New York: Viking Press, 1937. First edition. Octavo. 301pp. Faint dampstain on page fine edges, cloth noticeably dampstained, corners lightly bumped, a good only copy in a good only dampstained dustwrapper, extremities chipped and torn. An important anthology of prose and verse written by members of the Federal Writers' Project... More
(England): Oxford University, 1752. Red leather with ornate gold stamping. The book has been rebacked with the original board covers retained. Good only with text block in very good condition, with pages age-toned and a corner folded over here and there, joints and extremities worn, scuffing to boards. More
![[Photo Albums]: Elderly Couple's Travel Photo Albums to Florida in 1979](/pictures/thumb/421050a-1.JPG?v=1515175556)
Florida / North Carolina / Georgia: 1979. Three volumes. Measuring 12 "x 12". Contemporary binders with patterned leather boards with gilt decorations and picture cut outs affixed to the front board. They contains a total of 804 color photographs measuring between 3" x 2" and 7" x 5", with labels... More
![[Photo Album]: Motorcycle Racing](/pictures/thumb/414266.JPG?v=1519927627)
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Rhode Island: 1950-1952. Quarto. Measuring 8.5" x 10.75". Full faux leather Kodak Library album. Contains 238 black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 3.25" x 4.5" and 5" x 7", with captions. Album very good with moderate wear and some fraying at edges and corners... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856. First edition. Green printed wrappers. 33,(3)pp. A small paper remnant on the front wrap and a faint vertical crease, a very good copy. Independence Day oration, with some mention of abolition. More
Philadelphia: David McKay, Circa 1930. Possible first American edition. The verso of the title page is completely blank, no date anywhere, the page following the title page appears to have been removed. Translated by Alfred Allison. Near fine with light wear at the corners and spine ends, a little spotting... More
![[Scrapbook]: "It's a Dog's Life" ANDRE PETIT CHOUX as told to Mary S. Henderson.](/pictures/thumb/402960.jpg?v=1457685848)
Kalamazoo, Michigan: 1965. Quarto. Measuring 10" x 12". String-tied white glossy paper over boards with "Scrapbook" stamped in gilt on the front panel and a photo. Contains 148 color photographs measuring between 1" x 2.5" and 3.5" x 5" with captions as well as various related ephemera tipped in.A scrapbook... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, (1919). First edition. Fine in a somewhat tattered, good pictorial dustwrapper with some chipping, mostly along the upper extremities. Early and important baseball biography, rarely found in jacket. More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1827. First edition. Printed wrappers. 62, (2)pp. Modest soiling, else near fine. Essay on Lenni Lenape and other Delaware Indian villages. Curiously, the title-page gives the date of 1827, but the front wrap the date of 1828. More
London: Reader's Library, [1929]. First edition? 12mo. Pages age-toned as usual, very good in attractive very good dustwrapper with an internal repair. OCLC locates but two copies, neither in the U.S. More
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009. First edition. 165pp. Pictorial, glossy wrappers. Fine. Signed by the author on the title page as well as affectionately Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the author on the half-title page. Laid in is the author's self-addressed card with a handwritten note to... More
Limited Editions Club, 1937. First thus. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Very good in near fine inner cover and VG- slipcase. Outer slipcase has 1/2" tears at top edges. 1/1500 Signed byt Illustrator. More
![[Handbill]: The Phantom of the Opera. Lon CHANEY.](/pictures/thumb/418593.JPG?v=1508771279)
[Philadelphia]: Aldine Theatre, [1932]. Handbill. Measuring 5" x 8.5". Green sheet printed one side. Very good with wear at the edges included chips, tears and nicks. A handout touting the release of the 1932 version of The Phantom of the Opera at the Aldine Theatre, one of the premiere movie... More
New York: W.W. Norton, (1979). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper that has been clipped by the publisher and has a publisher's price sticker, which has offset on the front fly. Inscribed by Ciardi to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National... More
New York: Longmans, Green, 1941. First American edition (from English sheets). Two tiny smudges on the front fly, still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Young wife leaves her husband and loses custody of her two children, romance later springs up between her new step-son and her... More
New York: Hall Colby, 1859. Reprint. Tall octavo. 472pp., four plates, three of which are in color; volvule's mounted on both pastedowns. Original publisher's cloth gilt. Cloth spine detached but present, thus good, but internally near fine, and the volvule's in very good working order. More
New York: G.W. & B. Colton & Co., 1873. Large folio. Complete as issued with all 134 plates present. Publisher's half calf and cloth gilt. Ex-library copy with spine letters, bookplate, ownership stamp, and pocket. Wear and tear at the extremities, a good copy, slight age-toning in the margins, but... More
Paris: Black Sun Press, 1931. Softcover. First editions thus. Four volumes complete. *Chariot of the Sun,* with Introduction by D.H. Lawrence; *Transit of Venus,* with Preface by T.S. Eliot; *Torchbearer,* with Notes by Ezra Pound; and *Sleeping Together,* with a Memory of the Poet by Stuart Gilbert. Octavos. Fine in... More
[New York]: Frank A. Munsey Co. / The Winthrop Press, 1914. First separate edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2.5". Near fine. The first separate printing of this romantic story that originally appeared in a magazine. Very scarce. OCLC locates no copies. More
(New York): Simon and Schuster, (1996). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. More
Cincinnati: Dabney Publishing Co., (1927). First edition. Octavo. 137pp. Illustrated with photographs. Blue cloth gilt. Gilt on the spine dull but readable, else near fine. The Independent Order of St. Luke was a fraternal mutual benefit, insurance, and burial society for African-Americans established in 1867 in Baltimore. The Society had... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. First American edition. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Owner name on the front fly else fine in flexible cloth boards in a very good dustwrapper with a couple of shallow chips. The author's first book. More
![[Print]: The Cormorants Cave, Staffa. William DANIELL.](/pictures/thumb/376086.jpg?v=1457684450)
London: Longman & Co., 1817. Hand-colored aquatint engraving. Drawn and engraved by William Daniell, dated September 1, 1817. Measures approximately 12" x 9" (to the plate mark); sheet measures 14.5" x 10.5". Toning to the sheet edges and margins, the bottom left corner is torn, very good. One of 308... More
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, (1938). First edition. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with some very slight rubbing and tiny tears. Novel for both children and adults, about the adventures of the Northend Wildcats and their attempts to raise money to buy uniforms and... More
