Poems
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. Very Good. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847. First American Edition, Second Issue Octavo. 4, [1-3] 4-251, [252-256]. Original cream boards with modern white cloth reback and paper title label. Boards stained and scuffed; wear to edges with exposure. Binding sound. Marginal smudging and mild toning to interior, else unmarked and still... Read More
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Poems; Poems: Second Series; [and] Poems: Third Series
by Emily Dickinson; [T.W. Higginson & Mabel Loomis Todd, eds.]
Boston: Roberts Bros, 1896. Very Good. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1891-96. First Series is a fifth printing, with "1891" on title page and "Fourth Edition" on copyright page. Second Series conforms to Meyerson's fourth or fifth printing with "1892" on title page and "Fourth Edition" to copyright page. Third Series a first printing with 1896 to title page, no... Read More
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The Pirate Of Chatham Square: A Story Of Old New York
by Emma Gelders Sterne; Marc Simont [illus.]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939. Octavo (22 cm). Pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Publisher's cloth binding with illustrated endpapers. Reddish brown topstain. Black and white illustrations throughout. 213 pp. Dust jacket shelfworn with some chips and tears along edges, spine faded. Boards... Read More
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Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanual Ringelblum
by Emmanuel Ringelblum; Jacob Sloan [trans.]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1958. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958. Octavo. 369 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and white boards stamped in silver and yellow. Map endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped and worn along edges with a triangular patch of loss to rear. Boards with light wear to... Read More
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I Hope "You" Like These
by Dick Emmet
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1974. First Edition. Signed by the author on full title with brief inscription "especially for The [?], Dick Emmet, 1975." Oblong octavo (5.75" x 8.5"); [49pp]. Uncredited illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over gray cloth board with black lettering to spine. Jacket is rubbed... Read More
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The Boy and the Bird [Inscribed by Williams to Jackson Mac Low]
by Emmett Williams; Tom Wasmuth [illus.]
Koln: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1969. Very Good. Koln: Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1969. First Edition, Limited Issue of 350 numbered copies of which this is no. 67. Square quarto; publisher's spiral-bound acetate wrappers over pictorial boards; 90ll. printed on rectos only, each containing a single poem and illustration. Rubbing and diagonal crease to acetate; boards show some staining, wear, and... Read More
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Sermons on Various Subjects of Christian Doctrine and Duty
by Nathanael Emmons
Providence: Barnum Field & Co, 1825. Very Good. Providence: Barnum Field & Co., 1825. Octavo; full contemporary calf, black gilt-lettered spine label; vi,[7]-441pp. Shallow but rather ubiquitous peeling and scuffing to leather extremities, preliminaries and terminals toned at margins, front free endpaper a bit dampstained, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.
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A Sermon, Preached at North-Guilford, September 5th, 1821, at the Ordination of the Rev. Zolva Whitmore
by Nathaniel Emmons
New-Haven: A.H. Maltby and Co, 1822. Very Good. New-Haven: A.H. Maltby and Co.--Glebe Building, 1822. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's blue wrappers, modern stitching; 24pp. [collated complete). Wrapper spine perished, light wear and toning along margins, tiny whole mid-upper cover, occasional spotting to textblock, else Good to Very Good, internally sound. SHOEMAKER 8623.
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Calligraphy of Song Emperors Huizong and Gaozong: Forbidden City Law Books, Thirteenth Series 宋徽宗高宗墨蹟 : 故宫法書第十三輯
by Emperors Huizong and Gaozong 宋徽宗高宗
Taiwan: National Palace Museum 國立故宫博物院印行, 1974. Very Good. Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1974. First Edition. Folio (38x27x1cm; in chemise of 29x27.5x1.5cm); [iii] + 41pp, each page a double-spread. Entirely in Chinese. Traditional Chinese fukurotoji stab-binding, with the bound spine on the right edge and the pages folded at the outer edge. Wraps of limp textured teal paper... Read More
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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament, translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised
by [Bible in English]
New York: American Bible Society, 1852. Very Good. New York: American Bible Society, 1852. 105th Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's black elaborately blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine; 591,[5],184pp. Boards rather rubbed at extremities, foxing throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. Bible and "book of ages" of the Captain Charles (1811-1873) and Janet (1809-1896) Cook[e] family. Family Record... Read More
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The Story of Jack and the Giants [Sir David Salomon's Copy]
by Richard Doyle [illus.]; G[eorge] Dalziel [engraver]; E[dward] Dalziel [engraver]
London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. Very Good. London: Griffith and Farran, 1858. New Edition. Slim octavo; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over green cloth by John Bumpus, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, pictorial cloth from the original binding bound in front, viii,[9]-56pp.; hand-colored frontispiece and added title page plus six leaves of hand-colored plates.... Read More
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Les Mots Comme un Semis [Limited Edition Signed by Bohbot and Bryen]
by Michel Bohbot [poems]; Camille Bryen [engravings]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1977. Fine/Fine. [Paris]: "A Parole Donnée," [1977]. First Edition, Limited to 10 copies including original engraving printed on both Arches and Japon papers, of which this is no. 1. Small square quarto (16.5cm); loose as issued in original pale grey printed dust jacket housed in original emerald green cloth chemise and slipcase; [16]pp.; two... Read More
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Miroir des Lieux [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Hasegawa]
by Michel Bohbot; Shoichi Hasegawa [engravings]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1976. Fine. [Paris]: "A Parole Donnée," [1976]. First Edition, Limited to 72 copies of which this is no. 9 of 12 hors commerce copies. Small square quarto (16.5cm); loose as issued in grey printed dust jacket housed in bright blue cloth chemise and slipcase; [16]pp.; two leaves of color engravings signed with limitation in... Read More
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Li Scrittori della Liguria e Particolarmente della Maritima
by Raffaele Soprani; Domenico Piola [engraving]
Genova: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, 1667. Very Good. Genova: Pietro Giovanni Calenzani, in Piazza nuova, 1667. First Edition. Quarto (21cm.); contemporary limp parchment recently rebacked; [16],300pp. (collated complete); engraved half title page signed in image by Domenico Piola, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Parchment a bit cracked along spine edges where the original binding meets the new, contemporary... Read More
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Vita Johannis Barwick, S.T.P...
