The Red Pony (Signed Limited Edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici Friedi Publishers, 1937. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. One of 699 signed copies, this one unnumbered. A Fine copy of the book in excellent condition externally and internally. Slight bowing to front board, but in all bright, clean and unmarked. In a Near Fine slipcase with just a hint of shelfwear. Lacking the original glassine. A coming of age tale as only Steinbeck can tell it. Mischievous and a little destructive, Jody Tiflin takes his... Read More
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East of Eden (Signed limited edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition. Fine/Good. One of 1,500 copies of the signed, limited edition, 750 of which were for sale. A bright, Fine copy in chipped publisher's acetate dust jacket, Good only. Lacking the slipcase. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Edges stained red. Ink gift inscription, dated 1957, to upper pastedown. An excellent example, very clean and fresh throughout. Dust jacket lacking lower third of spine and about a quarter of the back... Read More
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Nothing So Monstrous
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. First separate edition, printed for presentation, but without an information inked in at the limitation page. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy, with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's... Read More
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Tortilla Flat
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici Friede, 1935. First edition. Very Good +/Near Fine. A Very Good+ copy in a Near Fine second printing jacket price $2.50, with the blurbs on the rear flap. Second printing statement defaced from the upper edge of the front flap. Book with the spine somewhat cocked, a small smudge to lower board, and toning and some abrasion to upper endpapers. Jacket with crease to lower flap and minor toning to spine. Steinbeck's vivid and... Read More
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Nothing So Monstrous
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. First separate edition, printed at the request of Elmer Adler for presentation to Gabriel Lambert. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy, with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread. A pleasing copy. The first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story that formed a portion of Steinbeck's novel... Read More
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Snow Crash (Signed first trade paperback)
by Stephenson, Neal
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First trade paperback. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy signed by Neal Stephenson on the title-page. First trade paperback with complete number line (9 to 1) on copyright page. Some toning to edges of pages, as usual, but an attractive copy overall. "Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous... Read More
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Treasure Island
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. First edition. Very Good. Octavo: viii, 292, [8 pgs. advertisements correctly dated "5R-10.83" for the first printing]. Frontispiece map of Treasure Island printed in four colors lacking the original tissue guard. This copy has these additional points sometimes cited for priority: "dead man's chest" is not capitalized on pgs. 2 and 7; "rain" for "vain" in the last line of pg. 40; the "a" is not present in line 6 of pg.... Read More
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Kidnapped
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy, bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Spine a trifle rolled and the spine ends and corners a bit pushed. Inner hinges professionally repaired. Black coated end-papers, folding map as frontis. Contemporary ownership inscription on the half-title, otherwise a fairly tidy example internally. Just a few spots of foxing to the closed text block. Complete with 17 pages... Read More
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The Master of Ballantrae
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1889. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with 20 pages of ads at the rear, dated July, 1889. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth stamped in black on the front and rear panels, and black and gilt on the spine. A Near Fine copy of the book in remarkably bright, fresh cloth. Floral end papers toned, rear inner hinge professionally closed and just slight foxing to the closed text block. Internal contents... Read More
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Contraception (Birth Control). Its Theory, History and Practice. A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions
by Stopes, Marie Carmichael
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, 1923. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. Octavo. xxiii, [1], 418, [2] pp. Complete with four plates. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is very bright and clean aside from small smudge to upper board. Toning to endpapers at gutter. Neat contemporary underlining to a few leaves. In the publisher's dust jacket, a bit crinkled at edges. A bright, Very Good+ copy in like dust jacket. Dr. Marie... Read More
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Too Many Cooks
by Stout, Rex
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Second printing. Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp, Fine copy of the book with the last twelve leaves, the recipes, printed on fine blue paper stock. In a bright dust jacket with a few short tears and color added to the spine ends and corners, but a very attractive example nonetheless. "Second Large Printing" on the front flap of the dust jacket, no publisher's logo on the copyright page. Selling over... Read More
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![The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe [with] Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (in 17 vols)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/899/297/1339297899.0.l.jpg)
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe [with] Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (in 17 vols)
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher. [Annie Fields]
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. First Thus. Riverside Edition in seventeen octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 inches: 188 x 127 mm.) occupying approvimately 24 inches (61 cm.) of shelf space. Contemporary three-quarter olive green, pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in compartments, marbled endpapers, tope edge gilt. Frontispieces in all volumes and added engraved titles in all volumes of the Writings. Spine of Life and... Read More
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The Works of Sir John Suckling. Containing his Poems, Letter and Plays
by Suckling, John
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709. Early edition. Bound in full polished calf by J. Larkins, rebacked in cloth with much of the leather spine laid down. All edges stained yellow. Marbled end papers. Measuring 190 x 115mm and collating complete with the engraved frontis portrait of Sir John Suckling: [8], 376 (with page 355 misnumbered 335). Ownership signature to front endpaper. Early paper repairs to chips and tears along header of title, not affecting text. Toned throughout, with... Read More
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The Convert
by [Suffrage] [Reproductive Rights] Robins, Elizabeth
London: Methuen, 1907. First UK edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Measuring 185 x 125mm and collating complete including publisher's catalogue to rear: [4], 359, [1, blank], 40. Sunning and staining to spine, with some rippling to rear board; hinges starting but holding well. Early ownership inscription of Halstow Rd. School to front endpaper; contemporary ownership signature of D. Davis to rear endpaper. Foxing to fore-edge of closed textblock and scattered throughout. A... Read More
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![Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis. Woman's Suffrage Tracts No. 2. [with:] Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/471/1681471330.0.l.jpg)
Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis. Woman's Suffrage Tracts No. 2. [with:] Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage
