Rare books from poor mans books

London: W. Pickering. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1849. Hardcover. POETRY; B/w frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xvii, 205, [2] pages; 12mo, orig. Gilt-lettered green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, edges untrimmed; light edge wear, slightly sunned, text with lined borders. Title vignette. Minor foxing. Headpieces, tailpieces and elaborated intitials. .

Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press Waltham St. Lawrence. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Hardcover. ornaments; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 79 [1] pages; Colophon, limited 230/500. Printed in red and black, green covers moderately sun faded. Contents clean adn NF. .

N Y, N Y: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. AMERICANA; Leatherstocking Tales; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; THE IROQUOIS EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF J. FENIMORE COOPER [33 VOLS. CT] Circa 1900. Red cloth, paper spine labels, top edges gilt. Very good, some light soiling and wear, one spine label with small stains. Numerous plates. #289 of 1000, both hand numbered and punched. Title pages printed in red and black, frontis' with tissue protectors. Considered to be the best edition of his works. Leatherstocking tales. Frontis' are tissue protected. Firm, clean and tight. 6.25 x 9.25 x 1.625, about 95 pounds of books occupying about 55" of shelf space. A handsome edition. Over 15,000 pages. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin,. Fine with no dust jacket. 1883-95. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Complete 13 vols. Riverside Edition. Edited by Hawthorne's son-in-law, Julian. 8vo, original 3/4 scarlet morocco leather and marbled bds, title and spine gilt, raised bands. Heads and tails completely intact. Etched frontispieces. Extremely attractive and well cared for set in FINE condition. Provenance Wasserman, Sessler's Book Store, Mabel Zahn. BAL 7643. Hawthorne's complete works: The Ancestral Footstep; Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers with a biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop; Dr. Grimshaw's Secret - a Romance; Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks; The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe, and Septimus Felton with an appendix containing The Ancestral Footstep; The Marble Faun; Our Old Home and English Notebooks, Vol.1 and 2; Passages from the American Notebooks; The House of Seven Gables and The Snow Image; A Wonder-Book, Tanglewood Tales, and… Read More

Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE Binding; 1st Editions; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 241 pages; Nicely full bound in brown pigskin with gilt lettering and borders turned in denteles. Printed on rich laid paper. T E G. Owner's name neatly on an endpaper. Silk marker ribbon. Frontis shows Richard Mansfield as Cyrano. Performed by him at Garden Theater on opening Oct 3, 1898. Contents clean and complete. Binding solid. .

Harper Collins?. Fine with no dust jacket. c1997. First Edition. Comic book. art; Color Illustrations; Elephant Folio 23" tall; 1 pages; UNTRIMMED PRESS SHEET OF SENDAK BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS 19 X 15" COLOR [FROM SENDAK'S PRIVATE ARCHIVES] FOR "PENTHESILEA". Untrimmed press sheet of Maurice Sendak illustrations shown in the corresponding image (s). This is the complete series of 12 full-page illustrations to Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy "Penthesilea," printed in full color and published in book form 1998 by HarperCollins. This full sheet, printed only on one side and measures 19 x 25 inches, each design 4-5/8 x 3-1/4 inch arranged in four columns of three, with a vertical color-strip at the right fore-edge for accurate reproduction of the artist's original pencil and watercolor images. Whether this was intended for binding up into book format with the printed text or for use in creating a separate suite of images (for a deluxe edition, which was… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Color lithos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Modern buckram, morocco spine label. With 12 litho plates (4 colored, 8 tinted) , some with short tears to edge. [Blackmer 1757; Weber 628]. A few marginal tears well away from design or text. Mrs Walker joined her brother, Chaplain to the English community at Constantinople, shortly after the Crimean War, c. 1856, and remained in the Levant for over forty years. During the 1860s she made several tours through what is now Northern Greece and the borders of Yugoslavia and Albania. A very interesting work based on several tours during the early 1860s through what is now Northern Greece, Albania, Macedonia and the Serb Republic. .

London New York Toronto:: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 4 ¾ x 4 in. [44]pp. Blue cloth with white polka dots, red lettered title and author within scalloped red frame on front cover. First Edition in scarce priced dust jacket [.75]. Color illustrations by Tudor. Spine tips and corners slightly rubbed, faint small spot on front cover, no owner’s name. Dustjacket price of $ .75 and rear flap blank. DJ spine panel moderately soiled, overall lightly toned, edges partly frayed, few small chips to ends of spine panel and lower edges of folds. Author’s first book. Hare P19. Unusually nice copy. First in the Calico series. Illustrated in color by the author; calligraphic text by Hilda . The adventures of Sylvie Ann, who sought out the largest pumpkin she could find for Halloween. Sylvie Ann was Tudor's real-life niece, who came from Scotland to visit her grandmother… Read More

