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Anderson, Sherwood.  Mid-American Chants. NY: John Lane, 1918. 1^st ed. Pict cloth. Spine faded, edges darkened. VG  50.00

Atlantic Tales: A Collection of Stories from the Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 1^st ed. Bevelled cloth, gilt. Vignette. Top of spine frayed. VG       25.00

Ballantine, Robert.  Ungava: A Tale of Esquimaux-Land. London: T. Nelson, 1861. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth, gilt. Faded, spine lean. G  50.00

Barrie, J. M.  My Lady Nicotine. NY: H. M. Caldwell, (nd, ca 1900).  Pict cloth, gilt. Frontis. VG  35.00

Barrie, J. M.  My Lady Nicotine. NY: Hurst and Co., (nd, ca 1900). Pict boards, gilt. VG  35.00

Belloc, Hilaire.  A Conversation with an Angel and Other Essays. London: Jonathan Cape, (1928). 1^st ed. Cloth. VG 15.00

Belloc, Hilaire.  The Emerald of Catherine the Great. London: Arrowsmith, (1926). 1^st ed. Illus by G. K. Cheston. Cloth. Spine lean, covers spotted. G  15.00

Belloc, Hilaire.  The Postmaster-General. Phil: J. B. Lippincott, 1932. 1^st ed. DJ has 4” split. F/G  30.00

Bellow, Saul. Herzog.   London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, (1965). 1^st U. K. ed. Fine/VG  75.00

Benchley, Robert.  From Bed to Worse. NY: Harper & Bros, 1934. 1^st ed. Illus. 1” chip to DJ. VG/VG  35.00

Bevis, H. U.  Space Stadium. Lennox Hill, (1970). 1^st ed, 1^st issue. F/VG  30.00

Bevis, H. U.  The Alien Abductors. (np): Lennox Hill, 1971. 1^st ed. F/F  25.00 

Bowen, Elizabeth.  The House in Paris. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1936. 1^st ed. DJ darkened. VG/VG  25.00

Bowles, Jane.  Collected Works of Jane Bowles. NY: Farrar, Straus, (1966). 1^st ed. F/VG  45.00

Bowles, Paul.  A Life Full of Holes. NY: Grove, (1964). 1st ed. F/VG 35.00

Boyd, James.  Drums. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925. Cloth. Hinges broken. G  20.00

Brodribb, W. J.  Demosthenes. Phil: J. B. Lippincott, 1877. 7 x 9” map. Cloth, gilt. VG  15.00

Brooke, Rupert.  Letters from America. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1916. 1^st ed, 1^st issue, the “5” on the paper label corrected by hand to a “6”. Cloth, paper label. VG 150.00

Buchan, John.  Memory Hold-The-Door: The Autobiography of John Buchan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1944). Reprint. Illus. F/VG  10.00 

Cabell, James.  The Silver Stallion. NY: Robert McBride, (1928). Plates by Frank Pape. 1^st ed thus. Pict cloth, gilt. Gilt chipping off, o/w VG  30.00

Cantor, Eddie.  Caught Short! Saga of Wailing Wall Street. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1929. 1^st ed. Illus. 4 ½ x 6” cloth. VG  20.00   

Capek, Karel. Krakatit.  London: Geoffrey Bles, (1925). 1^st ed. Boards. Foxing, insect damage. G  45.00

Capote, Truman.  Music for Chameleons. NY: Random House, (1980). 1^st ed. F/F  65.00

 

Chamisso, A.  Peter Schlemihl. Phil: David Mckay, (1929). Woodcuts by John Gincano. 1^st ed thus. Pict cloth. VG  30.00

Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1953). 1^st UK ed. Cloth, gilt. Spine lean. VG  65.00

Clarke, Arthur C.  Childhood’s End. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1953). Book Club (believed to be 1953 BC printing.). VG/VG  40.00

Clarke, Arthur C.  The Other Side of the Sky. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1958). VG/VG  65.00

Coe, Tucker.  Wax Apple. London: Victor Gollanz, 1973. 1^st UK ed. F/F  20.00 

Connolly, Cyril.  Ideas and Places. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1953). 1^st ed. Spine lean. VG/VG  20.00

Conrad, Joseph.  Suspense. London: J. M. Dent, 1925. 1^st UK ed. Frontis. Cloth. Gilt gone, cloth darkened, spine lean. G  15.00   

Corelli, Marie.  The Sorrows of Satan. NY: American News Co, 1900. Pict cloth. Cover spotted, partially detached. Fair  25.00

Crawford, F. Mario.  A Cigarette Makers Romance. NY: Int’l Association, 1901. “New edition in one volume”.  VG/VG  45.00

Crichton, Michael.  Sphere. (np): Macmillan, (1987). 1^st UK ed.  VG/F  15.00 

Cronin, A. J.  Shannon’s Way. London: Victor Gollancz, 1948. 1^st ed. 1” chip to DJ. VG/VG  15.00

Crossley, Hastings.  The Golden Sayings of Epictetus. London: Macmillan, 1925. Frontis. Full Morocco, gilt, aeg. VG  75.00

Davis, Richard Harding.  The Deserter. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917. 1^st ed. ½ x 1” chip to DJ. VG/VG  40.00

Days with Sir Roger de Coverly; Reprint from The Spectator. London: Macmillan, 1886. 1^st ed thus. Illus by Hugh Thomson. Pict cloth, gilt, aeg. VG  20.00

Defoe, Daniel.  Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable By Mary Godolphin. NY: McLoughlin Bros, 1882. 1^st ed thus. Color plates. 8 x 10” pict cloth, gilt. Darkening to pages. VG  30.00

Dickey, James.  Deliverance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. 1^st ed. DJ edges worn and creased. F/G  35.00

Didion, Joan.  A Book of Common Prayer. NY: Simon and Schuster, (1977). 1^st ed, 2^nd printing. F/VG  20.00

Donleavy, J. P.   A Singular Man. Boston: Little, Brown, (1963). 1^st ed. F/VG  50.00 

Dos Passos, John.  U. S. A.; 42 Parallel, Nineteen-Nineteen, The Big Money. London: J. Lehmann, (1950). 1^st ed. VG/VG  45.00 

Dreiser, Theodore.  Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1927. 1^st ed. VG/VG  95.00 

Dunsany, Lord.  Unhappy Far-Off Things. London: Elkin Mathews, 1919. 1^st ed. Boards, cloth spine. Offsetting. VG  50.00 

Egan, Pierce.  A Struggle for Justice. Bismarck, ND: Tribune Co, 1913. 1^st ed. Plate. Pict cloth. VG  20.00 

Eggleston, George.  Evelyn Bird. Boston: Lothrop, (1904). 1^st ed.  5 plates. Private library bookplate. Cloth. VG  35.00 

Eliot, George.  Silas Marner. NY: Harper & Bros, 1861. 1^st US ed. Cloth, gilt. Spine chipped, edgewear. Spine lean. G  65.00 

Eliot, T. S.  The Cocktail Party. NY: Harcourt, (1950). 1^st ed, 2^nd issue with p 35/36 cancel & “One-eyed Riley” on music score. F/F  45.00

Emerson, Ralph W.  Culture. NY: Barse & Hopkins, (nd, circa 1890). Frontis. Pict cloth (4 x 7”). VG  25.00

Faulkner, William.  The Reivers: A Reminiscence. NY: Random House, (1962). 1^st ed, 1^st issue with “6/62” on DJ. VG/VG  50.00 

Fern, Fanny.  Folly As It Flies: Hit At [by Sara Payson Willis]. NY: G. W. Carleton, 1868. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. Covers discolored, some waterstaining. G  20.00 

Fielding, Henry.  The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Bickers & Son, 1878. 2 vols. Cloth, gilt. VG  65.00 

Ford, Paul Leicester.  Wanted – A Chaperon. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1902. 1^st ed. Illus Howard Christy. Pict cloth. Spine faded. VG  35.00 

Forster, E. M.  Battersea Rise. NY: Harcourt Brace, (1955). 1^st ed. Pict boards. F   20.00 

Fowles, John. Mantissa. London: Jonathan Cape, (1982). 1^st ed. F/F   40.00 

Friedman, Bruce J.  A Mother’s Kisses. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1964. 1^st ed. F/VG  40.00 

Fry, Christopher.  The Dark is Light Enough. London: Oxford Univ, (1955). 1^st ed, 3^rd imp. F/F  15.00 

