Huntington Beach, CA: Phoebe Marie Holmes, 1940. Paperback. iii, 43, [1] leaves; 27 cm. Green cloth spine; green paper covers with cover title in black: 200 Radiant-Health Recipes. Mimeographed. Final leaf is a list of books by the author, printed on green paper. Portrait of the author on title page..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. First U. S. Edition. [12], 452 p., [16] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Off-white linen with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket. The author drew on material not previously used -- "diaries, memoirs, letters, and newly discovered manuscript material kept by Austen descendants" --..... More
![The Lady Holding a Green Apple [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 9, no. 39 February 1947]....](/pictures/thumb/006770.JPG?v=1546037345)
New York: American Mercury, 1947. Paperback. 127, [1] p.; 19 cm. Stapled paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The Clue of the Missing Motive [the Great Merlini] by Clayton Rawson -- You Take Ballistics by Cornell Woolrich -- The Repeater by Van Wyck Mason -- Sing a Song..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. 90, viii p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; advertisement for Calvert's carbolic ointment on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Contents: Martini Luigi Implora Pace: A Poem by Stephen Phillips; The Defence of Farvingdon: A Story by..... More
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. viii, [1], 180-264 p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; emblem of the Unicorn Press on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Publisher's advertisements on first 8 pages. Contents: Allonby: A Story by A.H. Holmes; The Carpenter's Shop..... More
![Guilty [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 16, no. 83 October 1950]. Fannie Hurst](/pictures/thumb/006769.JPG?v=1546037345)
New York: American Mercury, 1950. Paperback. 143, [1] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Once Upon A Train [Hildegarde Withers & John J. Malone] by Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer -- The Impromptu Murder by Roy Vickers -- The Six Silver Spiders [Solar Pons] by August Derleth --..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. 30, [4] p.: hand-painted, water color floral illustrations on 13 pages; 29 cm. Original wide cream calf spine with gilt-stamped cover title; light green paper over remainder of boards, with gilt-stamped floral decoration running along leather-paper border. White moire endpapers. Lacking original slipcase. This is..... More
London: Pandora / HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. ix, [1], 240 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Blue textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author reexamines the life of Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), wife of D.H. Lawrence, partially through Frieda Lawrence's own words. Book and..... More
Baltimore: 1995. Paperback. xv, [1], 258, [6] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series. Josephine Jacobsen (1908-2003) won the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal, the Poets' Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. She served as the..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1896. Hardcover. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant, and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt --..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. Hardcover. viii, [2], 7-254, [4], 11-224, [4], 9-296 p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt spine title; yellow paper over boards. Dust jacket with photograph of P. D. James on the back. Contents: Cover Her Face -- A Mind to Murder -- Shroud..... More
London: George Newnes, 1897. Hardcover. 330, [25] p.; 20 cm. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine title and embossed decoration on both boards. Dark green endpapers. Top page edges gilt. Title page in red and black. Part of the publisher's series The New Library. Final 23 unpaginated pages contain publisher's..... More
New York: Penguin Books/Virago Press, 1982. Paperback. xii, [13], 8-293, [3] p.20 cm. Paperback. Part of the publisher's series: Virago Modern Classics. Contents: Delicate Monster -- The Single Heart -- A Day Off. Very Good- Condition: former owner's name on p. [i]; marginal marks in the Introduction; pages slightly brown..... More
New York: Amistad, HarperCollins, 2006. Hardcover. [8], 296 p.: map; 22 cm. Orange and yellow cover with gilt-stamped spine title; Amistad emblem blind-stamped on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Laura Klynstra Blost. The author's first novel, set in contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica. Book is..... More
New York: F.A. Mills, 1899. Sheet_music. [8] p.: music; 31 cm. Illustrated front wrapper in green and pink, with photograph portrait of a woman, presumably Alice Johnson. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrappers included in page count. Caption title: Jes' Ma Lil' Black Lamb. Publisher's advertisements on inside front..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Wyeth, N.C. Hardcover. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. x, [2], 683, [7] p.: tissue-guarded color frontispiece, and 3 additional leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Plain grey cloth with paper label printed in red and black. Maps on endpapers. No dust jacket (as issued). First edition. Designed by..... More
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Hardcover. Second edition. 92, [2], 88, [2], 84, 12, [4] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; red, light green, and black decoration on spine and front board. Red-brown patterned endpapers. No year of publication; includes publisher's..... More
Berlin: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde -- Wegweiser-Verlag, 1928. Hardcover. 381, [2] p.; 19 cm. Half polished calf with gilt-stamped spine title; pink and blue paper over boards. Top page edges red. Pink ribbon bookmark. This was the second volume issued in the tenth year to members of the Volksverband der Bücherfreunde..... More
London: Paul Breman, 1975. Paperback. Second edition. 20, [2] p.; 22 cm. Stiffened wrappers; wrapper photograph (of the author?). Heritage series, v. 24. The author, Dolores Kendrick was named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1999. Her book The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave..... More
Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1829. Hardcover. Fourth edition. Edinburgh: Published by William Oliphant; and Hamilton, Adams, & Co. London. 2 volumes: [2], 371, [1] p.; 342 p., 1 leaf of a plate; 19 cm. Contemporary maroon half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather spine labels in the center..... More
Philadelphia, Pa. Keystone Publishing Co., 1890. Hardcover. Vol. I. xxvii, [1], 373 p., frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Half leather with marbled paper over boards. Endpapers are dark brown printed with a floral pattern. Top page endges are gilt. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded. The author, Sarah H. Killikelly..... More
![Mr. Potter: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof]. Jamaica Kincaid](/pictures/thumb/002673.jpg?v=1472082250)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. Paperback. [8], 195 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. Uncorrected Proof. The back cover notes that the tentative publication date [for the hardcover] was May 2002, while the first page, a publisher's blurb, indicates that the book would be 144..... More
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1875. Hardcover. xvi, 339, [4] p., frontispiece and 3 leaves of illustration; 18 cm. Publisher's beige pebble grain cloth with gilt-stamped and black embossed printing on spine and front cover; blind-stamped publisher's emblem and decoration on back cover. Small binder's label on back fixed..... More
Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. Paperback. xiii, [3], 252 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Part of The Bedford Series in History and Culture. In Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
![Beggars & Choosers [The Sleepless series]. Nancy Kress](/pictures/thumb/003172.JPG?v=1472082277)
New York: TOR Books, 1994. Hardcover. 315, [1] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth-grain paper over spine with gilt stamped spine title; plain black paper over boards. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Carol Russo with jacket art by David Richeid. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." Dust jacket title: Beggars and Choosers..... More