New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Boards. Some dust darkening at perimeter of boards, hairline crack running up one external hinge, internally fine. First edition. One of four hundred and fifty copies printed by Rudge and signed by the author. In this copy, Russell has decorated five pages (including the title-page).....
London: Longmans, 1920. Later gilt red cloth. First edition. Heavy foxing to edges, otherwise a very good (albeit rebound) copy. A major, wide ranging selection, though mostly reprinted material.
[Paris]: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1930. 184pp. plus plates and adverts. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned, with chips at tips and spine ends, internally very good or better. The well-annotated catalogue of an amazing exhibition of manuscripts, first editions, periodicals and iconography of French Romantic writers - 657 items with ample descriptions.....
New York: Tams Witmark Music Library, [nd. but ca. 1950s]. [8],45,38,25 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript, on rectos only. Perfect bound into paper tape-backed wrapper with printed/typed label. Wrappers somewhat creased and used, small tape mend at fore- edge of upper wrapper, internally very good. A prompt book for this musical.....
[Northampton, MA: Distributed by the Poet, 1976]. Three folio broadsides (56 x 41 cm), with color illustrations. Two corners bumped (one of them creased), otherwise near fine. First printings in this format of "Noon," "Encountering," and "Let Islands Drown," each accompanied by a drawing in color by Henry Elinson. Each.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1964]. Gilt cloth and paper over boards. Photographs. Very slight lean, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jacket (vertical stripe of rubbing and some dust smudging to rear panel, minor shelfwear to tips and spine ends). First edition, first printing (one of.....
London: Geo. Standring, 1892. 94pp. Printed pale rose-tan wrapper. Some dust tanning to wrapper edges, but a very good copy. A new edition of this text first published in 1879, accompanied by a new Preface treating, in part, the prosecution of booksellers for distribution of works on the population question.....
Genova: Alla Libreria Grondona, April 1859. 76,[1]pp. Small octavo. Extracted from collective pamphlet volume, without wrappers. Light foxing, a couple of small in marks at fore- edge, otherwise very good. First edition of this tract by the philosopher / historian addressing the role of the clergy in the movement toward.....
London: John Murray, 1818. xiv,[4],[3]-257,[3]pp. Octavo (23 x 14.5 cm; 9 x 5 3/4"). Original paper boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Crown of spine nicked, with short crack at crown of one joint, some light soiling to boards, ink name in upper corner of title, crease in top edge.....
Kilmarnock: Printed by James M'Kie, 1869. xxiii,[1],396,xxvipp. Large octavo. Paper backed boards, printed spine labels. Spine darkened, with chip to title label and vertical crack, otherwise very good. One of 600 copies signed by the publisher, denoted the "Kilmarnock Complete Edition," and issued largely by subscription. Pages xv through xxxiii.....
New York [etc]: George A. Fuller Company, 1937. 322pp. Small quarto. Cloth and boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Heavily illustrated with gravure photographs. Some darkening to the backstrip, otherwise very good, without slipcase. First edition of this testament to the firm's decades of involvement in the construction of some of the.....
New York [etc]: George A. Fuller Company, 1937. 322pp. Small quarto. Cloth and boards, t.e.g., others rough-trimmed. Heavily illustrated with gravure photographs. Some hand smudges to spine, two letters in envelopes tipped to endsheets, pencil inscription on prelim, a few minor marks to boards; a very good or better copy.....
Charlotte: McNally of Charlotte, [1960]. Stiff pictorial wrapper. Illustrations. Edges a bit dusty at top edge, otherwise very good or better. First edition, wrapperbound issue, of this work of Civil War history by the accomplished pulp fantasist, historian and miscellaneous writer. An out-of-the-ordinary presentation copy, inscribed by Wellman to his.....
New York: Street & Smith, September 1939. Large octavo. Pictorial wrapper. Modest use and tanning, soft vertical crease in upper wrapper, several stamps of a San Antonio news dealer (rear wrapper and in an occasional margin); a good to very good copy. Inscribed and signed by Sturgeon at his contribution.....
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[London: Printed by Tho. Cotes ... 1632]. pp. 23-46,45,50-86 (31 leaves) [b6]-[g6]. Page 47 misnumbered '45' and verso numbered '50'. Folio. 13.5 x 8.5"; 34 x 22cm. Bound up in smooth padded calf, lettered in gilt, with faux parchment endsheets. Some rubbing to binding, small worm track in lower blank.....
[New York]: New Directions, [1965]. White linen, lettered and decorated in black. About fine in a very good dust jacket with chips at the spine extremities. First edition, clothbound issue. Inscribed in pencil by Merton at Gethsemani in April 1966, and signed with the initials of his secular name.
New York: American News Company, August 1938. Small quarto. Lurid pictorial wrapper by Brundage. Illustrated. Text stock uniformly tanned (but not brittle), mild damp ripple toward lower edge of wrapper (but without significant staining), otherwise generally very good. Contributors to this number include HPL ("The Tree"), Quinn, Wellman under his.....
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1954. Folio. Half morocco and decorated boards. Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. Small book label removal mark on pastedown, spine very slightly sunned, but a very good copy. One of 180 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Illustrated prospectus laid in.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Small folio. Cloth and decorated boards. Facsimiles. Minor foxing to endsheets, else fine in good, dust-tanned jacket with small edge tear. First edition. One of three hundred copies printed in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. branch of the.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. Small folio. Parchment boards, lettered in gilt, stamped in blind, wallet fore-edges. Frontis and four additional full-page color linoleum prints by M.R.H. Farrar. Spine tanned, with bruise at toe with consequent small split and crease, boards a bit hand- smudged and marked, top fore-tips bumped.....
Oxford: University Press, 1930. Folio. Marbled wrappers, paper label. Collotype facsimile. One of 300 copies. A few nicks, and split at toe of spine, else very good.
New York: John Vredenburgh Van Pelt, 1925. [2],23,[1]pp. plus sixty plates. Folio (48 x 36 cm). Loose sheets, laid into cloth and printed board portfolio. Some spotting to cloth sizing of portfolio spine, a few faint marks and minor indentations to upper board, otherwise a very good copy, internally about.....
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1988. Small quarto. Quarter morocco and pastepaper boards. Tipped in specimens and facsimiles. Fine in quarto cloth folding slipcase. First edition. One of three hundred numbered copies, printed on handmade paper. Foreword and Commentary by Henry Morris. Accompanied by a large complement of Bird &.....
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Quarry Farm, Elmira, NY. 2 July 1895. One page, in ink, on quarto front panel of a large linen-lined envelope. Marginal pencil note crossed through, several ink squiggles in blank areas symptomatic of a struggle with an unreliable pen, otherwise very good. A manuscript memento of a famous artifact, being.....
New York: Published for the Bear Run Foundation Inc. and the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Foundation by Horizon Press, 1959. Oblong large quarto. Gilt brown cloth, faux pastepaper endsheets. Plates, drawings and other illustrations. Expansive gift inscription on black recto of second prelim, otherwise very good or better, in good.....
