New Arrivals
The House of Mirth
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. First state without ads in the rear. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt, other edges deckled. Gilt still bright. Frontispiece tissue guard. 533 pages, More
Angel Pavement
London: William Heinemann, [1930]. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Original price (10/6) printed on the dust jacket spine. 613 pages. More
The Anger of Achilles; Homer's Iliad
Garden City: Doubleday, 1959. Ronald Searle. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Gilt illustration on the cover. Fourteen illustrations by Ronald Searle. 9 1/2 x 6 14 inches. 383 pages. Dust jacket in near-fine condition. More
Europe Central
New York: Viking, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. More
Jean Mixhael Basqiat; The Notebooks
Princeton: Princeton Univesity Press, [2015]. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth and marbled boards a fecsimile of the author's notebook. More
Ancient West Mexico; Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, [1998]. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Gilt medalion on cover. Profusely illustrated with photos, maps, charts, and line drawings. 9 x 12 inches. 308 pages. More
Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh Peddlers, Movie Makers and Money Makers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols
New York: Viking Press, [1974]. 1st. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in silver and purple. Price-clipped dust jacket. More
Commodore Hornblower
Norwalk: Easton Press, [2001]. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original full genuine blue leather with three raised bands on the spine and silk moire endpapers, with spine lettered and ornamented in gilt and cover elaborately ornamented in gilt. All edges gilt. More
Lieutenant Hornblower
Norwalk: Easton Press, [2001]. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original full genuine blue leather with three raised bands on the spine and silk moire endpapers, with spine lettered and ornamented in gilt and cover elaborately ornamented in gilt. All edges gilt. More
The Rose Garden of Persia
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1845. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in full brown calf with five raised bands on the spine, spine stamped with gilt ornaments, letters, and rules in each panel. Cover stamped iwith gilt rules and ornaments. Gilt inner dentelles and marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. All pages..... More
Letters from Sir Charles Grandison; Selected; with a Biograpical Introduction and Connecting Notes. In two volumes.
London: George Allen, 1895. Chris Hammond. 1st. Hardcover. Illistrated by Chris Hammond. Saintsbury has drawn upon "The History of Sir Charles Grandison" (published in1753),, a novel by Samuel Richardson. Bound in half brown leather with marbled paper on boards, spine stamped in gilt, and marbled endpapers. Gilt top edge. Two..... More
Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly
Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Kroch and Brentano's bookmark laid in. Author's fourth book. A novel. Bound in publisher's original quarter blue cloth and red paper with spine stamped in gilt, and blue endpapers. 327 pages. More
The Marble Faun; Or The Romance of Monte Beni. In two.volumes
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Carl Strauss. Hardcover. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Introduction by Herbert Gorman. Illustrated by Carl Strauss. Bound in publisher's original brown tweed with orange label stamped in gilt on the spine. Slipcase with label stamped in gilt on spine and..... More
Morning Poems
New York: HarperCollins, [1997]. 1st. Hardcover. Signed presentation drawing by the author on front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth and black paper with publisher's logo stamped in blind on the cover, and with spine stamped in silver. More
The Diary of Samuel Pepys; A new and complete transcription edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Eleven volumes complete.
London: Folio Society, [2003]. Hardcover. One of 1,000 sets. Copiously footnoted, with 152 pages of introductory material by the editors, including photo illustrations of original Diary pages. Frontispiece contempoary color portrait of Pepys, in 1666, by John Hayls. Bound in quarter black goatskin and marbled paper. All volumes have slipcases..... More
From the Heart of the Country
New York: Harper & Row, [1977]. 1st. Hardcover. Translated from the Afrikaans by the author. A novel of rural South Africa. Bound in publisher's original quarter brown cloth and orange paper with spine stamped in gilt. Publisher's logo stamped in blind on the cover. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket, designed by..... More
Wee Gillis
New York: Viking, 1938. Robert Lawson. 1st. Hardcover. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. One of 535 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. A 1939 Caldecott Honor Book. Bound in publisher's original tan burlap with green leather labels stamped in gilt on the spine and cover, and illustrated endpapers. A...... More
Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving. 2 volumes.
New York: Macmillan, 1906. 1st. Hardcover. Wear at head & heel of spines. More
The Rope; Poems
DuBois: Mammoth Books, 2003. 1st. Paperback. More
The Marble Foot
London: Collins, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. More
Lost in the Cosmos; The Last Self Help Book
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Price clipped dust jacket is rubbed at the extremities. More
The Little Drummer Girl
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. More
A Good Man Is Hard to Find; and other stories
New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1955]. Hardcover. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped with author and publisher in yellow and title lettered in purple. Typographic error "tyring" for "trying" on page 125. Former owner's presentation on front free end paper. Very slight wear to head and heel of..... More