Chicago: The Book House for Children Publishers, 1925. Katharine Sturges. Later printing. Pictorial cloth. 4to, black cloth with gold lettering and a circular painting of a Japanese girl petting a deer on the front cover, red endpapers with flying cranes, 191 + [1] pages. Charming illustrations and text. "Japanese poetry, representing... More about LITTLE PICTURES OF JAPAN; Pictures by Katharine Sturges
London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1919. 32 B&W photo-lithographs. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. Thick 8vo (7 3/8 x 5 1/4"), Sangorski & Sutcliffe full brown leather binding with five hubs, gold lettering, blind-stamping, Shakespeare's golden crest on front cover, gold-ruled borders, & inner dentelles; illustrated with frontispiece'... More about THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; Edited with a Glossary by W. J. Craig
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, red quarter cloth with black spine lettering over gray boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Lisa Amoroso, [x] + 405 pages. Patricia Cornwell won the 1999 Sherlock Award for Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the star... More about BOOK OF THE DEAD
New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over roan boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Andrew Jackson by Thomas Sully, xxiv+ 843 pages + [2] About the Author + [2] About... More about AMERICAN LION NF NP; Andrew Jackson in the White House
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Second Edition Revised. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. 8vo, rebound in dark brown calf with gold-ruled borders, five hubs, and the elaborately gilt-decorated backstrip with printed label laid down, illustrated with a steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Spinoza after Woffenbuttel [plus tissue... More about A STUDY OF SPINOZA; with a Portrait
New York, N.Y. Yen Press / Hatchette Book Group, 2012. Ashley Marie Witter. First Edition Thus Illustrated, First Printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED and with an Original SKETCH by Anne Rice Illustrator-&-Adapter Ashley Marie Witter, 8vo (8 1/2" x 6:), red cloth with gold lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with sepia drawings... More about INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE:; Claudia's Story / Art and Adaptation by Ashley Marie Witter
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1925. B&W stills. Early Photoplay Edition. Cloth. 8vo, red cloth with black lettering, illustrated with B&W glossy frontispiece and 9 full-page glossy stills from the RKO 1934 movie, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket with color image of John Barrymore in the rigging plus his..... More about MOBY DICK; or, The White Whale / by Herman Melville / Photoplay title: The Sea Beast /...
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Revised Edition, First Printing. Boards. 8vo, red boards with silver lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting Odysseus shooting an arrow ["O's" on title are silvered & filled], vii, [viii] + 228 pages. Zachary Mason (born 1974) is a computer... More about THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, tan quarter cloth with silver lettering over beige boards, Introduction by Mary V. Dearborn, archival mylar-protected photographic brown-tinted dust jacket (unclipped) with white lettering, xv, [xvi-xviii] + 266 pages. Henry V. Miller (1891-1980) was an American... More about MOLOCH; or, This Gentile World / Introduction by Mary V. Dearborn
Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Maps. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, black boards with gold lettering, profusely illustrated with B&W frontispiece map of Númenor an small Tolkien sketch (p.149), archival mylar-protected pictorial wrappers (unclipped) depicting characters looking at a distant red-topped mountain painted by Ted Nasmith, front map..... More about UNFINISHED TALES; of Númenor and Middle-Earth / edited with introduction, commentary, index, and...
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. Peter de Sève. Later printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, light brown-gray quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over light yellow boards with "Mark Twain" signature embossed in gold, Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr., archival mylar-protected humorous pictorial dust..... More about A MURDER, A MYSTERY and a MARRIAGE; By Mark Twain / Foreword and Afterword by Roy Blount Jr. /...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, 1919. Reprint of Doran Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), maroon cloth with black lettering on spine & front cover--both with black palms, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting movie stars (George... More about THE MOON AND SIXPENCE; W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, dark green quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over ivory boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of a bird of paradise's tail feathers by Gabriele Wilson, vii... More about LIGHT ACTION IN THE CARIBBEAN; Stories
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition in English, 1st Printing. Cloth and cloth. SIGNED by the Author on half title, 8vo, tan one-third cloth with black lettering on spine and black two-thirds cloth, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with images of colorful carved toucans... More about THE BOOK OF EMBRACES; Images and Text by Eduardo Galeano / Translated by Cedric Belfrage with...
