Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink.
New York: Everest House, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 158pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. First U.S. edition. More
New York: Everest House, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 158pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. First U.S. edition. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1962. Hardcover. Introduction by Ben Hecht. Black and green cloth, dust jacket. 392pp. Very good/very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this compilation from eight of the Chicago journalist's works. More
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Hardcover. Translation by Raymond Rosenthal. Small 4to. Tan cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 469pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of mild jacket wear; ownership signature on half-title page. A handsome and tight first edition of this hefty biography of the German author, poet and dramatist..... More
New York: Dover Publications, 1947. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 182pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/good plus. Inscribed by Clark. Nicely inscribed on the front flyleaf "For Don and [ ? ] / In memoriam / the better part of a / life-time, / Love from..... More
New York: Samuel French, 1933. Paperback. Small 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers tied with blue cord. 32pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Inscribed by Clark. Brief study by the noted theatrical critic and scholar, inscribed on the front flyleaf. More
Webster Groves, MO: International Mark Twain Society, 1939. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. iv, 18pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Very good. Spine faintly sunned. A superb and tight first edition of this oddball compilation introduced by E.C. Bentley, complete with dedication "to Benito Mussolini a warm admirer of..... More
New York: Stein and Day, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth spine and orange paper over boards, dust jacket. 256pp. Very good/good plus. One jacket corner abrasion and 1" tear (archivally closed on verso), else attractive. First U.S. edition. More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter vellum spine and tan paper over boards with gilt lettering. 111pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with faint edgewear, rubbing and age toning to binding (only). Attractive first edition, with colophon limiting to 125 numbered..... More
London: Dent, [1971]. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxiv, 303pp, 4pp ads. Fine/near fine. Small ownership signature on front pastedown. Outstandingly bright and tight later printing of No. 11, first published in this form in 1906. More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1944. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xii, 203pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Front flyleaf corner clipped; mild jacket edgewear. Tight, decent first edition -- ex-library, though with few and mosty removed markings. More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 177pp. Frontispiece. Fine/fine. Perfectly pristine first edition of this biography of the controversial, self-promoting Union pamphleteer. More
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, [1990]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 177pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Mild bit of faint jacket edgewear. Tight and handsome first edition of this biography of the controversial, self-promoting Union pamphleteer. More
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1938. Hardcover. Red cloth. 415pp. Frontispiece, 17 plates. Good plus. Minor scuffing, bit of foxing to endpapers. First edition. The story of famed convict Wainewright -- author, artist, fraudster, possible serial killer -- the man who knew William Blake and Charles Lamb. More
London: Quartet Books, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 360pp. Illustrations. Very good/near fine. Attractive first edition. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. Hardcover. Introduction by Irvin S. Cobb. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering . xvii, 349pp. Frontispiece. Very good. A bit of edgewear, with spine lettering rubbed; inner front hinge starting but expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight; rear flyleaf bears pencilled sketch of a...... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 483pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Scarce first edition. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and purple cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 483pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Uncommon first U.K. edition. More
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. Translation by Peter Greene. Smal 4to. Burgundy cloth, dust jacket. 479pp. Very good/very good. Some jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition, tight and attractive, bearing the pencilled ownership signature on front flyleaf of novelist Thomas Gifford ("The Wind Chill Factor," etc. More
Boston: Twayne Publishers, [1989]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 171pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Faint jacket rubbing. Handsome, tight first edition of this volume in series editor Bertram H. Davis's "Twayne's English Authors Series." MacPherson (1736-96) was a Scottish poet and writer best remembered..... More
New York: Twayne Publishers, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 183pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and quite nice first edition of #214 in the handy "TUSAS" (Twayne's United States Authors Series). From the library of academic and literary critic..... More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1956. Paperback. 4to. Stiff tan wrappers. 16pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Handsome copy of this beautifully printed piece, limited to 400 copies issued by the Cummington Press. Edgar Johnson introduces this superb foldout facsimile. Rather uncommon. More
London: Heinemann, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth, dust jacket. x, 210pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket spine rather sunned; some staining to page edges. Tight, clean, decent first edition of this memoir by Charles Dickens' great-granddaughter, herself a prolific novelist. More
[New York]: Mayflower Books, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale red cloth, dust jacket. x, 210pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight and attractive first U.S. edition of this memoir by Charles Dickens' great-granddaughter, herself a prolific novelist. More
New York: Hill and Wang, [1964]. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn, with several neat archival mends on verso. Attractive and tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist -- and..... More
New York: Hill and Wang, [1964]. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 333pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn. Superb, tight first edition of this collection of interviews with the popular Chicago novelist. On the front flyleaf, the subject inscribes and signs large..... More