New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1946]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red lettering and rules, dust jacket. 195pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned only. Tight, attractive first edition of Frank Lloyd Wright's second son's memoir about the Old Man. John Lloyd Wright (1892-1972) was likewise an architect..... More
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1924. Hardcover. Introduction by Dr. Frank Crane. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with paper label and beige paper over boards. 260pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Near fine. Lovely and tight first edition of this eclectic writings on anything and everything by the noted and well-versed jurist (1863-1932)..... More
Richmond, VA: The Confederate States of America, 1864. Group of three (3) Confederate States of America bank notes, each 7" X 3". Overall good plus only. Moderately and evenly age toned and rubbed, with minor edgewear. Worn but well engraved group of three CSA notes from their Seventh Series, each..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1954. Hardcover. Small 4to. Beige cloth with brown lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 128pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only, with small abrasion at lower right of rear panel; front flyleaf ownership signature. First edition, tight and sharp. Edmund Hillary contributes..... More
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, [1972]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff navy blue wrappers with paper label. 111, 376pp (rectos only). Near fine. Spine very faintly sunned, else tight and nice. First and likely sole printing of this 1963 University of Michigan doctoral dissertation, published in this typed double-spaced rectos-only format. Dissertations in..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1983]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 262pp. Near fine/near fine. A wonderfully handsome and bright first edition of this bizarre self-help parody. More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1929. Hardcover. Edited by P.S. Allen and H.M. Allen. 8vo. White paper over boards with gilt spine lettering and front board device. xvi, (4pp), 180pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, tissue-guarded plates. Uncut. Very good. Binding clean and nice but typically a tad age toned; bit of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 675pp. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with chips at tail of faintly-sunned spine. Quite handsome and tight first edition of White's third novel, a hefty historical fiction set a decade prior to the..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1932. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with paper spine label, dust jacket. 187pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and spine-sunned, with tiny chips at upper corners and spine head. Quite tight and attractive first edition of this prolific writer/critic/historian/Anglican priest's first book. Quite..... More
Akron: The Saalfield Publishing Company, [1938]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Henry Muheim. 32mo. Glossy pictorial paper over boards. 394pp), (2pp ads). Illustrations. Very good. Mildest of edgewear; nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf; text block lightly, evenly age toned. A tight, attractive first edition of No. 1148 in the "Little Big..... More
Park Falls, WI: MacGregor Litho, Inc., 1971. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 97pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Fant rubbing of outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this uncommon work on the pioneering Wisconsin animal rights figure. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silverl ettering and graphics, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 396pp. Pictorial endpapers Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear; jacket a tad age toned and edgeworn, with chips at spine head and tail; aviation-themed bookplate on half-title page. A tight and..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and terra cotta cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 298pp. Map endpapers, genealogical chart. Near fine/near fine. A handsome first U.S. edition of this "young man's hallucinogenic drugs and his travels back and forth in time to the mysteries..... More
London: Thomas Adams, 1615. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full calf boards, rebacked with full calf spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered calf spine label. 699pp, (1p errata). Very good overall. Original calf boards rather rubbed and lightly edgeworn, while modern rebacking is fine; internally tight, with mild age toning of endpapers..... More
The famed 1915 world's fair held from February 4 to December 4, 1915 ostensibly celebrated the August 1914 opening of the Panama Canal, but San Francisco really wanted to celebrate its rebirth and show off its spiffy new look less than ten years after being decimated in the 1906 earthquake..... More
In 1929 a two-color talking comedy film version of Flo Ziegfield's stage musical was named one of the ten best films of the year. It starred 28-year-old actress/singer/dancer Bebe Daniels (1901-71) and male lead John Boles. Unsigned original pencil sketch, heavy stock 5"X 8", n.p., n.y. Very good. Lightly and..... More
London: Williams & Norgate Ltd, [1950]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 389pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. This handsome, tight first edition of the British trade unionist and Member of Parliament (1858-1943) bears a contemporary red "Recommended / by the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gluyas Williams. 8vo. Green cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. viii, 252pp. Frontispiecew, numerous line drawings. Near fine. Handsome first trade edition of the famed American book collector's humorous, bibliophilic travels around the world. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Edited by Edward Surtz. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxiv, 158pp. Near fine/very good. Quite faint jacket edgewear. Attractive and tight first of this modern edition of the 1516 classic, the fourth volume in "The Yale Edition of..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1957]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A quite handsome first edition of this comic foray into "the wisecracking, big-money, gaudy and glamorous world of Broadway...." This copy bears two choice autograph additions..... More
This dancer joined the American Ballet Theater in 1975, then served as principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada (1983-90). Huge bold full signature in blue ballpoint, heavy stock 5" X 3" card, n.p., 1981 May 11. Fine. With original envelope. A bit uncommon, Osborne having died of cancer..... More
Karachi, Pakistan: University of Karachi Department of English, [1968]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 76pp. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Uncommon first edition of these addresses from two seminars both held in 1965 just after Eliot's death, one in Pakistan and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1970]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 285pp. Fine/very good. Mildest of jacket edgewear only. Quite bright, handsome and super tight first U.S. edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "robust historical novel of the turbulent court of King..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 220pp. Very good. Spine and edges rather sunned and lettering quite rubbed, else tight and internally fine. An attractive stated first U.S. edition. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truener & Co., Limited, 1907. Hardcover. Notes and introduction by Alfred W. Pollard. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label. xxxiv, 417pp. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, with spine ever-so-lightly sunned, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive reprint edition of the Early..... More