Recent Arrivals from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Full burgundy leatherette with blindstamped spine title and large front board gilt title and pictorial giltstamping. 360pp. Map, extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Pristine first edition of this thorough, well-rounded history (albeit heavy on thumbnail biographies of a vast number of residents) of this sparsely-populated region in the southeast corner of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Paperback. Introduction by Frank Capra. Interviews by Leonard Maltin. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x, 365pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine. Ever-so-faint spine sunning; small ownership signature at top edge of four text pages and rear flyleaf. Superb and tight first softbound edition of this (to cite front wrapper) "Behind-the-Scenes Story of the… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright edition of this first thus, a highly-illustrated edition of Lord's 1955 account that sparked a renewed and never-ending interest (and a film version) of the famed disaster. This special copy… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles G. Norris. Illustrations by Otis Oldfield. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and blue patterned paper over bevelled boards. (5pp), 390pp. Line drawings, marbled endpapers. Near fine. Choice copy of this first thus, being a reprint of the grim 1899 fiction about an unlicensed dentist who goes… Read more about this item

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Illustrations by Warren Chappell. Introduction and commentary by Martin C. Battestin. Edited by Fredson Bowers. Small 4to. Beige cloth with brown lettering, slipcase with color plate. xxx, 999pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates, line drawings, color map endpapers, sewn-in purple satin page marker. Fine/fine. Academic owner signs top edge of 11 text… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1917. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy buckram with gilt spine lettering. xix, 566pp. Numerous illustrations (some color, including one color foldout). Overall very good. Mild binding wear only, else tight and internally quite nice, with usual age toning to endpapers and first few leaves. The most discreet of -ex-library, with almost no markings. Tight and… Read more about this item

New York: Bonanza Books, 1968. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 183pp. Fine/fine. Ownership signature on front flyleaf and two text pages. Reprint edition, tight and handsome.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Illustrations by Robert Ball. Small 4to. Tan decorated cloth, slipcase. 846pp. Color frontispiece, 7 full-page color plates, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Spine lightly age tone; slipcase a bit sunned and edgeworn. John T. Winterich introduces this tight, clean, handsome copy of the smaller, mass-produced version of the Limited Editions Club limited edition.… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, n.y.. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with auburn lettering. xiii, 327pp, (8pp ads). Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Faint binding wear only, with text block bright and tight. Nice early reprint edition of this sci-fi fantasy novel, the first title in Burroughs' 11-volume "Barsoom" series, featuring Schoonover's usual… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.C. Yohn. 8vo. Brown blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 510pp. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates. Very good. Binding gently edgeworn and rubbed, though internally tight and fine. Nice, tight first edition of the highly-regarded fifth historical novel set in Virginia in the early 19th century, penned by the… Read more about this item

London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. xv, 244pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Spine a bit sunned and binding a tad rubbed, but internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition of this account of the infamous Shakespeare forgery scandal.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and dark green/yellow/grey pictorial stamping. 445pp. Very good. Mildly worn binding with some stray homely red marks; internally tight with near fine text block. A tight and decent first edition of this Colorado-set fiction.

Greenwich, CT: Pratt Graphics Center, 1971. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 128pp. Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (2 in color). Fine/fine. Superb first edition of the eleventh volume of the noted journal. Frontispiece (titled "Local Choice") is an original offset color lithograph signed and dated by artist Michaek Knigin in pencil on lower margin.… Read more about this item

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter linen with paper label and gilt rules/decorations and terra cotta paper over boards, slipcase. xxv, 427pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. A handsome first edition of this popular biography, tight and bright -- the rarely seen limited edition, with colophon noting 420 numbered copies (this #52) signed… Read more about this item

London: Humphrey Moseley, Richard Tomlins, and George Sawbridge, 1656. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full tan tree calf with gilt rules and gilt-lettered burgundy calf spine label and decorations, inner dentelles. (18pp), 262pp, (16pp), pp. 265-599, (3pp). Two full-page frontispiece engraved portraits, marbled endpapers. Very good overall. Binding a bit scuffed and edgeworn, mainly along spine and slightly delicate hinges; internally… Read more about this item

New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. Translation by Louis Biancolli. Illustrations by Harry Bennett. Small 4to. Quarter ivory cloth with gilt spine lettering and pictorial paper over boards, slipcase with paper label. (284pp, 280pp, 284pp). Full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome set of this bilingual edition with Italian original facing English free verse translation. The first… Read more about this item

Providence: Providence Public Library, 1965. Hardcover. Small 4to. Teal green and tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 219pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Thar she blows!! Handsome, tight first edition of this killer reference work, alovely production printed by the venerable Stinehour Press of Lunenberg, Vermont. The exceptional whaling collection bequeathed to this library in 1956 informs this… Read more about this item

Boston: The Chapple Publishing Co, 1904. Hardcover. Introduction by Joe Mitchell Chapple. 12mo. Teal blue cloth with front board white lettering and decorations and black/white pictorial stamping. 84pp. Near fine. Hand-lettered paper shelf label near spine foot. A bright and lovely first edition of this slim volume published just after the 1904 death of this hugely powerful and influential… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Book, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned. This tight and attractive first edition highlights the famous photog's best Native American images.

Chicago: The American Book Collector, 1966. Paperback. Small 4to. Pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations. Very good. Lightly age toned. Handsome issue of this long-running bibliophilic monthly. Front wrapper depicts Lincoln and major articles include John S. Mayfield's "Lanier in the Florae," George Mackess's "Austraina Private Presses" and the usual array of reviews and columns.