The Elephant
London: Macdonald, (c. 1962). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. 176p. Original black boards. dj. 20cm. Browned newspaper review laid in causing light browning of front end paper. More
London: Macdonald, (c. 1962). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. 176p. Original black boards. dj. 20cm. Browned newspaper review laid in causing light browning of front end paper. More
Boston: Houghton Miffln Company, 1932. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. 309p. Original cloth backed yellow boards. 22 cm. Backstrip slightly faded. No jacket. Translated from the Japanese by Arthur Waley. More
New York: Pantheon Books, (c. 1995). 1st ed. Hardcover. 369p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. SIGNED on half-title by Murray. A jazz novel. More
(Springfield, MA): [Printed by] Springfield Printing and Binding Co., 1897-1898. 1st ed. of this 5 volume set. Hardcover. 5 volumes. frontis ((portrait of the author) in each volume, xiii, 420, 397, 330, 373, 339p. Original burgundy cloth. 21 cm. Each volume has an Inked quotation from these "Adirondack Tales" signed..... More
Hollywood: David Graham Fischer, (June, 1932). Blanding Sloan. 1st ed. Hardcover. Woodcut illustrations (including 7 on colored paper) by Blanding Sloan, 146p. Original pictorial boards, punch-tied with black ribbon. 27 cm. Cover edges rubbed. Minor cover soil and wear. Tears along inner lower edge of first 20+ leaves which will..... More
New York: American Tract Society, (c. 1882). [1st ed.?]. Hardcover. 4 illustrations (including frontis), 206p. Original blue cloth. 18cm. Minimal wear only. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Missionary fiction set among the Ogowe in Gabon. More
New York: Harcouart Brace Jovanovich, (c. 1992). 1st ed. Hardcover. 229p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. Black remainder mark on top edge of pages. Signed on title-page by Naylor (in 2006). Popular novel. Enthusiastic blurb on jacket from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. More
Chicago: Park House, June 1938. Paperback. illustrations, [4], 90p. Softcover in original reddish covers and bound with a white comb binding. 29cm. No. 208 neatly inked on the leaf preceding the title-leaf. First couple of leaves detached from last few teeth in comb. Mostly poetry and short fiction. Park House..... More
London: William Jackson [slip tipped over publication data on title-page announces the this book is now published by Joiner & Steele], 1932. Hardcover. frontis, 60p. Original cloth. 25cm. Cover mottled and lightly soiled. Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. Furnival Books, No. 10. Copy No. 310 of an edition of..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., (c. 1943). 1st ed. Hardcover. 317p. dj. 20 cm. Minor soiling. Jacket has moderate chipping at ends of backstrip and light soiling. His first novel. Offord was born in Trinidad and came to the U.S. after college. More
New York: McBride, (c. 1943). 1st ed. Hardcover. 317p. dj. 20 cm. Jacket price-clipped and has some moderate soiling and wear on rear panel and some wear at ends of backstrip and along other edges. His first novel. Offord was born in Trinidad and came to the U.S. after college..... More
[Tokyo]: Kairyudo, n.d. [1930s?]. Hardcover. 190p. Original green cloth. 19cm. Minor cover warping and wear. No Jacket. Fourteen Western writers in English. Pages 165-190 contain notes (about the writers and some of the vocabulary). More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 397p. Original green cloth. 20p. Back cover has extensive light spotting. Fiction. More
n.p. Club du Livre du Mois, (1955). Hardcover. Translated by Denise Van Moppes. 289p. 20cm. Free endpapers pasted down. No Jacket. SIGNED on first blank leaf ("For Hungarian Relief Fund Alan Paton December 1956"). French translation of "Cry, the Beloved Country." "Le tirage a ete de 3,000 exemplaires. I a...... More
New York: Carlton Press, (c. 1965). 1st ed. Hardcover. 138p. dj. 21 cm. A novel. Paulding is listed in various bibliographies of fiction by African Americans but we found nothing else about the racial identity of the Paulding, a Central College (in Pella, Iowa) graduate. The novel focuses on issues..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (1957). 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, 82p. 21cm. Cover slightly warped and lightly browned and faded. Endpapers foxed. No Jacket. SIGNED on the endpaper by Peace. Short tales, some of which are rendered in the author's version of African American dialect. More
Berlin: Propylaen-Verlag, (c. 1955). Apparently the first German edition of her novel "The Narrows." Hardcover. Translated from the English by Melanie Steinmetz. 543p. Cloth. dj (lightly chipped at head of backstrip). 21cm. Spotting on top edge. Binding slightly cocked. German text. We purchased this at the Petry estate sale. More
New York: Horace Liveright, (c. 1929). 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 319p. Original yellow cloth. dj (price-clipped and says Second printing on front flap). 19 cm. Two small bookplates on front pastedown. An attractive jacket with a few small chips and and minor edge-wear. A novel based loosely on the life of..... More
Boston: Jordan & More Press, 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, xx, 183p. Original red cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket has some edge-wear, a partial imprint of a now-absent paperclip, and moderate soiling. Frontis bound in upside down. Partially unopened. Quite uncommon with a decent jacket. Ethnic humor: "Negro" stories/jokes at pages..... More
New York: Delacorte Books, (c. 1967). Hardcover. frontis & illustrations (by Ben Shahn), text unnumbered. Green cloth. No Jacket Slipcase. 14cm. Lettering indistinct on the somewhat faded backstrip. Contents clean and attractive. Slipcase has some fading and also has visible darkening where a price sticker was removed. No Jacket (as..... More
New York: M. W. Dodd, 1865. Hardcover. frontis, 332p. 17cm. Spine sloped. Gift inscription on endpaper. A few minor stains along fore-edge and some scattered foxing. Temperance novel. More
Boston: Shepard, Clark & Brown, 1859. Hardcover. 487p. Old but later dark cloth. 19cm. Cover sound but rather shabby. Ends of backstrip worn. Binder's ticket from a firm in New Bedford, Mass. on endpaper. Substantial foxing and browning (and some staining) throughout. A novel. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. 286p. Black cloth. dj. 21cm. Some foxing on rear panel of Jacket. More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1959). 1st ed. Hardcover. 288p. Orange boards. dj. 21cm. Jacket scuffed. A romantic novel of the Civil War involving passing and the 54th Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry. African American author who is identified as a Howard University Law School graduate (in 1950). More
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, (c. 2000). 1st ed. Hardcover. 186p. Original gray boards. 21 cm. Laid in is a handwritten gift card from the recently deceased author's daughter Lucy ("Dear Alan, My mother would have wanted you to have one of the first copies of her last book. Love..... More