Pictorial red wrappers. Translated by Eugene Jolas. Forward by Alexander Stephan. Illustrated with photographs from the film version by Fassbinder.; 12mo - over 6 - 7" tall View More...
No limitation notice; 351 pp., pubs. ads; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in white. Cover with moderate rubbing & soil, mostly to spine, with spine lettering effaced; spine slightly cocked; bookplate on front endpaper; moderate tanning to endpapers & pastedowns; area of red offset to cloth back cover along spine, and lower corner near spine. The first edition was published by John Lane, 1898. This edition, not found on World Cat, appears to be very scarce. Publisher's Weekly for 1903 lists this title and B. W. Dodge. View More...
8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt & floral decoration in gold & green; presentaion bookplate of Flodden W. Heron to Mills College on front pastedown; bookplate of Mills College, Albert Bender Collection on front endpaper. Leading corners bumped, minor wear at spine ends; title page with light spots of tanning at extremities. Gertrude Atherton [1857-1948]. Reared in San Francisco and its peninsula as Gertrude Franklin Horn, she returned from finishing school in Kentucky to find her mother contemplating a third marriage to George Atherton, son of a wealthy merchant and aristocratic Chilean mother... View More...
400 copies, with decorations by Cas Duchow, printed by Anderson & Ritchie, The Ward Ritchie Press. 141 pp.; sq. 8vo; gilt stamped black cloth back, checkered paper over boards.
8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Very minor wear to jacket at top of spine and corners with a thin light vertical scrape to front. View More...
8vo; illustrated white wrappers, covered in a gray advertising jacket printed on both sides in blue & black. Ads include Albin Michel, Librairie Havraise, Benedictine Liquer, Larousse, Sevres. In addition there is a book mark of black card stock with gold illustration for Draeger on one side showing a 'bottle' with legs, head and hands, and a corkscrew cane. The other side also in gold on black with graphic lettering for Nicolas. Overall browning to text pages which are unopened at top edge. Outer jacket with tanning at extremities, a down spine of 3", shorter splitting at bottom. Nicely prese... View More...
3 parts in 1; 234, 239, 428 pp.; 12mo; original polished tan calf; crown over decorative design stamped in gilt front cover; letters & decorations stamped in gilt on spine in six compartments with titles on red & brown leather labels; marbled pastesdowns, endpapers, and edges. Rubbing and moderate wear at edges and spine with minute loss at crown; joints appear to have had some expert repair in the past; title gilt on third panel for the most part effaced; dark "burned" spot bottom front edge. Tanning to endpapers at edges, but title and text pages exceptionally clean in a solid binding. First... View More...
(70) pp., frontis; 12mo; gray boards; illustrated cover label & frontis and 5 text illustrations by Peter Newell. Boards rubbed and worn at corners with a 2" repaired split lower front joint; moderate soil to covers and some thumbing of blank opposite first text page (7); repair to hinge at frontis & title; ownership signature in purple rear endpaper. Bit of a beater but a firm reading copy thus. A short piece by the playwright, and mentor to the historian John Toland - in which war breaks out at a peace rally. View More...
TC-203 in the Traverller's Comapanion Series. Mass market paperback; green wrappers; bookseller label inside top front edge for C. J. Scheiner Books; moderate tanning to inside wraps and endpapers, else a sharp copy. View More...
No. 249 of 250 copies. 84 pp.; square 12 mo; blue cloth stamped in silver in color illustrated dust jacket. Jacket and full page and vignette illustrations in black & white by Kim Deitch. Forward by Mark Burstein. This non-facsimile edition of Carroll's predecessor to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is unique in that this is the very first time that Carroll's seminal story has been set in type in a single volume and published with drawings other than those by the author himself.; Signed by Illustrator View More...
Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Unpaginated; (7) pp.; 8vo; cream wrappers printed in blue, red and black. Reprinted from Death Comes for the Archbishop. View More...
Black Douglas: 34, 4pp.; Mary 30 pp.; 3&4, 8pp.; 24mo; printed wrappers with front cover vignettes on 3&4. All but Mary have spines reinforced with white cloth tape. The Black Douglas has bound in the rear four pages including title page, 1865: Raising the Wind: Habbie Sympson and His Wife, Baith Deid. As originaly (sic) written and spoken by John Andrews . . . together with the Lyfe and Deithe of Habbie Simpson, The Famous Piper of Kilbarchan. Written by Robert Sempill. Small pamphlets of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational character, originally distributed by chapmen or hawk... View More...
1-3, 24 pp.; 4-5, 8pp.; 24mo; printed wrappers with front cover vignettes; Drumclog spine is reinforced with white cloth tape just obscuring a few last letters on right edge; dime size tear to paper in middle of gutter between pages 10 & 11. Others generally clean. Small pamphlets of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational character, originally distributed by chapmen or hawkers. View More...