Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, 1969. Hardcover. 4to. Coarse cream cloth with inset leatherette spine with gilt lettering and inset leatherette front board label bearing gilt Hemingway portrait, similarly bound slipcase with identical leatherette label. xiv, 343pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, color pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of slipcase edgewear..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Translation by Frances Winwar. Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Decorations by T.M. Cleland. Complete 2-volume set. Terra cotta cloth with gilt-lettered black calf spine labels. xiii, 382pp. Numerous small woodcuts. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. A bright, tight, lovely pair of this celebrated 14th..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1941]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 284pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn, with chip at tail of spine. A tight, attractive first edition of this "new mystery" penned pseudonymously by the incredibly prolific Frank Gruber (1904-69)..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 102pp. Near fine/ very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with a few tiny edge chips and spine slightly age toned; toned area to front endpaper from long-ago newsprint contact. Quite..... More
New York: William Farquhar Payson, [1931]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Coarse canvas-like tan cloth with green lettering and brown pictorial stamping. xii, 126pp. Captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece, extensive full-page plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Binding (only) a bit age toned, else internally tight and near fine. A handsome first edition of this..... More
London: The Bodley Head, [1967]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth spine with gilt lettering and green patterned paper over boards, acetate jacket. 188pp. Fine/fine. Lacks the often-absent tissue wrapper. Superbly tight and handsome first edition of this short story collection, limited to 500 numbered copies (this #322) signed by Greene..... More
This American supervised numerous memorable structures as Illinois state architect; he designed many Art Deco and Arts & Crafts style buildings in Chicago, and in 1933 joined forces with the Burnham Brothers to create Burnham and Hammond. TLS, 1p, 7¼" X 9½", Washington, DC, 1929 August 1. Addressed to Waldemer..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Near fine/good plus. Jacket mildly edgeworn but with homely 2" X 2" chip to front panel upper right and ½" chip at rear panel upper left. Tight and quite nice first edition, with..... More
Milwaukee: E.M. Hale and Company, (1939). Hardcover. Foreword by Hamlin Garland. Illustrations by Ozzie Johnson. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt. 570pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Near fine. A superb and tight first edition of this collection of essays about notable Wisconsinites -- the closing Chapter XXXII, titled "Sculpturing Day Dreams," profiles Clarence..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 12mo and folio. Quarter tan cloth with gilt-lettered green calf spine labels and marbled paper over boards, 2-compartment slipcase with paper spine label. xxiv, 394pp; 6pp, (ca. 50pp). Numerous illustrations (Volume II only)..... More
Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring's Assistant Secretary of War (1937-40) felt betrayed when President Roosevelt didn't appoint him to the cabinet after Woodring's resignation in 1940 -- but when President Truman's first Secretary of Defense (James V. Forrestal) resigned in 1948 he became this country's second Secretary of Defense..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, [1895]. Hardcover. 16mo. Teal blue cloth spine with extensive gilt lettering and decorations and pink/gold patterned paper over boards. 268pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, full-page plates, numerous smaller graphics. Very good. Boards mildly edgeworn, else tight and internally lovely; quaint Christmas 1895 nonauthorial gift..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., [1960]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with silver spine lettering. xviii, 778pp. Very good. Faintest edgewear. A tight and nice first edition of this hefty biography -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed..... More
AM (unsigned), 19pp (recto and verso), 4 3/4" X 7 3/4", n.p., n.y. [ca. 1870s?]. Very good. Bit of faint age toning and old folds (neither strong nor weakened). Quite attractive and frustratingly cryptic unsigned Autograph Manuscript, two-punched at top and string-tied with original pink ribbon. Fascinating firsthand recollections of..... More
"Omori's law" regarding the aftershock rate of earthquakes was developed by this pioneering Japanese seismologist, the second chairman of seismology at the Imperial University of Tokyo who conducted much critical early research on the cause and prediction of earthquakes and invented one of the first seismographs; he did much research..... More
This many-titled Spanish general -- 1st Count of Reus, 1st Marquess of los Castillejos, 1st Viscount of Bruch -- led a varied, colorful career in which he became governor of Madrid, captain-general of Puerto Rico and other exploits in Morocco, Mexico and elsewhere before becoming prime minister of Spain and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. vii, 496pp. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. A wonderfully tight and attractive first edition of the second novel by this popular, prolific potboiler novelist -- a drama about early Hollywood..... More
Denver: World Press, Inc., [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth with red lettering, dust jacket. viii, 200pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine slightly sunned, as usual; outer page edges a bit spotted. A lovely first edition of the only biography written about one of Billy the Kid's partners in crime..... More
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1930. Hardcover. 4to and 8vo (respectively). Quarter vellum with gilt lettering and beige paper over boards, 2-compartment slipcase with paper spine label. xxxv, 29pp; 32pp. Facing frontispieces. Near fine/very good. Both volumes with pristine spine and typically age toned boards, per usual, else tight and..... More
New Orleans: Price Current Print, 1868. Paperback. 16mo. Original printed stiff grey wrappers. 125pp. Good plus. Wrappers rather soiled and age toned, with a number of chips near the head of the spine. First edition of this quite scarce travel account, most difficult to find in original wrappers. Hearing that..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 187pp. Black cloth spine with paper label and green/red patterned paper over boards, slipcase with paper labels. Near fine/good plus. Front pastedown ownership signature; while slipcase is complete, strong and fairly attractive, it has been expertly and archivally restored and strengthened..... More
New Haven: J.M. Patten, 1842. Hardcover. 8vo. Three-quarter red leather with gilt spine lettering and decorative paper over boards. 54pp. Very good. Mild bit of edgewear; last few pages age toned. First edition and apparently this minister's first appearance in print. Three discourses by the controversial pastor of the Chapel..... More
The Baseball Hall of Famer (elected 1966) played outfield for the Boston Red Sox (1939-42, 1946-60) and was the last major leaguer to bat over .400. Color PS, 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. Fine. Modern high-quality glossy print of an early pose showing Williams half-length in Red Sox uniform and..... More
New York: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1863. Hardcover. Edition revised by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Complete 5-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and marbled paper over boards. xxxii, 486pp; xxxvi, 432pp; xvi, 469pp; xxii, 468pp; xxxii, xii, 465pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers..... More