Prescott, Arizona: Wolfe Publishing Co. , Inc. Fine with no dust jacket. (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 255 pages; Limited Edition #14 [of 25], R. M. Of 500 Copies, Signed by the the Author. ALSO an original pen and ink sketch Signed by the Author and mounted. Comes with the original exotic felt lined hardwood box. Oversized, Oblong format, 255pp, printed on hard stock glossy paper, colour plates, bound in full eather, raised bands on spine, all edges gilt, ORIGINAL BRONZE OF A BIG HORN SHEEP MOUNTED INTO THE FRONT COVER. Hardwood Box in Very Good condition missing one brass nail. PUBLISHER'S PROOF #14 There are only 25 numbered copies of this book published. Signed by Swanson and numbered on the Certificate of Limited Edition Page. All copies specially hand-bound and come with an original bronze mounted in the cover. Many color illustrated In mezzotone process. Apr 16" x 21", 22 pounds. Hand-bound . .

NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Title page dated 1896 w/ no boxed ads on copyright page and 2 pgs of ads at end. Publisher’s original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and gilt “MT” cornhusk monogram on cover. 8vo. 47 illustrations: 46 plates (incl frontis) & 1 map on a text page. Harper's 1896 edition of Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories, Etc. , Etc. Is a collection of previously published material. Spine sunned. Reinserted pp 123-124, dog ears to lower corners and shallow marginal tears. BAL 3447. Johnson pp62-63. McBride p164. With only 1000 copies printed, one of Twain’s scarcest First Editions. .

Very Good with no dust jacket. Limited Editions Club. Color Illustrations; File of letter copies & documents relating to Chappie Fox's Circus World Museum, most ca 1870s. Several hundred pieces, incl a few autograph notes sgd by Chappie Fox. Also with this book: Fox, Charles Philip; Parkinson, Tom. The Circus in America. Waukesha, WI, [1969]. Oblong small folio, orig cloth, d/j. Color plates, other illus. Light wear. There are 5 b/w photos of train cars and one 8.5 x 11 glossy and two color photo postcards of same. Additionally there are numerous sketches and xeroxes of horse and mule drawn wagons from the circus. Many layouts, plans, memos, etc. ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related .

Nurnburg: Johann Michael Dillherrns. Good with no dust jacket. 1788. Hardcover. Woodcuts; Thick folio; 1181 [24] pages; Bible: Biblia, A massive 12+ lb German 18th century Bible in Good condition.40 x 27 x 13cm. Das Ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrift Desz Alten Und Neuen Testaments. Wie solche von herrn Doctor Martin Luther im Jahr Christi 1522, in unsere teutsche muttersprache zu uberseszen angefangen, 1534. Zu ende Gebracht... Des Herrn Doctor Solomn Glassens... Herrn Johann Michael Dillherrns... Nurnburg: Johann Andrea Endterischen Handlung, 1788. 4to. Signings of preliminary leaves: [title leaf], a2-a4, b[1]-[e4], [11 leaves with engraved portrait on recto and text on verso], [fly-title with engraved portrait of Luther on verso], [chi]2 - [chi]6, [2 leaves w/ one engraving and three pages of text]. Pagination of text: I-912; [NT's title leaf], 915-916, 917, 1181pp, plus 2 leaves inserted between pp916-917 that consist of 1 full-page engraving and 3 printed pages. Signings of ending… Read More

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1939. 1st limited edition. ClothC. Pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates, title-page decoration, and a 2-page facsimile letter by Wyeth. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial blue-green cloth; original board slipcase with printed spine label, fore-edges lightly rubbed, residue from removed sticker on spine panel. 770 produced with 750 for sale. One of 750 copies of the first limited edition signed by Rawlings and Wyeth. Allen, pp. 215-16. A Fine crisp and clean copy complete with DJ [paper wrapper with card spine NF] and slipcase [VG with short split at bottom edge]. Deluxe copy in exceptional condition. Lacking text between lines 5&6 of p196. ; Signed by Author & Illustrator .

Boston: James Munroe and Company,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1836. 1st; 1st issue. Cloth. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8; The first book by Emerson, the great American author of iconic works. Page 94 paginated incorrectly as page 92. Published Sept 9-10 1836. BAL 5181. Bound modern blue cloth. One fly leaf both front and back. First edition, 1st issue. Contents have scattered foxing light to moderate with water stains prominent to top of binding center to a depth of about 1" free of the text. Apparently, at least according to BAL , some had half titles and some not with no priority established. This one does not have one. .

Philadelphia: Birch and Small. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1811-2. First American Edition. Leather. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. 4 volumes. 141 x 90 mm. Translated by Tobias Smollett. 12mo, contemporary full brown calf, spines ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece to each, front joint split on first and last volume, spine ends chipped, boards scuffed and soiled; contents with intermittent light to moderate browning, pencil scribble in vol. 1, inked ownership signature to front pastedowns. First separate American edition. John Conrad & Co. Published Smollett's translation as volumes X-XIII in their Select Novels series in 1803. Very scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Philadelphia: Birch and Small, 1811-12 .