THE PHILOMATHESIAN.
Vol. 1, No. 10. April 1834. 8 x 5.25", removed, pp 289-296, contains three page poem "The Exiled Polander", minor spotting & soil. More
Vol. 1, No. 10. April 1834. 8 x 5.25", removed, pp 289-296, contains three page poem "The Exiled Polander", minor spotting & soil. More
Schoolcraft, (c. 1939-1950). Paperback. EKC. 3.5 x 5.5", postally unused. Light soiling else very good condition. James Fenimore Cooper came to Oak Openings in Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo County, Michigan in 1848 where he wrote his novel "The Oak Openings; or, The Bee Hunter." Shows a two story brick house with white..... More
Thomas Hailes Lacy: London, nd (1837). Hardcover. 7 x 4", gilt-ruled polished calf; teg, (Signed Binding by Riviere and Son), 60pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, outer hinges cracked, rear outer hinge failing, half-inch at top and bottom of spine chipped off, pp toned and used. SWAF. A SCARCE..... More
Theatre Program Co: Detroit. Local ads, 9 x 6, pict stapled wraps, covers a bit soiled and worn, else vg. Sinclair Lewis and Philip Merivale in "Angela is Twenty-Two," a play by Lewis, at the Cass Theatre. Lewis and Merivale are pictured on the program's front cover. More
The Friends of The Free Library of Philadelphia (1972). Cover portrait, 9x6", stapled wraps, 12pp, covers a bit worn and soiled. Keepsake for 1972. More
National Child Labor Committee: NY 1924. 8 x 5.5", wraps, 53pp, covers rubbed else ok. Authors include Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer, Margaret E. Sangster, etc. Publication No. 316. More
Medway School of Art and Crafts: Rochester, Kent 1938. Wood engravings by J. E. Bostock, 10 x 7.5", cloth backed boards, 29pp, corners bumped (esp top right), ends foxed, covers rubbed. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE BOOK'S DESIGNER CHARLES L. PICKERING. More
London: Printed For T. Payne And Son, 1777. Hardcover. Engraving opposite page 288, 8 x 5.5", old mottled calf, professionally rebacked tan spine with red spine label, covers have decorative gilt trim, marbled edge and endpapers, xxvii, 307 including errata. Covers have light scuffing, scratches and darkening near spine, gilt..... More
(Chicago), (1987). Paperback. Ads, 9 x 5.5", pict wraps, 239pp + pp, covers a bit rubbed and lightly soiled else a good copy of this sought-after issue. Includes poems by John Ashbery, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Philip Levine, etc. More
NY, 1978. Photos, 8.5 x 5.5, wraps, 106 pp, covers a bit worn and yellowed. ONE OF 800 PAPERBOUND COPIES. More
np, nd (1890s?). Hardcover. Proof Print is 9.25 x 5", mounted on a stiff board 9.75 x 7.25". Soiling, approximately 1" tear on right margin, upper right corner lacking on print, pencil number on reverse. Written in pencil on upper left corner "Warner, Charles Dudley" and on the upper right..... More
Darrell Schweitzer: Strafford, PA. Illus, 11 x 8.5", stapled wraps, 41pp, horizontal fold, yellowed with cigarette smoke odor. More
NY. 9 x 6", wraps, 250pp, covers a bit worn & soiled. Includes contributions by Howard Nemerov. More
Black Sparrow Press: Santa Barbara, CA, nd (c. 1984). Paperback. Illus., 11.5 x 7", stapled wraps with glossy portrait of Lewis affixed to front cover, (8)pp, covers a little rubbed, corners a little bumped else a nice copy. "Announcing a New/Old Publishing Venture..." Also, the prospectus form THE APES OF..... More
T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1923. Paperback. Front cover portrait, 6.75 x 4", 4pp, self wraps, toning, bottom forecorner dogeared else a nice copy of this SCARCE piece of ephemera. Also mentions ALMAYER'S FOLLY, AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLAND, TALES OF UNREST and THE ARROW OF GOLD, all in the Uniform..... More
Book-of-the-Month Club: Camp Hill, PA, nd (1977). Paperback. 9 x 7", one sheet folded once, front cover with color illus. from book, map and review inside, rear cover is a photo portrait of Tolkien, minor wear and toning. A SCARCE but not very valuable piece of ephemera. More
Incline Press: Oldham, UK np, 2002. 9 x 6, one sheet folded into 4 panels, some wrinkling and toning, ink "ordered 9/03/02" inside else a nice example. Honoring Seamus Heaney with works by his family. More
Citizen Commission on Human Rights: Los Angeles, CA, 1997. Paperback. Photos, 11 x 8.5", pict stapled wraps, 68pp, covers a bit rubbed (rear cover more so), contents nice and clean. "This publication was made possible by a grant from the United States International Association of Scientologist Members' Trust" More
The Pulp Collector Press: New Carrollton, MD. Vol. 2 No 4, Vol 3 Nos 1 (two copies) & 2 & 3 & 4, Vol. 4 Nos 1 & 2 & 4, and Vol 5 No. 2. 1987-1990. Illus, 11 x 8.25", wraps, covers yellowed with light soil & cigarete smoke..... More
James Van Hise: Yucca Valley, CA (1998). Illus, 11 x 8.5", pict wraps, 190pp, slight cigarette smoke odor else vg. FIRST EDITION. More
London. Illus, 11 x 8.5", cloth with gilt dec (1886-1890 brown cloth, 1891-1897 red cloth), pagination varies around 320pp, covers faded, sunned, soiled, spotted, darkened, corners bumped & worn, spine edges worn & frayed, some tips worn off, some spine covers torn, some holed or missing pieces, light water staining..... More
London Jan-June & Jul-Dec 1898, Jan-June 1915, Jan-July 1922, Jan-Mar, 1936. 5 bound volumes. 11 x 9", illus, cloth w/gilt-dec, 312, 520, 522 & 336pp, spines faded, tips bumped, covers moderately worn with some scratches & snags, corners bumped & worn, inner hinges cracked on two of the vols, another..... More
Ioannem Pillehotte: Lugduni [Lyon], 1604. Hardcover. 4.5 x 3", later gilt-dec leather (later amateurishly rehinged in cloth), 323pp, covers rubbed and spotted with scratches and a small round hole in front cover, covers detached but held on by old cloth patches, spine ends badly chipped, period ink writing inside front..... More
(Robert Weinberg: Oak Lawn, IL 1974). Drawings, 8.5 x 5.5", pict wraps, 64pp, covers smoke stained. More
Random House, NY, 1930. Paperback. 5 vol. set. 8 x 5.5", wraps, spines sunned, Bromfield spine label chipped else good in sunned slipcase. FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED TO 875 COPIES EACH. More