Vintage Books from Inga's Original Choices

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1981. First Harper Brothers Edition. Deckle edge pages [xxviii, 402 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. NOT ex-libri. Rust colored cloth boards, clean, blue panels, gilt decorations and lettering, minor display indications. Age toned endpapers. A collection of writings by Mark Twain, including many observations on his contemporaries, such as John D. Rockefeller, Jay… Read more about this item

Privately Printed By the Burton Club No edition or publication year stated. Black cloth boards, gilt decorations and lettering. Pages [359 including index] clean, unmarked, binding sound and square. Green tinted frontispiece with tissue cover [see photos]. Boards, and page edges with mild discoloration. Hinge between second ffep and back of frontispiece split. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Houghton Mifflin edition with complete number line [1-10] at copyright page; originally published as the catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in 1976. Pages [126] clean, unmarked, binding tight, slight lean to spine. Illustrated throughout with art reproductions, mostly color. Tan [two-tone] cloth boards, bright gilt lettering. Dust jacket clean,… Read more about this item

Viking Press, 1970. Pages [436] clean, unmarked, no serious weaknesses to binding, very slight lean to spine. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 13.95], in new archival mylar, clean, crisp, colors bright, a little edge wear and display indications. Yellow boards, green cloth spine, black and yellow lettering and decorations. A novel for devotees of the author's The Nice and the… Read more about this item

The Modern Library, 1936. First Modern Library edition, copyright 1936 Alfred A. Knopf. Pages [xi, 567 plus list of the principal works of Thomas Mann including first editions in German and American editions in translation] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Gray cloth boards, gilt and black decorations and lettering, two smal marks at rear board. PO's name and front… Read more about this item

Random House, 1958. First Fireside Theatre BCE edition with gutter code 11A copyright 1958. Textblock pages [128] clean, unmarked, binding tight, slight lean to spine. Illustrated with three B&W photographs. Black boards, magenta lettering, minor shelf wear at extremities. Dust jacket mostly clean, colors bright, lightly sunned spine, a little edge and display wear; small stain [from price label removal?]… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. Deckle edge pages [246] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Dust jacket clean, crisp, colors bright, minor edge wear. Copyright 1948. Navy cloth boards, bright silver lettering, minor display wear at spine edges. Publisher's 2 page review brochure laid in. PO's names marked out at endpaper. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free… Read more about this item

Westport, Connecticut: Famous Writers School, 1960. Pages [237-453] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Off white linen boards, blind stmping, red cloth spine, bright gilt lettering. Illustrated throughout with B&W drawings [cartoons]. Small corner bends at first seven pages. Mild vintage book scent. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in… Read more about this item

The World Publishing Co. / Tower Books, 1945. Pages [272] clean, unmarked, binding sound. Green cloth boards, mostly clean, blue lettering and decorations, a little shelf wear at extremities. PO's name and address at ffep. Age toned pages. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate… Read more about this item

Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Pages [318] clean, unmarked, binding tight, lean to spine. Blue cloth boards, clean, black decorations and lettering, minor shelf wear at spine ends. Gift inscription dated 1934 and ffep. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected… Read more about this item

Doubleday Doran & Co, Inc, 1945. Includes The Literary Guild Review pamphlet "Wings" March 1945] in as new condition. Pages [273] clean, unmarked, binding tight. Dust jacket in new archival mylar, mostly clean, crisp, colors bright, minor edge wear; mild discolorations at rear. Maroon cloth boards, clean, gilt decorations and lettering., sunned spine. PO's name [?} marked out at… Read more about this item

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1901. Stated Special Edition limited to 50,000 copies by Grosset & Dunlap. Pages [473] unmarked, binding sound, no serious weaknesses to binding, fore-edge seam split. Red cloth boards, black decorations and lettering, small areas with fading, small beverage ring, spine edges frayed, corners bumped. PO's name and ffep. Ten pages with a small spot. When the… Read more about this item

London UK: Neville Spearman , 1963. Signed by author [name only, no dedication] at copyright page. This is a limited and numbered Oriana Memorial Edition; with copy number 89. A list of Oriana Memorial Subscribers is tipped in between ffep and frontispiece [B&W portrait of Shakespeare]. Pages [200 including bibliography] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, clean, brown… Read more about this item

M. A. Donohue & Co. This book is offered as a unique copy of this novel with the author stated on the cover as Mrs. Southworth but was actually written by Mary J. Holmes. Both authors wrote novels but this copy was printed with the wrong one on the cover. No edition or publication date is stated. Brown cloth covers… Read more about this item

Dodd, Mead & Co, 1909. Illustrated with four color plates by Harrison Fisher; all extant in fine condition, one with faint stain at bottom nit extending into image. Pages [369] unmarked, binding sound and square; two third of pages with mild moisture mark at bottom edges. Blue-gray cloth boards, a little edge wear at extremeties, color paste-down with moisture mark,… Read more about this item

Thomas Y. Crowell, 1893. Pages [xxxiv, 511] AEG [all edges gilt] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Frontispiece: B&W etching of author with tissue guard. Pictorial boards [blue flowers] and elaborate gilt decorations and lettering. Small area [ca. 1/4" at front with color loss, and small, narrow area [ca 1/8"] at back with mild discoloration. Media Mail, Priority &… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985. Complete number line [1 - 10] at copyright page. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 15.95] clean, crisp, colors bright, a little edge wear. Brown boards, dark yellow cloth spine, brick red lettering. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include… Read more about this item

The Dorsey Press, 1969. Illustrated with maps. Covers clean, colors bright, minor edgeand handling wear, slight lean to spine. Textblock pages [277 including index] clean, some underlining and marginalia [mostly pencilled]; eleven pages with a small spot. Small area at front wrap with surface abrasion [PO's label removal?]. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every… Read more about this item

University of Nebraska Press / A Bison Book, 1941. Pages [168 including index and bibliography] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs. Covers clean, colors bright, a little edge and handling wear. "The Surrender of Chief Joseph" is the cover illustration by Frederic Remington. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every… Read more about this item

Outdoor Life / Harper & Row, 1978. Pages [xii, 420 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Illustrated throughout with duotone [blue and black] drawings and B&W photographs. Medium blue boards, clean but with mild discoloration, rust colored spine [lightly sunned], navy lettering, a little shelf wear at extremities. A few small spots at page edges. Media Mail, Priority… Read more about this item