BALLADS
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A finely preserved copy, charcoal, polished linen, beveled edges, gte, sides untrimmed, 8vo, vi (2) 137 (2). Trace spotting to endpapers, else clean interiors throughout. Solid, very attractive copy. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima Edition, 26 volumes complete)
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 1st US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. Limited edition, this #86 of 1030 copies. Blue cloth, sides uncut, paper spine labels variously tanned. Pictures are of only two exemplary volumes but set is complete. Extra shipping charges will apply.
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Selected Poems
by Stevens, Wallace
London: Fortune Press, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine copy, with no dustjacket. A pirated edition. Selected by and with a foreword by Dennis Williamson. Black cloth over alligatored patterned black boards, gilt spine titles. 107 pp. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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TRIPTYCH OF ORIGINAL SCRATCHBOARDS FOR STEWARD'S UNPUBLISHED TRANSLATION OF JEAN GENET'S QUERELLE
by STEWARD, SAMUEL (aka PHIL ANDROS, PHIL SPARROW, PHILIP VON CHICAGO, et al.) (GENET, JEAN
No Binding. Fine. Three scratchboards, two 12'x 15", the other 16" x 12", depicting critical scenes from Jean Genet's classic Querelle. Two are uniform in size and are matted and framed in the style of the oblong one, which wads originally matted and framed by the artist. The life of Sam Steward (1909 - 1983), the subject of... Read More
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Poems of Lake Winnepesaukee
by Stickney, Julia Noyes. (New Hampshire)
Haverhill MA: C. C. Morse & Son, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. Mustard cloth, gilt titles. Light wear to bottom edge front cover. Internals fine. No owner names or markings.
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In the Valley of the Merrimack
by Stickney, Julia Noyes. (New Hampshire)
NY: Grafton Press, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth covers darkened about edges and some fading of cloth in a few spots along spine front cover. Internals fine.
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In the Valley of the Merrimack
by Stickney, Julia Noyes. (New Hampshire)
NY: Grafton Press, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Red cloth covers, gilt titles front cover. An unused, apparently unread copy, in original glassine. New Hampshire poetry.
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Georgia O'Keeffe A Portrait By Alfred Stieglitz
by STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Georgia O'Keefe (introduction by)
NY: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art/ Viking Press, 1978, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy, fine in near fine, price-clipped dustjakcet in slipcase. A collectible copy. No names/bookplates.
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42nd Street
by Stone, Martin et al.
New York: 42nd Street Redevelopment Corporation, 1978. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine -/No Dustjacket. a bit of rubbing at spine, else fine.
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MISSOURI CANARY
by Stong, Phil ( story by). Wiese, Kurt (pictures by)
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. A solid first edition copy, modestly worn on bottom edge in pictorial unclipped dustjacket matching book covers that is worn around all edges with some shallow edge loss here and there. Clean internals, no names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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Shakespeare in Love
by Stoppard, Tom and Mark Norman
Np: Np (Mirimax Films), 1997. 2-hole Rivet. Almost As New/No Jacket. Release script (i.e. as released to theaters in final edit) presumably published for and distributed by Mirimax to members of the Screenwriter's Guild to garner support for Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay.
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THE SHOREBIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
by Stout, Gardner D. (editor and sponsor); Matthiessen, Peter (text by); Palmer, Ralph S. (species accounts by)
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. Limited First Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine -. Clem, Robert Verity. Limited edition of 350 copies, this #256. Signed by all four contributors on the limitation . Full leather. Prospectus laid-in. Near fine copy, in original publisher's cloth slipcase.
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Littlle Pussy Willow" Parts I and II in OUR YOUNG FOLKS
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher et al.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. Two copies of Our Young Folks - Sept and Oct 1866 - that contain the first tow parts of Stowe's Little Pussy Willow, published in book form in 1870. Better than very good condition.
