Softcover. NY, Swann Auction Galleries, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 lots illustrated with color photos of rare books, many in dust jackets. Description and comments for each lot, prices realized list laid in. Great reference for the avid collector. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Ohio, Kent State University Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover,115 pages, cream cloth with black lettering on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Random House Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The classic work by Dr. Seuss analyzed and dissected. Red cloth, beige spine. 10 1/2" X 10 1/4" in size. IIllustrated, color drawings, black & white photos. Notes galore.
Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press /Macmillan, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 174 pages, color frontis. portrait of the author, several b&w plates. Flap price crossed out otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 277 pages. Dust jacket with extensive ripping and wear. Covered in mylar for protection. Dark red boards with gilt title to spine. Red staining to top edge. Soiling to ell edges. Overall, a tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages, Preface by Farrell. Green cloth binding with gilt on spine. Some light pencil marks in margins, on rear end papers.
Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 351 pages including index. A list of writing relating to Charles Dickens and his works 1836-1944. A very useful bibliographic reference for Dickensiana.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket with closed tears to front cover. Protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy. History of this children's book publishing house followed by chronological listing of all their publications.
Hardcover. Mendota IL, The Wayside Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. A superb, anecdotal and personal (Gardner was a great Alger collector) biography of Alger and history of the Alger juveniles, with superb color plates of rare Alger items and a descriptive bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald. Beginning in the late 1940s with his shadowy creation, ruminating private eye Lew Archer, Macdonald had followed in the footsteps of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, but ultimately elevated the form to a new level. "We talked about everything imaginable," Nelson wrote-including Macdonald's often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, books, and movies he admired; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; his own novels and why Archer was not the most important character-"my God, everything." It's All One Case provides an open door to Macdonald at his most unguarded. The book is far more than a collection of never-before-published interviews, though. Published in a handsome, oversized format, it is a visual history of Macdonald's professional career, illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world's largest private archives of Macdonald collectibles. Featuring in full color the covers of the various editions of Macdonald's more than two dozen books, facsimile reproductions of pages from his manuscripts, magazine spreads, and many never before seen photos of Macdonald and his friends (such as Kurt Vonnegut), including those by celebrated photojournalist Jill Krementz. It's All One Case is an intellectual delight and a visual feast, a fitting tribute to Macdonald's distinguished career. Full-color illustrations throughout
Hardcover. Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Minor shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A history of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 390 pgs. small bkpt on front pastedown, light stain to rear cover. still VG.
Hardcover. NY, Bowling Green Press, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt medallion on upper cover, gilt-lettered on spine. limited to 1000 copies, this one of 750 for sale, this copy #62 and so attested to in ms. on the copyright-page by Edward Stern & Co., Inc. 368 pages, color frontispiece portrait, 87 reproductions of title pages, letters, portraits, etc. Introduction by A. Edward Newton. Well annotated, with full collations, descriptions, pagination, etc. This is the standard Oliver Goldsmith bibliography, but it can be read for enjoyment as well as for reference. Has much on Samuel Johnson. Previous owner's commentary on rear fly leaf, rear hinge cracked.
Hardcover. Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossia Publishers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated illustrated boards with marbled design, black spine and silver lettering. Includes numerous color and b/w illustrations, 254 pages. TEXT IN RUSSIAN & ENGLISH. Light edgewear to covers, clean copy.
Softcover. Washington, Library of Congress, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages, illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 598 pages, errata slip laid in. Spine slightly cocked, light shelfwear.
Hardcover. Exeter, Robinson and Towle, 1st, 1833, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 426 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather with title in gilt on spine. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white engravings. Book measures: 6.25" H X 3.75" W. Pages with light to moderate foxing throughout. Front cover hinge cracked - cover holding with original binding strings.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 511 pages, b&w illustrations. Britain's most illustrious SF writer, Brian Aldiss, provides a witty and perceptive history of this extraordinary phenomenon, set in its social and literary context. Crammed with fascinating insights, this generous spree takes us through decades of treats for the escape to other dimensions, flights to other planets, lost worlds, utopias, mechanical creatures and intelligent aliens. Amusing, intelligent and authoritative, it takes us on a tour through that zone where literature and science engage in an eternal flirtation. Examining the great writers SF has produced, and the images that have become the cultural wallpaper of the present day, this comprehensive expedition is for buffs and tenderfoots alike. Remainder line to bottom edge otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Madras, The Adyar Library, Reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Text in Sanskrit and English. Previous owners name on front endpaper with brief note opposite. Light, neat notes in pen and pencil on some pages in first section of text. Overall, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Facsimiles-Garland Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 volume hardcover set. 428+433+368 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper of all volumes. Faint pencil markings to a handful pages of each volume. Overall, a tight clean set.
Hardcover. Berkeley, California University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean tight copy.
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