325 items available at our booth at the 2023 Georgetown Rare Book Fair 5/19-5/21 at the City Tavern Club
London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday, Page & Co. / Ballantyne & Co. Limited, 1909. Rackham, Arthur. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1909 printing of 1905 first American edition, printed simultaneously with the London edition. All 51 tipped in color plates present. Some discoloration of boards with a few smudges.....
London / Plaistow: The Soncino Press / The Curwen Press, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, #1255 of 2000 copies. Lacks jacket. Spine toned, endpapers lightly foxed, small Blackwell's bookplate on front endpaper.
x, [2], 199 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. An examination of bibliophobia.....
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.....
Basle, Switzerland: Amerbach Publishing Comp. 1947. Full-Leather.
Rebound in full leather (originally published in printer wrappers, which are not included here). Pages lightly toned, boards lightly rubbed and slightly discolored with a golden tinge to the red on both front and back (possibly transfer from another binding or document, but.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American editions, both volumes printed in editions of 550 copies from the sheets of the English edition (Phillips pp. 46-7; Edel & Laurence A42b and A44b; BAL 10608 and 10611). Spines and edges toned, front hinge of each.....
London: William Heinemann, 1898. Reissue. Hard Cover.
'Colonial Edition,' after first UK edition. No ads following text (Phillips p. 52; Edel & Laurence A52; BAL 10614, second binding state [tulips, not irises, on front board], title page in black only, wove paper, Arabic numeral for year). Spine lightly toned, binding.....
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges faintly foxed, publisher order form and receipt laid in, showing the book was originally purchased for $59.95.
433 pp. "An intriguing history of books about fruit from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution, including many beautiful engravings from key.....
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1956. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1956 reissue of the 1865 Sabin edition of the work originally published in 1753. A couple light smudges on front jacket panel, small surface tear on rear jacket panel.
xiv, 295 pp. Adds extensive introductions, notes.....
Garden City, New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket edges rubbed.
xx, 311 pp. "Believing that Buddhist teachings and traditional ceremonies should be adapted to twentieth-century life styles, Kapleau presents an introduction to the philosophy and practice of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. Spanfeller, James. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket toned with several light spots on rear panel, 1 inch chip from jacket spine head with associated fading of cloth beneath.
151, [1] pp. "Visions of Gerard is a......
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1886. Vedder, Elihu. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
Early (1886) reprint of the trade edition released the same year (1884) as the scarce limited edition of 100 copies. Boards rubbed with corners slightly exposed, hinges weakening, a few pages faintly foxed
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Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1894. Vedder, Elihu. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Signed by illustrator ('Elihu Vedder, Rome') on title page. Hinges just beginning to weaken, corners slightly exposed, a few minor scuffs and spots to boards, light stain along bottom page margin (does not.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover.
First English translation, which strangely was not published until one hundred years after its appearance in the original Danish. Very good in fair to good jackets. Jacket spines stained (more to vol. 2) with faint associated stain to vol.....
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Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006. Chadbourne, Glenn. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Publisher's copy of deluxe lettered edition, with 'PC' on colophon instead of a letter or letters denoting one of the 52 copies offered for sale. The rarest of the three versions (the others were released in limitations of 5000.....
New York: Amulet Books, 2007. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Inscribed and signed by author with a character doodle ('To Jordan - Enjoy! Jeff Kinney'). Spine base bumped causing 1/2 inch surface split to glossy paper over boards, 1/4 inch closed tear on spine head.
217 pp. "It’s a new school.....
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1887. Dore, Gustave. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Rebacked with new leather, gilt titles and decorations sympathetic to original style, first gathering repaired at binding with tissue. Boards lightly stained, front matter lightly foxed, pages 25-32 and 49-120 darker than the rest (these editions often used different paper.....
. S.N., 1940. Soft Cover.
A bit toned, a couple tiny tears along edges.
[4 pp.] Self wrappers. A brief guide to flight, designed for young readers, dedicated to the Hobby Model Manufacturing Company 'in recognition of their outstanding contribution to model airplane... building'. Capt. E. Hamilton Lee was one.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Two tiny closed tears along top jacket edge.
184 pp. Carl Berkowitz jacket art. Inspiration for two film adaptations, winner of the Locus Award, nominee for Hugo, Nebula (Le Guin is one of very few authors to win.....
New York: King Features for Subafilms, Ltd., 1968. [Edelmann, Heinz]. First Edition. Stapled Binding.
Complete with all pop-outs, plus an additional duplicate page bound in, for a total of 23 pop-outs. Two staples free from rear wrapper but still holding firmly to rest of pages.
A collection of twenty pop-out.....
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New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926. Gage, George W. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Near fine in good jacket. 3 inch closed jacket tear along spine, a few other small closed tears and several tiny chips from top edge, jacket price clipped.
357, [3] pp. English translation.....
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges bumped with some tears, top edge of jacket reverse mended with tape. Top page ridge foxed.
270 pp. Over 460 magnificent and wide-ranging illustrations, of which 28 are in full colour and many more in two.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. ink stamp on front free endpaper, one inch tear along top edge of page 405, page 405 and rear free endpaper unopened.
405 pp. Blue cloth boards with orange titles. Author was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. Hutt, Henry; Lawrence, T.C. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, BAL 11886, state B (no established priority). Color frontispiece and five color plates all included. Boards lightly soiled, faint pencil gift note on reverse of frontispiece.
182, [6] pp. 8vo. A novel about a......
Sauk City, Wisconsin / Menasha, Wisconsin: Arkham House / The Collegiate Press / George Banta Company, Inc., 1968. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing with colophon opposite p. 432. Boards lightly stained with light spots on bottom edge of first three pages, 1/2 inch closed tear on jacket spine base.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition in first state jacket (no Newbery Medal sticker). Boards faintly soiled, jacket reverse and top edge faintly foxed, pages lightly toned.
137, [1] pp. 8vo. The Newbery Medal winning novel by the popular children's author. "As the German troops.....