[New York and Connecticut]: [ca. 1965-68]. A first-person archive of material from Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007), including poems, personal letters and a play. Mostly 8.5" x 11" sheets with various smaller paper sizes clipbound in black cloth university spring binder with title ("Poems by Madeleine L'Engle") typed on embossing tape labels..... More
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Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1952. Reprint; text in Danish. Signed by Karen Blixen and inscribed to a former owner at Blixen's long-time residence, Rungstedlund, which currently operates at the Karen Blixen Museum. Bound in publisher's green printed wraps illustrated by Peter Holm. Near Fine with light wear to wraps at extremities..... More
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1857. First edition. Two volumes, bound without ads but with half-title pages in contemporary tan calf over marbled boards, with green and red gilt-stamped title labels to spines, all edges marbled. Bindings lightly rubbed at extremities. Pages toned, foxed at preliminary and terminal leaves. Bookplates..... More
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Third edition. Two volumes, bound in mid-twentieth century half brown calf; bound without half-titles and terminal blank in Volume 1, as is often the case. Contents foxed throughout. Repaired L-shape tear to page 7 of Volume I; fraying to fore edge margin of page..... More
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1963. 1963 [but later]. First edition, third printing. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's full black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Previous owner inkless emboss to title page, else Fine..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth lettered in gilt, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to cloth at extremities, heaviest at tail of spine. Endsheets offset, pages toned. Rear inner hinge is exposed, leaving binding a little..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1946. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anais Nin and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with a faint stain to front and rear cover at bottom corners, lightly..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First edition. Copy number 78 of 515 signed by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Bound in publisher's paper covered boards over beige cloth spine with title label printed in black; lacking the slipcase. Near Fine with toning to spine and edges of boards, covers lightly..... More
New York: Communications Company, 1968. First edition. Published simultaneously by the Artists Workshop Press in Ann Arbor, with no known priority. 10pp including covers. Side-staples wrappers. Very Good. Tape ghost to rear cover, some light edge wear, thumbing and toning. Two holograph corrections to #1, and penned beneath letter #12..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's original white fleur-de-lis patterned cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with the faintest toning to the spine, faint perfume odor to pages and faint foxing to textblock edge. The classic cookbook which propelled Julia Child..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1853. First edition, first printing. Finely bound by [William Thomas Jennings] Worsfold, in late 19th or early 20th-century half leather over marbled boards, with all edges gilt. The former copy of author Edmund William Gosse with his bookplate to the front free endpaper; bookplate of Scottish..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good, lightly dust soiled, with some bleeding from the yellow topstain. Toning to pages and offsetting to endsheets. In a very Good unclipped..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. First edition, first printing. Signed by Beverly Cleary on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over beige cloth spine stamped in black. Very Good with light lean to spine, sunning to edges, foxing to..... More
New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author Catherine Cate Goblentz and illustrator Janice Holland on the half-title page in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's turquoise cloth stamped on dark blue. Near Fine with light shelf wear, light toning to cloth..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Enright on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in yellow. Very Good with some toning and wear to extremities, stain to bottom textblock edge, pages toned and endsheets offset. In a Very Good unclipped..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First edition. Signed by Babitz on the title page. ix, [1], 211, [1] pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with thin crease to laminate along back panel. A collection of short stories by the author of..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's purple cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Lean to spine, cloth unevenly sunned and rubbed at extremities. Pages foxed and toned, previous owner name and bookplate to front endsheet. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. First hardcover edition, first printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket with price intact. Remainder stamp to bottom of page block. Light dings to top edge of several pages and boards. Light edge wear. Hinge at half-title page slightly over-opened. Dust jacket..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1934. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in darker blue. Near Fine with very slight shelf lean, and very light rubbing to cloth at edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with faint fading to the spine, a tear..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ann Nolan Clark on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in red. Pages toned, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with several tape reinforcements on the verso, toning, light soiling and light..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., 1949. First edition, first printing. Signed by Marguerite De Angelo on the title page and dated 1950. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with light toning to pages, light sunning to spine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Coward McCann, 1928. First edition, first printing. First issue the Jersey City imprint on the copyright page. Signed by Wanda Ga'g on the verso of the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's yellow decorated paper-covered boards; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth stamped in blue. Near Fine with bumping to head of spine, faint darkening to spine cloth and very light spine lean. In a Near Fine dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981. First edition. xxxiv, 622 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white. Single corner crease to one page, else Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a few small nicks to edges, a bit creased and rubbed. The Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet's complete works, published..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Near fine with minor shelf wear to cloth, small stain to textblock bottom edge at corner not affecting margins, previous owner address label to front paste down..... More