Fry, Christopher.  The Lark (from the French by Jean Anouilh). London: Methuen, (1955). 1^st ed. thus. F/VG  15.00 

Galsworthy, John.  The Silver Spoon. London: William Heinemann, (1926). 1^st ed. Fine/VG  25.00 

Gardner, John.  Nickel Mountain. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1973. 1^st ed. VG/VG  30.00 

Gardner, John.  The Liquidator. NY: Viking, (1964). F/VG  20.00 

Garnett, David.   A Man in the Zoo. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1924. 1^st ed. Pict boards, spine label chipped and darkened. VG  20.00 

Gask, Arthur.  The Hidden Door. NY: Macauley, (1935). 1^st ed. VG/VG  45.00 

Gauguin, Paul.  Paul Gauguin’s Intimate Journals. NY: Boni and Liveright, 1921. Ltd ed, #92/960. Illus. Pict cloth. VG  95.00 

Gerard, Louise.  Strange Paths. NY: Macauley, (1934). 1^st ed. 1” chip to DJ spine. VG/VG  15.00

Golding, William.  Free Fall. NY: Faber and Faber, (1959). 1^st ed. VG/VG  20.00

Golding, William.  Rites of Passage. London: Faber and Faber, (1980). 1^st ed. Spine lean. VG/F  20.00

Goodchild, George.  Jack O’Lantern. NY: Mystery League, 1930. F/F  45.00

Gordimer, Nadine.  Occasion for Loving. NY: Viking, (1963). 1^st US ed. F/F           20.00

Graves, Robert.  Goodbye to All That (“Strich Drunter” in German). Berlin: Transmark Verlag, (1930). 1^st German ed. F/VG  45.00

Graves, Robert.  Goodbye To All That. London: Cassell & Co, (1957). Illus. 1^st Revised ed. Proof copy. Paperback. Spine lean. G   25.00                         

Graves, Robert.  Goodbye to All That. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. 1^st ed, 2^nd issue with pp 342, 343 with asterisks. Maps, illus. Cloth, gilt. Spine lean. VG  45.00                                                                                                            

Graves, Robert.  The Isles of Unwisdom. London: Cassells, (1950). 1^st ed. F/F  30.00

Grey, Zane.  Nevada. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1928). Top 2.5" of DJ spine gone, large splits at DJ folds. VG/G  20.00

Hargrove, Marion.  See Here, Private Hargrove. NY: Henry Holt, (1942). 1^st ed. F/VG  40.00

Harris, Frank.  My Life and Loves. Paris: “Privately Printed, 1922, Address the Author, 1 Rue du Helder”. Hinge broken, boards discolored, spine cloth fraying, paper label torn & darkened. G  75.00

Hart, Josephine.  Damage. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1991. 1^st ed. Promo postcard laid in. F/F  15.00

Harte, Bret.  Tales of the Argonauts and Other Sketches. Boston: James Osgood, 1875. Cloth, gilt. VG 95.00

Hawkes, Jacquetta.  A Land. NY: Random House, 1952. 1^st ed. Illus by Henry Moore. VG/F  40.00

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.  Twice-Told Tales. Boston: James Osgood. 2 vols, (vol 1 is 1872 and vol 2 is 1871.) “A New Edition”. Frontis. Cloth, gilt. Faded, two ink marks on spine. G  20.00

Hayakawa, S. I.  Language in Action. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1941). 1^st ed. Cloth, paper label. VG   15.00

Hayes, Joseph.  The Desperate Hours. London: Andre Deutsch, (1954). 1^st UK ed. VG/VG  20.00

Hecht, Ben.  Cutie: A Warm Mamma. Chicago: Hechtshaw Press, 1924. 1^st ed, one of 200. Boards. Edges worn. VG  20.00

 

Hemingway, Ernest.  For Whom the Bell Tolls. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1940. 1^st ed, 1^st issue with the “A”. 1^st issue DJ, (unclipped), no photo credit on back. Two ½” chips to DJ spine. VG/VG  675.00

Hemingway, Ernest.  The Garden of Eden. London: Guild Pub, (1987). 1^st UK ed. F/F  20.00

Hemingway, Ernest.  Winner Take Nothing. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. 1^st ed, 1^st issue with the “A”. Cloth, gold labels. Some fading. VG  275.00

Hill, Susan.  A Bit of Singing & Dancing. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1973). 1^st ed. F/F  20.00

Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World Revisited. NY: Harper & Bros, (1958). Early printing. VG/VG  30.00

Huxley, Aldous.  Eyeless in Gaza. London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. Pronounced spine lean. VG  65.00

Huxley, Aldous.  Mortal Coils. NY: George Doran, (1922). 1^st ed. Cloth, paper label. VG  50.00

 

 

Huxley, Aldous.  The Genius and the Goddess. NY: Harper & Bros, 1955. 1^st ed. VG/VG  35.00

Isherwood, Christopher.  Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties. NY: New Directions, (1947). 1^st ed thus. DJ darkened, spine has a few ½” chips. VG/VG  20.00

Isherwood, Christopher.  The Memorial. NY: New Directions, (1946). 1^st US ed. A few ½” chips to DJ. VG/VG  35.00

Jackson, Helen Hunt.  Ramona. Garden City: Grosset & Dunlap, (nd, circa 1950). $2.95 on DJ. F/F  10.00

Jerrold, Douglas.  Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures. NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. 1^st US ed. 4 x 7” pict cloth, gilt. VG  30.00

Joyce, James.  Finnegans Wake. NY: Viking, 1947. 5^th printing. Cloth, gilt. VG     50.00

Joyce, James.  Ulysses. NY: Modern Library, (1946). Early Modern Library ed. DJ creases at spine. VG/VG 20.00

Joyce, James.  Ulysses. NY: Random House, 1934. 1^st US ed. Beveled cloth. Spine, boards and pages darkened. G  125.00

Kafka, Franz.  In the Penal Settlement, Tales and Short Prose Works. London, Secker and Warburg, 1949. 1^st ed thus. Cloth, gilt. VG  40.00

Kafka, Franz.  The Castle. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1941. 2^nd ed, 2^nd printing. Cloth a bit soiled. VG/F  20.00

Kafka, Franz.  The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections. NY: Schocken Books, (1946). 1^st ed thus. VG/VG  35.00

Kane, Henry.  Edge of Panic. Simon and Schuster, (1950). 1^st ed. Tape on endpapers. VG/VG  20.00

Kay, Terence Space Volunteers. NY: Harper & Bros, 1960. 1^st ed. Illus. F/VG  20.00

Kerouac, Jack.  On the Road. NY: Viking, 1957. 1^st ed, 2^nd printing. Top 2.5” gone from DJ spine. VG/G  375.00

Keyes, Thom.  All Night Stand. Simon and Schuster, (1966). 1st ed. DJ has 2” tear, folds. VG/VG  20.00

Kosinski, Jerzy.  Passion Play. NY: St Martins Press, (1979). 1^st ed. F/VG  35.00

Kosinski, Jerzy.  Steps. NY: Random House, (1968). 1^st ed. F/F  95.00

Kosinski, Jerzy.  The Devil Tree. NY: Harcourt Brace, (1973). 1^st ed. F/F  40.00

Kosinski, Jerzy.  The Hermit of 69^th Street. NY: Seaver Books, (1988). 1^st ed. F/F 15.00

 

Lee, Gypsy Rose.  Lady of Burlesque. Cleveland: World, (1943). 5^th printing, w/Barbara Stanwyck on DJ. VG/VG  25.00

Lee, Harper.  To Kill a Mockingbird. Phil: J. P. Lippincott, (1960). Book Club (believed to be first BC ed). Author’s photo on back, no mention of Pulitzer Prize, no codes on copyright page, no slug on rear board. F/VG  65.00

Lehman, John.  New Writing and Daylight, 1946. London: John Lehman, 1946. 1^st ed. 1” chip to DJ spine. F/VG  35.00

Letters to Florence Farr [from] Bernard Shaw and W. B. Yeats. London: Home and Val, 1946. 1^st UK ed. F/VG  45.00

Levin, Meyer.  Compulsion. London: Frederick Muller, (1957). 1^st UK ed. DJ has ½” x 1” chip. VG/VG  20.00

Lincoln, Joseph.  Queer Judson. NY: D Appleton, 1925. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. DJ wrinkled, torn. VG/G  30.00

Lincoln, Joseph.  Rugged Water. NY: D Appleton, 1924. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. DJ wrinkled, torn. VG/G  45.00

