Garden City: Adelphi University Press, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/No Dust jacket. Softcover booklet with stapled binding. Very clean stiff paper covers with illustration on cover. No creasing or wear. All pages clean, bright, unmarked. Illustrated. 23 pages. Limited to 500 copies (statement on last page of booklet). View More...
Very clean and solid third printing (1905). Dark blue cloth boards with stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges, blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Preface by the author. With a Bibliography by Eben Newell Hewins. Illustrated with many reproductions of rare and interesting book-plates and in the finer editions with many prints from the original coppers both old and more recent. 437 pages with index. View More...
First Printing in original dust jacket. Clean brown cloth boards, cover nicely decorated in black with black lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean orange endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings. Book size approx. 8-1/4" x 12". 75 pages + 2-page index. Dust jacket is clean, has a few small nicks and two closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. View More...
Hardcover book with library markings in dust jacket. A good reading copy. Black boards with brown lettering on spine. Light surface wear to corners. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Small neat ink-stamp of library at top page edges and at base of title page. Paper fragments from sleeve removal at rear endpapers. 246 pages. Dust jacket is clean, no chips or tears, moderate edge wear. Murder rears its ugly head in the glamorous world of book publishing. View More...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine first edition, first printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean light blue-green boards with ivory cloth spine, blue metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean blue endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 212 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (14.95 on front inside flap), no chips, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A sparkling and profund consideration of wome... View More...
Clean softcover book. No creasing or fading, very slight wear to corner tips. Binding is tight, no curling or cracking. Pages and edges are clean - no names, writing or marks. New Impression, with Corrections, November 2011. 118 pages. An extraordinary portrait of the world of book dealing and collecting. View More...
Very clean hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean red endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Selected and with an Introduction by Virginia Haviland. 268 pages with Index. Clean jacket has slight age-toning to spine, no chips, not price clipped, one short closed edge tear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The Macmillan Children's Book Department celebrated its 50th Anniversary with this collection of speec... View More...
New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1973. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very clean blue cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Clean green endpapers have slight age-toning. 62 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with very slight edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Books on Books. View More...
London: Constable and Company, 1984. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Very clean black boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers with no writing or marks. Dustjacket is not price clipped and is bright and clean, unchipped, no tears. 249 pgs. with index. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Author introduces the reader to the delights of nearly forty hotels in Britain which were once the haunts of famous writers and where the reader can now actually stay. 8vo. Travel/adventure. View More...
Very clean softcover book. No chipping, wear or tears; small soft crease at lower corner. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. 142 pages. Inspiring stories of over thirty famous writers ejected by publishers at some point in their careers. Their accounts offer encouragement to anyone who thinks about writing for publication. Read about rejections suffered by Agatha Christie, A. Conan Doyle, Charlotte Bronte and more. Then, write on! View More...
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Near Fine/no dust jacket. Lovely, tight copy - very clean blue cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Tasteful custom-printed bookplate of previous owner on front free endpaper. No other marks. Illustrated in black and white. 391 pages with index. View More...
Signed, Limited Edition, this being no. 491 of five hundred and ninety copies printed at the Roycroft Printing Shop. Signed "Irving Browne" on Limitation page. Beige paper-covered boards with yellow cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. Small spots of wear to corners and board edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean brown endpapers. Two previous owner names on blank fly leaf. Pages are mainly clean and bright, with occasional foxing to some pages. 136 pages. View More...
Very clean hardcover book - size approx. 7" x 9". Clean green cloth boards with yellow and black decoration on cover, yellow line border, black lettering. From "The Bookman Biographies" series. No fading or fraying; tiny bump at top front board edge. Binding is tight, paper quality is excellent. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Illustrated with wonderful photos throoughout, including nice frontispiece portrait of Carlyle by William Barr, with a tissue guard. 40 pages. View More...
Clean First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Clean rose cloth boards with gold and black lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with wonderful black and white plates. 282 pages with Index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), slight wear at spine ends, no chips; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of the most turbulent decade in American literature, a period of A... View More...
First American Edition, first printing (with complete number line) in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean brown paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 246 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Laid in are a couple of business cards from Hay on Wye. A delightful book about books and the peoplewho live among countless numbers of... View More...
Clean hardcover book (first U.S. Edition) in unclipped dust jacket. Clean beige paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 286 pages. Clean jacket is not price clipped (12.95 on front inside flap); unchipped, very slight wear and one 1/2" closed edge tear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Canada's leading man of letters comes through with stories, lectures, jeux d'esprit, and advice on writing and writers, books and ... View More...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing (with full number line beginning with "1") in unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, metallic blue lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight but has slight lean. Hinges are sound - no cracking. No names, writing or bookplates. Some vertical glue stains to front and rear fixed endpapers where someone attempted to glue down dust jacket flaps. Slight dust-speckling to text block edges. 321 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is not pr... View More...
New York: Scribner, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, first printing (with full number line on copyright page) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Hardcover book in fine condition - dark blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. 369 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A Cliff Janeway mystery novel that juxtaposes past and prese... View More...
New York - London - Toronto - Sydney: Scribner, 1995. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Very clean burgundy boards with metallic red lettering on gold cloth spine. No bumping or wear. Clean maroon endpapers. Pages are very clean, crisp and bright; no writing or marks. 351 pgs. Clean, bright dustjacket is not price clipped, no chips, tears, creases or surface wear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 Vo. Fiction. View More...
New York: Scribner, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing (with full number line beginning with "1") in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean yellow boards with brown spine, gold lettering on spine. Very tiny bump to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 337 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A Cliff Janeway mystery novel, this time revolving around an extreme... View More...
