London: Ernest Benn, 1925. Later printing. Octavo (9" x 6"); 192p. Plates, diagrams, and illustrations throughout. Addenda slip tipped-in at start of Chapter 1. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn witih some bumping to corners and spine ends, with a small patch of discoloration on front center..... More

New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 624 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge worn with small closed tears, not affecting text. Pages clean and unmarked. This issue includes a reproduction of an 1882 drawing, titled "Rain-in-the-Face,"..... More

New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First Edition, Limited to 950 copies of which this is no. 181. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards; [2],xiv,[2],157pp.; frontispiece, eleven leaves of photographic illus., additional illus. in text. Corners slightly bumped, general dust-soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. More

Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 328 pp. Original pale mauve printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout, with one full-color leaf of advertisements (one for Colgate and the other for Underwood Portable Typewriters) in the front portion. Cover edge worn with..... More

New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 448 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Edge wear with some small closed tears, light smudges. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Small closed tear on the top of page 417..... More

Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 120 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with one-inch closed tear on back cover. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. The Dial was the first periodical to publish..... More

First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo (8.5 x 6 inches); ix, 500 pp. Original bright pictorial dust jacket with $3.50 price. Navy cloth binding with illustration stamped in light blue and gold on cover, text stamped in gold on spine. Pictorial endpapers depict Massawa Harbor and..... More

New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 728 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed and worn. Chip to top edge of spine with a small closed tear that wraps around to the front cover, text is unaffected..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Harold Herman with greetings from the author. 1993." Harold Herman and his partner Harold Mays were a gay, interracial couple who lived together in Washington, D.C. from 1965 until their deaths..... More

Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More

Fourth Printing. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Stated Fourth Printing. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription to collector/dealer Harold Mays on flyleaf. Octavo (8.5" x 6"); [vi], 485p. Printed dustjacket with $6.95 price; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn..... More

Toronto: The Clark Co., Yonge Street, [1904]. Revised Twenty-Third Edition. Octavo; [xii] + 1487pp. Half bound in sea-green leather with raised bands on spine and gilt-stamped ornaments within spine compartments; title gilt-stamped on burgundy ground. Sea-green, gold, and tan marbling front and back, endpapers, and on all textblock edges... More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. Octavo; publisher's pictorial vegetable vellum stamped in gilt; xiii,[1],248pp.; color pictorial frontispiece, 39 half-tone plates, text printed within green decorative margins designed by Robert Murray Wright. Boards a bit scuffed and toned, corners bumped with some brief exposure, surface scratches, mostly notably to..... More