Riga, Latvia: Latvijas Valsts Izdevnieciba, 1960. Kronenberg, Albert. Paperback. [28] p.: illustrations; 17 x 24 cm. Stapled illustrated paper covers; illustrations on inside of both covers. Entirely in Latvian. Gift inscription on verso of title page, dated 1961. Rainis was the pseudonym of the author Janis Plieksans (1865-1929), a Latvian..... More
Emmaus, Pa. Rodale Books, 1954. Clauss. Hardcover. 30 p.: color illustrations; 22 cm. Light brown cloth spine with gilt-stamped spin title; colorful patterned paper over boards. Light blue, white, and black dust jacket. In verse. Translation of Satire Contre les Maris. Copyrighted in England and published in Emmaus, Pa., and..... More
Lowell, Mass. New Moon Publishing Co., 1890. Paperback. [2], 32, [2] p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown wrapper title and illustration. "For Old and Young" -- on front wrapper. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla on outside of back wrapper. Advertisements on first 2 and final unpaginated..... More
New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. Hardcover. [16], 75 p.; 21 cm. Light green cover with printed paper spine and cover labels. Introduction by Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff. With 2 typed letters (one laid in on the front endpapers and both signed by the author) and one telegram from the author, Ruth..... More
Los Angeles, CA: Chrysalis, 1979. Paperback. 118, [10] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Spine title: Chrysalis, A Magazine of Woman's Culture. On p. [2] it is "Women's Culture." Subscription cards removed from inside front cover, leaving yellow tab. Contents: "Disloyal to Civilization": Feminism, Racism, and Gynephobia by Adrienne Rich --..... More
Lowell, Mass. New Moon Publishing Co., 1892. Paperback. 32 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Light brown wrapper with dark brown wrapper title and illustration. "For Old and Young" -- on front wrapper. Advertisement for Hood's sarsaparilla on outside of back wrapper. Advertisements inside wrappers. Contains fiction (including Thirty Years in..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1903. Hardcover. [4], ix-xii, 216 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and gilt-stamped ears of corn on spine and front cover. Top page edges gilt. Copyright 1896 and 1898 by the author. Bobbs-Merrill began business in 1903. In Good+ Condition: corners rubbed; ends..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1905. Hardcover. 187, [1] p.: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 20 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; gilt- and black-stamped spine and cover illustrations. Half title, title page, and content page printed in red and black. The illustrator, Will Vawter, grew up in Greenfield..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1903. Hardcover. xxxvi, 137, [3] p.; 19 cm. Full vellum with author's name in gilt on spine. With original slipcase in speckled paper with printed spine label. Title page in red and black. Remains of bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Della M. Black and..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1898. Paperback. viii, [1], 98-186 p., 2 loose prints: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; emblem of the Unicorn Press on back wrapper. Contents: The Merchant George Gisze, a photogravure after a painting by Holbein, loose, as issued; The..... More
London: T.N. Foulis, 1908. Woodroffe, Paul. Hardcover. 40, [6] p., color frontispiece, illustrated title page, and 2 leaves of color plates; 18 cm. Blue-and-beige silk cover with embossed title on a gilt background on front cover. All page edges gilt. Grey endpapers. Printed in lavender and black. Lavender ribbon bookmark..... More
Paris: Charpentier Et Fasquelle, 1924. Hardcover. [12], 262, [2] p.; 20 cm. Half red calf with red-and-gilt marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Top page edges gilt. Matching red-and-gilt marbled endpapers. Undated inscription on first blank leaf following front endpapers. Former..... More
New York: Candlelight Press, 1968. Hardcover. "First Printing, June, 1968." One of a limited edition of 2500 copies. "And a Chronicle of Friendship & Tribute through Poetry & Prose by Franklin P. Adams, Delos Avery, Fanny Butcher, August Derleth, Henry Dierkes, Harry Hansen, Ben Hecht, Thomas Kennedy, Charles Layng, Haniel..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1929. Hardcover. 165 p.; 19 cm. Red-orange cloth with black spine and cover titles. No dust jacket (as issued?). Includes index. First Edition. "One Hour Series" -- at head of title. A list of 12 volumes in the series faces the title page. Inscribed by the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Hardcover. [10], 102 p.; 22 cm. Light grey cloth with silver-stamped spine title and front cover author's initials. Dust jacket design by Martha Simpson. Stated First Edition. In Fine/Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993. Paperback. [10], 65 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. First edition. Includes an index of sources, first lines, and titles, and a glossary of persons and places. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972. Paperback. 80 p.; 21 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. Gift inscription on half title page. In Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; covers curl up; closed 0.5-cm. tear from fore-edge of one leaf; clean and tight. More
Haarlem, Netherlands: Wilhelmus van Kessel, 1710. First Edition. Paperback. 24 p.; 22 cm. Signatures: A-C4 (4to). Woodcut title vignette of a bird feeding baby birds in a nest with a banner reading "Trouw Moet Blyken," and woodcut initial. Knuttel, 15891. A very scarce poem from the War of the Spanish..... More
Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1838. Hardcover. 12 volumes: frontispiece in vol. 1 is a portrait of Schiller; 16 cm. Black cloth spines with grey paper wrappers. Handwritten labels on the spines. The back of the fronispiece in vol. 1 is inscribed: "Philip Kassel. Zum Andenken erhalten von Herrn Koch Subrector..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908. Hardcover. [2], 80, [9], 12-79, [1], vi, [3], 12-96 p.: illustrations; 14 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title: Lay of the Bell -- Favorite Poems. Series title on front cover and at head of title page: Modern Classics. "14" -- at..... More
New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume..... More
Leyden, Neth. Hendrik van Damme, 1705. 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: *4 (4to). Disbound. Woodcut initial letter. Not in Knuttel. A poem praising John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, as a military hero. In Very Good Condition: disbound and without stitching; leaves are separating at fold; pages are clean and..... More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1904. Hardcover. 54 p.; 20 cm. Original brown paper over boards; printed paper spine label and cover label, the latter in red and black. Title page printed in red and black; title vignette (printer's emblem?). Gift inscription from the author and his wife..... More
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1917. Hardcover. vi, [2], 51, [3] p.; 18 cm. Green paper spine with dark green spine title; green-and-white patterned paper over boards. This is one of a limited edition of 450 copies printed on Van Gelder handmade paper in Oct. 1917. Printer's emblem on title..... More
London: At the Office of the Bookman's Journal, 1923. Hardcover. 36, [4] p.: color illustrations; 25 cm. Blue cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; grey paper over boards. Lacking dust jacket. This is one of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed at the Curwen Press. Contains 15 poems with..... More