Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1917. Hardcover. 24mo. Blue cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. 262pp. Illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Quite faint binding edgewear only; internally tight and near fine. A tight, nice first edition of this manly how-to guide filled with exercises, infantry and cavalry..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Hardcover. Illustrations by Small 8vo. Red cloth with silver lettering and black rules and pictorial stamping. v, 223pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear. Delightful line drawings by Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940) adorn this tight and sharp and..... More

"The father of the religious education movement" was a distinguished Northwestern University and Union Theological Seminary professor whose 1917 "A Social Theory of Religious Education" is considered a seminal work in its field. ANS, 1p, 5½" X 8½", New York, NY, 29 December 1924. Near fine. Addressed to Miss Moore..... More

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1909. Hardcover. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 45pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn only, with interior tight and near fine. First edition, and most attractive, of this basic, hands-on how-to manual on telegraphy and telephony as applied to the railroad industry. Issued..... More

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering and black rules. xii, 267pp, 44pp ads. Very good. Mild binding edgewear, with spine quite darkened; internally tight and near fine. A tight, nice first edition of these essays concerning twelve notable Utopia theorists --..... More

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxviii, 171pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Jacket spine lightly age toned, with tiny chip at head, else bright and quite attractive. Handsome, tight first edition of these nine essays by a variety of scholars and authorities..... More

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xxi, 160pp. Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only, with spine lightly age toned. Handsome, tight first edition of these essays by Owen Barfield, Austin Farrer, J.A.W. Bennett, Nevill Coghill, John Lawlor..... More

New York: Brentano's, 1934. Hardcover. Foreword by Merle Armitage. Small 4to. Plain card-stock boards with affixed yellow dust jacket (as issued). v, 155pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Very good. Jacket mildly worn and age toned and lightly spotted; internally tight and near fine. Attractive first edition of this Armitage-designed modern art..... More

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, [1940]. Hardcover. Slected and with introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. 4to. Green burlap with paper spine label, slipcase with paper label. xiii, 316pp. Full-page illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Binding spine typically a bit sunned; slipcase quite rubbed but..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. 220pp. Very good/very good. Most minor of binding edgewear, else internally tight and fine; jacket rather edgeworn, rubbed and age toned. Attractive later (circa 1946) printing. Front pastedown bears inked ownership signature..... More

Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1971. Hardcover. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. 4to. Canvas cloth with black lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxii, 102pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite faint jacket edgewear only. Handsome and tight first of this edition, a new verse translation of the legendary 10th century Old English..... More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial corner-clipped (NOT price-clipped) dust jacket. x, 195pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine faintly sunned. Handsome first edition of the Iowa poet's third book -- and boldly signed by him in black ink on the..... More

New York: New Directions, [1979]. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x, 133pp. Fine. Handsome later (6th) printing of the early verse of the late, great, prolific British-born American poet (1923-97), boldly signed in black ballpoint in her handsome calligraphic hand and dated 1995 on half-title page. More