The Converted Jewess, Memoir of Maria --
New York: G. Lane and P.P. Sandford, 1843. From the Fourth London Edition. 16mo. 6" x 4". Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and corner tips. 107pp. More
Fiction
Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art 1850
1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850..... More
Chains, Seeds of America
Simon and Schuster, Books for Young Readers, (2008). 9781416905851. Signed on title page. First Edition. 316 pp. 8vo. Cream paper covered boards with grey spine. If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight,... More
The Mills of God
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1973. Illustrated by David Armstrong. Signed by William H. Armstrong on title page. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Green cloth covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. 115 pp. Story of struggles of the young boy, Aaron, against nightmares of his brother's death and his family's humiliation by poverty..... More
Miss Hickory
New York: Viking Press, 1946. With Lithographs by Ruth Gannett. Second Printing, June 1947. Mustard colored cloth boards. 8vo. Colorful decorated endpapers. 123 pp. When Great-granny Brown packed up and moved to the Women's City Club in Boston, Miss Hickory was faced with the problem of spending a severe New..... More
The Danger Box
New York: Scholastic Press, (September 2010). 9780439852098. Signed by author on title page. First edition. Orange paper covered boards stamped in silver. 306 pp. 8vo. 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
Lolami, The Little Cliff Dweller
Bloomington, Ill. Public-School Publishing Company, 1906. Illustrated with maps and woodcuts. 12 mo. 6-7/8" x 5-1/16". Red cloth covered boards, stamped in black. 188 pp. including Appendix with questions for discussion. More
Looking Backward, 2000-1887
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. With introduction by Sylvester Baxter. Memorial Edition. 8vo. Green cloth cover stamped in black. 337 pp. Frontispiece photo portrait of Bellamy. More
The Spider's House
New York: Random House, (1955). Stated First Printing. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards stamped in blue, green and gold. 406 pp. The great medieval city of Fez is the fountainhead of native resistance to French rule in Morocco today. In this strange and disturbing place lives the boy, Amar, son..... More
Agnes Grey, Shirley, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Villette
London: Folio Society, 1991. Illustrated by various artists: Harry Brockway, Howard Phipps, Ian Stephens, George Tute, Simon Brett, Peter Forster and Peter Reddick. Re-issued edition of the first Folio Society edition of 1967. This 1991 edition has new illustrations. Seven 8vo. volumes in green silk moiré covered slipcase. Green silk..... More
Two volumes, two titles: Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
New York: Random House, 1943. Illustrated with wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg. Two 4to. volumes in one slipcase. Black and white pictorial paper covered boards, green cloth spines stamped in gold. This edition was planned by Richard Ellis and produced under his direction. The illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg were printed..... More
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy, THe 25th Anniversary Edition
New York: Ballantine Books, (1991). 0345453751. Black paper covered boards. More
The Gap in the Curtain
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First edition. Red cloth cover stamped in black. 8vo. 313 pp. More
The Flood at Reedsmere
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., (1968). Illustrated by Robin Jacques. First American edition. 8vo. 204 pp. plus two pp. historical notes and author and illustrator biography. "Trapped by the rising waters of a sudden disastrous flood, Mark Vaughan and his sister Mary managed to find a boat and..... More
The Cream of the Jest, A Comedy of Evasions
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. With 12 illustrations by Frank C. Papé. First Impression of the Illustrated Edition printed October, 1927, ten years after the first edition of September 1917. Large 8vo. bound in gold stamped black cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge stained red. 243 pp. Dust jacket is..... More
Two Boy Publishers or From Typecase to Editor's Chair
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1906). Illustrated. Boys of Business Series. 8vo. Pictorial blue cloth cover stamped in white and black. 249 pp. More
Life & Times of Michael K
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). 0670427896. First Edition. 8vo. Orange paper covered boards with black cloth spine. 184 pp. J. M. Coetzee takes us into the world of Michael K, a young man unwillingly caught up in a war in South Africa. At the age of thirty-one, Michael loses..... More
The Prince of Tides
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. 0395353009. First edition. Gray paper covered boards. Blue cloth spine stamped in gold. More
Juan Fernandez, der Seefahrer, Die Meuterer
Stuttgart: Gustav Weise, n.d. 12 mo. Green cloth. Pictorial cover plate. 414 pp. plus 1 p. publisher's ads. Text in German. More
The Maltese Falcon
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. More
A Tolkien Bestiary
New York: Ballantine Books. Illustrated by Ian Miller, Michael Foreman, Allan Curless, Lidia Postma, John Blanche, Pauline Martin, Sue Porter, Linda Garland, Victor Ambrus, John Davis, and Jaroslav Bradac. 0345282833. First edition. 287 pp. 4to. Beige cloth. Spine stamped in black. A scholarly, definitive and enchantingly beautiful explanation of all..... More
A Strange Love, A Novel of Abnormal Passion
New York: Panurge Press, (1930). #222 of 1010 copies printed privately for subscription only by Panurge Press. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 6-1/8". 251 pp. Red cloth covered boards textured with a leaf pattern and stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. From the Introduction: "Be it enough to shadow forth the saintly..... More
Darkness and Dawn
Boston: Small Maynard and Company, (1914). Small, Maynard and Company. Red cloth stamped in gold. 672 pp. 8vo. Decorated endpapers. Color frontispiece and black and white plates facing p. 204, 420, and 600. More
American Beauty
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. With woodcut decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka. Stated First Edition. 8vo. 8-3/16 x 5-3/4". Red cloth covered boards stamped in gold. Decorative green printed endpapers. 313 pp. This is the circle of a certain phase of American life, American beauty, if you will, that..... More