New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1867. First edition thus, New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, 596 pp. Vignette engravings and facsimile manuscripts throughout, title page printed in blue and black. Full brown, blind decorated morocco, spine lettered and dentelles in gilt, g.e., marbled endpapers. Signed, "By Wm. Smith, New.....
[Washington, D.C.]: [Government Printing Office], [1888]. 75 loose, sepia lithographs of cattle, each 6x9". Several with stab holes to lower margins, some light marginal soiling and chipping in a few instances, otherwise very good or better. Beautiful, mixed set of highly detailed lithographs of various breeds of cattle by important.....
Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1996. First edition thus. 8vo, 801 pp. Illustrated wrappers. First printing thus of the Wesleyan University Press edition with William Gibson foreword. Signed by Delany and dated in 2003 on the title page. Near fine in glossy wraps with mild wear...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Uncorrected Proof of this first novel from Fowles. Original printed wrappers from Cape remain bright with just a few minor spots of soiling. The spine shows some creasing with light rubbing along rear joint and at spine ends. Bookplate signed by Fowles.....
Paris: François Jollain, 1689. Hardcover. Important second edition of this seminal architectural treatise from the French theorist, Fréart. From Baroque architecture author and scholar, Frédérique Lemerle: "The special feature of Jollain's edition compared with the original edition is that it is engraved (text and images), except for the first pages.....
Dallas: Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, 1955. Bound archive of typed letters signed. Quarto, 28x22cm, [1] printed presentation leaf plus 185 TLS bound in. Full brown morocco ruled and lettered in gilt, brown silk endpapers. Bookbinder's ticket of Henry Nuss of Dallas on rear endpaper. Very good with some.....
Dallas: Jaggars - Chiles - Stovall, Inc., 1949. First edition. Quarto, 28.5x21.5cm, [4], 260pp. Printed in blue and black throughout. Green, faux leather, cloth boards with red embossed decoration and lettering on front cover and spine. Very good with rubbing to edges of boards, spine ends softened, and spine lettering.....
Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Wonderful association copy of the limited issue of this important Texana bibliography from Jenkins. Limited to 85 numbered copies signed by Jenkins and the designer, William R. Holman. This copy, however is designated "Seymour Connor's Copy" and is additionally, warmly inscribed by.....
Washington, D.C. 1974. Single sheet, 23x15cm. Six lines typed and signed in full. Transmittal folds else nearly fine. Short TLS from the first African American woman to serve in the Texas Senate and first Southern, after Shirley Chisholm of New York, African American woman to serve in the U.S. House.....
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010. Limited to 750 signed copies, this being a PC. 4to, 405pp. Illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, Jill Bauman, Alan M. Clark, Vincent Chong. Printed in two colors. Signed by Stephen King on the limitation page. Blue leather boards stamped in silver and red, dust jacket illustrated.....
Hampton Falls: Donald M. Grant, 2009. First edition, limited to 1250 copies signed by King and Michael Whelan. 4to, fine condition in clamshell case still in publisher's shrink wrap. Limited edition from Grant of this prequel novella to The Gunslinger packaged with an expanded version of the novel itself. The Little Sisters of.....
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, 415, [1]pp. Gray cloth boards, spine lettered in silver, illustrated jacket by "leslie." Nearly fine with pushing at spine ends and bumping along lower front board in like jacket with edge toning and some wear at spine ends. Original price of.....
Lancaster, PA: William Larimer Mellon, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, privately printed and compiled by Herman S. Davis. 8vo, 256pp., plates and folding genealogical chart. Contemporary 3/4 black morocco over blue marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Very good with rubbing to spine, mainly along joints and at ends.....
London: Robinson Publishing Ltd, 1994. First Edition. 4to, 9.5 x 6," 194 pp. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine in illustrated jacket. First edition, published by Robinson in the UK and preceding the American Edition by Carroll and Graff. Early collection from the American horror author, signed by.....
San Francisco: Galley Sail Publications, 1958. First edition. 8vo, [i], v, 10, [3]pp. Vignette illustration at rear. Red, illustrated, stapled card wrappers. Bump to edge of final leaf, some toning and smudging to wraps, else nearly fine. First publication from the San Francisco poet and publisher who founded the quarterly.....
New York: The Artist's Limited Edition, 1975. LeRoy Neiman. Hardcover. Limited to 1500 copies with paintings by LeRoy Neiman, and signed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau at his preface. This copy lacking the Neiman serigraph. Folio, bound in full brown morocco stamped in gilt. Near fine with light smudging to page block.....
Georgetown, TX: Wailes Gray, 1934. First edition. 8vo, 51, [1]pp. Illustrations. Block prints by Bertha Louise Hellman. Staple bound, gray and red printed wrappers, yapped edges show some wear with toning to spine else clean and complete. Fourth of six issues of this regional literary journal published by husband and.....
London: Printed for the editors: and sold by M. Sibly, No. 35 Goswell-street, & E. Sibly, No. 29 Brick-lane, 1786. 2nd edition, revised, corrected, and improved. 8vo, 15.5x9.5cm, v, [2], 4-219pp. Interleaved throughout with many manuscript pages of notes, diagrams, illustrations, and calculations in a contemporary or slightly later hand.....
London: George Redway, 1886. First edition. 8vo, 22.5 x 14cm, [v], xxiv, 104pp, plus fold out chart and 38, [2]pp catalogue at rear. Recased in recent brown cloth, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Near fine with preliminaries toned, coat of arms stamp to title, else clean and complete.....
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Company, 1874. First edition. 8vo, 204pp. Tables. Publisher's purple cloths tamped in gilt and blind. Former owner's name to front pastedown, few corner creases else clean internally. Boards show fading around edges and to spine, with cloth worn at head and heel. Very good. Colorful.....
Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2008. First edition. 4to, 493pp. Bibliography, index at rear. Signed by the editor on the title page. Additionally signed by John R. Bauman, Michael V. Hazel, Natalie Ornish (inscribed to former owner, and signed at two other entries), Joyce Gibson Roach, Betty Holland Wiesepape, John Neal.....
Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930. First edition. 19x13cm, 30pp. Signed by Williams on the ffep. Printed, wood-patterned paper wrappers show some light edge wear and toning else near fine. Laid in are 3 original logging photographs of the author. Number 41 in the University of Washington Chapbooks series.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1865. First edition. 8vo, 22.5x14cm, [3], 186pp, double column. Later blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Nearly fine, clean and sound with some foxing to preliminaries. Between Poe and Doyle in the evolution of detective fiction, came the American physician, John Babbington Williams (1827-1879) and.....
London: The Merton Press Ltd., 1924. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poetry anthology of writers from Great Britain, issued in this volume and the first, 12 months prior. Contains five early poems from Olaf Stapledon, 3 of which are original to this book. Scarce. 3 holdings in Worldcat. Very good in gray.....
