NY: Free Press, [2012]. First Edition, first printing. Signed presentation from Schwalm on the title page: '26 Dec. 2012. To the Gavers, Please accept my art as a humble thank you for all that you have shared with my family. de oppresso liber [of the oppressed free]. Tony Schwalm." Signed..... More
[Cairo]: The American University In Cairo Press, [1999]. Illustrated with 170 Black & White Photographs. First Edition. Signed presentation from Myntti on the half-title page: "For Harold and Marjorie Alexanov (?) who share my love of Cairo, Cynthia Myntti." Uncommon to find inscribed copies of this title! Small quarto: light-gray..... More
Los Angeles: The Fred S. Lang Company, [1916]. Deliver At Los Angeles, California, August 12, 1915. Illustrated with Photographs of Presidents and Other Dignitaries. First Edition. Signed presentation from Young on the front endpaper: "To the Honorable S.A. Wildman with the compliments and best wishes of Charles Sumner Young. Los..... More
NY: The Bookmailer, [1958]. Foreword by Sen. John F. Kennedy. First Edition. Signed presentation from Alexander to Maryland Sen. John M. Butler on the front endpaper: "Honorable John M. Butler, US Senator, Maryland. With best wishes, Holmes Alexander. 14 July 1958." John Marshall Butler (1897–1978) was a lawyer and..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition, first printing. With an interesting signed presentation from Auchincloss on the front endpaper: "For Roger Dooley from his friend the author at the Ren Club on Jan. 13, 19169. Louis Auchincloss." Tall 8vo., blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in original dust jacket; 265..... More
NY: The Franklin Press, 1911. First Edition. Signed presentation from O'Sheel (also signing his real name "Jim Shrelds") on the verso of the front endpaper: "To Nellie West, with the good wishes of the author to all the kindly West family. Shaemus O'Sheel (Jim Shields)." Shaemas O'Sheel (1886–1954) was an..... More
University Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 1938. First Edition. Signed presentation from Thompson on the title page: "To my good friend and colleague, John Guilbeau. J.A. Thompson." An uncommon book. 8vo., green cloth with paper title labels on spine & front cover; I have not seen any copies in a...... More
Berlin: Im Verlag Ullstein, [1932]. First Edition. Presentation on the front endpaper to French banker and economist Charles Rist: “A monsieur le Professor Charles Rist, avec les hommages de l'auteur. April, 1932.” Also, with a one-page autographed letter signed, from the Hotel Metropole in Nice, presenting the book to Rist..... More
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Illustrated with Photographs. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Garfunkel on the front of the dust jacket- as is sometimes his practice. 8vo., dark-brown cloth in dust jacket; 241 pages. A fine copy in like dust jacket. A nice copy! More
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, [1950]. Introduction by P.K. Thomajan. First Edition.With nearly 7,000 designs based on Japanese family crests. Oblong 8vo., printed grey cloth in dust jacket. Very Good (covers nice; some browning front and endpapers); some edgewear (nicks & short tears) d/j. More
New York & Boston: Warner Books, 2004. Illustrated. First Edition, first printing. 8vo., blue & white boards in dust jacket; 318 pages. Near fine (covers nice; contents clean & tight); very nice (with the original wrap-around promotional band) d/j. More
[Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Bibliotheque Nationale d'Haiti, 2003]. First Edition. 8vo., orange pictorial wraps; 177 pages. Very Good (covers nice with tiny nick head of spine; contents clean & tight). More
Boston, M.A. St. Paul Editions, 1984. Written and illustrated by the Daughters of St. Paul. First Edition. 8vo., pictorial boards; 130 pages. Very Good (covers nice; gift inscription on the front end paper). More
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901. With Photographic Illustrations of Knob County. First Edition. Signed by Lloyd on the front endpaper. John Uri Lloyd [1849–1936] was an American pharmacist and a leader of the eclectic medicine movement of pharmacology, ethnobotany, economic botany and herbalism. He also wrote novels set in..... More
London: Smith Elder & Company, 1854. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Third Edition. 12mo; pictorial orange cloth, stamped in gilt; 56 pages. Good (some wear spine; ink inscriptions on front end paper; occasional wear text). More
New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1956. Later Edition. 8vo., tan cloth in dust jacket; 599 pages. Very Good (covers nice; creases on pages 189-192); few tiny chips & tears d/j. More
London: Faber & Faber, 1949. First Edition. 8vo., red cloth in dust jacket; 313 pages. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); light crease front flap (length of spine partially stained; price-clipped) d/j. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. First Edition. 8vo., black cloth in dust jacket; 297 pages. Very Good (covers nice; ink name & address on front endpaper); very minor soil d/j. More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1969]. Illustrated. First Edition, first printing. Small quarto: blue cloth in dust jacket; 191 pages. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); little wear (several creases) d/j. More
New Lisbon, NJ: State of New Jersey Pinelands Commission. [1980]. First Edition. Hard to find! Quartos: pictorial white wraps. Very Good (minor wear; ex-library copy "Discard" with few associated stampings; covers laminated, probably by the library). More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. With 777 Illustrations From Sketches In The Author's Journal. First Edition. Edward Sylvester Morse [1838–1925] was an American zoologist and orientalist. In June 1877 Morse first visited Japan in search of coastal brachiopods. To collect specimens, he established a marine biological laboratory at Enoshima..... More
NY: Henry Holt And Company, [1943]. First Edition. Author's first book of poetry. Signed presentation from Marshall on the front endpaper: "To Nordie (could be "Hordie")- affectionately- Lenore." Marshall was a founder in 1956 and life-long member of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In 1971, she helped to..... More
NY: Noonday Press, [1956]. First Edition. Signed presentation from Marshall on the front endpaper, to American poet Denise Levertov: "For Denise Levertov- with admiration and good wishes- Lenore Marshall." Marshall was a founder in 1956 and life-long member of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. In 1971, she helped..... More
[NY]: Harry S. Abrams/ History Book Club, [1999]. Foreword by Stephen W. Sears. First Edition. Quarto: gray boards in dust jacket; 272 pages. Fine in a fine dust jacket. More
[Strasbourg, La Nuee Bleue, 1995]. Preface by Sylvie Lecoq-Ramond. First Edition. Signed presentation from Remlinger on the half-title page. With a penned illustration. Quarto: pictorial wraps; 159 pages. Very Good (covers nice with minor wear; contents clean & tight). More
