Hardcover. New York, Colophon Press, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with lightly tanned pages. Cover boards show light soil. Articles include: Colophons by Ruth S. Granniss; Firsts, Issues and Points by George H. Sargent; On Breaking Type by H.L. Mencken; Whitman and the War's Finale by Emory Holloway; Illustrating "Huckleberry Finn" by E.W. Kemble; Irving's Washington and an Episode in Courtesy by George S. Hellman; On Being Published by Sherwood Anderson; Chartreuse by A.R. Stavenitz; An Unrecorded "Pilgram's Progress" by Gilbert McCoy Troxell; The Bookplates of Bruce Rogers by William A. Kittredge; Getting Into Print by William McFee.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover book and 8 DVDs inside a folding case. Every page of every issue of the magazine (4,109 issues, half a million pages) on eight DVD-Roms, with a companion book of highlights.
Hardcover. Boston, William D. Ticknor, 1st, 1847, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with gilt design on front and spine, 144 pages, all edges gilt. An anthology of English and American poetry edited by Longfellow, with his prefatory "Proem" (later collected as "Pegasus in Pound"). Other contributors: Blake, Keats, Emerson, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Tennyson, etc. Edition of 1,150 copies. Previous owner's bookplate, previous owner's signatures on front end paper. Otherwise a clean, bright copy with only minimal foxing.
NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 443 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HORGAN on the front fly leaf and dated 1972. Horgan's attempt to remind readers of a great 20th century English writer who lost visibility after his death in 1945. Bibliography of Baring's books.
Hardcover. NY, William Lewer, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, black calf spine labels with gilt lettering, 396 pages, American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and continued, under various editors, until 1850. Clean bright copy.
Hardcover. London, John Lane, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished blue calf with ornate gilt rule to edges of both covers, spine with brown calf label with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, blue and gray pattern endpapers. Decorative gilt design overall on spine. 107 pages, 6 etchings by E. Philip Pimlott. Edited by R.H. Case. A fine anthology of angling poetry, compiled by Buchan and published while he was still a student at Oxford. Sources include William Shakespeare, John Dennys, Phineas Fletcher, WilliamBrowne, Edmund Waller, John Floud, Sir Henry Wotton, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Basse, Izaak Walton, John Donne, John Chalkhill, Charles Cotton, John Bunyan, Alexander Pope, John Gay, James Thomson, John Armstrong, and others. Mild sunning to top edge of covers, ink name and short inscription dated '96 on first blank page. Otherwise clean and tight.
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.