The Gaslight Room, circa 1960s. Loose_leaf. 14" X 11", folded. This charming circa 1960s menu for The Gaslight Room, possibly from Biloxi, Mississippi's Trade Winds Motor Hotel, features fun mid-century design and "Tournedos Baltimore" as Tonight's Special. Moderate wear to paper, with edgewear, light chipping, creasing, surfacewear, and dust soiling... More
New York: M. Young, 1882. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/8". [ii], [8]-94,[9]-96, [7]-94, [101]-115, plus 5pp ads. Embossed pebble-grain brown cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in gilt. Heavy wear to binding, with interior hinges cracked and attached only by strings, heavy edgewear, bumping, soiling, and fraying. Free... More
Baltimore: Montgomery Ward & Company, 1941. Paperback. 13 1/8" X 9 3/8". 62pp. Paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with tears to edges and extremities, chipping and tears to spine, dust ssoiling, and faint dampstains. Front hinge tender. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blank order form... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882. Hardcover. 6 1/8" X 4 1/4". 45pp. Embossed red cloth over boards, with "Lazy Roger" faintly visible to spine. Small tears to extremities of cloth, with bumping, scattered rubbing, sunning, and mild soiling. Hinges cracked, text block loose. Previous owner's notations to pastedowns... More
New York: Peter Arnell, 2002. Hardcover. 13 1/4" X 10". Unpaginated. Inscribed by Peter Arnell to title page. Black cloth over boards, with upper board lettered in blind, wrapped in protective archival jacket. A touch of shelfwear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A presentable copy... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 229pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with sunning to spine. Blue paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in blue. Mild edgewear to binding, with slight lean to spine. Previous owner's inked... More
Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1993. Hardcover. 13 5/8" X 9 5/8". 141pp. Text in German. Moderate edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, with small tears to extremities, bumping, and dust spotting. Gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in blind. Bumping to extremities of binding and slight lean to spine. Binding is... More
[Savannah, Georgia]: N.P., 1945. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/8" X 6 1/8". 16pp. Mild wear to textured printed staplebound wraps, with light edgewear, dust-soiling, and long crease to rear wrap. Binding is sound. Except for inked out statement regarding proceed donations to foreword, pages are clean and unmarked. A.... More
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1958. Paperback. 6 1/4" X 4 1/4". 61pp. Mild shelf wear to paper wraps with French flaps, with rubbing and bumping to extremities. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this collection of some of the earliest works from renowned philosopher, Martin Buber. More
London: Oldbourne Book Company Ltd., 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 222pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with British Book Centre label to front flap, presumably covering price. Small tears to edges and extremities of dust jacket, with light dust soiling to rear panel. Red cloth... More
Ottawa, Ohio: Marguerite Calvin, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 232pp. Inscribed as "David" by illustrator to front free endpaper, with woodcut self-portrait. Stain to front panel of dust jacket, with open tear to bottom corner of front panel and small closed tear to bottom edge, along... More
Carrollton, Georgia: F. M. Chalker, 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xi, 251pp. Signed by Fussell M. Chalker to half-title. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with small tears to edges and extremities and light sunning and toning. Green buckram over boards, with spine lettered in gilt... More
Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company, N.D. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". 448pp. Undated reprint of 1928 edition. Substantial heavy rubbing along all edges of blue cloth hardcover, with gilt lettering to spine. Slight lean to spine. Previous owner's name to rear board and front free endpaper, with pencil... More
![Foreigner, Invader, [and] Inheritor [Signed First Editions, 3 Volumes]. C. J. Cherryh](/pictures/thumb/2788.JPG?v=1498256815)
New York: Daw Books, Inc., 1994, 1995, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 378pp; 426pp; 410pp. Each volume is a first edition, first printing and signed by C. J. Cherryh to title page. Set presents very nicely in archival sleeved dust jackets. Rusted effect to gilt lettering... More
[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed in pencil by artist Sean Scully at limitation page. Edition limited to 300, this being number 12. Limited Editions Club newsletter laid in. 12 1/4" X 10 1/8". Hand-bound in full black Nigerian goatskin with upper board and spine... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 3/8". 299pp. Lacking dust jacket. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in yellow. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities and small tear to head of spine. Mild soiling to edges of... More
Chicago: American Medical Association, 1904. Wraps. 8 5/8" X 5 5/8". 8pp, plus fold-out plate of a partially parasitic uterine myoma on one side and tumor of the sigmoid flexure on the other. Reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association. Plain printed staplebound paper wraps show very mild... More
New York: Topper Books, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. 5 1/8" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Inscribed by Jim Davis to Earlene Scott, owner of Scott's Books, at title page. Pictorial wraps. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners creased and small tear at head of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages... More
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Berlin: Internationale Bibliothek GMBH, 1922. Hardcover. 7" X 4 1/2". xiv, 297pp. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with small tears to cloth at head of spine, bumping to corners, and tail of spine rubbed down. Hinges a touch tender. Binding remains sound... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/8" X 5 1/2". 183pp. Inscribed to previous owner by Babs H. Deal at front free endpaper: "Fro Joe--a live one in the wasteland. With all best and 'like that'. Babs Deal; Tuscaloosa, Ala. April 22, 1962." Heavy wear... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1981, 1995. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". 1777pp. Each volume uniformly bound in full blue genuine leather and stamped at boards and spine in 22kt gilt, with spines lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Salmon orange silk moire endpaper with matching silk... More
London: Faber and Faber Unlimited, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". 255pp. Very light edgewear and dust soiling to unclipped dust jacket. Erased pencilled notation to front flap. Dark purple cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine, else... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, England: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Hardcover. 7 3/4" X 5 1/8". 68pp. Buff paper over boards with spine backed in yellow cloth with title label. Moderate edgewear to binding, with corners rubbed to boards and turned in, tears to title label and head and tail... More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1976. Paperback. 9" X 6". 181pp. Mild edgewear to paper wraps, light creasing to spine, and dust soiling to edges of text block. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. From the preface by Everson: "In this book I have attempted to delineate the... More
Edinburgh: Privately Printed, David Douglas, 1903. Pittendrigh MacGillivray. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 5 3/4". xii, 67pp. Edition limited to 150 copies, this being number 81. Inscribed by illustrator Pittendrigh MacGillivray and dated January 1904 to front free endpaper. Blue cloth over boards with vellum covering spine and lettered in... More
