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...
250 copies, this is number 65, printed. Signed by Yeats under the limitation notice. viii, 538 pages; boards with paper labels. Spine label chipped at bottom right hand corner, not affecting lettering, otherwise an unworn copy. Contains his 'Ideas of Good and Evil (1896-1903)'; 'The Cutting of an Agate (1903-1915)'; 'Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1916-1917)'. A very good unworn copy under mylar. View More...
250 copies printed, this is number 33. Signed by Yeats under the limitation notice. vii, 455 pages; boards with paper labels. Spine label slightly chipped top right hand corner, not affecting lettering. small, light spot (7/8 x 3/8 inch) on the front cover. Otherwise an unworn copy. Former owner's attractive bookplate 'GAEL' on front pastedown. Contains the following plays - Cathleen ni Houlihan; The Pot of Broth; The Hour-Glass (in prose); The King's Threshold; On Baile's Strand; The Shadowy Waters (Stage Version); Deirdre; The Unicorn from the Stars; The Green Helmet; The Hour-Glass (in Vers... View More...
Embossed cloth. 580 pages. Contents include: the First, Second, Third and Fourth Orations against Catiline; Orations for -- L. Murena, P. Sylla, A. L. Archias, C. R. Postumus, M. C. Marcellus, etc.; The Fourteen Orations Against M. Antonius, Call ed Philippics; and the Fourth Book of the Second Pleading in the Prosecution of Verres, - - Respecting the Statues. View More...
Original publisher's multicolored, illustrated paper-covered boards in a multicolored, illustrated dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 5 3/4" x 7 1/4." Unpaginated, 122 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Pages lightly age-toned. Dust wrapper has slight rubbing, minuscule wear to corners, a microscopic closed tear at top of front flap, and a dog-eared back flap. Dust wrapper not price-clipped. No remainder marks. An As New book in ... View More...
787 pages, navy boards with gilt stamping, gilt top edge, other edges untrimmed, ribbon place marker, #126 of 275 copies, signed by the author. Fine copy. Not as dry as the Author's Note "The ninety-four christened characters of this novel owe their names to the Ordnance Survey" would suggest. View More...
Signature on blue paper by John Young in brown ink. Cut from a signed letter (Autograph Letter Signed). No date, circa 1897-1899. 4 7/8" x 2 3/4." Paper reads: "John Young" with three inscription lines by Young on top of his signature. Paper is a little wrinkled and has three stickers and a stain on the back. Signature and inscription are clean and intact. John Russell Young (1840-1899) was the seventh Librarian of Congress (1897-1899) and a newspaper editor. View More...
Document handwritten on beige stationery of the State of Iowa, Executive Department in black ink. Signed by Iowa Governor Josiah T. Young. Also signed by Samuel I. K [...]. Datelined December 18, 1876 in Des Moines, Iowa. 7 1/2" x 10." One page. Also includes embossed seal of Iowa. Paper, handwriting, and signatures are very clean and intact. Document reads: "Hon. John F. McJunkin, Washington, Iowa. Sir: You are hereby notified that at an Election held on the Seventh day of November A. D. 1876, you were elected to the office of Attorney General of the State of Iowa, for the term of tw... View More...
Original publisher's black boards backed with black cloth. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4." Eighty-one pages and an additional fourteen-page Appendix in the back, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. "Drawings by A. Dobbelaere" on title page. "Printed by the Birmingham House Eccentric, Birmingham, Michigan" on copyright page. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Pages are slightly age-toned. Some edge wear. A Very Good copy. An instructional book on how to make and use dry flies, with accompanying illustrations. View More...
One of eight lettered copies bound in full leather for the author. This is copy 'F'. 67 pages; illustrations; bound in full leather (5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inch). The first part is a memoir of Henry Miller and the author's time spent with him in Big Sur in August, 1951 at Miller's home. Series of photographs showing Henry, his 3rd wife Lepska, their children and the hide-a-way home where he wrote and painted. The second part is an account of Henry Miller, written after his death, for the magazine 'Writer's Digest'. View More...
Limited edition. One of 250 copies printed. Inscription by the book designer in red ink on the front free endpaper: "To Anne Young, from Norman W. Forgue, Elaine Lundquist." Original publisher's orange cloth binding with yellow title label on front cover. 5 /12" x 8." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Pages and covers are pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Colophon in the front: "Limited Edition of Two Hundred Fifty Copies Issued. Most of the poems contained in this volume first appeared in Front Views and Profiles in the Chicago Tribune." Colophon in the back: "Designed by Norman W.... View More...
Inscribed by the author as "Geo--" to Dr. "Norman V.[?] Peale." Inscription written in blue ink. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the front cover. 5 1/2" x 8 1/8." Twenty-four pages, complete. Five black and white illustrations, complete. Pages an covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. A reprinted article about John C. Fremont, "Pathfinder of the West." The following is the printed text within the inscription: "At this Christmas time maybe a reprint of an article which appeared in a recent New-York Historical Society Quarterly ... View More...
Publisher's 1/4 cloth binding with paper covered boards. One corner bent. Chipping and abrasion on dust jacket, protected by mylar. Inscription on front fly leaf, "For Bob Gouley, I admire your taste in fiction !! Ed Zietlow". This is the author's first published book, about the South Dakota Badlands where the author was raised. View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4." Twenty unnumbered pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrated advertisements, most of which relate to music, are on the inside of both covers. A few ads are on the interior pages. Blue stamp of the California State Library in upper-right corner of the front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Front cover has offsetting and a tiny chip in the lower-right corner. Among the businesses and products advertised are Byron Mauzy, Pacific Music Co., Benj. Curtaz & Son, Cal... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. 7" x 10 1/4." Twenty unnumbered pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrated advertisements, most of which relate to music, are on the inside of both covers. A few ads are on the interior pages. Blue stamp of the California State Library in upper-right corner of the front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Among the businesses and products advertised are Byron Mauzy, Pacific Music Co., Benj. Curtaz & Son, A. Repsold & Co., Conover Pianos, F. W. Spencer & Co., A. L. Bancroft & Co., Joe Pohei... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. 7" x 10 1/4." Twenty unnumbered pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrated advertisements, most of which relate to music, are on the inside of both covers. A few ads are on the interior pages. Blue stamp of the California State Library in upper-right corner of the front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Two vertical fold lines, most apparent on front cover. Among the businesses and products advertised are Byron Mauzy, Pacific Music Co., Benj. Curtaz & Son, A. Repsold & Co., Conover Pian... View More...
Original publisher's brown wrapper with staple binding. 6 3/4" x 10 1/4." Twenty unnumbered pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Illustrated advertisements, most of which relate to music, are on the inside of both covers. A few ads are on the interior pages. Blue stamp of the California State Library in upper-right corner of the front cover. Former ownership signature in black ink on the front cover. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. A few words inscribed in top margin of the interior sheet music and annotations written on the sixteenth page. Tw... View More...
