Authors starting with S from Boston Book Company

1975. Paperback. Very Good. HUMPHREY'S Henry S. FIGARO IN THE FOREST. Cincinnati, OH: Vindabona Press, (1975). Inscribed presentation copy. 4to., wrappers. Slight soil to wraps. Very good. ... more information

1912. Very Good. MILITARY ORDER OF THE LOYAL LEGION OF THE UNITED STATES. REGISTER OF THE COMMANDERY OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, NOVEMBER 1, 1912. Cambridge: The University Press, 1912. Frontispiece. xxxvi,522 pp. Large ocatvo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board, t.e.g. Bookplate. Cloth shows general light soiling and has darkened a bit at spine. Heavy foxing along fore-edge of bookblock but mostly clean within, with light foxing to opening and closing leaves only. very good. ... more information

1975. Fine. KITA NO KOGEI (Crafts of the North). Sapporo, 1975 [Reprint of the original 1934 edition] In Japanese. Large 8vo. 175 pp. Extensive b/w ills, drawings. Classic guide to the field. Near Fine. ... more information

1903. Good. SABATIER, Paul. VIE DE S. FRANCOIS D'ASSISE. Paris: Librairie Fischbacher [n.d.]. Vingt-Septieme edition. cxxvi + 418 pp. + 1 pp. index. 8vo., vellum with gilt leather spine label. Owner's ink gift inscription dated 1903 on first blank recto. Good. TEG. Marbled endpapers, gilt vellum dentelles. Light soil to vellum. Interior good, paper heavily age-toned at edges. Text in French. ... more information

1924. Good. SABATINI, Rafael. "FERRANTE'S JEST." Boston, Mass.: The Boston Sunday Post Magazine, 13 July 1924. First/?only separate edition. "Summer Fiction Booklet." With spot illustrations throughout, by S. W. Hilton, in color. 16 double-column pp., pinned together through the center fold. 20.4 x 14.2 cm (8 x 5 5/8 in.) Paper has toned, as is to be expected, with some small nicks in top-edge, else a clean and very good copy of an ephemeral issue. Rare. The story "Ferrante... more information

1953. Paperback. Very Good. SABINE, W. H. W. SABINE(E): THE HISTORY OF AN ANCIENT ENGLISH SURNAME. London and New York: published by author and Colburn and Tegg, 1953. Limited to 250 stencilled copies. 105 pp. 4to., stapled wrappers as issued. Light edgewear, slight crease to spine edge of front cover, light soil to wrappers, else very good plus. Shields and arms, pronunciation, map. ... more information

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1968. Fine. SACKLER, Howard. GREAT WHITE HOPE. New York: Dial Press, 1968. First edition. Fine, in the dust jacket. ... more information

1932. Good. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. THIRTY CLOCKS STRIKE THE HOUSE and Other Stories. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1932. First edition, (no English edition). 8vo., green cloth. Heavily sunned at spine, with lighter sun to edges; boards just skewed, top opening corners bumped. A good reading copy. ... more information

1923. SACKVILLE-WEST, V. CHALLENGE. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First edition, first issue: British sheets (though not published in England until 1973) bound in first issue green cloth, in a first issue dust-jacket. Signed by Sackville-West on the title-page. Presentation inscription from West's son Nigel Nicolson to Ruth Hoberg. Includled is a note from Hoberg: "This book was written during a passionate and, at the times, scandalous love affair, between V. S-W. and Violet Trefusis. ... more information

1931. Acceptable. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. SISSINGHURST. London: Hogarth Press, 1931. First edition: Number 118 of 500 copies, signed by Sackeville-West. Printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf. A work celebrating the gardens of Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. 10 pp. Bound in original beige boards with aquamarine endpapers. Boards are quite worn at spine. Non-authorial inscription of first fly-leaf. An acceptable copy of an uncommon book. (Woolmer 271). ... more information

1923. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. CHALLENGE. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First edition, first issue: British sheets (though not published in England until 1973) bound in first issue green cloth. This book was written during a passionate and, at the times, scandalous love affair, between V. S-W. and Violet Trefusis. The book was not published in England until 1973, 11 years after V. S-W's death. The characters of Julian and Eve represent V. S-W & V. Trefusis respectively and the Island repre... more information

1928. Fine. SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. TWELVE DAYS. An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia. London: The Hogarth Press, 1928. First edition. There is moderate foxing throughout and a touch of shelfwear at heel and crown. A near fine copy, in patterned cloth covered boards. ... more information

1924. Very Good. (DAUMIER, Honore). SADLEIR, Michael. DAUMIER: THE MAN AND ARTIST. London: Halton & Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1924. Limited edition; one of 700 copies. 92 plates, including some color plates which are mounted on paper. Folio: vii, 39 pp. Brown cloth over bevelled boards, gilt title to upper board and spine. Bookplate. Internally clean and fresh. Cloth shows light wear to perimeters and joints, and slight scuffing to sides. Very good plus. ... more information

1895. Very Good. SAFFORD, Susan Darling. "QUAINT EPITAPHS". Boston: Susan Darling Stafford, 1895. 8vo., black and red cloth printed to upper board in silver, teg. Pen ownership to ffep. Offsetting to endpapers and to two interior leaves. A touch of sun to top edge and spine and some soil to boards, with lightly bumped bottom opening corners. A rare book in very good condition. ... more information

1960. Paperback. Very Good. SAGAN, Francoise. CHATEAU EN SUEDE. Paris: Rene Julliard, (1960). First edition. One of 250 numbered copies. In French. 8vo., white wrappers. Minor soil to top- and fore-edge of bookblock. Clean within; uncut. Dust jacket is sunned at spine, rear panel and edgeworn at fore-edge. A very good copy overall. ... more information

1937. Paperback. Fine. SAINTE-CROIX, Basile. Lettres des Alizes. Paris, GLM, 1938. Quarto. [20]ff. From an edition of 220 numbered copies, this is number 77 of of 200 copies printed on velin bibliophile. Author's inscription dated "N.Y. 1938." Laid-in is Sainte-Croix's "Chants de Passe," Paris, Librairie Tschann, n.d. 8vo, [4]ff. in self-wrappers. It too is inscribed by the author. Also laid-in is a photograph of a portrait drawing, dated 1943, by Natacha Carlu, probably of Sain... more information

1987. Fine. SAKIHARA, Mitsugu. A BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY OKINAWA BASED ON THE OMORO SOSHI. (Tokyo:) Honpo Shoseki Press, 1987. 8vo., dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, in publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Appears to be a pre- publication copy, with information placeholders in brackets on title and copyright pages. Fine. ... more information

1912. SALAMAN, Malcolm C. WHITMAN'S PRINT COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK. Sixth edition. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1912. 8vo., blue cloth. Serviceable, with bump to edges, slight soil/rubbing to cloth. ... more information

1952. Fine. SALE, Virginia. AMERICANA, Monologues. New York & Hollywood: Samuel French, (1952). Second printing. viii, 63 pp. 8vo., blue cloth printed in black on spine. Text and binding are clean and tight; photo- illustrated dust jacket is very clean, sunned to spine and extremities, with one very small, closed tear. A near fine copy. A series of monologues for women of "American original characterizations" from the renowned repertoire of Virginia Sale. ... more information