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A Child's Garden of Dreams: An Exhibition of Children's Books and their Original Illustrations, Early Nineteenth Century to the Present from the Betsy B. Shirley Collection

Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, 1989. Paperback. 10" X 9". 80pp. Pictorial paper wraps featuring Justin H. Howard's "The Doings of the Alphabet." Mild wear to wraps, with sticker to rear and light shelfwear. Binding is sound and firm. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very... More

Price: $12.00

Fraz ak Mo ki Itil Angle-Kreyol Ayisyen: English-Haitian Creole Phrasebook with Useful Wordlist (for Kreyol speakers)

Washington DC: Center for Applied LInguistics and U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, 1994. Paperback. 8 1/8" X 5 3/8". vii, 138pp. Mild edgewear to paper wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are occasionally creased, but clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this... More

Price: $25.00

Leaves from The Copper Beeches

Philadelphia; Narbeth, Pennsylvania: Published for The Sons of The Copper Beeches Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars by the Livingston Publishing Company, 1959. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 134pp. Edition limited to 500, this being number 370. Red paper over boards, with spine backed in... More

Price: $35.00

A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering

Salt Lake City, Utah: The Movable Book Society, 2018. Limited Edition. Cards. Box: 9" X 4 7/10" X 6 9/10". Cards: 6" X 8". Issued in honor of the 25th anniversary of The Movable Book Society in a limited edition of only 2,000 copies, this is a special collection of... More

Price: $100.00

Abbott, Eleanor D.

A Sketch of Barbara Fritchie, Whittier's Heroine, Including Points of Interest in Frederick, Maryland

Frederick, Maryland: [Frederick News-Post Publishing Co.], 1921. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 26pp. Signed by Eleanor D. Abbott at title page. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with small closed tear to front panel and tail of spine, creasing, and edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages... More

Price: $45.00

Acheson, Arthur

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592, Giving New Light on the Pre-Sonnet Period; Showing the Inception of Relations between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton and Displaying John Florio as Sir John Falstaff

New York: Haskell House Publishers Ltd., 1971. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". vii, 261pp. Turquoise cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild surface and edgewear to binding, firm and sound. Rippling to text block, with small stain to fore-edge, else pages clean and unmarked. A solid copy... More

Price: $20.00

Adams, Ramon F.; Eggenhofer, Nick (Illust.)

Three First Editions by Ramon F. Adams: The Rampaging Herd, The Old-Time Cowhand, Burs Under the Saddle

Norman, Oklahoma; New York: The University of Oklahoma Press; The MacMillan Company, 1959, 1961, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Each about 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xix, 463pp; x, 354pp; x, 610pp. Each volume first edition, first printing. Moderate wear to dust jackets, The Old-Time Cowhand price-clipped, with occasional small tear... More

Price: $80.00

Anderson, Poul (Ed.)

West By One and By One: An Anthology of Irregular Writings by the Scowrers and Molly Maguires of San Francisco and the Trained Cormorants of Los Angeles County

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 5/8". 157pp. Mild wear to dust jacket, with light dust soiling, sunning to spine, and small, inconspicuous closed tears to edges and extremities. Cream cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. A touch of edgewear to binding... More

Price: $75.00

Arnold, Matthew; Allott, Kenneth (Ed.)

The Poems of Matthew Arnold

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1965. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 3/8". 624pp. Blue-green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt over red label. Moderate edgewear, bumping to corners, mild soiling, and scattered rubbing to binding, with corners bumped in and rubbed to boards. Light gray topstain. Binding... More

Price: $18.00

Arnold, Matthew; Super, R. H. (Ed.)

On the Classical Tradition (The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume I)

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". viii, 271pp. Publisher's review slip laid in. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with dust soiling, edgewear, and small tear to head of spine. Blue cloth over with spine lettered in black. Moderate edgewear... More

Price: $20.00

Ballou, Maturin M.

Notable Thoughts About Women: A Literary Mosaic

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Hardcover. 7 7/8" X 5 3/8". xiii, 409pp, plus 16pp ads. Brown cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Heavy edgewear to binding, with corners bumped and rubbed to boards, chipping to head and tail of spine, and mild scattered rubbing. Dark brown... More

Price: $20.00

Bowen, Elizabeth

A Time in Rome

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 7/8". 242pp. Pre-publication copy with Alfred A. Knopf bookplate to front free endpaper and handwritten note "at the suggestion of Elizabeth Bowen," from the estate collection of Laurraine Goreau, journalist and biographer of singer Mahalia Jackson. Moderate... More

Price: $30.00

Bragg, Rick

[Signed] All Over but the Shoutin'

New York: Vintage Books, 1997. Paperback. 8" X 5 1/8". xxii, 329pp. Signed by Rick Bragg at our event on Mother's Day, May 13th, 2018. A brand new, signed copy of Rick Bragg's best-selling memoir of growing up dirt-poor in Alabama, becoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, and the mother who... More

Price: $20.00

Brean, Herbert (Ed.)

