A signed photo of P G Wodehouse
1936. An 8 x 10 Signed and dated photo by P G Wodehouse. blind stamped by the photographer Clarence Bull on the lower right corner and stamped on the back as well. Light soiling, otherwise fine. More
Literature
Essays from the Spectator
London: William Tegg, nd. 575 pp. 8vo. green cloth stamped in gold and black. Frontispiece from wood engraving. From Preface: The present volume will be found to comprise, with some exceptions, which will be more particularly adverted to hereafter, the whole of the Essays contributed by Addison to the "Spectator."..... More
On Law and Justice, Excerpts from the Summa Theologica
Birmingham: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1988. Privately printed for the members of the Legal Classics Library by Arcata Graphics/Kingsport. Copy #3293. Full blue leather stamped in 22-karat gold. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Cover stampings and design of the edition by Daniel B. Bianchi and Selma Ordewer. Decorative marbled endpapers. More
A Window in Thrums
New York: R.F. Fenno & Company, (1894). Illustrated by WM. Hole, R.S.A. 8vo. 183 pp. Grey cloth binding decoratively stamped in gold and crimson. Beveled edges. More
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which is to Come
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1910. with One Hundred Illustrations by Frederick Barnard and Others, Engraved by Dalziel Brothers. Green decorative cloth. 362 pp. quarto (10-3/4" x 8-3/4"). More
Facsimile edition of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1958). With the original 87 Illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Lovely cream colored, blind-stamped paper covered boards. With an Introduction by John T. Winterich and a Glossary for the Modern Reader. More
The Souls of Black Folks
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903. Third Edition. August 1, 1903. 264 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, spine faded to brown. "Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without interest..... More
Children's Stories from Shakespeare, 6 volumes: Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew.
Raphael Tuck and Sons, Ltd., No date. ca. 1900. Illustrated by Frances Brundage and others, namely J.W. Grey, M. Bowley, & H. Horowitz. The GEM Shakespeare Library. 16 mo., 6-1/2" x 4-1/2". Each volume 64 pp. Beige paper covered boards stamped with a brown, dark brown and green design framing..... More
The Forest of Arden with some of its Legends (of Castle-Knight and Maid, of the winding Rivers meuse, the Semois, the Ourthe, the Lesse and their peaceful Village dotted Valleys Wherein 'tis good to wander)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914. With 27 halftone illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. Red cloth stamped in gold and green. Top edge gilt. Deckle fore-edge. 4to. 216 pp. Full color frontispiece and decorative color title page. Plus a full color plate illustration by G. W. Edwards. Pictorial endpapers..... More
The Warlock of Westfall
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., (1974). Illustrated with haunting woodblock prints by the author. 0385071256. Tall 8vo. 119 pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on spine. Purple endpapers. Purple speckled bottom edge of text block. The Warlock of Westfall is the tale of Samuel Swift, a lonely, eccentric bachelor in..... More
Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass
New York: Avenel Books. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 051744898X. 1984 Edition of this book first published in 1957. Black cloth stamped in iridescent green. 8vo. 315 pp. Contains twelve classic, haunting tales about ghosts and the supernatural. The book's contents reads like a who's who of outstanding writers in the..... More
Pagan Papers
London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. Stated Second Edition. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" Green cloth stamped in gold.192 pp. plus publisher's ad for Some Press Opinions of The Golden Age and printer's colophon. On the verso of half title page is printed: "This Second Edition of..... More
The Art of Living
New York: Scribner's, 1895. Illustrated by C. D. Gibson, B. West Clinedinst, and W. H. Hyde. Initialed cover design by Margaret Armstrong. First edition. Squarish 8vo. 353 pp. Top edge gilt. Light beige cloth stamped in blue and gold. A beautiful example of Scribner's artful production at the turn of..... More
Hawthorne & His Circle
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. 8vo. 372 pp. and one p. publisher's ads. Brown cloth stamped in gold and white. 16 illustrations. More
"Out of the East." Reveries and Studies in New Japan
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, (1895). A beautiful early edition. Green cloth stamped in gold. 341 pp. 12 mo. Contents: The Dream of a Summer Day; With Kyushu Students; At Hakata; Of the Eternal Feminine; Bits of Life and Death; The Stone Buddha; Jiujutsu; The Red Bridal; A...... More
The Complete Stories
Harper Collins, No date (1995). 0060167327. First edition. Turquoise paper covered boards. Black cloth spine stamped in silver. 8vo. 305 pp. plus p. of copyright acknowledgements. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke. More
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Drexel Hill, Penna. Bell Publishing Co., nd. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 102 pp. small 4to., 9-7/8" x 7-1/2" bound in brick colored cloth with pictorial paper cover plate. With 8 color plates and many line drawn illustration by Rackham grace this lovely book. More
The Ambassadors
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. First Edition. Blue-green paper covered boards.431 pp. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge. A lovely copy, rare in original dust jacket. More
The Poisonwood Bible
HarperFlamingo, (1998). 0060175400. Stated First Edition. Black paper covered boards. More
Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody
New York: Longmans,Green and Co. 205 pp. 12 mo. bound in green cloth with white paper (simulated leather) covered spine. Title page printed in red and black. Half-tone frontispiece picture of golfer titled "The Baron at St. Andrews," from an old painting in the club at St. Andrews, is believed..... More
Seven volumes in series of opera stories for children
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1938. Illustrated by Alexander Serebriakoff. Authorized Edition of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. Small 4to. 9-1/2" x 7-3/8". 42 pp. each. Pictorial paper covered boards. Cloth spines. Each book has a pictorial dust jacket. Every page decorated. Lovely color illustrations throughout. Color frontispiece shows characters..... More
The New England Tragedies
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1868. First Edition. 179 pp. 12 mo. bound in reddish brown cloth stamped in gold. Contains two plays: I. John Endicott and II. Giles Corey of the Salem Farms. More
Princess September and the Nightingale
(New York): Oxford University Press, (1939). Illustrated by Richard C. Jones. First edition. Small quarto, 10" x 7-1/4". Green cloth binding. Spine stamped in gold. Beautiful yellow endpapers illustrated in bright primary colors. Just about every page decorated or strikingly illustrated. More
The Lost Upland
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 0679405267. Stated First Edition. Wine colored cloth binding stamped in gold. 307 pp. 8vo. More
The Children
New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1897. Decorations by Will Bradley. 134 pp. 12mo. Decorated endpapers. Green cloth stamped in green and gold. Done into types and printed for John Lane at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Massachusetts, in December, Mdcccxcvi. More