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(Princeton): (Princeton University), 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Typed manuscript, bound in tan linen with gilt-stamped titles, written in fulfillment of requirements of the English Department for an A.B. degree from Princeton University. Manuscript dated March 26, 1964. 74 double-spaced pages, plus 2 page bibliography, with minor pencilled corrections. Signed by the graduate on the last page of text.

Millerton NY: Aperture, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An Aperture Monograph. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Tidy bookplate front pastedown.

NY: APERTURE, 1981. First Edition (Liimited). Hardcover. Fine/No Dustjacket, as Issued. Smith, Eugene R. (photography of). Collector's edition, an apparently unused copy, as new, full cloth, in moderately solied cloth slipcase. Limited edition, this #310/1000 copies signed by John G. Morris for the Estate of W. Eugene Smith. This copy lacking the original gravure.

NY: Thomas Nelson, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon juvenile retelling of the King David story from the Bible. Author unidentified in this title but deduced from title page declaration "By the author of 'Hetty's Resolve;' ' Great Things Done by Little People;' etc., etc." 8vo, dark blue cloth decorated with pictorial vignette in balck and gold, illustrated with 26 b&w plates, printed in England. Gift inscription dated 1874 in contemporary florid hand. Covers uniformly darkened a bit, moderate wear at corners and hinges, still solidly bound, foxed at prelims and rears. WorldCat lists only 6 collections with this edition with the American title.

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Cheever's two Wapshot titles, both first editions, absent any names, bookplates or inscriptions, both dustjackets unclipped. Chronicle, 1957, dustjacket is moderately worn/chipped about the edges, and the spine a wee sun-faded with some shallow chipping at ends. Scandal, 1964, dustjacket has some incidental wear spine head, otherwise nicely preserved.

London: Collins, 1955. Firts English-language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A three volume set, all first edtions of the English translation, of DeGaulle's WWII memoirs. (The set does not include a documents volume that was published with each book.) Collins published the first part; Weidenfeld and Nicolson published the second and third volumes. Solid copies all around, there are some chips along the edges of some duistjacket and, most notably, one of the dustjacket spines is faded. Each absent any ownership marks. Rather uncommon to find a set of firsts.

NY: Doubleday, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. Inscribed by the legendary Broadway producer (Our Town) Harris on the ffe to Jane Emerson who with her husband Bob ran the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan for many years.

NY: Weathehill, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Shoshitsu, Sen no (forward). Comprehensive work on the Japanese tea ceremony - its philosophy, history and practice - with over 100 illustrations. A fine copy in decorated slipcase.

NY: Coward McCann, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Rare first edition of socialist, Pulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, signed, with obvious sarcasm, on the ffe: "Heil Hitler! E. R. Apr 1933" Rice wrote We, The People as a warning shot to Americans about the rise of Hitler and fascism. Rice was one of the founders in 1938 of the Playwrights' Company, along with Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Kurt Weil and lawyer John F. Wharton. The Adding Machine has been revived in recent years, this uncommon first edition of the play a production of The Theatre Guild. Rare in first edition; the inscription sui generis.

Boston: Fireside/ Simon & Schuster, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/Near Fine -. First edition, issued simultaneously with trade paperback. Inscribed by Norfleet on the ffe, dated Nov 1982. Dustjacket price-clipped, else near fine.

Boston: Fireside/ Simon & Schuster, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. VG+. Softcover as issued, cover lightly soiled. Solid copy.

Cummington MA: Cummington Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Williams, Wightman (title page and cover device). 12mo, original decorated paste-paper boards. One of 380 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Dacian paper. Paper over spine spliit but holding, plus some modest edgewear. Owner bookplate pastedown. Uncommon.

NY: Viking, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. An apparently unread copy in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Neat contemporary (i.e. at time of publication) gift inscription top of pictorial front endpaper.

(NY): West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Fabulous 1931 Art- Deco period trade catalogs cum samplers printed by Westvaco to show off how effectively its paper for printing could be used for commercial and aesthetic purpose. This 1931 series includes all issues for the year, numbers 61 - 70, bound in sleek Art Deco designed green cloth cover stamped in silver, which is moderately worn at edges and smudged/ soiled here and there. Internals fine displaying color printing processes brilliantly. Issue 63, includes a 4-page illustrated article on American typographer and book designer Will Bradley.

Brockport NY: Boa Editions, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine, first trade paperback edition. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. INSCRIBED BY WILBUR and dated 1986 on free front endpaper.

Hamilton OH: The Becket Paper Company, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Covers and top edge a wee soiled, internals near fine. 8vo, 190pp. Part travelogue of European tour of company prez Beckett, part trade catlogoue for his family paper biz. Map laid-in at rear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in near fine dw. A collectibel copy.

London: William Heinemann, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First edition, first printing January 1931. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket. Frontispiece by French artist Jean Emile Laboureur. Rust-colored cloth, slightest wear spine tips. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.

NY: Indian Mountain Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Decorated Cloth. New. Only 26 copies, this #11. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon A charming alphabet book, dealing with all aspects of book collecting and book-making. Housed in purple cloth slipcase, orange cloth with stamped titles iin yellow and blue, endpapers of lavender polka dots on purple field, 26 miniature etchings on copper, 2" square each, colored by pochoir with accompanying text for each entry created by the artist, the text printed in letterpress. Etchings printed by K. Caraccio, text printed by Sun Hill Press, printed on Rives Heavyweight Buff paper, bound by Hope Bindery & Box. Copies in the special collections of UT at El Paso and NYPL. Other limited editions by Franklin have been acquired by the Houghton Librray (Harvard), Sterling Librray (Yale), Brown University among others.

NY: Duffield and Green, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good -. Scarce first American edition of Scotsman George Malcolm Thomas' defensive treatise on the righteousness of whisky. Copyright page states First American Edition. Printed in Scotland by Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd The University of Glasgow. 8vo, (8), 9-135, mauve cloth, single blind-ruled, gilt spine titles. Uncliipped dustjacket with a shallow strip missing front panel top edge and tow thumb-sized pieces missing real panel. Small smudge front panel. Internals near fine. No names, inscriptions, etc.