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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with yellow/orange lettering on spine and front. Very slightly spine cocked. Blue and white floral endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chips at spine ends, corners, and with a small chip to top edge of front panel; spine darkened and scuffed; not price clipped ($2.50); partial splits at hinges (three very small pieces of archival tissue on verso); in an archival mylar sleeve. 349 pages. Faulkner's second novel.

San Antonio, Texas: Shepard Bros. & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind with gilt pictorial on front cover. Light wear to boards. Front inner hinge shows mild cracking, but is still firm. Previous owner's name on ffep and at head of ch. 2. Light colored-pencil scribbles on copyright page and in the margins of page 18. Some instances of minor page soiling, else generally clean. Nine in-text illustrations. pp. [2], 411, [5 blank]. [Jenkins BTB 192, Howes S801, Graff 3909]. An important primary source for Texas Indian Wars and pioneer history, written by Andrew Jackson ''Jack'' Sowell (1848-1921), who had served as a Texas Ranger and was also the son of a Texas Ranger. Per the historian, bibliographer, and former ABAA president, John H. Jenkins, this is ''one of the basic sources on the vicissitudes of the pioneer settlers in Texas, this work contains numerous accounts gathered from… Leer más

Simi Valley, CA: [privately published], 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Two volumes, each inscribed by the author. Stated First edition, first printings, March 1989. Velo-bound. A couple small spots of tea splash on fore-edge of one volume, else clean and unmarked. Approximately 500 & 300 leaves, printed on rectos only. 11 x 8.5 inches. Three copies noted on OCLC (Wheaton, Marquette, Bowling Green). Inscribed by Paul Nolan Hyde on preface pages, ''Bruce / I hope these / benefit you. I think / now you have everything I / do that is in print. It is a / bit overwhelming, but perhaps / useful after all. / [signature]'' and ''Bruce, / I think that / your enthusiasm for Tolkien's / linguistics may have overcome / you. It is not a totally unpleasant / disease. / [signature].'' Hyde's reverse dictionary of Tolkien's Middle-earth languages, like his seven-volume A Working Tolkien Glossary that consisted of four copies, is also… Leer más

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, first printing (February, 1935). Original brown foliage-pattern embossed cloth stamped in pale green. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; small area of light soiling at top lip of a few pages (mostly ffep and half-title pages, more slightly to title page); small spot of soiling in side-margin of about eight consecutive pages, else interior clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($2.00); chipped at foot of spine and shallow chipping at head of spine; spine faded, marked and lightly soiled; light surface blemishes; in an archival mylar sleeve. 275 pages.

New York: Random House, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed on ffep ''For Nanna / from / Oakley / Iowa City, 1950''. Stated First Printing. A few spots of surface damage (front cover and spine). Tide mark on front cover. Ends of spine lightly worn, publisher's name at foot of spine rubbed. Internally clean. 302 pages. In an archival mylar wrapper. A signed copy of Oakley Hall's scarce second novel. [We made some effort to make an educated guess as to the identity of Nanna. His grandmothers were ruled out, as both were deceased prior to 1950, as was his wife's maternal grandmother. If it was a grandmother, it could have been his wife's paternal grandmother, Mary Ulysses (nee Johnston) Edinger (1865-1953), or alternatively his wife's step-mother's mother whose identity we could not confirm.]

London: Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Niroot Puttapipat. Limited to 1000 copies [445/1000] with an original etching signed and numbered by Niroot Puttapipat. Hand-bound in vellum blocked in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips. Gilt top edge. Fine in fine clamshell box. Introduced by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. pp. 195, [1]. 32 x 24 cm.

