Philadelphia: American Snday-School Union, (c. 1848). Hardcover. frontis, 84p. Original cloth. 15 cm. Gold letter chipped off of spine. Cover slightly scuffed and worn. Lacks front free endpaper. Extensive foxing. A Christian temperance tale for a juvenile audience contasting the aduly lives of temperate Christians with that of an affluent..... More
Pawtucket: Bliss, Potter & Co., 1850. Presumed 1st ed. Hardcover. added second title-page dated 1851, 167p. Original dark cloth. Gilt decorations on backstrip and a gilt image of a dove flying above a vine-covered cross in the center of the front cover. 12cm. (a small book). Spine sloped. Joints and..... More
Paris: Libraire Champes et Cie. New York, 1910. 44 leaves printed on one side. Tied internally in limp leather binding. 12cm. We found no bibliographic information about this oddity which appears to have been typed and then reproduced on photostatic paper. More
New York: American Sunday-School Union, (c. 1842). Hardcover. frontis, 35p. Original quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in black leather. 15cm. Joints rubbed and front joint splitting at top. Stain in upper right corner on last two-thirds of leaves. Someone has written in pencil on title-page "by Julia Ann H. Sill" but..... More
n.p. n.d. [1950s?]. Paperback. 10p. Sheets stapled in upper corner. 30 cm. Horizontal crease throughout. Mimeographed text printed on one side only. A short story/essay about a child given up by his Japanese mother and whose father was an African American sergeant serving a life sentence at Leavenworth. Author not..... More
New York: Century, 1907. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, vi, 190p. Decorated cloth -- cotton picking scene on front cover. 19cm. Moderate cover soil. "Stories" and Nicholas" partially erased from title on title-page. No Jacket. More
Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kementerian Pelajaran, Malaysia, 1985. Paperback. 169p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Malay text. Novel in Malay. More
London: Heinemann, (c. 1983). 1st ed. Hardcover. 113p. Original green cloth. dj. 19cm. Review slip laid in. Short stories about peasants in Upper Egypt or Cairo elected and translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies. More
Stratford-upon-Avon: Oxford Basil Blackwell Publisher to The Shakespeare Head Press, 1923. Hardcover. xxxi, 152p. Original cloth backed brown boards. 31 cm. Some cover soil. Upper right cormer of frpnt cover has been reglued. Spine sloped. Backstrip pasted down. Copy number 121 of 394 copies printed on Batchellor's Kelmscott hand-mape paper..... More
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. 1st ed. in English. Paperback. vii, [1], 101, viii, 138p. Original wrapper, rebacked with most of original backstrip mounted. 18cm. Lacks top 1.2cm. of original backstrip; the rest of the backstrip shows some splits and other wear. Some cover foxing and soil. Iracema was translated..... More
New York: Gottsberger, 1888. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. 241p. Original blue cloth. 18cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Fiction. The English edition of this translation was published by E. J. W. Gibb in 1884. More
New York: Dial Press, (c. 1978). Benny Andrews. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis and other illustrations (by Benny Andrews), 283p. Hardcover. dj. 23 cm. Jacket has modest soiling and edge-wear on rear panel and adjoining flap. Small flaw at head of front cover joint. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Raymond..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1952). 1st ed. Hardcover. 76p. 22cm. Lacks front free endpaper. Some smudges on rear endpaper. Backstrip faded. No Jacket. An uncommon short romantic novel by an African American writer. More
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, (1843). Hardcover. 158p. Original blindstamped red cloth. 15cm. Spine sloped. Cover somewhat soiled and worn. Moderate foxing. Temperance tales about the evils and disaster brought on by succumbing to the temptation of strong drink. More
New York: Vantage Press, (c. 1973). 1st ed. Hardcover. 177p. Hardcover in original binding. Two different djs -- one over the other but in no particular order. 21 cm. Perhaps the author was ambivalent or unhappy with the first design, whichever that was, and so a second jacket was produced..... More
London: Collins, 1945. 1st ed. Hardcover. 256p. Original black cloth. dj. 19cm. Jacket unevenly browned, soiled and worn. A novel. More
New York: Dial Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. 197p. Original orange cloth. dj. 20 cm. Previous owners name ("Yvette E. LeRoy June 1974") in red ink on front free endpaper. Someone (probably LeRoy) has written in pencil words from the third stanza of Handy's Beale Street Blues on a blank..... More
London: Nisbet & Co., n.d. [1883?]. Ninetieth Thousand [on front cover]. Paperback. 16p. Wrapper. Small (12cm.). Text closely trimmed along bottom edge. A religiously-oriented story. More
Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, (c. 2001). 1st trade edition. Hardcover. xi, 225p. dj. 21 cm. Spine loightly sloped SIGNED on title-page and also INSCRIBED to us ("Phil and Sharon McBlain") on the front free endpaper. An appealing mystery by a bookselling colleague. More
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London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 1st ed. of this version. Hardcover. 6 woodcut illustrations (including frontis) engraved on wood by Charles Conder, vii, [5], 107p. Original yellow cloth. 26 cm. Cover rather soiled. Spine slightly sloped. Joints lightly rubbed. Backstrip darkened. French text and English translation (by Ernest Dowson who also..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, (c. 2000). Copy No. 287 of Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies. Paperback. 21p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. SIGNED on title-page by Banks (in 2016). More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (c. 1988). 1st hardcover ed,, revised from the 1975 Avon paperback. Hardcover. 153p. Hardcover. dj. 19cm. Minor spot on front flap. SIGNED by Banks (in 2016). More
Washington & Philadelphia: Sun & Moon Press, (c. 1983). 1st ed. Hardcover. 121p. Cloth. Red dj. 19cm. Backstrip area faded (more pink than red). SIGNED by Banks (in 2016). More
