New York: The Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light brown cloth with dark brown lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 168pp. Numerous two-tone author line drawings. Near fine/good plus. Jacket complete and fairly attractive, though age toned; chips at corners and at spine headtail and old mends on verso... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and gilt and green pictorial stamping. ix, 391pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Quite mild edgewear only, else internally fine; 1922 ownership signature on front flyleaf. A tight and handsome first edition of... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 179pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 5 (of 6) full-page called-for plates, pictorial endpapers (front and rear endpapers both form A). Very good. Light edgewear, mainly at spine head... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1936]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey tween paper over boards with blue lettering and decorations, pictorial dust jacket. 218pp. Frontispiece, decorated endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf and on jacket's front flap and rear panel. A tight and attractive much... More
Washington, DC: United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Marshall, 1956. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xix, 182pp. Very good. A tight and nice first edition of this thorough listing of books by and about the... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lucius Hitchcock. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 179pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 6 full-page called-for plates, pictorial endpapers (front endpaper form A, rear endpaper form B). Very good. Mild bit of edgewear and slightest rubbing... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1954]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue tweed paper over boards with dark blue lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 210pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, blue pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Book itself is tight, bright and quite nice but for couple of faint spots on outer page edges;... More
New York: The Newcomen Society in North America, 1979. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan wrappers. 24pp. Illustrations. Near fine. First edition. The Newcomen Society was a distinguished honorary society, formed in England, devoted to the study of "those factors which have contributed or are contributing to the progress of Mankind" --... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 281pp. Map endpapers. Very good/good plus. Jacket a tad rubbed and edgeworn, with a number of small edge chips and a few stray ink marks on flaps; bit of age toning..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., [1947]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxii, 707pp. Illustrations, maps, map front endpaper, folding map in rear pocket. Near fine. Top page edges a tad spotted, else tight, clean and lovely. Quite tight and handsome "Revised with additions in 1946" printing... More
New York: Delacorte Press, [1988]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with metallic lavender lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 445pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this steamy Los Angeles romance, inscribed and signed huge and bold by the author in black fineline on front flyleaf... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 312pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with chip at tail of spine and old mends on jacket verso. Tight, clean, attractive first edition. Superb jacket front panel graphics. Ownership signature, dated March... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. Hardcover. Translation by A.W. Wheen. Small 8vo. Light grey cloth with black and red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 291pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and touch of rubbing, with a few edge chips -- but overall tight, clean, quite attractive. A lovely first..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Hardcover. 8vo. Coral cloth with paper spine label. ix, 208pp (rectos only). Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and age toned, with miniscule chipping at head of spine; paper spine label is the "spare" originally bound in at rear, as it's bright and... More
Jefferson: McFarland, [1892]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 183pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this cross between a literary study and a bibliography. More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1926. Hardcover. 8vo. Coral blind-embossed cloth with gilt spine lettering and rules. xxv, 274pp. Very good. Spine a bit sunned; quite mild ex-library, the sole markings being a perforation-style institution name on title page and spine mark where paper label formerly resided. A tight... More
Madison, WI: Tracy, Gibbs & Co., n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth over bevelled boards with gilt lettering. 104pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Faintest of binding wear, else internally tight and fine. Likely sole printing of this testimonial to this minister and theologian, long-time professor of ancient languages... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 299pp, (4pp ads). Frontispiece, 5 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear; three oval ownership inkstamps and two circular blind-embossed ownership imprints. A tight and nice first edition of these eight tales penned by... More
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1929. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiv, 374pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Front inner hinger expertly and archivally strengthened, thus tight, else bright and near fine. Attractive first edition of this well-known collection of 20 essays about famed writers and their books... More
N.p. The Library of America, [1989]. Hardcover. Notes and texts by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Complete 2-volume set in slipcase. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets, glossy printed paper-over-boards slipcase. xix, 898pp; xxxiii, 787pp. Sewn-in silk page markers, decorative endpapers. Fine/fine/fine. A tight and wonderfully pristine third..... More
New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, [1947]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with orange lettering. xvii, 180pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, else internally tight and near fine. A handsome first edition of this light-hearted look at the Sultan of Swat, the Behemoth of Bust, the Big... More
This English soccer defender played for a wide range of teams, first in the U.K. but mostly in the U.S., starting with Queens Park Rangers in 1977 and ending with Tulsa Roughnecks in 1996. Bold "To Richard / Best Wishes / Barry Wallace / #3" in black ballpoint on a.... More
This English soccer star spent most of his professional playing a variety of positions for Leeds United (1963-80). A bold and handsome signature and "Leeds United A.F.C." in blue ballpoint on a special heavy stock 5" X 3" card, dated by him "13th March 1979" at upper right. Fine. with... More
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [1984]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 130pp. Near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this early years memoir -- covering his childhood early travels and experience as a POW of the Germans in World War Two -- by the... More
New York: Vintage Books, [1984]. Paperback. Foreword by Cyrus R. Vance. 12mo. Stiff glossy wrappers. xiv, 140pp. Near fine. A tight and nice first edition of this "Council on Foreign Relations Book," inscribed and signed by this noted foreign policy analyst in black ballpoint on front flyleaf: "To Bob --... More