First American editions. Three volumes with the Works consisting of volume 1 and 2 and A Legacy comprising volume 3. Blue cloth spines, and tan boards, with printed paper labels. Uncut edges. Some minimal loss of cloth on volume 1, but overall the books are in very good condition. Scarce in the original boards. No dust jackets. Item #27766

First Edition. Introduction by Gelett Burgess. An uncommon anthology of 125 short essays by famous authors concerning their first literary efforts. Includes works by Gertrude Atherton, George Ade, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Mary Austin, Irving Bacheller, Rex Beach, Irvin S. Cobb, Edmund Vance Cooke, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, Emerson Hough, Robert W. Chambewrs, Gelett Burgess, James Montgomery Flagg, Hamlin Garland, Joseph Hergesheimer, Reginald Wright Kauffman, Fannie Hurst, Harold MacGrath, William MacLeod Raine, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Kathleen Norris, Meredith Nicholson, Henry Milner Rideout, Arthur Train, Louis Joseph Vance, Ben Ames Williams, Carolyn Wells, etc. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #20837

First Photoplay Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, color illustration pasted to front cover, black lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout. Novel about a young woman from a small Virginia valley town who gets tangled up with mountain people. Good, front hinge cracked, frontispiece detached, small dampstain to top edge, wear to cloth at top edges, small dampstain at bottom of pages, previous owner's contemporary gift inscription at half-title, in Very Good dust jacket, small edge chips, splitting at lower rear spine edge, some dampstaining to spine. Item #250944

First Edition. Heade dustjacket art. Very uncommon O. Douglas title. 'To have to watch one's young, very attractive, and slightly wayward family growing up is a breathtaking experience even for the most serene of mothers'. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #37261

First Edition. Harrison Fisher dustjacket art and onlay. "On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help, they try to recover the box before the poison can be administered". Near Fine bright and attractive copy, in Good only dustjacket, chipped along top edge, several inch closed tear to rear panel, lower two inches of spine mended back into place with archival tape (at verso), narrow piece (two inches in length) lacking at lower rear spine edge. Item #32368

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Vitagraph film starring Martha Mansfield and Seena Owen. Uncommon title. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, bit of splitting at lower spine edges. Item #41109

This very detailed and charming diary was meticulously kept by Anna P. Howes of Brookline Massachusetts. The pages begin with Miss Howes' (known as ‘Nancy”) entries for her high school graduation from the Beaver Country Day School in June of 1944, and her coming out party that same week, all amidst the announcements of the fall of Rome and the D-Day invasion two days later. Nancy’s continues to keep her diary throughout her four years at Oberlin College, and beyond. The scrapbook contains diary entries, photos, letters, correspondence, keepsakes and newspaper clippings. Over 100 black and white prints are scattered throughout the diary/scrapbook and are captioned; these snapshot and professional prints range in size from 2x2” to 5x7”. Also included are many invitations and wedding announcements of her classmates and girlfriends at Oberlin (including her own from 1949). Ms. Howes adds notation (dated) in later years to point out interesting bits from early entries, such as nights on the town with Jack Lemmon and John Kander (at the time, unknown). Portions of the diary (sections of individual pages, and in one place, two complete leaves) have been excised from the diary by careful and precise cut-out; particularly in the early college years (possibly the diarist edits her earlier entries at the same time she is adding notation in the 1980's). Also included in this scrapbook are several letters written to Miss Howes (after her marriage to one of her professors at Oberlin); these letters are from Harrison Arlington 'Pete' Williams Jr., while he was a U. S. Congressman. The Congressman and Miss Howes evidently met while at Oberlin and kept in touch over the next several years. Years after the diary is kept, when Pete Williams was a Senator, he was convicted during the Abscam sting operation. At Oberlin, she took a philosophy course with William Kennick, and a lifelong relationship began. The two were married in June 1949. Professor Kennick later taught at Amherst College in 1956, retiring in 1999. Miss Howes was known as Nancy. At the time of her marriage to Professor Kennick, she worked as a staff member in the Hillyer Art Museum at Smith College according to one newspaper clipping. Mrs. Kennick passed away in 2014. Item #34125

First Edition. Uncommon collection of poetry. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #34929

First Edition. German Depression Era novel of the struggle of the desperate fishermen of St. Barbara, "who strike, starve, fail, and go back to toil for a wage that is still to leave their wives and children hungry". Made into the 1934 black and white mono-sound Soviet Union film directed by Erwin Piscator and starring Aleksei Dikij and Sergei Martanson. Very Good, front endpaper removed, in Good or Very Good modestly soiled and edge worn dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and light stains. Item #25171

Brown leather over boards, embossed with the phrase “Our Guests” and a small design, gilt edges, measuring 9” x 7.” This guest book belonged to Bertrand Kingsbury Wilbur and his wife, Anna Elliott Dean. Wilbur was at the time head of the Wilbur Chocolate Company of Pennsylvania. Also mentioned are other members of the Wilbur family, including daughter Elizabeth Wilbur Borton and her husband Hugh Borton, former president of Haverford College. The first portion of the book contains 13 pages, each with the printed title “Our Guests,” with signatures of the Wilburs’ visitors at their beach house in Lavalette, New Jersey, dated 1919-1934. This section also includes a typed copy of the poem “Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth” by Arther Hugh Clough, with a handwritten note that Winston Churchill read this poem during a radio broadcast on April 27th, 1941 and a clipping of the poem “The Blessing, Lord, On All Vacation Days!” by Molly Anderson Haley. Following this are 32 blank pages, and then a 52 page new section written in reverse chronological order from the end of the book. For this section the “Our Guests” title has been modified by hand to say “Log of Drowsy Dunes,” presumably the name of the Wilbur’s beach house. The pages contain a log of activities at the beach house, each summer, from approximately May to November, in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1924. Updated frequently, the handwritten entries contain information on who came to visit and what they did. The section also includes several pieces of ephemera, either glued or tipped in. This includes a 1936 Home News of Bryn Mawr article about the Wilbur Family Reunion held at the family beach home, and a five page typed onionskin manuscript about this same family reunion. A similar two page onionskin manuscript describes the 1933 family reunion, with a handwritten addition and a brief newspaper clipping included describing the reunion in the Ocean County Courier, on September 8th 1933. Another undated clipping from the Ocean County Courier about Mrs. Wilbur appears on the opposite page. Another newspaper clipping, from June 25th, 1934, describes an incident with a boat being trapped by whales off the coast of New Jersey. Tipped in are a June 1944 calendar page, a quarter page of blank paper, and a smaller page of blank paper with an illegible signature. On the final page is a typed poem about the beach attributed by hand to “Helena” about 1939, and a newspaper clipping entitled “Yes, October is Here” with no publication information. Glued on to the rear pastedown is an ad from Jersey Power and Light Central about the birds of New Jersey, and a typed poem about the beach attributed to “Anonymous” possibly clipped from a newspaper as well. Tipped in is an undated map of New Jersey’s Island Beach State Park and a page from Reader’s Digest. The leather is peeling off the cover and has several large chips along the front edges, spine is starting to crack, and general wear to leather. Spine is cracking on the front hinge, but otherwise the interior is well preserved with only minor foxing. Item #600732