New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First Edition, First State with "3" to bottom of third page present and $1.30 net price for Chicago Poems facing title page. Octavo. 147 pages + 2 pages publisher's advertisements. Printed dust jacket with $1.30 price to spine. Light brown boards stamped in..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (22.5x15x2.5cm); 269pp. Plain khaki paper jacket with red printing. Volume in warm beige linen, black spine stamping; University of Columbia emblem stamped in blind on front panel with additional blind-stamped border. Textblock top edge speckled in blue. Ex-library with institutional..... More
[Mixed co-publishers; vols. identical in format, from the same set of plates and same printer]. London: Edward Arnold, 1906 and New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Both First Editions. Each volume octavo (23x15x5cm). Vol I (Arnold) xii + 362pp + 16pp of publisher's prospectuses. Vol II (Longmans) xii +..... More
![Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood [Signed Bookplate]. J M. Barrie](/pictures/thumb/9095.jpg?v=1616446165)
London: Cassell and Company, 1896. First Edition, First Issue with "6 G - 8.96" date code to advertisements. Bookplate of noted bookplate collector Charles Dexter Allen signed by Barrie and mounted to front pastedown. Octavo. 452 p. + publisher's advertisements. Purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First U.K. Edition, actually printed in the U.S. by Macmillan with its own First U.S. Edition. Octavo (19x13.5x3cm); 182pp. Six full-page four-color llustrations by Henry Hutt, with additional allegorical full-page prints and in-text decorations and sketches by T.C. Lawrence. Navy blue polished half leather with..... More
London: William Heinemann, 1906. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19x13.5x3cm); 243pp. Seven full-page illustrations by George Varian, reproduced in B&W, plus one San Francisco area map showing principal locales. Navy blue polished half leather with blue linen boards. Five raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and botanical compartment emblems..... More
Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1917. Later printing. Octavo.191 pages. Black and white frontis portrait. Brown and beige boards stamped in white at front and gilt at spine. Green topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Bookplate of a Dorothea Mackellar, presumably the Australian poet, to front pastedown. Includes "The Laughter of..... More
London: W. and J. Innys; and J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1725. Volume two only of a three volume set. Quarto; 726 pp., followed by 19 fold-out engravings. Bookplate on front attached endpaper for Annapolis Anglican minister Jonathan Boucher, a Loyalist and tutor to George Washington's stepson John Parke..... More
![If You Could See Me Now [Signed Bookplate]. Peter Straub](/pictures/thumb/8980.jpg?v=1616093139)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Straub mounted to front free endpaper. Octavo. 287 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Green topstain. Previous owner's handmade bookplate to front free endpaper. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show a touch of..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, [1908]. First American Edition. Octavo (23x15x5cm); xvi + 390pp, including winner tables, five appendices, and index. Fifty-nine photographic illustrations on coated paper, tipped in. Bound in true linen, originally moss green, with white printing on spine and front panel. Textblock of heavy ivory wove..... More
![Clipped Wings [Inscribed to Frederick W. Skiff]. Rupert Hughes](/pictures/thumb/8326.jpg?v=1609618472)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Later printing. Signed by Hughes to collector and bibliophile Frederick W. Skiff. Octavo. 404 pages. Green blind embossed cloth stamped in gilt. Lacking jacket except for front panel. Bookplate of Skiff to front pastedown and bookplate of Hughes to front free endpaper..... More
![Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds [with Louis Untermeyer Bookplate]. Stephen Vincent Benet](/pictures/thumb/8475.jpg?v=1611079189)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Blue cloth stamped in black. Charcoal topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Decorative bookplate of poet Louis Untermeyer to front pastedown. Untermeyer was on the Pulitzer Prize jury in 1942, the year Benet's The Dust Which Is God..... More
![The Cutting of an Agate [with John Sparrow bookplate]. W B. Yeats](/pictures/thumb/8881.jpg?v=1614885610)
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1919. First UK Edition. Octavo. 223 pages. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Boards lightly worn around edges and gilt dulled. Binding is sound. Bookplate of John Sparrow to front pastedown, presumably the English book-collector and Warden of All Souls College. Many..... More