The Mystery Writer's Handbook

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 5/8" X 5 7/8". xx, 268pp. Moderate edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tears to top edges, small dampstain to rear panel, and shallow chipping to head and tail of spine. Bound in red cloth with spine backed in... More

Price: $25.00

Breen, Jon L.; Breen, Rita A.

The Girl in the Pictorial Wrapper: An Index to Reviews of Paperback Original Novels in the New York Times' "Criminals at Large" Column, 1953-1970

Dominguez Hills, California: California State College, Dominguez Hills, circa 1973. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 1/2". 46pp. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with creasing to corners and light dust soiling. "1/73" pencilled to upper wrap. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice, presentable copy of... More

Price: $55.00

Brewster, William T.

Representative Essays on the Theory of Style [Ex Libris Joseph J. Mason, Seal & Serpent Society, Cornell University]

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". xxvii, 354pp, plus one leaf of ads. Deep green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, bumping to corners, scattered rubbing, crease to spine, and mild soiling. Binding is... More

Price: $40.00

Chesterton, G. K.

Criticisms and Appreciations of the Works of Charles Dickens

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1933. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". xxx, 243pp. Green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt and publisher's device stamped in blind to upper board. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping and light fraying to extremities, sunning to spine, and light scattered... More

Price: $20.00

Clarke, Richard Warner; Waters, Frank A.; Smith, Edgar W.; Montgomery, James; Frisbie, Owen P.; Ward, Norman W.; Cumings, Thayer; Clark, Benjamin S.

The Best of the Pips: A Collection of the Writings About the Writings by the Members of The Five Orange Pips Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars

New York: The Five Orange Pips of Westchester County, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 114pp. Ex libris Sherlock scholar Leon S. Holstein, quoted several times in The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, with his name and Sherlock alias "The Tired Captain R. S. T." to flyleaf... More

Price: $75.00

Clay, Mel

Jazz -- Jail and God: An Impressionistic Biography of Bob Kaufman

San Francisco: Androgyne Books, 2001. Third Printing. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 111pp. Signed & briefly inscribed by Mel Clay, with personal information, to table of contents. A touch of shelfwear and a blind mark through the printed price at rear, else fine. Bookseller notations pencilled to front free... More

Price: $18.00

Courthope, W. J.

A History of English Poetry, Vol. I: The Middle Ages: Influence of the Roman Empire--The Encyclopaedic Education of The Church--The Feudal System

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. Hardcover. 8 7/8" X 6". 474pp, plus ads. Moderate edgewear to hardcover binding, with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine and mild dust soiling. Spine lettered in gilt. Both hinges rather tender. Toning to endpapers. Bookseller notations penciled to front free... More

Price: $18.00

Cumings, Thayer

Seven on Sherlock: Some Trifling Observations on the Greatest of All Private Consulting Detectives

Westchester County, New York: Privately Printed for the Five Orange Pips of Westchester County, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 39pp. Red paper over boards with spine backed in red cloth and both lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear and moderate sunning to binding, firm, tight, and sound... More

Price: $95.00

de Camp, L. Sprague; Scithers, George H.; [Robert E. Howard]

The Conan Grimoire

Baltimore: The Mirage Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 263pp. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. A touch of shelfwear to binding, else fine, firm, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A handsome copy of this... More

Price: $30.00

Derleth, August; Starrett, Vincent (Intro.)

The Casebook of Solar Pons

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft and Moran, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 5 1/8". xviii, 281pp. Signed by August Derleth to half-title, with best wishes and cordially. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with 1" closed tear at edge of spine near head, 1" closed tear at top of... More

Price: $120.00

Derleth, August; Starrett, Vincent (Intro.)

"In Re: Sherlock Holmes": The Adventures of Solar Pons

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft and Moran, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/8" X 5 1/4". xv, 238pp. 1965 Arkham House Derleth order form and catalog booklet laid in, advertising Wisconsin Country, The Casebook of Solar Pons, The Adventure of the Orient Express, Praed Street Papers, The House by the River... More

Price: $75.00

Dettman, Bruce; Bedford, Michael; Dickensheet, Dean (Foreword); Shaw, John Bennett (Final Word); Walker, Tom (Illust.)

A Compendium of Canonical Weaponry: Being a Catalogue and Description of the Implements of Foul Play and Justice in the Writings of John H. Watson, M.D.

Culver City, California: Luther Norris, 1969. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 8 3/8" X 5 3/8". [ii], 33pp. Edition limited to 300 copies, this being number 18. Mild edgewear to staplebound wraps, with sunning to spine and small nick to tail of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked... More

Price: $30.00

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