Old Bookshelf

Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding; Community Action in the War on Poverty

Moynihan, Daniel P. · 1969

$120.00 (€108.87 | £90.83 | ¥19,156)

New York The Free Press First Printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) xxi, 218pp. Black cloth, pink and gilt lettering to spine. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Near fine book, very good dust jacket is lightly worn and lightly scuffed. ...

The Goldfish Under the Ice

Morley, Christopher · 1929

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

London Mathews & Marrot First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 27pp. Tan boards, red decoration. Copy No.140 of 530 numbered copies SIGNED by the author. Dampstaining confined mainly to upper portion of boards and faintly to upper internal margins, spi...

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis · 1950

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London Hampster Books 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 78pp. No date, c 1950s. Pictorial covers. Cover and contents are in very nice condition, slight rubbing to corners, Dust jacket is age-toned, lightly edgeworn and edges chipped with slight loss. Book appears to have been publi...

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis · 1960

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Lafayette, Louisiana Peter Pauper Press 2nd Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall John Tenniel 161pp. No date, c1960. Pictorial covers with playing card motif. Book is unworn, spine darkened, interior is very clean and unmarked. Slipcase has 2 small chips at top and bottom, an...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Carroll, Lewis · 0

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

De Luxe Editions 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall John Tenniel 244pp. No date c1940s. Green textured boards, purple velveteen spine backing, top edge gilt. Spine ends lightly worn one corner bumped, contents lightly age-toned, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, minor spo...

Useful and Instructive Poetry

Carroll, Lewis · 1954

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York The Macmillan Company First Printing 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Lewis Carroll 45pp. Tan paper covered boards. Age-toning to cover, unworn, contents clean. Dust jacket is clipped, but curiously original price ($2.50) still shows, darkened along spine and folds. Aut...

Adventures from the Original Alice in Wonderland

Carroll.l Lewis (Adaptation by Marcia Martin) · 1951

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York Wonder Books 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Laszlo Matulay Unpaginated. Pictorial boards and pictorial endpapers. Book is in very good, unworn condition inside and out. Well-preserved. Very Good No Jacket

The Sailor Who Has Sailed

Low, Benjamin R.C. · 1911

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York John Lane Company First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 171pp. Brown paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper spine label. Light edgewear, interior is clean. Front free endpaper is inscribed and signed by L.R. Low, and laid-in is a letter wri...

Swords & Roses

Hergesheimer, Joseph · 1929

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 327pp. Tna cloth. SIGNED and inscribed by author on half-title page. Light wear and overall soil and spotting, top corners torn off 2 rear endpapers. Good No Jacket

Creed of a Congressman

Hébert, F. Edward · 1970

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Lafayette, Louisiana The University of Southwestern Louisiana First Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author(s) 216pp. Grey cloth, blue trim and gilt lettering, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Book is clean and unmarked. The author inscribed the book,dated June 27...

The Business Man and His Government

Lawrence, David · 1929

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Washington, DC The United States Daily Publishing Corporation First Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Signed by Author(s) Unpaginated 45pp. Salmon colored boards and salmon endpapers. Book is clean, unworn and unblemished. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper. Near ...

Voyage historique et pittoresque du Havre à Rouen, et de Rouen au Havre, sur la Seine, en Bateau à Vapeur

Morlent, M.J. · 1836

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Rouen Éduard Frère, Éditeur 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall xii, 146, viii pp. Blue printed wraps,engraved frontispiece, folding map. Cover is soiled and chipped and mostly intact, contents lightly foxed, string attachment still holding to lower spine. Quelques rousseurs, état. Good

The Williamsburg Art of Cookery or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion: Being a Collection of Upwards of Five Hundred of the Most Ancient & Approv'd Recipes in Virginia Cookery.

Bullock, Helen · 1939

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Williamsburg, Virginia Colonial Williamsburg 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Full leather, leather spine label with gilt lettering. Moderate edgewear to boards, chipping along spine. Contents are sound. Reprint of the 1742 edition. Illustrated. Good

The Wasp in a Wig

Carroll, Lewis · 1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York The Lewis Carroll Society of America 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 21pp + facsimile of galley proofs of suppressed portion of Through the Looking Glass. Textured red heavy stock wrapper. Clean and unworn, spine slightly faded, galley proof pages unopened Near Fine

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Carroll, Lewis · 1951

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Chicago Rand McNally & Company Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall Janice Holland Unpaginated. Pictorial cover and endpapers. Covers are clean and very lightly worn, contents mildly age-toned, unmarked, and book is in overall sound condition. From Rand McNally's series of Bo...

The Russian Journal and Other Selections from the Works of Lewis Carroll

McDermott, John Francis (editor) · 1935

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York E.P. Dutton & Co. First Edition 252pp. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering, grey spine. Very light wear, spine darkened, binding is tight and text is clean and unmarked. Very Good No Jacket

Alice in Wonderland

(Carroll, Lewis) · 1940

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New yOIRK Sam'l. Gabriel Sons & Company 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Unpaginated 11pp. No date, c1940s. Illustrated linenette cover with full page and in text color illustrations on each page. In very nice sound condition. Very Good

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis · 1985

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London Bell & Hyman Limited, The Leisure Circle 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Alice B. Woodward and Sue Shields 127pp. Yellow pictorial cover. Book and dust jacket are in clean and unworn condition, contents are unmarked and the binding is tight. Near Fine Near Fine

Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Carroll, Lewis · 1946

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Grosset & Dunlap 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall John Tenniel 307pp. Pictorial cover, illustrations by John Tenniel. Book is in very well-reserved, contents and exterior clean and unworn, spine slightly faded. Included is the original clear plastic "Alice in Wonderland" imprint...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Children's Classics)

Lewis Carroll · 1988

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Children's Classics 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Bessie Pease Gutmann 249pp. Interior and exterior are unworn, and in like-new condition. Illustrated by John Tenniel and Bessie Pease Gutmann. Near Fine No Jacket