Brooklyn, NY: Charles Meeker Kozlay, 1909. First Edition, Trade Issue. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, top edge gilt, in tan printed dust jacket; ix,[7],53pp.; halftone portrait frontispiece. Dust jacket neatly split along rear spine edge, chips at spine ends and along top edge of rear panel, contemporary owner's ex libris to..... More
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. First Edition, Presumed Second Printing. 12mo (15 cm); orange-red pictorial wrappers; 140pp + 4 ads; one (1) full-page woodcut and multiple smaller throughout. Wraps creased, dust-soiled, and rubbed with wear to most corners and small loss to head and tail of spine. Damp staining to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, with edition statement and H-Y code on copyright in both volumes. BAL variant A with ads at back of Vol II. Octavos; xvi, [1]-368pp; [viii], 365pp +2 ads. Frontispieces with printed tissue guards. Blue dust jackets with photo portrait vignette;..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. First UK Edition, later state with catalog dated October 1889. Octavo. 525, [ii], 32 pp. publisher's catalog. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black and gilt; decorative endpapers. Boards edgeworn with a couple short tears to top of spine; corners bumped; spine..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. Octavo (23.7 cm), xxiv, 707pp. First Edition, second state with alphabetized index of titles and “Warm Hair'' uncredited. Boards half bound in contemporary leather and maroon cloth with gilt stamping to the leather edges and spine. Marbled endsheets and page edges. All..... More
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992. First Thus. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; charcoal cloth boards stamped in silver; 213pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Very mild rubbing to dust jacket and boards, else Fine. More
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1944. Limited Edition of 1200 copies signed by Thomas Hart Benton at rear colophon, this being #670. Large octavo. 418 pp. Illustrations throughout by Benton, some color. Glassine wrapper. Gray-green morocco spine over illustrated boards featuring a lithographed scene by Benton. Housed in publisher's..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American Edition, wrapper issue. 12mo. 182 pp. Printed wraps. Touch of creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Faint spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; a remarkably well-preserved, Near Fine copy. Commonly known under the title, "English as She Is Spoke,"..... More