antiquarian/rare books & handmade items
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1836, Howe & Bates, New York. 1st printing. 195pp. 12mo. Green cloth with an embossed pattern of leaves and swirls. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine only. Corners badly bumped, a 1/2″ tear at top of spine, a bit of a label on lower spine; former owner’s name in ink (faded) on title page with…
1870, Sheldon & Co, New York. 437pp. 1st printing. Some fraying at extremeties, former owner’s name in ink on first blank page (endpapers are dark brown, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine only. There is a nick in the lower spine and a corner of the rear panel has a dark stain. Text block…
3 issues of Happy Home Magazine. Volume 1, Nos 1, 2 and 3. No date but 1880s published by Lierz and Huebschman Jr Publishers, Pittsburgh. Features Alice Gunter: Evadne Zivola, the Actress or Living Two Lives. Also contains In a Snow-Drift, or the Stolen Child. Edges a bit ragged with some chipping, good to very…
1975 George Braziller. 1st US printing. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.219pp. Signed by author on title page. Endpapers foxed, a little foxing elsewhere, corners sl bumped, else very good+ in near fine dust jacket.
1971, The Art Crafters, Columbia PA. 8.5X11.5″, blue cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. 128pp. Corners a little bumped, pages starting to brown, former owner’s address label on title page. History of watch and clock makers of Ohio that goes county by count with many photo illustrations. #1851
1994 UCA Press, Conway. 536pp. Signed by Bill Pollard. Corners bumped, shelfwear, about very good
1945 Popular Publications, Inc. 98pp. Edges and spine are chipped and creased, with some edgetears. Pages are quite yellowed. Features G I Doublecross by Robert Martin, Slay Binge by H H Stinson, etc.
1st printing. 1960, Dell First Edition #B170. 191pp. A little edgewear, a little creasing, very good+. A beautiful copy of a scarce book.
1952 G P Putnam’s Sons, New York. 1st printing. 312pp. A little shelfwear, very good+ in edgeworn dust jacket with a few small chips. The novel that the 1955 Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman film was based on.
Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps, Volume 5. 1985 Dennis McMillan Publications, Belen. 1st / limited edition (#135/350). Signed by Richard Lupoff, who wrote the introduction. 206pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
1910 John Wiley & Sons, New York. 2nd edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1st thousand. 218pp plus catalog of Wiley publications. Corners bumped, worn at spine ends, some cover scuffing. Pages tanned. Former owner’s names in pencil ffep, good.
1978, Neville Spearman, Jersey. 184pp. Some shelfwear, a little browning, very good in edgeworn dust jacket, browned on rear dust jacket flap. Introduced by Colin Wilson. Researched by Robert Turner & David Langford.
1980 Greenwood Press, Westport, London. 1st printing. Notations on ffep along with some underlining and notations throughout (these are all in colored pencil). Former owner’s stamp on ffep as well. Else very good+. Portrays plantation slavery from the viewpoint of the masters collected from contemporary Southern farm journals. An important work.
2012 Candlewick Press, Somerville. 1st printing. Signed by author on title page with a drawing on copyright page (opposite title page)! Unpaginated. Corners a little bumped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Oblong 4to. 2013 Caldecott Medal winner!
1998 Borgo Press/Underwood Books, San Bernardino/Grass Valley. 24 of 500 copies signed and numbered. Lacks slipcase. 1st printing. 310pp. Signed by Katherine Kurtz and Robert Reginald. A little shelfwear, very good.