Search Results: Titles starting with S from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

New York: New Directions, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing (a bit of rubbing to the spine tail and board bottoms) in a Fine, bright dust jacket (without the fading and toning so often seen); a novel which moves back and forth in time with dramatic episodes in unusual settings with the narrator's life being beset by tragedies. A Fine copy.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the First Edition, First Printing in the Publisher's original blue cloth in a Fine dust jacket in a coordinated blue color with the jacket's front panel showing the Author's initials and the spine panel showing the book's short title, the author's pen name and the Publisher's name, all in dark blue. Dodgson was a frequent corespondent with children, including Evelyn Hatch. The jacket's spine shows some toning and the book shows scattered foxing within. The book is richly illustrated and includes facsimile illustrations of letters from Carroll to some of his young friends. Per Wikipedia: Evelyn Hatch was an English child friend of the adult Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. She was the subject of photographs by Dodgson and is often part of the contemporary discussion about Dodgson's relationship with young female children. This is a quite nice copy of her work… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. 1896. Hardcover. Very good. Hatherell, William. A Very Good copy of the first American edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original brown cloth with the front board and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and with the front board also decorted in green, such decoration having been designed by the famed Margaret Armstrong (whose initials appear near the illustrations bottom right corner. Within, the book presents a frontispiece and ten (10) additional illustrations by British Painter and Illustrator William Hatherell. The binding is somewhat askew and the spine ends and board corners show some modest wear. A Very Good copy.

Chicago: Jansen McClurg & Company, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original green cloth (some rubbing to the spine ends and board corners, faint splash mark to the front board seen when held at an angle to the light) with a prior owner's signature and contemporary date of "4.20.1881" to the title page's upper margin; a work in which Miller excoriated whites for their treatment of Indians. A Very Good + copy and a better copy than we typically see.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, No Date Stated [Copyright 1978]. Hardcover. Fine. A Fine, reasonably tight, and unread copy of the Easton Press Collector's Edition, in the Publisher's blue leather with the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and the front and rear board decorated in gilt as well. The leaves are printed on archival paper, the pastedowns and the facing side of each free endpaper is moire fabric, the edges of the closed page block are in gilt, and the volume contains an elegant ribbon page marker; part of the Easton Press's Collector's Edition of The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, with a frontispiece and also with and multiple additional illustrations by T. L. Cleland. The half title's recto hosts the standard Easton Press bookplate with the prior owner's name obscured and covered with white tape. A Fine, tight and unread copy in an elegant binding.

New York: Perennill [an imprint of HarperCollins / Harper Collins, 2002. An essentially Fine, tight, and unread copy of the first edition, first printing of this pair of plays by Denis Johnson being "Hellbound on my Trial" and "Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames", bound in the Publisher's original wrappers.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the first American edition, first printing, in fine dust jacket; a work of nonfiction in which, using Irish vernacular, Donleavy gives his personal view of Ireland. A Fine, tight, and unread copy.

Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog Press, 2005. Second Edition [being the New Expanded Edition]. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine, Tight, and Unread copy of this work by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood being the New Expanded Edition of the work and being bound in the Publisher's original wrappers

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. A Remarkable, About Fine, copy of this early "authorized edition" in the Publisher's original light green cloth with the front board and spine lettered in gilt and decorated in gilt and red (some pushing and rubbing to the spine ends, the board corners lightly rubbed, prior owner's note in pencil to the otherwise blank second front free endpaper) with 111 Illustrations by F. H. Townsend, in a Very Good example of the RARE NINETEENTH CENTURY DUST JACKET with the front and spine panels lettered and decorated in blue (showing some small chips and tears and with a full split at the front spine fold); Sara Jeannette Duncan's DEBUT BOOK -- which also was her most popular -- telling of her world travels with her friend, the Montreal journalist Lily Lewis. Such travel by women without male accompaniment was quite unconventional but Duncan, who was a whole-hearted feminist, embarked on the trip without any qualms and… Read More

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of the Uncorrected Advance Proof for the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue wraps lettered in black, Wiley's DEBUT BOOK which won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, an Award given annually awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living American citizens. The winner receives US $15,000 and each of four runners-up receives US $5000. [William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Fiction and used his prize money to establish the William Faulkner Foundation, one of the goals of which was to establish a Fund to support and encourage new fiction writers. The Foundation's inaugural award for a "notable first novel," was originally called the William Faulkner Foundation Award and was won by John Knowles's 1961 novel "A Separate Peace". The novel centers on three Japanese-Americans who take their band… Read More

