The Macmillan Co.: NY, 1938. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", cloth, 85pp, covers a bit rubbed, extremities fraying, some scratches to front cover, spine label a bit browned, endpapers toned. SIGNED BY THE ABBEY PLAYERS (on the unevenly toned front fly): MAUREEN DELANY, MAY CRAIG, AIDEEN O'CONNOR, EILEEN CROWE, ARTHUR SHIELDS... More about THE FAR-OFF HILLS, A Comedy in Three Acts
E. R. Grandin: Palmyra, 1830. 7.5 x 4.5", full old leather, 588pp + "The Testimony of Three Witnesses" + "And Also the Testimonyof Eight Witnesses", covers quite worn and scratched, hinges loose, ink name ("Joseph") on front fly, contents toned and worn, inner hinges cracked, minor staining at gutter to... More about THE BOOK OF MORMON, An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken from the Plates...
Random House: NY, 1934. Hardcover. 8.5 x 6", black cloth, 57pp, covers rubbed and a bit dusty, top edge of back cover with some paper adhesion, endpapers unevenly toned; still a good copy of the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED "For Veronica Hutchinson..." AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, GERTRUDE... More about FOUR SAINTS IN THREE ACTS, An Opera To Be Sung
Random House: NY, (1934). Hardcover. 8.25 x 6", rough cloth backed pict boards, 264pp, covers rubbed and darkened, extremities bumped, spine label browned and chipped, pp toned. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "For Veronica Hutchinson...Cleveland Dec 22/'34" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, GERTRUDE STEIN. More about PORTRAITS AND PRAYERS
Random House: NY, (1936). Hardcover. 7.5 x 4.5", green cloth, 625pp, covers rubbed, spine darkened, extremities fraying, bottom edges of covers with some adhesion marks, eps toned (especially front endpapers from old newspaper clippings). INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPERS "To Veronica Hutchinson with our best wishes, The Abbey Players" AND SIGNED... More about THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN M. SYNGE
Lovat, Dickson & Thompson Ltd.: London, (1935). Hardcover. Illus. by Mary Shepard, 7.5 x 5", pict beige cloth, 303pp, covers worn and unevenly darkened, spine ends bumped, eps toned, no dustjacket, FIRST EDITION ("First Published 1935"), INSCRIBED "To Miss Veronica Hutchinson with best wishes from..." AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, P.L. TRAVERS. More about MARY POPPINS COMES BACK
Reynal & Hitchcock: NY, (1943). Hardcover. Illus. by Mary Shepard and Agnes Sims, 7.75 x 5", pict cloth, 239pp, covers rubbed with some light staining at bottom edges, extremities lightly bumped and worn, endpapers unevenly toned, small dark stains on foredge and bottom edge of textblock but still a decent... More about MARY POPPINS OPENS THE DOOR
np, nd. One page, 6.25 x 4, on plain lined paper, boldly written to (Noah) Brooks, dated May 19: "Very much obliged. Will you please endorse this check over to Tommy or cash it & pay him? It is 15 folios -- for long jobs I have alsways paid 8... More about Autograph Letter Signed "Mark" by Mark Twain
Charles L. Webster: NY, 1885. "With One Hundred and Seventy-Four Illustrations," 8.5 x 6.5, finely rebound in full gilt-ruled brown morocco, aeg, SIGNED BINDING BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE, 366 pp, covers with just minor shelf wear, hinges a little loose, pp tone with a little finger soil to margins else a very... More about ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Tom Sawyer's Comrade
C. G. and J. Robinson: London 1793. 9 x 5", 3/4 leather w/marbled boards, raised bands, i-xxxix, 41-391pp, later covers & eps, worn, scuffed, outer hinges worn, corners bumped, pencil notes inside, name stamp on title, ink notes, soiling, spotting, creasing. Vaughan, an MP in England, was a sympathizer of... More about LETTERS ON THE SUBJEC OF THE CONCERT OF PRINCES, AND THE DISMEMBERMENT OF POLAND AND FRANCE
Scribner, Armstrong & Co.: NY, 1876. Hardcover. Illus., 7.5 x 5", gilt-dec and gilt-lettered brown cloth, 299pp, covers heavily, heavily, heavily worn, spine cocked, extremities bumped and chipping, front inner hinge cracked, former owner's inkstamp on front fly, pp toned and badly finger soiled; a wreck of a book, but... More about THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND: THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND
New York, 1950. Two pages, 12 x 9, torn roughly at top (from tablet?), written in black ink on both sides, folds, toning, loss of some letters from one page, in Hungarian. WITH TWO ORIGINAL INK ILLUSTRATIONS OF DOGS BY MARCEL VERTES: One of a dog, with a halo, tearing... More about AUTOGRAPH LETTER WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ARTIST MARCEL VERTES, 1950
T. J. for Edward Thomas: London, 1682. 6 x 3.5, rebound in 3/4 leather; marbled boards, with crudely gilt-lettered spine labels, 371 pp + Advertisement (for a Cathartique and Diureretick pill), covers rubbed and darkened, newer endpapers with glue stains, ink marks on title page, pp toned and used with... More about THE GENTLEWOMANS COMPANION; Or, A Guide to the Female Sex: Containing Directions of Behaviour in...
Routledge: London, (1942). Hardcover. Frontis illus. by author, 6.5 x 4", cloth backed boards, 90pp, covers rubbed and darkened at edges, spine sunned with several small holes in cloth, pp toned. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ARTIST AND DATED "Dublin February 25, 1944" BELOW ORIGINAL INK ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT APPEARS... More about AH WELL, A Romance in Perpetuity