Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1930. First Thus. Quarto (24.5cm.); publisher's purple decorative moiré cloth embossed in gilt, color pictorial element mounted to front cover, cream and lavender pictorial endpapers; 367pp.; color frontispiece, twenty-three (23) plates of which twelve printed in full color, the remaining eleven printed in maroon, additional illus..... More
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth; xxvii,[1],330pp.; illus. Spine gilt very lightly dulled, corners gently tapped, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of more than fifteen philosophical papers, including the epilogue "Metaphor and..... More
Tuscaloosa: The Student Body of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, 1946. First Edition. Tall quarto (12.25" x 9.25"); 284pp +43pp ads. Maroon cloth with gilt and black stamping. Covers rubbed at corners and edges, with some tugging and fraying to spine ends. Scattered foxing throughout, but pages unmarked. Binding..... More
![Item #11052 The Moonstone Mass and Others [Limited Edition, Signed by the Editor]. Harriet...](/pictures/thumb/11052.jpg?v=1633024623)
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. First Thus, Limited to 500 copies. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xxxvi,181pp.; illus. Just a hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities, else a Fine copy. Signed by the editor on title page. Collection of "weird" early tales and poems by..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1905. First Edition. Violet cloth stamped in white on front face and spine, with horseshoe emblem. Illlustrated with 8 sepia photographs, etchings, or lithos. Deckle cut fore-edge, gilt top edge of textblock. Includes an inserted pair of two-color publisher's prospectuses. Binding faded at edges, both faded..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1906. Presumed First Edition. Small octavo; 123pp +2 ads. Printed in black and red throughoutIllustrated dust jacket with glassine jacket underneath; book in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering and red, white, and green illustration. Jacket shows a number of tears and shallow chips along edges..... More
Brooklyn: Harvey Tucker, n.d. but ca. 1966. First Edition. Folio; decorative staple bound self-wrappers; [1],28pp. printed mimeograph on rectos only. General wear and light soil from use, front cover unevenly toned, final seven leaves starting to separate; a Good copy overall. Apparently the penultimate issue of this short-lived poetry 'zine. More
Wilmington: Delaware Art Museum, 2011. First Edition. Quarto (28x23x1.5cm); 191pp, with chronology and index. Profusely illustrated throughout with reproductions in color and B&W, and documentary photographs and other material. Illustrated coated card wrappers. Nearly as new; textblock unmarred and unmarked. This is the catalog of the exhibit held at..... More
![Item #6141 Yeats Reborn: A European Translation Project, 2014-2015 [Limited Edition]. Hedwig...](/pictures/thumb/6141.jpg?v=1582736691)
Leuven: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS), 2015. Limited Edition, numbered 23 of 300 copies. Folding cardportfolio binding (11" x 8.25") with black outer covers and sea-green lettering, opening to reveal two bound sections of Thirty-Two Poems by Yeats (in English, 44 pp.) and Yeats..... More
Hardcover. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011. Quarto (12.5"x9.5"); 192pp. 132 illustrations and 114 in color. Pictorial paper over boards. Some rubbing on the edges and corners, bottom edge is bumped. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press, 1930 (Vol. I) and 1938 (Vol II). Octavo; viii + 552pp (Vol. I) and x + 672pp (Vol. II). First Edition of both volumes; eight-year gap between first publications. Each volume with its own index.Textblock of later volume about 3/4" narrower spine-to-fore-edge than that..... More
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being number 61. Octavo. 31 pages. Drab gray-green dust jacket. Gray boards with white spine and paper spine label. Cardboard corner protector appears contemporaneous. A posthumously published essay on forcible resistance. Employs military metaphors to draw out..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, cloth slipcase; [2],xi,[1],255pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates, color pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket rather unevenly toned and quite heavily restored with archival paper backing and extensive color touch-ups along margins; boards bright and square with..... More
Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1904. First Edition. Slim octavo; vii,[1],127pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, textblock a bit shaken in binding, contemporary ownership ex libris of a Clarence N. McHose to front pastedown, neat contemporary manuscript annotations to final leaf of illustrations..... More
Paris: Editions Du Regard, 1992. First Edition. Quarto. 359 pages. Color and black and white illustraitons throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Blindstamped black boards. Text in French. Dust jacket shows light wear and creasing along edges. Some general smudging. Boards also lightly worn along edges with a few white specks..... More
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. 122 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in white. Pale blue endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with some toning to verso. Boards a touch faded along top edge. Sturdy and square in binding. Pages..... More
![Item #14111 Time Burial: The Collected Fantasy Tales of Howard Wandrei [Signed by Olson]. ed.,...](/pictures/thumb/14111.jpg?v=1663345818)
Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer, 1995. First Edition. Signed by the editor on half title with lengthy inscription "To Jeff Dahl [?] -- who bids on more at the arcana auction than anyone else. Keep up the bidding! Sure hope you enjoy this book as the follow-up collection, Murphy, will be..... More
![Item #13945 The Expert Dreamers [Signed by Pohl]. ed., Isaac Asimov, contrs](/pictures/thumb/13945.jpg?v=1661351724)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, [1963]. Later Printing with E4 gutter code [January 1963] on page 248. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by Sigrid Spaeth retaining original price ($3.95); xiv,248pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, corners and spine ends tapped, else a Very Good copy overall..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in tan pictorial dust jacket; [6],279pp. Light shelf wear including tiny closed tear at top margin of front jacket panel, very faint soil to front gutter and textblock fore-edge, else Very Good or better. Science..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 358 pp. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show light bumping along edges, some rippling to cloth, and some staining and rubbing to spine. Binding is sound. Front and back free endpapers toned. Ownership inscription on front..... More
Somerset, NJ: Vanguard Productions, 2005. Deluxe, Slipcased, Hardcover Limited Edition of 500 copies. Quarto. 176 pp. + 16 pp. "Collector's Edition Portfolio." Black and white illustrations throughout, with the added illustrations in the portfolio unique to this edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Publisher's black slipcase lettered..... More
New York: W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Grower, 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 85 pp. + advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Printed wraps. Light soiling, spotting, and edgewear to wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Scarce with no copies in retail at time of this writing in February 2023. More
Philadelphia: Key and Biddle, 1836. First Edition. Octavo; xviii, 664pp. Contemporary leather with spine label and gilt lettering. Boards edgeworn with bumping and rubbing to corners, chipping and cracks to spine ends, and a good bit of scuffing to surface. Boards open easily with pages falling open to between a...... More
![Item #14652 Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries [Limited Edition]....](/pictures/thumb/14652.jpg?v=1670423945)
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 [but 1928]. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies of which this is no. 227. Large, slim quarto; publisher's parchment over green pictorial boards, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; 110pp.; full-page illus. and sheet music throughout. Parchment rather discolored from dust-soil, brief..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First Thus. Octavo. 259 pp. Black and white photographs. Black boards lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Very mild spotting and rubbing to boards and top of spine creased. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. More