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Near Fine to Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Very Good plus dust jacket, being a collection of Recipes from this noted television host and author with a focus on Southern cuisine, the first woman since Julia Child to host more than one hundred (100) cooking episodes on public television. Her shows also have aired on the Food Network, the Learning Channel, the Today Show, and Morning America. She also has won four (4) James Beard Awards and is a pioneer of the new Southern Cooking movement, has operated restaurants in multiple countries and is one of the founders of, and two-time president of, the International Association of Culinary Professionals, a founder and co-president of both the Atlanta and Charleston, South Chapters of Les Dames d' Escoffier, the founding chairman of the Charleston Food and Wine Festival, is a past president of the Atlanta Chapter of the International Woman's… Read More

London: Virtue and Co., Strahan, 1868, 1869, 1870. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. A complete set of the First Six Volumes of St. Pauls Magazine beginning October,1867 through and including September, 1870, with each issue having been edited by Anthony Trollope. Trollope was the Magazine's founding Editor and these six volumes include the text and illustrations of the magazine for the entire period of Trollope's Editorship. [Volumes I-III were published by Virtue, and Volumes IV-IX were published by Strahan] The Volumes have been rebound in three-quarters leather hinges to most volumes are cracked some are rather worn, but all are holding. Within, the volumes show scattered foxing, primarily to the pastedowns, facing pages, and more lightly to scattered pages. Each volume shows marbling to each visible edge of its closed page block. Many writers contributed to these issues, including, but not limited to: Anthony Trollope. In our experience, complete sets of the magazine… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in book form of Cartoons earlier published in "The Wasp" (some rubbing to the spine ends and leading board corners). The Wasp was an illustrated weekly magazine devoted to social and political satire which was published from 1876 to well after the turn of the twentieth century. It was founded by the Korbel brothers who had immigrated from Czechoslovakia. After a period of time spent working as skilled mechanics, they pooled their resources and founded a cigar box factory and becoming one of the earliest firms to use redwood to produce cigar boxes. To further their business, they bought a half-interest in a redwood country sawmill and thereafter bought out their business partner(s), becoming full owners of the sawmill and added nearby land. After the wood was exhausted, they planted grapevines amongst the stubs and thus was born… Read More

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. Near fine. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first appearance of Jack London's short story "The Strength of the Strong" (illustrated by Dan Sayre Groesbeck). The magazine is in excellent condition and is quite clean and bright within. The covers extend beyond the page block and consequently show small tears, and the spine panel shows only a touch of damage. London's "The Strength of the Strong" did not appear in book form until May, 1914, more than three years after this first appearance of this story (which became the title story of a 1914 collection of Jack London's short stories, a grouping of seven socialistic tales). The story is about cavemen who discover the benefits of group solidarity and reject the lies of their "Lip-King", thus… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Undated [1866]. First Edition, later impression. Wrappers. Very good. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $4,250. NOW $1,850. A RARE SURVIVING copy of this VARIANT, LATER, BUT EARLY, IMPRESSION, OF THE RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, in the Publisher's original wrappers housing the FIRST EDITION STATE (perhaps, and we think likely, first printing) OF THE TEXT LEAVES of this Anthony Trollope novel first published in the United States on May 6, 1862 and not published in the UK until November, 1870, making this American Edition the TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THIS TROLLOPE NOVEL. The tale centers on a Partnership in a haberdashery amoung Brown (a retired Butter dealer), Jones (Brown's son-in-law), and Robinson (a strong advocate of advertising and an aspirant to the hand of Brown's youngest daughter, Maryanne). Due to Brown's timidity, Jones's embezzlement, and Robinson's extravagance, the Firm went bankrupt. This wrappered copy has been bound in brown half-cloth and marbled… Read More

Mineapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2020. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Fine, Tight, and Unread copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's black cloth with the spine lettered in silver with the Publisher's emblem in silver as well, with a dark line running across the spine and boards (apparently a production flaw) SIGNED BY CRYSTAL DOWNING on the title page in blue ink, a book which Alister McGrath stated: "This is the best book on Dorothy L. Sayers I have read in the last decade." The author (Downing) was, at Publication, the co-director of the Wade Center at Wheaton College as well as a major Sayers scholar. Signed copies in any condtion are QUITE SCARCE TO THE MARKET. A FINE, otherwise SUPERIOR COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. NOTE: Sayers was an English crime writer and poet, as well as a student of classical works and student of modern languages and ancient literature. She came to know C. S. Lewis after he responded to a fan letter she sent to him in admiration… Read More

Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co., 1876. [No Edition Stated]. Wrappers. Good. A Good copy of this exceedingly scarce Play by George Melville Baker (copyright 1866) in its ORIGINAL WRAPPERS showing general marking, creasing, wear, soiling, tearing, and staining with scattered pencil marks to the leaves, copies of which Play are RARE TO THE MARKET. Per Wikipedia: "George Melville Baker was a playwright and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He worked for Lee & Shepard publishers, then opened his own imprint. "George M. Baker & Co." issued works by authors such as Henry M. Baker, F.E. Chase, and Herbert Pelham Curtis."