The Call of the Wild by Jack London - 1903

Geneva: Apud Eustache Vignon, 1596.. Hardcover. Good. Thick quarto. Four volumes bound in one. With no separate title-pages to volumes II-IV. I: [iv]ff., 436cols.; II: 958cols.; III: 636cols.; IV: 714cols.; Index and Privilege - 40ff. I: 4, A4-O4, P2; II : aa8-zz8, Aa8-Gg8; III: a8-v8; IV: Aa8-Yy8, Zz4 ; Index & Privilege: A8-E8. Last leaf, E8, is blank and lacking. Engraved title-page. In a contemporary vellum binding.

Riverhead Books. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2003. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page in both Farsi and English. Authors first book. Basis for the movie with the same name. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.

London: James R. Osgood McIlvaine, 1891.. Small quarto. Gilt green cloth backed cream cloth over boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and red. Plates, illustrations and decorated endsheets. Binding a bit darkened, with some pale discolorations at edge, 1895 ownership signature on preliminary blank, corners a trifle worn, the plates by Shannon somewhat faded (as usual) but still legible, a few small nicks and a short tear to the edges of the front free endsheet but a good, sound copy, a few leaves unopened. First edition. Design, illustrations and decorations by C. Ricketts and C. Shannon, with plates by the latter. One of one thousand copies printed. Mason/Millard gives an account of the circumstances which led to the faint state of the Shannon plates. Contains four short stories: "The Young King" (which first appeared in THE LADY'S PICTORIAL, Christmas Number, 1888), "The Birthday of the Infanta" (which first appeared in PARIS ILLUSTRÉ, March 30, 1889), "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The… Read More

LONDON, H PLAYFORD, 1694. THE SECOND EDITION, 58 PAGES. ...AS IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, BY HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS. VERY NICELY BOUND IN MODERN (1934) FULL BROWN LEATHER. NEW ENDPAPERS, BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. BROWNING OF PAGES COMENSURATE WITH THE AGE. FINE BINDING WITH A FEW MARKS TO THE LEATHER. VERY SCARCE.

Longmans, Green, and Co. London and Bombay. 1902. FIRST EDITION. Colonial Issue. 8vo. (7.4 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with sixteen mono plates by Sidney Paget. Tisue guard to the frontispiece. A few of the plates are bound in different places than listed on the contents page but all are present. 4 pages of publishers adverts for the colonial library at the rear of the book. The text and illustrations are fine, clean and bright throughout and look unread. Publishers decorative green cloth which has dark blue illustration to the front board and spine. Gilt lettering to the spine. Decorative light blue and white floral endpapers with ship and swan designs. There are a couple of small closed tears to the spine and the cloth is a bit rubbed and bumped and has a few small marks but is generally in very good condition with the gilt on the spine still quite bright. Previous owner's small typed name label on the plain verso of the front free endpaper, reading H. B. Rattray. This is almost certainly Captain… Read More

New York : New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, first state, approx. 100 of the total 2000 copies printed [Wallace A22, iii].

Signed by Williams on the front free end-paper: post stroke signature.

Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series.

Plain wrappers with sewn binding, (32pp.), unpaginated, in first issue, yellow dust jacket, printed in black on the front panel. Light age-toning to page margins, else plain stitched wrappers in fine condition; dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corners, soiling, spine fold separating, age-toning to spine, folds, and cover margins, else in fine condition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936 BOTH VOLUMES IN FINE CONDITION. With Dust Jackets in Near Fine Condition protected in mylar jackets. The New York Edition. Bindings & hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. The dust jackets show light edge wear/small chips to upper edge of spine area.

San Francisco, California: Harvest Press, 1932 First printing of the first edition, limited to only 125 copies. this copy is additionally signed by William Carlos Williams. Original wrappers.

Minor wear/light creasing to cover and faint age-toning to page margins, else in fine condition.

From the collection of California bibliophile, Melba Berry Bennett, with Bennett's bookplate laid-in to front endpaper ( Melba Berry Bennett: was a poet, writer, bibliophile, and recipient of the California Commonwealth Club's Silver Medal in 1966 for the Jeffers' biography).

Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Hardcover. 240 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edition contains the Tettawonga narrative about how the Kookaburra got it's laugh. Due to the politics of the day this story and particularly its introduction regarding indigenous Australian attitudes and history. *** Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read; Inventory No: 19100001..

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock...". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is… Read More