San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 146pp. Fine/fine. Tight and pristine first edition of this story collection -- with fine archival decorative-edged bookplate signed large and by Berry in black ballpoint on the front flyleaf. More
Washington, DC: Counterpoint, [2002]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy and brown paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 326pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first editon of this novella trio from the prolific Kentuckian, with a fine decorative-edged archival bookplate bearing his large, bold signature in black ballpoint on the front..... More
Iowa City: C.B. Righter, [1963]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pale blue wrappers with dark blue lettering and decoration. 55pp. Illustrations. Very good. Bit of sunnig to outwr wrappers (only), else tight and pristine. Handsome first edition of this history of Iowa City's glass industry, boldly inscribed and signed by the author..... More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956. Paperback. 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 16pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Handsome copy of this beautifully printed piece, limited to 400 copies printed by the Cummington Press. Edgar Johnson introduces this superb foldout facsimile. Rather uncommon. More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa, 1974. Paperback. 4to. Stiff black wrappers. (18pp). Fine. Pristine first edition. Leslie W. Dunlap introduces this facsimile (with typescript accompanying) of an 8-page pencilled letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture, who became his second vice president in 1941, serving until..... More
Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, n.y. Hardcover. 6mo. Blue and red pictorial paper over boards. (55pp). 26 full-page wood engravings. Near fine. Not the first 1949 printing, but a superb, bright and tight later printing of this gem, with Hanna's striking wood engravings on each recto and accompanying..... More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. Hardcover. With an introduction to this edition by Rhodes Dunlap. 12mo. Red and grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 31pp, 112pp, 4pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first of this edition, a fine facsimile with added introduction. This..... More
Garden City: Garden City Books, 1959. Hardcover. Illustrations by W.T. Mars. 4to. Brown buckram with black lettering and red pictorial stamping. 88pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. Spine head and tail slightly bumped, else tight and nice; bit of age toning to endpapers. Attractive first edition, sans jacket, of..... More
Iowa City: The Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering. 80pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, handsome first edition. Leslie W. Dunlap introduces these half dozen essays on a trio of political figures. More
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1970. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff brown wrappers. (10pp). Fine. Lovely and tight copy of this fine edition, limited to 200 copies, with Icelandic and English texts side by side. An Old Norse narrative poem, it dates possibly as early as the ninth century a.d. Colophon..... More
Iowa City: The University of Iowa, 1986. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff ivory textured wrappers. 11pp. Fine. Pristine first edition of this talk by the educator (1935-2006) who served as University of Iowa president (1982-87) and then Dartmouth College president (1987-98). More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering and green patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. (27pp). Fine/fine. This first edition of an important study is as pristine as it gets -- tight, bright.. Publisher Carroll Coleman notes in..... More
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter tan cloth and tan paper over boards with black lettering. (29pp). Color pictorial title page/facing leaf. Near fine. Faint age toning to endpapers. Quite handsome undated (early 20th century) edition of the best-known work (first published 1751) of the British..... More
Muscatine, IA: The Prairie Press, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with black spine lettering, dust jacket. 82pp. Fine/near fine. Lovely, tight first edition, signed boldly by North in full in black ink on half-title page. North (1891-1988) was a writer, poet and art historian and sister of writer Sterling North..... More
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, [1964]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter plum cloth with gilt lettering and pale grey decorated paper over boards, dust jacket. 63pp. Fine/fine. Tight and pristine first edition of the poet's fourth verse collection. More
Iowa City: Typographic Laboratory, the University of Iowa School of Journalism, 1964. Paperback. Introduction by Clarence Andrews. 3 copies (identical but for wrappers). Small 4to. Decorative wrappers. (6pp). Small graphics. Fine. Three identical copies (differing only in wrappers) of this letter penned by the eccentric British writer/artist/photographer (1860-1913), "Printed... on..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff blue/black decorated wrappers. viii, 34pp. Small color decorations. Near fine. First edition of the cutest little Yuletide poetry pamphlet ever: "The poems included in this Christmas collection from the Oxford Book of Verse cover a period from the twelfth century to..... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [1973]. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Tan cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this well-illustrated study. More
New York: Sheed & Ward, Inc., 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth with silver lettering and silver paper over boards with black decoration. xii, 248pp. Very good. Mildly edgeworn, with corners bumped; pencilled notes on rear endpaper; 1933 ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight and decent first edition. More
London: Geoffrey Bles, [1943]. Hardcover. 12mo. Orange cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. 64pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only; clown marionette bookplate on front flyleaf. Handsome first edition of the second of Lewis's three BBC radio religious talks he gave between 1941 and 1943, published together post-war as..... More
This attorney from west central Illinois rode the judicial circuit with Abraham Lincoln; in 1858, when William "Duff" Armstrong (son of Lincoln's New Salem friend Jack Armstrong) was charged with murder, Lincoln represented him -- and Shaw served as co-prosecuting attorney; Armstrong was acquitted and it became one of the..... More
When Governor Shelby Cullom resigned in 1883 to take a seat in the U.S. Senate, his lieutenant governor -- an attorney and state legislator -- became the Prairie State's 18th governor and filled the remainder of Cullom's term, serving until 1885. Partly-printed DS, 1p, 14" X 11", Springfield, IL, 1883..... More
New York: Harper & Row, [1963]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with white lettering and green paper over boards, dust jacket. xii, 212pp. Fine/very good. Faintest bit of jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Exceptionally tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "dialogue on..... More
Iowa City: The Cummington Press, 1957. Paperback. 4to. Stiff black wrappers with paper label. 25pp. Fine. Alexandre Aspel (1908-75), an Estonian-born French-american who taught at the University of Iowa, provides the preface (in French) to this tribute in verse to the 19th century poet and critic. Contributors include Harry Duncan..... More
Iowa City: The Gordian Press, 1964. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. 11pp. Near fine. This superb first and only edition bears rear colophon noting limitation of 50 numbered copies (this #7). Iowan Schell (1845-1932) entered the Union Army late in the war with the Student Company of the 44th..... More