Chicago: Adlai E. Stevenson III, 2009. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 299pp. Fine/fine. A tight, perfect first edition of this privately published volume. Signed boldly by Stevenson in black fineline on the front flyleaf. More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Designs and illustrations by Allen Lewis. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Silver cloth embossed with chain-mail pattern and orange spine lettering. xxx, 612pp. Frontispieces, numerous 2-page illustrations, small decorations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Superb, tight pair of the first of..... More
London: Methuen & Co Ltd., [1965]. Hardcover. 8vo. Lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 348pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Faintest hint of discoloring at foot of front board, else bright and internally fine; jacket ever-so-faintly age toned; name/address label of U.S. distributor (Vedanta Press) on title..... 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: The Limited Editions Club, [1940]. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward Hutton. Illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt lettering/decorations and grey decorative cloth. xxii, 536pp. Top edge gilt. Numerous small woodcuts. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Quite handsome pair of this celebrated 14th..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1944]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 495pp. Near fine/very good. Bit of irregular age toning from long-ago newsprint contact to front endpaper (only), else tight and bright; jacket lightly edgeworn. Handsome first edition of the third volume..... More
Cincinnati: Faculty Literary Club, 1948. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged by C.N. Catrevas and Jonathan Edwards. Small 4to. Burgundy blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. xxxv, 746pp, xxxiv. 2 illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/good plus. Page edges a bit spotted; jacket a bit edgeworn, with single large chip at spine..... More
San Francisco: N.p., 1911. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and white and ivory and black pictorial front board stamping. 529pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Second, revised and enlarged edition, in exceptionally bright and tight condition. Notes authority Frank Byrne in Nevins, "This work greatly expands, and largely supercedes..... More
St. Louis: Eugene F. Rueweler, n.y. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 9pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this curious little sermon, undated but likely 1960s vintage, apparently self-published by this Protestant pastor. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with gilt lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 275pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition of the folksinger's memoir, tight and handsome -- and nicely signed and inscribed by her large and bold in black fineline..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1986]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. 127pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, map. Near fine. Pastedowns a bit age toned as usual. Handsome, tight first edition of this hands-on, amply-illustrated guide to scores of medieval sites from the extreme north to the far south..... More
New York: Dorset Press, [1985]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth spine with gilt lettewring and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 182pp. Illustrations, 3 maps. Near fine/near fine. A tight and quite nice reprint of the Taplinger Publishing Co. edition of 1976. More
N.p. N.p., n.y. Broadside. 8vo (4 3/4" X 8½"). Near fine. An exceptionally clean 'n' pristine example of this patriotic poem by the noted Philadelphia businessman and poet (1817-85) perhaps best known for the poem "The Sleeping Sentinal," the 1863 tear-jerker that was actually read to the Lincolns in the..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Introduction by William Beebe. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. Linen spine with brown lettering and green decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xvi, 206pp. Color illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slipcase edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Handsome copy of this wildly popular..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Translation by Constance Garnett. Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. Illustrations by Alexander King. Complete 3-volume set. 8vo.Oatmeal linen spines with paper labels and decorative paper over boards. xxix, 408pp; vi, 352pp; vi, 396pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Superb, tight, bright trio of..... More
Barcelona: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Translation and introduction by John Ormsby. Illustrations by Enric C. Ricart. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Burgundy cloth spines with gilt lettering and decorative paper over boards. xxxvi, 506pp; 527pp. Tissue-guarded frontispieces, full-page tissue-guarded illustrations. Near fine. Spines lightly sunned, though gilt lettering bright;..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcover. 24mo. Brown cloth spine and brown pictorial paper over boards. 45pp, (2pp ads). Numerous woodcuts. Very good. Mild edgewear; quaint nonauthorial "From an Ardent / Admirer of the Author" front flyleaf inscription; tiny ownership signature on title page. Tight and internally fine early printing..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, [1987]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 279pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this sequel to the classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- with fine autograph addition: Tipped to..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Dark blue cloth spines with paper labels and blue patterned paper over boards. xi, 790pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Volume I sline head a tad rough; lacks slipcase, else tight and bright;..... More
A scarce 1½" diameter medallion of an unusual and ultra-light fiber material, brownish red in color, manufactured by Henning & Eymann of New York. Recto features a fine profile of a youthful, clean-shaven Lincoln facing right; verso shows an open laurel wreath and within it the caption "Beloved / Alike..... More
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Hand-coloured etchings by Rene Ben Sussan. 4to. Plain boards, patterned dust jacket with paper label, chemise, slipcase. vii, 143pp. 16 full-pahe hand-colored illustrations. Fine/very good/very good. Mild wear to chemise spine; faint slipcase wear only. Superb, tight and..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. Hardcover. Translation by F.J. Sheed. With note by G.K. Chesterton. Small 8vo.Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 217pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Near fine. Spine gilt a tad rubbed, else overall tight and bright. Attractive first edition of this biography of John Vianney..... More
This adult film star ("Casey Donovan") of the '70s and '80s wanted to act in mainstream parts, even appearing on Broadway in 1972 with Ingrid Bergman and in "The Merchant of Venice" in 1973, but wasn't able to make the transition and died of AIDS-related illness at age 46. Large..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black lettering and graphic. xvi, 335pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations, folding map, pictorial endpapers. Near fine. This attractive, tight first trade edition (after limited edition of 250 copies) bears an appropriate autograph addition: Tipped to the front pictorial..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1918]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering (and "Union League Club" giltstamped at spine tail). vi, 519pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear; text block faintly age toned, with stain to outer page edges. Not the first..... More