Locke, Gladys.  The Scarlet Macaw. NY: A. L. Burt, (1923). 1^st ed thus. Pict cloth. VG  45.00

Loos, Anita.  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. NY: Boni & Liveright, 1925. 1^st ed, 1^st issue with “Divine” on Contents Page. Red cloth, gilt. Spine faded. VG  65.00

Lytton, Edward.  The Last Days of Pompeii. NY: Merrill and Baker, (nd, circa 1890). Plates. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  20.00

Mailer, Norman.  Of a Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, (1970). 1^st ed. F/VG 35.00 

Maugham, Somerset.  A Writer’s Notebook. London: William Heinemann, (1949). Book club, with 2” band “Book Society Choice” over DJ. VG/F  20.00

May, Sophie.  Dottie Dimple at School. Boston: Lee & Shepard, (1869). 1^st ed. Illus. Cloth, gilt. Faded, frayed, slight waterstain. G  15.00

McCullers, Carson.  Clock Without Hands. London: Cresset, 1961. 1^st UK ed. 1” chip to DJ. VG/VG  35.00

Miller, Henry.  The Wisdom of the Heart. NY: New Directions, 1941. 1^st ed. DJ nearly split in two. VG/Poor  20.00

 

Mitchell, S. Weir. The Guillotine Club and Other Stories. NY: Century, 1910. 1^st ed. Pict cloth, gilt. Spine lean. VG  15.00

Montague, C. E.  Rough Justice. London: Chatto & Windus, 1926. 1^st ed. F/VG     45.00

Nordhoff, C & J. Hall.  Mutiny! London, Chapman & Hall, (1933). 1^st UK ed. Foxing. Pict cloth. VG  25.00

O’Hara, John.  Ten North Frederick. NY: Random House, (1955). 1^st ed. (Two copies). VG/F & VG/VG  30.00, 20.00

O’Hara, John.  The Hat on the Bed. NY: Random House, 1963. 1^st ed. VG/F        25.00

O’Neill, Eugene.  A Moon for the Misbegotten. London: Jonathan Cape, (1953). 1^st UK ed. VG/VG  35.00

O’Neill, Eugene.  The Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, The First Man. NY: Boni and Liveright, (1922). 1^st ed. Cloth. VG  50.00

O’Neill, Eugene.  The Iceman Cometh. Longon: Jonathan Cape, (1947). 1^st UK ed. VG/VG  40.00

Offord, Lenore.  The Glass Mask. NY: Books Inc, (1945). 1^st ed. DJ rear panel torn, small chips to spine. VG/VG  20.00

Page, Thomas Nelson.  In Ole Virginia. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904. Plates by Howard Pyle, et al. Pict cloth, gilt. Some rubbing. VG  25.00

Parrish, Randall.  Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West. Racine: Whitman, (1907). VG/VG  10.00

Partridge, Eric.  Smaller Slang Dictionary. NY: Philosophical Lib, (1961). 1^st ed. F/VG  15.00

Paul, Louis.  Breakdown. NY: Crown, (1946). 1^st ed. VG/VG  25.00

Queen, Ellery.  There Was an Old Woman. London: Victor Golancz, 1944. 1^st UK ed. Blue cloth. VG  20.00

Radiguet, Raymond.  Count D’Orgel. NY: Grove, (1953). Cloth. VG  15.00

Rand, Ayn.  Night of January 16^th. NY: Longmans, Green, (1936). 9^th printing. Wrappers. F  10.00

Randall, William.  The Syndicate Murders. NY: Greenburg Pub, (1935). 1^st ed. Cloth. 2” spot on cover. VG  15.00

Reid, Mayne.  The Tiger Hunter; or A Hero in Spite of Himself. NY: Robert De Witt, (1865). 1^st US ed. Illus. Cloth, gilt. Spine faded, ¼” chip. VG  30.00

Reiner, Carl.  Enter Laughing. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1958. 1^st ed. Pages darkened. VG/VG  40.00

Rogers, Will.  Ether and Me; or, “Just Relax”. NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, (1929). 1^st ed. Illus by Grim Natwick. 4 ½ x 7” pict cloth in DJ. F/VG  50.00

Rolland, Romain  The Game of Love and Death. NY: Henry Holt, (1926). 1^st ed. VG/VG  20.00

Ross, Leonard.  The Education of Hyman Kaplan. London: Constable, (1937). 1^st UK ed. Spine lean. VG/VG  25.00

Ross, Leonard.  The Strangest Places. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1939). 1^st ed. Bookplate removed. VG/VG  20.00

Runyon, Damon.  More Guys and Dolls. NY: Garden City, (1951). DJ wrinkled. VG/G  15.00

Salinger, J. D.  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. Boston: Little, Brown, (1959). 1^st ed, 1^st issue with “Seymore” for “Seymour” on p. 173 on line 12/13. F/VG  700.00

Salinger, J. D.  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. London: Heinemann, (1963). 1^st UK ed. Foxing. VG/VG  95.00

Salinger, J. D.  The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, (1951). Book Club ed (believed to be early ed), no author’s pic on DJ, no slug on rear board, “5345” on DJ flap. VG/F  75.00

Salinger, J. D.  The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines. Chicago: Consolidated Books, 1942. 1^st ed, 2^nd issue. Armed Services Ed. 1^st appearance of “The Hang of It”. Illus. 5 x 6” pict boards. 2 copies, VG & G  95.00, 60.00

Santayana, George.  The Last Puritan. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. 1^st ed. VG/VG  250.00

Sasoon, Siegfried.  Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. NY: Coward-McCann, 1929. 1^st US ed. Cloth. VG  15.00    

Sassoon, Siegfried.  Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. NY: Coward-McCann, (1931). Color plates. Special ed for boys and girls. 1^st ed thus. Cloth. Slight spine lean, weak hinges. VG  20.00

Sassoon, Siegfried.  Sherston’s Progress. London: Faber and Faber, (1936). 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. Spine lean. (Two copies). Both have spine lean. One is VG, the other VG with a DJ (Fair with 4” chip along spine).  15.00 ea

Saunders, John M.  Wings. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, (1927). 1^st ed thus. Motion picture edition. Illus. F/VG  50.00  

Saunders, Marshall.  Beautiful Joe’s Paradise: A Sequel to Beautiful Joe. Boston: L. C. Page, 1902. 1^st ed. Illus by Charles Livingston Bull.  Pict cloth, gilt. VG  65.00

Schopenhauer, Arthur.  Studies in Pessimism. NY: Modern Library, (nd, circa 1926 9). 4^th ML ed. Limp leatherette, gilt. VG  35.00

Schulberg, Budd.  Waterfront. (London):The Bodley Head, (1956). 1^st UK ed. F/F  95.00

Seton, Ernest.  Wild Animal Ways. NY: Doubleday, Page, 1917. 2^nd ed. Frontis, illus. Pict cloth. VG  15.00

Shakespeare, William.  The Comedies and Tragedies of Shakespeare. NY: Random House, 1944. 4 vols. Illus. Cloth, in box. VG  30.00

Shaw, George B. The Apple Cart. London: Constable, 1930. Cloth. (2 copies, each F/VG)  45.00 ea

Shaw, George B.  Arms and the Man. London: Constable, 1920. F/VG  45.00

Shaw, George B.  Fabianism and the Fiscal Question. London: Fabian Society, 1904. 1^st ed. Stiff wrappers. VG  35.00

Shaw, George B.  The Crime of Imprisonment. NY: Philosophical Library, (1946). 1^st ed. Illus. VG/VG  35.00

Shaw, George B.  The Devil’s Disciple. London: Constable, 1920. F/VG  45.00

Shaw, Irwin.  Lucy Crown. NY: Random House, (1956). 1^st ed. VG/VG  15.00

Smith, Betty.  The Tree in the Yard. London: William Heinemann, (1944). 1^st UK ed. of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". VG/VG  50.00 

Sokoloff, Boriis.  The Crime of Dr. Garine. NY: Covici Fiede, 1928. 1^st ed. Illus. Cloth. Label faded. VG  30.00

Solzhenitzen, Alex.  Cancer Ward (Russian text) . Torino, Italy: Giulio Einaudi, (1968). 1^st ed thus. White paperback. VG  135.00

Sontan, Susan.  Illness As Metaphor. NY: Farrar, Straus, (1978). 1st ed. VG/VG 15.00

Souvestre, Emile.  An Attic Philosopher in Paris. NY: D. Appleton, 1864. ½ Morocco over marbled boards, gilt. VG  35.00

