![John Gay: Poetry and Prose--Volumes I and II [Two volume complete set]. John Gay, Vinton A. Dearing](/pictures/thumb/B49038.jpg?v=1614720005)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974. Hardcover. Two volume complete set! Blue cloth boards in dust jackets, octavos, 659pp., not illustrated. Books have handsome boards showing only hint of wear, bindings tight, texts clean and unmarked. DJs have faint sun to spines, front flaps price clipped, now in archival mylar wraps.....
New York: Octagon Books, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. Gilt stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, 317pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing and soil to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Paris: Minuit, 1969. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 392pp., not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and toning, two small sticker ghosts to front panel, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Text in French.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1967. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 256pp., not illustrated. Book has gentle toning and rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 273pp., not illustrated. Book has sun to spine, hint of wear to corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1972. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 427pp., not illustrated. Book has sun to spine, mild rubbing and toning, binding tight, text has some erasable pencil marginalia scattered throughout. No DJ.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. Third printing. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, octavo, 466pp., not illustrated. Book has toning and soil to boards and spine, rubbing and mild cornerwear, binding tender with cracked inner front hinge, text clean and unmarked, faint soil to foredges of text block. No DJ...
Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2007. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, octavo, 433pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome wrap and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Light edge curling to front cover, affecting approximately first 22 pages. Contents remain bright and clean.
Niles, IL: Argus Communications, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, tan cloth, no dust jacket. Book is warmly inscribed by author to half title page, with contents clean. Remnants of tape to front pastedown and mild discoloration to edges of text block. Mild wear to exterior includes shallow bumping to spine.....
Franklin County, PA (?): 1836. 7.75 x 6.25 inches, leather backed decorated paper covered boards, very good with some light loss of paper to boards, contents very good. 121 pages filled in with instructions for making chemical and metallurgical concoctions, including working with gold, silver, copper, gum arabic, mercury, saltpeter.....
![Under-Woods, Consisting of Divers Poems [or Underwoods]. Ben Johnson](/pictures/thumb/H16007.JPG?v=1614643576)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1905. First printing. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, on handmade paper. 9 x 7 inches, parchment backed boards, good copy, some cloth restoration to spine, retains original parchment label on front cover, contents very good, very handsome printing, reminiscent of Kelmscott typography. First published in 1640.....
London: Bradbury, Evans, 1866. Hardcover. First illustrated edition with Keene illustrations and chromolithograph frontispiece. Large 8vo, finely bound in polished warm brown calf, very good, some darkening and dulling to spine, boards with some darkening and discoloration, contents very good and printed on an unusual pale green paper. With bookplates.....
London: John Lane, 1924. First printing. Hardcover. First edition of the illustrated version, small quarto, pictorial cloth, very good, minor wear to top of front outer joint, endpapers a little foxed, owner's signature in pencil. The plates are lovely.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1961. First printing. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, this one initialed by the printers, Vivien and Mallette Dean. Tall 8vo, cloth backed decorated boards, bookplate of James Strohn Copley (1916-1973, a San Diego newspaper publisher with strong conservative links and credentials), else fine.....
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., 1949. First printing. Hardcover. No. 812 of 1500 signed by Kent. Tall 8vo, 2 volumes in brick cloth gilt, near fine (just a touch of spine mellowing) in very good slipcase with some darkening and shelfwear but much less so than usually encountered. A......
Las Vegas: 1882 (?). 11 x 8.5, in tanning wove paper, good with some short repaired tears, bottom edge with some staining and darkening. Possibly from 1882, but probably not, however, it does give off the vibe of having been printed at least a hundred years ago and is substantially.....
Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1996. Hardcover. Volume 1 only. 8vo, green cloth, no dust jacket. Book is ex-library with library markings including stickers to foot of spine and rear flyleaf; sticker residue to rear flyleaf and rear board; and stamping to front pastedown, edges of text block, and Table.....
Minneapolis, MN: University Of Minnesota Press, 1986. Second printing. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Gift inscription to half title page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Mild shelfwear to wraps, including sunning to spine.
London: Routledge, 1999. Second edition. Paperback. Large 8vo, paperback, 610 pp. Mild shelfwear to covers, with contents largely clean. Underlining spotted on one page, but remaining text appears to be free of markings. NOTE: This book is thick and may incur extra postage.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Light shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean. Wear to covers includes light corner curling and short closed tear to fore-edge of front cover.
New York: Graduate School CUNY, [1986]. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Text in English. Mild shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean.
London: Routledge, 1999. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Light shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean and unmarked.
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1998. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Mild shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean. Price sticker to rear cover.
London: Verso, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth in dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear to book in like jacket, with contents clean. Very shallow wear to foot of spine on unclipped dust jacket.