[no place]: The Fantod Press, 1994. First edition, copy #481 of a limited 526 numbered and lettered copies, signed by Edward Gorey on the colophon. Stapled wraps. Small, faint smudge to front cover, else fine. Signed by Edward Gorey. Toledano 112b. More about The Retrieved Locket
[no place]: The Fantod Press, 1990. First separate edition, copy #23 of a limited 500 numbered copies, signed by Edward Gorey in an anagram of his name as "Mrs. Regera Dowdy." Illustrated wraps. A Fine copy with a minute nick at the top of the spine. Toledano A100. More about The Stupid Joke
[no place]: The Fantod Press, 1990. First separate edition, one of a limited 500 copies, numbered and signed by Edward Gorey in anagram as "Mrs. Regera Dowdy." A Fine copy, with very faint wear at the spine ends. First published in Amphigorey Also, this is the first separate edition. Toledano A101. More about The Tuning Fork
[No place]: [No publisher], 1989. Twelve postcards in a printed envelope, signed by Gorey in anagram (Dogear Wryde) on the envelope. First trade edition. Envelope is Very Good or better, with light general wear. Postcards are Fine, with a single spot of foxing to one card. Signed by Edward Gorey... More about Dogear Wryde Postcards: Tragedies Topiares
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1988. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Gorey on the title page. A fine copy. More about Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Calendar for 1989
New York: Coward, McCann, 1930. First edition. Inscribed to former owner by Gropper on title page in black ink. Orange cloth with blue lettering. Unpaginated, mostly printed only on rectos. Very Good condition. No jacket. Binding professionally repaired, sturdy and tight. A few creased pages. Spine a bit darkened and... More about Alay-Oop
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1955. First edition. Brown cloth stamped in black. Very Good with rolled spine, lightly foxed endpapers, in Good unclipped dust jacket with closed tears in top of front and back panels, wear along bottom edge, slight loss, clear tape repairs along verso. A children's... More about The Little Tailor
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1934. First edition. (First publications in book form.) Complete in two volumes. Both in pasteboard wraps with blue and red spines. 80 p; 120 p Good condition overall. Sturdy bindings. A few small finger smudges and light stains. Volume 1 about Very Good; front cover chipped, lightly... More about Secret Agent X-9 (Books One and Two
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First illustrated edition. (Second American edition overall.) xi, 363 pp. Original gray cloth with paper spine label, housed in original slipcase with paper label. Very Good+ with wear to title label, very slight waviness to prelims, in Very Good slipcase with a little toning... More about A Farewell to Arms
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938. Limited edition; Number 819 of 1,500 copies signed by Lynd Ward. Complete in five volumes bound in publisher's black cloth with spine labels lettered in gilt, in publisher's black slipcase. Fine, in a Near Fine slipcase which has a repaired joint, light bumping... More about Les Miserables
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. Copy #95 of a limited 560 in the large paper edition, signed by Arthur Rackham. Very Good. Publisher's full vellum stamped in gilt, with ribbon ties lacking. Very Good. Boards bowed. Vellum is foxed and lightly soiled, two pages with full horizontal repaired... More about The Ingoldsby Legends
London: Day and Son, Limited, [1865]. Second edition. 157 pp. with color plates numbered to 100 as in original edition and as called for in table of contents, although title page erroneously calls for 112. Bound in period half morocco & cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers... More about The Grammar of Ornament
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First edition, first printing. Wraps. PBO. Warmly inscribed in blue pencil on ffep to former owner, late North Carolina journalist and author Roy Wilder, a good friend of Up in the Old Hotel author Joseph Mitchell who specialized in stories about southern culture. Pogo... More about Pogo Extra (Election Special
London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1863. First edition, first printing. First issue with "L'Envoy" leaf present. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, brown coated endsheets. Good. Cloth worn at corners and spine ends, with frayed started at the rear joint. Cloth lightly rubbed, with front... More about The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition, signed limited issue. A stunning presentation copy, inscribed by Rockwell Kent to William Kittredge, the director of design and typography at The Lakeside Press. Kittredge commissioned Kent to design and illustrate the iconic three-volume aluminum slip-cased 1930 Lakeside Press edition of Moby Dick... More about N by E
London: Longmans, Green & Company, 1889-1910. First edition. Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books, complete in twelve volumes, all first impressions of the first edition: Blue (1889), Red (1890), Green (1892), Yellow (1894), Pink (1897), Grey (1900), Violet (1901), Crimson (1903), Brown (1904), Orange (1906), Olive (1907), Lilac (1910). The volumes... More about The Fairy Books: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange, Olive and...
London: Longmans, Green & Company, 1901. First edition, first printing. Very Good. Neatly recased. Gilt lightly rubbed. Former owner name to half-title page. One of twelve titles in Andrew Lang's color fairy book series. More about The Violet Fairy Book
New York: Young Scott Books, 1968. First edition thus. Bound in publisher's reinforced illustrated boards in repeating dust jacket. Fine, in Very Good dust jacket, lightly edge worn with a short tear at the head of the spine joint, lightly rubbed, lightly faded at the spine and folded off-center. Signed... More about The Jumblies
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's white illustrated wraps, with drawings by Jess. Very Good. Wraps toned, soiled and stained. Light creases throughout. Pages toned and occasionally foxed. Scarce. More about 5 Poems
Everett, PA: Visionary Publishing Co, 1936. First edition. 158 pp. Currey's first binding of black cloth, front and spine lettered in silver with upper and lower case lettering. Fine with typical curl to spine but lettering sharp, none of the rubbing often seen with this book, faint dust soil to... More about Shadow Over Innsmouth
London: Printed by Turnbull & Spears for J. D. Dent at Aldine House, 1893-1894. First thus. Two volume set in original pictorial cloth. (4to) 24x19 cm. (9.5 x 7.5"). lxiv, 455pp; lxv-xc, 458-990, note on text. One of 1500 copies of the regular issue, from a run of 1800. Good+... More about Le Morte d'Arthur: The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Very Good with bumping to edges and corners, and pages toned. In a Good+ dust jacket with a strip of abrasion to the front panel affecting the title, chipping, edge wear and toning. Melville's classic illustrated by Rockwell Kent, uncommon with bright... More about Moby Dick
New York: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition thus, limited to 1,000 copies. Three volumes in publisher's black cloth binding with silver stamping, lacking the acetate jackets and aluminum slipcase. Very Good+ with light wear at spine ends. Cloth lightly rubbed. Pages lightly toned and with light foxing to the... More about Moby Dick
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in silver. Near Fine with the silver stamping very sharp and bright; bump to bottom corner of front boards, pages toned, rear endsheet soiled. In a Very Good dust jacket with toning to the spine and chipping... More about Moby Dick; or, the Whale
New York: Random House, 1930. First edition thus, with woodcut illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Very Good+. Cloth lightly rubbed and frayed at corners and spine ends, top edge lightly nicked. Pages toned, with occasional bumping to corners, creasing to preliminary pages and short edge tears to first blank. A very... More about Moby Dick