London: Martin Secker, [1922]. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 49; NCBEL IV, 646). [4], 308, [4 (adverts last 3 pages)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's black buckram cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain. More about The SECRET GLORY
London: Martin Secker, 1923. 1st edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 175, [1] pp. Unopened. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's lime green cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Green topstain. More about THINGS NEAR & FAR
Indianapolis. The Art Press. 1915. 1st Printing. 30 pp. One illustration on upper wrapper. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Light tan wrappers stapled, black lettering, now housed in a mylar sleeve. The Flying Squadron was a temeperance organization who toured around the U.S. to promote a temperace platform. Slipped inside is a.... More about "TRIAL Of JOHN BARLEYCORN".; From Speeches of The Flying Squadron
Toronto, Canada & Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co., 1894. 1st Printing. [65], 66 - 94 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4". Red paper wrappers, black lettering, stapled, now housed in a mylar sleeve. A picture of Mrs. Mary S. Henry to title leaf. More about The INTERNATIONAL GOOD TEMPLAR. March, 1984 {typo, reads 1894 on title leaf}. Vol. VII., No. 2.;...
Toronto, Canada & Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co., 1894. 1st Printing. 64 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4". Red paper wrappers, black lettering, stapled, now housed in a mylar sleeve. A picture of Rev. John Cairns to title leaf. More about The INTERNATIONAL GOOD TEMPLAR. February, 1894. Vol. VII., No. 2.; Our Principles: Abstinence...
London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1819. 8 volumes. Frontis in Volume I. 8vo. Period black half-calf binding with marbled paper boards, edges & eps. Spine gilt decorated, with maroon title label in second compartment, volume label in 4 compartment. "The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison... More about The SPECTATOR. In Eight Volumes.; New Edition, Carefully Corrected from the Originals, with...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. 1st US Edition (NCBEL IV, 646). 170, [6] pp. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/8". Original publisher's yellow cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. Green & yellow patterned paper eps. More about The LONDON ADVENTURE. An Essay in Wandering
Westminster: Imprinted for Francis Griffiths, and Published at the Sign of the Griffin, 1906. 1st edition (Danielson, p. 33). [4], 141, [11] pp. 10 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/8". Brown quarter cloth over printed light brown paper wrapped boards. Gilt stamped spine lettering. From Machen... More about DR. STIGGINS: His Views and Principles. A Series of Interviews
London: The Classic Press, 1924. 1st edition thus, "Autographed Edition". #72 / 300 cc SIGNED by the author. [4], 63, [1 (blank)] pp. Unopened. Frontispiece of the author. Sketches by Joseph Simpson, R.B.A. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's vellum spine over light purple cloth boards. Gilt stamped title to... More about STRANGE ROADS
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1923. 1st UK edition thus (cf. BAL 7974n). ix, [3], 432, [2 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Hearn's lectures [ca 1896 - 1902] on Rossetti, Swinburne, Browning, Morris, Meredith ["his having written ... one of the greatest fables"], Buchanan, & Bridges. More about PRE-RAPHAELITE And Other Poets. Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn.; Selected and Edited with an...
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, [1927]. 1st edition (BAL 7999). 140 pp. Color frontis, and 10 inserted plates. Japanese colophon tipped in. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2 x 5-1/8 in. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. TEG. Dust jacket. William Blake the subject of two of the 11 essays contained herein. More about SOME STRANGE ENGLISH LITERARY FIGURES Of The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.; Edited by R....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. 2nd edition. Cf. NCBEL III, 936 for the 1st edition issued the year prior. iv, 306, [2 (blank)]; iv, 300 pp. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine, and boards blocked in blind. Pale yellow eps. More about ALTON LOCKE, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography. In Two Volumes
Philadelphia: R. DeSilver, 1827. 1st US edition (American Imprints 29417). 2 volumes (201; 240 pp). Untrimmed. 12mo, in 6s. 7-3/4" x 4-1/2". Original drab boards with printed paper title labels to spine. More about TOWER Of HELVIN: or, The Last of the Beaumanoir.; Translated from the French of M. Keratry,...