Boston - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s.… Leer más

New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good-/Fair. First American edition. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black and silver. Boards are soiled and worn. Fore-edge of text block stained (not affecting page-faces). Interior is unmarked; a few pages have spots of soiling, else clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition: front panel is chipped; rear panel is very grubby and has damage; old repairs on reverse; not price clipped ($2.50); in a clear archival sleeve. The rear panel of the jacket shows a biographical sketch of the author by Malcolm Cowley. 238 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Rare in dust jacket. Robert Coates' first novel, The Eater of Darkness, was first published in Paris by Contact Editions in 1926. This is the first American edition, as issued by the Macaulay Company.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Roy Sanford. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed and dated 6/12/88 by Bradbury on ffep. First British edition. Pale sage-colored cloth, light toning around cloth edges. Natural staining to free endpapers. Pages show some foxing (most noticeably to the first twenty pages and along the fore-edge of the text block). Dust jacket chipped at head of spine and at corners; spine toned; short closed tear to top edge of front panel; rear panel shows spotting and general soiling; price clipped; in a clear archival sleeve. Dust wrapper illustration by Roy Sanford. x, 231, [1] pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. The first British edition of The Martian Chronicles, differing from the American edition by including ''The Fire Balloons'' and omitting ''Usher II''.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. Alexander Calder. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Calder on ffep. Stated first edition of 700 copies (this copy is not numbered). Brown cloth spine with red lettering; yellow papered boards, pictorially stamped on front and rear covers. Exposed board at spine ends and corners. Short non-authorial gift inscription on flyleaf. Dust jacket spine is toned, has some large chips and is very fragile; hinges split (very light archival tissue mending on reverse); front and rear panels show light edgewear and have toning around edges; not price clipped ($12.50); in a clear archival sleeve. 4to. xviii, [4], 130, [6] pages. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. The inscription reads: ''2 (or 4) / A Silver Anniversary / A Calder''. Calder's 85 drawings were executed in the spring of 1944. Printed by S. A. Jacobs at The Golden Eagle Press, Mt. Vernon, in Granjon type, on Arnold Unbleached paper. Rhymes from Mother Goose and other… Leer más

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894. Hardcover. Near Fine. Attractively rebound is black leather. Gilt lettered spine, headbands and new endpapers. Minor scuffing. Pages are square, clean and, aside from a small physician's rubber stamp in the margin of one page, unmarked. pp. xvi, 1079, plus [6] ads and Appleton's 8 page October 1894 catalog of Medical and Hygienic Works. A very nice first edition (third issue) of William Osler's enormously influential medical textbook. Osler, a founding professor and the first Physician-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, wrote his textbook in 1891 in what is now known as the Osler Textbook Room, located in the Billings Building (the original hospital). The Principles and Practice of Medicine literally changed the face of the medicine and was to remain the world's most significant medical textbook until the late-1920s.

[Boulder, Colorado]: [Naropa Institute], 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Signed by Author(s). One of 50 copies, this being number 6. Signed by all eight contributors. Eight 11 x 8.5 inch broadsides, each signed and numbered by the respective author. Housed in a die-cut and sewn stiff paper slipcase with two silver star rivets. The slipcase is heavily water-stained on both sides and shows some wear along the top edge. The Ginsberg piece has red bleedthrough in its top and fore-edge margins, otherwise the broadsides are all in near fine condition. The Ginsberg piece was signed using his translated Buddhist name ''Dharma Lion Peace Heart''.

Peking: Poplar-Island Press, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition, this being #75 of 150 copies. Folio volume with illustrated card-board covers. Housed in a blue cloth portfolio box with traditional bone-fastenings. Printed on seven 19 x 24 inch sheets. Six of the illustrations on double-page spreads. With loose tissue dividers. 16 ff. Boards and slipcase are in VG condition. Leaves are fine/near fine; tissue guards wrinkled. Eight copies located on OCLC (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, six universities). Seven illustrations from the scroll of Ma Yuan (ca. 1160-1225), the famous master of Chinese painting of the Song Dynasty, that depicted in detail and in continuation the daily life of fishermen and peasants. The series as issued here includes the image that ends the scroll, speculated to be a self-portrait of the artist. Mr. Tu Tien-San, a Peking artist, reproduced on a graphic stone the pictures with brush and Chinese ink according to the manner of the original. The… Leer más

London: J. Hogarth, 5 Haymarket, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Rebound in quarter black leather with green faux-leather cloth sides. Spine gilt stamped (matching call number), with raised bands. Outer hinges rubbed. Library bookplate on front pastedowns. Pinhole library stamps on title pages, dedication page, and on one additional text-only leaf in each volume. Edges of leaves are toned; scattered foxing; dampstains in the margin of the first four plates in Vol. II. Tissue guards are present for all but a couple plates. A few leaves loose. Errata-page for both volumes at terminus of Vol. II. Ninety-six engraved plates, complete. Vol. I 98 ff.; Vol. II 102 ff. Folio. 14.25 x 10.5 inches. Scarce. Though ex-library, still an attractive set. Each of the portraits is followed by one or two pages of text describing the her family. Dedicated by William and Edward Finden to Her Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager.

