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Garden City and New York: Doubleday Page and Company, 1925 Reprint, dated 1925. Part of a Christopher Morley Series by Doubleday Page first issued by this publisher in 1917. Flexible cover of full red sheepskin with author's initials blocked in gold to front, and title along spine, top edge gilt, cream end papers, rubricated title page, 190pp. CONDITION: Very Good Plus (or better, really.) One bumped corner to front. A few slight scratch marks to covers, which are generally superficial. Else, clean and bright, no signs of foxing. One quarter-inch stain on outside bottom edge of text block. Board edges and corners are pristine.**This is the very famous first of two biblio-mysteries by Morley featuring Roger Mifflin, first published 1917. This is a *hugely entertaining* read to the publisher, bookseller or book lover, with many "in-jokes" found in the character's names and peccadilloes. Mifflin's traveling book store, "Parnassus" is modeled on a brightly painted, horse-drawn tinker's wagon with living… Leer más

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1965 Hardcover. SIGNED by artist, Frank Utpatel to front free endpaper. Black cloth "Novelex" binding with gold lettering to spine. With original, un-clipped dust jacket. Octavo (5 ⅛" x 7 ⅜"). 54pp. *** Publisher Arkham House was established in 1939 in Sauk City, Wisconsin, by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei specifically to publish stories by H.P. Lovecraft and others whose works had mostly been printed in the "Weird Tales" magazine and remained unavailable in book form. *** Clark Ashton Smith was a poet and a sculptor, before gaining popularity as a short-story writer for "Weird Tales". This collection of "Prose Poems" consists of very short tales in the manner of Kafka or Lord Dunsany, and conjures up dreamscapes and visions of beauty and loss. *** The dust jacket design and 12 full-page illustrations are by Wisconsin artist, Frank Utpatel, who was a prolific book illustrator at Arkham House and elsewhere. *** Condition: A Fine, fresh copy with no ownership… Leer más

Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971 Hard cover in green cloth, small 8vo., 1 -310pp., 311-609pp. A compendium of international bibliographies as particularly concerning printing from its earliest typographical forms. In English, German, French and Italian.**CONDITION: Fine. **Compiler Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman (1904 - 1976) was a psychical researcher as well as a bibliographer. His former work involved the careful debunking of many of the claims made by clairvoyants as the investigating officer for the Society for Psychical Research. After one of his critical studies was published in book form, the author Arthur Conan Doyle (who was an avid fan of the paranormal) resigned from the Society. Besterman also became a Voltaire scholar, publishing 107 volumes of Voltaire's letters, and bequesting his collection to the University of Oxford. OCLC 204391.. First Edition . Hard Cover. Fine.

Los Angeles: DF2 Gallery, 2007 Hard cover, quarto, 81pp. COndition: Fine. Catalogue book published in conjunction with the exhibition "PATIENT" at F2 Gallery, Beijing, China November 17, 2007 - January 14, 2008. Text in English and Chinese.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

New York: Arrow Publishing Company, 1916 Hard cover with dust jacket, 8 vo., in green cloth with gilt titles, green stained edges to text block, 236 pp., plus 2pp. adverts. "With a Reminiscence and a Forward by George Jean Nathan. Frontispiece photo of the author. Eleanor Gates (1874-1951) was an author, journalist and dramatist, and this was her most famous work. Seven of her works were staged on Broadway. She founded the first woman-owned film production company, the Liberty Feature Film Company, in 1915. Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Mary Pickford was released in 1917, one of the two films the company brought out. (Shirley Temple would reprise the role in a1936 re-make.) Condition: Near Fine. No foxing. Bright and tight. Dust Jacket is Very Good, showing some darkening and wear to spine, and minor soiling. Unclipped.. First Theatrical Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine /Very Good.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1914 Printed by Horace Hart, Printer to the University. Hard cover, small 8vo (4 3/4 x 7 1/8 inches), in blue cloth, blind stamped borders and Oxford insignia in gilt to center front, the spine with lateral banding in blind and titles in gilt. Frontispiece author portrait with facsimile signature, on wove paper, 371 pp. Condition: Very Good Plus. Spine is sunned. Ownership signature to ffep in ink, and another embossed. Otherwise, the book is clean and sound, lightly age toned. Includes Chief Dates, Notes and Index of First Lines. American Poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), born in central Massachusetts, considered one of the Fireside Poets. First trained as a lawyer, he was drawn to the literary life under the influence of some of England's romantic poets. This volume includes some of his most famous early works, such as "Thanatopsis,"and "To a Waterfowl.". Oxford Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus.

