no date. circa 1940? Limited edition. Copy No. 85. "This strictly limited edition has been carefully prepared for those friends of Mister Jones who are presumed to be interested in Business as well as Fishing..." Promotional for the Dana Jones Company. 16 pp. Including a color foldout facsimile printed in four colors with water color inks of The Studebaker President Eight model. Covers are Very Good. Tiny spot at bottom edge.Corners very slightly creased otherwise covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
Contents: Books as Printed Books; Books as Illustrated Books; Books as Literature; ...and William Shakespeare; A Bibliography and an Index. 82 pp. Circular rubbing on front cover down to boards along spine edge. Otherwise covers are Good. Damp stain? along top edge of front/back endpapers-doesn't go through. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
Only 200 copies printed. The verses have been selected from the writer's contributions to Bert Leston Taylor's "Line-O'Type" column in the Chicago Tribune. Collage of photos on frontis. and a pasted in photo on last page of booklet "The author at the end of a perfect day"(in a boat with oars coming to shore). Unpaginated. 25 pages of verse, except for one page with two poems on it, each page has a separate poem. Interior is Very Good +. Brown paper wraps with gilt lettering on front. As the wraps are thin paper, all edges chipped with tears, back top left corner missing piece 1... View More...
Beautiful little book. Red limp leather with top gilt edge and gilt lettering on spine. Barrie's signature in gilt on cover. one small barely visible spot on front cover. rubbing/scuffing to corners.Overall exterior is Very Good. Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie. 120 pp. pp.54-55 brownish outline of paper previously laid in?, one page with light black smudge mark otherwise interior is clean, tight and VG. Gray paper Dust Jacket with red lettering. Spine darkened and creases of flaps. Top front corner at flap missing small piece 1/2"x3/16". Overall DJ is Good. View More...
Spine faded with rubbing/bumping to ends and corners, otherwise G+. Long pages are uncut. Back free endp. stamped numbers 22614 otherwise Interior is tight, clean, and VG+. Limited Edition of 2,000. View More...
This edition limited to one thousand copies on hand made paper, for presentation at Christmas time. Woodcut on front cover of church with saying underneath "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day". Possibly the most famous English poem of the 18 th century. Some famous quotes came from this poem, "Far from the madding crowd", and "the paths of glory lead but to the grave". Gray covers. Tears at spine where string-tied o/w Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. 14 pp. View More...
Limited edition of 1050 copies. This is number 240. A "checklist of the first editions of English authors". 169 pp. Personal copy of R.F. Sisk ( Robert Sisk was a Hollywood producer in the 30's -50s) as the front endpaper has his name and Beverly Hills, CA address. Tan covers, mildly soiled. Paper title label on spine.Title label rubbed in several places. Mildly rubbed spine ends and covers' borders. Gilted top edge. Overall covers are Good+ to VG-. Interior has some pencil markings and occasional notes next to book titles. Eraseable. But may be of interest as probably Sisk's writing... View More...
"This delightful novel takes you on a journey through the hot, dry Texas Plains into a lush garden paradise along the lower valley of the Rio Grande. Set in the early twentieth century these pages are filled with the history of the country brought out by the heartaches and the joys of the men and women who settled the border town of Mission, Texas. Drawn from the real life of Cleo Dawson's childhood, the story of building the Valley is enriched by her intimate knowledge of the people themselves. Page long gift inscription by author on free endpaper, otherwise interior is clean, tight and ... View More...
From the original manuscript. Privately printed in an edition of seventy-five copies, this being #43. No date, unpaginated. Two one page poems with its own title page: UPON JULIA'S UNLACING HERSELF by Robert Herrick and IN IMITATION OF ROBERT HERRICK by Eugene Field. Wraps in Very Good + condition as is the interior. View More...
"tissue-like" protective covering with small strip of tape holding it on the front and back endpapers. Torn/missing small pieces on spine and corners. Good. Exterior of book appears to be Very Good (don't want to undo tape). Interior is Near Fine. View More...
