Do These Bones Live by Dahlberg, Edward - 1941

Ewing, Juliana H. Jackanapes. London SPCK 1884. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. 1st edition. 8vo. Pictorial boards. Pp47. Title page illustrated and 15 illustrations within text by Caldecott. First issue with "Egad at end of p27, frontispiece numbered as p39. Boards bumped with light age tone and marks, some light foxing on some pages. Neat gift inscription of 1904 on top of title page. Very scarce first edition, first issue

Paris: Didot l'Ainé, 1792. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes of 3: vol. 1: xvi, 236 p.; vol. 3: 240 p.; 13 cm. Half polished black calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather gilt-tooled spine labels; gilt-tooled spine ornamentation. All page edges speckled red. Terra cotta endpapers. Front fixed endpapers bear engraved armorial book plate of George Paget with the Paget family motto "Per il suo Contrario." This was presumably Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget (1818-1880), who served in the Crimean War as a senior officer of the Light Cavalry brigade under Lord Cardigan and was present at the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade; he was later made Inspector General of Cavalry. In Good+ Condition: edges and boards are somewhat rubbed; leather corners are scraped, with most of leather lacking from upper corners of vol. 1; part of leather spine label lacking from vol. 3; pages are clean and tight. An attractive if incomplete set of this romantic retelling of Gonzalo… Read More

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a special limited printing of 50 copies of which this is #42. Published in a smaller format than the larger edition of 350. Near fine signed and in slipcase. Text protected in a mylar cover. B/W Photograph illustrations. Drama, Theatre; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages .

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Mauve paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2014. Signed on the title page and dated 2/27/14 by Stephen Dunn. First edition / First printing. Paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Private Printing. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; All edges gilded. Signed by author. ; Color Illustrations; 196 pages; Signed by Author .

NY: Sears, 1846. Sears' Pictorial Magazine 1846. The third year of a short lived magazine, which ran until 1849. Published NY: Sears, 1846. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 10." Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and designs on spine, and marbleized paper covered boards. The first 9 monthly issues for the year 1846 are present, which run from pp. 9 - 378. Pages 379 - 528 for the subsequent issues are not present. Frontis, title page, preface, table of contents and embellishments are missing (pp.1 -8), as is the plate of The Old Billop House on p.106. (P. 105 was blank, being the verso of plate.) Profusely illustrated with many full page engravings - approximately 85 are present among the nine issues. Articles include The Whale and Whale Catching, The Pampas of Buenos Aryes, Music, The Pallisades of New Jersey, Cicero, Benjamin Franklin, The Island of Capri, Form and Structure of the Earth, etc. Some rubbing to the leather with wear at the tips and extremities. Binding is tight and sound. Pages… Read More

New York: Street & Smith, 1900. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Pasternak, Leonid (1862-1945) father of Boris Pasternak. Grey cloth over boards, title and author image stamped in gilt and maroon onto upper board, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (7-7/16 inches tall), pp. 317, all edges trimmed, top edge gilt, author portrait frontis, title page printed in black and red, 4 illustrations [5 inc. frontis]. Volume with cover illustration lightly rubbed, wear to spine ends, spine tilt, small 1/2" piece missing at bottom of one leaf. Page 15 has a few lines taken from a letter written in French - pertaining to the story - neatly translated into English underneath. First published in Russia in 1899 and later translated by William E. Smith, this was the last novel written by Tolstoy.

London: Macmillan, 1993. Signed on the title page by Minette Walters. First edition / First printing. Red paper-covered boards. Near fine with typical toning to the pages in fine dust jacket. Edgar Award Winner for 1994.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Signed on the title page by Michael Ondaatje. First U.S. edition / First printing. Black paper spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Warlight was Nominated for the 2018 Booker Prize. The English Patient recently Won the Golden Booker Prize.