Port Melbourne, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1993. Hardcover. [10], 238, [4] p.; 20 cm. Red paper over boards; white spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Jarrett Skinner. ISBN: 0855615486. The Road from Coorain: An Australian Memoir -- dust jacket title. Bookseller's label on back section of dust jacket for... More
New York: Cassell & Co., 1886. Hardcover. [4], 404, [8] p.; 19 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black-stamped decoration of spine and front board. Blind-stamped publisher's emblem on back board with blind-stamped decoration. Green floral endpapers. Publisher's advertisements on final 8 unpaginated pages. First Edition... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Hardcover. 263 p.; 24 cm. Plum paper over boards with silver-stamped spine title. Dust jacket designed by Erika Fusari. The author presents work from four earlier books with some small changes and 18 poems not previously published in book form. Contents: The Weather... More
Philadelphia: A. Small, 1817. Hardcover. viii, [9]-286 p.; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. Old paper label on spine with handwritten number. Small label for the Whitpain Library on front fixed endpaper. Early American Imprints, 2nd... More
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Hardcover. Second edition. [8], 94, [2] p.: 24 full-page color illustrations; 13 cm. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown-stamped spine and cover titles on a background of dark brown vertical lines; bank cover is blank. Each leaf printed on one side only, with one page... More
![A Bundle of Life [by] John Oliver Hobbes. Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie.](/pictures/thumb/004714.JPG?v=1472082379)
New York: J. Selwin Tait and Sons, 1894. Hardcover. John Oliver Hobbes was a pseudonym used by American novelist Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (1867-1906). [6], 159, [1] p.; 18 cm. Publisher's dark red cloth with black spine and cover titles and black ruled decoration. Top page edges gilt. This is... More
Paris: Didier et Cie. 1876. Hardcover. Dix-Septième Édition. 2 volumes ([6], 376 p.; [4], 209, [1] p.); 18 cm. Red morocco spines with red pebble-grain cloth over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped spine title in second compartments and double gilt-ruled decoration in each compartment. All page edges... More
Syracuse, N.Y. Willis N. Bugbee Co., 1936. Paperback. 19, [1] p.; 19 cm. Red paper covers printed in black. Verso of front cover, last page, and both sides of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. An amusing one-act play about a twenty-year-old whose family does not appreciate her and who decides... More
Firenze, Italy: Luigi Pampaloni, 1924. xviii, [10], 216, [8], I-16, II-20, III-26 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Brown flexible cloth printed in black. Advertisement on back cover for Veedol motor oil. Advertisements throughout. Automobile Club di Milano--at head of front cover and title page. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of poet... More
![The Diary of Mattie Spenser [Advanced Uncorrected Proof]. Sandra Dallas.](/pictures/thumb/002677.jpg?v=1472082251)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Paperback. [10], 229 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover. Label on front cover reading: "Advanced Uncorrected Proof." Virtually all the front matter, typical with uncorrected proofs, is incomplete. Back cover discusses the marketing plan and notes that the expected publication date was... More
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1912. Hardcover. [10], 291, [1] p.: frontispiece and 3 leaves of illustration; 20 cm. Publisher's green cloth with white stamped spine and cover titles; white and black spine and cover illustration. First edition in book form. "Published September, 1912" -- title page verso. This... More
Montreal: Canada Steamship Lines, 1930. Hardcover. 204, [2] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of color plates by Paul Caron: many line drawings by G. A. Cuthbertson; 22 cm. Green cloth with blue stamped spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Top page edges blue. Maps on endpapers. Title page in... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1947. Hardcover. x, 626 p.: 4 unpaginated pages of illustrations of meat cuts; 21 cm. Green cloth with yellow titles. No dust jacket. "Equivalents" on endpapers. Includes index. The author, Adelle Davis, was an American nutritionist who was one of the earliest advocates of exercise and... More
![Left-Handed Murder [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 9, no. 40 March 1947]. Miriam Allen de Ford.](/pictures/thumb/006766.JPG?v=1546037345)
New York: American Mercury, 1947. Paperback. 128 p.; 19 cm. Paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The President of the United States, Detective by H. F. Heard -- An Arabian Night in Park Lane by J. B. Priestley -- The Riddle of the Double Negative by Stuart Palmer... More
![The Viotti Stradivarius [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 16, no. 81 August 1950]. Lillian de la Torre.](/pictures/thumb/006772.JPG?v=1546037345)
New York: American Mercury, 1950. Paperback. 143, [1] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: One Morning They'll Hang Him [Albert Campion] by Margery Allingham -- "I Murdered a Man" by Miriam Allen de Ford -- The Perfect Secretary by Allan Vaughan Elston -- The Viotti... More
![Robinson Crusoe [Father Tuck's "Play & Pleasure" series.]. Daniel Defoe, Helen Marion Burnside.](/pictures/thumb/001233.jpg?v=1472082199)
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1900. Paperback. [12] p.: 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations; 22 cm. Blue wrapper with chromolithographed illustration on front wrapper. Wrapper included in page count. Imprint on back wrapper. No date of publication. Cover title. This version of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is by Helen Marion Burnside; signed... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1913. Hardcover. [8], 359 p.; 19 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Richard Dehan was a pseudonym used by Irish author Clo Graves (1863-1932). She was a journalist, playwright, and very successful novelist. In Good Condition: cover is lightly soiled, with... More
New York: Modern Library, 1934. Hardcover. With an Introduction by Dorothy Canfield. x, [4], 420, [2] p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with black-and-gilt spine and cover titles. Top page edges black. Red, black, and gilt dust jacket. Endpapers printed in grey with the Modern Library logo. Inside of dust jacket... More
New York: Random House, 1961. Hardcover. Copyright 1960; first published in the United States 1961. [8], 149, [3] p., frontispiece portrait of the author by Cecil Beaton and 4 leaves of illustrations; 21 cm. Green cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title and blue spine decoration; brown cloth over boards with... More
![The Vine of Desire: a Novel [Advance Reading Copy]. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.](/pictures/thumb/002672.jpg?v=1472082250)
New York: Doubleday, 2002. Paperback. [16], 336 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with color illustrated cover and embossed cover title. Advance Reading Copy. Typical for uncorrected proofs, the dedication and acknowledgment pages are blank. Back cover contains a marketing and publicity strategy and notes that the hardcover would be 320 pages... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Johnson & Warner, 1810. Hardcover. 32 p.: engraved frontispiece and 5 leaves of engraved plates; 12 cm. Original plain paper on paste board, printed in black with front and back within simple decorative borders. Imprint on cover dated 1811. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Frontispiece attached to inside... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1894. Hardcover. vi, 400 p.; 19 cm. Grey cloth with red spine and cover titles, and black decoration on spine and front cover. First Edition. This is the third volume in the author's Sherburne series, of which there were 12 volumes published from 1892... More
Tallahassee, Florida: Naiad Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. [10], 210, [4] p.; 22 cm. Paperback. Stated First Edition. Features a female private eye in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In Very Good Condition: edges rubbed, most significantly the front joint; pages are clean and tight. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1946. Hardcover. [12], 371 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "A Literary Guild Selection for January." -- on front dust jacket flap. Stated First Edition. Former owner's name on front free endpaper verso: Norma Peppy. Set on the Cornish... More
Orlando: SFBC Fantasy / Harcourt, 2001. Hardcover. [8], 758, [2] p.; 24 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket with jacket art by Yvonne Gilbert. "39371" -- on back section of dust jacket. Omnibus book club edition of the first five titles in The Young Wizards series, which... More