First Edition. "His first collection of short stories, introduces a deft, if conventional, craftsman with a taste for domestic psychodramas in the mode of Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, his prime influences. The title story, Lawrencean in its adroit probing of feminine behavior, derives significant energy from a misogynist vantage. Its weakest stories, including "The Dark City," "By My Troth, Nerissa!," and "Smith and Jones," a thin philosophical allegory as unconvincing as Poe at his most tendentious, foreshadow the difficulties Aiken would always experience when straying too far from autobiography or attempting to explore psyches too remote from his own. "Strange Moonlight" and "The Last Visit," the most effective performances in Bring! Bring!, are also the most personal." Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #29594

First Edition. Artzybasheff dustjacket art. Author's Haycraft Queen Cornerstone and Albert Campion murder mystery. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends and along lower edge. Item #32364

First Edition. Quarto, 11" by 9", original illustrated wood covers (featuring female wizard) with leather straps, mimeographed pages. Novelty cocktail recipe book with astrological theme. Illustrated. Includes 246 recipes. WorldCat finds no copies. Very Good. Item #26886

Presumed First Edition. Original decorative gray wrappers, 6" by 4", 32 pages. This copy does not appear to have been published with additional title page beyond that of the front cover, first page is 'Wine Service' and then the index. From other copies we have catalogued we quoted from the title page: "System of mixing drinks for high class bartender's connoisseurs and liquor dealers - also a review of the art of mixing drinks written so it is easily understood by anyone desiring to be a mixologist". Uncommon. Very Good, some modest staining to pages. Item #35478

Original printed wrappers. Early anonymously produced fictionalized account of a turn of the century prostitute. This copy illustrated with several photographically produced stills of nude women. A scarce and unusual item. A Very Good tight copy in original printed wrappers, with four scotch tape pieces at spine, few edge chips and short closed tears at rear panel. Item #8011

First Edition. Original brown cloth, gilt stamping (variant binding with stamping that does not include more of the title as seen on other copies and less decoration), octavo, 496 pages. Title continues: Hotel & Restaurant Cookery, as now Practised, With the Newest Entrees and Dishes. The First Part Treats of Home Brewing; The Manufacture of Wines, Spirits, Liqueurs and Cordials Without Distillation – The Preparation and Manipulation of, With the Newest Names and Styles of Mixing and Dressing American Drinks, Suitable for Licensed and Non-Licensed Houses, Garden Parties, Clubs, Temperance Fetes, Bazaars, Etc. By Bacchus. The Second Part Treats of All Branches of Cookery, Confectionery and Bread, Suitable for Public Dinners, Clubs, Small Family Parties, Balls, Routs, Luncheons, Garden Parties, Suppers, Etc., by Cordon Bleu. Very scarce title. Found in Tom Sandham's World Best Cocktails who cites this title for containing the Fred Collins Fizz. Included in bibliography of Ted Haugh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. Very Good, signs of a bookplate having been removed from front pastedown, original owners name and address at front pastedown and top title page, few pages of first signature a bit uneven - perhaps indicating it was long ago reglued, rear yellow endpaper removed, rear inner hinge shows webbing and a bit loose. Item #34418

12x15.5. Finely detailed, engraved city plan and the surrounding waters. Item #33838

15x24.5. Detailed, engraved city plan of London with inset of the Tower of London and a view of London from Copenhagen Fields. Item #33852

First Edition. An autobiographical novel recounting the author's experiences in a federal penitentiary. "A loosely related series of impressionistic sketches, often horrifying in content but compassionate in tone" (Rideout p. 112). Albert Barr was the secretary of the Tulsa, OK, IWW local when he and 26 other members were convicted of "conspiracy to bring about a revolutionary overthrow of the United States government" and 3 other charges in Dec. 1919. He later became a newspaperman, although this appears to be his only book. Very scarce title. Near Fine but for stain to top page edge, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, dampstain at lower spine area, white tape (possibly archival) at verso of jacket at edges. Item #29128

First Edition. Scarce Samuel French hard-cover printing of this play based, on the life of John the Baptist by the author of Philadelphia Story which was made into the successful 1940 Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn film. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips to edges. Item #19016

15x23.5. Beautiful, detailed map. Item #33919

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Sawyer-Lubin production directed by Arthur H. Sawyer and starring Barbara La Marr. Very Good plus cloth binding with, faint cloth discoloration at rear cover, pencil scribble to page 5, and last five pages with slight wave to top edges mostly likely caused from water. A very attractive copy this scarce photoplay title. Item #16397