[New York?]: B. F. Jay & Co. Publishers, (1942). 1st printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/artist. Unpaginated, though 48 pages. Laid-in, a piece of letterhead stationery, "The GREMLINS will get you if you don't WRITE SOON! [gremlin drawing to the left]. Each entry illustrated, for a total of 22... More about GEMLIN AMERICANUS. A Scrap Book Collection of Gremlins
[Hollywood, California]: Privately Printed, [1937]. 1st edition thus. 16 pp. 8vo. 7" x 5" [18 cm x 13 cm]. Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The Adam & Eve story, rendered into verse. Place & year of publication from OCLC, see 13356679. More about The FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Lord Byron's Suppressed Poem
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, (n. d.). Later edition, ca 1870. 547, [4] - 16 pp. Text double column. Publisher adverts last 13 pages. 2 plates preced title page. 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering. '... the most famous novel about the law...' - Wolff. More about TEN THOUSAND A YEAR. A Novel
London: Constable & Company Limited. 1923. 1st trade Edition (Kirtpatrick A6), reputedly preceded by "twenty-five copies sent out as travellers' samples" xxiii, [1 (blank)], 196, [4] pp. Crown 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5". Gray/blue cloth binding, blue lettering to top board and back strip. Dust jacket. More about The DOVES' NEST And Other Stories
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973. Reprint. 124 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More about THOMAS PAINE: A Bibliographical Check List of COMMON SENSE With an Account of Its Publication
Mercer Island WA: Starmont House Inc., 1989. 1st edition. xv, [1 (blank)], 184 pp (including Index). 4to. Pictorial composition hardback binding. Issued without jacket. More about The ARKHAM HOUSE COMPANION: Fifty Years of Arkham House.; A Bibliographical History and...
London: MacMillan and Co., 1866. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 937). 2 volumes (viii, 365, [3]; viii, [2] pp). 2 pages of adverts conclude each volume. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth bindings with gilt stamping (professionally rebacked). Each volume with a tan cloth clamshell case. More about HEREWARD The WAKE, "Last of the English". In Two Volumes
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 1st trade edition (NCBEL III, 890; Sadleir 1692). Not in Wolff. 3 volumes: 8vo. Original publisher's olive-green morocco cloth with gilt stamped spine & decorative band stamped in black. More about The EGOIST. A Comedy in Narrative
Brooklyn: 1st Casualty Press, (1972). 1st edition. 119 pp, 8vo. Green wrappers. Poetry by the veterans, including author of The Short Timers, Gustav Hasford. A scarce early work. More about WINNING HEARTS And MINDS: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. 1st trade edition (Crane A16.i). [8], 303, [1 (publisher colophon)] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's green linen cloth binding with printed paper title labels to spine & front board. No dust jacket. The much-hyped typos [P. 20 & 57] touted as first edition issue... More about DEATH COMES For The ARCHBISHOP
London: The Richards Press, 1951. 1st Edition thus (Goldstone & Sweetser 20j & 21g). 307, [1] pp. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. 8vo. Original publisher's brick red cloth binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Red topstain. Printed grey paper dust jacket. Contains "Far Off Things" and "Things Near and... More about The AUTOBIOGRAPHY Of ARTHUR MACHEN.; With an Introduction by Morchard Bishop and with Three...
New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). Reprint. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over printed pictorial green cloth boards. Lacks slipcase. More about The RIME Of The ANCIENT MARINER.; With an Introduction by John Livingston Lowes
New York: The Heritage Press, (1945). 1st edition thus, i.e., with the Angelo illustrations. Cf. VALENTIA ANGELO [BCC: 1976, pp. 64-65]. [3] - 51 pp. Printed french-fold. Each page with yellow & orange decorative border. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering... More about SALOME. A Tragedy in One Act.; Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas...
