A Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784

London: Printed for R. Edwards, 1792. Very Good. London: Printed for R. Edwards, 1792. Apparent second edition, preceded by an undated edition assigned the publication date [1785?] by ESTC. Octavo. [2], vii, [1], 178 pp. Lacking half title and final blank leaf. Recent blue paper wrappers. Wraps chipped and toned. Light toning and spotting to pages, but overall... Read More

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Folio Album of 180 Blank Leaves

Washington, D.C., 1990. Fine. Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy cream wove stock, unwatermarked,... Read More

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A Penny for the Poor [alt. title Threepenny Novel]

by Bertolt Brecht; Desmond I. Vesey and Christopher Isherwood [trans.]

New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. Very Good/Good. New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First American Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50), yellow topstain; 396pp. Jacket rather worn with a number of closed tears and splitting along flap folds, old tape repair at spine ends, cloth spine very slightly toned, faint... Read More

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Hip Hop Immortals Volume 1

by Bonz Malone; Nichole Beattie and DJ Lindy [eds.]

[N.p.]: Immortals Brands, a Division of Sock Bandit Productions, 2002. Very Good. [N.p.]: Immortals Brands, a Division of Sock Bandit Productions, 2002. Second Printing, this being copy #1373. Folio. Unpaginated. Photographs throughout. Gray glossy boards stamped in purple and white. No dust jacket. Publisher's "proof of ownership" document laid in. Boards bumped and lightly edgeworn with a few... Read More

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An Giall / The Hostage

by Brendan Behan; Richard Wall [trans. and ed.]

Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1987. Near Fine/Near Fine. Washington, D.C.; The Catholic University of America Press, 1987. First American Edition. Octavo (22 cm); Publisher's white and green dust jacket on teal cloth bound boards with gilt stamping to spine. Light scuffing and bumping to jacket. Board corners and spine ends softly bumped with board... Read More

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A Parody Outline of History: Wherein May Be Found a Curiously Irreverent Treatment of American Historical Events Imagining Them as They Would Be Narrated by America’s Most Characteristic Contemporary Authors [Signed and Inscribed to Frank C. Norris]

by [Bruce Catton] Donald Ogden Stewart; Herb Roth [illus.]

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1921. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in dark blue and green; xiii,[14]-230pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips affecting text of publisher's ads printed on jacket verso... Read More

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The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery

by C.A.L. Graham; A.F. Alanbrooke [fwd.]

Aldershot, UK: Gale & Polden Ltd, 1957. Very Good +/Very Good. Aldershot, UK: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 470 pp. Black and white photographs, illustrations, and maps, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. Navy boards lettered in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows light chipping with some minor creasing along edges. Boards show very mild shelfwear... Read More

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Mishaps, Perhaps

by Carl Solomon; Mary Beach [ed.]; Claude Pelieu [intro.]

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books / Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1966. Very Good. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books / Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 62 pages. Photographic wraps. Covers rubbed along edges with a bit of a curve to front, and shallow chipping along bottom back edge near spine.... Read More

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Twinkie Town Tales

by Carlyle Emery; Arthur Henderson [illus.]

St. Louis: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co, 1926. Very Good. St. Louis: Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., 1926. First Edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with chipping and exposure along spine. Binding is sound. Some smudging to pages. Delightfully illustrated children's book includes chapters on the origin of the Twinkies, the... Read More

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Theras and His Town

by Caroline Dale Snedeker; Mary Whitson Haring [illus.]

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. First Edition, stated. Octavo; x, [xi-xiv], 252pp. Four illustrations including frontis, all present. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Boards rubbed and edgeworn with exposure to corners, shallow chips and fraying at spine ends, and a few general scuffs and smudges to cloth.... Read More

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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

by Charles Perrault; Harry Clarke [illus.]; Thomas Bodkin [intro.]

New York: Dodge Publishing Co, 1922. Very Good. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1922]. No edition statement. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears. Quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); 157pp, [158-160]. Twenty-four illustrations -- 12 full color, including frontis, and 12 black and white, with black and white vignettes throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering and... Read More

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Same Old Thing, Shakespeare Through Mailer [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski] [Pages 2 and 3 from Wormwood: 11]

by Charles Bukowski; James Hazard [contribs.]; Marvin Malone [ed.]

Storrs, CT: Wormwood Review Press, 1963. Very Good +. Storrs, CT: Wormwood Review Press, 1963. Limited Edition of 29 copies signed by editor Marvin Malone of which this is no. 10.  Pictorial broadsheet (21.5x28cm). Fine condition. Scarce promotion for the Wormwood Review, here sold as "non-academic, non-sewing-circle, non-beat, and non-profit," and including pages 3 and 4 from... Read More

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

by Charles Dickens; "Phiz" [Hablot Knight Brown] [illus.]

