New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 190pp, (2pp). Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly spine sunned, else clean and nice. Quite attractive, tight early (not first) U.S. edition of this comedic play. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 190pp, (2pp). Near fine/very good. Sharp and lovely jacket faintly spine sunned. A handsome, tight first American edition of this comedic play, with all proper points -- plus two choice, relevant autograph additions..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1961]. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Tight and handsome and fine but for faint smiudges along bottom binding edge from old-fasioned black-bordered dust jacket protector (since replaced); faint jacket edgwear and faintly-sunned..... More
Iowa City: The Zetagathian Society, 1911. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt rules and lettering. xii, 248pp (uncut). Top edge gilt. Captioned tissue-guarded frontispiece, 4 captioned tissue-guarded plated. Very good. Homely discoloration at head of spine, else uniformly fine and tight. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies (this #279)..... More
New York: Modern Age Books, [1938]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with brown and blue lettering and pictorial stamping. xxix, 244pp, (5pp ads). Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, small foldout partly-color map on rear pastedown (as issued). Near fine. Endpapers rather age toned per usual. Attractive first edition of this well-illustrated east coast..... More
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 180pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise-superb jacket rather age toned. Handsome first U.S. edition -- tight, sharp. Not often seen in this bright, lovely condition. More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1932. Hardcover. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Small 8vo. Orange cloth spine with gilt lettering and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 83pp. Near fine/very good. Heavy stock jacket spine slightly age toned, else unusually clean and edge-tear free. Exceptionally tight and bright 12th..... More
London: W.H. Allen, 1963. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 365pp, (2pp), (7pp ads). Fine/near fine. Absolutely outstanding, tight and bright first English edition (following the 1952 first American edition) of this memoir by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning American poet..... More
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc., [1982]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine with silver lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 278pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. A superb, tight first edition of this 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about Baker's Virginia childhood, with fine autograph addition: Tipped to..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. Hardcover. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Small 8vo. Orange cloth spine with gilt lettering and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 83pp. Near fine/very good. Heavy stock jacket spine a bit age toned, with several tiny edge chips at extremities. Wonderfully tight and..... More
Paris: Andriveau-Goujon, 1856. 25½" X 33½" folds down to 4¼" X 6 3/4") housed in original 12mo folding case of brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt front board lettering. Very good. Faint folding case edgewear; linen backing moderately age toned, as is map to lesser extent. Later printing of this 1836..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with brown spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 468pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with spine ever-so-faintly sunned. Quite handsome and tight first edition of this (to cite front jacket flap) "historical romance... its theme is the devotion and heroism..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1970. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. xxi, 417pp. Tables, figures. Near fine. Superb, tight and sharp first softbound edition of these twenty essays; contributors include Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Allan G. Bogue, Rodney O. Davis and other notables in the field. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 442pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn. Bright 'n' tight first edition of White's second novel, a thick historical fiction about (to cite front jacket flap) "Alice Collingridge, daughter of a prominent Catholic..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 521pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, mainly at head and tail of age-toned spine. Most handsome first edition of White's first novel, a thick historical novel about Sir Thomas More's final half dozen..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 252pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, a tad rubbed and with archivally closed tear on rear panel -- but complete and overall still appealing. Tight, attractive first..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiv, 460pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine a bit sunned. Tight and nice "New Edition" of these writings first published in 1932 but here with four new contributions. More
N.p. Brittany Press, [1948]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and burgundy paper over boards, dust jacket. xiv, 269pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Quite tight and attractive later printing of this oft-reprinted text, first published in German in 1899. Bloch was the first "sexologist,"..... More
New York: The Modern Library, [1961]. Hardcover. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 783pp. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Uncommon Modern Library Giant (#G52) in outstandingly bright and tight condition. First published in this form in 1940..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with paper labels. 134pp. Very good. Tight and internally fine, with a bit of age toning to spine and rear board. Handsome first edition of this verse collection, nicely inscribed and signed in scratchy blue ink on front flyleaf "For Father..... More
Monpellier, France: Universite Paul Valery, 1980. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wood-grain wrappers. 121pp. Near fine. Tight and attractive issue of this scholarly Romanian studies journal, almost entirely in French and here focused on "Le Merveilleux Dans la Tradition Orale Roumaine (1)." Contributor's copy, for although it does not bear any..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 248pp. Near fine/very good. Unclipped jacket shows light sunning to spine (only), which has small chip at head, but otherwise bright and nice. Handsome first edition, second state, of this celebrated pair that first..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan ribbed paper over boards with brown lettering and rules. 63pp. Good plus. Tight and internally near fine, though binding a tad edgeworn, with abrasion to front board lower right. Tight, fairly attractive firstedition of the first of Eliot's works published..... More
London: Faber & Faber, [1929]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey pictorial paper over boards. 69pp. Very good. Spine age toned and a tad rough, mainly at tail, else attractive -- and internally tight and near fine; endpapers a bit darkened. A nice first edition of Number 2 in this publisher's "The..... More
London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Cream cloth spine with black lettering and terra cotta pictorial paper over boards. ix, 102pp, (9pp ads). Numerous line drawings. Very good. A wonderfully tight and nice second printing (printed later the same month, October, as the first printing) of the 26-year-old Cheston's..... More