Philadelphia: 1936. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Original illustrated wrappers. Unpaginated but (24). First and only edition. Compiled by The Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration. With 12 illustrations and three in-text maps. Erratum slip is present at page (3) indicating the Walnuyt Lane Bridge should read Henry Avenue Bridge. There is some controversy here regarding the publication date. Jerre...
New York: Hastings House, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Octavo; xxvii, 447 pp. From The American Guide Series of the Federal Writers' Project, this is a superb example. Key map on front endpapers and transporation map to the rear. Photographed throughout.
(Minneapolis): Minnesota Department of Education and Minneapolis Board of Education, 1940. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Original illustrated wrappers. 94pp. Illustrated. Compiled by Workers of the Federal Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota. A very clean,bright and solid copy. A scarce WPA publication. Dykes, #152.
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. "Federal/Writers/Project" on three lines on the spine, indicating to Scharf that this is likely a third state binding. Octavo, xxx, 56(photos), 523pp. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Sponsored by the Executive Council...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy with only the slightest hint of fading to the spine. Agee's wonderful coming of age novel set at an Episcopal Boys School in Tennessee.
London: Methuen, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Original red cloth, image of jousting knight stamped in gilt on front cover. Lettered in gilt. 195 pp. With preface by Charles J. Ffoulkes, curator of the Armouries at the Tower. Frontispiece in full color and tissue guard and 18 black and white illustrations on twelve plates and three in-text diagrams...
London: Collins, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Though the jacket is not clipped, there is no price, which indicates this was an export volume, most likely to Canada. The pages are toning a bit along the edge. A very nice volume.
New York: Hillman-Curl, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. The first Bulldog Drummond book with Fairlie's name. At the time of his death Sapper was working with Fairlie on this title. Fairlie completed this one and went on to write many more. The book is in great shape, very tight and straight. There is some browing on...
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. The further adventures of D'Artagnan and Cyrano. Cover art by Frank McIntosh. A beautiful copy - book and jacket alike. There is some very modest foxing to the front and rear free endpapers.
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. In original gray cloth. The jacket is evenly worn with a chip at the lower end of the dust jacket at the hinge and several other very shallow chips. There are areas of rubbing as well and some sun fading to the orange jacket near the fore-edge...
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Scarce in jacket. Published in England as The Secret of the Hills. The first James Drew mystery. This one has a little bit of everything - hidden treasure, stately English Country House, London fog, secret codes and...
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner &Company, 1932. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original pale canary cloth on boards. The complete dust jacket has archival paper tape to the folds of the verso. Translated from the original Swedish by E. G. Nash. With 63 photographic plates. 4to. Jehol is the ancient name for the Summer Palace of...
London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. Isherwood's fictionalized account of his passing out of Boarding School, attending and leaving Cambridge, and the struggle to find himself, find his voice and indeed, find his identity. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Lovely cover art by...
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the poet's first commercially available book, preceeded only by Flagons and Apples from 1912. The original blue cloth is bright and unmarked. The gilt lettering and design are quite bright. Top edge gilt. Previous owner book-plate loosely affixed to the front paste-down, and...
Boston: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, Co., (1924). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Bound in original grey cloth with illustrations and title stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. All illustrations by Florence Liley Young. All plates are present. In the extremely rare complete dust jacket which shows only minor wear with a closed tear at the bottom edge of...
Akron: Saalfield Book Company, 1904. FIRST. NF / NF. A very lovely copy in all respects. Powder blue boards, illustrated in red, navy blue and yellow. The lower corner is bumped, else fine. The yellow jacket, illustrated in navy blue is complete. There are no chips. Illustrated throughout by the author.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely bright, clean and pleasing copy in a beautiful dust jacket.
London: Fourth Estate, (2009). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated on the title page with an extensive line quote as well. Dated May 5, 2009.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Has the FR Label on the copyright page which indicates a true First Edition. Author's first book. The jacket shows some minor edge-wear. A deeply serious book that examines profound existential questions that have troubled thinkers from the beginning of recorded history.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Fine. Original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver. Spine a bit dusty. In a fine example of the jacket leading me to assume that the jacket is married to the book. It is most definitely not a facsmile. Early Lesbian themed novel. The dust jacket art...
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original deep green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. The first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Now housed in a drop-back box.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. Original green cloth lettered in blue. Top edge stained blue, somewhat mottled. A murder is committed in a laboratory just North of Boston. In a locked room with many witnesses either listening or viewing camera images taken every few seconds. Yet, as Sargeant Hallihan states; "But...
London: Macmillan, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. The second Matthew Shardlake novel.
NP: Gonfalon Press, 1997. First edition. A fine copy in all respects of this scarce volume. From the limited edtion of 110 copies, this one being number 95. Signed by Vonnegut and the book's creater and illustrator, Michael Fallon. Four color woodblock plates. An interesting history here. The work was initially conceived by Igor Stravinsky during the dark days of...
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1935). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original red cloth, lettered in black. Previous owner name and date (1935) on the front free endpaper. The book is extremely clean, crisp and bright. The complete jacket is also very bright. There are some extremely small chips at the corners of the spine and the top edge...