London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. Very Good. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873-74. Publisher's “Household Edition,” here parts 29-34 from November ’73 through April ’74 and constituting the whole of Pickwick. Large octavo. 400 pp. Illustrations by Phiz, complete. Rebound in red quarter morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Original... Read More

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Detective Poufy's First Case: Or The Missing Battery-Operated Pepper Grinder

by Charlotte Pomerantz; Marty Norman [illus.]

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good +. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1976. First Edition. Square quarto. 64 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket and boards, with jacket a bit shorter than boards, presumed production flaw. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges. Boards with mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good, collectible... Read More

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The Library of Chester Beatty: A Catalog of the Indian Miniatures [Three volume set]

by [Chester Beatty]; Sir Thomas W. Arnold; J.V.S. Wilkinson [ed.]

London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. Very Good. London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. First Edition. Three folio volumes. Nineteen color plates and eighty-four in monochrome with tissue guards, collated and complete. Gray cloth... Read More

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The Rebel Worker No. 4

by Chicago Branch of the General Recruiting Union of the Industrial Workers of the World [I.W.W.]

Chicago, IL: Chicago Branch of the General Recruiting Union of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1965. Very Good. Chicago, IL: Chicago Branch of the General Recruiting Union of the Industrial Workers of the World, ca. 1965. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's staple bound wrappers; 36pp.; illus. throughout, text printed mimeograph from typescript. Wrappers unevenly toned, else Very... Read More

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Erec and Enide

by Chretien de Troyes; Carleton W. Carroll [ed. & trans.]; William W. Kibler [intro.]

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1987. Near Fine. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1987. Octavo. 349 pp + advertisements. Frontispiece. Green cloth with spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, binding is sound, and pages unmarkd. A Near Fine copy of Volume 25 Series A of the Garland Library of Medieval Literature.

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The Man Who Loved Children

by Christina Stead; Randall Jarrell [intro.]

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Second American Edition. Octavo. 527 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. White cloth stamped in brown and blue; dark topstain. Dust jacket shows a few brief chips and tears with some creasing along edges, with some faint staining to... Read More

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I Know a Secret [Signed by Morley]

by Christopher Morley; Jeanette Warmuth [illus.]

Garden Cit, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Very Good+/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Early printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); viii,[6],235pp.; color frontispiece, half-tone illus. throughout. Dust jacket margins rather chipped and worn with brief splitting along flap folds, loss at bottom edge of rear panel not... Read More

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They Told Barron: Conversations and Revelations of an American Pepys in Wall Street - The Notes of the Late Clarence W. Barron

by Clarence W. Barron; Arthur Pound & Samuel Taylor Moore [eds.]

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition, stated. Large octavo. 372 pp. Frontispiece. Green cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards show wear to extremities with brief exposure, chipping, and minor fraying, heaviest to top of spine; edges and spine faded to brown; a few smudges... Read More

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Tom, Sue and the Clock

by Conrad Aiken; Julie Maas [illus.]

New York: Collier Books, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Collier Books, 1966. First Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (22cm); 32pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $2.95 price intact; matching pictorial boards. White endsheets. Illustrations throughout. Jacket shows minor staining to front and rear with crease along length of front; tears forming along spine and flaps. Boards... Read More

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The Issa Valley [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

by Czeslaw Milosz; Louis Iribarne [trans.]

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [4],288pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few dents along board margins, minor paper flaw to front free endpaper from previous pencil erasure, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed... Read More

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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition

by Czeslaw Milosz; Catherine S. Leach [trans.]

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Very Good/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 300 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact;. Black boards stamped in gilt. Jacket rubbed along edges with a number of shallow chips and tears and some adjacent creasing, along with... Read More

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Tombstone As a Lonely Charm (Parts I, II, & III) [Limited Edition]

by D.A. Levy; Michael Schaefer [cover illus.]

Cleveland, OH: Falling Down Press, 1975. Very Good +. Cleveland, OH: Falling Down Press, 1968. A Stuck-in-Nowhere Reprint Limited to 100 copies. Octavo (23cm); publisher's blue-black card wrappers, upper cover adorned with a skeleton print by Michael Schaefer, rear cover with small collage of two yellow paper strips, "D.A. Levy" printed in red; [12]ll. printed mimeograph from typescript... Read More

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Dakota Odowan. Dakota Hymns. Published by The Dakota Mission of the American Missionary Association and the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions

by [Dakota Language] John Poage Williamson & Alfred Longley Riggs [eds.]

New York: Printed by the American Tract Society, 1911. Very Good. New York: Printed by the American Tract Society, 1911. Reprint. Octavo. 135 pp. Black leatherette boards stamped in gilt; floral endpapers; edges stained red. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front fly leaf, "Emily W. Harding May 26, 1912 Santee, Neb." Harding was... Read More

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