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 about A Child's Garden of Dreams: An Exhibition of Children's Books and their Original Illustrations,...

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 about A to Z: Marvels in Paper Engineering

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 about Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592, Giving New Light on the Pre-Sonnet Period; Showing...

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 about West By One and By One: An Anthology of Irregular Writings by the Scowrers and Molly Maguires of...

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

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 about A Time in Rome

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 about The Girl in the Pictorial Wrapper: An Index to Reviews of Paperback Original Novels in the New...

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 about The Best of the Pips: A Collection of the Writings About the Writings by the Members of The Five...

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 about A History of English Poetry, Vol. I: The Middle Ages: Influence of the Roman Empire--The...

New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1959. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". xvi, 240pp. Rather heavy wear to unclipped dust jacket, with closed tears to edges, open tears to head of spine and corner of rear panel, 1 3/4" X 1" open tear to tail of... More about Course in General Linguistics

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 about A Compendium of Canonical Weaponry: Being a Catalogue and Description of the Implements of Foul...

Dallas: University Press in Dallas, Southern Methodist University, 1943. Paperback. 9" X 6". 111pp. Printed blue wraps show moderate wear, with sunning to spine and creasing to corners. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice 1943 printing of this guide to the Southwest in history and... More about Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest with a Few Observations

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 about Archetype West: The Pacific Coast as a Literary Region