No Place: 1938. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Illustrated stiff card stock wrappers. (36)pp. Written and Arranged by Federal Writers' Project of Oklahoma - Jim Thompson, Director, Works Progress Administration in the State of Oklahoma Sketches by Wallace Simpson, Cowboy Artist and Walker Boone, Oneida Indiant Artist. Sponsored by the Oklahoma State Travel And Tourist Bureau, Ennis C. Helm, Director. An.....
New York: Oxford University Press, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original light red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black to the front panel and the spine. Octavo. xxvi, 548pp. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Indiana. An American Guide Series volume. Illustrated throughout with seven in-text maps.....
(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 Crime Club, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of this scarce and early Allingham title. Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red on the front panel and the spine. The bright and complete dust jacket is by PIC. The jacket is not price clipped and the $2.00 original price is.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy of this excellent murder mystery. "The whole family desire the death of the miserly father and grand-father. They are deep in financial difficulties and impending law-suits and imminent embarrassment. It is with a sense of anticipation that they all depart for Mallow.....
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. In a plain buff dust jacket with borders and lettering in black. An exceptionally clean, bright and lovely example of this superb work, considered along with Sassoon's Memoirs of An Infantry Officer among the finest works to come from.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original blue cloth stamped in white on the front panel and the spine. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1928. In the complete and quite scarce dust jacket. With minor rubbing to the front panel and spine. There is no fading of the colors.....
London: Fisher & Unwin, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. The dust jacket's spine is darkened though it remains quite readable. The jacket is not price-clipped. Laid in a promotional pamphlet from Fisher & Unwin praising and promoting Conrad.
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, (1986). First printing. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Large quarto in original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the front panel and the spine. In the complete and pristeen dust jacket. This volume presents the author's photographic survey of the cave church of Byzantine Cappodocia,now central Turkey. Contains 90 pages of text, including the.....
New York: MJF Books, 1981-1992. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A lovely complete set of this first rate re-issue of the first dozen novels. They are - in MJF published order - Casino Royal, (1981); Live And Let Die, (1982); Moonraker, (1983); Diamonds Are Forever, (1984); From Russia With Love, (1985); Dr. No, (1986); Goldfinger, (1987); For Your.....
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red to the front panel and spine. Frome one of two pseudonyms for Zenith Jones Brown, the other and equally famous one being Leslie Ford. A neat previous owner dated inscription to the front free endpaper, dated.....
West Chester, PA: Schiffer Military History, (1992). Hardcover. Fine / fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy of this volume which tells the incredible story of the bombing of Japan in April of 1942, five months after the Pearl Harbor attack. No date, but the jacket states 50th Anniversary Edition which has to be 1992. This copy is signed.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1892). Hardcover. Very Good. Original red cloth, lettered in black and decorated in black and gold. Beveled edges. With both the Blackie imprint and Scribner imprint to the title page. With twelve full page illustrations by W. H. Paget. The front free endaper is glued to the front paste-down. Previous owner gift inscription to the.....
London: Blackie & Son, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original light brown boards, lettered in gilt with decorations in red, black, and gold with a solid gold cat. All edges olive. Maroon endpapers. With eight full page illustrations by J. R. Weguelin. With 32 pp. of ads at the rear. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. Newbolt, 38.1.....
New York: Scribner and Welford, c. 1890. Hardcover. Fine. In original elaborately decorated green cloth. Lettered in gilt and completed with russet brown, this is one of the more beautiful Henty novels ever published. This copy is remarkably clean, bright and solid. All edges olive. Eight full page illustrations by Gordon Browne. My date derives from the publication dates of.....
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. No date, circa 1934. Large format music book. Orange boards, with yellow spine. Paper paste-down on front board. Set to music by Dudley Glass. With all the original pictures. A very scarce volume. Large folio, too large for the scanner. Contains 10 songs with illustrations...
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: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original red cloth, lettered and bordered in black. Contains Lytton The Mystic by Harold Armitage, The Haunted and the Haunters by Lord Lytton and Ghosts at Willington by Harold Armitage. In a very attractive and horrific dust jacket with a small chip at the.....
London: William Heinemann LTD., (1931). Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine. Illustrated dust jacket, signed by "MB", housed in a green cloth, clamshell case. 3/6 price stated on the spine of the jacket. Third impression. Inscribed and signed by the author at the half-title. Very scarce dust.....
London: Macmillan, 8990. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 8vo. "Third Revised Edition." Dark green morocco, signed by Spottiswoode. Lettered and sumptuously decorated in gilt. a.e.g. Five compartments on spine. Eton crest on front cover. Marbled endpapapers bordered with inner dentelles. [xxvii] 640. Two color plates and numerous other plates and folding map. Inititially published in 1875 this is a revised and.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. Original red boards, lettered in white on the spine. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy of this scarce and early Moorcock title. Warmly inscribed, dated, and signed by the author on the title page. Dust jacket designed by J. Cawthorn. An excellent copy in all respects...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original dark blue grained cloth, lettered in gilt. In a complete and lovely dust jacket by Cleon. There is minor edge-wear but overall the jacket remains very nice indeed. A Craig Kennedy mystery story. Listed in Bleiler and Hubin.
New York: New Amsterdam, 1896. FIRST. NF / M.
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1953. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Bound in original green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt. Illustrated by John Austen, and completed before his death. The engravings were then executed by Agnes Miller Parker. The second volume is signed by Agnes Miller Parker at the limitation page. Two volumes in the complete.....
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Volume privately printed for subscribers. Bound in original half cream parchment and half pale green buckram. In a fine and complete pale green dust jacket label affixed at the spine. An identical label is present on the spine of the book. From a limited edition of 1000 copies.....