Seven Sibyls
[No place: no publisher], (1979). Softcover. First edition. Illustrated in black and white from watercolors by Leonard Baskin. Red stapled wrappers. A light bump to the foot, else fine. Signed by Fainlight. More
New Arrivals
The Connoisseur
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. Hardcover. First edition. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. Slightly cocked spine, sticker shadow on front pastedown, very good in a lightly worn near fine dust jacket. Excellent novel centered around the desire to collect and own rare objects. More
Mount Vernon: A Handbook
Mount Vernon, Virginia: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, (1974). Softcover. Reprint. 123 + 4pp. Trade-size paperback. Color illustrations. Light wear to covers, near fine. Mount Vernon in Virginia, was the home of the first U.S. president George Washington. More
Three Days as the Crow Flies
New York: Washington Square Press, (2004). Softcover. Reprint. Trade paperback. Fine. Novel set in New York city's East Village art world during the 1980s. More
The Glamour After Five Cookbook
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Hardcover. Later printing. Small octavo. 258pp. Small pen notation on rear pastedown, pages and cloth stained, thus a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. More
Cooking For Health
[New York: Fowler & Wells Co.], (1898). Hardcover. Second edition. 224pp., 25pp. Practical Health Hints, [2] advertisements. Original cloth. Hinges cracked, lacking the front fly and title pages, contemporary owner notes and newspaper clippings affixed inside front board, a fair only copy with the cloth stained and worn, pages mostly..... More
Robinson Crusoe
New York: A Signet Classic / The New American Library, (1961). Hardcover. Seventh printing. 12mo. 316pp., [4]. Afterword by Harvey Swados. Durabind pictorial cloth. Spine and edges age-toned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, about very good. More
Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy – Symposia Nos. 2 - 7, June 1956 - April 1961
(New York): Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, 1956-61. Softcover. Group for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, Symposia Nos. 2- 7. Six volumes. Slim octavos. Approximately 300 pages total. Stapled self-wrappers, each with the owner name and stamp of a noted American psychologist on the front cover. Wrappers with modest tanning..... More
Play It Again, Bud!
New York: Ballantine, (1974). Softcover. Reprint. Trade paperback. 266pp. Illustrated from black & white photographs. Near fine. Sports history of thrilling controversial blunders and oddities in sports and horse racing. More
Stephen Crane Studies – A Nearly Complete Run of the First 10 Years, 1992-2001 [18 issues of 20]
Blacksburg, Virginia: Stephen Crane Society / Department of English, Virginia Tech, 1992-2001. Softcover. Periodicals. Eighteen issues. Lacking only two issues of the first 10 years of publication, Volume 8, Number 1 and Volume 10, Number 2. Slim octavos. Approximately 550 pages total. Wrappers with a tiny bit of soil, one..... More
Collected Prose of Elinor Wylie
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1946). Hardcover. Third printing. Preface by Carl Van Vecten. 879pp. Tape offsetting on endpapers, spine sunned, spine end sand corners lightly rubbed, else very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. Includes the novels: *Jennifer Lorn,* *The Venetian Glass Nephew,* *The Orphan Angel,* *Mr. Hodge and..... More
Managing the New Careerists
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. First edition. xxii, 288pp. Highlighting on some pages, else very good in a very good in a very good lightly age-toned and foxed dust jacket. More
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1874-1897
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. xxii, 877pp. Illustrated. Light foxing on page edges, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, else very good in a very good dust jacket with modest edgewear, short tears on rear panel bottom edge. More
Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1874-1897
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. xxii, 877pp. Illustrated. Light foxing on page edges, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, else very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with spine sunned, short tears on edges. More
The Texas Quarterly – Vol. XI, No. 1, Spring 1968
Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1968. Softcover. First edition. 229pp. Illustrated from black and white plates. Perfectbound illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Subscription form tipped in. Contributions by James Agee, Hector Bolitho, Stanley Weintraub, Takako Uchino, Martha Salmon Vogller, Mason Smith, Juan Jose Hernandez, Ulrich Troubetzkoy and more. More
Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Winter 1973, Vol. 103, No. 1: Twentieth-Century Classics Revisited
Richmond, Virginia: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967. Softcover. Periodical. Octavo. xvii, 165pp. Perfectbound in wrappers. Foxing on preliminary pages and page edges, wrappers age-toned and rubbed, else very good. Containing reviews of Twentieth-Century Classics such as *The Decline of the West* by Oswald Spengler by Northrop Frye; *The..... More
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Five Acts
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1910. Hardcover. Early printing. Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos. Decorative blind embossed green cloth gilt-stamped title on front board and spine, topedge gilt. Minimal ex-library markings with stamp on preliminary pages and spine sticker offsetting, contemporary owner name on front fly, spine ends..... More
I'm telling you kids for the last time
New York: Henry Schuman, (1951). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Robert Osborn. 172pp. Page edges and boards lightly soiled, spine sunned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, a good only copy lacking the dust jacket. Child rearing. More
Our English Language Every Day (Teacher's Guide And Key: Third Edition - Grade 5)
(New York): American Book Company, (1963). Hardcover. Teacher's edition. Third edition, grade 5, first printing. Small quarto. Lightly soiled cloth, spine age-toned, else very good. More
My Life and The Times
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Hardcover. Second printing. 319pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, light foxing on page edges, spine cocked, a good only copy in a good only dust jacket with flaps glued onto pastedowns, sticker removed from spine causing surface abrasion, tear on spine head. More
My Life and The Times
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Hardcover. Second printing. 319pp. Light foxing on page edges, spine cocked, else very good in a very good rubbed dust jacket with edges lightly wrinkled. More
Princess & Cavalier: The Age Of Colonization, 1570-1620 (The Real America in Romance: Volume IV)
New York: William H. Wise & Company, 1912. Hardcover. Art edition, later printing. Volume four only. 473pp. Blue buckram with red leather spine label gilt-stamped, topedge gilt. Small chip on front board topedge, spine ends and corners rubbed, spine darkened with some chipping on the label, else very good. More
Done in a Day: 100 years of great writing from The Chicago Daily News
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc., (1977). Softcover. First edition. Trade paperback. 473pp. Light foxing on inside wrappers and on page edges, small nick in mid-spine, else very good. More
Le Verglas
(Paris): Plon, (1963). Softcover. French edition. Translated from the Russian by Sonia Lescaut. Text in French. Preface by Jean-Marie Domenach. Pages slightly age-toned, spine a bit tanned and wrinkled with small tears at ends, wrappers with faint toning, very good. More
Sophokles' Women of Trachis:A Version
New York: New Directions, (1957). Hardcover. First American edition. Endpapers with light offsetting, near fine in a slightly tanned very good dust jacket with a few small tears and rubbing. More