New York: The Heritage Press, 1966. Hardcover. Introduction by John T. Winterich. Illustrations by Charles Raymond. Small 4to. Half grey cloth with gilt-lettered paper spine label and blue paper over boards, slipcase with paper spine label. xiv, 279pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight copy of Dickens' tenth novel, the sixth..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, [1941]. Hardcover. Illustrations by William Sharp. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering and extensive burgundy decorative rules, slipcase. 552pp. Color frontispiece, numerous small line drawings, full-page color plates. Fine/fine. John T. Winterich introduces this tight, handsome later printing. Appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, [1937]. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Austen. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering and extensive burgundy decorative rules, slipcase. xvi, 821pp. Color frontispiece, 7 full-page color plates, illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine very slightly age toned, per usual; minor slipcase edgewear. John T. Winterich..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xx, 817pp, (9pp ads). Grey patterned endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips; couple of light inoffensive dings to rear board. Tight, quite handsome later printing of #204..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Heritage Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Selected and introduced by Walter Allen. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Small 4to. Tan cloth with dark brown lettering and decorations, slipcase. xx, 423pp. Line drawings (most color). Fine/near fine. Superbly tight and lovely later (ca. 1980s) reprint of the Limited Edition Club's handsome..... More
London: The Folio Society, [1999]. Hardcover. Edited by Rovers Scott. Small 4to. Faux vellum paper over boards with black lettering, slipcase. xxii, 198pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, decorative endpapers. Fine/fine. Bright and pristine third printing of this edition, a generous assortment of the 17th century poet and scholar's nonfiction writings and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering and gilt and silver decoration. 385pp, (6pp ads). Frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Quite minor mottling to binding, which shows very faint spine sunning, else tight and internally nice. Attractive second edition of..... More
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red varnished cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. 362pp. Top edge gilt. Very good. Spine sunned. A tight and nice reprint edition, undated but circa turn-of-the-century. This historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War (1366-67) was first published in..... More
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 309pp. Frontispiece, 14 (out of 15) called-for full-page plates (lacks "The Plateau," p. 262). Near fine. Superbly tight and handsome first U.S. edition of Doyle's adventure yarns. Lacks one plate, else a truly sharp copy, with..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1919]. Paperback. Introduction by Arnold Bennett. 12mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xii, 112pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. "Illustrated Souvenir Edition," illustrated with photographs from one of the early productions. Black, white, orange and tan pictorial front wrapper of a famed portrait of a...... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1921. Hardcover. 12mo. Pink cloth with paper spine label, dust jacket. vii, 80pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket well chipped, but overall still attractive. Tight, nice first edition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Hardcover. 12mo. Decorated brown cloth. iv, 477pp, (2pp ads). Line drawings. Very good. Close to "Near fine," with gold and green pictorial front board stamping bright and fresh and only slightest bit of age toning to spine; nonauthorial period gift inscription on inner..... More
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1895. Hardcover. Small 4to. Vellum spine and tan cloth over boards. xi, 447pp. Numerous engravings by du Maurier. Very good. Large paper edition, consisting of 250 numbered copies (this #163) signed by du Maurier. Scarce. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 265pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. YOUNG 1122. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 318pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear only. Handsome and tight second printing of the third title in the celebrated "Alexandria Quartet" and the only one narrated in the third person. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1967. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Red cloth spine and purple paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 82pp. Line drawings. Near fine/very good. Jacket very slightly edgeworn and with spine sunned, else a tight and nice first U.S. edition of this slim collection..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 1350pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A wonderfully tight and bright undated early printing of number 51 in the "Modern Library Giant" series (first published 1940). According to Toledano this..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 1350pp. Very good/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Tight, attractive early printing of number 51 in the "Modern Library Giant" series (first published 1940), based on jacket early..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, [1980]. Hardcover. Introduction by David Daiches. Illustrations by Wray Manning. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, slipcase. xv, 472pp. Full-page color illustrations. Fine/very good. Touch of irregular sunning to slipcase (only). Tight, handsome later trade edition of the sumptuous 1983 Limited Editions Club..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. vii, 550pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece, 7 full-page illustrations. Very good/fair. Faintest of binding edgewear, with endpapers mildly age toned from jacket contact; jacket edgeworn and edge chipped (mainly along spine), but complete and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xviii, 153pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this "strange story of a war hero who read his own newspaper obituary and sat down in protest to write the naked truth..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 434pp. Near fine/near fine. Second printing of this novel by the "Horse Whisperer" author, signed large and sloppy in purple ink on the title page. More
London: Bantam Press, [1998]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 434pp. Near fine/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear. First English edition, tight and handsome, of this novel set in Hope, Montana, by the "Horse Whisperer" author, signed large and bold by the author in black..... More
London: Dent, [1966]. Hardcover. Edited by William Bray. Preface by Valerie Cromwell. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxx, 406pp, 8pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only, with scuff at upper right of front panel; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight..... More