Philadelphia: A. Fiot, 1840. Sheet_music. [4] p.: music; 32 cm. Caption title. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." Contains melody with keyboard accompaniment. Partial stamp of music seller George Willig at lower edge..... More
London: Edward Goldston, 1936. [8], 462 p.; 19 cm. Publisher's yellow cloth with black spine title. No dust jacket. Faint price in red on front free endpaper. Edward Goldston also published, by the same author, Centaur in 1937 and Thy Shafts Fly in 1938. In Daughters of Bondage, the author..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. Paperback. [12], 160 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with cover photograph by Rosamond Wolff Purcell. Cover title: The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; front cover very lightly soiled; front cover creased; pages are clean and tight... More
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936. Hardcover. 366 p.; 21 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. White endpapers with black-and-white yin and yang symbol on green background. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookdealer's label on back free endpaper recto: Holliday Bookshop, New York. Former owner's inscription on front..... More
Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1847. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 32 cm. Removed from a volume of sheet music published from 1825 to 1850 with former owner's name on the front: "E. C. K. Seymour." Faint inscription on first page: "Lizzie C. K. Seymour Aug. 1847." No date of publication, but..... More
![Item #002764 The Concrete and the Universal [Swarthmore Lecture]. Margaret B. Hobling](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/002764.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1472082255)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958. Hardcover. [6], 53, [3] p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Includes publisher's advertisements for Swarthmore Lectures through 1957. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With kind regards, Margaret B. Hobling. 26.5.'58."..... More
New York: American Mercury, 1947. Paperback. 127, [1] p.; 19 cm. Stapled paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The Creeping Siamese [the Continental Op] by Dashiell Hammett -- The Quarterdeck Club [the Saint] by Leslie Charteris -- People Do Fall Downstairs by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding -- The Man..... More
New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1892. Paperback. [5], 8-384 p.; 18 cm. Paperback; plain brown wrappers. Mary J. Holmes was a popular 19th-century American novelist. This novel was first published in 1864. In Fair Conditon: wrapper is rubbed and creased; edges of first and last leaves are chipped; upper corner of..... More
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co., 1913. Paperback. 295, [21] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This was no. 130 in the publisher's The Hart Series. Series list through no. 132 is on the back cover. Publisher's advertisements on 21 pages following text. No date of publication. The publisher began this..... 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
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
![Item #006769 Guilty [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 16, no. 83 October 1950]. Fannie Hurst](https://classicbooksandephemera.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/006769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
London / New York: J. M. Dent & Sons; E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927. Hardcover. xl, 393 p.; 18 cm. Maroon leatherette with gilt spine title, and gilt spine and front cover decoration (style 1). Top page edges gilt. Everyman's Library illustrated endpapers. No date of publication; former owner's..... 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
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: 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
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., 1910. Paperback. [6], 8, [2] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown card covers, stapled, with black cover title and green-and-black cover illustration. Three holes along spine, as issued. First page and last have full-page illustration in green of birds and insects in a tree. Story..... 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