Spender, Stephen.  Engaged in Writing, and The Fool and The Princess. NY: Farrar, Straus, 1958. 1^st US ed. F/F  15.00

Steinbeck, John.  The Grapes of Wrath. NY: Viking, (1939). 1^st ed, 10^th printing. DJ is 360^th thousand (consistent with the 10^th printing). Small chips to DJ. VG/VG  350.00

Steinbeck, John.  The Moon is Down. NY: Viking, 1942. 1^st ed, 2^nd issue (no period after “talk” on p. 112. F/VG  95.00

Steinbeck, John.  The Short Reign of Pippin IV. London: Heinemann, (1957). 1^st UK ed. Cloth. ¼” chip. VG/VG  65.00

Stern, G. B.  Mosaic. London: Chapman Halls, (1930). 1^st ed. Bookplate. VG  40.00

Sterne, Laurence.  A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. NY: G. Putnam’s Sons, 1910. 1^st ed thus. Tipped-in color plates by Everard Hopkins. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  30.00

Stevenson, Robert L.  The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. NY: Federal Book Co., (nd, circa 1900). Pict cloth, gilt. Pages darkened. VG  145.00

Stopes, C.  The Bacon-Shakspeare Question. London: T. G. Johnson, 1888. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. VG  15.00

Strachey, Lytton.  Spectatorial Essays. Chatto, 1964. 1^st ed. Cloth. VG/VG  15.00

Sturgeon, Theodore.  The Dreaming Jewels. NY: Greenberg, (1950). 1^st ed. F/VG  65.00

Styron, William.  The Confessions of Nat Turner. NY: Random House, (1967). 1^st ed. VG/VG  40.00

Swift, Jonathan.  Gulliver’s Travels and Baron Munchausen. Chicago: Belford, Clarke, (nd, circa 1885). Caxton Edition. Pict cloth, gilt. Fine in an early DJ (spine darkened). F/VG  75.00

Thackeray, Henry.  Vanity Fair. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849. Early printing with double engraved title page and 38 plates. ¼ Morocco over marbled boards. Spine faded, covers rubbed, edges worn, light foxing and darkening. G  45.00

The Peerless Speaker: A Compilation of the Choicest Recitations, Readings and Dialogue…Chicago: Thompson and Thomas, 1900. 1^st ed. Pict cloth. VG  10.00

Thomas, Helen.  As It Was. London: William Heinemann, 1926. Red cloth. Slight lean. VG  20.00

Thompson, Lloyd.  Death Stops the Show. NY: Crown, (1946). 1^st ed. Cloth. Cover stain, o/w VG  15.00

Twain, Mark.  A Double-Barrelled Detective Story. NY: Harper & Bros, (1902). 1^st ed. Illus. Cloth, gilt, teg. VG  175.00

Twain, Mark.  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. NY: Charles Webster, 1885. 1^st ed, 1^st issue with all 1^st issue points for the cloth printing. [see photos on Buy Online: Fiction page]. p. 13 “Him and another man” shown to be on p. 88; p. 57 “with the was”; p. 9 “decided”; p. 143 “Co”; p. 143 “d” for “b”; p. 155 the “5” slightly larger; p. 161 no “11” signature mark; frontis with “Heliotype". ”Green pict cloth, gilt (faded, but much gilt still visible). Covers are all but detached from the spine, holding on by threads). Fraying, staining, splitting, broken hinges, crushed corners & edges, fading, ½” chip to top and bottom of spine, darkening, light foxing, writing preliminary endpapers. Frontis with Huck’s bust has a ½” chip and a ½ x 2” stain at top. All pages present, including blank endpapers, though first three leaves and p. 15 laid in. Overall heavy wear. No signs of attempted repair. Good candidate for restoration 1,700.00

Twain, Mark.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. NY: Harper & Bros, (1917). Publisher code B-C. Plates by Worth Brehm. Pict cloth, gilt. First free endpaper is removed, o/w Fine. VG  30.00

Twersky, Jacob.  The Face of the Deep. Cleveland: World Pub, (1953). 1^st ed. Textured cloth in DJ. F/VG  95.00

Updike, John.  Rabbit Redux. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1971. 1^st ed. F/F  25.00

Wagner, Richard.  The Ring of the Niblung. NY: Doubleday, Page, (nd, circa 1900). Color plates by Arthur Rackham. ½ Morocco over boards, gilt. Rear board detached, o/w VG. Binding copy  35.00

Wallace, Lew.  The Chariot Race from Ben Hur. NY: Harper & Bros, 1908. 1^st ed. Color plates. Pict cloth, gilt. Rubbed, hinge weak. VG  25.00

Walpole, Hugh.  Reading. NY: Harper & Bros, 1927. Boards, paper label. G  15.00

Waters, Robert.  Flashes of Wit and Humor. NY: Edgar Werner, 1900. 1^st ed. Pict cloth. VG  10.00

Waugh, Evelyn.  Scott-King’s Modern Europe. Boston: Little, Brown, 1949. 1^st US ed. F/VG  15.00

Wells, Basil.  Planets of Adventure. LA: Fantasy Pub, 1949. 1^st ed. DJ light soiling, ½” hole. VG/VG  20.00

Wells, Geoffrey.  A Bibliography of the Works of H. G. Wells 1893 – 1925. London: George Routledge, 1925. Ltd ed, No. 58 of 220. Boards, leather spine. VG  20.00

Wells, H. G.  The Discovery of the Future. London: Jonathan Cape, (1913). 1^st ed. Boards, paper labels. Covers bowed. VG  25.00

Westlake, Donald 361. Random House, (1962). 1^st ed. Water damage. G/Fair        25.00

Westlake, Donald.  Killing Time. NY: Random House, (1961). 1^st ed. Water damage. G/Fair  35.00

White, Stewart E.  Gold. NY: Doubleday Page, (1913). 1^st ed. Color plates. Pict cloth, gilt. Hinge broken o/w VG  20.00

Wiggin, Kate Douglas.  Susanna and Sue. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. 1^st ed. Illus by N. C. Wyeth. Pict cloth. F  35.00

Wilde, Oscar.  Lord Savile’s Crime. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1909. Wrappers. G  25.00

Wilde, Oscar.  Salome. NY: Heritage Press, 1945. 1^st ed thus. Illuminated plates by Angelo Valenti. Black cloth. Pages unopened. (Two copies: Fine in box (split, Fair only), the other spine darkened, no box, VG.  40.00, 25.00

Wilde, Oscar.  The Birthday of the Infanta. NY: Macmillan, 1929. Illus by Pamela Bianco. VG  25.00

 

Woolf, Virginia.  Flush. NY: Harcourt Brace, 1933. 1^st US ed. Illus. Cloth. VG  45.00

Woolf, Virginia.  The Death of the Moth. NY: Harcourt Brace, (1942). 1^st US ed. VG/VG  175.00

Wordsworth, William.  Poetical Works. London: Longman, Rees.., 1827. 5 vols [4” x 6.5”] 1^st ed thus. Several first appearances of poems. ½ Morocco. VG  375.00

Worth, Patience.  The Sorry Tale. NY: Henry Holt, (1917). 1^st ed. Pict cloth. VG  20.00

Wouk, Herman.  Youngblood Hawke. NY: Doubleday, 1962. 1^st ed. VG/VG  20.00

Yeats, W. B.  Ideas of Good and Evil. London: A. H. Bullen, 1903. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. VG  150.00

Yost, Casper.  Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery. NY: Henry Holt, 1916. 1^st ed. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  25.00

Zalygin, Sergei.  The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories. NY: Abbeville, (1989). 1^st ed. Illus. F/VG  20.00

SIGNED

Ade, George. The Old-Time Saloon. NY: Ray Long & Smith, 1931. 1^st ed. Illus. Light waterstain to title page, 1” chip to DJ. Inscribed, “One thing must be said for that old-fashioned bar-keep. When you handed him a dollar he gave you back some change. George Ade, Feb 24 – 1932. Inscribed for C. L. Sherman”. VG/VG 90.00

Brooks, Richard.  Splinters. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, (1941). 1^st ed. Inscribed, “Aug 28, 1941, To Mary – She knew these stories when they were merely thoughts. Now they’re glossy and not nearly as nice. brooks (sic).” Boards, cloth spine. Both DJ flaps split nearly all the way off at the folds. VG/Poor  95.00

Cabell, James.  The Silver Stallion. NY: Robert McBride, 1926. 1^st ed, #382 of 850 signed by author. Pict cloth, gilt. Most of gilt has flaked off spine and cover, o/w VG  35.00

