Volumes 1-8. Charleston: A. E. Miller, 1828-1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavos. 8 volumes: [3], 536pp; [3], 628pp; [3], 515pp; [3], 531pp; [3], 528pp; [3], 555pp., [1]; 528pp; [3], 523pp. Three-quarter brown leather bindings with reddish marbled paper covered boards. Ex-library volumes from the Providence Public Library. Each volume has gilt... More about The Southern Review
New York: Sheldon & Company, 1860. Hardcover. 12mo. 252pp., [1]. 6 engraved illustrations plus illustrated half title page. Green pebble cloth hardcover with embossed borders on covers. Gilt title on spine. 1864 Christmas gift inscription on right front flyleaf. Edge wear to cloth head and base of spine. Front hinge tender but holding. More about The Florence Stories Excursion to the Orkney Islands
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 268 pages. Hardcover with red illustrated dust jacket. More about My Mother: Demonology
3 of 4 volumes in the series. Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1894. Soft covers. Three oblong soft covers. Unpaginated. Illustrated in color by Louis Prang & Co. Color illustrated covers with titles on the front. Each soft cover has a black and white frontispiece portrait of the author. Light... More about Yawcob's Dribulations; Der Oak und der Vine; Leedle Yawcob Strauss by Yawcob Strauss
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xii, 270 pages. Orange cloth hardcover with title lettered in black. Illustrated sketch on title page. Cloth is shelf worn and edge worn. Folklore. Period African American dialect. In the foreword, "These sketches are typical of the negroes of lower... More about N...To N
Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. Hardcover. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. [5], 305 pages. Light edge and shelf wear to the dust jacket. Inscribed by the translator on the right front flyleaf. More about Seven Serpents & Seven Moons
New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], 26 pages, [13]. Red cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Tan dust jacket with title and young photograph of Aiken on the front cover. Limited, numbered edition of 2300 copies. This is number 1968. More about The Clerk's Journal Being A Diary of A Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem together with A Brief...
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1843. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 350 pages. Brown marbled paper covered boards. Brown sheepskin leather spine with gilt lines and title. Yellow end sheets. Leather is chipped head of spine and cracked on spine. Marbled paper is worn and scuffed. Light to moderate toning and scattered foxing to contents. More about Windsor Castle, An Historical Romance
New York: Uphill Press, 1967. First Thus. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], 9 pages, [2]. Black paper covered boards with white and black illustrated title label pasted down on front board. Glassine dust jacket. Patterned end sheets. Paper is very fine (tissue like), printed on one side and uncut at top edge... More about A Letter: from Thomas Bailey Aldrich to Bayard Taylor Auburn, N. Y. August 20, 1865
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 346 pages. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to end papers. More about A Walk on the Wild Side
Illustrated by Charles Wrenn. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. [5], 312 pages. Color frontispiece and three other illustrations. Burgundy cloth hardcover with pasted down illustration on the front cover. Title on the front cover and spine. A fair reading copy with darkened, worn... More about The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Stand
Northford, Connecticut? n.p., circa 1811. Manuscript. Stitched manuscript. 15 leaves of lined paper. Each leave has a titled hand written verse or hymn written on the front side except one of the compositions which is written on the verso. Each verse is signed by Amanda Street with many inscribed in... More about A Collection of Manuscript Verse and Hymn, circa 1811, Northford, Connecticut
New York: American Tract Society, 1860. Hardcover. 12mo. 102 pages. Frontispiece illustration. A few illustrations in the text. Brown cloth hardcover with blind embossed borders, designs, and title "Life Illustrated" on the front cover. Faded gilt lettered title on the spine. Yellow end papers and yellow tissue protecting the frontispiece... More about The Flower-Boy of the Prairie
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 253 pages. More about The Green Man
Chicago: The Swallow Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with illustrated dut jacket. xiv, 445 pages, [2]. Old blue ink book store stamp on the right front flyleaf. Dust jacket is price clipped and also shelf worn. More about Southwestern American Literature: A Bibliography
Illustrated by Roger Vernam. New York: Platt and Munk, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo.[24]pp. Illustrated end sheets. Red hardcover with color paste down illustration on front. Illustrated dust jacket. Light soil and edge wear to jacket. Small piece of clear tap underside of dust jacket. 1940 Christmas gift inscription written... More about Monkey Shines
New York: Random House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 273 pages. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. Photograph portrait of Maya Angelou on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Edge creases and small tears to the dust jacket. Light soiling to the dust jacket. Light soiling to the foredge. More about The heart of a woman
London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. Hardcover. 12mo. xx, 647 pages, 4 pages of publishers advertisements. Blue green cloth hardcover with blind stamped designs and borders on the covers. Gilt title on spine. Top right section of the spine was chipped and later repaired. Rest of the contents in very... More about The Handbook of English Literature
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. [60] pages. Tipped in color frontispiece. Illustrated. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped title and illustration n front cover. Yellow marbled end papers. Cloth edge worn. Interior in very good condition. Contents consist of 29 separate adventures. More about The Rubaiyat of Omar Cigarettes: Being the Modern Adventures of Omar Khayyam The Great Persian...
New York: Published by Redfield & Lindsay, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto. iv, 416 pages. Illustrated. Brownish marbled paper covered boards. Black leather spine with gilt lines, decorations and title. Boards are shelf and edge worn. Leather spine is chipped head and base. Moderate scattered foxing, toning and damp-stains... More about The Family Magazine, or General Abstract of Useful Knowledge Vol. I
Two volumes in one. Concord, N. H. Published by Luther Roby, 1831. Fourth American Edition. Leather bound. 16mo. Two volumes: [1], 114 pages; 118 pages. Brown calf hardcover. Faded title on the spine. Light to moderate foxing to the text. Leather head of the spine is chipped with a paste repair. More about The Sailor Boy A Novel
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. xiii, 7-253pp. Purple pebble cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. Light scattered foxing to contents. More about A Tribute to the Fair. Comprising A Collection of Vers De Societe. Published In Aid of the...
With an Introduction by Horace M. Kallen and Portraits by Leonard Baskin. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1979. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Quarto. [1], xxvi, 331 pages. Color frontispiece drawing of Aristotle. Illustrations. Green leather binding with gilt decorated borders on the covers. Raised bands, gilt decorations and title on... More about Aristotle Politics & Poetics
Boston: Bruce Humphries, Inc., 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 79 pages. Illustrated drawings. Yellow illustrated hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Slight dulling to the dust jacket. Jacket is chipped on the spine. Numbers written in pencil on the contents page. Inscribed by the author Richard Armour on the right front flyleaf. More about Privates' Lives
With Illustrations by Joseph Wolf. London: Nattali and Bond, 1855. Three-quarter leather. 8vo. [2], xvi, 320 pages. Illustrated. Three quarter green Moroccan leather binding with marbled paper covered boards. Marbled end sheets. Gilt top edge. Front board detached. Front hinge and outer front joint cracked. Light edge wear to boards... More about Reynard the Fox After the German Version of Goethe
