La Voluntad, Novela
Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1939. Hardcover. Published 1939 (first published 1902), 8vo, flame calf, very good, pages tanning.
Literature
The Young Fair Maidens
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, 1958, hardcover with cloth backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, 246pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with hint of wear to spine ends, binding tight, front endpapers off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with mild.....
Keeping Up With Lizzie
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, cloth in rare pictorial dust jacket, book (with pictorial cloth) is in very good plus condition, owner's 1912 inscription on flyleaf, jacket good plus -- edgewear and a few tears and light soil.
The Essayes -- Easton 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
Norwalk: Easton Press, C. 1980. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, brown full leather gilt, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilded, fine. Introduction by Christopher Morley.
Conspiracy, a Cuban Romance
New York: Worthington, 1885. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, gold cloth gilt, good copy with some wear and soil to covers, stamp of an old New Brighton PA gallery on title page -- twice. The original owner has for whatever reason neatly and lightly gilded the fore-edge and bottom edge of.....
The House of the Fighting-Cocks
New York: Harcourt Brace, nd (c. 1922). First American edition. Hardcover. No date, c. 1922. Presumed First American edition. 306 pp. Hardcover, original brick cloth, 8vo. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Slightest cocking to spine; otherwise a tight, clean and unmarked copy. The DJ is soiled.....
Over the Hills of Ruthenia
London: Leonard Parsons, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1923, hardcover with gray cloth boards, octavo, 245pp., not illustrated. Book VG with toning to spine, hint of wear to corners, binding tight, endpapers foxed and off-set, otherwise text clean and unmarked, with extra spine label tucked in rear. No.....
Robert Bage's Hermsprong; Or, Man As He Is Not
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania Stated University Press, 1982. First edition thus. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 245pp., not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, faint foxing to edges of block. DJ rubbed and toned, mild edgewear, now in archival.....
The Platinum Tower
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (with the A on copyright page), 1939, hardcover with silver stamped green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 254pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers off-set, text clean and unmarked.....
A Double Discovery
Greensburg, PA: Chas. M. Henry & Co., 1906. Hardcover. Black stamped green cloth boards, small octavo [4.75" x 6.75"], sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has moderate soil to boards and spine, wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers foxed, text clean and unmarked, with foxing and soil to.....
Triumphal Entry
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1962. First printing. Yellow cloth boards in dust jacket, inscribed by author, 308pp.
The Land of Rumbelow: A Fable in the Form of a Novel
New York: Charles Scribner, 1963. Hardcover. 1963, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition, with light edge wear. The neatly price clipped Dust Jacket is in Good+ condition, with edge wear, chipping and light handling soil. The price clipped jacket has been freshly enclosed in an.....
The Land of Rumbelow: A Fable in the Form of a Novel
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. Hardcover. 1963, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition. The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear that includes edge wear. The Dust Jacket has been freshly enclosed in an archival gloss Mylar jacket protector...
La Vie et l'Oeuvre de William Shakespeare
Montreal: Les Editions de l'Arbre, 1945. Hardcover. 1945. French text. 260 pp. Hardcover. Handsomely rebound in 3/4 red morocco with marbled boards, 8vo., 5 raised bans and gilt title on spine. Previous owner's signature on front blank; otherwise the contents are absolutely Fine. Bright, clean and unmarked. Light scuffing to.....
The Fire Next Time
New York: Delta Books / Dell, 1963. First Printing. Wraps. First edition in wraps. Trade paperback size, very good, light wear, previous owner's name in ink on first blank. Published in hardcover the year before.
Giovanni's Room
New York: Dell, 1964. First Printing. Wraps. First paperback edition. Very good crisp copy, mildest wear and toning. Dell 2881.
Go Tell It On The Mountain. Facsimile from the First Edition Library
Shelton CT: The First Edition Library, Ca. 1990s. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, in slipcase, fine copy.
Nobody Knows My Name
New York: Dial Press, 1961. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards, no jacket, very good, light wear and rubbing to binding, endpapers show tanning and offsetting, old owner's name on flyleaf, text clean but a little toned throughout.
Nobody Knows My Name - first paperback edition, 1963
New York: Dell, 1963. Paperback. 12mo, paperback, near fine with just a touch of wear, inevitable tanning. Dell 6435, first paperback edition of this classic.
"The world it opens": William Carlos Williams' "The Descent" -- Ordinary No. 1, 1977
(Derry PA): Ernest & Cis Stefanik, 1977. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, fine, 15 pp. A study of a Williams poem that prints some previously unpublished material by WCW. Uncommon.
Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Won: New Evidence from the Account Books of an Elizabethan Bookseller
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1957. Later printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1957. Thin quarto, cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 42 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket, soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, some rubbing and wear to the dust jacket including some chipping.....
Patty Grant, The English Workhouse Girl
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, no date (ca. 1870?). Hardcover. RARE! Only one copy on OCLC! Hardcover with blue cloth boards, no date (ca. 1870?), small octavo, 180pp., illustrated with b&w engravings. Book good with rubbing and mild general soil to boards and spine, corners and spine ends worn, gilt.....
The Jefferson Letters - one of 100 copies signed
Richmond: The Dietz Press, 2001. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Limited first edition (one of 100 printed like this--ours is number 22), 1983. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket in slipcase, 225 pp., clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Fine dust jacket in Fine slipcase. Dust jacket housed in archival.....
Round & Catch
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Department of English, 1984. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, tall octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and toning to wraps, slight bump to spine head, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
About Cathgerine de Medici and Gambara, limited to 100 copies, leatherbound
London: Privately Printed for Members of the Elzevir Society, C. 1901. Hardcover. No. 6 of 100 copies of the Edition De Luxe. Translated by Clara Bell with introduction by George Saintsbury. 8vo, 9 x 6 inches, half dark green morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, gilt stamped & decorated on.....