New York: The Century Co., 1900. Leather bound. Extensively embossed brown leather covers depicting dogs with title and signed in bottom right corner, "BMM". All edge gilt; tan, brown and orange marbled end papers; bw portrait frontispiece; red bordered title page, xviii, 140 pp. Frontispiece is titled; "Dr. John Brown..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Yellow cloth boards with green lettering and illustrations, green dust jacket with green illustrations and white lettering, 368 pp, no illustrations. "This is the story of an American family, the Joyces, over three generations- from 1870 to 1928. It is told by three..... More
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1882. Leather bound. Brown textured leather boards with gilt ruling, five raised bands on spine with black title block and gilt lettering, marble tinted block edges, marble illustrated end pages, xxiv, 448 pp, bw illustrations. New edition, revised and corrected by James Plumptre, B.D...... More
New York: W.S. Gottsberger & Co, 1890. Hardcover. Bound in half tan leather and tan cloth boards, gilt spine lettering; bw portrait frontispiece of author; 261 pp. Translated from the German edition by Mrs. Edward Hamilton Bell. Contents include: The elixir. -- The Greylock, a fairy tale. -- The nuts..... More
London: G. Richards, 1926. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; 150 pp. bw portrait frontispiece;. A first edition limited to 1000 copies printed. More
Chicago, IL: Covici - Mcgee Co, 1922. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards; bw illustrated end papers; bw illustrated title page; 288 (1) pp; bw illustrations throughout. Collection of 64 sketches of Chicago written by the author in 1921-1922 in a daily column for the Chicago daily news. Designs and illustratiosn by..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. 2458/249. Hardcover. Green, black, and blue decorative paper over boards; off-white vellum spine with gilt spine lettering; shiny gold end papers; untrimmed pages; color illustrated frontispiece; red and black bordered and illustrated title page; 350 pp. "Autographed edition of Peacock's Feather limited to two hundred..... More
Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1919. Softcover. Oversized, hand-colored wraps with black lettering, (54) pp, profusely illustrated with pochoir plates throughout. "The first children's book published by NRF, and one of the masterworks of children's literature created by the young painter Edouard Warshawsky, known as Edy-Legrand, stencilled in color by Jean..... More
New York: Mystery House, 1946. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine; 288 pp. A rare first edition issued in the United States. "On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an..... More
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; black dj, color illustrated with red and white lettering; mylar cover; x, 249 pp. Contents: [ch.] 1. Introduction -- [ch.] 2. Isaac Asimov, The Foundation trilogy (1951-53 ; serialized 1942-49) -- [ch.] 3. Frederik Pohl..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with extensive gilt tooling and gilt lettering on front and spine; top edge gilt, color illustrated frontispiece with descriptive tissue guard, xviii, 244 pp; several color plates throughout. Includes an introduction by Arlo Bates. More
Evanston/ Chicago: Northwestern University Press / Newberry Library, 1987. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; red title block on spine; off-white dj with red and black lettering; viii, 847 pp; facsimiles. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating account of..... More
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with silver lettering; xv, 290 pp. Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, No. 25. Foreword by Frederik Pohl. Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-273) and index. More
London: Chatto and Windus, 1929. Hardcover. Silk blue cloth over boards, gilt spine lettering with gilt design. Volume 1 has a bw illustrated title page, 302 pp. Volume 2 has bw illustrated title page, 288 pp. Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Contents of volume 1 contain: Overture, Combray, Swann in..... More
Paris: Honoré Champion, 1905. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 black leather and black, blue and yellow marble boards; gilt spine lettering; marble color illustrated end papers; bw illustration on title page; xx, 41 pp. Text in French. Introduction by Boulenger, also printed as supplement to the revue des etudes rabelaisiennes, vol..... More
New York: Street and Smith, 1897. Paperback. Color illustrated paper wraps. 32 pages. Contains publisher's advertisements on p. 32 and back cover./ "January 16, 1897."--Caption./ Illustrated paper wrappers in colors./ Title from cover./ Printed in double columns./ Cover illustration by Stacy [Burch]. More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black spine lettering, top edge blue tinted, tan dust jacket with black and orange illustration and black lettering, 294 pp, no illustrations. "Rafferty, a history teacher doesn't like the course history is taking. His wife, Alice, discovers that..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with brown lettering and illustration, 5 preliminary leaves, 378 pages. "The valley is the wide, beautiful Chester Valley near Philadelphia, with the hills above Valley Forge looming on one side, and broad acres filled with farms, mansions, and little towns..... More
London: Penguin, 2002. Hardcover. Blue and gold decorative, silky cloth boards, gilt title block on spine with blue lettering, color illustrated frontispiece, xx, 678 pp, illustrated in bw. Issued in plain blue slipcase. This was first published in 18 monthly parts in the Cornhill Magazine from August 1864 to January..... More
New York: Center Street, 2017. Hardcover. Black binding with silver lettering, glossy color-illustrated dust jacket. xvii, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates, signed by author. "The presidency of Donald Trump marks a profound change in the trajectory of American government, politics, and culture. He is the only person ever..... More