by Peter Barwick; George Vertue [engravings]
Londini [London]: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer, 1721. Very Good-. Londini [London]: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer, 1721. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); contemporary paneled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled; [66],464,[44]pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried, joints rubbed with exposure of spine... Read More
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Par le Silence Vecu [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Coignard]
by Michel Bohbot [poems]; James Coignard [engravings]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1976. Fine. [Paris]: A Parole Donnée, [1976]. First Edition, Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 34. Small square quarto (16.5cm); contents loose as issued in original printed dust jacket housed in scarlet cloth chemise and slipcase; [16]pp.; two color engravings with tissue guards, both engravings signed with limitation by the artist... Read More
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Beyond the Forest
by Stuart Engstrand
New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Creative Age Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Christopher Williams retaining original price ($3.00); [10],303pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including brief tape repair at jacket spine ends, crude but brief color fill-in at jacket spine crown, rear flap creased,... Read More
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What Are You Like? [Signed]
by Anne Enright
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. Stated First American Edition with full numberline. Signed by Enright on title page without inscription. Octavo. 257 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. White boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows some light creasing along edges. Boards are lightly worn at... Read More
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The Terrible Shears: Scenes from a Twenties Childhood
by D.J. Enright
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good+. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, [1973]. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 71pp. Light rubbing to upper jacket panel, brief soil to rear. Very Good in Very Good or better jacket. Poetry collection by the English author and editor. ... Read More
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Mickey Mouse Magazine - October 1938, Vol. 4, No. 1
by Walt Disney Enterprises
New York: K.K. Publications, 1938. Good. New York: K.K. Publications, 1938. First Edition. Tall octavo. 42 pp. Illustrated wraps. Illustrations throughout. Wraps are chipped, toned, and creased with a few tears permeating through the entirety of the text-block. Binding is holding. Pages are toned and brittle. A serviceably, good or better copy of a scarce... Read More
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Sermons on Important Subjects; Collected from a number of ministers, in some of the northern states of America
by Ephraim Judson et al.
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1797. Very Good. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1797. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine label; [4],516pp. ([A]2 B-3R4 3S2, collated complete). Very slightly ex-Williston Public Library with their discreet and sparse internal markings, contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper (separated but present) of a Roderick Messenger and a Sally Coleman (?),... Read More
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Short Story 1
by Richard Yates; Gina Berriault; B.L. Barrett; Seymour Epstein
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 304 pages. Printed dust jacket with $3.95 price present. Gray boards stamped in black and orange. Dust jacket is worn along edges with some slight chipping at extremities. Boards gently rubbed along edges. Binding sound. Ownership inscription... Read More
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Grundriss der Logik und Metaphysik. Für Vorlesungen
by Johann Eduard Erdmann
Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Good +. Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage ("Second, Improved Edition"). Octavo; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, manuscript spine label; xiv,178pp. Ex-Philip Schiff Library of Lancaster Theological Seminary with their rather extensive markings, additional attractive contemporary (ca. 1840s) library bookplate to front pastedown, boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, textblock fore-edge... Read More
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The Crash of '79 [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Paul E. Erdman
Taipei City: Daisy Chain International / Royal Book Co, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. Taipei City: Royal Book Co., 1976. Chinese reprint; [English language except for copyright and publisher's name on title page]. Bookplate signed by Erdman loosely laid in at front. Octavo; 350pp. Printed dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in black cloth with gilt lettering... Read More
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The Red Convertible: Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 [Signed]
by Louise Erdrich
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: HarperCollinsPublishers, [2009]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],496pp. Tiny loss at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, corners bumped, else a Very Good and sound copy. Title page signed by the author at her Minneapolis bookstore, "Louise Erdrich... Read More
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