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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 336pp. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, wth small tears to edges and extremities, sunning to spine, and light dust soiling. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in silver. Moderate edgewear to binding, with... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 284pp. Moderate edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with very small closed tears to top edges. Blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xii, 273pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with several small holes to front and rear panels and toning to flaps. Green cloth over boards, with upper board stamped in blind and spine lettered in gilt... More
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
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
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
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
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1951. Second Printing. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5". 183pp. Moderate edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket, with rubbing heaviest at head and tail of spine. Burgundy cloth over boards, with spine lettered in yellow. Mild edgewear to binding, wth bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dettman, Bruce; Bedford, Michael; Dickensheet, Dean (Foreword); Shaw, John Bennett (Final Word); Walker, Tom (Illust.)
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
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