Maker of Saints: A Novel
(c. 1996). 1st ed. Hardcover. 250p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22 cm. Previous owner's address stamp on front free endpaper. More
(c. 1996). 1st ed. Hardcover. 250p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 22 cm. Previous owner's address stamp on front free endpaper. More
London: John Stockdale, 1798. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. frontises (one in each volume), portrait, x, [11]-280, 308, 310p plus [2]p. advertisements at end of Vol. 3. Contemporary tree calf. Joint splitting but all cover still attached. Crazing and flaking on darkened backstrips. Contents generally sound and clean. Title-leaf partially detached at..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Reginald Marsh. Hardcover. Frontis and illustrations (by Reginald Marsh), xiv, 354p. Padded blue silk binding. Slipcase. 25cm. Backstrip slightly faded. Foil covering on slipcase missing or peeling here and there. Copy #601 of an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Marsh... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Hardcover. vii, 272p. Original cloth. dj. 21 cm. Strip torn off top of center portion of front panel of jacket removing a bit of the title. Fiction. A Dodd, Mead Career Book for Girls. More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1892. 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. Original cloth. 19cm. Moderate cover discoloration, bubbling and wear. Spine sloped. Contents sound and clean. An uncommon and poorly reviewed Victorian double-decker. More
Tokyo: Yushodo Booksellers Ltd., (1977). Hardcover. Lacks the Oliver Twist portion of the material. Description of A Christmas Carol: frontis and three other full-page illustrations, 4 smaller black and white illustrations, 166p. plus 2p. publisher's adverts. Maroon leather, lettered and decorated in gilt. 17 cm. Quarterbound slipcase (red cloth backed..... More
New York: Hartney Press, 1935. 1st ed. Hardcover. 333p. Original tan cloth. 19cm. Backstrip heavily chipped and worn. Corners also heavily worn. Content sound. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Dickerman. A novel. More
New York: Popular Library, (c. 1951). 1st paper ed. Paperback. 143p. Softcover in original wrapper. 18 cm. Corner chipped on last dozen leaves with minor loss of text. Stain in top margin (more extensive on first interior page (which contains quotes from some book reviews). Browned. Owen Dodson's bookplate inside..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, (c. 1951). 1st ed. Hardcover. 212p. Cloth-backed boards. Partial dj which lacks the front panel and is chipped and worn on backstrip and rear panels. 19 cm. Spine sloped. Backstrip discolorerd at ends. INSCRIBED on front free emdpaper by Dodson ("{For Kermit with the..... More
Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, n.d. [1936?]. Hardcover. 186p. Hardcover. dj. 20 cm. Spine sloped. Bookplate. Dutch text. More
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, (c. 1958). 1st ed. Hardcover. 374p. Original cloth. dj. 20 cm. Light stain faintly visible along right edge of front panel of jacket. INSCRIBED on front pastedown by Dreer ("Dave ... Best wishes Herman Dreer"). All of the major characters in this romantic novel appear to..... More
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 434p. Grey cloth. Silver lettering. 21 cm. Just a few bits of wear at ends of backstrip and at tips or outer corners/ No jacket. An attractive copy of his first novel. More
New York: HarperCollins, (c. 1997). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 346p. Original black boards. dj. 21 cm. Unpriced jacket scuffed and has some edge-wear, especially at ends of backstrip. Text moderately browned. No number line on copyright page. SIGNED by author on title-page ("Tananarive Due"). Supernatural novel. More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1969. Edy Legrand. Hardcover. frontis and color illustrations (by Edy Legrand), xix, 337p. Cloth. Slipcase (scuffed on bottom). 25cm. Copy #601 of an edition limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Legrand. More
New York: Negro University Press, (1969). Reprint of the 1904 edition. Hardcover. frontis & illustrations (by E. W. Kemble), 309p. Original brown cloth. 22 cm. A few spots on top edge of pages. No jacket (as published). Sixteen short stories. Reprint of a book first published in 1904 by Dodd..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900. 1st ed. Hardcover. 200p. Original green cloth. 18 cm. White lettering (publisher's name) chipped off at base of backstrip and partially chipped off front cover lettering. Spine moderately sloped. Minor cover cpotting. Corners creased on a couple of leaves. No Jacket. The second of Dunbar's..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, xvii, 258p. Original blue cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has modest edge-wear, heaviest at ends of backstrip, as well as a small brown spot and some soiling on back panel. Endpapers unevenly browned. Edited by Benjamin Brawley, who selected 20 short..... More
New York: M. W. Dodd, 1843. [1st American edition?]. Hardcover. illustrations, 406p. Original black cloth.16cm. Cover somewhat scuffed. Extensive, mostly moderate, foxing in text and on page edges. Often regarded as an early "Zionist" novel although the author, a British evangelical Christian who supported the conversion of Jews to Christianity..... More
London: Fisher, Son, & Co., n.d. (Preface dated 1846). Hardcover. 2 vols. frontises, engraved second title in vol. I, illustrations (with most of the original tissue guards), 267, 272p. Contemporary 1/4 leather (lightly marbled paper with pale red backstrip and tiny corners. 22cm. Title labels chipped on backstrips. Covers scuffed..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 1999). 1st ed. Hardcover. xxiii, 368p. Original green boards backed in black. dj. 24 cm. Edited by John F. Callahan, literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate. An effort to cobble together a novel out of unpublished materials. More
Lille & Paris: Librarie de L Lefort, n.d. [ca. 1870]. Troisieme Edition [so stated on title-page]. Hardcover. frontis, 156p. Original gilt-stamped dark pink cloth. 21cm. Cover corners, edges of backstrip and edges rubbed and scuffed. Backstrip faded. Contents sound and clean. Endpapers somewhat discolored. French text. Popular fiction, first published..... More
Paris: Cres, (c. 1928). Paperback. 247p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. French text. Copy #299 of 300 "sur verge pur fil Lafuma." Fiction. More
New York: Harper & Row, c. 1970). 1st ed. Hardcover. 133p. Black board backed in turquoise cloth. dj. 20 cm. African American author. More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1961). 1st ed. Hardcover. 196p. Boards. Worn dj (some chipping and staining. 21 cm. Text rather heavily browned. Name, patch of white-out, some residual adhesive, and a small waterspot on front endpaper. A depressing interracial novel about lust, rape, and murder. Author appears to be..... More
[New York]: Red Ozier Press, 1983. Hardcover. 70, [2]p. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. 25cm. No Jacket. Copy No. 148 of an edition limited to 210 numbered copies. Edited by James B. Meriwether. Wood Engravings by John DePol. More