Chicago: Covici - McGee Co., 1924. 1st edition (Bleiler, p. 130). [12], 219, [1 (blank)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. No dust jacket. More about The GLORIOUS MYSTERY
London: Duckworth & Co., 1917. 1st edition (Bleiler, p. 130; Danielson, p. 47; Locke I, p. 147). 190, [2] pp. One page advert follows text. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's pale blue paper-wrapped boards, with black lettering. Printed white paper dust jacket. Per Locke, "Science fantasy short novel of sudden hostility... More about The TERROR. A Fantasy
New York: Walter Neale, (1909). Later edition, cf. BAL 1128 for the 1st edition of 1909. 73, [3 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5". Red cloth binding with black stamped lettering. More about WRITE IT RIGHT. A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults
New York: American Tract Society, (1871). Early, if not first, printing. 148, [2 (adverts)] pp. 12mo. 6" x 4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with black & gilt stamping. More about LIFE At THREESCORE And TEN
Cambridge: Washburn & Thomas, 1925. 1st edition thus. 49, [1] pp. Illustrations from Cruikshank's 19th C efforts. 12mo. Black cloth spine over green paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title labels to spine & front board. Printed green paper dust jacket. More about The TRAGICAL COMEDY Or COMICAL TRAGEDY Of PUNCH And JUDY.; With an Introductino by Charles Hall...
[Philadelphia?]: Published Posthumously by the Heirs of the Author, (1930). 1st Printing. [2 (blank)], 20, [2 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with two inserted plates [with the "K" monogram]. 12mo. Original publisher's green cloth binding, stamped in black, with a "K" monogram. "Navel fetishism, belly button fetishism, or alvinophilia is a partialism... More about NAVEL REVUE
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. 1st edition thus. #34 / 1000 cc. [8], 76, [4] pp. Frontispiece. Tall 8vo. Grey buckram cloth spine over black paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title label to front board. Black slipcase. More about The FAMOUS TRAGEDY Of The QUEEN Of CORNWALL At Tintagel in Lyonnesse.; A New Version of an Old...
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1884. 1st UK edition (NCBEL III, 880; Parrish, pp. 271 - 272; Sadleir 2012). Not in Wolff. [4], 296; [4], 312 pp. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's scarlet brocade cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Green floral patterned paper eps. More about A PERILOUS SECRET. In Two Volumes
Cincinnati, Ohio. Lillion H. Phelon. 1926. 1st Edition. 144 pp. Frontis of W. A. Phelon tipped in. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4". Tan cloth, gilt to upper board, brown lettering to upper board and back strip, brown end papers. More about BILL'S BOOK.; Poems from the Writings of W. A. Phelon
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1853. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 879; Parrish, p. 173; Sadleir 1998; Wolff 5703). [4], 334, [2] pp. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & boards stamped in blind. Pale yellow eps. Custom chemise & brown quarter leather slipcase. The author's 2nd novel. More about CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE. A Novel
New York: The Fountain Press / The Cayme Press. Printed by D. B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press. 1930. 1st edition thus. #269 / 552 cc. [8], 34, [4] pp. Publisher slip, detailing printing/performance history, laid-in. Illustrated, in color, by William H. Cotton. Small 4to. 10" x 7-5/8". Red quarter... More about The THREE WAYFARERS. A Play in One Act.; Dramatized from his story, "The Three Strangers"
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1863. 1st US edition thus, i.e., this publisher (Parrish pp. 47-48). [4], [9] - 278, [2] pp. Text double column. 2 pages of Harper adverts follow text. Wood engraved portrait of Collins as frontispiece. Text illustrated throughout with b/w wood engravings by John McLenan... More about NO NAME. A Novel
