Novels, 1944-1953.
New York: The Library of America, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Slipcased edition. Cloth. The Library of America leaflet laid in. A fine copy in fine slipcase.; Octavo. More
Fiction and Literature
My War with the United States
New York: Random House, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern Library #175. Bright blue cloth stamped in red and gold on the cover and the spine, top edge stained red. Inscription on flyleaf, mild slant to spine. A very good+ copy in very good+ dustjacket with a slightly sunned spine panel..... More
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth stamped in green and red on the cover and the spine, top edge stained green. A fine copy in about fine dustjacket with very mild wear to spine panel and a touch of age-toning to rear flap. ; Octavo..... More
Viola; or, Adventures in the Far South-West.
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, (1852). Hardcover. 226pp. Original green cloth elaborately decorated in black on the sides and on the spine panel, gold lettering on the spine. Rear hinge starting, slant to spine. A good+ copy. The publisher's address in this edition differs slightly from the one listed..... More
Prairie-Rosen. Gedichte und Prosa.
New Ulm, MN: 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. 352pp. Green cloth stamped in gold on the front and the spine, all edges gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Mild edge wear. A near fine copy. In the German language. ; 12mo. More
Marina Agliè.
Milano: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro, 1957. First Edition. Printed wrappers. I Prosatori #8. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, this being #293. 46pp. Original wrappers. One plate with a portrait of the author laid in. Mild fading to spine else a fine copy. Text in Italian.; 32mo. More
The Coast of Adventure
New York: A. L. Burt Company, (1915). Hardcover. Blue cloth stamped in green on the cover and the spine. Bookplate to front pastedown, mild foxing to endpapers. About near fine in very good dustjacket with light chipping to edges and a few short tears. Two young adventurers participate in a...... More
Lorna Doone. A Romance of Exmoor.
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., (1882). Hardcover. In two volumes. Bright red cloth elaborately adorned in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, top edges gilt. Frontispieces and fifty-one inserted plates. One plate in volume 1 loose, previous owner's name on the front pastedown endpapers, light toning..... More
Slain by the Doones and Other Stories.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Precedes the British edition. 244pp. Original brown decorated cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper, light wear to extremities. A near fine copy. ; Octavo. More
Two Complete Science-Adventure Books Spring 1953 Vol. 1 No. 8
Stamford, CT: Wings Publishing Co., Inc., 1953. Pictorial wrappers. Pages are age-toned, light chipping along the edges, short tear to edge of front cover. A very good copy. Includes Sargasso of Lost Cities by James Blish and Survivor of Mars by Vargo Statten. Cover art by Kelly Freas. More
Whispers from Beyond
Chicago: Peacock Press, 1972. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Faint stress lines on covers. A very good+ copy. Collects six stories by Robert Bloch and four stories by Bradbury. ; 80 pages. More
Death Walks in Marble Halls.
New York: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., (1951). First Edition. Paperback. Dell Book 19. A very good copy. Cover art by Maurice Thomas.; Small octavo. More
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man.
New York: Bernard Geis, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket with a 4 mm closed tear to lower edge of rear panel. An attractive copy. ; Octavo. More
Poesie.
Milano: Lerici Editore, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 487pp. Red cloth lettered in white on the front panel and the spine panel. Frontispiece and several illustrations from photographs. Edited by Angelo M. Ripellino. A fine copy in acetate dustwrapper and original slipcase. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. More
The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq., containing his View of the Lancashire Dialect, With large Additions and Improvements; also, his Poem of The Flying Dragon, and The Man of Heaton; Together with other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse.
Manchester: J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate..... More
Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio corretto ed illustrato con note tratte da varj dal Dott. Giulio Ferrario.
Milano: Dalla Società Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. In four volumes. lxiii, 516pp; 526pp; 416pp; 312, 151pp + index and publisher's advertisements. Subscribers' list at the end of volume one. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gold, all edges uncut. Engraved frontispiece..... More
The Decameron.
New York: Random House. Hardcover. Modern Library. NF/VG-. Bound in gray cloth with gilt logo and titles on cover and spine. Dustjacket shows moderate wear to extremities and light soiling, ex-owner's name on ffep and title page. 408 titles listed on the dustjacket. The Frances Winwar translation. More
Il Decamerone, ossia le cento novelle. Riveduto e annotato da Mario Foresi.
Firenze: Adriano Salani, Editore, 1899. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in one. 226pp; 212pp; 199pp + 7pp of publisher's advertisements. Light brown pictorial cloth with a nice Art Nouveau image of a nude woman sitting on top of a book, spine with ornate black decorations and gold lettering, rear board stamped..... More
Opere minori.
Firenze: Salani Editore, 1964. Hardcover. Collana I Grandi Classici. 755pp + index. Light brown cloth stamped in gold on the front panel, decorated and lettered in gold on the spine panel. A fine copy in the original glassine wrapper and in near fine slipcase with a small split to top..... More
The Art of Poetry, Written in French by the Sieur de Boileau. In Four Canto's. Made English, by Sir William Soames. Since Revis'd by John Dryden, Esq.
London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, 1710. Self-wraps. 40pp. Disbound. Number and old price on title, light toning. A very good copy. ; 12mo. More
Animal Friends. A First Reader.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1930). First Edition. Hardcover. 122pp. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in orange on the front panel. With several color illustrations by Mabel Betsy Hill. Name on verso of front free endpaper, light foxing to edges. Internally very clean but for a couple of smudges. A very good..... More
Absent Without Leave
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. First US Edition. Hardcover. Price in pencil on front flap else a fine copy in fine dustjacket. Also includes the novella Enter and Exit. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. ; Octavo. More
Adam and The Train
New York: Mc Graw Hill, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st ed. 1970. Fine in a like dustjacket. Very minimal wear to dj. Two war novels set in 1944 Germany. More
The Stories of Heinrich Böll
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First US Edition. Hardcover. 686pp. Full blue cloth stamped in gold on the cover and the spine, top edge stained red. A fine copy in very good dustjacket with light chipping to upper edges. Collects sixty-three stories spanning almost four decades by the Nobel..... More
Tender Grass for Little Lambs.
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1855. Hardcover. 303pp. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gold on the spine. Frontispiece and five inserted plates with illustrations. Wear to covers, missing front free endpaper, some of the leaves are partially detached, scattered foxing throughout. A good copy. ; Square 16mo... More