1938. San Francisco: Simon J. Lubin Society of California, Inc., 1938. 8vo, 34, (2) pp. Original wrappers illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, toned with a little wear, a few small chips professionally repaired, small ticket of Gotham Book Mart to rear pastedown. A very good copy of a fragile... More
1935. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935. 8vo, (xii), 912 pp. Original black cloth, boards lightly worn, original unclipped dust-jacket, professionally restored. Very good. Old catalogue entry (price $15) tipped onto front free endpaper. § First edition, first printing with Scribner's seal and "A" on copyright page, and dustjacket price... More
1940. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. 8vo, (x), 294 pp. Original blue cloth titled in gilt and ruled in blind, original unclipped dust-jacket priced $3.00. Boards bright and square, dust-jacket slightly faded with light edgewear, back panel a little soiled. Very good. § First edition, signed by... More
1930. Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. 8vo, unpaginated. Original stiff card wrappers printed in red and black, in scarce original glassine wrapper and silver card slipcase. Backstrip a little worn, spine panel of glassine lost, entirely clean within, slipcase lightly worn. Very good. § First Continental edition, number... More
1932. Paris: Waverley Lewis Root, 1932. 12mo, 30 pp. Original raw buckram, stamped in red on upper board. Buckram a little spotted, pages age toned, small stamp of the Dawson book shop in Paris on rear paste down, owner’s name on front free endpaper, very good. § An unnumbered copy... More
1931. Paris: Crosby Continental Editions, 1931. 12mo, vii, 176 pp. Original wrappers printed in green, lightly worn and with backstrip browned, internally a little aged toned, small name and date on front free endpaper, very good. § First edition outside the US. The Black Sun Press was founded in Paris... More
1940. London: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1940. 8vo, (10), 471 pp. Original tan cloth, very good with red on backstrip lightly rubbed and some offsetting to pastedowns as usual, original dust-jacket professionally restored. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper § First edition in the first issue of the... More
1922. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. 8vo, 276 pp. Original blue cloth lettered and ruled in ochre, some offsetting to the endpapers. Original dust-jacket, in pieces, laid in. Very good. § First edition in the usual second state binding. A trial binding of blue cloth stamped in blue was... More
1892. London: Printed and issued by Charles Whittingham & Co at the Chiswick Press MDCCCXCII [1892]. 8vo, xlii, 216 pp. Portrait frontispiece of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, facsimile of the 1594 title page. Original quarter vellum over drab boards, backstrip lettered in red, small book-shaped ticket of Foyles, Charing... More
1916. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. 8vo, xi, 183, (1), (2, ads) pp. Original black cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, original dust-jacket printed in black. Gilt faded from backstrip, head and foot of backstrip very lightly worn, dust-jacket with a small chip to the upper corner of... More
1918. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. 8vo, x, 147, (1), (2, ads) pp. Original brown paper wrapped boards printed in dark green, white endpapers, original gray dust-jacket printed in black. Paper lightly bubbled, dust-jacket toned with a little wear to the top edge of the front panel, spine... More
1922. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1922. 8vo, viii, 75 pp. Original burnt orange cloth with small ticket of Gotham Book Mart at the foot of the rear pastedown. Slight fading to the backstrip and lower cover, top of text block a little dusty, binding tight, pages clean, very... More
1963. Garden City, NY: Double Day and Company, 1963. 8vo, xi, 176 pp. Original red cloth in original red, blue, and black printed dust-jacket, slightly rubbed, spine panel faded. Very good. § First edition signed by the author with an inscription: “To Ruth (but not Ted) Because Ruth obviously shares... More
1959. New York: The Viking Press, 1959. 8vo, 341 pp. Original orange cloth with beige linen backstrip, lettered in black on upper cover and in red, silver, and black on backstrip. Very good copy with small name and dates on front free endpaper, in a slightly faded, unclipped dust-jacket ($4.50)... More
1944. New York: Privately Printed, 1944. Slim 8vo, (x), 83, (1, colophon) pp. Cover illustration and 17 engravings by Ian Hugo printed in relief directly from copper plates. Original paper-wrapped boards, light wear to the backstrip ends and board tips, minor paste action to pastedowns, very good. § First... More
1941. [New York: The Gotham Book Mart,] 1941. Large 8vo, 313, (1 colophon) pp. Publisher’s black cloth, red labels on upper cover and backstrip gilt-stamped with titles and zodiac devices, original unclipped dust-jacket printed in red and black. Cloth irregularly sun-faded, dust-jacket considerably worn with chipped edges, insect damage, and... More
1916. London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, M CM XVI [1916]. 12mo, 40 pp. including final leaf of ads. Original brown wrappers printed in black. Partly unopened, occassional light spotting, minor edgewear to the wrappers, glue securing textblock spine to wrappers beginning to fail, otherwise a clean and very good copy... More
1928. New York: Coward McCann, 1928. 8vo, 149 pp. + colophon. Portait frontispiece photograph of Wilder by Doris Ulmann. Blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, plain blue dustwrapper, wrapper split along upper hinge but preserved in mylar. Virtually as new. § First edition, copy number 19 of 775 signed by... More
1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945. Oblong 4to, unpaginated. Decorative paper-wrapped boards. Boards a little sunned and bent, covers re-attached, cloth backstrip. § Inscribed to an admirer by Caniff Milton, N.Y. Jan 1954. A compendium of the cartoon strip created by Milton pro bono for exclusive use by... More
1887. Iona: Printed and Published by W. Muir and J. McCormick, Iona Press: 1887. 8vo., 9 x 7”, ll. 12 unnumbered, pictorial title and eleven hand-colored plates, text in English and Gaelic. Dark-grey paper wrappers with pictorial title printed in black. Wrapper is worn/chipped and reinforced with card stock, leaves... More
6183. London: W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, and W. Newbery, 6, Chenies Street, Bedford Square, 1839. Small 8vo, xxi, (3), 74 pp. Original pebbled plum cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt (partly worn away as often), a very good copy in a variant original binding, slightly worn around the edges, upper... More
Folio, 253 x 393mm. 14 pages of descriptive text & 4 loose plates with their accompanying text sheet from the volume of plates. Slight browning to margins, a little spotting otherwise very good. The text sheet has a slight fragment of the bottom corner missing. The 4 plates and descriptive text... More
1966. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1966. Large folio, xxiii (English introductory text), [5],135 , [1] pp., paginated from the back). Unbound as issued in stiff, glassine covered wrappers. Spine panel of glassine soiled, otherwise fine and beautiful inside and out. § One of 228 copies, this copy the Trianon Press... More
1900. East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Press, 1900. 8vo, untrimmed, unpaginated. Title page and each stanza with gilt-ruled borders filled with elaborate, hand-colored Art Nouveau designs. Three quarter brown morocco with marbled paper boards, backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages with traces of the usual offsetting from the gilt, marbled... More
1949. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 4to, 113 pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Original white cloth stamped in black and red, top inch of upper board darkly toned, internally clean. In the original dustwrapper, priced $5.00, considerable edgeworn with chips along the top edge. §... More
