New York: Random House, 1940. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 114pp. Terracotta boards with gilt spine lettering and gilt-stamped Random House device on front panel. Unclipped dust jacket (with docked flap corners, as published) heavily browned on spine and upper edges; streaks on lower edge of front; a millimeter or..... More
![The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine [3 Volumes in Slipcase]. Dante Alighieri, Dorothy...](/images/noimage.png)
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1962. First Edition Thus. Three Octavo Volumes in slipcase. 346p; 390p; 400p plus three pages of charts. Illustrated with a selection of black and white William Blake drawings. Includes Hell (L'Inferno), Purgatory (Il Purgatorio), and Paradise (Il Paradiso). Orange slipcase with beige..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Limited Edition, numbered 394 of 1000 copies on colophon at bottom of copyright. Octavo; xiii, 271pp. Engraved portrait frontis with tissue guard. Patterned marigold cloth-covered boards with brown cloth spine and black leather spine label with gilt lettering. Boards edgeworn with bumps to corners and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1868. "Third Edition, from the Fifth Revised English Edition." Octavo; Vol I [xvi] + 430pp; Vol II 457pp. Brown pebbled publisher's cloth with gold lettering and rules on spine crowns and feet; bust of Homer stamped in gold on front panels; same image blind-stamped..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: W.W. Hart's Steam Book and Commercial Printing House, 1883. First Paperback Edition. Octavo. Original decorated green wrappers. 200 pages. Frontis portrait; stock vignettes. Edges of text block foxed; light stain to bottom edge of text block; wrappers a bit dust-soiled and worn. A romance of..... More
![Notes of an Alchemist [with TLS to Archibald Hanna, Jr.]. Loren Eiseley, Laszlo Kubinyi](/pictures/thumb/5898.jpg?v=1577821483)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Signed typed letter on Eiseley's University of Pennsylvania letterhead to Archibald Hanna, Jr. laid in at front, with Hanna's bookplate on front pastedown. Octavo; 125pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $6.95 price intact; book in terra cotta cloth with bronze rules..... More
New York: powerHouse Books, 2001. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 245pp +8 index & copyright notes. Photos and illustrations throughout, some in color. Printed black dust jacket over white boards with onanistic illustration. Jacket lightly shelfworn with..... More
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo. 211 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear to edges. Gray boards stamped in silver at spine. Corners are lightly rubbed; one small dent at bottom of spine..... More
New York: Delcorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1966. First Edition. Signed twice: "For Ann with best wishes, Bill" [opposite title page]; "William Jay Smith" [title page]. Octavo; x + 68pp. Metallic silver coating on dust jacket. Charcoal cloth with silver spine stamping. Top of textblock stained black; deckle-cut..... More