Structure, Verses, Agency Books

First and Early American Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens

Wilkins, William Glyde · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Reprint Edition of the 1928 true First Edition bibliography of the works of Charles Dickens. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at wors...

A Bibliography of the First Editions of Published and Privately Printed Books and Pamphlets by Austin Dobson,

Dobson, Alban, compiler · 1925

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, First Edition Club, 1925. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Copy #386 of 500 copies of this Special Limited Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned endpapers front and rear, else with a c...

A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy

Marrot, H.V. · 1968

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Burt Franklin, 1968. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Stated Reprint Edition of the 1928 true First Edition. Gray linen...

The Story of Princess Alice: An Ideal Woman

Pollard, Eliza Frances · 1895

$140.00 (€127.03 | £105.98 | ¥22,356)

New York, Thomas Whittaker, . . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Eliza Frances Pollard penned this cute little biography for child readers sometime before 1895, when the gift inscription was written warmly, "Charlotte M. Edwards, from L.L.W." Scarce in this, the seeming only edi...

Typologies in England, 1650-1820

Korshin, Paul J. · 1982

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author delineates the development of typology from the theological to the secular sphere through a study of abstracted typology, or types, that writers transferred f...

Robinson Crusoe

Defoe, Daniel · 1835

$104.00 (€94.36 | £78.72 | ¥16,607)

E. Kearny, Defoe, Daniel, 1835. New Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A New Edition so as to make it more amenable to the "young reader. Short, almost pocketbook-sized copy in brown cloth over boards, fine gilt illustration to front and rear boards, rebacked spine,...

The Calligrapher's Handbook

Lamb, C.M., ed. · 1954

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering at spine. Brig...

Printing & the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study

Berger, Sidney E. · 1997

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.36 | ¥8,304)

New York, Groiler Club, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine bio-bibliographical study of printing and printers and typography with a special focus on the genius K.K. Merker, compiled by Sidney E. Berger, but with contributions also by Harry Duncan...

A Bibliography of Horace Walpole

Hazen, A.T. · 1973

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York / Folkestone, England, Barnes & Noble / Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in light blac...

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography; Supplement to F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography

Bruccoli, Matthew J. · 1972

$35.20 (€31.94 | £26.65 | ¥5,621)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, complete in two volumes, being both Bruccoli's original descriptive bibliography, published in 197...

John Masefield, O. M, the Queen's Poet Laureate: A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute

Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey · 1960

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Cranbrook Tower Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. 96 pp...

Presses of Northern California and Their Books 1900-1933

Barr, Louise Farrow · 1934

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.45 | ¥10,220)

Berkeley, California, The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1934. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and useful source bibliography with index, including a full list of titles of books printed by more than two dozen California presses. ...

Dolmen XXV: An Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press 1951-1976

Miller, Liam · 1976

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,665)

Dublin, Ireland, Dolmen Editions, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Liam Miller has for Dolmen Press compiled a fine bibliography to one of the preeminent publishers in Ireland of Irish writers and themes. The bibliography is augmented with plentiful ill...

Writers of Colonial New England

White, Trentwell Mason and Paul William Lehmann · 1929

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Boston, Massachusetts, The Palmer Company, Publishers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Mr. Robert Allen, bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography in a project headed at the Un...

A First Edition?

Edward N. Zempel, Linda A. Verkler · 1977

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Peoria, Illinois, The Spoon River Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, later edition being published in 1985. The sub-title to A First Edition? reads, "Statements of Selected North American, British Commonwealth, and Irish Publishers o...

First Editions of to-Day and How to Tell Them

Boutell, H.S. · 1929

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Those of you who use McBride's Guide to Identifying and Collecting First Editions know that it is a bit skimpy regarding pre-1922, and this is its antidote. Sturdy, attract...

Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers, Second Edition

Reilly, John M. (editor) · 1985

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume, stated Second Edition of this useful compendium that I use frequently. xx, 1094 pp., bound in an oversized Imperial octavo hardcover format. Fine-looking...

Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers

Taylor, Isaac · 1825

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.09 | ¥24,911)

Hartford, Connecticut, Silas Andrus, 1825. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Quite scarce in the trade. First American Edition from the juvenile "Scenes" series of travelogues by the author (and illustrator), the minister Isaac Taylor (1759-1829). Bluish m...

The Old Engravers of England in Their Relation to Contemporary Life and Art (1540-1800)

Salaman, Malcolm C. · 1906

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Cassell & Co., 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior but for previous owner's fine bookplate inside front flap, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bumping to spine head and foot. Impe...

Roots by the River: A Story of Texas Tropical Borderland

Collective · 1978

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Salt Lake City, Utah, Border Kingdom Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine gift inscription from one of the contributors to this fine work of Texas-based Americana, edited by committee of several "Valley By-Liners." Contributions by Minnie C. G...