13x16.5. Lovely, yellow-coloured map of the township including historical notes and three full-page illustrated plates of the township. All in wonderful condition. Item #33942
13x16.5. Lovely, yellow map of the township including historical notes and one full-page illustrated plate of the township. All in wonderful condition. Item #33958
First Edition. Matt Clark dustjacket art. Something of a departure for Kyne, a romance novel of wealthy urbanites, one of whom discovers the shallowness of his wife when he is marooned with another woman on an island in the North country. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest edge wear, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #14920
First Edition. Uncommon College anthology of poetry including the works of writers from mostly East Coast universities including Amherst College, Brown University, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vassar, Wesleyan, Yale, Smith, Texas University, and others. Uncommon in 19th Century dustjacket. Very Good in Good dustjacket, chipped along top edge, inch chip at lower spine end. Item #41250
First Edition. 'A sensitive, intelligent woman, of her early and unfortunate marriage, and the ramifications of her life, tangled and inseparable from the life of the husband whom she never loved'. A scarce title. Very Good, few areas of cloth discoloration, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips and closed tears. Item #34932
Early Edition (Last page states: Imprimerie Floch. - 4 - 10 - 1932, Mayenne (France). WorldCat notes 1899 and 1912 printings, this present copy is a later 1930's printing) 95 pages, original illustrated wrappers. Very scarce French cocktail recipe book, with directions for making such cocktails as Derby, East India, Japanese, Laws, MacDonald's, Manhattan, Old Tom, Omnium, Absinthe, [Coolers] Rocky, Brunswick, [Crustas] St. Croix, Brandy, as well as an array of Daisies, Egg Noggs, Fixes, Fizzes, Flips, Juleps, Sours, Slings, Smashes, Limonades, Sangarees, Punches, Grogs, Toddies, Pousse Cafes, Cups, and Diverses. Very Good. Item #34224
Early Printing (originally published in 1917). Abbey dustjacket art. "A remarkable and unconventional story of the overwhelming love and ambition of a woman for her daughter, for whose sake husband, friends, fame, honor and life are sacrificed." Small octavo. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping. Item #27343
First Edition. Signed and Inscribed slip tipped in at front free endpaper. Octavo, original faux leather binding. Scarce title, a romantic description of the locomotive and the men who run them. Very Good, with wear to spine ends and cover corners, some soiling to page ends. Item #18620
First Edition. Story of strange love and infatuation. Very Good, with front free endpaper removed in a Good plus dustjacket with inch chip to lower spine, chipping to top spine end, flap and spine edges and top edge of front panel. Item #17862
First Edition. Uncommon collection of stories, listed in Bleiler for its inclusion of 'Vampire', a rather fantastic sounding title, but a story of a more mundane nature - about a couple who takes in an old lady boarder who doesn't pay her rent and eats all there food before they finally get her moved out. Very Good in Good dustjacket with light staining and edge chips, top front panel with few inch sized chip. Item #24413
First Edition. Author's first book. Mystery novel set at a house party on an east coast island. Very Good in nearly Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, few small abrasions and 'drip' spots to front panel, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23960
First Edition. Scotland Yard mystery, 'a grand yarn of crooks in high places, glamor, brilliant police work, and a fine spicing of humor through the efforts of the Hollywood script writing team of Harper and Ford to assist with some amateur sleuthing.' Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, mild crease down spine, bit of soiling to rear panel. Item #37553
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Second Printing. Manning de V. Lee dustjacket art. Signed and Inscribed by author at front free endpaper. Romance between the trustee of a family fortune whose brother left a motherless child in South America, and a young woman, the child's aunt, who accepts his offer to bring the child to his estate but bitterly detests his brother's desertion to her sister. Wraparound dustjacket art. Very Good in a Nearly Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and flap corners, several short closed tears, tears at spine edges and front panel mended with scotch tape to verso, light pink and blue staining to verso. Item #18512
First Edition. Bip Pares dustjacket art. "Novel concerns the love-affair of a young woman of about thirty who is tied to the heels of a rather empty-headed, nice minded, widowed mother". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with rather darkened spine, shallow edge chips. Item #25297
First Edition. Author's humorous and philosophical musings on India, Japan, and the United States. Very Good with some spotting to front cover, in a Very Good dustjacket with inch-deep closed tear near spine at top edge of front panel, scotch tape markings to front panel, some small abrasions to top of spine, some fadings and surface markings to rear panel. Item #17821
First Edition. Translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington. Historical novel of Russian history including the assassination of Tsar Paul, Napoleon's invasion of Moscow, the triumphant entrance of the Russian army into Paris. "The tale centers about Koshelev, a Captain of the Guards, but there are innumerable characters of all ranks of life coming and going - humble guardsmen, officers, a coach maker, a nun - jostling each other in the tragi-comedy that was Russia in the early 19th Century." Very Good, firmly bound volume despite webbing showing at inner hinges, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, half inch chip at top spine end, short closed tears. Item #21194
First Edition. Charles Zingaro dustjacket art. Romance of a passionate redhead who sold her Long Island home and moved West with her mother and two small children, resolved to look for only security and not love. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chip at top spine end, some fading to spine. Item #24626
First Edition stated. Wrap-around dustjacket art. Canadian set novel. "A tiny village near the Maine border, chock full of most amusing rustic characters, with all the bucolic ambitions and pretensions, the neighborly feuds and the love making, the foibles and weaknesses of the simple life". Near Fine, contemporary inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #27365
Presumed First Edition. Snell dustjacket art. Very uncommon New Orleans set romance: "dressed for the Mardi Gras, gaiety of its laughing throngs; you are reminded of the rare beauty of its Creoles, of customs that are gracious and delightful; of a countryside as fair as any on earth". Great Mardi Gras scene dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, with unfortunate quarter sized chip at mid rear panel. Item #9423
First Edition. Original yellow cloth, lacking jacket. This copy nicely inscribed and signed at front endpaper by author to his son Wallace. An uncommon title. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some tiny chips and closed tears. Item #37314
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First Edition stated. Translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir. Uncommon novel concerning the upward mobility of a young woman from a fishing village. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, then piece of scotch tape at both top and bottom spine ends. Item #39792
Third Printing, New and Revised Printing. Historical novel by Mapu, sometimes referred to as "the father of the Jewish novel". "Exquisite narrative of the life, civic and pastoral, which his nation lived in the golden era of King Hezekiah, when Isaiah was prophet". Uncommon. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, edges with chips, some closed tears mended at verso with scotch tape, some splitting at front flap edge. Item #23312
First Edition. E. W. Kemble dustjacket art and illustrations. Author's first book. 'Danny, a baby in a basket, abandoned before the door of the blacksmith. The boy runs away with a peripatetic 'Doctor' whose mission is to make known the wonderful powers of Siwash Indian Sagrah...' Uncommon in dustjacket. Almost Near Fine, previous owner name and date (1916) at front endpaper, flecking to lettering at spine, tiny cloth tear at top spine end, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and at flap edges, top front panel with top half inch chipped. Item #39991
First Edition. Adventure novel of Old California. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chips top spine end, flap corners nicked, spine lightly darkened. Item #6935
First Edition. Lefferts dustjacket art. Collection of six short stories by 20th century British author, one of which, "The Letter," later became a play starring Gladys Cooper which premiered in London in 1927 and showed on Broadway later that year starring Katharine Cornell, adapted for film in 1929 and again in 1940. Very Good, but with some pencil reviews to margins, two newspaper shadows to mid pages, mildly bumped at front cover fore-edge, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, nickel sized chip at top spine end and at lower front panel, short closed tears at edges, modest shelf wear. Item #39950