De La Mare, Walter.  Memoirs of a Midget. London: W. Collins Sons, 1921. 1^st ed. #118 of 210 copies signed. Cloth, leather label, gilt. VG  60.00

Harris, Frank.  The Veils of Isis. NY: George Doran, (1915). 1^st ed. Inscribed, “To Claire from Frank. In memory of fleeting hours in East Oshkosh during the Great War. 29 Waverly Place N. Y. City Jan 1918…’The nobler the man is the more subjects of compassion he hath’ Bacon’” Boards, discolored, loose, 1” spine tear. Fair  125.00

Hergesheimer, Joseph.  The Presbyterian Child. NY: Alfred Knopf, 1923. 1^st ed, #332/950 copies signed by author. Boards, cloth spine, paper label. Edges worn. VG  20.00

Hersey, John.  A Bell for Adano. Phil: Franklin Press, 1978. Ltd ed. Signed. Full leather, gilt. (Two copies). Fine  50.00 ea

Hope, Bob.  Five Women I Love: Bob Hope’s Vietnam Story. NY: Doubleday, 1966. 1^st ed. Illus. Inscribed, “To Lt. Robin Lawrence/My Best/Bob Hope.” F/F    40.00

Hope, Bob.  I Owe Russia $1200. NY: Doubleday, (1962). Illus. Signed. VG/VG 40.00

Isherwood, Christopher.  Down There on a Visit. London: Methuen, (1962). 1^st UK ed. Inscribed, “For Jay, With my best wishes, Christopher Isherwood, Jan 29, 1982”. 1” tear to DJ. F/VG  175.00

Kosinski, Jerzy.  The Devil Tree. Harcourt Brace, (1973). 1^st ed. Inscribed, “For Hal Jacques, in appreciation for his interest, Jerzy Kosinski, March 1973” F/F  125.00

Lafferty, Robert.  Epigrams in Hai-Kai Form with Sketches. NY: Culture Press, 1929. Ltd ed, No. 3 of 2000, inscribed, “Jan 22 – 1929 To Winfred Johnson in symbol of the deep and enduring appreciation of the author, Bob Lafferty.” Silver embossed pict boards. Fine  25.00

Leary, Tiimothy.  What Does Woman Want? (np, nd, 1976). 1^st ed. #882 of 10,000 signed, with “S.M.I.L.E” handwritten and Pg 1 with “Prometheus” tipped in. 8 ½ x 11” paperback . Erasure mark & discoloration to cover. VG  40.00

McCarthy, Eugene.  Other Things and the Aardvark. NY: Doubleday, (1970). #30 of 200 signed. Pict boards, box. F/F  35.00

Miller, Henry.  Order & Chaos Chez Hans Reichel. New Orleans: Loujon Press, (1966). Limited ed, “R” of 26 lettered copies signed by author. Illus, fine colored paper, elaborately produced, in box. Fine  275.00     

Mockel, Henry.  Hot Air from the Desert. Twenty-nine Palms, 1966. 1^st ed. Signed by author. Color plates. 9 x 11” boards. Fine  25.00

Rose, Billy.  Wine, Women and Words. NY: Simon and Schuster, (1948). Illus by Salvadore Dali. Autograph Edition, No.1544 signed by author. Pict cloth, gilt. Clipping pasted in. VG  150.00

Roth, Philip.  Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories. Phil: Franklin Press, 1978. Ltd ed. Signed. Full leather. Fine  150.00

Sandburg, Carl.  Cornhuskers. NY: Henry Holt, 1918. 1^st ed. Inscribed, “Al Drier, my fellow Chicagoan who has his own Prayers of Steel. Carl Sandburg.” (Drier was a close friend and editor of the Chicago Tribune). Boards. Half of spine is gone, the other half loose. Tape marks. Fair  200.00

Sister Joan of Arc.  My Name is Nimitz. San Antonio: Standard Printing, 1948. 1^st ed. Plates. Signed, “C. W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN & TN”. DJ chipped. VG/G  25.00

Sloan, James.  More Faces + Places. Redlands, 1970. 1^st ed. Signed by author. Photos. Padded vinyl, paste-down of Bob Hope. VG  30.00

Susann, Jacqueline. Valley of the Dolls. NY: Random House, 1966. 10^th printing. Signed, “Best Wishes, Jacqueline Susann.” F/VG  95.00

Tabak, May.  But Not For Love. NY: Horizon Press, 1960. 1^st ed. Signed, “For Love for Christine/May Tabak”. Spine lean, DJ faded. VG/VG  20.00

Tucker, Sophie.  Some of these Days. (np, 1945). Signed, “To Rita Smith/Love/Sophie Tucker/7/22/59”. VG/VG  20.00

Ware, Eugene.  Rhymes of Ironquill. Topeka: Kellan Book, 1889. 1^st ed. Pict cloth, gilt. Signed, “Auntie Smith, Compliments, Ironquill.” VG  30.00

Westlake, Donald.  Killing Time. NY: Random House, (1961). 1^st ed. Signed by author. Water damage. Fair/Poor  50.00

Wouk, Herman.  Nature’s Way. NY: Doubleday, 1958. 1^st ed. Boards. Signed by author. VG  20.00

Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny (in German). Germany: Im Bertelsmann Lesering, 1956. Signed by author. Cloth, gilt. Tear along spine edge. G  50.00  

Wouk, Herman.  The Caine Mutiny (in Polish). Budapest: Zrini Karonai, 1969. Signed by author. VG/VG  50.00

SMALL PRESS

[Black Sparrow]  Four limited eds, signed and numbered. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, (1973 to 1984). Tom Clark, Paradise Resisted; Richard Grossinger, Nine Continents; Sherril Jaffe, Scars; Rochelle Owens, 82 Creation Poems. All with pict boards, paper labels. All Fine  45.00 ea

[Capra]  Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez, Kay Boyle, Henry Miller. Four Visions of America. Santa Barbara: Capra, (1977). 1^st ed. #188 of 225 copies signed by all four authors. DJ rubbed. VG/VG  65.00

[Capra]  Kenneth Patchen’s Lost Plays. Santa Barbara: Capra, 1977. 1^st ed, #63 of 100 signed by editor, Richard Morgan. Cloth. Fine  30.00

[Capra]  Nine limited ed chapbooks, first editions, signed and numbered. Santa Barbara: Capra, (1973 to 1976). Will Baker, Dawn Stone; Edwin Brock, I Never Saw It Lit; Edward Engberg, On Civilizing the Corporation; James Houston, Three Songs for My Father; Lyn Lifshin, Old House Poems; Jerred Metz, The Temperate Voluptuary; Edouard Roditi, The Disorderly Poet; Lynn Sukenick, Houdini; Jim White, A Crow’s Story of Deer. All Fine  35.00 ea

[Capra]  Sanford, John.  View From This Wilderness. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1977). 1^st ed, #27 of 100 signed by author. Small tears to DJ edges, price clipped. F/VG  50.00 

[Capra]  Three first editions, signed and numbered. Santa Barbara: Capra (1972 to 1975). Faye Kicknosway, A Man is a Hook. Trouble. Mary Savage, Addicted to Suicide (unnumbered Presentation Copy); Morton Marcus, Where the Oceans Cover Us; All pict cloth, paper labels. All Fine  45.00 ea

[Capricorn]  Durand, Robert.  The Old Man and the Monkey King. Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press (1970). 1^st ed, #40 of 100 signed by author and illustrator. Cloth, paper label. Fine  35.00

[Capricorn]  Ehrlich, Gretel. Geode/Rock Body. Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, (1972). 1^st ed, #37 of 50 signed by author. Pict cloth. Missing the paper label from spine and has a 1/8" x 4” stain on front cover, o/w VG. G  175.00

[Georgian]  Henderson, Archibald.  Is Bernard Shaw a Dramatist? Westport, CT: Georgian Press, 1929. 1^st ed, #84 of 1,000. Cloth, in box, paper labels. F/VG 15.00

lGreenwood]  Miller, Henry.  Henry Miller Miscellanea. San Mateo: Greenwood Press, 1945. 1^st ed. #64 of 500 copies with holograph postcard. Pict boards. VG   30.00

[Keepsake]  Toulson, Shirley.  The Fault, Dear Brutus. London: Keepsake Press, 1972.  #19 of 25 numbered and signed by artist & author. F/F  20.00

