Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1933. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 3/8". 560pp. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Moderate wear to binding with bumped corners, dust soiling, and mild edgewear, with very small tear to cloth at edge of upper board. Bookseller..... More
New York: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". ix, 379pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Yellow paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Top and bottom edges of spine..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1949. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 248pp. Rather heavy edgewear to dust jacket, with several 1/2-1" tears, closed and open, to extremities, soiling to rear panel, sunning to spine, and dust soiling. Yellow cloth over boards, with spine..... More
N.P. James Kyle Brown, 2001. Paperback. 9" X 6". 341pp. Signed and Inscribed by the Author to title page. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps. Light dust soiling to edges of text block. Light foxing to endpapers. Notation in ink to rear free endpaper, otherwise all pages clean, bright, and..... More
London and Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1912. Tom Scott. First Edition. Paperback. 6 3/4" X 4 3/8". 93pp, plus one leaf of ads. Paper wraps, with paper pictorial label to front cover. Very heavy wear to binding, with moderate chipping to edges, soiling to covers, tear to top left corner..... More
Bloomington: 1st Books Library, 2003. Paperback. 9" X 6". xviii, 286pp. Light toning and shelf wear to covers and edges. Sticker to spine. Very light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Although the book reads like fiction, it is the..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. First First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 254pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in..... More
Athens: Deeds Publishing, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 445pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sanctuary introduces newly retired publishing executive, Theo Phillips..... More
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2016. Paperback. Inscribed to previous owner by Theresa Brown to title page at a University of West Georgia event in 2019. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 256pp. A touch of shelfwear to paper wraps. "Signed by Author" sticker to upper wrap. Binding is firm and sound..... More
New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 7 1/4". Unpaginated. Signed by Mahogany L. Browne at dedication page. A touch of shelfwear to dust jacket and binding, else fine. A very nice signed first printing of Mahogany L. Browne's powerful poem, with striking artwork by..... More
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 277pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in metallic red. Bumps..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1994. Hardcover. 12" X 9 1/4". 157pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers of dust jacket, particularly at rear cover. Blue cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "The most distinguished private place" -..... More
New York: John Day Company, 1941. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". 203pp. Dust jacket in pieces and laid in, with dampstains and creasing. Pale yellow cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in dark burgundy. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners gently bumped. Binding is firm and..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1883. Hardcover. This introduction to the evolutionary science of vertebrate animals is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science..... More
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Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1901. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They, too, are invisible..... More
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n.p. H. M. Caldwell Co., circa 1880. Pastel Edition. Hardcover. “There are forces around us, and among us, which I shall ask you to call fairies, and these are ten thousand times more wonderful, more magical, and more beautiful in their work, than those of the old fairy tales. They..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. This introduction to the science of living things is the work of Arabella Burton Buckley (1840-1929), who at the age of twenty-four started her eleven-year tenure as secretary to influential geologist Charles Lyell and who after his death became a science educator..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". vi, [ii], 367pp, plus two leaves of ads. First printing, February 1910. Publisher's binding designed by Rome K. Richardson. Blue cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamepd in gilt and burgundy. Moderate wear to..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to the previous owner by Jimmy Buffett on page preceding half-title, with Line Pass for Jimmy Buffett info card for signing event and Davis-Kidd Booksellers bookmark laid in. First edition, first printing, stated thus with full aphabet line to..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2019. 12" X 12". Like New in publisher's shrink wrap. A collection of works by counterculture icon Charles Bukowski from his classic Run with the Haunted, performed by Bukowski himself. Selections include The Genius of the Crowd, Consumation of Grief, The Poetry Reading, Short Order, The Soldier..... More
Scotts Valley: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. Paperback. 8" X 5". 77pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Title has been neatly pasted to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: These are remarkable..... More
New York: National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1881. Hardcover. 6 7/8" X 4 1/2". 288pp. Red cloth over boards, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with scattered rubbing and soiling and corners bumped and rubbed to boards. Small label to spine..... More
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1933. Hardcover. This lovely 1933 edition of John Bunyan's timeless allegory of the Christian journey is illustrated in over fifty illustrations including four full-color plates by Frederick Barnard. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xii, 338pp. Bound in full blue cloth with large full-color pictorial label..... More
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Utica, New York: Foster Bros. MFG. Co., 1913. Hardcover. 10" X 7 7/8". Unpaginated, 28 leaves, printed rectos only. Enclosed in original box as issued. Baby blue cloth over boards, with pictorial title label to upper board. Mild wear to binding, with a touch of light soiling and shelfwear to..... More
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1900. Will Vawter. Hardcover. 8" X 5 5/8". ix, 180pp. Green cloth over boards stamped in bright green to front cover and spine. Heavy sunning, with fading to spine. Moderate edgewear to binding, with chipping to head and tail of spine, no losses. Previous owner's name..... More