California Centennial Series #1.Introduction by Lyle H. Wright. Cloth with gilt design & lettering. Limited to 750 copies. Reprint from rare 1850 ed. 58 pp. DJ's spine small crease, otherwise is VG+. Howes K174, Sabin 37946, Wheat. .Extremely rare item of Californiana. View More...
tipped in illustration of the Wave Screen by Korin. Decorative Paper Boards. Moisture stain around front & back side edges. Does not go through. Corners bumped/worn. Interior Very Good+. View More...
One poem by Longfellow with others by Blake, Keats,Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Wordsworth, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Tennyson, etc. Edition of 1,150 copies. Decorative gilt designs front,back and spine. All edges gilt. Soiled & shelf worn.Corners,spine bumped. 1st. red cloth Mild fraying to spine ends. Front hinge loosening. Endpapers small "mold-like" (?) stain. Mild internal foxing o/w interior VG.. BAL 12088. View More...
Translated from the French by Guy Endore. Bound in 1/2 blue leather over marbled bds. Spine faded otherwise Near Fine to Fine. Protective clear cover. Interior is Fine. View More...
tan boards with 1/4" tear at lower joint otherwise exterior is Near Fine. 59 pp. uncut. Signed by Moore. #870 of 1240 copies printed on handmade paper at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge, Mt. Vernon NY. View More...
Atherton's diary is a virgin historical document which has been heretofore in the possession of his descendants, who only recently deposited it in the California Historical Society Library. Its publication is a signal event in the historiography of California. California in the 1830's was the scene of political turmoil, civil-religious conflict, mushrooming trade and foreign penetration. The decade was marked by frequent changes in Mexican-appointed governors, local upraisings against established authority and the secularization of the missions. Faxon Dean Atherton, a young man from New Engla... View More...
Printed privately for the author, Robert L. Preston, Leesburg, VA. February 1919. No. 2. Articles include "A Retrospect" on Colonel Henry Watterson; Prefatory Remarks (an article that appeared in the COURIER-JOURNAL, Louisville, KY on Sept. 9, 1917; To Col. Henry Watterson-an interview with the Washington Post; Armament or Disarmament and A Letter to Mr. Balfour, Head of the British War-Mission to the United States, by Robert L. Preston. 39 pp. Paper wraps. Stapled spine. Slight fading around edges, otherwise a clean and Very Good copy. Colonel Henry "Marse" Watterson. (1840-1... View More...
" The NOTES here published were to have been printed in Mexico under the title of CUADERNO COLONIAL. La Casa de Espana en Mexico under the editorship of Alfonso Reyes accepted the manuscript October 2, 1939. Before it could be published, however, polititcal changes put an end to La Casa de Espana. The the war came and other duties. Convinced that these sketchy notes contain much valuable material for the cultural history of Spain in the New World in the colonial period, the editor offers them now as the first volume of a series that will deal with the cultural history of the Americas." The res... View More...
"The writings ot Thomas Bailey Aldrich in both poetry and prose are well-nigh perfect of their kind. He was a literary craftsman of the highest type and expended all of his effort in the attempt to make of each lyric or sonnet and of every short story a little masterpiece." One hundred and twenty-five copies privately printed during the month of November, 1921 by the author. 14 pp. Green paper cover with gilt title lettering on front. Cover edges and corners are chipped, top corner is creased, light soiling to cover faces, holes in spine where binding once held. Green string binding ha... View More...
#376 of 575 copies.Made on English hand-made paper. Buckram spine with gilt lettering."Cepha" written on free endpaper w/o Fine.123 pps. Untrimmed. Some pages unopened. Frontis. by Paul Rotha. "A collection of all the Choice songs, Poems, Prologues, and Epilogues,(Sung and Spoken at Courts and Theaters)never in Print before. Written by the refined'st Witts of the Age. and Collected by A.B. (1672)" Dj has nicks on top creases of spine. Small tears mainly on back edges. Bottom of spine missing small pieces. Overall Dj is intact. View More...
