New York: The Manhattan Company, (1929). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with black and white wood engravings by Raymond Perry. xvii, 269pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Owner bookplate on front pastedown, spine ends and corners nicked, else very good in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket..... More
Cleveland: Goldsmith, [circa 1920s]. Hardcover. Reprint. Frontispiece and title page detached (but present) with evidence of other preliminary pages being excised, hinges cracked, good only in an about very good dust jacket with small chips and rubbing, and splitting along the rear flap fold. More
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1937). Hardcover. First printing. Endpapers toned, faint creases on the spine, near fine in a very good dust jacket with nicks and tears, and a toned spine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1912). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Narrow dampstain on rear joint, edges modestly soiled, else very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with edges a bit worn and torn. "A story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to restrain it made by..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1912). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Pencil markings on front board, slight foxing on topedge, very good in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with small chips and tears, light foxing, and a sunned spine. "A story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936. Hardcover. Fourth edition (first published 1928). Illustrated with silhouettes by Mary Baker. Oblong octavo. Boards modestly sunned at the edges, trifling loss at the corners and spine ends, and about 2/3 of the text with two tiny marginal tears along the bottom edge..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 294pp. Rounded spine corners and tiny nicks to the front flyleaf, near fine in fair only dust jacket with interior tape repairs, front panel separate along the toned spine, and with perimeter chips and tears. More
Milano: Bompiani, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. Green cloth. Tiny bumps at the corners near fine in spine-toned about very good dust jacket with a small chip at the top of the front panel. Borgese was a noted Italian author, journalist, scholar, and anti-Fascist. More
Milano: Mondadori, 1922. Hardcover. Second printing ("2° migliaio" on copyright page). Cheap paper a bit tanned, binding with modest wear and spine a bit toned, about near fine in a toned (heavily at the spine) very good dust jacket with a small chip and stain near the crown, and a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910). Hardcover. Later printing. Frontispiece by Frances Rogers. Binding lightly spotted, page edges and first few leaves (and frontis tissue guard) foxed, and a few foxed spots on the endleaves, an otherwise bright very good copy in a tanned, good example of the printed glassine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. First edition thus, collecting these essays together. Octavo. Some toning on the endpapers from the binder's glue else near fine in lightly rubbed near fine dustwrapper. Claude Bragdon was an influential architect, set designed, and Theosophist who wrote many books and articles on..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927. Hardcover. First edition. Light foxing on endleaves and toepdge, very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears, a darkened spine, and modest foxing. A work in James Branch Cabell's 'Biography of the Life of Manuel' series of novels..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Hardcover. Stated first and second printings before publication (essentially a second printing), in variant light green pictorial dust jacket (*Crane* A17. a.ii.I). Aviation-themed bookplate on front fly. Hinges starting but neatly strengthened, upper joint with a 1½" tear, edges toned and spine a bit..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [circa 1937]. Hardcover. Later printing. Gray cloth stamped in blue. Contemporary gift inscription front fly with postage stamp on rear pastedown, toning on endpapers, foxing on page edges and spine, very good in a good only dust jacket with loss at the spine ends..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon, [circa 19328]. Hardcover. Later printing. Gray cloth boards with blue lettering. Toning on endpapers, foxing on page edges, bumped tear on rear board, very good in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with nicks and tears, and toning on the rear panel. Dust jacket lists..... More
New York: Cupples & Leon, [cicra 1936]. Hardcover. Later printing. Toning on endpapers, foxing on page edges, very good in an about very good dust jacket with chips and tears, dampstains at the folds, and spotting. Advertisements in rear list Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Land of Burning Lava..... More
New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1926). Hardcover. Reprint. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, very good in a good only edgeworn and chipped dust jacket, small chip in mid-spine, two-inch loss on rear panel topedge. An Irish novel originally published as *A Chequer-Board*. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. Light offsetting on flyleaves, toned spine, soiling on topedge, very good in a good only dust jacket with the front panel detached from the spine, small nicks and tears, and splitting along the front flap fold. More
Praha: Aventinum, 1946. Hardcover. First Czech edition. Translated with endnotes by Jirí Pober. Jacket by Vojtech Kubasta. Two-tone cloth stamped in red and gilt. Spine lightly sunned and page edges a bit foxed, very good or better in a toned, near very good dust jacket with some edgewear and soil..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 363pp. Illustrated with two color plates by E. F. Ward. Green cloth decorated in black, gold and lavender. Owner's contemporary bookplate on front pastedown ("Mabel Simmons Jaycox"), a near fine, bright copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1922). Hardcover. First edition Octavo. 279pp. Fine in a presentable, near very good dust jacket with moderate toning and wear, a very small stain at the bottom edge of the rear panel, and old paper tape reinforcements running the length of the top..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. Hardcover. First edition. Jacket art by George E. Giguere. Tiny bookseller ticket on rear pastedown, foxing on endpapers and page edges, very good in a vey good dust jacket with rubbing and small nicks. An adventure and romance story about a gold rush into..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. Hardcover. First edition. Edited by Amy Rowland. Octavo. xi, 427pp. Illustrated. Maroon cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Owner name and stamp of a noted American psychologist on the front fly, otherwise a fine copy save for a tiny bit of staining on the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. Hardcover. First American edition. Light foxing on page edges, faint crease on the spine, near fine in a very good dust jacket with small tears, rubbing, and light foxing. An ancient mansion facing certain ruin is inherited by Lady Daphne who is ill-equipped to guard herself..... More