[London: Stainer and Bell, 1980]. Black cloth textured boards, lettered in silver. 53 black and white plates. About fine in dust jacket. First edition of another study of the interaction of artistic creativity with the immense political and human fact of war.
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, [1938]. 12mo. Pictorial wrapper. Frontis and illustrations by Robert Gibbings. Inevitable tanning to textblock, tiny sliver loss from fore-edges of first two leaves, otherwise about fine in the scarce pictorial dust jacket. Laid into cloth chemise with Penguin logo on spine and upper panel. First edition in.....
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Three volumes. Medium brown cloth, ruled and decorated in black, spines lettered in gilt. An unfortunately somewhat shabby set, with Smith & Sons plates on each pastedown and lacking the half-titles, cloth rather soiled and worn, with some dark ink marks to.....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1991]. Cloth. First edition. Fine in very good, spine-sunned dust jacket.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1991]. Cloth. First edition. Review copy with slip. Fine in dust jacket (still shrink-wrapped).
[Columbia]: University of South Carolina Press, [1988]. xviii,296pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Frontis. Illustrations and facsimiles. Fine in very near fine. Revised and enlarged edition of this keystone work on Melville's reading and ownership.
[Madison & London]: University of Wisconsin Press, [1974]. xiii,[1],280,[1]pp. Large octavo. Cloth. Illustrations and plates. First edition. About fine in very lightly used dust jacket.
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1965. 170pp. Cloth. First edition. A very good copy in faintly rubbed dust jacket.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. ix,[3],202pp. plus plates. Glit lettered red cloth. First edition. Near fine in very good, slightly nicked and sunned dust jacket.
New Haven & London: Yale / Oxford, 1952. xiv,[2],240,[1]pp. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition, published as volume 119 of "Yale Studies in English." Author's compliments card laid in. Near fine in faintly tanned and nicked dust jacket.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. Red cloth, decorated in black with designs by Dwiggins. Ink ownership inscription on front free endsheet, otherwise near fine in lightly rubbed, priced clipped dust jacket. New printing in the format, as one of Knopf's Alblabook series. Text edited by Robert S. Forsythe,
[Tucson]: For the Friends of the Arizona State University Library, 1993. [20]pp. Quarto. Printed cream stiff wrapper. Facsimiles of ms recording a portion of the interview between Johnson and the King, with a transcription. Fine.
London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983. 128pp. Small quarto. Medium blue cloth, lettered in black. First edition, published as MEDICAL HISTORY, Supplement No. 3, 1983. Minor rubs at spine ends, otherwise fine, without dust jacket.
Mamaroneck, NY: Paul P. Appel, [1980]. Cloth. Frontis portraits. Black and white plates. Photo-offset reprint of the 1945 Grolier Club publication. Fine in dust jacket.
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1921. 68,[2]pp. plus four plates. Decorated house-style printed wrapper. Illustrations and facsimiles. Slight tanning to wrapper and small nick to spine, otherwise unusually nice. Two sessions, consisting of 441 lots, to be sold without reserve. Neatly priced throughout in red pencil, quite often with buyers identified.....
London: Published 1824. New-York: Republished by James V. Seaman, 1825. 24pp. Dbd. Foxing and staining, particularly to outer leaves. Good. A scarce early American edition of English Quaker and abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick's influential pamphlet. First published in London in 1824 and quickly reprinted several times in Britain and across the.....
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 2004. [32]pp. Small octavo. Cloth backed decorative paper over boards, paper spine label. Facsimiles. Faint pencil erasure from front free endsheet, otherwise fine, with prospectus laid in. First edition. One of a total edition of seventy-five copies designed, printed and signed by Carol Blinn.
London: Faber and Faber, [1956]. Cloth. First British printing (offset from the Milan edition). Endsheets a bit tanned, as often, small bookseller's stamp in lower corner of front pastedown largely eradicated, but a very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of wear at spine ends. 2000 copies.....
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New York: Imported and Stocked by Nelson-Whitehead Paper Corp. [nd. but ca. 1959]. [3],132 leaves, many of them color. Oblong quarto (19 x 27.5 cm). Open sewn decorated paper over boards. Damp stain to upper fore-corner and for-edge of early portion of the textblock, fading to negligible by leaf 28.....
Highlands: Nantahala Foundation/Jonathan Williams, [1965]. Quarto. Decorated boards. Near fine in lightly used dust jacket. First edition, issued as Jargon 43. Laid in is a 1/2 page original typescript promotional for the book by Jim Lowell on Asphodel Book Shop letterhead.
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 2017. [4],135,[5]pp. Large octavo (25 x 17 cm). Gilt lettered cloth and marbled boards, edges untrimmed. Fine. First edition. One of a total edition of 29 copies printed on Fabriano handmade paper. Laid in front is an autograph calligraphic letter, Athens, GA,, 12-17-90, from Dwight Agner.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. xiii,[1],[4]-117pp. Small octavo. Gilt decorated stiff card over boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Frontis and 26 plates (many in color). Large bookplate of Judge John Wesley Warrington, slight dusting along top edge, minute tear at toe of lower wrapper spine fold, otherwise very.....
[Laguna Beach: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1985]. [47]pp Small octavo. Sewn folded sheets, never bound, untrimmed. Illustrations, including some in color. Laid into stiff card cover, with outer wrapper of handmade paper incorporating botanical specimens, with printed spine label. Slight trace of foxing to half-title, a couple of margins and the.....
[Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1967]. [31]pp. Small folio (29.5 x 21 cm). Quarter vellum and marled boards, edges untrimmed. Printed in black and colors. Slight natural mottling to the vellum, otherwise about fine. First edition, regular issue, of this handsome presentation of many of Bruce Rogers' printer's ornaments then.....
[Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1991]. [95]pp. Quarto (28 x 21 cm). Marbled boards, printed spine label and inset label on upper board. Etched portrait frontis. Illustrations and typographical devices. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. About fine. First edition of this festschrift published as a celebration of Harold McGrath's.....
