PASSIVITY PROGRAM.
Chicago. The Argus Book Shop, Inc., 1939. 1st Edition. 27 pp. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" Decorative boards.
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A DAUGHTER Of The SIOUX.; A Tale of the Indian Frontier.
New York. The Hobart Company. 1903. 1st Edition. 306 pp. Eight black and white illustrations including frontis (all accounted for). 7-1/2" x 5". Red cloth, gilt lettering to upper board and back strip, colored pictorial onlay to upper board.
COLLECTED POEMS.
London. The Caravel Press. 1953. 1st Edition. Limited to 380 copies of which this is unnumbered. 71 pp. Four wood-engravings and decorations by Guy Worsdell (1908-1978). 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" Teal cloth boards, stamped in gilt to upper boards and back strip, TEG, decorative end papers, color wood engravings.
NOBLE BLOOD: A Prussian Cadet Story And A WEST POINT PARALLEL: An American Cadet Story.; Translated from the German of Ernest Von Wildenbrugh of the German Army By Charles King, U. S. Army, and Anne Williston Ward.
New York. F. Tennyson Neely. The Union News Edition Company. 1896. 1st Edition. [2 blank], [ii], 4, [1], 8-211, [3 ads] pp. 6-1/2" x 4". Blue cloth, pictorial boards, red, black and white lettering/illustration, TEG. Pencil marking reads "Pennsylvania R Road Feb 10th 1897 S N Soule(sp?)"
The COUNTRY Of WHITE CLOVER.
London. Michael Joseph. 1952. 1st Edition. 190 pp. Drawings by Broom Lynne. 8-2/8" x 5-1-4". Beige, cloth boards, stamped in maroon and gilt to upper board and back strip, pictorial end papers, black and white drawings throughout.
The CRUISE Of The BREADWINNER.
London. Michael JOseph Ltd., 1946. 1st Edition. 63 pp. Pictorial end papers. 8" x 5-1/4" Black cloth, small vignette (on upper board) and lettering (back strip) stamped in silver, brown pictorial end papers.
KITTY FOYLE.
Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1939. 1st Edition. [340] pp. 8-1/4" x 6". 8-1/4" x 6". Teal cloth, stamped in white to upper board and back strip, tan end papers, in original dust jacket. Inscription reads "M. M. - Frank. F. --and C. M. - Oct 1939"
LARA, A Tale. JACQUELINE, A Tale.
London: John Murray, 1814. 1st edition (Wise. BYRON I, p. 101). [8], 128, [4] pp. Last 4 pages a publisher book list. 8vo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/4". Original blue paper boards, with later respining to period with buff paper spine. Modern printed paper spine label. Published anonymously; "Lara" was written by...
The HAUNTED BOOKSHOP.
New York. Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, 1919. Reprint. [2], [viii], 289 pp. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Black and teal cloth wrapped boards, stamped in gilt to back strip, in original dust jacket.
STREAMLINES.
Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1936. Stated First Edition. 290 pp. Frontis. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Gray cloth wrapped boards, red design on upper and lower board, stamped in gilt and red to back strip, red ink stained top edge, in original dust jacket. Book shop label...
FLAIR. Vol. 1, No. 12. January, 1951.
New York: Cowles Magazines, 1951. 1st Printing. 120 pp. Illustrated, with some in color. Folio. 13" x 9-3/4". Original printed paper covers.
The POWDER Of SYMPATHY.
Garden City/ New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1923. 1st Edition. (10,000 copies printed) Cf. Lee, 35. SIGNED. xii, [xiii-xiv], 304 pp. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Orange boards, brown cloth back strip, upper board has green label (black lettering), back strip stamped in gilt. Colorful, pictorial, original dust jacket...
JOURNAL Of KATHERINE MANSFIELD.
London. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1927. 1st Edition. (Kirpatrick, A9);. [xvi], [252] pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Gray buckram boards, navy blue lettering to upper board and back strip.
