4 lines written "Dear Mrs. Newlands". Steinbeck writes back to a collector looking for a copy of the scarce book "Northing So Monstrous" noting, "I haven't any idea where you can find the book in question. It was a small edition. Sorry to be of so little assistance. Sincerely, John..... More
London: Baldwin for Millar et. al, 1765. The Fifth edition, corrected and illustrated with 62 copper plates. 4to, pp. [viii], 72. Includes two folding plates and two frontispieces. Bound in contemporary boards with modern cloth spine, Two parts in one, the second being the supplement. Some foxing and staining, but..... More
Lugduni: [printed by Joannes Marcorellius for] Antonium de Harsy, 1572. 8vo, [pp. 608]. Some underlining on the first 50 pages and light water stain to about 10 leaves. Bound with: MALESCOT, Stephan De, DE NUPTIIS LIBER PARADOXICUS, nova & recenti methodo compositus & llustris. ac iisimis heroibus, Friderico Comiti Palatino..... More
Hallowell: Peter Edes, 1800. First edn. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 203, xiii. Bound in original leather backed boards, hinge tender, some light staining, a very good copy. Evans 38923; Rink 1131. Rare. Lawyer, physician, merchant, diplomat and agriculturist, Vaughan (1751-1835) was an active propagandist for the American Revolution. He co-edited Political..... More
NY: GP Putnam's Sons, 1925. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 521. Bound in blue cloth with paper label. Some staining to the end paper, title page partially cut along the hinge. Frontis portrait, a very good copy. Letters, sketches, articles, a short biography of the important woman doctor with a listing..... More
[London:]: Enoitharmon Press, 1968. First Edition, after a limited edition of 200 numbered and signed copy. 8vo, printed wraps, errata slip laid in. Former owner's initials on the half title. Little soiled wraps, very good. This series of poems written by the 2005 Nobel prize winner for literature has been..... More
NY: Grand Central Life & Style, (2018). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 360. Illustrated with some colored photographs. A very good copy in dj (front flap folded). The official companion to the Always Hungry? Weight lose program. More
NY: Harper & Row, (1979). Revised edition. Large 8vo, pp. 751. Index. Paper over boards. Binding some cocked, front hinge loose, just good. More
(NY): Viking, (1985). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 249. Very good in some worn dj. More
NY: Scribner, (2003). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 379. A very good copy in dj (that is soiled on the rear cover. Written by the cooks from the restaurant in southern Maine. More
N Y: Time-Life, (1972). Mark Kaufman. Reprint. Large 8vo, pp.206.Illustrated, bound in glazed boards, very good copy. More
Toronto, etc: Bantam Books, (1988). Reprint. 8vo, pp. 396. Short inscription on endpaper. A very good copy. More
[NY]: Macmillan, (1970). First printing. 8vo, pp. 457. Bound in light green cloth (little cocked), inscribed by the authors. More
NY: Barnes & Noble, (2007). Printed in arrangement with Compendium Publishing. 4to, pp. 400. Gloriously illustrated in color throughout. Inscription on end paper. A very good copy in little chipped and wrinkled dj. More
NY: Random House, (1984). Third printing. 8vo, pp. 196. Garden notes, glossary, index. Illustrated wtih drawiingsRed cloth. Front flyleaf missing, top edges spotted, o/w a nice tight copy in little scuffed and soiled dj. More
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1812. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 256. Bound in original boards (lacks most of the spine paper), untrimmed, with wide margins and some light foxing. A very good copy. Imprints 25341. The father of R. W. Emerson writes about the history of his church. More
NY: The Fountain Press, 1930. First edition. 8vo, pp. 129. Uncut in original half leather (very rubbed), cover stained. One of 464 copies, signed by the author. Translations from the Greek with the original on facing pages. More
East Sandwich, MA: Old County Road Press, 1937. Marise Fawsett. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 25. Illustrated with two color drawings of fish. Sewn in plain wraps, with a pasted paper label. Untrimmed, a good clean copy. A very good copy.Scarce. Fawsett ran an antique shop for years on Cape Cod..... More
London, Paris, NY: [privately printed by H. L. Williams], 1868. First Edition, 2nd issue (with the facsimile of Dickens' letter of 21st October 1867 on verso of Dedication leaf). 8vo, pp. 141. Half title, portrait frontispiece, facsimilie of an original note by Charles Dickens, accepting the author's dedication of this..... More
Urbana IL: Accent, 1943. Periodical. 8vo, pp. 193-256 Paper wraps. Cover scuffed and soiled, spine repaired with scotch tape, o/w good. Also, among other works, "The Indian Well," by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, poems by John Frederick Nims, "The Wrestler," by Morton Fineman. More
Chapel Hill: University of NC, 1937. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 56. Printed wraps.Laid in is a TLS to Zucker, from one of the contributers: E. Alexander Powell. The authors present a collection of writings by German writers from the midle of the 18th century to the present to give readers..... More
Chicago: Swallow Press, (1972). 6th printing. 8vo, 152. Paper wraps, name on end paper, marginal underling on several pages, a good copy. More
NY: Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991). First US Edition. 8vo, pp. 80. Little worn printed wraps, a very good copy. Scarce early work. from Wikipedia: "Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works..... More
[NY: Poets &Writers, 1980]. First Edition. Large 8vo, unpaginated. Printed wraps, fine copy. A scarce publication. This is the program for the evening and contains material printed here fpor the first time by Jules Feiffer, Margaret Atwood, Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Allen..... More
NY: W W Norton, (1993). First Edition. 8vo,pp. 382. Fine in dj. More
