325 items available at our booth at the 2023 Georgetown Rare Book Fair 5/19-5/21 at the City Tavern Club
New York: Aperture, 2012. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor scratch on rear jacket panel.
455 pp. White was Aperture's long-time editor, and regular lecturer at RIT and other universities. Still recognized as one of America's greatest photographers. Published on the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary, this is the.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. James, Will. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 338). Spine toned, top corner lightly pushed.
ix, [3], 388 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles. "Like the author's Saga of Billy the Kid... this book is written more.....
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1938. Burroughs, John Coleman. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Heins FC-1). Fine in near fine jacket.
315, [1] pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece and four black-and-white plates by John Coleman Burroughs. The twenty-fourth in the Tarzan series. 'The search for a man and a huge.....
![Item #2331704 Tarzan and the Golden Lion (Tarzan Series Book 10) [Photoplay Edition]. Edgar Rice...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2331704.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684873861)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1949. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover.
Later state of the photoplay edition, which appeared in at least nine variants (Heins GL-3b, Lukes GL-8a, jacket variant 6). This edition is scarce in all variants, and the jacket even more so. Near fine in very good jacket. Ink.....
Ipswich / Great Britain: The Limited Editions Club / W.S. Cowell, Ltd., 1954. Szyk, Arthur. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #1160 of 1500 copies. 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.....
. Emory University, 1999. Stouten, Molly. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, one of 175 copies. Includes publisher's envelope.
13, [1] pp. A short work by A.S. Byatt, the Booker Prize winning author of Possession and other novels. Originally published in The Sunday Times on December 20, 1998, and re-released.....
![Item #2305597 Mama's Little Girl: A Brief Story [with] 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Photograph of Author and...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2305597.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684947066)
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.....
New York: Random House, 1965. Limited Edition. Full-Leather.
Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Bierstadt, E. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed but not signed on the dedication page by the author to Theodore Fry, a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880-1895, and his wife ('Mr and Mrs. Theodore Fry, with the.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1904. Kirk, M.L. [Maria Louise]; Tenniel, John. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. Binding tight, pages clean and bright.
xiv, [1]-247, [5] pp. 8vo. Grey cloth, illustrated spines and front boards. Includes.....
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. Catlin, George. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Chicago Milk Council advertisement laid in. Minimal wear to corners. Bindings tight, pages clean and bright, gilt decorations strong with no fading and only the slightest loss of gilt on the base of the first volume's spine. A......
. Camille "Caz" Cazedessus, 1960. Macdonald, Neal. First Edition. Magazine.
First editions with the exception of #s 1 & 2, which are second editions.
A collection of various materials related to Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author famous for his Tarzan and John Carter series. Includes: Edgar Rice Burroughs Fanzine Ephemera.....
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state jacket ($5.50 price on flap). Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear and associated crease along top edge.
xi, 332 pp. "Killer.....
![Item #2290951 Memorable American Speeches III [3]: Slavery (The Lakeside Classics Volume 7). John...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2290951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684859576)
Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1909. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. An exceptional copy.
309, [5] pp. Frontispiece of Wendell Phillips, from a photograph by J.W. Black. An early volume from the collectible Lakeside Classic series, collecting four important speeches regarding the discussion of.....
![Item #2307605 Painting as a Pastime [Pasttime]. Winston S. Churchill](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2307605.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1684876220)
New York: Cornerstone Library, 1965. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Spine and text pages lightly toned (as usual), minimal wear to corners.
32 pp, with 18 full color plates. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4. 8vo. Paper over boards hardcover binding with green leaf design. Black-and-white frontispiece of Churchill. Reissue of 1950 original.....
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Frontispiece reattached with archival adhesive, front hinge just beginning to weaken, some pages foxed.
282 pp. Six pages of publisher ads follow text. Contents include: Wood-engraving to 1830; Early Line-engraving; Line-engraving to 1850; Etching to 1850; Mezzotint Engraving; Stipple.....
Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. 'Library of Congress Classics' sticker on front jacket panel, jacket flaps faintly toned, top page ridge foxed.
x, 150 pp. Images from the Library of Congress help illustrate how the history of the book in America parallels the history and.....
New York: Crown, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped.
374 pp. Inspiration for 2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg. In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned.
180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. "Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren.....
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. Davis, A.B. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards a bit soiled, edges faintly foxed, binding slightly shaken with two gatherings slightly proud at fore edge.
xii, [7]-253 pp, 10-page publisher catalog follows text. Olive cloth, gilt titles, black and gold decorations. Frontispiece by.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club / Plantin Press, 1970. Yu-Ho, Tseng. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's box, with monthly letter and prospectus sheet laid in. Onion skin jacket included. #753 of 1500, signed by illustrator Tseng Yu-Ho in Chinese characters on limitation page. Laid in is a bookseller's.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1896. Merrill, F.T. [Frank Thayer]. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Edges a bit rubbed, ink name and date and owner bookplate on front endpapers.
ix, [1], 421 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Frank T. Merrill.....
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Firmage A3a). Corners rubbed through, loss from edges of spine label, scattered light foxing throughout (more pronounced in front and end matter), ink name, date, and city on front endpaper.
Author's first poetry collection, and second book overall (after.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931. Ermakoff. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, jacket toned, endpapers faintly foxed.
272, [3] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles. Dust jacket design by 'Ermakoff.' The story of two pairs of siblings, one aristocratic, the other.....
Chicago, Illinois: The Breeder's Gazette, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Some spots on top page ridge, some pages very faintly foxed.
414 pp. Black-and-white photographs. A history of pig raising, with detailed information on types of hogs and the various cuts of meat associated therewith.