New York: Chips Publishing Co., 1895. Paperback. [16] p.: illustrated; 16 cm. Wrapper printed in red and black, and included in page count; stitched. Chips was a short-lived literary publication that appeared monthly at first and then weekly, from March 1895 to June 1896. This issue contains: a drawing of... More about Chips from Literary Workshops: Weekly Illustrated Magazine Dec. 14, 1895, vol. 2 no. 15
New York: Robert Edwards Co., 1950. Paperback. 128 p.; 19 cm. Paperback; color illustration on front with map of continental United States on back. No date of publication but the superimposition of the title over the continental United States on the back suggests that the 48 stories were meant to... More about Forty Eight Current Short Stories: Adventure Romance Mystery
Salem, Mass. A. N. Webb & Co., 1930. Paperback. [32 pages paginated:] 321-351, [1] p.: illustrations; 17 cm. Stapled illustrated wrapper; front wrapper printed in pink and blue. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Former owner's name at head of front wrapper: Miss. B. Krewson. Includes a story by Mary A.... More about Happy Hours: A Magazine for Children -- Vol. 3 no. 11, Sept. 1930
New York: Mark H. Newman & Co., 1851. Sartain, John. Hardcover. iv, 241, [1] p., engraved frontispiece portrait of Kossuth and 15 leaves of engraved plates: music; 25 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; gilt-stamped portrait of Kossuth on front cover, with the same blind-stamped on... More about The Kossuth Offering and Family Souvenir: A Gift Book for All Seasons: 1852
New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1844. Hardcover. [3], 448-556 p., frontispiece engraved portrait of Morgan Lewis; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules; red leather label in the second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges speckled. Bound... More about The Legal Wrongs of Women [in The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review Vol. 14 no. 71...
Philadelphia: E. Littell & Co., 1838. Hardcover. Imprint includes: "And by G. & C. Carvill & Co., New York; Otis, Broaders & Co., Boston; N. Hickman, Baltimore." [5], 450-68, [1], 306-448 p., 6 leaves of plates; [1], 218-288 p., engraved frontispiece; 303-370, [2], 231-300 p., 16 leaves of plates (including... More about The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Vol. 5 New Series, May to Aug. 1838, Whole...
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 about The New Moon: A People's Magazine June 1890 vol. 9 no. 8
Richmond, Va. T.W. White, printer, 1839. Paperback. [1], 298-360 p.; 27 cm. Small "Withdrawn" stamp at head of first page. Pages are untrimmed. Disbound from a larger volume. Contents include: The Women of France by J.L.M. -- The Poet's Destiny by a Young Lady, a Native of Virginia -- The... More about Southern Literary Messenger May 1839 vol. 5, no. 5
New York: McSweeney's, 2000. 1 illustrated box containing 14 booklets, along with "Notes And Background, And Clarifying Charts And Some Complaining," and the Subscriber Agreement. Complete. Contents: A Chance Meeting by Rachel Cohen -- Symmes Hole by Paul Collins -- A Mown Lawn by Lydia Davis -- The Middle Tales... More about Timothy McSweeney's Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying, Trying (McSweeney's Number Four, Late Winter,...
Philadelphia: E.L. Carley and A. Hart, 1836. Hardcover. [9], 18-212, [2] p., frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates; 16 cm. Original calf boards with embossed decoration on both boards. Possibly late 19th-century spine replacement with brown silk with star pattern. Modern recasing with the silk spine and repair of... More about The Violet: A Christmas and New-Year's Gift, or Birth-Day Present; 1837
Chicago: Peoples Book Club, 1948. Hardcover. 246 p.; 21 cm. Green cloth with gilt spine title on dark green. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A woman raised in Europe inherits the family paper mill in a New Hampshire valley and returns to sort things out. Book is in Very Good... More about The Outsiders
New York: Liberty Publishing Co., 1938. Paperback. 62, [2] p.: illustrations; 29 cm. Paperback with color cover illustration by Monte Crews. Contents include: Why Did Hitler Give Lindbergh a Medal? by Frederick L. Collins -- Aristocrat by Achmed Abdullah; illustrated by A.N. Simpkin -- Are New Blood-Test Laws Reducing Marriages... More about Liberty -- Dec. 17, 1938 -- vol. 15 no. 51 [Hitler and Lindbergh, Hedy Lamarr, Douglas...
