Chicago (1920): Reilly & Lee. John R. Neill. First Edition. The earliest printing of the first edition, with perfect type on page 150; with 12 full-color illustrations and "Glinda of Oz" on verso of half-title. 279 pages, full color label on front panel. Pictorial end papers in black and white... More about Glinda of Oz
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine, marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge... More about SARTOR RESARTUS. In Three Books
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First Edition. 12mo, 76 pages; original printed boards. Author's first trade publication, one of 500 copies printed. Light, occasional foxing on some leaves. Bookplate, neat owner name on front end paper, news article affixed to front free end paper. Housed in a handsome quarter-leather slipcase, with chemise. More about The Black Riders and Other Lines
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition. in the original 6 monthly parts, in green printed wrappers. A fine set, with ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver; notable are the famous "Cork Hats" ad in part II and the elusive "Chapman & Hall" ad in part V.... More about The Mystery of Edwin Drood (In Original Monthly parts); with ALL the Ads Called for
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. First Edition. Octavo. Original maroon morocco-grained cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; two volumes, brown coated endpapers. Easily, a very good, unsophistocated copy of the author's first book, now quite scarce in the original cloth. Internally clean and bright, with... More about Scenes of Clerical Life
New York (1958 - 63 - 74): Random House. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. First printings, all in first issue dust jackets. INSCRIBED IN VOLUME 1 TO ANNE MERIWETHER. An exceptional set, in 3 volumes: volume I, Ft. Sumter to Perryville, with "11/58" on rear flap of dust... More about The Civil War. Inscribed to Anne Meriwether
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1969. First Edition. Small Octavo. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY SUE GRAFTON without personalization. Signing witness by bookseller, Charles Parkhurst. Bound in original orange boards, spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket, with price in pounds sterling on front flap. Author's second and rarest book. Only... More about THE LOLLY-MADONNA WAR with Original Publisher's Contract for Book
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 216 pp. More about AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN
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New York / Concord: Lane & Scott / Rufus Merrill. First Edition. 3" X 4 1/4" Two lovely children's books in a marvelous wooden box made in Romania, with color illustration of a girl on the hinged front cover; "The Wolf Hunt and the Blue Bird, (1851) 20 pages, marbled... More about THE WOLF HUNT AND THE BLUE BIRD [TOGETHER WITH] CHILD'S PICTURE BOOK
New York, Akron, O (1916): The Saalfield Publishing Company. Early edition, 12mo, 22 pages, all printed on muslin cloth, sewn at spine; beautifully illustrated in color. Internally clean and bright; a lovely and durable copy. More about The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1945. Printed Wrapper. Quarto. A complete copy of the rare Litho-print issue, of the Smyth Report. (193)pp., Single sheets, stapled, with textured cream-colored wrappers. The following litho-printed on the front: "Released for Publication on__________." As professor Smyth states, the litho-printing was done, under heavy security... More about A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes...
New York: The American Magazine, 1938. First Edition. octavo; it looks like a book, and it has a dust jacket, but it's a box containing 36 cards - 34 recipe cards, a "note" from Nero Wolfe card and a menu card. The box has a red cloth binding and the... More about Too Many Cooks. With a Collection of Nero Wolfe Recipe Cards Inside
Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759. First Edition. Full Leather. The third of the first four editions, according to Bengesco, 1436, and the fourth edition, according to Wade (see Voltaire and Candide, 1959, p. 201), dated 1759 with 299 pages, clandestinely printed and published by Cramer in Geneva and preceeding the other... More about Candide, Ou L'optimisme, Traduit De L'allemand De Mr. Le Docteur Ralph