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[No place]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1995. Unbound. First edition. Measuring 8½" x 17". Attractively printed excerpt from Conroy's novel. More
Catalog 242 contains 164 items, mostly signed and inscribed first editions, but also including broadsides, manuscripts, photographs, and more!
Download PDF of Winter Miscellany[No place]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1995. Unbound. First edition. Measuring 8½" x 17". Attractively printed excerpt from Conroy's novel. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1966). Hardcover. First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Story of the gentleman football and hockey star at St. Paul's and Princeton and later flying ace who was killed in France during the First World War at the age of 26. A very scarce first edition..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Hardcover. First Edition. Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele. Decorative cloth. Publisher's promotional flyer laid in. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with soiling and a few small chips. *Bleiler* listed novel of the supernatural novel. Basis for the 1917 film under same name..... More
Stamford, Conn. The Dahls, 1940. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 237, [12]pp. Pale orange boards stamped in black. Tiny ink name on front pastedown and a few pencil notes in the text, else fine. Exceptionally scarce. More
New York: The Albion, 1840-1841. Hardcover. Bound periodical. Folio. 51 issues including supplementary sheets. Quarter leather and mottled pastepaper over boards. Spine eroded, boards nearly detached, scattered foxing and intermittent stains in the page margins, a good only volume of this run. Contains the first printed American appearance of *Barnaby..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1857. Hardcover. First edition, with all first issue points per Smith. Octavo. pp. [i-v] vi-xiv, [1] 2-625 [626 (blank)]. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne, including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound in modern three-quarter dark brown leather and brown cloth..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Quarter cloth and paper covered boards. Very light wear, near fine without dustwrapper. A collection of fantastic tales. Inscribed by Irish author George Russell using his pseudonym: "S.P.J. with love from A.E. June 12, 1923." More
London: The Fortune Press, (1938). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine original unprinted watermarked white laid paper dustwrapper. A poetry anthology from Fortune Press featuring contributions from Lawrence Durrell, Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall, and Oswell Blakeston. Despite being established to published gay erotica, Fortune Press produced..... More
Unbound. Manuscript of acclaimed science-fiction and fantasy writer Harlan Ellison's first novel, here titled by him as *Web of the City* but eventually published in 1958, with the title changed by the publisher, unbeknownst to Ellison, as *Rumble*, a novel described on the cover as "A teen-age gang leader's brutal..... More
Boston: E.P. Peabody, 13 West Street, (1842-43). Softcover. Three consecutive single issues in the original printed wrappers. Octavos. Vol. 3, No. 1: July, 1842 (pp. [1] 2-136); No. 2: October, 1842 (pp. [137] 138-280); No. 3: January, 1843 (pp. [281] 282-416). Issue nos. 2 and 3 have one or two..... More
New York: H.K. Fly Company, (1914). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated in color by Anton Otto Fischer. Fine in slightly rubbed else fine dustwrapper. Romance set in the hill country of New England about a manly farmer shunned by his neighbors because of his father's bad reputation, whose only friend is..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924. Hardcover. First edition. Preface by Phil Stone. Octavo. 51,[1]pp. Mottled green paper-covered boards, with title labels mounted on the spine and front cover. Slight wear, else a fresh, very near fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase with..... More
New York: Villard, 1983. Hardcover. First hardcover edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears at the spine ends. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play. Inscribed by the author to television talk show host Bill Boggs: "8/30/83 For Bill - For..... More
New York: Arrow Editions, (1943). Hardcover. First edition. Faint stain at the bottom of the boards and in the bottom of the gutters, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chips on the spine. Warmly Inscribed by Fitzgerald to poet Kimon Friar in 1947. Author's second book. More
Northampton, Ma. Half Moon Books, (2000). Softcover. First edition, paperback original. Octavo. 174pp. Illustrated from photographs. One corner very slightly bumped else fine in wrappers. The author also wrote *Iron-Jawed Angels: The Militancy of the National Woman's Party.* Issued by a small press, and very uncommon. More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 175pp. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a dark stain on the rear panel. A nice copy of an exceptionally uncommon title. More
Bangor, Maine: [The Author? 1912?]. Unbound. Broadside. First edition, one of two issues (another presumed later, has an image of the ship at the top of the sheet). Approximately 8" x 10½". Ten stanzas of eight lines each. Hint of age-toning, small tear in one margin, and faint small stain..... More
[Circa 1959]. Unbound. Approximately 8" x 10" black and white photograph of Frost posed formally in front of an oil portrait of himself. Fine. Inscribed by Frost to his assistant while he was Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress: "Robert Frost to Phyllis Armstrong." A nice, large inscribed..... More
New York: Harper and Row, (1970). Hardcover. First American edition (and first edition in English), in first state dustwrapper. Fine in about fine and bright first issue dustwrapper with the exclamation point, with a small and unnecessary internal repair at the top flap fold. As nice a copy as we've..... More
New York: Basic Books, (1978). Hardcover. Second printing. Tiny bump to one corner, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with very minor fading on the spine and a small crease on the front flap. Signed and warmly Inscribed by Gardner to Nicholas Delbanco: "To Nick - with love and thanks..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921. Hardcover. First edition. Black cloth decorated with red letters and an illustration of a wagon on the front board. Fine in just about fine photographically illustrated dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot of the spine. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography..... More
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tight, slightly wrinkled tear on the front panel. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Small bookplate of Robert A. Wilson of the Phoenix Bookshop. Signed on the title page by editor Jean Garrigue..... More
New York: Applause Productions, Inc., 1968. Hardcover. 33 1/3 rpm 12" vinyl disc in paper sleeve and cardboard sleeve. Disc and paper sleeve are fine, one corner of the sleeve with a tiny bump and a little soiling, near fine. More
London: Faber and Faber, (1967). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A couple of tiny spots on the front wrap, near fine in wrappers. More