![Recreations of a Physician [with ALS to Samuel Courtauld and two original Horace translations]...](/pictures/thumb/001029.jpg?v=1591963123)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Signed handwritten letter tipped in at contents page by the author to industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, with one handwritten and one printed translation of Horace tipped in at pages 159 and 162, respectively. Octavo; vii, 328 pages. Rebound by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 212 pages. Ex-library tape and tape remnants to top and bottom edges of dust jacket. No actual library markings besides these. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Yellow and blue boards with spine stamped in gilt... More
Paris: Charpentier, Librairie-Éditeur, 1867. Small Octavo: Vol I 356pp; Vol II 297pp; Vol III 455pp; Vol IV 428pp; Vol V 372pp; Vol VI 372pp; Vol VII 353pp; Vol VIII 308pp; Vol IX 248pp. Entirely in French. Quarter-bound in umber morocco with raised spine bands and gilt lettering. Boards in..... More
![Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits [Signed by Both]. Art Spiegelman, Chip...](/pictures/thumb/7300.jpg?v=1600462272)
[San Francisco]: Chronicle Books, 2001. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Spiegelman with waving arm doodle and by Kidd in enclosed box on front free endpaper. Tall octavo (10.25" x 7"); [145pp.]. Illustrated vinyl wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a bit of curving at fore-edge. Binding is sound and..... More
![A Passing America: Considerations of Things of Yesterday Fast Fading from our World [Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/7471.jpg?v=1601826578)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1932. First Edition. Signed by Weygandt on front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 330 pages. Color frontis, black and white photographs. Green boards with blue spine label lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Business card of Clarence Griffin Child laid in at front... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998. First Edition. Octavo. xiv + 490 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated boards with black cloth stamped in silver. Folger Library discard with front pastedown label and pocket at rear. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. A touch of dust soiling to..... More
New York: John R. Alden, 1887. Small 12mo (161cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 217,[1],[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy in attractive publisher's cloth binding. More
![Living Up the Street: Narrative Recollections [Inscribed and Signed]. Gary Soto](/pictures/thumb/7025.jpg?v=1597777891)
[New York]: Laurel Hill Books, [1992]. Reprint. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [8],167pp. Old price sticker to rear wrapper, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski. Autobiographical essays by the Chicano memoirist and poet. More
![A Summer Life [Inscribed and Signed]. Gary Soto](/pictures/thumb/7020.jpg?v=1597868165)
[New York]: Laurel Leaf Books, [1991]. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [8],150pp. Wrapper extremities a bit toned, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski on title page. Collection of short essays by the Chicano poet and memoirist. More
![La Grand Pan [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed to Georg Brandes]. eorges, Clemenceau](/pictures/thumb/6876.jpeg?v=1598040918)
Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1896. First Edition, Limited to Ten copies on papier de Hollande of which this is no. 6. Small, thick octavo (19cm.); contemporary half red cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],lxxxiv,452pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth sunned, old photographic newspaper clipping tipped to front free endpaper, else..... More
[New York]: Breaking Point, 1949. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's red card wrappers printed in black; 95pp. Light shelf wear, spine rather cocked, extensive pencil marginalia throughout, else a Very Good reading copy. Two pieces of promotional material laid in. Early collection of essays by the American folklorist and cultural critic..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 250 pages + 2 pages advertisements. Red boards with spine stamped in gilt. Chipped at spine ends, more heavily at top. Corners bumped and cracked. Boards somewhat crudely recased but binding now sound. Interior unmarked. A very..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; vi,[2],78pp. Extremities and spine rather sunned, gilt quite dulled, corners softened, else a Very Good, internally fine copy, albeit lacking jacket. Keller's short collection of essays on the need for faith ("not..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1920 [but 1929]. Quinzième Édition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's green printed card wrappers; [4],xxviii,303pp. Upper cover and spine toned to tan, the former a bit spotted, textblock uniformly toned, else Near Very Good. Collection of essays on literary theory by the major influencer of the works of..... More
![Zur Judenfrage [On the Jewish Question]. Karl Marx, Stefan Grossmann, intro](/pictures/thumb/6914.jpg?v=1596730353)
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1919. "Umsturz und Aufbau: Vierte Flugschrift [Overthrow and Construction Series: Pamphlet No. 4]" Octavo (24x15cm); 49pp + 3pp of terminal publisher's prospectuses. Steel-blue stamping on terracotta card wraps. Binding solid though cracked at crown of spine, normal erosion to wraps. Unsoiled, though textblock paper is..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1988. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 298pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $17.95 price intact; book in yellow paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards show a few streaks of discoloration to..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by A. Birnbaum; [10],304pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with some brief splitting at flap ends and small loss at spine foot, jacket spine sunned, minor wear to cloth spine ends, else..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. First Thus. Three volumes in slipcase. Octavo; Vol I lviii + 747pp, Vol II continuous pagination through 1863, Vol III continuous pagination through 2910, including appendices with textual notes, bibliography, and more. Photographic slipcase; dust jackets with spines in photographic triptych. Stone-gray boards..... More
London: Collins, 1953-1968. Boxed, matched, pocket edition in slipcase, c. 1968 in this form. 12mo in slipcase measuring 19.5cm x 12cm x 12cm: A Child's Garden of Verses, 192pp including index; The Master of Ballantrae, Wier of Hermiston, and Fragments, 384pp including bibliography; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. First Edition. Octavo. xvii + 570 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated boards with black cloth stamped in silver. Folger Library discard with front pastedown label and pocket at rear. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. A touch of dust soiling to..... More
![The Lives of the English Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works [First Edition]. Samuel...](/pictures/thumb/6579.jpg?v=1593611152)
London: C. Bathurst [et al.], 1781. First Edition. Octavo; Vol I v + 480pp; Vol II 471pp; Vol III 462pp; Vol IV 505pp (includes final advertisement page). Vol I frontispiece engraved by Thomas Trotter after the famous Joshua Reynolds portrait of Johnson looking very much like an irascible, judgmental... More
London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1788. Octavo; [x] + 556pp + 2pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary calf with morocco label and gilt rules on spine. Panel edges tooled in gilt. Spine now illegible due to leather surface darkening and crackling; gilt rules still present. Leather erosion..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1785. Second Edition. Octavo; xvi + 233pp + [1p] of publisher's prospectus for Hawkins's forthcoming edition of Johnson's Works. Publisher's original drab boards and spine, still awaiting binding by purchaser to his or her taste. Textblock untrimmed. Panels and spine slightly..... More
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888. First Edition. Octavo. 271 pages. Green boards stamped in gilt. Decorative endpapers. Boards worn with brief exposure to extremities. Light staining to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Chapters include "Is Woman a Living Lie," "The Trousers Movement," and..... More
![AIDS and Its Metaphors [Signed]. Susan Sontag](/pictures/thumb/003754.jpeg?v=1595704544)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Sontag without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo. 95 pages. Typographic dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; book in gray-blue boards stamped in silver. Jacket lightly shelfworn with fading at spine, but no chips or tears. Boards sunned..... More