New York: Frederick A.Stokes, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original dark green cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 323 pp. The book is very clean, bright and solid. The complete dust jacket shows only a few very shallow chips. The dust jacket art is very nice indeed.
London: Nicholas Kaye, (1961). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy of this charming volume with beautiful illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford. Some minor foxing to the underside of the jacket and to the rear panel and flaps. Color frontispiece.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green and black cloth boards with lettering the same. The lovely and exceedingly rare dust jacket remains bright. There is some very minor wear to the corners and the top of the spine shows remnants of a crease. There is a small chip to.....
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1945). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, stamped in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 224 pp. The book remains solid and tight. Some minor soiling. The complete jacket has the original 7s 6d price present on the bottom edge of the front flap. There is.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Authors second book. Haycroft-Queen cornerstone. The book is very nice with just some light spotting to the endpapers and the spine ends rolled a bit. The spine shows some fading and there is some chipping at the foot of the spine. The verso of the jacket shows.....
London: Metuen & Co., (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright, and solid copy of the first English edition. Published in September of 1915 in an impression of 8000 copies, including Canadian and Colonial export editions. Last page of ads dated 8/15/15. Some pages in the middle of the book remain uncut. 'Methuen's Popular.....
London: Collins, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A clean and bright copy of an early Sharpe title. The jacket is complete and without wear. The book is solid. The paper is toning along the edges which is typical with this title.
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.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Bound in original green cloth. Illustrated map endpapers. The dust jacket is complete. It shows some rubbing and fraying to the spine ends and some minor spotting on the rear panel. Still, a good copy.
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.....
Chicago: Shasta, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green boards with black cloth spine, lettered in gilt. The book is very clean, tight and solid - a fine copy. The dust jacket, designed by Hubert Rogers, has a very minor bit of rubbing to the head of the spine and along the top edge. The rear.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original blue covers, lettered in white to the spine. In a complete jacket with some light chipping along the top edge of the front panel and on to the spine. A first issue jacket. A small stain to the bottom edge of the front board. A......
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original brown boards, lettered in gold, yellow, and dark brown. Decorated in yellow, blue, white, and red. Beveled edges. Contains stories by G. A. Henty, A. Conan Doyle, G. Manville Fenn, W. W. Jacobs, Tom Gallon, Gordan Stables and four others. With 32 pp. of ads to the.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1926). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original blue cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. A nautical adventure novel, containing comic stories as well as murder mysteries. This volume contains the seed for a 1955 film noir - "Footsteps In the Fog," starring Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons. The screenplay is.....
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the poet's first commercially available book, preceded 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.....
New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1902. Hardcover. Fine. Large 4to. A beautiful copy of this massive work. New spines and corners all in red grained leather, frame the original illustrated cloth on boards. Marbled edges. New endpapers as well. This book has been lovingly restored and is now very solid and can be safely read and enjoyed. Illustrated throughout with.....
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Lovely period cover art by Gage. A very clean, bright and attractive dust jacket. There are some minor abrasions along the edge. There is one chip on the rear panel at the bottom edge. The book itself shows general wear but remains solid...
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: W. W. Norton & Company, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / very good. Original grey boards, lettered in red. Jacket and endpapers illustrated by C. Leroy Baldridge. A collection of 10 short stories. This title is listed in both Bleiler and Hubin. Signed by the author at the half-title. The jacket is lightly rubbed at the folds.....
Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue/gray cloth, decorated in black and gold and lettered in gold. Large 8vo. 418pp. Twenty Illustrations taken from photographs by Mr. Homan. Twenty two illustrations from sketches by Sargeant Gloster. Twenty nine illustrations from diagrams by the author and others. One map of the Alaska Exploring Expedition. Some.....
New York: Dutton, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As fine a copy as one could hope to fine. As new. 8vo. Tan cloth, lettered in red and illustrated in brown. Stuart's second book about characters from the mountains of his native and beloved Kentucky. Cover art by Brewster.
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Edited, selected and with an Introduction by R. Ellis Roberts. 4to. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Full brown morocco stamped, illustrated and lettered in gilt employing a beautiful period "Arts and Crafts" style by Riviere. From a limited edition of 375 copies, this one being.....
London: J. Mawman, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto volume bound in 3/4 leather with marbled paper insets. The spine has six compartments and a deep red leather title label, lettered in gold. A very solid and attractive copy. The blank endpages are foxed as is the illustrated frontispiece. Internally there is very little foxing. 326 pp. Marbled endpapers.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / very good. Original 3/4 orange patterned paper on boards with small black cloth spine, lettered in gilt. The Scribner "A" and seal are present on the copyright page. The book itself is extremely clean, bright and pleasing. A novel which at first glance tells of a small rural.....
New York: Crime Club, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Bound in original gray cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. The dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends and has a piece missing from the bottom right corner of the front panel. A wartime issued volume, now quite rare in good condition. First.....