Decatur, GA: Wisteria Press, 1995. First edition, 1/297 copies (this #154 on Nideggen handmade paper) signed by the author and illustrator. 8vo. 20 pp. Two-tone cloth, gilt spine title, publisher’s acetate dust jacket (tear in upper front panel). Very good. More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1932. Reprint of the 1904 sixth edition. 8vo. xii, 563, (1) pp. Illustrations from line drawings, in-text vignettes. First collected and published as a book in 1868, the "Bab Ballads," humorously illustrated light verse, pre-dated Gilbert's collaborations with Sir Arthur Sullivan; "Songs of a Savoyard," the..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925. First edition, 1/500 copies specially bound for the publisher’s “friends among the bookmen,” signed by the author. Original cloth and boards, illustrated spine label, black-trimmed orange endpapers. Very good copy (lacking the dust jacket). Very good. More
8vo. One-page, approximately 100 words, in part: “I love the old New England houses, for I always think of New England as my second home. I have happy memories of Boston, and I haven spent all my summers, in recent years, at Castine, Maine … after a long illness, I...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition, first issue, the author’s first book. 8vo. (4), 276, (blank), (6, ads) pp. Ads include Twain's American Claimant and books by Richard Harding Davis. Original green and gilt-stamped decorated cloth. Bookplate, catalogue entry for a different copy affixed to rear pastedown. Very..... More
NY: Doubleday, Page, 1900. First edition. 8vo. 512 pp. Original decorated tan cloth (spine dull); small old very light tideline at base of spine and bottom fore-edge, else very good. More
London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797. First edition. 8vo. xii, 481, (1) pp. With the half-title and errata leaf. Godwin (1756-1836), "known as the philosophical representative of English radicalism," following his publication of Political Justice in 1793 (DNB), published The Enquirer, the same year his wife Mary Wollstonecraft..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1835. 12mo. xii, [25]-307 pp. Original brown cloth (a little splash stained, a little wear at spine ends), paper spine label (partly chipped away). Contemporary Smithfield, Virginia, owner's book label on front pastedown; his signature at head of title page. Very good. First American edition of..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd [1912]. First edition with the Thomson illustrations, 1/350 copies (this #21) signed by the illustrator. 4to. (4), 197, (1) pp. Mounted color plates, in-text line drawings; advertisement for Thomson’s drawings and watercolors laid in. Publisher’s green and gilt-stamped decorated vellum (some browning), top edge gilt..... More
NY: Scribner’s Sons, (c1963). First edition. 8vo. 256 pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper “For Vera and Russell, / with all good wishes, / Caroline.” Decorated green cloth, four-color decorated dust jacket (spine ends a little chipped). Four pages browned from laid in clippings (no longer present)..... More
Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1930. First edition. Small 8vo. 181 pp. Frontispiece from a photograph of the home "La Grange," the center of this novel set in colonial and Civil War years, built on the Rapidan River in St. Mark's Parish in 1742. Very Good. Original gilt-stamped navy cloth..... More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (c1926). First British edition (from the American sheets). 4to. viii, (2), 228 pp. Plates, vignettes, illustrated endpapers. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth. Bookplate, previous owner’s pencil notes on front endpaper, else very good. More
New York ; London: Scribner, Welford & Co., No. 654 Broadway; 188 Fleet Street, 1870-71. Purple cloth, unevenly faded. 27 cm. iv, 64pp. 10 leaves of plates. Plain spine, with black and gold bands; gilt stamped title on front board. Wright 1066. Book plate of Stuart Henry Hartson on front..... More
Rochester, (England): Printed and published by Edwin Harris & Sons, 1904. First edition (apparently reprinted once, in 1920), issued as "Old Rochester -- No. 18". 12mo. 16 pp. Illustrated from photographs, double-page plan of the central town, ads for local businesses. OCLC locates four copies (Yale, Ransom Center, Birmingham, Freie..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1891. First edition. 12mo. 293 pp. BAL 7122 (printing 2, sheets bulking 11/16" and no dots in the spine imprint). Wright III, 2485. Very good. Original dark brown-stamped mottled tan cloth. (#5945). More
in a short autograph letter to editor Joseph Benson Gilder, signed by Harris, 28 May 1883. Single sheet, on letterhead stationery of "The Constitution, Atlanta, GA., Editorial Rooms," approximately 90 words. Harris writes Gilder, enclosing the notice for "Dialect Tales" [not present] and asking Gilder for a copy of the..... More
(Athens, GA): The Georgia Review, 1952. First separate edition, reprinted from The Georgia Review, Vol. VI, No. 4, winter 1952. Tall 8vo. 465-474 pp. During her life, Haun (1911-1966) published one book, The Hawk’s Done Gone, a loosely connected group of short stories of life in the Tennessee mountains, and her..... More
New York: Gould, Banks & Co., 1842. First edition. 12mo. Two volumes bound in one: vi, 241; vi, 231 pp. Engraved plates; half-title to each volume. The first appearance of Herbert's pseudonym "Frank Forester." BAL 8068 (“Unsold sheets, folded, untrimmed, measuring 7 7/8 x 4 ¾ inches, remained unbound for..... More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. "Koizumi Edition," first issued under a different edition title and in a different format the previous year. 8vo. 16 volumes. Illustrated with color frontispieces in each volume, as well as other plates from photographs and color illustrations. The photographs are by Charles S. Olcott. BAL..... More
Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Academy, 1929. First edition. Large 4to. 534 pp. Illustrated, portraits, three full-page color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Among the graduating class was future science-fiction master Robert A. Heinlein, with a full-page devoted to his class photograph and biographical information, signed by Heinlein at his picture, and..... More
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., (c1986). First edition. 8vo. (10), 326 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Ernest Hemingway's eldest son's memoirs. Very good. Red cloth (fore-edge a little spotted), illustrated dust jacket (spine faded). (2147). More
4to. (2) pp. [written rectos only]. 8 stanzas of four lines each. First line: "Oh, not the beggars who seeks your door." Folded; editor's red pencil markings at head of title, else very good. Hewitt is "chiefly known by her poetical contributions to periodicals" (Appleton's). She edited a gift-book entitled..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire: Printed & published at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1930. First edition thus, 1/500 copies printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press. 12mo. (4), 40), (1) pp. Three plates, title page vignette. Addressing the premise that "a woman may conceive and be..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. First edition with the Steiner-Prag illustrations, 1/1500 copies (this #666) signed by the illustrator. Large 8vo. xxiv, (2), 336 pp. Black-and-white plates. With the LEC Monthly Letter tipped to the rear pastedown. Bookplate on the front pastedown, else very good. Original gilt-stamped decorated black..... More
NY and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1906. First edition. 8vo. 406 pp. Krick 79: "Organized under six chronological headings, one of them being the period of the Civil War. It is [the author's] premise that the writings of Southern authors 'are not merely disconnected efforts of isolated thinkers, but rather..... More
