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Hong Kong: The East Society, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Quarto. 8.5 x 11.75 inches. 134 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Bound in publisher's original illustrated stiff wraps with clear plastic dust cover. Sewn binding. Illustrated throughout with 129 black & white reproductions and one two-panel color reproduction. Edited and published by Kao Ling-mei. Text in English and Chinese. English text by Yao Hsin-nung. Text includes Foreword, Gems of Professor Chang Dai-Chien's Talks on Painting, and Chronological Notes. Top and leading edges of text block lightly foxed. Binding excellent. Original plastic dust cover lightly rubbed with some pitting and scoring. Former owners' names and date written in blue ink on copyright page (in position of title page, due to reverse Chinese format). "#104" in marker and scar of sticker removal on Chinese copyright page (verso of "front" wrap). Else, no internal markings.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Printed at The Riverside Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth on board. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie.

New York, Touchstone Press with the cooperation of the Tribune Subway Gallery, 1948. Soft portfolio. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good. Nine of the original loose eleven black and white plates (plus cover art) in slightly worn portfolio. Contents clean, slightly toned. Please note: Text introduction by Anges Smedley missing. Communist era China, revolutionary period.

Harper & Row, New York, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 275 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quarter-bound buff cloth over cinnamon-colored (grin) paper on boards. Cinnamon-colored lettering on spine. Signed and inscribed (as advance copy) to fellow author, Joe Hensley and his wife, Charlotte. Binding solid with barely perceptible spine roll. Internally pristine. Very slight edgewear to dustjacket with no tears and one chip to lower front tip. Twentieth title in the Travis McGee Series.

New York: Harper & Row, 1988. First Paperback Edition, Fifth Printing. Signed with hand drawings by author. Softcover. Octavo. 9.25 x 6 inches. xxi, 837, [3] pp. Near Fine in wrappers. Illustrated. Red wrappers with triple-fish design on front. Author's signature and date (10/1/92), on the title page verso with circled "AH" beneath. Above the signature the author has drawn a mound, along which is written the location of the signing (Hawley-Cooke Bookshop, Louisville). Growing from the mound the author has drawn a small serpent and a large sunflower with the letters "AH" in its center. A Star of David and crescent moon are drawn in the upper left corner. On the title page, the author has drawn the sun centered with the letters "AH" in the upper right and inscribed, "for Dan Cooke," beneath his name and above the title. Illustrated with black and white sketches by Ginsberg and others. Copious Notes section includes musical notation of songs composed by Ginsberg and photographs of notable individuals and… Read More

New York: Ace Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Mass market paperback. Sextodecimo. 6.25 x 4.25 inches. 191 pp. Near Fine in wraps. D-452 at top of spine and upper-left corner of cover, below original price of 35¢. Illustrated wraps. Two slight indents along top edge of back wrap, similar indent along fore-edge, and slight indent along top edge of front wrap. Slight rubbing to back wrap and tail of spine. Text block clean, tight. Pages tanned with age, else Fine. First printing of author's first book. Now in protective archival sleeve.

New York: Martin, Johnson and Company Steel. Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 x 8.75 inches. Complete three-volume set. Good. Blind embossed dark brown full leather on thick beveled boards, gilt double-ruled edges, blind inside dentelles, five raised fillet bands with gilt-stamped lettering in two chambers. Original owner's name (O. B. Sappington) gilt stamped at foot of spine. All edges gilt. Comedies volume, pages [liv] 1-621; Historical Plays volume, pages 623-1097; Tragedies volume, pages 1099-1725. "Carefully Collated and Compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and A Life of the Great Dramatist, by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Executed Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for This Edition." Pages age toned and foxed. Cases edgeworn and quite rubbed. Front hinge and bands of Tragedies volume… Read More

New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1970. First Editions thus. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Very Good / Very Good. Nelson Doubleday Book Club Editions, the complete series in six volumes. Dust jacket art by Frank Frazetta and Richard Corben. Interior illustrations by Frank Frazetta. 1: A Princess of Mars (179 pp); 2: The Gods of Mars/Warlord of Mars (336 pp); 3: Thuvia, Maid of Mars/The Chessmen of Mars (341 pp); 4: The Master Mind of Mars/A Fighting Man of Mars (348 pp); 5: Swords of Mars/Synthetic Men of Mars (345 pp); and 6: Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars (314 pp). Volumes 1-5, textured vinyl on board. Volume 6, paper on board. Each book has minor shelfwear to upper and lower spines of dustjackets, some creasing and rubbing evident. A Princess of Mars canted. Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars slightly canted. Previous owner's name inked on fpep and some foxing along upper edge of Llana of Gathol/John Carter of Mars. A Princess of Mars has 1cm chip to upper corner of dust jacket at spine.… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Edition, Second Printing (letter line BCDE on copyright page). Hardcover. Tall duodecimo. 7-3/8 x 4-3/8 inches. 53 pp. Near Fine / Very Good. Publisher's teal cloth over board. Spine stamped with particulars in silver. ISBN-10 stamped in silver at lower right corner of back board. Cream endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows $4.95 on front flap. Photo of author on rear flap. Very light wear to tips and spine ends, else Fine. Interior clean, bright, and unmarked. Dust jacket mildly rubbed with light toning and creasing to edges. Miniscule closed tear at upper edge of rear panel. Now in protective archival sleeve. Wendell Berry's fifth book of poetry. Very scarce in hardcover. Freedman A21b.