Libros raros de Waugh Books

Boston: Little, Brown, 1961. Stated First edition. hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and black boards, with gilt lettering. 337 pages. An Advance Review Copy in promotional dust-jacket. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. Spine [blank] and flap folds of dust-jacket are slightly toned, with a tiny chip at spine tail. A Fine copy in special dust-jacket of Yates' first novel.

Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1887. First edition. hardcover. Very Good. Large folio. [18" X 15"] Spine and corners rebound over original brick red boards. Original gilt titles on front cover. New gilt title on spine. New end papers. 339 numbered pages, including text, plates (with b/w lithographs depicting Kansas ranches, livestock, architecture, and other scenes), and approximately 300 hand colored maps, with 25 colored folding maps. "Compliments of The Bankers Loan & Trust Co., Kirwin, Kansas" stamped in gilt above title on front cover. Rear cover shows wear. Light damp stain to top of title page. Slight edge wear to initial and last pages. A very solid, and handsome copy of the original edition one of the grand state atlases of the 19th century. Due to size and weight, international shipping will require additional postage.

Yosemite National Park / Boston: Virginia Adams / Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Folio. Black card stock covers, with white lettering and EW decoration on front cover. White comb spiral binding. 79 pages, with 30 full page b/w photographic plates and excerpts from Weston's daybooks. Wear to all four corners, and scrapes at top of rear cover. Small repair to top of comb binding. Small ghost of sticker removal at top corner of Front FEP. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$10.00" price intact) is in one piece, but has loss at both spine ends, at middle of spine, and at bottom corner of both panels at spine. The dust-jacket also has a horizontal crease across middle (where it was folded and tucked inside book). Due to size, international shipping at cost.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Gray cloth, with red spine lettering. Red top stain. Gray end papers. 534 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$8.95" price intact) is chipped, with small, closed tears at top of both the front and rear panels.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Gorey. Drawings by Edward Gorey. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated paper covered (green) boards. Limited/signed lettered: J/26. In publisher's red slipcase. Toledano B59a. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. One of 26 lettered copies, signed by Gorey. A crisp, bright, as new copy in slipcase.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Gorey. Oblong 12mo. [6.75" X 7.25"] Illustrated paper covered boards, with black and gray spine and cover lettering. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 120/250. In publisher's black slipcase. Toledano A67b. Faint darkening to gutters. Illustrated dust-jacket spine is slightly (and evenly) sun darkened. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page.

New York: The Fantod Press, 1966. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Gorey. Illustrated stapled wrappers. The three books are enclosed in the publisher's yellow envelope, with the titles and a sketch on the upper left corner. Toledano A24. The books are Fine. The envelope flap has short tears along each end of the fold crease. Limited to 500 sets of these three books.

New York: Looking Glass Library, 1959. Stated First edition. Paperback. Very good +. Gorey. 24mo. [5.5" X 4"] Illustrated stapled wrappers. [unpaginated] Toledano A5a. Slight tanning along spine. Prior owner's name at bottom of title page. No other marks. First edition of 600 copies.

New York: Albondocani Press, 1969. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Gorey. Oblong 8vo. [9.5" X 5.5"] Illustrated stitched wrappers. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 171/200. Toledano A31b. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. A touch of fading along spine, else Fine. Albondocani Press Publication No. 5.

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Stated First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Gorey. Oblong 24mo. [4.5" X 6"] Lavender cloth, with illustrations on both front and back covers. Lavender end papers. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 2/100. In publisher's lavender slipcase. Toledano A53b. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page.

Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Gorey. Miniature. [1" X 1.25"] Decorated boards, with title on paper label on front cover. [unpaginated] Limited/signed numbered: 128/300. Toledano A86b. SIGNED by Edward Gorey on the limitation page. In sun faded Gotham Book Mart envelope. A crisp, as new, signed copy of this Gorey miniature. One of 400 numbered and signed copies (101 - 400). [Copies of the deluxe, hand colored, slipcased edition are numbered 1 - 100].

New York: Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 1998. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First printing of the first American edition. 8vo. Quarter red cloth and diamond pattern purple boards, with gilt spine lettering. Teal end papers. 309 pages. Illustrations by Mary GrandPre. The spine ends are slightly crimped, else Fine. No names or marks. The illustrated dust-jacket (with price clipped) has a 1.125" closed tear at top corner of front panel by fold flap, else Fine. With first printing points for both book and dust-jacket: Spine lacking "Year 1", and copyright page stating "J. K. Rowling"; and full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02", "Printed in the U.S.A. 23", and "First American edition, October 1998". Dust-jacket has Guardian blurb at top of rear panel, with two bar codes, and number 51696 above smaller bar code, at bottom of rear panel. A crisp, unmarked, collectable copy of the first printing of the First American edition, in first issue dust-jacket.… Leer más

Amsterdam: George Mulder, 1985. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Warhol. With an introductory essay by Lambert Tegenbosch. Oblong Sm 4to. Stiff white card wrappers, with wide French flaps and embossed royal crests on front cover. Sixteen full page color reproductions of Warhol's silkscreens of four then reigning queens. Limited/Numbered: 3906/5000. Small stain at flap edge of rear cover. No names or marks.

New York: Knopf, 1948. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. 8vo. Brown textured cloth, with blue spine lettering and decoration on both covers. Gray top stain. 223 pages. Slightly cocked. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with price clipped), designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., has the slightest wear to corners. A crisp, unmarked copy of the first edition, first printing, in original dust-jacket, of Kenneth Millar's fourth novel.

np : Atlantic Richfield Company and Graphic Arts Typographers, Inc. / Jargon Society, 1968. First printing. Paperback. Very good. Calendar (September 1968 - August 1969). Introduction by Jonathan Williams. Foreword by Mike Weaver. Outer covers 15"X20". Twelve silkscreen concrete poem prints, each 15"X16", on white stock with lettering of various colors. Includes a silkscreen image of the poet on inside rear cover. Poem commentaries by Stephen Bann. Calendar design by Herbert M. Rosenthal. Spiral wire binding at top, designed for hanging. A crisp, bright copy with these minor faults: Very slight browning to the edges of the front cover ("jargon 68/69"), with a small crease to bottom left corner; the title page is faded, with a reddish-brown hue across part of the sheet, and two small round scrapes, at bottom left corner and at middle right edge; there is a diagonal crease at bottom right corner of "acrobats" [January], and a small, gray spot on lower right side of "le circus" [August]. Jargon 68.… Leer más