Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. Illustrated edition. 8vo, pp. 236. Bound in contemporary full calf, stamped in black, gilt spine, all edges gilt, some rubbed, but a very good tight copy. Bookplate on end paper and short inscription on flyleaf. With drawings by Garrett, Schell, Anthony, Smith, Perkins, Ipsen, Fenn..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, ca 1876 (?). CRUIKSHANK, George. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 428 + adv. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt. 2 volumes. Fold-out frontispieces for each year. Untrimmed, hinges tender but a very good clean copy. More
NY: Century, 1897. W. Taber. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 323. Illustrated with 21 full-page black-and-white plates by W. Taber. Light green cloth, stamped in dark green, red and gilt, front himge loose, a good copy. Story of a Gloucester fishing boat. Kipling's first American novel, written while the newlywed..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. Phiz. First edition, RARE issue with 1860 title and page 213 numbered correctly. 8vo, pp. 254 Including 16 plates by Phiz( Hablot K. Browne) Bound in publisher's green cloth cloth (spine faded, with some wear at the extremities). Some toning to the engraved title pages..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. H. K. Browne. First Edition, in 19 parts as issued. 8vo, bound in blue wrappers. With forty inserted plates, including frontispiece and added vignette, after etchings by "Phiz" [pseudonym of Halbot K. Browne]. First issue text, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. H. K. Browne. First Edition, bound from the parts. 8vo, pp. xiv, 625. First issue with signature "BB2" signed "B2", without the errata slip on p. 481. Bound in little rubbed 3/4 leather and boards with labels on the spine (lacks one label). Bound with..... More
(1949). This is friendly note setting up a meeting with William Claire, poet and editor of the magazine "Voyages. " With the mailing address. More
9 x 7 in. William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist, was appointed the twentieth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970. Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. His "Traveling Through the Dark" won the 1963..... More
Booth sent this to accompany a MSS copy of a poem "These Men" (not included). Booth was born in 1925 in Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended Dartmouth College, where he studied with Robert Frost; he received his B.A. in 1947. He subsequently received an M.A. from Columbia University. Booth was..... More
This is a change of address card to Mr. Claire. The recto is Claire's address in Washington, DC on the verso lists Porter's old address and new one. (9 lines). From Wikipedia: "Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short..... More
Gloucester MA: Cape Ann Museum, 2018. First Edition. oblong 8vo, pp. 113. Illustrated throughout, printed wrappers. a catalog of the holdings of the museum. More
NY: Steuben Glass, (1963). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 86. Illustrated with black and white photographs of examples of Steuben Glass. Bound in publisher's cloth, a very good copy. Includes poems by Conrad Aiken, W.H. Auden, Witter Byner, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth, Karl Shapiro, William Carlos Williams, et. al. More
NY: Riverhead Books, (2005). First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 134. Original wraps, a near fine copy. More
[LONDON]: Bloomsbury, (1991). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 200, Illustrated with photographs. Name on end paper, a fine copy in dj. Martin was private secretary to Winston Churchill during WWII. More
NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1984. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 288. Name on end paper, a fine copy in dj. More
London: Granta, (1998). First paperback edition. 8vo, pp. 240. Name on flyleaf, a very good copy. Printed wraps. Author of a juvenile writer's autobiography. More
London: Student Christian Movement Press, (1931). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 98 + adv. Bound in little soiled orange cloth, name on end paper, a very good copy. A survey of British education. More
[London]: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2017). First edition (?). 8vo, pp. 398. Name on end paper, a fine copy in dj. More
Washington, DC: (2000). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 91. Name on title page, printed in paper wraps, a near fine copy. More
[Washington, DC: Committee on Human Resources, 1978. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 985. Printed wraps, a very good copy. More
[Cambridge, MA]: 1979. Extracted. 8vo, pp. 19-56. Stapled into stiff wraps, a very good copy. More
University of Chicago, 1959. 8vo, pp. 145-170. Stapled in printed wraps. Very good copy. More
[Boston: Senate no. 2165, Senate, January 3, 1983. 8vo, pp. 98. Self wraps. A fine copy. More
[Cambridge, UK]: Polity, (2014). First edition. 8vo, pp. 259. Name on end paper, a fine copy in dj. A critical biography of the noted British intellectual, author of The Uses of Literacy. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1989). First expanded edition. 8vo, pp. 328. Name on end paper, a very good copy bound in printed wraps. More