[Nonesuch]  Lawrence, D. H.  Love Among the Haystacks. London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. 1^st ed. Cloth. VG  50.00

[Peter Pauper]  Chinese Fairy Tales: Being a Collection of Ancient Legends. Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, (1938). Limited ed, one of 1450. Illus by Angelo Valenti. Pict boards in box. Spine darkened, cover spotted. VG/VG  20.00

[Peter Pauper]  Villon, Francoise.  Ballades & Lyrics. NY: Peter Pauper Press, (nd, circa 1944). 1/1450 copies. Boards. VG  20.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert. The Roycroft Books: A Catalog and Some Remarks. East Aurora, 1902. 1^st ed. Salesman’s Sample. Tipped-in photos. Stiff wrappers, ties. VG  40.00

[Roycroft]  Crawford, Jack. The Broncho Book; Being Buck-Jumps in Verse… East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1908. 1^st ed. Frontis. Brown limp suede, gilt. Edgewear. VG  75.00

[Roycroft]  Dickens, Charles.  The Holly Tree. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft, 1903. Limp green suede. VG  30.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  A Message to Garcia. East Aurora, NY,: Roycroft s, 1901.Limp red suede, gilt. Hinges broken. G  45.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  A Message to Garcia. East Aurora, NY,: Roycroft s, 1901. Limp green suede , gilt. VG  75.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  Elbert Hubbard’s Scrap Book. NY: William Wise, (1923). 1^st ed. Frontis. 8.5 x 10.5” stiff wrappers with ties. Cover chipped. VG 50.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  Little Journeys to Eminent Artists. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft, 1902. Blue suede. 2 vols. VG  50.00

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  Richard Wagner. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft, 1901. #298 of 940 signed by Hubbard. Frontis. Brown suede, gilt. Chipping to edges, cover separating a bit. VG  50.00 

[Roycroft]  Hubbard, Elbert.  The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard. NY: William Wise, (1927). 1^st ed. Frontis, fold-out plate. Letter and four Hubbard “Notices” laid in. 9 x 11” limp boards with ties, in DJ. F/F  90.00

SETS

Beaux & Belles of England.  London: Grolier Society, (nd, ca. 1844). 13 vols (complete). Connoisseur Edition, #34 of 150. ½ Morocco, gilt. Plates. One volume has front cover nearly detached, o/w all VG to Fine  175.00

Chronicles of America.  Yale University Press, 1919-1921. 50 vols (complete). 1^st ed thus. Pict cloth, gilt. Color maps, numerous illus. Light fading to cloth, internally fine. VG to Fine  275.00

Emerson, Ralph W.  Writings. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 7 vols in uniform cloth bindings, gilt: (Complete to date?): Poems, 1858, 7^th ed; Conduct of Life, 1863 (1” chip off top of spine); Essays: First Series, 1863; Essays Second Series, 1860; English Traits, 1860; Miscellanies, 1861; Representative Men, 1861. Endpapers of two books have penciled instructions for “elegantly finished” binding. VG  650.00   

Emerson, Ralph W.  Works. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889 - 1893. Riverside Edition. 16 of 17 vols (missing Vol 7). Frontispieces. ¼ polished calf over marbled boards, gilt, teg. Uniform rubbing, fading, flaking, fraying. Good to VG  150.00  

Gibbon, Edward.  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: John Murray, 1903. 8 vols (complete). Illus, large maps. Blue cloth, gilt. VG  125.00

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.  Works. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889. Riverside Ed. 11 vols (complete): 6 vol poetry, 3 vol Dante; 2 vol prose. Cloth, gilt. VG  40.00

Macfadden, Bernarr. The Encyclopedia of Health and Physical Culture. NY: Macfadden Book Co, 1940. 1^st ed. 8 vols (complete). Plates. Pictorial leatherette, gilt. Fine  175.00

Moliere.  Works (in French). Paris: Librarie E. Flammarion, 1888 – 1896. Plates. 22 vols (of indeterminate number. Set includes Tartuffe, Misanthrope and other major plays). ½ Morocco over boards, gilt. Spines a bit sunned. VG to Fine  175.00

Shakespeare, William.  Works. NY: George Routledge, (nd ca. 1890). 13 vols (complete) in box. [3.5 x 5”]. Cloth, gilt. All Fine, though box is broken.  150.00

Spofford, Ainsworth.  Library of Choice Literature. Phil: Gebbie & Co, 1882. 8 vols (complete). Plates. Pict cloth, gilt. All Fine  65.00

Stoddard, John.  Stoddard’s Lectures. Chicago: G. Schulman, 1900. 14 vols (complete). Illus. Full leather, gilt. All Fine  400.00

 ARABIAN NIGHTS

Burton, Richard.  The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, Including Six Supplemental Nights. Benares: Kamashastra Society, 1885. 1^st ed thus. 16 vols. Plates. Full Morocco, gilt. Rubbing, fading, flaking to covers. Internally fine. VG  2,500.00

Burton, Richard.  The Book of a Thousand Nights. Burton Society, (nd circa 1904,). 17 vols. #673 of 1000 sets. 17 vols. Plates. Green cloth (6 ½ x 10”), paper labels. VG  225.00 

Walser, David.  The Thousand Nights and One Night.  Calla Editions, 2007. 1^st ed thus. Color plates by Jan Pienkowski. 8 x 10” pict boards in DJ. F/F  20.00

[Hrubin, Frantisek]  Tales from the Arabian Nights.  London: Paul Hamlyn, 1960. 1^st ed thus. Color plates by Jiri Trnka. 8 ½ x 11” pict cloth in DJ. F/F  35.00

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.  NY: Charles Graham, (1927). Color plates. (6 x 7 ½”) pict boards, cloth spine. Chapbook VG  20.00       

Arabian Nights.  Akron: Saalfield, 1933. Illus by Francis Brundage. 1^st ed thus. Pict boards, cloth spine (7 ½ x 10”). VG  30.00 

Forster, Edward.  The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Phil: Willis Hazard, 1860. Illus. Cloth, gilt  (7 x 10”). Hinges split, faded, light foxing, 1/2” chip to spine. Fair  35.00

Illustrations to the Arabian Nights. (No title page, circa 1890). 100 plates and their accordance. Plates fine, though some with darkening at edges.1/2 Morocco, gilt (7 x 10”). Front board detached (but present). Binding copy  95.00

Lang, Andrew.  The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. London: Longmans, Green, 1898. 1^st ed thus. Illus. Blue pict cloth (5 x 7”), gilt, aeg. VG  225.00 

 

Stuart, Elizabeth.  Arabian Nights’ Stories. Racine: Whitman, (1928). Illus. Pict cloth (6 ½ x 9”). Chapbook. VG  20.00

Sugden, Mrs. The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments; Arranged for the Perusal of Youthful Readers. London: George Routledge, (nd, circa 1870). Blue pict cloth, gilt  (5 x 7”). Light foxing. VG  40.00

Tales From Arabian Nights.  Racine: Whitman, (1966). Illus by Joseph Smith. Pict boards (5 x 8”). VG  20.00

The Arabian Nights.  Phil: John Winston, (nd, ca 1925). Color plates by Adeline Bolton. Pict cloth. Spine faded, edges frayed. G  10.00

The Arabian Nights, an Unexpurgated Selection.  NY: Blue Ribbon, (1932). Illus by Steele Savage. 1^st ed thus. Light sunning to DJ spine. F/F  50.00

The Arabian Nights; Tales from the Thousand and One Nights.  NY: Dodd, Mead, (1925). Color plates by E. J. Detmold. 1^st ed thus. Pict cloth, gilt  (8 x 10”). VG 65.00

The Arabian Nights Entertainments. London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883. 4 vols. Plates by A. Lalauze. #21 of 150 sets with etchings on Japanese paper. 6 x 9 ½” boards, paper labels. Pages mostly unopened. Paper labels chipped. VG  125.00

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.  Halifax: William Milner, 1847. Frontis. Red pict cloth, gilt, aeg (3.5 x 5 x 1.5”). VG  90.00

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Harper & Bros, (1916). 1^st ed thus. Illus by Louis Rhead. Pict cloth, gilt (6 ½ x 9”). VG  60.00

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.  London: Ward Lock, 1908. Plates. Pict cloth, gilt (6 x 9”). Half-title laid in, o/w VG  45.00

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.  NY: A. L. Burt, (nd, circa 1880). Color plates. Gray pict cloth, gilt  (5 x 8”). Illus. VG  40.00

