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Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 197 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Mild spotting to spine. Jacket has a few extremity chips, closed edge tears with associated wrinkles, rubs along folds, and fading to spine.. The first and only novel by well-respected Maine outdoor writer, Edmund Ware Smith. Tells… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1905. First editions. 3/4 leather. Octavos. xxiv, 423 and xx, 456 pages. Bindings are dark green leather spines and fore corners with marbled paper sides and marbled endpapers. Gilt rules on upper and lower boards, spines have five raised bands, gilt titles and ornamentation in six compartments. Top edges gilt. Spines mildly faded, a… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1941. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 351 pages. Near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Some sections of mild browning to endpapers, slight fading to cloth along spine and top edges of boards, small bookseller tag at lower inner margin of front free endpaper. Jacket has a minor bit of staining to… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1928. Limited edition, #1223 of 1470. Cloth over boards. Quarto. 111 pages. Bound in coarse ivory cloth with gilt embossed titles, rules, and illustration on upper board, title and ornaments on spine, decorative endpapers. Binding shows some mild age toning, gilt dulled on spine, some rubbing to gilt illustration on upper board. Binding sound. An… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 335 pages. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Binding shows a few tiny extremity bumps. Jacket has a closed 1 1/4" edge tear at bottom of rear panel, with a bit of associated wrinkling. This tear was taped from backside by prior owner. Clean, sound, and… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1954. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 400 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Minor extremity rubs to boards, slight mottling to pastedowns. Jacket has a few edge tears with minimal losses, some edge wrinkles, and a few small edge chips. Jacket spine slightly faded.. Black and white illustrations. The important and… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 244 pages. Good in a good dust jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards. Some minor extremity rubs, a bit of water tiding to top edge of some leaves and boards. Textblock mildly age toned. Jacket has some edge chips, rubs along joint and… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Full cloth. Octavo. 222 pages. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Bound in pale green cloth over boards with burgundy spine titles. Hint of browning to spine. Shallow bumps to spine ends, fore corners sharp. Small bookstore label at lower edge of rear pastedown, adjacent to a 2"… Read more about this item

[Chicago]: [HMH Publishing Co., Inc.], 1957. First printing. Magazine. Quarto. 12 pages. Glossy pictorial covers over saddle-stapled binding. Some minor extremity rubs, mild wrinkles, and a stamp at top fore corner of front cover.. First appearance of Langelaan's brilliant sci-fi horror short story, "The Fly." The story has been adapted to film twice--first in 1958 and again in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: George R. Graham, 1843. Marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore corners. Octavo. iv, 320 pages. Mild rubs to extremities, occasional foxing and browning inside. Very good to near fine overall.. Engravings, some colored. The July through December 1843 issues of Graham's Magazine, of which Edgar Allan Poe had recently been editor. This volume contains… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1936. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, 272 pages. Very good in a good plus dust jacket. Spine has a spot through cloth about the size of a watermelon seed near heel. Some light soiling to cloth on rear panel, shallow bumps to spine ends. Jacket has a triangular chip at top of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: The Franklin Press, 1909. First edition. Full cloth. Octavo. [x], 276, [3] pages. Near fine. Bound green cloth over boards with black-stamped yachting vignette on upper board, black-stamped titles on spine. A few light extremity rubs, shallow bumps, and a bit of fading to cloth toward heel of spine. Some mild toning to endpapers.. Black & White… Read more about this item

[Lakehurst?]: Clements, 1925. Framed. Approximately 10 3/4" x 37 3/4", sight 6 5/8" x 31 1/4. Near fine. Not examined out of frame.. Silver gelatin photograph. Uncommon original silver gelatin panoramic photograph of the Ohio crash of the U. S. Navy's first rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah. The Shenandoah encountered a severe storm over Ohio on the morning… Read more about this item

[New York]: [Mail and Express Job Print], 1912. Stapled pamphlet. Octavo. 16 pages. Printed self-wraps bound with a single staple along spine. There is a slight dampstain at head of spine, visible more or less throughout the pamphlet. Otherwise fine.. Campaign piece from Theodore Roosevelt's unsuccessful bid for reelection to the Presidency in 1912. Here he confronts racial… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878. First edition. Original cloth over boards. Eighteenmo. 219 pages. Near fine, with a few light extremity rubs. Spine a bit cocked. Green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and blind, tan endpapers, all textblock edges red.. Henry James's first novel, originally published serially in the Atlantic Monthly in 1871, and here for… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. [72 pages]. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Bound in plum-colored cloth over boards with title and device in silver gilt on upper board. No prior owner ship marks. Jacket has a small chip at top of fore edge fold, some light rubs along joint folds, and… Read more about this item

New York: Munn & Company, 1898. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. vi, 148 pages, + 2 leaves publisher ads. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in gilt, illustration to upper board in black. Boards show minor extremity rubs and mild soiling, but hinges sound. Interior has a short taped at top… Read more about this item

New York: E. Laub Publishing Co, 1943. First printing. Thin velvet-covered boards. Octavo. 159 pages. Bound in thin, flexible, red velvet-covered boards with upper board titled in gilt, which has darkened. Some shallow bumping to the Yapp edges of covers. Jacket has a few shallow edge wrinkles and light soil. Overall near fine in a near fine dust jacket..… Read more about this item

[Havana}: (S.n.), 1960. Softcover. Oblong duodecimo. 41 unnumbered leaves. Black wrappers printed in green, quite worn with edge chips and rubbed wrinkles. Photographs inside are all in nice condition, with an occasional edge chip to scattered leaves but with no image loss.. Black and white photographs. Album commemorating the 1956 invasion of Cuba by revolutionaries under Fidel Castro… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900. First printing. Original cloth over boards. Duodecimo. [vi], 362 pages. Bound in brown cloth over boards with illustration to spine and upper board stamped in black, white, and gilt (spine), gilt-stamped titles to spine and upper board. A few light rubs to spine ends and fore corner tips, some faint dulling to… Read more about this item