Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the front panel and spine. Octavo, ix, 168pp. Compiled and Written by Members of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts. Sponsored by The Albanian Historical Society of Massachusetts. The best separately published ethnic study to...
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...
London: Cassell and Company, (1934). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt at the spine. In the complete and quite scarce dust jacket. Contains seven stories of seven storied Queens: Maud, Philippa, Adelais, Matilda, Elizabeth (Woodville), Isabella, and Anne of Cleves. The jacket has a small chip at the foot of the spine...
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Some minor edge-wear and closed tears to the jacket. An extremely clean and solid copy in the scarce dust jacket.
New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original red cloth, lettered in silver. In the complete dust jacket with design by the author. This jacket has received some marginal restoration. It is bright and complete. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. The second volume in...
London: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1873. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. A beatifully preserved copy in all respects. Now re-bound in full grained sea blue leather with the illustration from the original cloth edition centered on the front panel. The spine has six compartments and is lettered in gilt. Profusely illustrated and with a large fold-out map present at the...
London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. 480pp. A very clean, bright and solid copy. The rare and complete dust jacket is very lovely. It has received some minor restoration at the spine ends. Compelling art work by Goetz. From a relatively small print...
London: Geoffrey Bles, (1934). Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original canary yellow cloth on boards lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. News-Agents stamp to the front free endpaper. In a lovely complete dust jacket. Now quite scarce.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very good copy in a complete dust jacket. There is some very minor edge-wear but the overall quality is very nice. There is a "discarded" statement on the front free endpaper for reasons that must remain a mystery as the book is exceptionally clean and bright.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A lovely copy of this excellent work. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Signed by the author on the title page.
San Mateo: Quercus Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1 of 250 unnumbered copies, of which 200 were for sale. Slim 4to, slate colored paper on boards. Untrimmed Kelmscott hand-made watermarked paper. Text printed on the Albion proof press used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Issued without dust jacket. Contains two poems written by Jeffers after a brief...
New York: Doubleday, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy of this first edition. Cover art by Arthur Shilstone. Some tape shadows to the endpapers and some staining to a few pages along the very bottom edge to very little impact. Contained to the endpapers only.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dark blue pebble grained cloth with color plates affixed to both the front and rear board. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Twenty three full page color lithograph images plus a color plate of a menu and dozens of in-text black and white illustrations. The map is not present. An...
Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy Of America, 1962. Hardcover. Fine / Near fine. Two volumes, complete. Bound in original dark green cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. Volume I states a publication date of 1939 on the title page but I cannot believe this to be true. The volume matches exactly with the 1962 second volume and...
London: 4th Estate, 2012. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A beautiful copy of the limited edition. From a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this one being unknown at the moment because it is still protected in the original shrink wrap. Housed in a solid decorated slip-case. No dust jacket, as issued.
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: The Crime Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Previous owner signature on the front paste-down. The jacket has some minor rubbing and a closed tear along the front panel hinge by the spine.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845. First edition. Fine. Original green cloth with elaborate gilt design and title on the front board. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Rear board blind stamped. Large 8vo. An exceptionally clean, bright and pleasing copy. No foxing or edge wear. Over 100 engravings and 4 full-page maps. "An extremely beautiful and interesting volume, full of...
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1955. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Precedes the UK edition. Very nice copy save for some minor fading to the spine of the dust jacket.
London: MacMillan, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy in a price-clipped jacket.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes, 8vo. Bound in original canary yellow cloth on boards and lettered in black. Illustrated full color endpapers. Previous owner signature on blank in volume I. Both volumes are extremely clean, bright and solid. Several full color plates and dozens of full page plates. Numerous in-text plates and...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. A solid copy. Mild sunning to the spine. The complete jacket has some fraying at both spine ends but remains bright and attractive. The jacket is not price-clipped. Inscribed, signed and dated (1940) by the author on the front free endpaper. Robert Penn Warren's first novel of a turn...
London: Hutchinson & Compant, (1937). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt. Illustrated map endpapers. Dust jacket art and endpapers drawn by Diana Younger. A very clean, bright and solid copy in the very scarce dust jacket. A "lost civilization" novel set in the South Atlantic. A lovely copy of a scarce title.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1930). Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original olive green cloth lettered in black. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the book. The complete dust jacket is quite bright as well with some shallow chipping at the top edge of the spine and also showing some faint spotting to the spine. A very nice...
New York: J. Watt, 1912. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very bright and crisp copy. Previous owner signature on the front free endpaper. The corners are perfect and the book is very tight and solid. Published 14 February 1912 which makes this the true first edition. Original black cloth with two oval color illustrated portraits of a man and a woman.