by [Suffrage] Curtis, George William
Boston [and] Philadelphia: C.K. Whipple [and] J.P. Lippincott & Co, 1869. Mixed editions. Fine. Second edition of Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis (Boston: C.K. Whipple, 1869) - though the first edition as part of the Woman's Suffrage Tracts series - bound with the first edition of the anonymously-published Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage (Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., 1867). Modern brown cloth with gilt spine. Two works bound together, twelvemo. 24, [4]; 116 pp.... Read More
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Wonderland Avenue. A True Rock 'n' Roll Saga (Presentation Copy)
by Sugerman, Danny
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1989. Second printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Extraordinary presentation copy signed and inscribed by the ex Doors manager and Jim Morrison confidant Danny Sugerman to film director Oliver Stone, who went on to make his own annotations and markings as preparation for his 1991 film The Doors. Original white publisher's binding with gilt to spine. Some minor soiling and toning to boards near spine. In the original bright yellow, pink, and orange... Read More
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Plain or Ringlets? (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. First edition. Thirteen parts bound in twelve. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 11/16 inches; 223 x 145 mm.). Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. With the bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and Fitz Eugene Dixon. Hand-colored etched vignette title and twelve hand-colored plates. Black and white wood engravings throughout. Bound without the 12-page catalogue at end of the thirteenth part. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered... Read More
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Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech and Hablot K. Brown (illustrators)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1865. First edition. Third issue (with Part I's title, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, in solid lettering), in the original twelve monthly parts, May 1864-April 1865. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm).Collating vi, [2], 391, [1], with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates, two to each volume, heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by... Read More
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![Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [And:] Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. [And:] "Ask Mamma;" or, The Richest Commoner in England. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. [And:] "Plain or Ringlets?" With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. [And:] Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. With illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. [And:] Hillingdon Hall or, The Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. With illustrations by Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. (in 6 vols)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/916/297/1339297916.0.l.jpg)
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. [And:] Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. [And:] "Ask Mamma;" or, The Richest Commoner in England. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858. [And:] "Plain or Ringlets?" With illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1860. [And:] Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds. With illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. [And:] Hillingdon Hall or, The Cockney Squire. A Tale of Country Life. With illustrations by Wildrake, Heath & Jellicoe. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. (in 6 vols)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London. Mixed Edition. Together six octavo volumes (8 5/8 x 5 7/16 inches; 219 x 137 mm.). All first editions in book form except for Handley Cross and Hillingdon Hall, which are the first illustrated editions (first published in three volumes, without illustrations, in 1843 & 1845). Uniformly bound ca. 1920 in full red crushed levant morocco by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on front turn-ins). Covers triple-ruled in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in... Read More
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Ask Mamma: or, the Richest Commoner in England (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. First edition. First issue, in the original thirteen monthly parts, March 1857-April 1858. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. A lovely, rather astonishing set with minimal wear, confined to spine extremes and small closed tear to fore-edge of Part I. Plates clean and bright. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm) Collating. ix, [2], 412, with thirteen hand-colored engraved plates (including frontispiece) and sixty-nine wood-engravings in text, all by John Leech.... Read More
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The Works...with Notes and a Life of the Author by Sir Walter Scott (in 19 vols.)
by Swift, Jonathan
London: Bickers & Son, 1884. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy being No. 497), signed by the publishers. Nineteen octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5 9/16 inches; 216 x 143 mm.) occupying approximately 25 1/2 inches (64 3/5 cm.) of shelf space. Early twentieth-century three-quarter turquoise polished calf, ruled in blind, over marbled boards by Tout & Sons for Estes & Lauriat of Boston (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper). Spines with five raised bands... Read More
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Woman, or Ida of Athens (in 4 vols.)
by [Sydney, Lady Morgan] Owenson, Miss [Sydney]
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Contemporary half morocco over drab boards with gilt to spines. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Corners of volume I bumped and gentle shelfwear to edges of rear board; else a pretty, square, and pleasing set. Armorial bookplate of John Warneford Armstrong (1770-1858), the known atheist and republican heir of landed peer Andrew George Armstrong, to front pastedown of volume III. Ink fingerprints to the margin of page xx of volume... Read More
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Wine, Women, and Song. Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs
by [Fine Binding - Zaehnsdorf] John Addington Symonds
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. Fine. One of 50 large-paper copies. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in an "Exhibition" binding of full red crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt with multi-line borders and floral decorations. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red silk liners and endpapers. With the small circular "'Exhibition" stamp in blind on rear turn-in. Slight darkening to spine, otherwise very Fine.... Read More
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Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (Inscribed)
by [Fore-Edge Painting]; [Fine Binding - Taylor & Hessey]; Jane Taylor
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820. Fourth edition. A superb example. Twelvemo (6 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 162 x 98 mm.). [2, blank], [iv], [1]-174, [2 blank] pp. Inscribed by the author on the first blank: "Wiggiston[?] from J. Taylor." Bound ca. 1820 by [Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, London] in full maroon straight-grain morocco. Covers decoratively paneled in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind and lettered in gilt in compartments, decorative... Read More
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Secretary's Book of the Pekin Women's Christian Temperance Union, Organized April 20, 1881
by [Women's Movements] [Temperance]
[Pekin, NY], 1909. Secretary's ledger with half calf over cloth, measuring 9 x 7 inches and comprised of 133 manuscript pages bound and one sheet laid in loosely at rear. Documenting the meetings, finances, elections, inductions, and deaths of members from 1903-1909 of a local chapter of the influential Women's Christian Temperance Union which sought to protect women and families from the violent effects of alcoholism as well as to address social ills harming women in all areas. ... Read More
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