The Old House and Other Tales
London: Martin Secker, 1915. First English edition; cloth covered boards; 295 pages plus 16 pages of Martin Secker’s new books; edgeworn and stained covers and tanned pages, else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Fiction
Beginner's Luck
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1958. 1st edition, 1st printing; 8vo; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 178 pages; a good, clean, tight copy in an edgeworn dust jacket with the $2.95 price intact. More
Whispering Smith
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards; hardcover; 421 pages; 4 color plates; owner’s name on free front endpaper; edgeworn and rubbed covers with fraying at spine ends and corners else a very good clean tight copy. More
The Fugitive Blacksmith
NY: The Century Co., 1905. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards; hardcover; 321 pages; black and white illustrations; lightly rubbed boards with sunned spine with lettering faded else a very good clean tight copy. More
Rudder Grange
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons (1885). 12mo.; illustrated cloth covered boards with gilt, hardcover; xi, 322 pages; black and white illustrations; former owner’s bookplate on front endpaper; spine is sunned and corners and spine ends are rubbed and just beginning to fray else very good. More
Ship-Bored
NY: John Lane 1912. 1st edition. small 12mo; cloth covered boards with black and white pictorial paste on, hardcover; 47 pages; black & white illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy. More
Gulliver’s Travels
NY: Schocken Books (1984). Stated First American Edition with a 1 in the number line; 8vo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 256 pages; black and white illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Faces in the Flames
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition; 8vo; red boards; hardcover; 207 pages; edgeworn covers and dusty page edges else a very good clean tight copy in a price clipped and rubbed dust jacket. More
Address Unknown
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Second Printing; 12mo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; endpapers are age-toned and boards are edgeworn and soiled else very good. More
The Lion’s Share
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers (1907). 1st edition; 12mo; red decorative cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 376 pages; black and white illustrations; cover by Thomas M. Cleland; Heilshorn’s stamped on front endpapers; rubbed boards else a very good clean tight copy. More
World's End and Other Stories (Signed)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1980. First Edition. 1st printing with 1 in the numberline; 8vo. cloth backed boards, hardcover; signed by Theroux on the title page; a very good clean tight copy in a lightly sunned unclipped dustjacket with the proper price. More
The Flute Player
NY: E.P. Dutton (1979). Stated First American Edition with 1 in the numberline; 8vo., cloth backed boards, hardcover; 192 pages; signed by the author on the title page; a fine clean tight copy in a fine dustjacket with $8.95 on the front flap. More
Murder in Chinatown
NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 2007. 1st edition, 1st printing; 8vo; paper backed boards, hardcover; 305 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Miss Petticoats
Boston: C.M. Clark Publishing Company, 1902. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards; hardcover; 377 pages plus 8 pages of advertising for other books by the same publisher; black and white illustrations; newspaper article glued to front pastedown endpaper; owner’s name on free front endpaper; sunned and lightly rubbed covers with..... More
The Silmarillion
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Stated First American Edition 1st printing has 1st state points as listed in Hammond and Anderson (A15) with misspellings, missing punctuation and faded letters; small 4to.; teal cloth covered boards with gilt, hardcover; 365 pages with red stained top edge; fold-out map tipped in; top..... More
The Broken Soldier And The Maid Of France
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1919. 12mo.; blue cloth covered boards with gilt picture of soldier on horse and gilt lettering; hardcover; b/w illustrations by Frank E Schoonover; non-authorial inscription on front free endpaper with front hinge cracked else very good with lightly rubbed boards in a chipped and edgeworn dust..... More
Temple Bar Magazine, Volume L (50), May - August 1877
London: Richard Bentley, 1877. 8vo; leather backed decorative boards, hardcover; 572 pages; edgeworn boards else a good, clean, tight copy. More
The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Complete 2 Volumes; 16mo; navy cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and red and silver design, hardcoveer; 502 and 578 pages; lightly tanned pages else two very good copies. More
The Wood-Carver of ‘Lympus
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1908. Small 8vo; decorative cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 311 pages; black and white illustrations; Frontispiece from a drawing by C.C. Emerson; owner’s name and date on free front endpaper; rubbed covers with foxed pages else a very good clean tight..... More
Flamsted Quarries
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910. 8vo.; decorative dark green on green boards with embossed design, hardcover; b&w Illustrations by Patrick Nelson; dusty edges else very good. More
Julian or Scenes In Judea
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895. 8vo; red cloth covered, beveled edged boards with embossed silhouette and gilt lettering and decorations, hardcover; ix, 444 pages with deckled bottom edge and gilt top edge; black and white illustrated plates with tissue guards; top corner is bumped else a very good clean, tight..... More
The Food Of The Gods And How It Came To Earth
NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924. 12mo.; green decorative embossed boards, hardcover; 329 pages; black and white frontispiece and illustrations; boards are very lightly edge-rubbed else very good. More
The Place In Flowers Where Pollen Rests (Signed)
NY: Doubleday (1988). Stated First Edition; small 4to; cloth backed boards with gilt lettering on spine; hardcover; 490 pages; signed by author on title page; fine with no apparent flaws in a lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket; domestic shipping will have a delivery confirmation tracking number. More
Old New York New Year’s Day (The ‘Seventies)
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. 1st edition; 12mo; blue cloth covered boards with pictorial label; pictorial endpapers; 160 pages; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Old New York The Spark: (The ‘Sixties)
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1924. 1st edition; 12mo; blue cloth covered boards with pictorial label paste-on, hardcover; pictorial endpapers; 109 pages; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More