New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Arthur Rackham. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on both the half-title page and the front panel of the dust jacket, plus her notations on the copyright page and her addition of one additional title to the ''by the same author'' list that precedes the foreword. Blue cloth boards pictorially stamped in black on the front cover. Very mild wear to edges of cloth. The interior, aside from a few minor smudges, is clean and unmarked. Bottom right corner of title page appears a little crumpled. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and corners; a few short closed tears; shows general soiling; price on spine ($1.75 net); in a clear archival sleeve. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 13 illustrated plates (three, including frontispiece, are color). viii, (9)-78 pages. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Scarce in jacket. Inscription reads: ''To the young folks of the / Beverly Hills Public Library / from the author / Julia… Leer más

Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Boards in green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean and unmarked. Bindings tight. Some rubbing to spines. Head of spine pushed on final volume. An attractive set.

New York - London: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by White on ffep. Second Edition (with Harper code 'I-N' for September 1938). Green cloth boards stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Light blemish on front cover in upper right corner; spine corners rubbed. Interior is clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($2.00); bottom edge may have been trimmed; light chipping; partially torn along rear hinge; in an archival mylar sleeve. ix, 137, [1] pages. Inscribed ''This book is the property of: / [framed owner's name] / but I can never forget / that I wrote it. / E. B White / Christmas 1938''.

London: Richard Bentley, 1841. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition in two volumes. Bound in three-quarter calf with marbled-paper sides over boards. Raised bands with gilt lettered red and black spine labels. Bindings show light wear. Some light foxing, else internally very clean. Illustrated frontispiece in each volume. pp. xvi, 473 [&] xi, 372. [per Howes M913: ''best account of the Pawnees while yet uncontaminated by whites'']. A descriptive travelogue through North America, including several months amongst the Pawnee tribe, during the years 1834-1836, as experienced by the future British diplomat Sir Charles Augustus Murray (1806-1895).

Leeds: John Fossey / 156, Briggate, 1848. No Binding. Very Good. Large broadside. 66-line poem printed within ornamental woodcut borders. 17.75 x 11 inches. Tipped to acid-free board at upper edge, with matting (22.5 x 15.75 inches). Margins shows some chipping, fraying; one repair to verso (about 2'', archival tape), some light creasing and age-toning. Ready for framing. Rare. One copy located on OCLC. A poetic reverie. John Frederick Fossey (b. 1826) was a Leeds tobacconist with a shop located at 156 Briggate throughout the 1840s. [He is noted at this address in both the 1842 and 1847 editions of the ''Directory of Leeds & the Clothing District.'' Both Fossey and his mother Catharine Fossey are identified as Leeds tobacconists in the 1851 UK census. By 1853, it appears that he may have removed to London, as only his mother is identified as the tobacconist at 156 Briggate in that year's ''White's Directory and Gazetteer of Leeds'' and the 1860 ''Post Office London Directory'' lists a John Frederick… Leer más

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Early printing of du Maurier's first novel with rare dust jacket. Boards in green cloth stamped in dark green on spine and front cover. Head of spine pushed and sunned, else near fine. Internally very clean. The dust jacket is from 1932 and states ''Her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit'' which we published last year...'', has a green and gold design with black lettering, a front pictorial that matches that on the front board, and the rear panel provides a portrait and short bio of du Marier; no price on front flap (probable book club issue). Jacket has light chipping at head of spine; spine faded; minor soiling on rear panel; in archival mylar sleeve. 365 pages. Du Maurier's first novel was written in 1929 at Ferryside, the du Maurier family's holiday home in Cornwall, located in the village of Bodinnick, just opposite Fowey. The Loving Spirit is a family… Leer más