New York: National Urban League, 1945. First edition. 11x8.5" [3], 29pp reproduced from typescript with tables and statistics, plus cover letter at front as issued. Staple bound in beige card wrappers. Examiner Reference Library stamp dated 1946 to front cover along with a few other annotations. Internally clean and with.....
New York: The New Press, 1995. Second printing. Hardcover in jacket, inscribed by Terkel to Jacob Lawrence on the ffep. Near fine copy with a few smudges to jacket. Presentation letter from the publisher laid in. Lovely association copy on this collection of vignettes by Terkel illustrating American life through.....
Danbury, CT: 1968. 26x19cm typed on Anderson's stationary, and boldly signed by her below. Original typed envelope addressed to Cameron County High School in Emporium, Pennsylvania and postmarked in Danbury, CT in 1968. Transmittal folds, few smudges. Envelope with paperclip stains. Charming typed piece from the trailblazing African American contralto.....
New York: Doubleday Page & Co., [1907]. First edition, number 148 of 550 copies signed by the publisher. 4to, 161, [1]pp. Complete with frontis and 12 additional mounted plate illustrations by Rackham, as well as several illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth backed green paper boards with paste on illustration.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1926. First edition thus, limited to 250 copies. 8vo, 39pp plus [18] notes at rear, and complete facsimile of Austen's manuscript bound in at front as issued. Presentation inscription from Chapman to Harry Pratley with 2 autograph notes from Chapman laid in. Publisher's white cloth backed.....
New york: Privately Printed by the American Historical Company, Inc, 1945. First edition. 13x10" 527pp. Hand colored title page and hand colored initials and decorations, with numerous illustrations, portraits, coats of arms, tables, etc. Presentation style binding of crimson morocco with gray, blue, and gilt inlays, elaborately lettered and ruled.....
Honolulu: William C. Lyon, 1902. First edition. 20x12cm, 54pp. Printed in two colors. Bound in original dyed paper wraps over card, with yapped edges and printed label on front cover. A near fine copy with some wrinkling to edges. Attractive Hawaiian territorial printing, being an epic poem on the myth.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. 8vo. 142pp. Purple cloth with black swans embossed on the front board and black lettering on the spine, inscribed to former owner on ffep, owner name and date also on ffep, near fine. Trade edition with price of $3.95 on the front.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932. First edition. 2 volumes, 8vos, continuously paginated 266, 509pp plus unpaginated sections of notes at the end of each volume and several indices in volume 2. Photo and folding plates. Folding maps and extra spine labels bound at rear in each volume, as issued. Ownership.....
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1991. Paperback, signed by Ellis on the title page. A fine copy with some light toning to underside of wrappers. Sharp signed copy of Ellis's most successful novel, which was turned into a film starring Christian Bale in 2000. This edition with a price of $13.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition. Hardcover in jacket, signed by Ellis on the title page. Very light fading to bottom edges of boards else a fine copy in like jacket. Signed first printing of Ellis's controversial first novel, published when he was just 21 years old...
Portland, OR: The Chamberlain Press, 1981. First edition, number 120 of 125 copies. 15x17cm, unpaginated. Printed in two colors with black and white woodcut illustrations by Chamberlain, and signed by her at the colophon. Stitched in Illustrated green paper boards. Fine condition. Charming and whimsical children's book, finely printed and.....
Asunción: Cándido Zamphirópolos, 1939. First edition. 19x15cm, 61, [1]pp. Caricature frontis. Introduction by Cecilio Báez. Presentation inscription from Rodríguez Alcalá and dated in 1950 on ffep, and a few corrections in his hand throughout. Bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers with yapped edges, toned and with a few edge tears and.....
San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1981. First edition, limited to 200 signed copies. Hardcover bound in publisher's red and black pictorial cloth stamped in silver. Signed by Dick, Levack, and Steven Owen Godersky on the limitation page. Additionally signed by Larry Paschelke who is credited in the acknowledgements at rear as supplying.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Limited edition, number 1172 of 1500 signed copies. 4to, unpaginated. Silkscreen illustrations by Jacob Lawrence, and signed by him, Hersey, and Robert Penn Warren at the colophon. Bound in publisher's black aniline leather stamped in blind with black painted page edges, and housed in.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First edition. 8vo, 280, [1]pp. Signed by McMurtry to the former owner on the title page, and signed a second time on the title page. Publisher's gray cloth boards stamped in red on spine in illustrated jacket by J.J. Fox. Near fine copy in.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket, signed by McMurtry on the title page. Near fine copy with a few light smudges and marks to page block edge in near fine jacket. Signed, first printing, with error on pg. 621. McMurtry's iconic Western novel, and.....
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1956. First edition. 8vo, 61, [3]pp. Inscribed by Graves to a Sallyan Windt? and dated in 1960 on the title page. Full color and black and white facsimiles of the artist's work throughout. Goldenrod cloth boards lettered in brown in gold illustrated.....
[Walla Walla]: Whitman College Book Arts Lab, 1994. First edition, number 18 of 35 copies. 35x18cm, [15]pp printed rectos only. Lithographs by James Lavadour, and signed by him and Alexie at front. Stitched in woodgrain patterned Japanese paper covers from the Awagami Factory. Fine condition. A beautifully haunting design by.....
London: Scarlet Imprint, 2020. First edition, number 340 of 900 copies. 26x19cm, 212pp with illustrations, tables, and folding plate at rear. Bound in publisher's white bonded leather stamped in black and blind. Few smudges to boards, internally clean. Near fine. Limited edition of the second book in Frater Acher's Holy.....
Seattle: Frank McCaffrey, 1931. First edition. Color pictorial map, 22x30" on board and in contemporary (studio?) frame of painted green metal. Darkened, stained, and worn around edges, single tear to bottom edge extending into the printed border. Few scuffs to the image, but generally good to very good. Nice example.....
Tacoma: Springtide Press, 2004. First edition, number 4 of 14 copies. 12x35cm, gatefold construction with [16]pp. on each side. Illustrations, photos. Signed by Spring at the colophon. Boards bound in cutch-dyed chamois, text printed letterpress with photopolymer plates on coffee-dyed Fabriano Mediovalis. Some natural wear to the soft, chamois binding.....
