Original publisher's blue cloth binding with multicolored dust wrapper in blue, yellow, and white. Jacket design by Joseph Levine. Silver foil lettering on front cover and spine of book. Reprinted black and white roundel portraits of P. G. Wodehouse and his dog are on the front panel of dust wrapper. Back panel of dust wrapper includes a brief biography of Herbert Warren Wind and a reprinted black and white portrait of him. 5 7/8" x 8 1/2." 102 pages, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. No remainder marks. Dust wrapper is p... View More...
Original publisher's beige paper wrapper binding. Circa 1944. 6" x 9." Not in Baird and Greenwood, Bibliography of California Fiction. This book is a first-person account by purported "call house" madam Beverly Davis who operated several "high-priced" brothels in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. View More...
Contemporary brown full leather binding. Gilt lettering and five raised bands on spine. Spine label chipped with some loss of lettering. All edges stained red. Marbled endpapers. Trimmed, with loss of two words of the title, "Florus Anglicus," and part of the headlines (page numbers and titles on top of the pages), but text complete. A small amount of the main text is affected by the trimming but the words are still readable. 4" x 6 1/2." 242 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of Oliver Cromwell, complete. Extra black-and-white illustrat... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 5" x 7." 354 pages, complete. A few pages of advertisements for other books in the American Men of Letters series located in the back. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Pages and covers are clean and intact. Binding is tight. Spine is slightly faded. A biography of Edgar Allan Poe. View More...
Publisher's paper over boards. Leather labels on spine and front cover. (Spine label browned). Number 648 of an edition not to exceed more than 1500 copies, signed by Woollcott. An anthology of contenporary fiction by this noted theatre critic and radio personality. Slight rippling to top of pages. 1051 pages. View More...
Original publisher's blue paper wrappers with staple binding. No date, circa 1937. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2." Fourteen pages, complete. Designed by Frederic Warde. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule wrinkling, a few tiny spots on front cover, and slight age toning to covers (parts faded to light green). Binding is tight. A Fine copy. Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) was an American commentator and radio personality. He was famous in his time and well-known for his wit and biting commentary. Woollcott had his own CBS radio show, the Town Crier. This pamphlet... View More...
Original publisher's beige paper wrappers. Title inset within a black-and-white illustration of a tree-lined avenue on front cover. No date, circa 1865-1890s. 5 1/4" x 8 1/2." Pages 79-91, complete. Five black-and-white plates, complete. Each plate shows a portrait of William Wordsworth. Printed by T. and A. Constable. Text printed on back: "Edinburgh University Press: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty." Pages are clean and intact overall but are slightly age-toned and have a few small closed tears at the edges. Binding is a bit loosened, so some leaves may be detached. C... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. No date, circa 1934-1935. 3 1/4" x 5 1/2." Forty eight unnumbered pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Front cover illustration shows a portrait of Dr. R. V. Pierce in front of a landscape showing a countryside and city. Back cover says, "This booklet is presented by The Munch-Stewart Drug Co., Mount Vernon, Wash.," and has two NRA emblems located in the top corners. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. This book contains many advertisements and testimonials for Dr. Pierce products an... View More...
Original typescript in black ink on white paper. Stapled in the upper-left corner. No date, circa 1940s-1950s. 8 1/2" x 11." Seven pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for some dog-earing in lower-left corner and a slight bump at the bottom edge. A Near Fine copy. "As Taken Down and Retold by William S. Lewis." Excerpt from the first page: "(County Seat fights added zest to the colorful existence of pioneer days. One of the hottest contests of the kind was a three-cornered affair, involving Sprague, Harrington and Davenport, for the honor of being the first ... View More...
108 pages; ads {4} pages; gray cloth binding, design on the cover and spine in brown (5 x 6 1/8 inch). An account of Indian newspapers with background of their development. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 5 X 7 1/2 inches. 343 pages. Copy also has 8 pages about Harold Bell Wright's life. Copy also has 4 color illustrations by J. Allen St. John as is the dust jacket. Chudleigh "Harold Bell Wright" books page 18. Wright (1872-1944) was an American novelist and essay writer. St John (1875-1957) was an American author and illustrator. "The Re-Creation of Brian Kent" was made into a movie in 1925, starring Kenneth Harlan, Helene Chadwick and Mary Carr. Some rubbing along the edges of both covers. Dust jacket has some chipping along th... View More...
Two volumes, complete. Contemporary black 3/4 leather binding with dark brown cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. No date, circa 1850-1882. 8" x 11." Volume I: 1048 pages, complete. Twenty-three black-and-white plates, some of which are folding plates, and additional black-and-white illustrations, complete. Volume II: 1008 pages, complete. Thirty black-and-white plates and additional black-and-white illustrations, complete. Some of the plates in both volumes are mispaginated, but all plates of both volumes are complete. Both volumes were printed and published by William Ma... View More...
Photoplay. Gilt edging to leather on front and rear covers, much gilt decoration on spine with gilt lettering. Illustrated with scenes from the William Fox Photoplay, A John Ford Production. 335 pages. Marbled front and rear end papers. Grandmother Bernle must learn her letters before she can join her son in America. View More...
Second Edition. Brown full leather binding with gilt lettering on front. Binding is in the form of wrappers with a front flap that can be folded into a tab on front. 3 1/2" x 5." 230 pages, complete. Pages are clean and intact overall but have slight age toning and some faint dampstaining throughout. Text is still very readable. Covers are clean and intact overall but have moderate rubbing. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A pocketbook-sized compendium of pharmacological information intended for nineteenth-century physicians. Includes descriptions of medicinal compounds, dosage a... View More...
Original brochure on beige paper containing a advertisement of a Yale University book list aimed at students for the prospective semester. No date, circa 1910-1920. 6" x 9." Four pages, complete. One leaf folded in half and printed on all sides. Brochure is clean and intact overall. Some chipping along the top edge and fore-edge. The first page advertises The Yale Shakespeare, which is a multi-volume collection of some of Shakespeare's works. All of the books advertised relate to English, history, literature, and the like. The remaining pages list the following: The College Chaucer; ... View More...
Folded letter signed (4 x 6 inch) and dated Christmas 1887. The Temple, Goring, Oxfordshire letterhead. Letter discusses new lodgings. Edmund Yates (1831-1894) was a British journalist and novelist who's one claim to fame was a feud with Thackeray that ended with Yates' forced resignation from the Garrick Club in 1858. Residue of page formerly pasted to on the back of the letter, else nice and clean. View More...
No date, but circa 1868. Beautiful three-quarter contemporary leather binding with gilt lettering and decorations. Marbled boards. The first volume of the magazine, issued in book form. 22 illustrations, including five hand colored fashion plates. Complete. Some foxing of a few pages, but not affecting the plates 6 x 8 inches. 760 pages. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and lightly impressed decorations on the front cover done in the style of Art Deco or Art Nouveau. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 474 pages, complete. Eight black and white plates, complete. Black and white stamps of a unicorn in a fantastical landscape on front and back pastedowns. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Upper-right corner of the front cover is bumped. Spine lightly sunned. Slight corner and edge wear to the covers. William Butler Yeats (1865-1935) was an Irish poet and is considered one of the f... View More...
Edition of 250 copies printed, this being #45. Signed by Yeats under the limitation notice. x, 528 pages; boards with paper labels. Unworn copy. Contains his 'The Wanderings of Usheen (1889)'; 'Crossways (1889)'; 'The Rose (1893)'; 'The Celtic Twilight (1893)'; 'The Secret Rose (1897)'; 'Stories of Red Hanrahan'; 'Rosa Alchemica'; and notes. Very good clean copy. View More...
