New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 321pp. Very good. Faint binding edgewear only, with spine gilt slightly rubbed -- internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition, sans jacket, of this magic-theme fiction. Train (1875-1945) was a New York County assistant district..... More
The uncle of famed financier Howard Hughes was a popular music writer ("American Composers," "The Music Lovers' Encyclopedia," etc.) who also authored novels, biographies, poetry and more. TLS, 1p, 7 3/4" X 9½", Los Angeles, CA, 6 May 1939. Addressed to future notable Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93)..... More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946. Hardcover. Drawings by Leo Hershfield. Small 8vo. Green cloth with white/red lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 301pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Truly handsome, tight first edition of this feline/baseball satire, and with fine autograph addition: Tipped..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1915]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 141pp, (4pp ads). Color frontispiece, full-page pllates (many color). Very good. Mild binding edgewear only, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive reprint edition, the "New and Revised Edition" of this nature classic. More
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with blue lettering and graphic. 150pp. Frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good. Tight and quite nice first edition of this study of the writer and photographer's career at the height of his fame. More
Portland, ME: The Baxter Society, 2004. Hardcover. Preface by Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and paper front board label. 74pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Handsome first edition of this organization's 20th anniversary publication, limited to 230 copies. Review slip stapled to front flyleaf and..... More
New York: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 51900, 40pp ads. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, line drawings, figures (one foldout). Very good. Mildly edgeworn, though tight and internally quite nice; preliminary leaves rather age toned and foxed. Attractive revised fourth edition..... More
New York: Huntington Press, [1935]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering. x, 306pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Tight, decent first edition. Interesting narrative regarding the Endicott Johnson Corporation and the unique working community they provide for employees -- with..... More
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, [1901]. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with silver lettering and black/white pictorial stamping. 120pp. Frontispiece, numerous full-page photographic plates (one foldout). Very good. Faint binding edgewear only, else tight and internally near fine. A handsome first edition of this verse collection well illustrated with images of..... More
Chicago: Nickerson & Collins Co., [1906]. Hardcover. Small 4to. B rown cloth with gilt lettering and device. vii, 368pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings, advertising endpapers. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn and spotted, though tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this history of an industry..... More
Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 327pp. Tables. Very good. Faintest of spine sunning only, else tight and near fine. Handsome first edition of Volume I in the "Land Series," Volume XXXIV overall. Illinois State Historical Library board of trustees leaf preceding..... More
Baltimore: N.p., 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with black lettering and blue paper over boards with gilt lettering. 198pp, (13pp). Frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good. Binding a tad rubbed and faintly edgeworn, but tight and internally near fine. Attractive first edition. Tipped to front flyleaf is the heavy..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with yellow lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 398pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Faoint binding edgwear and some faintly dampstained edges near rear; jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with lightly sunned spine. A tight and nice first edition of this biography..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, [1944]. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xx, 283p. Plate, map endpapers. Very good. Binding a bit rubbed, though tight and internally near fine; ownership signature/address on front flyleaf. Tight and quite nice first edition, the "Louisiana Edition," of this volume in..... More
Chicago: The Nature Cure Publishing Co., 1917. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. 438pp, (10pp ads). Frontispiece, illustrations, color plate. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn and spine ever-so-faintly sunned. Tight and nice seventh edition of this popular 1913 text -- the classic study by Henry Lindlahr (1862-1924), leading..... More
New York: Macmillan, [1918]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar, Abanin Dranath Tagore and Nobendranath Tagore. 8vo. Dark purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxvii, 221pp. Color frontispiece, numerous full-page plates (some color). Very good. Binding a bit edgeworn, with spine somewhat sunned; some preliminary leaves age toned, else..... More
Milan: Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1899. Paperback. Small 8vo. Beige printed wrappers, with added heavy stock pale green acid-free outer wrapper (affixed along spine). 455pp. Good plus/fine. A bit edgeworn, with printed wrappers showing a few tiny edge chips; archival outer wrapper pristine. A tight, attractive first edition of one of..... More
This legendary and long-lived college football coach (he also coached basketball and baseball) served at the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1932 and is credited with molding a large number of future coaches and inventing or contributing to a vast number of football innovations; he was inducted into the..... More
New York: Arbor House, [1982]. Hardcover. 8vo. Beige tan wrappers. 305pp. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only) -- tight and internally fine. Uncorrected proofs of this police procedural novel -- the "87th Precinct" series that began in 1956 and concluded in 2005. This particular title was turned into..... More
New York: Knickerbocker Press, [1997]. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Younger. Folio. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 177pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only. Handsome and tight facsimile of the 1887 two-volume set, here published in a single volume. Quartermaster General of the United..... More
Carrollton, OH: The Standard Printing & Publishing Co., 1962. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy pebble-grained cloth with gilt lettering and medallion, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with several small edge chips and archivally-closed (on verso) edge tears; front flyleaf ownership signature/address. Tight, nice first..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, [1966]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxxii, 348pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear, with single edge chip; front pastedown ownership signature. A tight, nice first edition of the famed art historian's "A.W. Mellon Lectures in the..... More
Northampton, MA: The Hampshire Bookshop, 1950. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brick cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 159pp. Very good/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn and age toned. Tight and nice first edition of these informal essays about Amherst College life, faculty, persons, etc. More
New York: N.p., 1899. Hardcover. 12mo. Off-white cloth with black lettering, rules and decoration. 220pp, (3pp ads). Full-page plates, text leaves ruled in red. Very good. Binding typically age toned and slightly soiled, else tight and internally fine; 7 full-page glossy plates, and while illustrations page calls for frontispiece and..... More
Enormously popular English actress of the 1930s and '40s, specializing in historical heroines ("Nell Gwyn," "Victoria the Great"); returning to the stage in "Charlie Girl," she set a record with 2,062 performances over seven years. ALS, 2pp (single leaf), 5½" X 7", n.p., n.y. Addressed to Mr. Laade. Near fine..... More