Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Holling Clancy Holling. Later printing. Decorated cloth. SIGNED 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, profusely illustrated with full color plates from watercolors & in-text line drawings by the... More
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1943. Edward Lear. Reprint. Cloth. Thick 8vo, green textured boards with black lettering on spine, Mylar-protected light red dust jacket with cartoon figures by Lear in white, 480 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally and externally. Previous owner's inscription on free front endpaper. Edward Lear... More
London and Toronto: Collins, 1975. First Edition. Boards. 8vo, black textured boards with silver lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting "La Chassaresse" by Romaine Brooks, 236 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION internally & externally! Lovat Dickson (1902 – 1987), was a notable publisher and writer, the first Canadian to have... More
London: The Reprint Society Ltd., 1960. Authorized Early Reprint. Cloth and boards. Small 8vo, green quarter cloth over beige boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (white lettering on a green field with buildings highlighted in pink), 223 pages. SUPERIOR CONDITION! Henry Graham Greene OM CH (1904 – 1991), better known by his pen... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1959. A. B. Frost. G&D Reprint Edition. Decorative cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/8"), dorative light brown cloth with "Companion Library" and several figures imprinted in black on front cover, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting in full color by A. B. Frost... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, purple cloth with gold spine lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with depiction of a white monkey, [i-vi} + vi-viii + 328 pages. John Galsworthy OM (1867 – 1933) was a famous English novlist. The White Monkey is the... More
New York and London: New York University Press / Oxford University Press, 1954. First Combined Edition. Cloth. Small 4to (9 3/8" x 6 3/8"), gray cloth, B&W half-tone frontispiece of Thomas Wolfe & example of his theme-correction [opp. p.96], Mylar-protected lettered beige dust jacket (unclipped) with mauve arch, xiii +... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1959. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, black cloth with scarlet lettering on spine, Mylar-proteted dust jacket (unclipped) with photograph of Msgr. Ronald Knox, photographic frontispiece of a terracotta sculpture of Knox by Arthur Pollen, [xiv] + [358] pages. SUPERIOR COPY: clean, bright, tight, and... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1964. First American Edition. Boards. 8vo, light yellow pebble-grain boards with red lettering on spine, Mylar-proteted lettered dust jacket (unclipped), photographic frontispiece of the young author c.1913 & c. 1923 and 11 other photographic illustrations, top edge died red for dust protection by publisher... More
London: Heinemann, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected photographic green dust jacket, [vi] + [280] pages. "The most considerable of our women novelists"--Anthony Burgess. A novel by the author of the Balkan and Levant trilogies.which is set in an East African island... More
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine & cover, Mylar-protected cream dust jacket with green lettering & border, Foreword by Ada Galsworthy, publisher's green-colored top edges, [i-iv] + v-ix + [x-xii] + 298 pages. John Galsworthy OM (1867... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) of two man dby John Alcorn, 280 pages. 11th volume in Powell's A Dance To The Music Of Time series of... More
London: Duckworth & Co., 1924. photograph. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Small 8vo (8 1/8" x 5 1/2"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine, frontispiece photo of Conrad as repeated on dust jacket, facsimile of Conrad letter to the author, photo of Conrad bust by Jacob Epstein, Mylar-protected light... More
London: Terra Nova Editions, 1979. Peter Milton. First Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Small 4to (10" x 7 3/4"), beige half linen with gilt lettering on spine, 21 B&W spooky etchings in 200 line screen by Peter Milton, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), dark green endpapers, [76] pages. "'The Jolly Corner' was... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1951. First American Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), yellow cloth with red lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 187 pages. SUPERIOR COPY: clean, tight, bright. The author's second collection of short stories published a year after the London... More
England: by the artist, Sept 1902. E. Francis. original. Paper. Amusing original drawing using India ink on pink thin artist's paper (7 5/8" W x 6 1/8" H overall with approx. 3/4" borders around image): of a boy being fitted for (his first?) tophat in a crowded haberdasher's merchandise-filled busy... More
London: by the artist. C. Herve. original. Cardboard. Pair of painted miniature portrait bust silhouettes on a gray background, (unframed: 3" x 4.5"), one SIGNED "C. Herve Pinxit," while the other is clearly by the same artist. This offering is painted on a card that measures 3 x 4.5 inches... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1962. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small 8vo, beige quarter cloth over gray marbled boards, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), xii + [ii} + 241 pages. An important study endorsed by Schweitzer who included two essays. Very Good Plus Condition: internally clean, tight, bright with dj having minimal wear. More
New York: Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, beige quarter cloth with brown lettering on spine over off white boards, Mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), [xii] + 417 pages + [2] About the Author. SUPERIOR Copy with slight soil... More
![Chess and the Art of War; Ancient Wisdom to make you a better player / Al Lawrence [&] International Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi. Al Lawrence, Elshan Moradiabadi.](/pictures/thumb/1982.JPG?v=1543962220)
New York London: Charwell Books / A Quarto Books, 2016. Photographs. First Edition. Photographic. 4to, glossy photograph of chess pieces over boards, profusely illustrated in color and B&W with chess diagrams of play, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket reproducing cover photograph, 160 pages. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo, khaki quarter cloth with silver lettering over beige boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) by Ralph Del Pozzo, vi + 344 pages. More
Chicago New York London: Rand McNally Co., 1909. Hope Dunlap. First Edition. Cloth. Tall 8vo, dark green textured cloth with red borders & illuminated title & inset small rectangular colored illustration on front cover, numerous full color (poorly registered) illustrations by Hope Dunap, [viii] + 121 pages. Good +/VG Condition!... More
[November 7, 1861]. Folio (double-spread), contains two panoramic panels: 1) "The Great Expedition . . . on the way to Port Royal Inlet..."; 2) "The Bombardment of Forts Walker & Beauregard, Port Royal Inlet, South Carolina, November 7, 1861. 5 UPLOADED Need Harper's date of pub. More
original. framed and glazed. 5 images uploaded. More
Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1972. Edward Sorel. First Edition. Cloth. Oblong 4to, blue cloth, Introduction by Jessica Mitford, profusely illustrated with 26 color and 116 B&W caricatures by Edward Sorel, ~150 pages. Splendid political caricatures. Near Fine copy: tight, bright with slight wear to cloth. Not remaindered. Lacks dj. More