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 (first issue). 279 pages, full color label on front panel. Pictorial end papers in black..... More
Indianapolis (1929): Bobbs-Merrill Company. early printing, without "First Edition" on the copyright page; INSCRIBED in the year of publication, to fellow author Joseph C. Lincoln [Together with] an early printing (1911) of "Cap'n Warren's Wards" in a very good+ dust jacket, by Mr. Lincoln. Publisher's gray cloth, printed in orange..... More
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
Boston; 1948-1953: Houghton Mifflin Co. First American Edition. Octavo. Complete in six volumes, the True First Edition, published months before the Brtiish edition. Dust jackets, with strong, vibrant colors. First printings of books and dust jackets, with price of $6.00 on front flaps (volume VI is price-clipped). Vol. #1 THE..... More
New York, 1933-38: Charles Scribner's Sons. First American Edition. All first printings, with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright pages; dust jackets are all unclipped, very good to near fine. "Churchill's biography of his illustrious ancestor, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. A lovely set, much scarcer than the British edition..... More
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..... More
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
London (1883-1895 & 1897): George Routledge & Sons; J. M. Dent & Co. First Edition. A complete set of the Almanacks, including some varieties we have not seen; 17 volumes, one in dust jacket (1886). Almanack for 1883-1895. London; George Routledge & Sons, 1883-1895 (none was issued for 1896), together..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. First issue, xi[3]310 pages; original green cloth, lettered in black and horse head in red on front panel. Now quite scarce on the market, a true first printing of the first edition, with "1926" on title page, 3 ines on the copyright..... More
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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
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First Edition. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo, 325 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. A beautiful, unused copy; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. More
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
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American Edition, First Issue. Small Octavo. First English translation. Three volumes in six, translated from the French by Clara Bell. First issue, each with the Gottsberger imprint on the verso of the title page (First Set, Before Tilsit) Vol. 1; 322pp. (6)pp. ads..... More
Paderborn (German) Nd. (ca.1885): Ferdinand Schoningh. Hard Cover. 12mo. Later printing first published in 1878, 381pp., beautifully bound in blue pictorial gilt cloth over beveled boards, spine gilt and top edge gilt, decorative gold endpapers, ribbon marker. A fine, bright copy. The author was a popular Westphalian Catholic poet who..... More