BETWEEN The LINES.
New York. B. W. Dodge & Company, Publishers, 1888. Reprint. [ii], 312, [4 blank], pp. Two black and white illustrations, including frontis. 7-1/2" x 5". Green cloth wrapped boards, dark green and white lettering to upper board and back strip, Inscription reads "Memorial Ref'd S. S. Feb. 5, 1905."
SOMETHING CHILDISH And OTHER STORIES.
London. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1924. 1st Edition. 2nd issue. "First Published, 1924" on verso of title page. Only 34 copies of the first issue, very rare. [x], [259] pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Gray buckram boards, navy blue lettering to upper board and back strip. Label reads "The Holliday Bookshop 49E 49th St., New York"
STARLIGHT RANCH And OTHER STORIES Of ARMY LIFE On The FRONTIER.
Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1890. 1st Edition. 260, [4 ads] pp. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4. Blue cloth wrapped boards, stamped in black with gilt lettering to upper board and backstrip with brown end papers.
PORTRAIT Of NEW YORK.
London. B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1948. 1st Edition. viii, 135 pp. Illustrated. 9" x 6". Gray cloth boards, red lettering to back strip, black and white photographs throughout. Inscription reads "Elaine Benesford 169, Chelsea Cloisters. S. W. 3."
The SEAGULL On The STEP.
London. Faber and Faber. 1955. 1st Edition. Signed by author. 277 pp. 7-1/2" x 5". Blue publishers cloth, white lettering to back strip, in dust jacket.
ANECDOTES Of SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.; During the Last Twenty Years of His Life.
London: Printed for T. and J. Allman, 1826. "A New Edition" viii, 237, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-5/8". Original drab paper boards, with later respining, with original printed paper title label re-affixed.
BEECHENBROOK; A Rhyme of the War.
Baltimore: Published by John B. Piet, (1866). Seventh Thousand. iv, [2], 9 - 106 pp. Head- tailpieces. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8". Original publisher's grey-green cloth binding with gilt stamping.
HEARTBREAK HOUSE, GREAT CATHERINE, And PLAYLETS Of The WAR.
New York: Brentano's, 1919. 1st edition (Laurence A149). lv, [1 (blank)], 295, [1 (blank)] pp. Partially unopened. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Green cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. No dust jacket.
The ANNUAL.; Being a Selection from the Forget-Me-Nots, Keepsakes and other Annuals of the Nineteenth Century.
London: Cobden - Sanderson. Printed at the Shenval Press. (n. d.). 1st edition, trade issue (Cross B.6), ca 1930. x, [6], 296 pp. Sackville-West's Introduction pp. i - x. Illustrated. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed green paper-wrapped boards, after the 19th C. style. Pale yellow eps.
OBSERVATIONS, ANECDOTES, And CHARACTERS, Of BOOKS And MEN.; Arranged with Notes by the Late Edmund Malone, Esq.
London: John Murray, 1820. 1st edition thus. viii, 302 pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". Period dark green half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. Speckled red edges. From the extract affixed to the preliminary pages, it was speculated there were two mss of Spence's ANECDOTES, one used to print this edition...
The SHAKESPEAREAN CIPHERS EXAMINED.; An Analysis of Cryptographic Systems Used as Evidence That Some Author Other Than William Shakespeare Wrote the Plays Commonly Attributed to Him.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957. 1st edition, SIGNED by both Authors, and dated in the year of publication. xvi, [2], 302, [2] pp (including Index). 8vo. Grey cloth binding. Red, white & black dust jacket.
FANTASTIC FABLES.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1899. 1st edition, 1st printing (BAL 1120; Wright III, 522). xi, [1 (blank), 194, [4] pp. 4 pages of adverts at rear, beginning with works by Anna Fuller. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-3/8". Yellowish cloth, with blue, red black & gilt stamping (BAL Binding 1), designed by F. Berkeley Smith.