New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrations by Boyd Hanna. Small 4to. Full brown sheepskin with gilt lettering, slipcase. xxiii, 444pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color illlustrations, all pages ruled in brown. Near fine/very good. Mild slipcase wear and age toning. Sharp, tight copy of..... More
Janesville, WI: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, [2022]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. 34pp. Frontispiece. Fine. Pristine first edition of "Historical Bulletin Number 73," the 82nd annual address of this long-established Lincolniana studies group, delivered in Janesville, Wisconsin, on October 2, 2021. Boldly signed by Rogstad in blue ballpoint on title..... More
Janesville, WI: The Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, [2022]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. (11pp). Fine. Pristine first edition of "Historical Bulletin Number 74," the 79th annual address of this long-established Lincolniana studies group. Colophon at rear limits to 200 numbered copies (this #19), boldly signed by White in black ballpoint... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, gilt paper over boards clamshell case. xii, 223pp. Top edge gilt. Full-page and smaller partly-color illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite mild clamshell case wear. Sharp, tight..... More
New York: Drake Publishers, [1973]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering. 190pp. Extensive illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Binding a tad rubbed, with outer front board edge a bit mottled. A tight a decent first edition of this unusual tale about former New York gang members who..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt spine lettering. 416pp, 4pp ads. Numerous small illustrations, manty full-page tissue-guarded plates. Very good. Lacks frontispiece and folding map, else tight and internally near fine; discreet ex-library, with call number at spine foot and almost no..... More
Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, [1966]. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter black cloth with gilt spine lettering and patterned paper over boards, wraparound paper label. 276pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page illustrations, chart. Very good. Fine/near fine. Touch of wear and age toning to wraparound label. Tight, pristine thirteenth printing (post 1966 as it has ISBN)..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Small 4to. Full brown sheepskin with gilt lettering, rules and pictorial stamping, color pictorial chemise, slipcase. viii, 221pp. Top edge gilt. Color lithographs. Fine/near fine/very good. Minor slipcase wear and age toning. Superb, tight LEC production of the..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955. Hardcover. Translation revised by A.S.B. Glover. Illustrations by William Sharp. Small 4to. Quarter brown morocco with gilt spine lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase. xviii, 635pp. Numerous brown line drawings. Fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear. Handsome, tight LEC production of the groundbreaking..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Translation by A.W. Evans. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Preface by Anatole France. Illustrations by Malcolm Cameron. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and pale blue decorative paper over boards, slipcase with paper label. xvi, 324pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Near..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. Hardcover. 12mo. Pale grey paper over boards with paper front board label. viii, 97pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn, while tight and internally fine and bright. Handsome first edition of this response to the 1903 book "Letters from a Chinese Official," in which..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1947. Hardcover. Preface by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau. Small 4to. Quarter black calf with gilt spine lettering and decorative rose paper over boards, decorative gilt slipcase. lii, 232pp; ix, pp. 235-498. Frontispieces, numerous full-page line drawings. Very good/near fine. Slightest of..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Paintings by William Blake. Small 4to. Deep green cloth with gilt lettering, slipcase. 43pp; 44pp. Frontispieces, numerous full-page illustrations, marbled endpapers. Fine/very good. Slightest of slipcase wear. Superb LEC production of the second title in their 23rd series. One of the few..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, [1994]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. ix, 93pp. Fine. Pristine and perfect first softbound edition of this slim, award-winning verse collection by the noted New York poet/essayist/translator (born 1953). She bold inscribes and signs the title page in black fineline "For Deb, / In friendship..... More
Parsippany, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, [1995]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Illustrations. Fine. This tight and handsome third printing is boldly inscribed and signed by the astronaut in black fineline on title page: "Woody & Mandy -- See you in Space! / Mike Mullane / Astronaut. / 1/25/96."..... More
Tucson: Firsts Magazine, December 1998. Paperback. (Volume 8, Number 12). Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 76pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine. Perfect and pristine. Contents include: "Maxfield Parrish: Springboard of the Imagination," "Collecting Photography Books," "Photography Books: A Selected Checklist" and "Curious George and H.A. and Margret Rey." More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1880. Small 4to. Dark blue bevel-edged cloth with ornate gilt lettering and embossed black and pale blue decorations. 103pp (rectos only). All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Very good. Bit of edgewear at tips and mainly at spine head/tail; inner front hinge lightly..... More
Iowa City: The Center for the Study of the Recent History of the United States, 1981. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy wrappers. viii, 72pp. Near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this slim collection of essays about North Dakota senator George P. Nye (1892-1971), Sears, Roebuck executive Robert E. Wood (1879-1969)..... More
Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1978. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. ix, 36pp. Frontispiece. Fine. Handsome first edition, limited to 1000 copies, of this address "Delivered on the occasion of the fifth annual Bromsen Lecture April 30, 1977" -- the fifth "Maury A. Bromsen Lecture..... More
Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1976. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. vi, 34pp. Frontispiece. Fine. Handsome first edition of this address "Delivered on the occasion of the third annual Bromsen Lecture May 3, 1975" -- the third "Maury A. Bromsen Lecture in Humanistic Bibliography." Famed..... More
Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1975. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. vi, 30pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Handsome first edition of this address "Delivered on the occasion of the second annual Bromsen Lecture April 27, 1974" -- the second "Maury A. Bromsen Lecture in Humanistic Bibliography."..... More
Worcester, MA: The American Antiquarian Society, 1958. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 185pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, limited to 1000 copies, of this half-century chronicle by that august society's third librarian, who began in 1903 and ascended to the directorship in..... More
San Francisco: Roy Vernon Sowers, 1942. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light grey paper over boards with red lettering and decoration. 76pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight and bright first edition of this old timey "Farmer's Almanack"-type compendium of miscellaneous book lore, trivia, poems, odds and ends of all bookish manner, "Comprising A BOOKMAN'S..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1970]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xx, 1038pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, bright first edition of the private journals of the famed aviator (1902-74) -- and boldly signed by him in full..... More
Rochester, NY: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 194850. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 94pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket wear -- spine ever-so-slightly sunned. Handsome, tight first edition of the second title in the interesting "Printer's Valhalla" series, here..... More