Paris: A Seymour Lawrence Book / Delacourt Press, 1958. First Complete Unexpurgated Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 7/8"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine and blind-stamped title & author's signature on front cover, archival mylar-protected deep blue and green dust jacket (unclipped), publisher's black topstain, deep blue... More about THE GINGER MAN; the complete and unexpurgated edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First American Edition & First Translation into English. Cloth. Tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine and author's name on front cover, archival mylar-protected lettered & photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with detail from Edward Steichen's "Poster Lady,"... More about LOVE in the TIME of CHOLERA; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1929. Grosset & Dunlop Reprint. Cloth. 8vo, bright green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting weatlhy and handsome Texan "Jimmy Higgins" and his gorgeous red-haired East Hampton love Roberta, publisher's yellow topstain, 303 pages... More about JIM THE CONQUEROR; By Peter B. Kyne
Hammersmith, London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. Engravings. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 5 1/4"), light red cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with seven largel B&W engravings of pigs & smaller tailpieces, pictorial endpapers with repeating leaf motif, [xii] + 52 pages. "Adorable, witty and welcome."--Pig-Lovers'... More about THE PIG POETS; An Anthology of Porcine Poesy / Edited and Annotated by Henry Hogge
New York: Viking, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over ivory boards, archival mylar-protected photo-&-pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), xviii + 429 pages + [1] Credits. SUPERIOR COPY: clean, tight, bright with clean, bright sharp dust jacket. John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (1902-1968)... More about AMERICA and AMERICANS and SELECTED NONFICTION; Edited by Susan Shillinghaw and Jackson J. Benson
New York London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, publisher's original black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with inset B&W portrait of Henry James' head after a photograph by Alice Boughton, xli + 348 pages. "A great... More about THE ART OF THE NOVEL; by Henry James / With an Introduction by Richard P. Blackmur
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1995. Arthur Barbosa. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, off-white quarter buckram with light gold lettering on spine over ivory boards, illustrated with a double-spread B&W map of "Roads to Harper's Ferry," archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with colorful... More about FLASHMAN AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD; from the Flashman Papers, 1858-59 / Edited and Arranged by...
New York: Books of Wonder / William R. Morrow & Co., Inc., 1990. John R. Neill. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Pictorial cloth. Small quarto or tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 7"), light blue cloth with yellow title on spine with inlaid glossy picture of Dorothy holding her cat and meeting the... More about DOROTHY and the WIZARD in OZ; By L. Frank Baum / Illustrated by John R. Neill
San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. In-text engravings. Later printing. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Managing Editor on the title page, 4to (10 3/4" x 8 1/2"), gray "sierra" cloth with gold lettering on spine and title blind-stamped on front cover, profusely illustrated with in-text B&W engravings, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust... More about HOME GROUND; Language for an American Landscape / Barry Lopez, Editor / Debra Gwartney, Managing...
New York: Ballantine Books, 2006. B&W photos. Third Edition. Cloth and boards. Small 4to (9 1/2" x 7 3/4"), quarter black cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, illistrated with numerous in-text B&W images, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (price-clipped) by Laurie Rubin, xv, [xvi[ + 699, [700-704]... More about AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION; 3,684 THINGS YOU SHOULD Have Learned But Probably Didn't
New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. Ernst, Lisa Campbell. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. 4to (10 3/4" x 9 1/8"), glossy pictorial boards with cartoon, archival mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) repeating cover art, profusely illustrated by the author-artist in repros of pastel, ink, and pencil... More about GOLDILOCKS RETURNS