[Salem, Mass. 1870]. Unbound sheets (some uncut), 29.5 x 22.5cm. Two preliminary leaves, printed with the series title and table of contents for the issues which follow: Nos. 1-5; Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 1870, 40pp. (8pp. each no.). Laid in between the 2 preliminary leaves is a folded sheet of music..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Reprint (first published 1895). 8vo. viii, (2), 269 pp. Illustrated from Remington art work, plates. Howes R-207 (for the first edition). Graff 3458. Adams Herd 1878. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards (rubbed, corners bumped, shadow of dust jacket, no longer present, on endpapers)..... More
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Reprint (first published 1895). 8vo. viii, (2), 269 pp. Illustrated from Remington art work, plates. Howes R-207 (for the first edition). Graff 3458. Adams Herd 1878. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards (rubbed and soiled, corners badly bumped). Still a good solid copy. More
Newbern, N.C. [François-Xavier Martin], 1801. First American edition.16mo. 160pp. Full brown leather with red leather title label. Spine eroded as is label, joints cracked but holding. More
[NP: 1890s?]. Autograph note, signed, written on thin tissue paper in brown ink, 1 p., approx. 95 words. Loss to upper left corner of page, two old cello tape repairs at left margin, affecting one word. Dated, but the date is unclear. Riley writes to Mr. Furlong thanking him for..... More
Single sheet, 17 x 12 cm., creased from folding, some faint old staining to margins (not affecting text.) In a neat hand, Riley congratulates his importing tailor, A.A. Schmidt for his satisfactory work on the suit, and returns what he believes he owes him for it. He is uncertain as..... More
Indianapolis, (IN): Bobbs-Merrill, (c1949). First edition. 8vo. 378. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. Cubans struggling against Spain prior to the Spanish-American War. Roberts (1886-1962), a native of Jamaica, published some two dozen books, novels and general non-fiction, including a study of Lake Pontchartrain; his Haunting Hand, published..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1897. First edition, 1/500 copies. 12mo. 121 pp. Original green and red decorated tan cloth (designed by T.B. Hapgood; thoroughly rubbed); foxed, end leaves heavily, a good copy. Includes "Luke Havergall" and "Richard Cory." More
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No place, publisher, or date [late 20th century?]. Apparently a unique artist’s book, an illustrated manuscript. Oblong 4to (9 ½ x 10 ½ inches). (12) pp. Untitled, the text is a simple telling of a creation myth in which the divine serpent and his god are the creative forces. On..... More
Boston: Printed by David Carlisle for West and Greenleaf, 1801. Early American edition (first published London, 1792). 16mo. (4), 124 pp. Illustrated with four engraved plates. Charming edition; at the head of the first page of text inscribed "Norwich, Dec. 21 1821 / To Miss Abby Ann Jepson, For good..... More
Boonville, MO: Kemper Military School, 1935. 23 pp. Illustrated, 8vo, original decorated gray wrappers. First edition. Very good. More
Lisboa, (Portugal): Simao Thaddeo Ferreira, 1792. First edition (?). 16mo. (2), 369 pp. Apparently an anonymously published romantic novel. Not recorded on OCLC or in the NUC. KVK locates one copy (Biblioteca Nacional Portugal). Contemporary or near-contemporary mottled calf, leather label and gilt ornaments on spine, all edges red. Very..... More
Chapel Hill, (NC): Privately printed for the Intimate Bookshop, 1958. First separate edition, 1/2000 copies. 8vo. (10) pp. Christmastime hunting, an experience bonding a boy, his dog, and his grandfather. Blue and red printed decorated wrappers, stapled. Very good. (2892). More
(New York: Henry Holt, c1953). This issue only. 4to. 132 pp. Illustrated. First publication of this sketch; the series began in the February issue of Field & Stream, and culminated with a collected edition published by Holt in 1957. Very good. Color illustrated wrappers (some wear). (1066). More
New York: McGraw-Hill, (c1962). First edition, an advance issue. 8vo. xi, 555, (1) pp. "Coming March 19, 1962" printed on front wrapper, that phrase overstamped in light red, with further light red stamping below: "BOMC Selection / Coming June 26, 1962." Paper with uniform light browning, else very good. Original..... More
Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1871-1884. First edition. 8vo. 8 volumes: various paginations through the first three volumes for individual letters; (4), 294; (4), 396; (2), 354; (4), 412; (4), 306 pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits, facsimiles, in-text line drawings; lacking the index volume published in 1887. "[In an] effort to cure..... More
Columbia, SC: R. L. Bryan Co., (c1966). Rev. ed. Thick 8vo. 635 pp. Portrait frontis. Signed by the author on the half-title. Owner's name on pastedown, else very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth, illus. dust jacket. (#8108). More
Indianapolis, (IN): Bobbs-Merrill, (c1958). First edition. Tall 8vo. 201 pp. Line drawings. Old tape marks on endpapers, else very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (#8109). More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., (c1921). First edition (a different book than that privately printed in Cumberland, Maryland, before 1920 under the same title). 8vo. (8), 344 pp. Plates. Signed by the author on the title page. "Adventures of the game trails of the South Carolina pine-lands and the..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. First edition, first issue, with the correct reading on line six, page 253 in vol. III). Small 8vo. (4), xxxii, 302; (4), 319; (4), 315; (4), 320 pp. Half-title to each volume; without the errata in volume three. Cavalier-Roundhead romance set in Derbyshire. A...... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1826. First edition. 12mo. 3 volumes: xvi, 315; (4), 332; (4), 370 pp. With the half-title to each volume. Historical novel set just after the English Civil War, featuring the escape of Charles II in 1652 and his triumphant return in 1660, published in the depths of..... More
Cambridge, England: Limited Editions Club, 1967. First edition with the Parker illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #192) signed by the illustrator. Narrow 4to. 297, (1) pp. Chapter head-pieces and in-text illustrations from wood engravings. LEC Monthly Letter tipped to rear endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Brown quarter-leather and..... More
New York: Random House, (c1948). First edition. 8vo. 689 pp. Based on the book, the 1958 film, starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, was thought "well mounted and generally absorbing" (Halliwell). Gilt-stamped two-tone cloth, color decorated dust jacket (rumpled at spine ends). Very good. (1407). More
London: William Miller, 1809. First edition. 8vo. xxviii, (4), 400 pp. American painter Washington Allston's copy, with his ownership signature at the head of the half title and with a small pen-and-ink sketch (2 1/2 x 2 inches) of a man’s head, perhaps of classical character, at the bottom of..... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, nd [ca. 1815]. 16mo. 53 pp. Engraved frontispiece; publisher's ad for other plays on rear wrapper. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed wrappers (rubbed, some chipping), untrimmed. Very good. More
