![The Garland of Love [and] Sweet is the Vale. James Hook, Theodore Edward Hook, Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.](/pictures/thumb/006326.JPG?v=1526669497)
London; Philadelphia: J. Pearce; G. E. Blake, 1808. Sheet_music. "The Garland of Love sung by Mrs Bland, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the Grand Melo Drama of Tekeli composed by Mr. Hook." With: "Sweet is the Vale: a Favorite Duet Sung with the most unbounded applause by Mr... More
![The Lady Holding a Green Apple [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 9, no. 39 February 1947]. Stanley Hopkins, Jr, Blythe Morley.](/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
![The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Arts; Vol. II no. 4 Jan. 1899 [New Series]. Laurence Housman, Gertrude Reese Hudson.](/pictures/thumb/003037.jpg?v=1472082268)
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
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1905. Hardcover. xiv, 320 p., frontispiece portrait; 17 cm. Original limp calf (orignally green) with gilt-stamped cover title: "Best American Poems." Illustration of lilies stamped in green on front cover. Yapp edges. Brown ribbon bookmark. Top page edges gilt. Includes indices of authors and... More
![The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the Graphic Arts; Vol. II no. 6 March 1899 [New Series]. Gertrude Reese Hudson, Reginald Cripps.](/pictures/thumb/003038.jpg?v=1472082268)
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
Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1927. Paperback. [6], 28, [2] p.: title vignette (publisher's emblem?); 19 cm. Red wrappers printed in black within decorative border with same vignette. Decorative initial letter in red and black. University of Washington Chapbooks, edited by Glenn Hughes, no. 12. Inscribed by the author... 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
Greensboro, N.C. Lifestyles Press, 2000. Hardcover. viii, 345 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed to Mary by the author on front free endpaper, dated Nov. 2001. The Mary to whom she inscribed this book was Mary Hamilton Purcell, who served... More
Cleveland, Ohio: W.A. Ingham, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [15]-362 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author; 20 cm. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Introduction by C.C. Baldwin; "A Word Commendatory" by Sarah K. Bolton. Ex-library: bookplate of the Silas Bronson Library... 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
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: Walter H. Baker Co., 1935. Paperback. 128 p.: 1 diagram; 19 cm. Beige paper covers printed in dark brown with yapp edges. Spine and cover title: Prize Plays. Price on spine: $0.75. Contains 7 one-act plays written by women for a small cast of women. Contents: White Iris by... 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
![Games of Patience for One or More Player by Miss Whitmore Jones; Illustrated [1st, 2nd, and 3rd series]. Mary Whitmore Jones.](/pictures/thumb/002652.jpg?v=1472082250)
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
New York: Books, Inc., 1952. Paperback. Copyright 1941 and 1952 by Stratemeyer Syndicate, East Orange, N.J. [8], 209, [3] p., frontispiece; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. List of Kay Tracey mysteries follows text. Frances K. Judd was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for this series, which was... More
New York: Books, Inc., 1960. Paperback. [10], 210, [4] p.; 20 cm. Paperback with front cover illustration of Kay Tracey in a pink dress overlooking a cast-iron gate into a garden where a ghostly woman dances. No date of publication; copyrighted by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1951. Books, Inc., issued... 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 is an American poet, Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1999. Her... 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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. Paperback. x, 74 p.; 23 cm. Paperback. First paperback edition simultaneous with first hardback edition. Suji Kwock Kim's first published book of poetry, this won the 2002 Walt Whitman Award. The Korean-American poet and playwright is working on an opera with composer Mark... 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