New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Drawings by Wilfred Jones. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase with paper spine label. 977pp. Small chapter opening wood engravings. Near fine/very good. Early (not first) printing, tight and handsome. Lovely pair of this continuation of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Hardcover. Illustrations by J.J. Lankes. 8vo. Green decorated cloth with gold foil spine label. vi, 225pp, (1p), (4pp ads). Two-color woodcut frontispiece, numerous small woodcuts, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear only, else internally tight and near fine. Attractive first edition of this..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1943]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Paul Laune. Small 8vo. Tan pebble-grain cloth with brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 212pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, orange pictorial Gretta endpapers. Very good/very good. Text block lightly, evenly age toned as typical of war-time paper, with bit of whitish..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering. 324pp. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight, nice early printing of one of the "Haycraft Queen Cornerstone" titles -- with unusual autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf is a heavy stock 5" X 3"..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1948. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards with blue spine lettering. 224pp. Very good. Mild binding edgewear and faint sunning, else internally near fine. Truly tight and quite attractive first edition of this collection of seven crime noir short stories by Cornell Woolrich -- Irish..... More
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896. Hardcover. 4to. Original full pebble-grained black leather on bevelled boards, heavily blind-embossed and with gilt Illinois outline; inner dentelles. 548pp. All edges gilt. Numerous full-page steel engraved portraits. Very good. Minor edgewear; expertly rebacked in leather at some point, with original gilt spine laid..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929. Hardcover. 4to, Original blue buckram. xxxv, 785pp. Very good. Some faint pencil underlining shadows in the opening text pages; rear inner hinge a tad delicate, but sound. First edition, tight and nice, of this famed bibliography. Editors W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill and Archibald Mallach open..... More
Richmond: The Whig Book and Job Office, 1862. Paperback. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 32pp. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only). Wear at head and foot of spine, with minor discoloration at bottom of rear wrapper. Scarce first edition of this lengthy tirade denouncing the North and defending..... More
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London: C. Roworth, 1802. Hardcover. 12mo. Modern brown cloth rebind with burgundy leather spine label. 407pp. Very good. Modern binding of course fine and pristine; some age toning about the edges of the title page; original text block clean and quite handsome. First edition, tight and handsome. Ritson (1752-1803) was..... More
Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., 1811. Hardcover. Small 4to. Rebound in quarter black calf with gilt spine and marbled paper over boards. 164pp. Marbled edges. Near fine/very good. Handsome newer binding near fine, with just a couple of quite minor scuffs; text block lightly, evenly age toned, with a blind-embossed..... More
N.p. J. & G.S. Gideon, 1848. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 8pp. Very good. Slightest of age toning. Political intrigue in which this Connecticut representative (1791-1884) defends his actions at the Whig presidential convention against attacks made by another delegate (Blunt), maintaining that he was not a Henry Clay puppet. Indeed not..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, gilt spine lettering. ix, 538pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, 2 foldout maps at rear, pictorial endpapers. Very good. A bit drab and rubbed, with mild edgewear (mainly at head and tail of spine) and bit of cloth rippling on front board;..... More
New York: Covici, Friede, 1929. Hardcover. Translation and introduction by J.U. Nicolson. Illustrations by Alexander King. Small 4to. Complete 2-volume set. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jackets. 899pp. Top edges gilt. Sepia-tone frontispieces,full-page sepia-tone illustrations. Very good/very good. Faint bit of edgewear only. An exceptionally tight and attractive..... More