VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN BRIGHTON FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS.
London: Batsford, [ 1972]. Small quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Crown of spine bumped with small nick, else a nice copy in dust jacket.
Literature & Fine Books
DICKENS AT PLAY.
New York: St. Martin's Press, [ 1981]. Cloth. First edition. Very fine in dust jacket.
RESEARCHES INTO CHINESE SUPERSTITIONS.
Shanghai: T'Usewei Printing Press, 1914 - 1926. Two parts in eight volumes (of thirteen published through 1938 ?). Open-sewn cloth backed printed boards. Heavily illustrated with hundreds of plates and facsimiles printed via chromolithography. Extremities of boards worn, a few corners bruised, spine labels largely chipped away, volume 5 shaken.....
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1961. Printed wrappers. First separate printing of this attack on hypocrisy and racism at home. One of two thousand copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on Strathmore Text. Fine.
FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT THE ROYAL FAMILY [cover title].
[Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures Inc., 23 September 1930. [1],14,32,34,19 leaves (some with 'B' prefix suggesting a revised state of that leaf). Folio (8.5 x 13"). Carbon typescript on rectos only of onionskin stock, punched and secured with two brads. Title-leaf detached and somewhat chipped surrounding the former bradholes, a few.....
FIRST BOOKS BY AMERICAN AUTHORS 1765-1964.
New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1965. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Illustrated. A very good copy of this landmark catalogue.
STORIES OF FAMOUS SONGS.
Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901. Two volumes. Small octavos. Gilt decorated green cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Frontispieces and plates. A handsomely executed American reprinting, based on the 1898 Nimmo edition. Minor rubbing at tips, otherwise fine.
LIFE IN ARCADIA ILLUSTRATED BY PATTEN WILSON.
London: John Lane, 1896. Pictorial cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First edition. The first volume in John Lane's 'Arcady Library' series (edited by Fletcher). Inner hinges cracked (but sound); covers worn and soiled; small snags to head and toe spine; bookplate removed from front pastedown. Just a good copy. In.....
THE MAKING OF MATTHIAS.
London: John Lane, 1898. Elaborately gilt pictorial cloth, a.e.g. Frontis, decorative title and illustrations by Lucy Kemp Welch. First edition. Front free endsheet neatly excised, rear inner hinge cracking slightly, but a sound copy.
ENGLISH LITERATURE 1660-1800 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN STUDIES FOUNDED BY RONALD S. CRANE COMPILED FOR PHILOLOGICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME V · 1961-1965.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972. xi,[1],580,pp. Gilt black cloth. Some dustiness to top and fore edge, otherwise a near fine, tight copy in a modestly faded printed paper dust jacket with minimal shelf wear. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. First edition. The fifth volume in a series of.....
THE HERITAGE OF HIROSHIGE.
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, [ 1912]. Morocco-grained cloth, stamped in blind. Frontis and plates. Headlines printed in red. First edition. A very good copy.
SCRITTO ROMANO POEMS.
Rome. 1984. Pictorial wrappers. First edition. Near fine.
JEALOUS OF DEAD LEAVES SELECTED VERSE...
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Gilt cloth and patterned paper over boards, printed paper label. First edition. Fore- corners lightly bumped, else near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and sunned dust jacket with occasional edgewear.
THE MOST OF S.J. PERLEMAN.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. Thick octavo. Cloth and boards. Crown of spine a bit tanned, otherwise very good or better, in good, modestly darkened dust jacket with several small chips and some creased tears at the spine ends. First edition of this broad selection from Perelman's work 1930.....
THE ROAD TO MILTOWN OR, UNDER THE SPREADING ATROPHY.
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1957]. Cloth backed boards. Spine a trifle tanned, otherwise very good or better, in spine darkened Ben Shahn pictorial dust jacket with shallow loss and a short tear at the crown of the spine panel. First edition. An excellent association copy, inscribed on the front.....
CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE ..."ONE TOUCH OF VENUS" ....
[ Universal City]: Universal International, 28 July 1948. [1],16,18,14,12,17,9,13,14,10,[2] leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, punched and bradbound in upper margin. Top two leaves a bit torn around one brad, a couple corner chips, but a very good copy. A continuity and dialogue script of this adaptation for.....
ACRES AND PAINS... WITH DRAWINGS BY R. OSBORN.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [ 1947]. Cloth. Illustrated. First edition. Light offsetting to endsheets, faint ring mark on upper board, else about very good in worn and lightly chipped and torn dust jacket with matching faint ringmark on front panel.
BABY, IT'S COLD INSIDE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, [ 1970]. Gilt cloth. First edition. About fine in dust jacket.
DON'T TREAD ON ME. THE SELECTED LETTERS OF....
[ New York]: Viking, [ 1987]. Narrow quarto. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Fine.
LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD...DRAWINGS BY HIRSCHFELD.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. Small quarto. First edition. Ink ownership inscription, otherwise very good in lightly soiled, price clipped dust jacket with small creased chip at top edge.
THE RISING GORGE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Cloth and boards. First edition. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket.
THE ROAD TO MILTOWN OR, UNDER THE SPREADING ATROPHY.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Cloth and boards. First edition. Ink ownership inscription, otherwise very good in dust jacket.
THE NOVELS, TALES & SKETCHES.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Octavo. Medium green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g. Binding slightly rubbed and smudged, bookplate shadow on pastedown, front inner hinge a bit strained, otherwise very good. A salesman's sample book for this set, including a two pages prospectus, a number of sample.....
NEW CITY PATTERNS THE ANALYSIS OF AND A TECHNIQUE FOR URBAN REINTEGRATION.
New York: Reinhold, 1946. Quarto. Cloth. Folding plates, maps, plans, renderings, photographs. First edition. A few pages creased (apparently a manufacturer's defect), some speckling to the cloth sizing, light wear to extremities, but a good or better copy in a used, spine-darkened dust jacket with a closed tear up the.....
WATER RUNS TO WHAT IS WET.
Providence: Burning Deck, 1980. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, trade issue. One of 950 copies (of one thousand). About fine.