(New York): Printed at the Thistle Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1970. First edition with the Jacques illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. 4to. xviii, 135 pp. Plates, some with color, in-text illustrations. Bookplate on front pastedown, LEC "Monthly Letter" tipped in at rear, very good... More
Sewickley, PA: The New Fraternity, (c1923). First edition. 8vo. 64 pp. Gundelfinger's writings were intended warnings against a moral decline at Yale, exemplified by the consistent losing record in the school's football program. Gundelfinger (1884-1974) graduated from Yale's Sheffield School in 1906, earned a Ph.D. in math there in 1909... More
Sewickley, PA: The New Fraternity, (c1930). First edition, a collected edition of the author's earlier writings on the subject of Yale football, primarily written for periodicals. 8vo. 4, (4), [9]-264 pp. Illustrated from old posters, advertisements, and line drawings. Laid in is a 1948 pamphlet by the author, bringing his... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition with the Wyeth illustrations. Small 4to. x, 3289 pp. Color plates, color illustrated title page, illustrated endpapers. Owner's name on half-title, but a good solid copy. Original black cloth (edges rubbed), gilt spine title, color illustrated paper onlay on upper cover. (9574). More
Cambridge: At the University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1973. First edition with the O'Connor illustrations, 1/2000 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. 4to. xviii, 259 pp. Color plates, in-text line drawings. Bookplate on front pastedown, LEC "Monthly Letter" tipped in at rear, very good. Quarter-leather (spine somewhat... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (c1938). First American edition, review copy, stamped by the publisher on the front endpaper "Review Copy / Publication Date / Aug. 25 1938 Price $2.50". 8vo. (6), 285 pp. Verso of dust jacket reinforced at head of spine, else very good. Rust cloth, gilt... More
(Paris): Editions E. P. I. C. (1950). Seconde edition et considerablement enrichie, 1/110 copies (this #30; a total of 3000 copies printed) on papier d'Arches (originally published in 1937). 4to. 107, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs, 30 plates; title page printed in red and black, sub-heads through text printed in... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition, with the author's name as author on the spine. 8vo. (8), 254 pp. Title page decoration printed in red. A collection of short fiction. Previous owner's blindstamp on front endpaper and an internal leaf, spine gilt a little rubbed, but a lovely... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First edition. 8vo. (6), 633, (3, ads) pp. Plates. Title page printed in red and black. Original gilt-stamped red cloth (rubbed, stain at lower front joint). (9650). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. 8vo. ix, (2), 421 pp. Ad leaf for other titles by Spearman. Color plates. Laid in is an autograph letter, signed by Spearman April 2, 1905, from Hollywood, California, to editor Richard Watson Gilder concerning several possible writing projects aimed at periodical... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Reprint (first published in 1897). 8vo. ix, 254, (6, publisher's ads) pp. Illustrated from paintings, 8 plates, frontispiece portrait of the author. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in 1915. Laid in are (1) an 18-page pamphlet, "The Works of Chas. F.... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co. (c1900). First edition with the Clinedinst illustrations, 1/750 copies (this #201). 8vo. xvii, 410 pp. Plates. Some foxing to binding, else very good. Orig. gilt-stamped decorated vellum, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (9613). More
New York: Vanguard Press, (c1927). First edition. 12mo. xxii, (2), 89 pp. Plates from Lynd Ward woodcuts, title page vignette, illustrated endpapers. Scribner (1882-1922), largely self educated, had a meteoric career in social services, starting as a stenographer for a small local newspaper in 1908, eventually rising to assistant secretary... More
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co. 1872. First edition, intermediate state B (lacking three words in lines 20-21, p. 242). Thick 8vo. 591, (1, ad) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, plates, two frontispieces, in-text illustrations. Howes C-481: "Valuable as an autobiographical chapter in the author's life and as a vivid portrayal... More
Hartford, CT, and Chicago: American Publishing Co. 1875. First edition, second state. Square 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 inches). (8), 17-320 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, frontispiece, in-text illustrations. BAL 3364, state 2 (footnote not repeated on p. 120, skit "From Hospital Days" not present on p. 299). Rather... More
Boston, (MA): James R. Osgood and Co. 1883. First edition, intermediate state A (Tail-piece present p. 441, "St. Charles Hotel" p. 443). Thick 8vo. 624 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, and line drawings, plates and in-text illustrations. Card, signed by "Mark Twain," mounted on front pastedown. Howes C-480. BAL 3411... More
Hartford, CT, and New York: American Publishing Co. and Doubleday & McClure, 1897. First edition. Thick 8vo. (8), 17-320 pp. Illustrated from photographs, wood engravings, and line drawings, plates, vignettes. BAL 3451 (Single imprint usually preferred, but "since the title-leaf is an insert in both forms of the book, it... More
Glasgow: At the University Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1938. First edition with the Freedman illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #71) signed by the illustrator and with his red ink thumbprint over the signature. 8vo. 6 volumes: xiv, (1), 260, (1); vi, (2), 295, (1); vii, 260; viii, (4), 302;... More
(New York): Limited Editions Club, 1975. First edition with the Holden illustrations, 1/2000 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. 8vo. xv, (2), 327 pp. Double-page illustration incorporating title page, many other line drawings, illustrated endpapers. Bookplate on endpaper verso, LEC monthly letter tipped-in at rear, very good. Half-cloth and... More
New York: McClure, Phillip & Co. 1902. First edition, 1/500 copies (this #139) signed by the author. 8vo. viii, (4), 351 pp. Plates, this issue with duplicate plates on vellum. Very good. Original gilt-stamped and embossed parchment (some rubbing), top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (9607). More
New York and London: Crosby Gaige and Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition, 1/1060 copies designed by W.A. Dwiggins and signed by the author. 8vo. (8), 244, (13, index) pp. Illustrated from portraits, plates. Morocco book label of B. v. R. Overbury on front pastedown. Some offset from label and... More
Daylesford, PA: Privately printed for A. Edward Newton, 1919. First edition. 12mo. (4), 10 pp. Color frontispiece from a drawing by the author. Stevenson's earliest work, dictated to his mother at six years old, written by her, and accompanied by his drawing (from which the frontispiece was produced). Includes a.... More
Oxford, England: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1953. First edition with the Austen and Parker illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #1229) signed by Parker. 4to. 2 volumes: xiii, (5), 511; viii, [513]-992 pp. Plates, chapter head-pieces, and vignettes, decorated endpapers. Very good. Gilt-stamped... More
Baltimore, MD: Garamond Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1965. First edition with the Martin illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the author and the illustrator. 4to. xi, 334 pp. Color plates, line drawings. Bookplate on front pastedown, LEC monthly letter tipped-in at rear, else very good. Quarter-leather (spine... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (c1980). First edition. 4to.(12), 505 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Describes more than 1700 marks of American silversmiths, most photographically illustrated. Very good. Silver-stamped blue cloth, decorated dust jacket (some spoiling). (9566). More