London: Printed for D. Midwinter .... 1756. 1st edition thus (NCBEL I, 1655). 7 volumes. LIst of Subscribers in Volume I. This set adds "The Case is Altered" in Vol. VII. Copperplate frontis engraving of Jonson in Volume I. 10 copperplate engravings. 8vo. Period full brown calf bindings with maroon... More about The WORKS Of BEN. JONSON. In Seven Volumes.; Collated with All the Former Editions, and...
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London: Nattali and Bond, Bedford Street, 1855. Later editions. [4], 272; [4], 277, [1 (blank)]; [4], 279, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated in color by T. Rowlandson. Volume I: frontis, engraved t.p. with vignette, 29 inserted & numbered plates, b/w tailpiece p. 272; Volume II: frontis & 23 inserted plates; Volume... More about The FIRST [SECOND THIRD] TOUR Of DOCTOR SYNTAX, In Search of the Picturesque [of Consolation; of...
London: Edward Moxon, 1846. Later edition. 7 volumes. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 12mo. Period maroon half-calf with marbled boards, edges & eps. Spines extra gilt, with maroon & dark green spine labels. More about The POETICAL WORKS. In Seven Volumes. A New and Revised Edition
London: George Allen, 1900. Fifteenth Thousand. x, [2], 270, [2 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Tan full calf binding, with gilt stamped lettering to spine. AEG. More about The QUEEN Of The AIR:; Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol; F. and C. Rivington; ... By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleverland-Row, St. James's. 1805. 1st Edition. 4 volumes: clix, [1 (blank)], 343, [1 (blank)]; 520; 590, [2]; [2], 589, [1 (errata)] pp. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I. 8vo. Original publishers green half-morocco, with marbled boards, edges & eps. More about The PLAYS Of PHILIP MASSINGER, In Four Volumes.; With Notes Critical and Explanatory, by W....
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. 1791. 1st edition, 1st issue (Grolier 100 ENGLISH, #65; Pottle 79). 2 volumes: xii, [16], 516, [2 (blank)]; [4], 586, [2], 42 pp. Vol II, p 585 misnumbered 587; 586 as 588. Other mispaginations [see Pottle]. Vol I, p.... More about The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in...
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1924. 1st UK edition (BAL 7985). 2 volumes. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 6". Dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale blue dust jackets printed in dark blue. "Miscellanies contains a collection of articles and stories written by Lafcadio Hearn before he went to... More about MISCELLANIES.; Articles and Stories Now First Collected by Albert Mordell
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1902. 1st edition (BAL 7938; Perkins, pp. 45-46). vii, [3], 251, [3] pp. Adverts last two pages. Title page in 3rd state. Illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. 8vo. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering/cover device. TEG. Dust jacket, which replicates binding design. Uncommon in jacket. More about KOTT . Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
New York: Will H. Coleman, No. 70 Business Quarter, Astor House, 1885. 1st edition, Third Printing, State A (BAL 2340/7915; Howes C574; Perkins, pp 8 - 10). Per Perkins, "Second issue" [4], 324 pp. 2 page index at rear. Final gathering State A. Chapter XL, pp. 293 - 299 by... More about HISTORICAL SKETCH BOOK And GUIDE To NEW ORLEANS And Environs. With Map.; Illustrated with Many...
London: John Murray, 1930. Reprint, first published in 1909. 2 volumes: xxix, [3], 538; xii, 576 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More about The MEDICI
New Rochelle: Published for The Critic Company by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. 1st printing. Pp 309 - 318. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-7/8". Original publisher's buff paper covers printed in red & black. Krebhbiel was the dedicee for Hearn's work, "Some Chinese Ghosts" More about LETTERS Of A POET To A MUSICIAN. Lafcadio Hearn to Henry E. Krehbiel.; [as published in] The...
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press]. 1930. 1st edition (BAL 8015; Magee 133). Limited to 350 cc. [8], 110, [2] pp. Facsimile photograph, 3 facsimile letters, 2 facsimile leaflets, captioned tissue guards for each. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Green quarter cloth over burnt orangish boards. Printed paper title label to spine. More about HEARN And His BIOGRAPHERS.; The Record of a Literary Controversy. Together with a Group of...
