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Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 197 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Mild spotting to spine. Jacket has a few extremity chips, closed edge tears with associated wrinkles, rubs along folds, and fading to spine.. The first and only novel by well-respected Maine outdoor writer, Edmund Ware Smith. Tells… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 351 pages. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Some sections of mild browning to endpapers, slight fading to cloth along spine and top edges of boards, small bookseller tag at lower inner margin of front free endpaper. Jacket has a minor bit of staining to… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1928. Limited edition, #1223 of 1470. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 111 pages. Bound in coarse ivory cloth with gilt embossed titles, rules, and illustration on upper board, title and ornaments on spine, decorative endpapers. Binding shows some mild age toning, gilt dulled on spine, some rubbing to gilt illustration on upper board. Binding sound. An… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 244 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards. Some minor extremity rubs, a bit of water tiding to top edge of some leaves and boards. Textblock mildly age toned. Jacket has some edge chips, rubs along joint and… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 222 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in pale green cloth over boards with burgundy spine titles. Hint of browning to spine. Shallow bumps to spine ends, fore corners sharp. Small bookstore label at lower edge of rear pastedown, adjacent to a 2"… Read more about this item

[Chicago]: [HMH Publishing Co., Inc.], 1957. First printing. Magazine. Quarto. 12 pages. Glossy pictorial covers over saddle-stapled binding. Some minor extremity rubs, mild wrinkles, and a stamp at top fore corner of front cover.. First appearance of Langelaan's brilliant sci-fi horror short story, "The Fly." The story has been adapted to film twice--first in 1958 and again in… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Eighteenmo. 219 pages. Near fine, with a few light extremity rubs. Spine a bit cocked. Green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and blind, tan endpapers, all textblock edges red.. Henry James's first novel, originally published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871, and here for… Read more about this item

New York: E. Laub Publishing Co, 1943. First printing. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Bound in thin, flexible, red velvet-covered boards with upper board titled in gilt, which has darkened. Some shallow bumping to the Yapp edges of covers. Jacket has a few shallow edge wrinkles and light soil. Overall near fine in a near fine dust jacket..… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [vi], 362 pages. Bound in brown cloth over boards with illustration to spine and upper board stamped in black, white, and gilt (spine), gilt-stamped titles to spine and upper board. A few light rubs to spine ends and fore corner tips, some faint dulling to… Read more about this item

Lincoln: The Woodruff Press, 1913. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 311 pages. Bound in light blue cloth over boards with ornamental titling in white to upper board. White spine titles quite faded. Minor extremity rubs. Slightly cocked, hinges sound. Very good to near fine overall.. Black and white photographic frontispiece plus 15 other plates (16 in… Read more about this item

Princeton: Students of Princeton University, 1917. Printed wrappers. Octavo. [x], [297]-346, [vi] pages. Very good condition with a few edge chips to the covers, which protrude beyond the textblock on three sides. One largish chip (1 3/8" x 1/8") along upper fore edge that has been expertly repaired.. Advertising. Two early F. Scott Fitzgerald print appearances, one story… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 63 pages. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. A few leaves have soft creases from a manufacturing defect, else fine. Dust jacket has a hint of tanning to spine.. Hall's third book of poetry, signed by him on the title page.

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1987. Limited edition, #259 of 800 copies. Quarto. [iv], 53 pages. Bound in white card covers with yapp edges. Fine in fine original clamshell box.. Lithographs by Michael Hafftka. Kafka's famous short story of an island penal colony and its brutal execution device. <br /> <br /> Four lithographs by Hafftka printed… Read more about this item

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 671 pages. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Slight fading to jacket spine and front panel.. Robert Creeley was an important poetic voice in post-World War II American literature. This collection gathers his poetry of thirty years, exhibiting his development… Read more about this item

Boston: American Stationers Co, 1837. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. 334 pages (with 4 pages ads at front, 12 pages ads at back). Mild scattered foxing, some extremity rubs and shallow chips to cloth along board edges. Hinges not cracked but joints have a few splits.. Hawthorne's third publication in book form and the first to… Read more about this item

London: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1812. Second edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavos. xxxii, 344 and [iv], 499 pages. Dark brown blind embossed ribbed cloth over boards, with gilt-stamped spine titles, yellow endpapers. Handsome bookplate on each front pastedown (see further description below). Some shallow chipping at spine ends and in a couple of places along joints. Splitting of… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Octavo. [x], 255 pages. Light wear to extremities, some mild soil to dust jacket. Very good to near fine overall.. Drawings by Erick Berry. From the jacket: "A novel of negro life, of elemental passion and tenderness." Attractive dust jacket.

Easton, MD: The Easton Publishing Company, Inc, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 165 pages. Fine in a very good dust jacket.. Collection of Gilbert Byron's poems on themes of the Chesapeake Bay, sailing, and more. <br /> <br /> Inscribed and signed by Byron on front free endpaper, with an additional inscription by Byron on a laid in… Read more about this item

New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [xii], 203 pages, plus 12 page publisher catalogue. Shallow chipping to head and heel of spine with mild darkening to spine. Scattered foxing inside. Rear free endpaper has top fore corner torn away to a depth of about 3/4". Hinges sound, gilt generally bright. A… Read more about this item