London: Edward Moxon, 1832 Hard cover, 8vo (measuring 5 ¾ x 8 ¾ inches) in a lovely Arts and Crafts style fine re-binding of full, crushed green morocco, top edge gilt, with gilt decoration of ivy leaves, dots and gilt rule to both boards, the spine in six raised compartments with matching decoration and titles in gilt. The signed binding has a gilt pallet stamp to the front turn-in.: "Bound by Worsfold." This is presumed to date from the early twentieth century, matching other documented examples. The original cloth binding has been bound in at the rear. An engraved armorial bookplate of collector Charles Waterman Armour appears on the front pastedown. Printed by Bradbury and Evans, London. Collation: (lx), 361, (12). The author, James Henry LEIGH HUNT (1784-1859) was an impassioned defender of the abolition of the slave trade, as well as parliamentary and criminal reform in his capacity as a journalist and critic. He was highly influential in promoting the work of the British Romantic poets… Leer más

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., Successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1869 Stated 1869 reprint. [Copyright 1857 Ticknor & Fields] Hard cover , 24mo. in a contemporary re-binding of full leather blind stamped with triple ruled border featuring a design of Gothic-style interlaced circles with floral decoration, the spine with five raised bands and the title blocked in gold, marbled end papers with the dentelles and board edges blocked in gold, all edges gilt, and tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the Author, viii plus 395 and vi plus 420 pp. There are included text annotations at the end of each volume. **Condition: Very Good. Some marks, one scuff, to covers. Light rubbing at foot of both spines, and along one raised band of Vol. 2. Dent at top edge where Vol 1 was likely tied together at some point (?). Sign of some pooling water damage to very bottom of front pastedown of Vol. 1 causing minor bubble (--house was involved in a fire in the 1950's causing books to be hastily rescued. ) A… Leer más

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1904 Hard cover, 12 mo, (4 3/4 x 7 inches), in blue crushed morocco with a single gilt border, 5 raised bands enclosing compartments with gilt titles and three alternating, slightly differing, pomegranate motifs, gilt dentelles, watercolor effect paste downs, signature to front pastedown, all edges gilt, gilt indentations decorating the head and foot of spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait, and printed on very thin India paper. (xxxii), 976pp., in a two-column arrangement. Condition: Near Fine, with light age toning to the text. A few tiny closed tears to fore-edges of pages, including title page - please see photos. *** The work includes a biographical sketch by the editor, and is anthologized chronologically and has an index of first lines. The pomegranate iconography was a favorite of the Romantic poets and painters of this period. The editor describes this as the first authoritative "single volume of convenient size and modest price." This… Leer más

Manchester, Mass.: privately printed, 1981 Hard cover, oblong 8vo, A view book of old and contemporary photographs of Manchester-By-The Sea. Second Printing. Historic coastal community on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Condition: Very light foxing seen on half-title. A few very light marks to covers.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1996 Hard cover, 8vo., 710pp. Facsimiles of old catalogues of Harvard's Library. Condition: Near Fine in like dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: Wiley & Halsted , 1858 First Edition Thus. Hard cover, 12 mo., in publisher's brown cloth with gilt image of a painter's pallet to center of the front board, and a band of blind-stamped filigree decoration. Collation: ix, [11]-125, and a 4pp. publisher's catalogue, listing a further seven of Ruskin's works. Condition: Good. Externally, an inch long cloth repair at head of spine. Internally, there is some foxing, most pronounced to end papers. Pages browned at margins, with scattered foxing. Old ink owner's signature dated 1858 upon front fly. This was possibly the first American edition of Ruskin's lectures in Manchester, England delivered July, 10th and 13th, 1857. (Not listed in Watson.) OCLC No. 669960746.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.

Pepperell, Mass.: Published by Author, 1982 Hard cover 8vo., (measuring 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches) in terracotta cloth with gold title to spine, 220pp. Number 30/1000. Signed by author on the limitation page. History of the founders and settlement of Pepperrell, Massachusetts from the 1640's. The British Author, Virginia Browne-Wilkinson, tells the story of the Pepperrell family both in England, and then in North America. Many illustrations and geneological information. . Signed by author. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Bombay: Henry Froude, Oxford University Press, 1912 Hard cover, 8vo, finely bound (no signature) in three-quarter green morocco over green cloth gilt, the spine with five raised bands, with compartments tooled with a central roundel, leaf motifs to corners, joined by lines of small circles. Top edge gilt, new marbled end papers and prelims, a modern bookplate to prelims, laid in tissue guard to the frontispiece author photogravure portrait, text in two columns. Contents iii-vi, Poems 1-614, Appendix 615-619pp. Green silk ribbon bookmark intact.**CONDITION: Near Fine. Sunning and oxidation to the spine has faded it to brown, also seen partially at top of boards, both front and rear. Lightly worn corners (two bumped,) polish offset to endpapers from the turn-ins. Very light foxing to new prelims. Hinges and joints in order. Pages are otherwise clean, bright and the binding firm. **American Fireside Poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was descended from first… Leer más

Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, 1895 Hard cover, 8 vo, in a contemporary fine binding of full morocco with five raised bands, each of which is ruled with a hot tool into a hinge shape extending onto the front and rear boards, at each terminal point accentuated by three gilt dots. The turn-ins are ruled with a single band of hot tooling. Marbled end papers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, with no book binders signature apparent. Collation xiv, (4), 296 pp., (4), First Edition, limited to 250 copies. Colophon: "Edited by F.S. Ellis from the text of the/ edition put forth by the author in 1648. Printed by William Morris, at the Kelmscott Press, Upper/ Mall, Hammersmith, London, W., and finished/ on the 21st day of November, 1895./ Sold by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press." Printed on Flower paper, in black and red, using Golden typeface. The wood engraved borders and more than three hundred decorative initial capitals all designed by William Morris. **Condition: Near Fine. The endcap… Leer más

Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers Inc, 1992 Soft cover, quarto, 112pp. Extensive bibliography of Japanese politics and economics. Condition: Near Fine. Light shelf wear and light marks to back cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., Sucessors to Ticknor and Fields., 1869 Reprint. Hard cover 24 mo, in contemporary rebinding of full leather blind-stamped with triple-ruled border featuring a design of Gothic-style interlaced circles with floral decoration, the spine with five raised bands and the title blocked in gold, marbled end papers with the dentelles and board edges blocked in gold, all edges gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait of the Author, xi, (1-5) 6-410 pp., stated Fifteenth Edition.**Condition: Very Good. Some old black ink stains to both boards. Very light rubbing to two corners. Original owner's signature in pencil to ffep., small Washington DC. bookseller's label to front pastedown. Gentle age toning, moderate to title page, otherwise very clean and tight.**This work is an anthology of the beloved Boston-born Poet, physician and all round man of letters, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894.) Included are: Poetry: a Metrical Essay (1836); Miscellaneous Poems ( 1830… Leer más

Luxembourg: Euroeditor International Publishers, 1997 Trade paperback. 8vo. 151pp. English text. Condition: Near Fine. ** Book of (translated) letters between Ivar Vidrik Ivask (1927 - 1992), an Estonian poet, and Mimmo Marina (1933 - ), the founder of the literary magazine NEeuropa. It mentions trips to America, the Neustadt International Prize, and much talk of literature.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Florence, Italy: V. Brown-Wilkinson, 1982 Hard cover, octavo (measuring 5 1/4 x 8 1/5 inches), in red cloth with gold title to spine, 220pp. Includes 2 fold-out geneological charts, original paper wraps bound in, index and bibliography. Signed and inscribed by Author on limitation page. Number 32/1000. Copies were made available directly from the Author at an address in Florence, Italy. This history uses original correspondence and photographic reproductions to highlight rthe significant achievements of the earliest generations of William Pepperrells to arrive from England to America in the seventeenth century, originally settling at the Isles of Shoals off the Maine/New Hampshire coast, (then part of Massachusetts).The book's British author, historian Victoria Brown-Wilkinson offers a British perspective on the colonial period. Discussed are William Pepperell I (1648-1734); William Pepperell II ,"The Victor of Louisbourg" (1696-1759) , a key battle prior to the War for Independence; and William… Leer más

Minneapolis: Ross and Haines, 1967 Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles blocked to spine in brown, xii plus 379 pp. Folded map laid in. An un-numbered Limited Edition facsimile of the original publication of 1838. In original, price-clipped dust jacket and protective mylar. Condition: Fine. D/J is Very Good Plus with sunning to spine. **The Massachusetts-born Author, Rev. Samuel A.M. Parker (1779-1866) was the first Presbyterian missionary in the Northwest. He trained at the Andover Theological Seminary, the training ground of a number of notable Christian missionaries despatched in the nineteenth century from Massachusetts to places such as China, India and other far-flung locales. The volume describes his travels begun in 1835 under Fontenelle of the American Fur Company. His observations are described as a valuable resource on the tribes he encounters, the descriptions of the land, its agriculture, animal life and geology. The map shows the earliest representation of interior Oregon. (The… Leer más