New York: Greystone Press, [1941]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 245; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by the artist Reginald Marsh; jacket edges a bit worn, spine browned, else fine. A noir pugilistic novel about Leslie Phillips, an aspiring prize-fighter who "is offered up as a sacrifice..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. First U.S. Edition, First Impression with publisher's colophon on copyright. Small octavo. 281 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows a couple small chips to spine ends and rear flap, general rubbing, and bit of..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1952. First Edition. Octavo. 213 pages. Black and white illustrations by the author. Illustrated dust jacket. Red and orange boards. Biographical novel of a Spanish matador, selected by John Steinbeck as one of his favorite novels of the year upon publication. Conrad would..... More
Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1914. Stated First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan photo-illustrated cloth; [2],352,[10](ads)pp.; illus. and photographs throughout. Boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, rear cover quite discolored from exposure to damp, some light toning and finger soil to text block, else Good to Very Good overall..... More
![Pieces of Eight [Nos. 1-10]. Boy Scouts of America - Troop 8](/pictures/thumb/7268.jpg?v=1600458386)
Worcester, MA?: Boy Scouts of America Troop 8, 1949. Ten volumes; small 12mo (18cm.); each issue comprised of a single sheet folded into 4-paneled brochure; text and illus. printed mimeograph. A hint of wear, else a Very Good or better collection. Possibly unrecorded newsletter issued by the Boy Scouts..... More
Hardcover. [Rahway, NJ]: Privately Printed, 1924. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription dated May 1927, "To Eustace [?] S. Regan, from Becky and Charles D. Lanier." Octavo (7.75" x 5.25"); x, 204p. Blue paper-covered boards with blue paper title card on white cloth..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell Publications Printing Co., 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 107 pages. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket with additional onion skin covering. Green boards stamped in red and gilt. Courtney never lost a rowing race as an amateur, though his professional career was marred by controversy. He..... More
![The Rites of Autumn: A Falconer's Journey Across the American West [Inscribed and Signed]. Dan...](/pictures/thumb/8640.jpg?v=1612803527)
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],192pp.; map endpapers. Light shelf wear, a hint of cockling to dust jacket, brief water spot to rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
New York: Ives Washburn, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth lettered in yellow; 254pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Lacks dust jacket. Extremities rather rubbed with shallow loss at spine crown (spine lettering rather dulled), contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, brief paper flaw to front free endpaper from previously..... More
![Real Grass, Real Heroes: Baseball's Historic 1941 Season [Signed by DiMaggio]. Dom DiMaggio, Bill...](/pictures/thumb/7697.jpg?v=1604085965)
[New York]: Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp., [1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Dom DiMaggio on front free endpaper. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],240pp.; eight leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. A Fine copy in like dust jacket. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, ca. 1932. First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's brown printed card wrappers; 63pp. Some minor dampstaining and spotting to upper wrappers, spine just starting to peel from upper joint, else Very Good, contents about fine. We find only one OCLC record as of June, 2017, listing..... More
Madrid: Revista Geografica Española, 1958. Octavo; unpaginated [220pp in this copy, see full description]. Tipped-in sepia frontispiece; 38 full-color tipped-in plates; 56 full-page B&W photogravure reproductions of paintings; 24 full-page B&W reproductions of drawings; 67 smaller B&W drawing reproductions (1/4, 1/2, or 3/4 page) embedded within text. Entirely in Spanish..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1949. Second Printing. Octavo. 244 pages. Black and white diagrams and photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Green boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with some general soiling, more heavily to rear panel. Boards are worn at extremities with chipping and..... More
New York: David Turet Publisher, 1941. First Edition. Inscribed by author on front free endpaper: "To Doctor H.C. Byrd, Frank M. Heath." Octavo; x + 462pp. Front endpaper map of Gypsy Queen's route. Terracotta cloth with gold stamping on front panel and spine. Top edge of textblock stained in same..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. First Edition. Large Octavo. 272 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brown boards decorative chess board to front and spine and front in gilt. Top edge gilt. The second in Young's 'Chess Strategetics' series and includes chapters on major tactics, geometric and sub-geometric..... More
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with coin-sized chip at spine foot, spine slightly cocked, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper stock, else Very Good overall. A Crime..... More
Greenwich, CT: Greenwich Riding Association, 1922. First Edition. Small octavo. 40 pages. Black and white map. Yellow boards stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Boards soiled and corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked. No copies in retail at time of this writing. More
Zaragoza et al: v.p., ca. 1930s. Collection of twelve real photo postcards; light wear and a hint of dust-soil, else a Very Good or better collection. One example with the rubberstamp of Zaragoza photographer J. Elosúa, "Fotógrafo Taurino"; another with the rubberstamp of a Pamplona photographer (Gerardo Zaragu[?]); the remaining..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 287 pp. Printed dust jacket with original "$7.95" price present. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear with brief exposure to corners, touch of dampstaining along top edge of boards, and..... More
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1926. Reprint of the G.P. Putnam's Sons edition. Photographic dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket chipped at corners and spine ends, with a few small tears and a couple scuffs to face. Spine ends nudged with a small tear at head..... More
![Messenger: the Great Progenitor [Limited Edition]. John Hervey](/pictures/thumb/8428.jpg?v=1616608688)
New York: Derrydale Press, 1935. First Edition, Limited to 500 hundred copies of which this is no. 176. Slim octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's vegetable vellum-backed paper-covered boards, pictorial paper onlay to upper cover printed in brown and black, gilt-lettered spine; xi,[3],63pp.; frontispiece, nine leaves of plates, including a facsimile and photographs..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9002.jpg?v=1616185289)
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first published in the U.K. and incorporated into Trying to Save..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9003.jpg?v=1616187112)
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. Uncorrected Proof. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages. Printed wraps. Wraps show light wear along edges and front wrap curls open slightly. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked. A memoir of writing and wrestling, first..... More
![The Imaginary Girlfriend [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. John Irving](/pictures/thumb/9005.jpg?v=1616184883)
Toronto, CA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Canadian Edition. Bookplate signed by Irving loosely laid in at front. Small octavo. 148 pages + black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with some general rubbing. Boards show a...... More