The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Phil: Henry Altemus, (1897). 1^st ed thus. Illus, color plate. Pict cloth, gilt (5 x 6”). VG  50.00

Townsend, George.  The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. London: Frederick Warne, (nd, circa 1880). Illus, color plate. Blue pict cloth, gilt, teg (6 x 8”). Bookplate. VG  50.00

Wiggin, Kate Douglas.  The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales. NY: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1912. Color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Pict cloth (7 x 9 ½”). Spine faded, cover loose. VG  40.00

Wiggin, Kate Douglas.  The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales. NY: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1937. Color plates by Maxfield Parrish. Pict cloth (7 x 9 ½”). Slight rubbing to pastedown. Fine  40.00

POETRY

Aikin, Dr.  Select Works from the British Poets. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees,…1824. Full leather, gilt. VG  35.00

Berryman, John.  His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. NY: Farrar Straus, 1968. 1^st ed. F/F  40.00

Brooke, Rupert.  The Complete Poems. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1932. 1^st ed. Endpaper removed, DJ spine darkened. VG/VG  15.00

Browning, E. B.  Sonnets from the Portuguese. NY: Thomas Crowell, (nd cica 1900). Frontis. Limp suede, gilt. VG  30.00    

Christy, Howard. Songs of Sentiment: A Christy Gift Book. NY: Moffat, Yard, 1910. 1^st ed. Color plates by Howard Christy. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  60.00

Cornford, Frances.  Poems. Hampstead: Priory Press, (1910). VG  40.00 

Coxe, Louis.  The Sea Faring and Other Poems. (np): Henry Holt, (1947). 1^st ed. 2” chip to DJ back. VG/VG  10.00

Davie, Ian.  Piers Prodigal and Other Poems. London: Harvil Press, (1961). 1^st ed. F/F  15.00

Dickinson, Emily.  Further Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929. Cloth, gilt. Spine faded. VG  35.00

Dickinson, Emily.  Poems of Emily Dickinson: Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. 2^nd ed. Pict cloth, gilt. Spine darkened. VG  350.00

Eckerson, Theo.  When My Ship Comes In. Cambridge: Riverside, 1881. 1^st ed. Pict cloth, gilt. Spine darkened. VG  20.00

Fitzgerald, Edward.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Akron, OH: Saalfield, (nd, circa 1900). Stiff wrappers. VG  20.00

Fitzgerald, Edward.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890. Illus by Elihu Vedder. Printed on one side only. Cloth, gilt. F  40.00

Fitzgerald, Edward.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Chicago: Brewer, Barse, (1909). Each page decorated. Chapbook. VG  35.00

Fitzgerald, Edward.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. NY: Thomas Crowell, (nd, circa 1900). Frontis. Cloth, gilt. VG  20.00

Fitzgerald, Edward.  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. NY: Thomas Crowell, (nd, circa 1920). Plates. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  20.00

Frost, Robert.  In the Clearing. London: Holt, Rinehart, (1962). 1^st UK ed. (Two copies). F/F  40.00  ea

Graves, Robert. Poems (1926 - 1930). London: William Heineman, 1931. 1st ed. 1/2 x 3" chip to DJ spine. F/VG  175.00

Holland, J. G.  Kathrina: Her Life and Mine. NY: Charles Scribner, 1869. 1^st ed thus. Illus. Full Morocco, gilt, aeg. VG  45.00

Lehmann, John.  Collected Poems. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963. 1^st ed. “File Copy” rubberstamp. F/F   35.00

Leland, Charles.  Pidgin-English Sing-Song. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1900. Fifth Edition. Pict boards. Covers bowed and rubbed, spine faded. G  20.00

Lewis, C. Day.  The Poetic Image. London: Jonathan Cape, (1947). VG/VG  30.00

Longfellow, Henry.  The Courtship of Miles Standish. NY: Barse & Hopkins, (nd, circa 1890). Frontis. Pict limp green suede, gilt. VG  25.00

Longfellow, Henry.  Evangeline. NY: Hurst, (nd, circa 1890). Illus. Pict limp green suede. VG  25.00

Longfellow, Henry. The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. 1^st ed, early printing, with 215 pages and ads dated November, 1858. Cloth, gilt. Spine lean. VG  65.00  

Lowell, James R. Under the Willows. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. 1^st ed with 1^st issue points, errata slip p. 286 and “Thy” on p. 224. Clippings and bookseller tags pasted on endpapers. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  65.00

Mason-Manheim, Madeline.  Hill Fragments. London: Cecil Palmer, (1925). 1^st ed. 5 plates by Kahlil Gibran. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  65.00

McCrae, John.  In Flanders Fields. Toronto: William Briggs, 1919. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. Frontis. VG  60.00

Monro, Harold.  Strange Meetings. Poetry Bookshop, 1917. 1^st ed. Wrappers. VG 60.00

Monro, Harold.  Strange Meetings. Poetry Bookshop, 1921. 3^rd thousand (1^st hardbound). VG/VG  40.00

Monro, Harold.  Harold Monro: Augustan Books of English Poetry. 2^nd Series, No. 5. London: Ernest Benn, (nd). Wrappers. VG  30.00

Mother Goose, Her Best-Known Rhymes. Akron: Saalfield Pub, 1933. 1^st ed thus. Color illus by Fern Bisel Peat. 9 ½ x 12” pict boards, cloth spine. Edgewear. VG    65.00

Nemerov, Howard.  The Image and the Law. NY: Henry Holt, (1947). 1^st ed. VG/VG  50.00  

Nesbit, Wilbur.  A Friend or Two. Chicago: P. Volland, 1915. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  30.00

Noguchi, Yone.  Seen and Unseen. NY: Orientalia, 1920. Ltd ed, 1/500. Illus. Limp boards, in case w/clasps. F  65.00

Osborn, E. B.  The Muse in Arms: A Collection of War Poems. NY: Frederick Stokes, (1917). 1^st US ed. Cloth, gilt. Spine faded. VG  15.00

Owen, Wilfred.  The Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto & Windus, (1933). 1^st ed thus. Cloth, gilt. Boards bowed, discolored, spine faded. G  35.00

Page, Jean.  Through Field and Fallow. London: Tennyson Neely, 1897. 1^st ed. Frontis, illus. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  10.00

Poe, Edgar Allan  Poems. Phil: Henry Altemus, (1895). Frontis, illus. 4 x 6” pict boards over cloth. Covers darkened, edges worn. G  65.00

Poe, Edgar Allan.  Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature & Art, 1850. 1^st ed. 1st appearance of “Annabel Lee”. Spine gone and front board detached (but present). Foxing. Binding copy.  75.00

Poe, Edgar Allan. The American Review: A Whig Journal… NY: Wiley-Putnam, 1845. 1^st appearance of “The Raven,”  “By ------ Quarles”. Some foxing (not affecting the poem). With frontispiece and all pages. Surprisingly tight binding given that the spine and both front and back covers are gone. Binding copy 2,500.00

Riding, Laura.  First Awakenings. NY: Persea Books, (1992). 1^st ed, Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. VG  10.00

Rogers, Samuel.  The Pleasures of Memory and The Pleasures of Hope, by Thomas Campbell. Phil: H. H. Butler, 1866. Pict cloth, aeg. VG  20.00

Sassoon, Siegfried.  Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre. London: Duckworth, 1931. 1^st ed. Pict cloth, silver. 2” chip to tissue. VG  20.00

Sassoon, Siegfried.  Satirical Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1926. 1^st ed. Cloth, gilt. VG  40.00

Sassoon, Siegfried.  Satirical Poems. London: William Heinemann, 1933. “New Edition with five poems added”. 1^st ed thus. Cloth, gilt. Gift inscription. VG  30.00

Sassoon, Siegfried.  The Road to Ruin. London: Faber & Faber, (1933). 1^st ed. F/VG  25.00

Service, Robert W.  Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. NY: Barse & Hopkins, (1916). 1^st ed. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  50.00

Sitwell, Edith.  The Song of the Cold. London: Macmillan, 1945. 1^st ed. DJ spine darkened. VG/VG  15.00

Stevenson, Robert L.  A Child’s Garden of Verses. Phil: Henry Altemus, (nd, circa 1910). Illus. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  15.00

Taylor, Benjamin.  Songs of Yesterday. Chicago: S. C. Griggs, (1875). 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth, gilt, aeg. VG  10.00

Tennyson, Alfred.  The Flower Sermon. Buffalo: Hayes Lithographing, (1910). 1^st ed thus. Color illus. Boards (4 x 8”). Light spotting. VG  25.00

