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USA: F. Mark Granato, Self-Published, 2014. First edition, with personalized inscription signed by the author on the title page. Historical fiction based on a disastrous 1961 fire at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Softcover in fine condition, looks and feels new, firm binding, pages clean and unmarked.. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Ler mais sobre este item

Fort Bragg, CA: Lost Coast Publishing, 1999. Stated first edition. Softcover in about fine condition with just a slight rub to the lower corner of the front cover, otherwise fine, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. Stated first edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. News of the weird, offbeat and just plain strange true events brought to you by a past president of the Harvard Lampoon. Illustrated in black and white. Green hardcover with dustjacket. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co,, 1919. Title page dated 1919. Quite worn but sound copy in Dark brown cloth lettered and decorated in black and gilt, black and white frontis plate, 532 pages. Covers rubbed, corners bumped, some light colored staining to outer edge of front cover, fraying to spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, front free endpapers have… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Henry S. King & Co., 1873. First edition of author's first book, title page dated 1873. Victorian binding in brick red cloth over beveled boards, lettering in gilt, decoration in black, 220 pages plus a 20 page publisher's catalog dated December 1873. Some rubbing to the extremities, front hinge internally reglued and secure, text block sound, pages clean with… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed at the Chiswick Press, 1897. First edition, number 77 of 100 copies printings. Short poem prepared for a meeting of the Omar Khayyam Club, an all-male private club with members drawn from the elites of various parts of society - arts, literature, education, politics. Splendid prsentation in full tan polished calf with gilt spine lettering, gilt ruled covers,… Ler mais sobre este item

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. Library of Classics series. Full burgundy grained leather with gilt spine lettering and decoration, top edge gilt, black and white frontis llustration, burgundy color slipcase. The book si in very good condition with firm binding and clean pages, no names or other markings. The slipcase has quite a bit of… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Edinburgh and New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. One volume from a set of the New Century Library edition of Dickens' works. Full black grained leather flexible covers, gilt spine lettering and decoration, all edges gilt, attached ribbon bookmark, tissue protected frontis illustration, title page in black and red. Some edgewear, mainly ver light chipping… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1894. Title pages dated 1894. The Oxford Miniature Edition, five volumes in slipcase. The books are bound in brown grained leather over flexible covers, gilt lettering, all edges gilt over red, ribbon bookmarks, decorative endpapers, about 4.25 inches tall. The slipcase is also brown grained leather with one side in maroon cloth. The books… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1959. Very worn copy (externally fair to poor, internally good) of the first edition of this collection of stories selected and illustrated by Edward Gorey. Number 9 in the Looking Glass Library. Pictorial hardcover, full page black and white illustrations by Gorey, no dustjacket. Joints between the covers and spine covering have surface cracks with the… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston: Phillips & Sampson, 1848. New edition, 1848. Book in poor condition but with a potentially salvagable mid 19th century cloth binding striped in browns and red and with lettering and extensive decoration in gilt, all edges gilt. Covers detached, along with a few adjacent pages, text block otherwise sound. Some minor loss of binding cloth to corners and spine… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Tibor De Nagy Editions / The Promise of Learnings Inc., 1985. Stated first edition, 1985. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Softcover, 90 pages. Very light cover soil to the white cover background, otherwise fine condition, firm binding, pages clean and unmarked.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. First American edition illustrated thus, 1924. Hard to find edition with sixteen full color plates by Percy Tarrant. Dark blue cloth printed in gilt, 356 pages, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Good to very good with some rubbing to the extremities, uneven age-toning to rear cover, some ink spots and other wear to… Ler mais sobre este item

East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1902. First Roycrofters printing, title page dated 1902. Brown suede yapp binding printed in gilt, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, covers lined in moire silk, frontis portrait of Charles Dickens, decorative title page and colophon, some type in red, attached ribbon bookmark, 142 pages plus colophon. Very good condition with minimal wear, good… Ler mais sobre este item

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters - The Roycroft Shop, 1906. First edition, 1906. Play by Elbert Hubbard and his wife Alice. Brown suede yapp binding printed in gilt, top edge gilt, other pages untrimmed, covers lined in moire silk, dual frontis portraits of the Hubbards, decorative double title page and colophon, some text and accents in vermilion and dark yellow,… Ler mais sobre este item

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters - Roycroft Craftsmen, 1901. 1901 edition. Green suede yapp binding printed in gilt, frontis portrait of Elbert Hubbard, decorative title page and colophon, some type in red, attached ribbon bookmark, 167 pages plus colophon. Good to very good condition with some browning to spine and outer edges, binding sound, pages clean, no names or other… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Viking Press, 1992. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. White hardcover with shite cloth spine, with dustjacket. The book has some light edge rubbing and some soil to the extremities, otherwise fine condition with good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition, stated first printing, 1961. Brick red hardcover with dark yellow cloth spine, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, sound text block, small smudge at lower edge of front free endpaper, tiny faint transparent stain to far upper corners of first four leaves, similar thin transparent stain… Ler mais sobre este item

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1972. First edition, 1972. Blue cloth with dustjacket. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages with a few scholarly light pencil notes in the outer margins, name of Yale Classics scholar in ink at top edge of front free endpaper. The mylar protected dustjacket is… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904. Single volume from the Cameo Edition of The Works of Edgar Allan Poe. Red cloth, tissue protected frontis plate in black and white, title page in black and tan. Good condition with some surface rubbing, spine lettering no longer legible, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. Stories include:… Ler mais sobre este item