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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957. First American edition. vi, (1), 248 pp. Original blue cloth with red title band, gilt lettering. Fine with a little toning to contents and old bookseller's ticket to rear paste down, in a bright Fine unclipped dust jacket. An exemplary copy. Peter France writes..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition. vii, 215, [1, note about author] pp. Original scarlet cloth with black lettering, black topstain. Near Fine with light shelf wear, tiny tear in inner hinge at front, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipping along edges, closed tear in top..... More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 32 pp. Original green wraps. Sunning and a few tiny stains droplets to spine, else Fine. A lovely copy of one of the late Southern poet's hardest to find collections, with illustrations by his wife, Ginny. More
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First edition. 28, [2] pp. Original blue wraps. Spine a bit sunned, else Fine and unread. An excellent copy of a collection by cult classic poet, with illustrations by his wife, Ginny. More
New York: Heritage Press, 1946. One of 1000 copies signed by Arthur Szyk, this copy inscribed for Albert A. Cornish. Original full black morocco lettered in gilt, batik-printed board endpapers, housed in matching slipcase. Near Fine with rubbing along spine edges, occasional slight rippling to leaves. In Near Fine slightly..... More
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc., 1971. Two tabloid issues, folded in the center. 72 p; 72p. Newsstand copies without address labels. Very Good, with toning and wear, with some fraying at the edges. Short tear and chip at foot of spine fold to Vol. 95. The first appearance in..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Ads dated September 1854; no priority as per BAL 20106. Map has faint S.W. Chandler & Bro. imprint. 357, 8 [ads] pp. with map facing p. 307. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original yellow endpapers. A Fine copy with..... More
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition. (Three blank lines on p. 396 not filled-in. Trade binding; BAL 20104.) 413, [1], [1, ad for Walden: "Soon to be published"] pp. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good with worn and slightly..... More
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Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. 2 Volumes. First edition of the first part, text in French. Finely bound in contemporary quarter calf over mottled paper covered boards, with all edges marbled. Pp. (4) + xxiv + 367; (4) + 459, engraved, handcolored folding map. Near Fine, with contents toned, and faint..... More
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2000-2017. 124 Volumes [100 titles + five multi-volume deluxe sets, and duplicates of several titles, several labeled AP for Artist's Proof.] A complete run of the celebrated series, which features 100 uniformly sized books of various colors, giving each artist a 16-page canvas to exhibit a...... More
New York and Madras: Hanuman Books, 1990. 1986-1990. 42 Volumes. Series I-VII. First edition. The first forty-two volumes published by Hanuman Books. All are first editions, except for volumes 14 and 21, which are second impressions. Volume 26 is signed by the author (1969 by Eileen Myles.) Bound in publisher's..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1944. First edition, first printing. Signed by Oskar Morgenstern with a lengthy inscription to the front free endpaper reading, "To Dan Maxim, with esteem and warm regards / Oskar Morgenstern July 1971 [...] Have you found the set-theoretical hiding in this book?" Bound in publisher's..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. viii, 334 pp. Original royal blue cloth with green and gilt stamping. A Fine copy in the rare original dust jacket, which has done its job well, keeping the cloth bright and attractive. Jacket spine panel slightly toned, rubbing along edges..... More
London: Methuen & Co., 1924. First English language edition, first printing. 212 pp. + 8 [ads]. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in blind with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth lightly soiled and spine-faded. Small bookseller ticket to front paste down;..... More
Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1882. Reprint utilizing slightly altered plates from the 1881-82 Boston edition. Signed by Walt Whitman on the first blank sheet, inscribed "J. William Thompson from the author." Thompson was London lawyer who corresponded with Whitman, occasionally ordering books directly from the author. Bound in publisher's..... More
New York: New Directions, 1955. First edition, first printing; no credit to New York Times on verso on copyright page, no credits to Mielziner & Ballard on xii. Light brown cloth in black lettering. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. The first appearance of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning..... More
Washington, D.C. Island Press / Shearwater Books, 1994. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. A superb association copy, signed and inscribed by Edward O. Wilson, "For Steve Gould, Evolutionary biology's..... More
Boston: Sat Sanga, 1923. 106 pp. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paramhansa Yogananda and inscribed to a former owner, Mrs. [Camilla] Tedrow. Bound in publisher's orange pebbled cloth ruled in blind with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good. Corners bumped. Cloth toned at spine, lightly stained affecting bottom inner..... More