First Edition (presumably - no printing statement). Ralph Pallen Coleman dustjacket art and illustrations. Vermont set novel of how a young woman's fortune changes when she meets a gypsy caravan. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, minor loss at spine ends.
Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends.
First English Edition. Theatrical Play that ran for only 19 performances on Broadway featuring Walter Beck and Mme. Alla Nazimova, it had previous been filmed in Russia in 1914 by Aleksandr Uralsky and featuring Ivan Bersenyov and Mariya Durasova. Very Good, foxing to page edges, in Good plus dustjacket, shallow chipping to top spine end and top rear panel, flap edges with chips, spine mildly faded.
Vintage Japanese produced Cocktail Guide (in shape of a bottle) and printed box. Just under 7" tall. Hard plastic bottle with drink recipes on a paper scroll inside the bottle (operated from bottle lid). Front label tells names of drinks-pick the corresponding number of one of the drinks, which include Collins, Gimlet, Gin Fizz, Manhattan, Pink Lady, Shamrock, Side Car etc. Scarce in original box. No company name, on 'Japan' printed on bottom of bottle. Presumed 1950's production, but possibly 1940's. Very Good in Very Good box with square inch sized sticker price abrasion at one side, some signs of wear.
Deluxe Fourth Edition. Sextodecimo, original plastic printed covers and original printed cardboard box, spiral comb binding, presumed original glassine wrapper. 229 pages. Nice compact cocktail guide with original publisher's box. Near Fine, in Very Good box, with closed tears at box corners.
First Edition. Sextodecimo, original illustrated wrappers, 62 pages. Uncommon cocktail guide for the 1934 season at Sloppy Joe's. Very Good, vertical crease to covers.
First American Edition. Translated from the Russian by Gilbert Cannan. Flato dustjacket art. Crime novel missed by Hubin of "an illicit love, its aftermath of murder and its strange consequences not only on the protagonist, but on all the people of the community". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with crease line length of front panel and spine, quarter size chip to spine ends, mild fading of green to spine ends, and moderate surface wear to panels.
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.
12x15. Very detailed map in lovely condition.
True First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Douglas Fairbanks film. Near Fine, lacking Front Free Endpaper in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends, wear to front flap edge, and short closed tear to rear top edge.
True First Edition. Hubin listed mystery of a "whimsical and astounding young man who seeks big square emeralds, outwits a menacing band of desperadoes and the New York police as well, to win a reward of $100,000!". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with chipping at spine ends, some darkening to spine, small chip and closed tear at mid spine.
First Edition. Leslie Crump dustjacket art and illustrations. Rare football novel intended for young adults and part of the author's 'Football Eleven Books'. Very scarce in such attractive condition. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks and wear, jacket colors possibly faded.
First Edition. John Drew dustjacket art and color frontis. "A gay little flashlight on Richard Sheridan's time, character and circle. Nothing could be sweeter or more wholesome. A love story pure and simple". A contemporary review states: "The heiress conceals the will so that her cousin, the disinherited son of the house, may come to his own. His first thought is to sell the estate to set Richard Sheridan the dramatist up in management. The will is discovered and the young man retires madly in love. The heiress going to Sheridan's to pay over a sum promised by her cousin is discovered by him and there is a jealous outburst followed by a happy ending. This is melodrama and preposterous farce. We cannot see in it any trace of the Robert Barr we know." Uncommon in dustjacket. Hubin listed mystery novel. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small chips at spine ends.
Early Reprint Edition. Circa 1935. Skrenda dustjacket art. Very Good with staining to cloth along bottom in Very Good bright dustjacket with a hard to notice crease that runs the length of the front panel down the middle, light shelf wear,small stain to bottom of spine, and a crease to middle of back panel. An attractive copy.
First Edition. Collection of poems by Quaker poet. Octavo, original green cloth, gilt illustrations and embossed decorations to covers, gilt lettering and illustrations to spine, decorative endpapers. Very Good, but for front free endpaper removed, cloth split at front spine end, cloth well worn at cover corners and spine ends.
First Edition. Novel of Mexico. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to top spine end, wear to spine endges, and general shelf wear.
First Edition. A sequal to the Three Musketeers which was taken from a manuscript by Dumas. Good with fading to spine ends and part of the jacket is stuck to front board in Fair dustjacket with heavy chipping to spine ends and chipping to top of front and back panel.
First Edition. "Stories from Hakluyt describing the extraordinary exploits and adventures of Elizabethan sea rovers". 278 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicking and edge wear.
First Edition Thus, "Completely Revised and Greatly Enlarged into an Unabridged Encyclopedia of All Popular Beverages". Original yellow printed wrappers, 7 1/2" by 5 1/4", 160 pages. WorldCat lists three library holdings for this edition. This title was originally published in 1891, with the title “Cocktail Boothby’s American Bar-Tender” Additional editions were published in 1908, 1930 and 1934. By the last printing the original four hundred recipes had expanded to seventeen hundred concoctions. "Recipes included Absinthe, of egg whites and/or yolks, Alexanders made with Gin and Coffee Ice Cream, many vodka concoctions, dozens and dozens of recipes with a Martini base, French 75’s without Champagne, Gin is the dominate spirit, numerous famous recipes with other names, sweet and sour, bulk recipes for up to twenty people, Hurricanes with Gin and Crème de Menthe." Very Good, modest wear, nicked at spine ends.
First Edition. B. Cory Kilvert dustjacket art. Romance of a Cambridge educated dockhand who falls for a lady of luxury. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chipping and wear, small chip at front spine edge.
First Edition. Paris set novel in which our heroine has only one year to live and who sets out to become a famous performer. Her reckless lifestyle causes her to be nearly raped, her attacker murdered and when it is discovered that she will live after all, she abandons her stage name and starts a new life as a married woman. "If you were young and beautiful, wealthy, daring, romantic, talented and suddenly found that you had but one year to live, what would you do?" Near Fine in a nearly Very Good dustjacket, narrow loss at front flap edge, shallow edge chipping, lower spine end with quarter sized chip.
32.5x 33. A partial, coloured and highly detailed map of Cambridge's Ward 5 with Somerville to the North, Rice Street to the East, Spruce and Clifton Streets to the South, and Alewife Brook and Arlington, MA to the West.
32.5x 33. A partial, coloured and highly detailed map of Cambridge's Wards 2 and 3 with Munroe Street to the North, the Charles River to the East, Main Street to the South, and Sixth Street to the West.
First Edition. "The life story of an ambitious man, from poverty, but gay poverty, with a rich Dickensian flavor of good cheer, to success and the responsibilities of high position". Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some edge chips and wear.
First Edition, illustrated with photographically produced scenes from the play. Basis for the 1919 Lasky Film directed by George Melford and starring Theodore Roberts and Bebe Daniels. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, chip at lower spine end.