Wilde, Oscar.  The Poems of Oscar Wilde. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1911, Vol 4290 of Collection of British Authors. 1^st ed thus. Stiff wrappers. Split in two, but all pages present. Poor  20.00 

  

POETRY ANTHOLOGIES

A Little Book of Modern Verse; Introduction by T. S. Eliot. London: Faber and Faber, (1946). 6^th Imp. ½” chip to DJ spine. F/VG  15.00

A Miscellany of Poetry 1920 – 1922.  London; Poetry Bookshop, 1922. 1/1500 copies. VG  15.00

Best Poems of 1926. NY: Appleton, (nd). VG/VG  10.00

Best Poems of 1927. 1927. London: Poetry Bookshop,(1927). Cloth. VG  10.00

Best Poems of 1929. London: Poetry Bookshop,(1929). VG/VG  15.00

Best Poems of 1933. London: Poetry Bookshop, (1933). VG/VG  15.00

Best Poems of 1935. (1935). London: Poetry Bookshop, (1935). Cloth. With Stephen Spender’s bookplate. VG  20.00

Best Poems of 1935. London: Jonathan Cape, (1935). 1^st ed. Illus. F/F  30.00

Best Poems of 1943. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1944). 1^st ed. Illus. F/F  20.00

Best Poems of 1958. NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1958). 1^st ed. Signed, “For Doug Dutton, with warm good wishes, Joan LaBombard.” F/VG  20.00

Chatto Book of Modern Poetry. London: Chatto, 1956. Signed “John Lehmann his copy”. VG/VG  25.00

Georgian Poetry 1916 – 1917. London: Poetry Bookshop, 1918, 11^th thousand. Cloth. VG  10.00

Georgian Poetry 1916 – 1917.  London, Poetry Bookshop, 1923,. 3^rd thousand. Cloth. F/VG  15.00

Georgian Poetry 1920 – 1922. London: Poetry Bookshop, 1922. 1st ed. Cloth. VG  10.00

New Poems: 1953. London: Michael Joseph, 1953. 1^st ed. F/F  15.00

New Poems: 1957. London: Michael Joseph, 1957. 1^st ed. F/F  15.00

New Poems: 1958. London: Michael Joseph, 1958. 1^st ed. F/F  15.00

Oxford Poetry 1917 – 1919. London: Poetry Bookshop, (1920). Cloth. VG  10.00

Oxford Poetry 1921. NY: Appleton, 1923. F/VG  15.00

Palmer, John, ed. Folk Songs. NY: Charles Scribner, 1867. Full leather, gilt, aeg. Gilt faded, covers rubbed. G  35.00

Ten Modern Poets, 1929. [No publisher or place cited]. Vellum. VG  90.00

The Modern Poet, an Anthology. London: Sidgwick, (1938). VG/VG  15.00

Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (nd, circa 1919). Cloth, gilt. VG  15.00

Collection of Roycrofter “Little Journeys” in uniform wrappers, about 50 titles. All for 175.00 

Collection of Samuel French Plays in uniforn wrappers. about 50 titles. All for 125.00

Collection of Little Red Library in uniform leatherette, about 90 titles. All for  300.00 

Below: Assorted oversized books

BIOGRAPHIES

CHILDRENS & YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

Alger, Horatio.  Strive and Succeed. NY: Hurst, (nd, circa 1910. Pict cloth (pastedown), gilt. Pages darkened. VG  10.00

Alger, Horatio.  Struggling Upward. NY: A. L. Burt, (nd, circa 1910). Pict cloth. Cloth spotted, spine lean. VG  10.00

Baum, L. Frank.  The Wizard of Oz. Chicago: M.A. Donohue, (1903). Early ed. Color plates by W. W. Denslow. Pict cloth. Spine broken, cloth frayed. G 150.00

Berenstain, Stanley.  Berenstain’s Baby Book. NY: Macmillan, 1951. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict boards, cloth spine. VG  25.00

Burnett, Frances H.  The Head of the House of Coombe. NY: Frederick Stokes, (1922). 1^st ed. Cloth. VG  35.00

Burroughs, Edgar Rice.  Tarzan and the Foreign Legion. Tarzana, CA: Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1947). 1^st ed. Plates. Water damage. VG/G  20.00

Burroughs, Edgar Rice.  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. NY: A. L. Burt, (April, 1918). Frontis. Possible 1^st printing of DJ, with only four earlier Tarzan titles listed. Some foxing. DJ chipped, darkened. VG/G  125.00

Carroll, Lewis.  Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. NY: Thomas Crowell, (nd, Circa 1900). Illus by John Tenniel. Cloth, gilt. Spine lean, rear hinge cracked. VG  70.00

Carryl, Guy.  Fables for the Frivolous. NY: Harper & Bros, 1899. Ist ed, 2^nd printing. Illus by Peter Newell. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  20.00

Children's Classic Library: Heidi, Pinocchio and Peter Pan. New Jersey: Unicorn Pub, (1986, 1987). 1st ed thus. 3 vols. Color plates. Heidi illus by Donna Pacinelli, the others by Greg Hildebrandt. Heidi also signed by Hayley Mills. Pict boards in pict box (8 1/2 x 11").  F  95.00

Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. NY: Alfred Knopf, (1964). 1st ed, 1st printing with red cloth, top edge brown and 6-line collophon n last page. 1st issue DJ with no ISBN number on rear panel. Small gift inscription on endpaper. DJ's front panel taped on, 1" tear, small chips, price-clipped. F/G 1,400  

Durston, George.  The Boy Scouts to the Rescue. Akron: Saalfield Pub, (1921). 1^st ed. 2” chip to DJ. F/VG  10.00 

Graham, Kenneth.  The Wind in the Willows. NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913. 1^st ed thus. Color plates by Paul Bransom. Pict cloth. Some rubbing, fraying, fading. VG  65.00

Gray, Harold.  Little Orphan Annie. Cupples & Leon, 1926 - 1933. 9 vols in uniform chapbook bindings (complete). Little Orphan Annie; At the Circus; And the Haunted House; Bucking the World; Never Say Die!;, Shripwrecked; A Willing Helper; In Cosmic City; And Uncle Dan. VG to Fine.  275.00     

Greenaway, Kate.  Kate Greenaway’s Book of Games. London: Routledge, (nd, ca. 1890). Color plates. Pict cloth, gilt. VG  65.00

Griffin, Mrs. Walter.  Our Treasure Chest for Girls and Boys. NY: Union Publishing, 1887. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth. VG  15.00

Harris, Joel Chandler.  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth, gilt. Cloth darkened, hinge broken. G  20.00

Henry, Marguerite.  Geraldine Belinda. NY: Platt & Muck, (1952). 1^st ed. Illus by Gladys Blackwood. Pict boards, DJ. F/VG  45.00

La Prade, Ernest.  Alice in Orchestralia. NY: Doubleday Duran, 1930. 2^nd ed. Illus. Pict cloth. VG  15.00

Larned, William.  Fairy-Tales from France. NY: P. F. Volland, (1920). 1^st ed. Color illus. Pict boards. VG  15.00

Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Doolittle’s Caravan. NY: Frederick Stokes, (1926). 1^st ed. Color endpapers & frontis. Illus. Hinges cracked, o/w VG.  G  60.00

Maeterlinck, Maurice.  Our Friend, the Dog. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1904. 1^st ed. Illus. Pict cloth. VG  35.00

Marge. Little Lulu and Her Pals, Oh, Little Lulu, Little Lulu on Parade. NY: David McKay, (1939, 1941, 1943 respectively). Color plates. Pict boards. The 1941 & 1943 books are Fine in VG djs. The 1939 is VG and lacks dj.  60.00 ea

Milne, A. A.  Toad of Toad Hall. NY: Scribner’s Sons, 1929. 1^st US ed. Pict cloth. VG  40.00

Milne, A. A.  Year In, Year Out. NY: E. P. Dutton, (1953). 1^st US ed, 2^nd printing. Illus by E. H. Shepard. F/F  35.00

Winter, John S.  Little Gervaise and Other Stories. Phil: Henry Altemus, (1900). F/VG  20.00

Wollheim, Donald.  Mike Mars Flies the Dyna-Soar. Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. 1^st ed. Illus. F/VG  25.00

Young, Chic.  Blondie and Dagwood’s Secret Service. Racine: Whitman Pub, (1943). 1^st ed. DJ has small tears. VG/G  10.00