London: Golden Cockerel Press, [1937]. Hardcover. Introduction and notes by Owen Rutter. Illustrations by Lynton Lamb. Complete 2-volume set. Tall 4to. Brown, beige and green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 435pp, 259pp. Four wood engravings (two across each two-page title pages). Very good. Bindings a tad corner and edgeworn and..... More

The younger brother of poet William Cullen Bryant was an Illinois poet, farmer, politician and newspaper editor; his books of verse include "Poems Written from Youth to Old Age, 1824-1884" (1885) and "The Life and Poems of John Howard Bryant" (1894). AQS, 1p, 5" X 8", Princeton, Illinois, 1895 May..... More

This Ohio democratic politician served that state as congressman (1918-21) and as their 53rd governor (1935-39). TMS, 4pp (onion skin sheets), 8½" X 13 3/4", n.p., 1935 March 9. Very good. Small paper clip rust mark at upper left of first page. Original single-spaced typescript of the Ohio governor's irate..... More

New York: Random House, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 421pp. Very good. Minor edgewear and minor sunning of spine. First edition, a later state not in the black cloth. Tight and clean, with the handsome color title page. More

This Austrian painter, sculptor and printmaker was a surrealist who has been described as "the first psychoanalytical painter," but it is for co-founding the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the late 1950s together with Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter and several others that he's best remembered. Color PS, 4" X...... More

New York: S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr., 1861. Folio (15¼" X 12¼", image area 14" X 11½"). Hand colored. Very good. Mild age toning. Attractive, clean-edged example of this pleasingly-colored multi-state map, from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans..... More

[New York]: The American Mercury, 16 April 1926. Paperback. 8vo. Green wrappers. (6pp). Fair plus. Actually a decent example of this remarkably fragile production, printed on thin limp stock -- which explains its exceptional scarcity, for its poor production quality assured a low survival rate. While fairly attractive and even..... More

This major Norwegian soprano debuted in 1907 at the National Theatre, but it was at La Scala in 1924 under Toscanini that her career took off, making her a favorite at the Paris Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. ANS, 2pp, heavy stock 5½" X 3 3/4", Paris, France, 1929 December..... More

London: John Lane, [1927]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxviii, 499pp; xvii, 730pp. Frontispieces, full-page plates, line drawings. Very good. Faintest edgewear only. A tight and lovely set of this large edition, limited to 4300 numbered sets..... More

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1923. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering, rules and medallion. xxvii, 388pp. Top edge gilt. Foldout frontispiece map, illustration. Very good. Quite light edgewear only, else internally near fine. Tight and most attractive copy of the 21st..... More

The man whose knee bones were the largest diameter of his leg and weighed fifty-two pounds was a popular Barnum circus attraction. Scarce "Mr Isaac W Sprague / The Living Skeleton" in a shaky hand on a 4 3/4" X 2" slip, n.p., n.d. Very good. Minor mounting traces on..... More

Philadelphia: Thomas Hunter, Publisher, 1876. Hardcover. Wide small 8vo. Brick cloth over bevelled boards with gilt and black lettering and decorations. viii, (2pp), (ca. 200pp). Numerous tinted lithographs and floor plans, map. Very good. Tight and internally near fine, with only a bit of rubbing and mild binding edgewear, mainly..... More