Philadelphia, Pa. J.B. Lippincott Company, 1887. Paperback. [4], 315, [1] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with light blue covers printed in dark blue. This is no. 73 in Lippincott's Series of Select Novels. Inside of front cover and both sides of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. Former owner's name at head... More about Aunt Hepsy's Foundling: A Novel
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 about The New Moon: A People's Magazine August 1890 vol. 9 no. 10 [The Wailing Woman by Yda Hillis Addis
New York: Modern Library, 1963. Hardcover. xxii, 552, [2] p.; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title and blind-stamped Modern Library running-man emblem on front cover. Grey-and-white endpapers. Lacking dust jacket. Contains an alphabetical list of Modern Library Giants on final 2 pages. Includes an index of poets... More about Twentieth-Century American Poetry; Edited, and with a Preface, by Conrad Aiken
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1907. Hardcover. [4], 325, [5] p., 4 leaves of illustrations; 18 cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth with embossed spine title over gilt-and-black decoration; black-stamped cover title and decoration. Two pages of publisher's advertisements for work by the author follow text. In Good Condition: edges rubbed;... More about Jack and Jill: A Village Story
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1926. Hardcover. [10], 335, [3] p., color frontispiece and 7 leaves of color plates; 23 cm. Black cloth with spine title and color paste-down on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Publisher's advertisement of eight books by the author on unpaginated... More about Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; by Louisa M. Alcott; With Illustrations in Color by...
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1908. Hardcover. [4], 305, [5] p., frontispiece; 18 cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt- and black-stamped spine title and decoration; black-stamped cover title and decoration. Four pages of publisher's advertisements for work by the author and Anna Chapin Ray follow text. Former owner's name... More about Under the Lilacs
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Paperback. [1], 266-400, [4] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Stitched wrapper with illustration of the American flag on the front wrapper. Wrapper title: The Atlantic Monthly: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Politics. Advertisements on final 4 pages and on back wrapper include one for the Palmer... More about The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Volume 12, no. 71 Sept. 1863
New York: Hurst & Company, 1892. Paperback. 314 p.; 18 cm. Paperback with light green covers printed in black. No copyright date but dated Aug. 3, 1892, at head of front cover. This is no. 34 in the publisher's Universal Library series. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Former owner's name... More about A Crooked Path
New York: Butler Brothers, 1889. Paperback. 20, [2] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with front cover illustration; covers printed in green, blue, brown, and black. Back cover contains illustrated advertisements. This is no. 134 in the publisher's Electric Series. No date of publication, but an advertisement inside the front cover is... More about Mona's Choice
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Hardcover. Second printing before publication. A Borzoi Book. [2], 503, [3] p.; 22 cm. Deep pink cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; off-white paper over boards with blind-stamped author's initials on front board. Dust jacket designed by Michael Doret. The first novel by author... More about Kinflicks: A Novel by Lisa Alther
New York: Story Magazine, 1937. Paperback. 108 p., 1 leaf of a plate: portrait of Katherine Mansfield; 23 cm. Orange wrappers printed in black. Contents: Long in Populous City Pent by Mark Schorer -- Artist in Revolution by Leon Wilson -- Papa was a Souse by Frank Dabney -- Thick... More about Story: The Magazine of the Short Story -- Dec. 1937 -- vol. 11 no. 65
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. Hardcover. xi, [3], 290 p.; 24 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; red paper over boards. Dust jacket designed by Jamie S. Warren Youll with illustration by Stephen Youll. "19839"--code on back section of dust jacket. Circular embossed stamp on blank page following... More about Murasaki: A Novel in Six Parts by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy...
New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1990. Hardcover. First American Edition. Originally published in German under the title Schauplatz Berlin. [10], 261 p.; 24 cm. Purple and white cover with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Drawing on her own diaries, the author Ruth Andreas-Friedrich describes life in what became East... More about Battleground Berlin: Diaries 1945-1948; Ruth Andreas-Friedrich; Translated by Anna Boerresen;...