Rare books from small volume

New York: Conde Nast Publications, Inc, 1977. wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 178 pp. Illustrated wraps. 1/2 inch closed tear to rear panel. Text block uniformly toned. Binding tight and sound. First publication of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", preceding the novel's release by 8 years. Cover art by Kelly Freas.

New York: F. M. Lupton Publisher, 1896. Wraps. Good. 8vo. 60 pp. Tan paper wraps. Chipping and soiling along spine and edges. Loss to bottom right corner of front wrapper. Scarce periodical containing four Arthur Conan Doyle short stories: The Sign of the Four, A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity & The Red-Headed League.

London: William Heinemann, 1913. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 4to. [1-6] 7-43 + 44 plates. Limited edition of 1030 copies, this is number 651. Signed by Arthur Rackham on limitation page in bold brown ink and hand-numbered. Off-white cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on. Top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edge. Gilt titling and top edge somewhat faded. Soiling to cloth, heavier at spine. Dampstain to lower edge front board does not affect interior. Tipped-in plates all present, with tissue guards in tact. Some foxing scattered throughout, not affecting plates. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Black paper over boards with metallic titling w/ pictorial dust jacket. Light rubbing along DJ edges. Otherwise clean and sound. Inscribed on title page "To Jen, with all the best. Isaac Asimov, 17 March, 1970." An enthusiastic look back at Asimov's first 99 books.

[Providence, RI]: [Privately Printed], 1985. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Feldman, Walter. Square 8vo (25.5 x 26 cm). Unpaginated. Bound in brown cloth boards with blue titling. Limited edition of 100 copies signed by the poet and artist in pencil, this is number 4. 9 poems by James Schevill with accompanying woodcuts by Walter Feldman, printed in black on single leaf of accordion-folded Japanese paper, which opens to 6 ft in length. Trifold promotional leaflet laid in at front with order information for the book, of which 40% of original sales went towards endowment or the List Art Center at Brown University.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Pleissner, Ogden M. & Robert Nisbet, N. A.. 4to. 193 pp. Limited to 950 copies. Green publishers cloth stamped in gilt in dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Soiling and chipping to scarce dj. Faint soiling to boards. Otherwise fine. Signed by Charles Phair on half-title. Color plates by Ogden M. Pleissner. With a foreword by RIchard C. Hunt.

1984. Cloth. Near Fine. Gray linen portfolio, 26.5cm x 35cm, housing 12 signed and numbered wood engravings, 25cm x 33cm, each in their own bifolium. 6.5cm scratch to paste-down title label. Otherwise fine. Numbered 15 out of 350 copies. Engravings of Lao-Tsu, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Rembrandt, Goya, Beethoven, Daumier, Lincoln, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Dorothy Day.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good+/Very Good. 12mo. Unpaginated [64 pp]. Pictorial boards in clipped dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Gorey on title page. Light edgewear to dj, w/ two small [< 1cm] closed tears to rear panel. Rubbing to board edges. Bookseller's label to rpd from "The Holliday Bookshop, 119 East 54th ST, New York 22, N.Y." Tight, sound copy of Gorey's first independent work.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889. Numbered, Large Paper Edition. Boards. Very Good. 390 pp. 8vo. Gray & cream paper-covered boards. Large paper edition, limited to 150 copies, of which this is numbered 40. Illustrations by H. J. Ford and G. P. Jacomb Hood. Toning to spine strip, soiling and chipping to boards, heaviest at spine ends. Discoloration and pencil marginalia to endpapers, otherwise interior clean. Signed in ink by American book collector and Bronte scholar, Henry H. Bonnell (1859-1926) on rear free endpaper, with notation in pencil stating he acquired the book on 8/1/18.