Catalogue of British Military Medals in the Collection of Rev Ralph A Fitzpatrick
Los Angeles: Richard Keefe, 1972. 1st edition; 8vo., hardcover; number 27 of 50 copies; 267 pages; inscription to a friend; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
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Etiquette for Gentlemen; Or, Short Rules and Reflections For Conduct In Society
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston (1836). 24mo.; green blindstamped cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 224 pages; a color Frontispiece by T. Sinclair; internal foxing and heavily edgeworn and sunned boards with spine ends heavily worn else a very good tight copy. More
It Isn’t This Time of Year At All!
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co. (1954). Stated First edition; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; jacket art by Edward Gorey; former owner’s name and date on front free endpaper else a very good clean tight copy in lightly soiled boards and a sunned, soiled and chipped dust jacket..... More
The Broken Spoke
NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1976). First trade edition, Toledano A63c; Signed by Edward Gorey on title page; oblong 24mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; boards are edgeworn especially at corners and spine ends with spine soiled else very good in a price-clipped, edgeworn and..... More
The Epiplectic Bicycle
NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1969). First edition with proper price on dust jacket, Toledano A30a; oblong 16mo.; pictorial covered boards, hardcover; black and white illustrations; endpapers are sunned else a very good clean tight copy in a foxed dust jacket that is sunned on spine. More
Gorey Endings A Calendar For 1979
NY: Workman Publishing Co., Inc (1979). Oblong 8vo.; stiff pictorial wraps with metal spiral binding, softcover; includes its original mailing envelope; black and white illustrations; a fine unmarked copy in its original envelope that is lightly edgeworn, wrinkled and some soiling. More
The Helpless Doorknob A Shuffled Story
no place: Edward Gorey (1989). First edition, Limited to 500, #437 and signed by Edward Gorey, Toledano A95a; set of 20 glossy cards with paper foldover title sheet with colophon, softcover in a plastic box; black and white illustrations; one corner of plastic box has torn and box is yellowed..... More
The Dwindling Party
NY: Random House (1982). First edition with a 1 present in the number line Toledano A-83a; Signed by Gorey under flap on 1st pop-up; 6 color illustrated pop-ups and moveables; a fine copy with all moveable parts present and in working order. More
Journey Into Jazz
NY: Coward-McCann, Inc. (1968). 1st edition; square small 4to.; red cloth covered boards; hardcover; color illustrations; the story of a boy named Peter Parker who learned about Jazz; a small 49 written in red ink on front free endpaper else a fine copy in a lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust..... More
The Greatest Street in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and New, from the Bowling Green to Albany
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1912. Second printing. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and seals; six folding maps and black & white illustrations; edgeworn especially at spine ends else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Beauties Of Johnson, Choice Selections From His Works
NY: Leavitt & Allen, 1853. 32mo.; red cloth and gilt decorative boards, hardcover; 160 pages with gilt edges; heavily foxed and in edgeworn boards else good. More
Little Folks Library Series One: The Topsy-Turvy-Circus, The Return of Araminta, Top O’ The Morning
Chicago: The Regensteiner Corp, 1926. 16mo.; three pictorial wrapped books with stapled spine, softcover, inside pictorial box; color and blue and white illustrations; some pencil markings on cover of Topsy-Turvy-Circus and all three books have closed tears on spine ends and are edgeworn in an edgeworn and soiled box with..... More
Mary Jane In Italy
NY: Grosset & Dunlap (1933). 12mo.; red cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 208 pages; black and white frontispiece and illustrations; a very good clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn, sunned and soiled dust jacket. More
Books About Poictesme An Essay in Imaginative Bibliography
Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1937. 1st edition; 8vo; green cloth backed decorative boards, hardcover; pictorial map endpapers; 28 pages; lightly faded covers else a very good, clean,, tight, unmarked copy. More
Stony Brook Secrets
NY: The Gotham Bookmart Press (1942). First Edition; small 4to; pictorial cloth covered boards; hardcover; 146 pages; black and white illustrations; contents include: Indians and First Whites, The Creek and Lubber Street, The Old Mill and Mill Pond, Old Homesteads and Sailing Ships, Artists and Old Homes, Stony Brook Old..... More
Watch ho! Watch on life’s deep sea
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1891. Oblong 12mo.; decorative cloth backed boards, hardcover; 33 leaves with printing on one side; black and white illustrations; Nautical Theme poetry; some light internal foxing, front endpaper is repaired and shorter than the other pages, else very good and in edgeworn and rubbed boards that have..... More
The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell with Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole
NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1893). 16mo.; cloth backed decorative boards, hardcover; xviii, 311 pages; black and white portrait frontispiece with tissue guard; dust jacket states Oak Leaf Edition; non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper and boards have some foxing else a very good clean, tight copy in..... More
The Lawn Tennis Club
London: Dean & Son, no date [ca 1882]. 8vo. cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover; decorative endpapers; 30 pages; color illustrations; edgeworn covers; contemporary inscription: “Mabel from her Mother”; else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Adventures of the Flighty Old Woman
New Britain, CT: R.E.M., 1966. Limited edition #467 of 500 copies; Miniature; stiff wraps in slipcase, softcover; consists of 8 pages of white and red leaves of Japanese handmade paper and a continuous sheet that is folded into 12 pages with color illustrations; a fine copy in a fine slipcase..... More
Yellow Bill’s Adventure
NY: Sam’l Gabriel Sons & Co. (1923). 8vo.; cloth backed pictorial boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; text block is beginning to loosen else a very good clean copy in lightly edgeworn boards. More
Summer Days and Nights in New York
NY, NY: Merchants' Association of New York, 1898. Thin 16mo; tan and red pictorial wraps, small booklet; (38 pages); light green photographic illustrations; 1898 hotels, theatres and transportation are marked on the fold out map; a very good, clean tight copy;. More
The Waldenses: Sketches of the Evangelical Christians of the Valleys of Piedmont
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication 1853. 12mo.; brown and gilt embossed decorative boards, hardcover; 392 pages; black and white illustrations; With Illustrations on Wood, Drawn By Doepler, and Beaulieu, and Engraved By Louderback, Orr, and Roberts.; faded spine, light edgewear and some foxing and former owner’s name and address and..... More
Up In The Old Hotel And Other Stories
NY: Pantheon Books, 1992. Stated First Edition; Uncorrected Page Proof; 8vo; stiff gray wraps, paperback; 717 pages; stamp on cover else a very good, clean, tight copy;. More