW - ORLEANS "PICAYUNE".
Philadelphia: Getz, Buck & Co., 1852. 1st Edition (presumed). 216 pp. Illustrations by Felix O. C. Darley. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-1/2". Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Fairly scarce title, we find no others currently on offer, with OCLC recording just 3 holding institutions. More
HONEY. Poems.
Montreal / New York: A Vehicule / CrossCountry Press Book, 1977. 1st printing of the Revised edition. Unpaginated. Photographic image of the author at rear. 8vo Stiff-stock yellow covers with full color title onlay to front cover. More
On My OWN TWO FEET.
Fredericton, N.B. / London: Published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Printed at the Press of Villiers Publications Ltd., 1973. 1st Printing. 20 pp. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Printed green paper covers, stapled. More
DANIEL WEBSTER, An Oration, by the Hon. Edward Everett, on the Occasionof the Dedicationn of the Statue of Mr. Webster, in Boston, September 17th, 1859. [as published in] The PULPIT And ROSTRUM. Sermons, Orations, Popular Lectures, &c. Phonographically Reported by Andrew J. Graham and Chas. B. Collar.
New York: Published by H. H. Lloyd & Co., 12 Appleton's Building, No. 348 Broadway, 1859. 1st printing thus, i.e., by this publisher. [177] - 210, [2 (adverts)] pp. 7-3/4" x 5". Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers. We are also aware of a Boston edition of this oration, issued..... More
The FIRST EDITIONS Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. Their Points and Values.
New York: Martino, (n. d.). Reprint of the preferred, Revised & Expanded 1932 edition. xvi, [2], 272 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Linen cloth with black spine lettering. Issued without dust jacket. One of the 4 best bibliographies of Dickens' works. Essential to the collector and bookseller. More
CUTTY SARK. Poems.
Kingston, Ontario: The Quarry Press, (1970). 1st edition thus, and apparently 2nd printing overall. [6], 21, [1] pp. "Produced by photo-offset from copy printed at The Basement Cage Press, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, by the students enrolled in English 800, as an exercise in bibliography." 9" x 6". Light..... More
MARTY PANTS. Do Not Open!
(n. p.): HarperCollins, (2017). 6th printing. 250 pp. Illustrated. 8-1/2" x 5-5/8". Blue composition binding with white, black & yellow printing. More
CRANKFORD; or, A Semi - Detached Ghost.
Buxton: John Cumming Bates, "Advertiser" Office, 1880. 1st Edition. Not in Hubin. 56 pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth binding stamped in black, silver & gilt. Pale yellow eps. This a liberally illustrated Victorian crime & mystery novelette, set in a fictional Derby village, written with a extensive use..... More
INTERLINEAR To CABEZA De VACA. His Relation of the Journey from Florida to the Pacific. 1528 - 1536.
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Writers' Editions Inc., (1939). 3rd Printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, SIGNED by Long. [4], 37, [3] pp. Last leaf blank. 12mo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
EARLY DAYS At The MISSION SAN JUAN BAUTISTA.; A Narrative of Incidents Connected with the Days when California was Young.
Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1976. Reprint. 204,, [4 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. Printed yellow paper covers. More
BLACK BEADS.
Nelson, B.C. Printed by Ron Delorme. Published by Parsnip Press, (1977). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 24 pp. Illustrated and designed by Patty Rivard. 8vo. White stiff-stock textured paper covers, stapled. More
F. W. HOWAY A Bibliography
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1982. 1st Seperate Printing. Limited to 200 cc. Unpaginated. Frontispiece photographic image of Howay. 8vo. Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. More
INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY On RACISM & ANTI-SEMITISM.
(n. p.): Printed for Distribution in the United States by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, (n. d.). 1st printing, ca mid-1980s. 316 pp. 10-1/2" x 8-3/8". Printed paper covers. More
THREE MEMOIRS Of MEXICAN CALIFORNIA.; The Friends of the Bancroft Library Keepsake #36.
Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1988. 1st edition thus. 125, [3] pp. Black and white intratextual photographic images throughout. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Maroon printed paper wrappers. More