Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, ca 1995. First edition thus. Facsimile. Fine in a handmade case of genuine leather, with accents of 22kt gold, in a grape red silk lined portfolio. The first time the sixteen-page manuscript has been reproduced in its entirety. More
![[Broadsheet]: Original Words Broadway Song Hits. When It's Moonlight Way Down East. The Angel of Hell. Broadway Blues...Colonial Song Sheet No. 3](/pictures/thumb/386887.jpg?v=1457685011)
New York: Colonial Company. Colonial Song Sheet No. 3, 1930. Large broadside or broadsheet, printed both sides on pink paper. Approximately 17" x 22". Old folds, some age-toning and small tears in the margins, very good. Words for over 60 songs including such classics as "The Dying Hobo," "The Boston... More
Hamburg: L. Friederichsen & Company, 1892. First edition. Quarto. Two volumes. Black and white illustrations. Map present. Both volumes very good plus with rubbing on the boards, wear on the edges, and bookplates on the front pastedowns. More
![[Photo album]: "Triple Alliance"](/pictures/thumb/403682.jpg?v=1459397741)
[Central New Jersey]: 1912-1914. Photo album. Oblong octavo. Thick card leaves with inset grommets intended for string binding, now disbound. Contains 33 mounted gelatin silver images, mostly around 2.75" x 4.5" with several of the images either a little larger or smaller. Some of the margins of the thick card... More
![[Photo Album]: Original Photographs of a Young African-American Boy who was a 1984 Olympic Torchbearer](/pictures/thumb/391087.jpg?v=1457685089)
(Los Angeles: 1984). Quarto. Pictorial boards illustrating Olympic scenes. Boards slightly soiled, about fine. The album contains 92 color snapshots (3" x 5") of a young African-American torchbearer and the community excitement surrounding his participation in the festivities leading up to the 23rd Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in... More
![[Photographs]: Sixteen Images of a Fishing Camp. Circa 1905](/pictures/thumb/411219.jpg?v=1478406097)
Circa 1905. Sixteen gelatin silver photographs. Rectangular Images approximately 4.5" x 3.75" each mounted on a slightly larger thick card with gilt edges. No backmarks or captions. Some soiling on the mounts, some modest rubbing and scratching on the images, three are a little worse than the others but all... More
New York: Published for the Booksellers, (1837). 16mo (15 cm); 288 pp., [18] leaves of plates, illustrated. A good copy in publisher's crimson red embossed leather bindings with wear to the edges, very moderate rubbing to the boards, front board gently bowed, front joint split and loose at the lower... More
[No place]: California State Printing Office, 1950. First edition. Octavo. 31, [1]pp., one photographic illustration. Stapled printed white wrappers. Modest age-toning, very good or better. More
London: Herausgegeben vom Gewerkschafts Kongress, Generalsekretariat, 1936. First edition. Quarto wrappers. Gold embossed pictorial front wrapper. Tied binding. Text in German. Pen markings and pencil notations on pages, edges worn, light water stain on rear wrapper, else very good. More
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott, (1966). First edition. A well-used, very good copy without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel: "For Bob Kennedy -- and Ethel with respect and affection. Elie Abel." Many passages in the book have been marked in the... More
New York: W.N. Perrin & Company, [1918]. Film corporation stock book. Oblong octavo. Green boards with red canvas spine and gilt lettering. Wear to the spine ends, writing on the cover, and with 22 of the 50 stock certificates still attached, an additional six present but loose, and eight certificate... More
(Maplewood, New Jersey): Waterfront Press, 1984. First edition. 95pp. Pictorial wrappers. Edited by John Wellman. Spine faded, wrappers rubbed and lightly tanned, still a very good copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A scarce book of poetry, especially Inscribed. Advance Review Copy with publisher's typed letter laid in. More
(Syosset: Constance Bannister), 1970. First edition. Wrappers. 24mo. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the photographer, as well as with another Inscription by the author laid in. Cute baby pictures, with accompanying wise-ass captions. Bannister was well-known for her humorous baby pictures and books, but this title is surprisingly scarce --... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1981). First edition. Foreword by Hayden Carruth. Bump at the top of the rear board, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Berg to a fellow Philadelphia poet: "Lou -- This was when I was a woman briefly. Steve." The scarce hardcover issue. More
New York: William Sloane Associates, (1948). First edition. Fine in very near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper, with none of the usual spine fading. Nicely Inscribed by the author to a close Princeton friend: "Jimmy affectionately John. 1949." Scarce inscribed. More
Chicago: Follett, (1969). First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Bontemps. Bontemps's favorite poems, many by African-Americans including Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Waring Cuney, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and others. Uncommon title, and scarce signed. More
New York: J. Selwin Tait & Sons / (De Vinne Press), 1894. First edition. Octavo. 459, [1]pp. Yellow cloth gilt. Small tears and soiling on the boards, a tight, very good or better copy. A volume of tributes and memoirs collected by the husband of the then recently deceased American... More
London: William Heinemann, (1948). First edition. Edges of the endpapers browned, and bottom corners slightly bumped, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of short tears on the front panel. A very uncommon literary first novel by an Englishwoman. More
New York: Schulte Publishing Company, 1959. First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Laid in are prospectus and information about the publication of the book. The final anthology of this much-praised and long-running series edited by an African-American poet, issued after a thirty year... More
New York: Balance House, Ltd. (1978). First edition. Large, slightly oblong quarto. Worn through in two small spots on the bottom of the boards, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. More
New York: John Day, 1966. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Buck "For Elvin and Patty Souder, Greetings from Pearl S. Buck. July 1966." More
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Very nicely Inscribed by Busch, with a brief poem, to author Nicholas Delbanco. More
Brief Typed Letter Signed ("Paddy Chayefsky") dated 11 August 1972 on his engraved stationary regretting that he does not have a picture to sign, and offering this letter instead. Folded as mailed else fine. More
Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1942. First edition. 265pp. Bookplate of Dolph Judd consisting of an original platinum print photograph of cattle else very fine in very fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First edition. A small name stamp on the bottom page edge, and a small, very faint date stamp on the title page, else a fine copy in a fine and fresh dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel, and a minuscule nick... More