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1899. Early Printing of New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Rust-colored cloth stamped in black on front and gilt and black on spine. 8vo, xlii, 499, 12. Some rolling to cloth head of spine, else a much better than very good copy. Druggists & Pharmacists, Books & Stationary stamp of Crossland Bro's of St. Clairsville,... Read More
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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (Cleaveland, Moses)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A later printing (1894) of "A New Edition, with Illustrations and a Bibliography of the Work by George Bullen" (1878). 8vo, publishers plain green cloth, black-endpapers, with evidence of past reinforcement of hinges, front and rear. Hartford bookstore ticket rear pastedown. Inscribed: "Harriet Beecher Stowe/ written for/ Miss Cleaveland/... Read More
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Paul Strand A Retrospective Monograph The Years 1915 - 1968
by Strand, Paul
NY: Aperture, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. First edition of one volume version combing the volumes of 1915 - 1946 and 1950 - 1968. Some soiling and wear about edges, still firmly bound. No names inscriptions or bookplates.
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Prose: Four Poems
by Strand, Strand
Sweden, Maine: Ives Street Press, 1987. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. Josef Albers. Copy # 164/187, Signed by author in black ink. Limited ed. 16 pp, 10" x 7". Fine gray cloth binding.
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ROBERT DODSLEY, POET, PUBLISHER & PLAYRIGHT
by Straus, Ralph
London: John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. Red linen covers faded, sound binding. Solid reference copy. All about Dodsley (1703 - 1764) and the Goldsmith crowd. Especially interesting is Bodley Head's 16-page publisher list in rear.
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LOS ANGELES
by Street-Portrer, Tim (photographs). Keaton, Diane (introduction)
NY: Rizzoli, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good -. First edition, limited to 5000 copies, this copy with print numbered 1160/5000 of the Disney Center (designed by Frank Gehry) and signed by photographer Street-Porter. Also inscribed by Street-Porter on the half-title. Fine copy in dustjacket that has a moderately sun-faded spine and narrow strip top edge of front... Read More
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GENTLEMEN UP
by Streett, William B. Brown, Paul (illustrated by)
NY: The Derrydale Press, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/VG+. Limited to 850 copies. A fine, apparently unused copy, green linen over boards with titles and gilt-stamped device in unclipped dustjacket that is modestly worn about edges. No names, bookplates and desirable thus. HORSES EQUESTRIAN JUMPING RIDING.
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VICUNA: THE WORLD'S FINEST FABRIC
by Strook,Sylvan I.
NY: S. Strook & Co., Inc, 1937. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade catalog, printed paper coves, stapled spine, 23 pages, illustrated, 2 full page color plates. Founded in 1866, by the 1930's the Strook Company was the major purveyor of luxury fabrics in the US. Sylvan Strook was the third generation to run the family owned business based... Read More
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Field Book of Birds of the Panama Canal Zone: A Description of All the Species of the Birds of the Panama Canal Zone, with Notes on Their Habits, Call Notes and Songs, for Purpose of Identifying Them
by Sturgis, Bertha B.
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, "pocket" size, green cloth, stamped gilt front and spine, 466p, illistrated. Gilt to spien dulled a bit, neat bookplate pastedown, little used copy (if at all). Solid copy.
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MY BUSY DAYS: A CHILD'S VERSE
by Sturgis, Edith B. Hinchman, Margaretta S. (illustrator)
NY: D. Appleton, 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon children's title, from illustrator associated with the Brandywine group Pictorial cover a wee rubbed, sunned and edges/ corners showing moderate wear. One plate showing some edge loss from apparently once been loosened, now professionally re-inserted. A thoroughly presentable copy.
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An Introduction to Linguistic Science
by Sturtevant, Edgar H.
New York: Yale University Press, Inc, 1967. Eleventh Printing. Cloth Backed Boards. Very Good +/Good +. Tight binding, clean text. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Dj with small closed tear lowed edge of rear panel, faded spine. Solid copy.
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THERE'S A WOCKET IN MY POCKET
by Dr. Suess
NY: Random House, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition. Laminated pictorial covers, issued without dustjacket. Covers slightly rubbed, the faintest sunning to spine. Neat owner name top of ffe. Internals near fine. Binding solid.
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