Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882. Hard Cover.
None located in OCLC. No publisher date (ink gift note dated 1882). Board corners bumped, spine ends rubbed.
Unpaginated. Green cloth boards with decor. Includes 12 plates. Stories, some in dialect with now-inappropriate racial language. Advertised by publisher as "An entertaining story.....
New York: [Self-Published], 1962. First Thus. Soft Cover.
First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper.
The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting.....
Ipswich / Great Britain: The Limited Editions Club / W.S. Cowell, Ltd., 1954. Szyk, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Small surface tear on base panel of one slipcase. Boards of volume one lightly soiled. Gilt on spine of all volumes lightly rubbed.
Four volume set in two slipcases: The First Volume; Notes.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy.
279 pp. "Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher.
248 pp. "A.S. Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories.....
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Mount Vernon / Portland: The Bradford Press, 1932. Morang, Alfred. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, #33 of 75 copies, signed by author on limitation page, and by illustrator beneath frontispiece. Laid in is a photograph, at the center of which appears to be Erskine Caldwell, with the others in.....
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1982. Smith, Joseph A. Reissue. Full-Leather.
An exceptional copy.
400 pp. Original blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. A collection of short stories, including Conrad's most famous story Heart of Darkness, which served.....
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Leech, John; Maclise, Daniel; Doyle, Richard; Stanfield, Clarkson; Landseer, Edwin; Tenniel, John; Stone, Frank. Reissue. Hard Cover.
2011 printing of 2007 reissue, with a new binding style. Includes publisher's slipcase. Two minor blemishes to front slipcase panel.
xxi, 482 pp. Red cloth spine with gilt.....
New York: Scribner & Co., 1876. Hard Cover.
Boards rubbed.
viii, 808 pp. This volume, despite stating it includes November 1875 - November 1876 on the title page, includes the November 1875 issue through the October 1876 issue (all issues 1-12 present, so this is clearly just an issue of.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, second state ('A' and Scribner seal on copyright page, but typos on pp. 350-1 corrected). Lacks jacket. Bottom corner very faintly bruised with minimal cosmetic wear to spine head and foot, else fine - spine is not faded.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Bottom half of spine lightly faded, faint crease part way up front board, front endpapers faintly foxed.
269 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind-stamped titles on front board. Flappers and Philosophers was.....
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London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1896. Macbeth-Raeburn, H. First Thus. Hard Cover.
Volume two (of two) only. First book edition (Purdy 58-60) of the stories originally released in serialized form. One of 634 bound copies from an edition of 750 (the rest were remaindered). Bibliographer Michael Sadleir's copy with his.....
New Mexico: Acoma Press, 1985. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription.
67 pp. A collection of short stories by American author Linda Hogan. CONTENTS: Introduction - My Father's Story: The Black Horse (Linda Hogan); The Black Horse (Charles Colbert Henderson); That.....
London / Edinburgh: Macmillan & Co / R. & R. Clark, 1892. Caldecott, Randolph; Cooper, J.D. Fourth Edition. Hard Cover.
1892 fourth edition, following two reprints with slight alterations from the 1875 original (December 1875 and 1877), the 1882 second edition, and the 1886 third edition. Minor wear to corners.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, with publisher's initials on copyright page. Includes new facsimile jacket. A bit smoky, boards toned, page edges faintly foxed.
306 pp. 8vo. A collection of twenty-five short stories named for the sensational short story first printed in.....
London and Edinburgh: William Heinemann / Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1895. Reissue. Hard Cover.
'Colonial Edition,' after first published edition, following 1895 US edition 'printed for copyright purposes only.' (Phillips p. 47-8; Edel & Laurence A45iii/F52; BAL 10614, second binding state [tulips, not irises, on front board], title page in.....
Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Raymond, Charles. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #920 of 2000 copies. Signed by illustrator on limitation page. Includes publisher's slipcase. A few tiny scuffs to slipcase.
xiii, [1], 375, [3] pp. A selection of short stories by the author of The Jungle.....
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New York: Macy-Masius Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Inscribed in French ('Pour M. John King, souvenir affectueux de l'auteur, Jacques Le Clercq, 6 or Mars, 1928') and signed by author on front endpaper. Spine toned, hinges just beginning to weaken, small bookseller's plate on rear endpaper
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New York: Frank Leslie's Publishing House, 1884. Half-Leather.
Corners rubbed, binding repaired. This volume was probably specially bound for the original owner - Jennie M. Haddock in gilt lettering at spine base.
476 pp. Half leather - black spine & corners over boards, gilt titles & rules, marbled endpapers. A......
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, one of 5914 copies (BAL 11968). Minimal wear to corners, small smudge and some scuffing on spine resulting in minor loss of color from palm tree decoration.
268 pp. 8vo. 5 pages of publisher ads bound in following.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Numbered 1844 of 2000. No jacket. Minor general wear.
xxv, 385 pp. Green boards with gilt titles and decor on spine and on front board. Top page ridge gilt. "In the early 1500s five men and five women.....
New York: Albondocani Press, 1970. First Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited first edition, #79 of 200 signed, numbered copies.
[20 pp.] Marbled French wrappers, shoestring binding. Hayle paper, hand-sewn wrappers. A short story by the prolific award-winning American author.
Concord, New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, publisher, 1981. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, #30 of 150. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates without inscription on limitation page. Softcover in dust jacket. An exceptional copy.
Unpaginated. A fine press short story by the prolific, award-winning American author, with an introduction by.....
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Pages lightly toned.
xii, 265 pp. Author's first trade edition story collection (following limited editions of Sweethearts and Counting). With an uncanny ability to depict the lives of men and women who rarely register in our literature, Phillips.....
. Palaemon Press Limited, 1982. Hard Cover.
Signed by author without inscription. Numbered 12 of 150. Bottom corners lightly rubbed.
28 pp. A short story by American author Jayne Anne Phillips.