Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942. Holling Clancy Holling. First Edition. Decorated cloth. INSCRIBED, SIGNED with a DRAWING of a TREE in mountains on the title page by the AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR, 4to (11 1/8" x 9 14"), green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover with spreading tree, profusely illustrated... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. 1931. Photographic plates. First Edition. Cloth. Royal 8vo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4"), red cloth with black lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a cartoon lion on a red field, illustrated with B&W glossy frontispiece & 18 full page glossy B&W... More
New York: Viking, 2009. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), blue-gray quarter cloth with red lettering on spine over cream boards, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) illustrated by Gary Taxali, EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! A vital restatement of Chaucer's Middle English. Peter Ackroyd, CBE... More
New York: The Viking Press, June 1955. First Omnibus Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, green cloth with red lettering & red embossed full house with small card symbols for three red jacks full of two red aces, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting playing cards against a green field, publisher's red... More
Chicago Philadelphia Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1930. Ethel F. Everett. Cloth. 8vo (8 3/4" x 6 3/8"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine & pastedown color lithographed plate of water babies playing in the surf by Ethel F. Everett, who illustrated the volume with a colored frontispiece... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2013. First Canadian Edition. Cloth. PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED by the Author on the title page, thick & tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4"), powder blue cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), [xiv] + 632 pages + [633-34] Acknowledgements. The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel for... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1973. G&D Edition: 1973 later printing. Boards. 8vo, sky blue textured boards with black lettering and verticle rule on spine & front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Ramona being led by an Indian through the mountains, several B&W in-text illustrations, 424 pages. Helen... More
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958. The Young People's Edition. Cloth. 8vo, red cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 413 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! Tight, bright, clean. Previous owner's inscription on free front endpaper. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English journalist, short-story... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, January, 1955. Cheap Edition / Reissue: 16th Impression. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), red textured boards with black lettering on spine, Mylar-protected yellow dust jacket (unclipped) with red & black lettering, 295 pages. Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was one of the finest mystery writers of... More
Canada: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962. Ernest H. Shepard. New Format. Cloth. Small 8vo, red cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), designed by Warren Chappell, "decorations" by Ernest H. Shepard, HONEY-COLORED map endpapers, 161 pages. UNCOMMON edition that's VERY SCARCE in this FINE CONDITION! Originally copyrighted in 1925 by McClelland and Stewart Limited. More
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company / Book Publishers of the Southwest, 1967. First Edition. Boards. PRESENTATION COPY by the POET, small 8vo, green textured boards with "Auschwitz" in black on spine and cover, 22 pages. Paul, now living in Edmonton, was born in Vegreville, Alberta. "One of Canad's most... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlop Publishers / A Thrushwood Book, 1927. Ernest Thompson Seton. Early G&D Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), illustrated with 12 B&W reproductions of drawings by the author, 167 pages. SUPERIOR COPY internally & externally. Previous owner's signature on free front endpaper. Ernest Thompson... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, Feb., 1954. Cheap Edition / Reissue: 13th Impression. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), red textured boards with black lettering on spine, Mylar-protected yellow dust jacket (unclipped) with red & black lettering, 137 + [138] pages. Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was one of the finest mystery... More
London: Hutchinson of London, 1970. First Edition. Boards. 8vo, bright green textured boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with cartoon illustrated Jack of Clubs, 118 + [119] Bibliography. SUPERIOR CONDITION inside & out! Spike Hughes (1908-1987) was by profession primarily a skilled jazz musician who turned author. His highly popular and... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 4 3/4"), green cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with profile of Dickens, 128 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the... More
New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with colorful map,full color glossy photo of primitive art as frontispiece 24 B&W engravings in text, [viii] + [1-2] + 3-408 pages. EXCEPTIONAL COPY internally & externally! Ford Madox... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. The Avignon Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with black lettering and silhouette of NYC skyline over cinnamon-colored paper, publisher's green coloration to top edges for dust protection, [i-vi] + vii-xiii +... More
London: Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, 1969. Vladimir Nabokov. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED, SIGNED, & DATED with a FULL-COLOR BUTTERFLY by the AUTHOR on the free front colored endpaper, thick 8vo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected forest green dust jacket (unclipped) with... More
New York: Anytime Books / A Penguin Imprint, 1996. After E. H. Shepard. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Small 4to (10 1/8" x 7 3/4"), yellow pictorial boards with bees surrounding a rectangular colorful panel of Pooh hanging beneath a baloon that is lifting off while he is being swarmed by... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. Michael Hague. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Oblong 8vo (7 7/8" x 11 1/4"), red backstrip cloth over a glossy full color photographic overlay over boards image of a unicorn in a fairyland forest by Hague, profusely illustrated by Michael Hague in 12... More
Rockville Centre, NY: Heavy Metal, [2005]. Jim Burns. First Edition. Pictorial boards. WITH an ORIGINAL SIGNED PENCIL SKETCH of "ELVIN DAWN"--a "mythic goddess from the future"-- ILLUSTRATED in this FABULOUS BOOK by the ARTIST [on {p.54}], small folio (~13" x 9 3/4"), with pictorial boards repeating the striking colored image... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1926. After John Tenniel. Wee Folks Edition. Cloth and boards. 24mo (5 1/2" x 4 1/4"), red cloth over light purple pictorial boards with paste-on colored litho applique (3 3/8" x 2 1/4") of the white rabbit wearing a heart tabbard and blowing his horn; with... More
Boston New York Toronto London: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, black quarter cloth over gray boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped), [x] + 238 pages. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! David Mamet (born 1947) is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director. As a playwright, Mamet has... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the free front endpaper, 8vo, purple quarter cloth with brilliant red lettering on spine over orange boards, [i-ix] + x + [xi-xii] + 322 pages. SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! "Randy Wayne... More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/8"), green cloth with black lettering and black silhouette of a gunfighter on the cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Frank Tenney Johnson of an indian sitting beside a fallen white man while another... More