The Treasure of Franchard
Emmaus: Story Classics, 1954. NF / NF. Illustrated by Laszlo Matulay. Previous owner embossed name, else fine in protective slip-case.
Literature
David Balfour
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean reprint edition. Previous owner inscription on the front free endpaper. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. A bright and solid copy.
The Ebb Tide
London: William Heinemann, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Smooth bronze cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Rear board device is 11/16 of an inch in diameter. Bookplate of H. BUXTON FORMAN. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. The bronze of the spine is a shade darker than the boards.
Kidnapped
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. A clean and solid copy, very tight and square. Previous owner name on a front blank. The lettering on the spine faded by half. Still, a lovely copy with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Illustrated endpapers.
The Wrecker
London: Cassell and Company, 1892. FIRST. VG.
Memories of Vailima
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. FIRST. NF. Mauve cloth lettered in gilt. t.e.g. Co-authored with Lloyd Osbourne. Tells of the last years of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa. A very clean, bright and solid copy.
Miscellaneous Poems
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.....
Travels of Lemuel Gulliver
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1929. FIRST LIMITED ED. Limited Edition Number 689/1500. F. This is the first book published by the Limited Editions Club. The book was issued with a box which is not present.
A Voyage to Brobdingnag Made by Lemuel Gulliver in the Year mdccii & A Voyage to Lilliput by Dr. Lemuel Gulliver mdcic
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1950. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes housed in one slip-case. The large volume (18 1/2 x 13) and the smaller (3 1/2 x 2 1/2) are contained in individual compartments within one large slip-case. Cloth backed pictoral map boards. One of 1500 copies printed by the Limited Editions club using the Aldus.....
William Blake A Critical Essay
London: John Camden Hotten, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Re-cased with new endpapers. The book now is very solid and tight. Title page states "Zamiel/from the book of Job" beneath the vignette. Extremely scarce work by Swinburne. Full-color facsimile's present. Illustrated throughout.
Wine Women and Song
London: Chatto & Windus, 1925. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Price removed from the spine of jacket, probably for export to the US. Frontispiece of "The Taverns Pleasure."
Women
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original light green cloth with vertical ribs, blocked in gilt to the front panel and lettered in gilt to the spine.Top edge yellow. "First Edition" statement to the copyright page. Previous owner signature to the front free endpaper. In a bright example of the dust.....
House Of Names
London: Viking, (2017). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. A wonderful book. A father sacrifices his daughter to appease the gods. This obscene sin unleashes torrents of sorrow. A fine copy of a fine book.
Selected Stories
Moscow: 1946 and 1947. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes bound in tan paper on boards. Photographic frontispiece in volume I. Pages toned a bit around the edges but overall this set remains very nice indeed. Entirely in Russian.
Fathers and Sons
London: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original purple cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. The dust jacket is clipped, else fine. A stressed text edition, in Russian, with an introduction by E. R. Sands.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. No date, probable mid -1950's. Light brown cloth, lettered in dark brown on the spine. The jacket is complete. There is minor edge-wear and a few closed tears. Previous owner name in pencil on the front free endpaper. A nice copy of a scarce edition of this classic work.....
Diaries of Adam & Eve
Lawrence: Coronado Press, 1971. F. Original green cloth, illustrated in black. Illustrated on the boards and internally by Walter Pickette. A very bright and solid copy.
The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrims Progress; Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author.
Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of the First Edition, second Issue. Page numbers present in Table of Contents, Image present on page 129, LXI present and "Personal History" at the head of third page of ads. Re-bound in 3/4 calf with marbled boards. Red spine label, lettered in.....
Life On The Mississippi
New York: Harper & Brothers, No date but circa 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Original black boards with full color illustrated paste-down. The illustrated dust jacket mirrors the paste-down on the cover. The jacket is a little frayed with some wear to the edges. The jacket art is illustrated by Frank Schoonover. The frontispiece also repeats the cover art.....
The Notorious Jumping Frog & Other Stories
Avon: The Heritage Press, 1970. F. As new. A perfect copy of this collection of classic Mark Twain stories. Illustrated by Joseph Low.
Dick Sands, Or The Boy Captain
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Original and lovely illustrated brown cloth lettered and brilliantly displayed in gilt. Beveled edges. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Barely visible minor drip stain down fore-edge side of front panel. Very slight lean and a narrow band of fraying along the top edge. First fully illustrated edition. Interesting.....
Famous Travels And Travellers
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original red cloth, decorated in black and gold from the Uniform Edition. This copy with 107 illustrations. A very clean, bright, and solid copy. Some minor fading to the gold at the head of the spine. Translated by Dora Leigh. Taves and Michaluk - VO66 p. 192...
Round The Moon
Chicago: M. A. Donohue. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Early reprint of this George Munro pirated edition of 1879. No date of publication listed. Illustrated cloth with matching image on the jacket though the jacket image is in tan and brown only. Illustrated endpapers. Five page publishers advertisement at rear. Published with three tales of mystery by Edgar Allan.....
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. Fine. Full deep blue leather decorated and lettered in gilt. A.E.G. Silk Endpapers. Collectors Edition. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. A lovely copy.
Candide
New York: Random House, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. A lovely copy of this celebratory issue. The first book to bear the Random House imprint was by Voltaire. To honour the fiftieth anniversary of this event they have re-issued this volume, complete with Rockwell Kent's illustrations and housed in a lovely illustrated slip-case.