The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - 1952

NY, Random House, 1962, first edition, first printing.. No dust jacket, this is John Gardner's first book, preceding his The Resurrection by four years, it is essentially a text book written while he was an English professor at Chico State College, Signed by Gardner, it includes John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums, pages 248-258, text from The Long Valley, Goldstone & Payne B124, not recorded by Morrow, also includes Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Edgar Allan Poe, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, and others. Very good plus.

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1925, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Review Copy with review slip, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, jacket illustration by E. Lucchesi, includes four short stories, they are The Warrior's Soul, Prince Roman, The Tale, and The Black Mate, all the stories were privately printed originally, this is their first trade publication, Smith 27, Keating 193. Very good.

Surrey, Kerosina Books, 1987, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. With publisher's slipcase, a novel, with an afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson, No. 179 of 250 specially bound copies Signed by Robinson, together with Cosmogony and Cosmology, a separate book by Dick , with an introduction by Paul Williams, issued without dust jacket, also published in 1987 by Kerosina Books, also No. 179, being one of 325 hardcover copies to be distributed with Valis. Fine, unread.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Stated First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. 8vo. Gray cloth, with red spine lettering. Red top stain. Gray end papers. 534 pages. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$8.95" price intact) is chipped, with small, closed tears at top of both the front and rear panels.

1914 1ed Butterfly Babies Book Gordon Ross Children Literature Color Illustrated

M.T. Ross, "Penny", was a popular artist and cartoonist in the early 1900s whose works include "The Flower Babies Book", "The Flower Children", "Butterfly Babies", "Bird Children", "Animal Children" and others. He was also the originator of the extremely popular comic strip "Mamma's Angel Child" for the Chicago Tribune and worked with Walt Disney before he made his own company.
Elizabeth Gordon was a fantasy author and poet. Her book 'Butterfly Babies' Book' is a short children's fantasy collection of poems that anthropomorphize butterflies giving them names and stories while giving information through poetry on the trees and flowers they eat and take shelter from. The book ends with an area for the reader to notate when they see butterflies and what butterflies they see.
This charming children's book of poems contains color illustrations from Ross on each page of each butterfly including on the cover boards!

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1874 EXQUISITE Saint Louis IX Medieval France Joinville Crusades French Wailly

Jean de Joinville was a 13th-century French historian who is best known for his biographical work on the life of Saint Louis, or King Louis IX of France. This work is perhaps the most authentic and best account of the King Louis leadership during the Seventh Crusade. This 1874 French edition was collected and edited by J Natalis de Wailly. Wailly includes impressive facsimile views of original portions of Joinville's text.

Item number: #10653
Price: $550
JOINVILLE, Jean
Jean, sire Joinville : Histoire de Saint Louis ; Credo ; et, Lettre à Louis X
Paris : F. Didot frères, fils et cie, 1874.

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Collation: complete with all pages
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[4], [xxviii], 690p
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Illustrated throughout
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11in X 7in (28cm x 17.5cm)
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1907 1st ed Dream of Fair Women Harrison Fisher Girl Illustrated Color Poetry

Harrison Fisher, the "Historian of American Beauty," was an American illustrator whose works regularly appeared on the cover of 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine in the early 1900s.
"At the top of the heap stands Harrison Fisher, creator of the Fisher Girl and most popular of all Americans who ply brush and pencil for reproduction. By reason of his industry and because of the uniform soundness of his drawings and color sense, he is the acknowledged master of the pretty girl picture"(Cosmopolitan).
This first edition of the book 'A Dream of Fair Women' is filled with romantic full-color illustrations of the "Fisher Girl" type. The illustrations are inspired from the text of famous poems decorated in Art Nouveau style by E. Stetson Crawford. A fine piece!
Item number: #13376
Price: $399
FISHER, Harrison
A dream of fair women,
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [©1907] First Edition.

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1908 1st ed Harrison Fisher ART Bachelor Belles Portraits Cosmopolitan Magazine

Harrison Fisher was a 20th-century American artist known for his drawings of women, portraits that regularly appeared on early 1900s editions of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine. 'Bachelor Belles' is a 1908 portfolio of Fisher's portraits – each beautifully colored. These 22 illustrations are paired with American poetry and short stories and illustrated page decorations by Theodore Hapgood.
Item number: #13402
Price: $499
FISHER, Harrison
Bachelor Belles
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. First edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 22 full-page illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Original dust jacket
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Original hard shell
· Size: ~11in X 8in (28cm x 20cm)
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1904 Jack London 1st/1st ed The Sea-Wolf by Adventure Novel Shipwreck FAMOUS
A rare first British edition of Jack London's famous novel "The Sea Wolf". This book follows the story of Humphrey van Weyden and his adventures alongside Wolf Larsen on the sea. Like many sea adventures stories, this book describes mutiny, shipwrecks, seal-hunting, and many other adventure tropes.
Item number: #20039
Price: $499
LONDON, Jack
The Sea-Wolf
New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. First Printing

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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vii, [1], 366, [4]
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6 illustrations
· References: BAL 11882
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"Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page.
· Provenance: Handwritten – Alfred Schaumleffel
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Blue cloth
· Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)
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