Search Results: Literature from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Philadelphia, PA: Samuel A. Dalton, 1964. HC. very good+ (hardcover) in good+ slipcase. color illustrations. Copy 155 of 1300 copies prepared as a Christmas Greeting in 1964. Card from Sam Dalton laid in, 31pp.

Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1992. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0932499694 188pp.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. HC. good, cloth spine, paper covered boards w/light corner wear. Here are essays which, out of the large number appearing in American periodicals between July, 1925, and July, 1926, have given the highest degree of pleasure and the most definite impression of general appeal and permanence of interest. EX-LIB - no external marks, two library stamps front-endpaper. 368pp.

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1931. HC. good, black cloth spine (hardcover). A Dartmouth College literary publication with poems, a play, linoleum cuts, and more.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828. HC. good, boards detached, lacking spine (hardcover). B&W illustrations. BAL 843 - UNCOMMON - with faults - fully described and pictured on our website - ask for link. This version of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD helped spread the tale to a wide American audience. The story appears on pages 97-101 with a full page engraving from a painting by Sr. T. Lawrence and engraved by J. B. Longacre.

Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press Limited, 1978. HC. fine, brown cloth spine (hardcover) in fine slipcase. ill. by Gillian Tyler. One of 225 signed on the colophon by the five essayists and the illustrator. Hand-bound with binding paper originally designed by William Morris. This copy not numbered. 101pp.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930. HC. good+, blue cloth (hardcover) dustjacket cut and laid in. Dustjacket cut and laid-in. 51pp.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. HC. good, tan cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB No Dustjacket SEE NOTE. Nice tight copy - NO DUSTJACKET - LIGHT SPOTTING TO BOARDS - EX-LIB with faint spine mark, blindstamp on title page, bookplate covered, rear pocket removed. 343pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. HC. good, decorated green cloth (hardcover) NO DUSTJACKET. ill by Walter Appleton Clark. NO DUSTJACKET. 329pp.

New York: Random House, 1959. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). 256pp.

Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1871. HC. good, full brown leather, AEG (hardcover) wear to leather. 11 ill, by Hammatt Billings. First Thus - first separate printing of this story that first appeared in Dicken's new weekly "Household Words" - 6 April 1850. Published in cloth, or full leather, this is the leather edition, but with some edgewear, particularly at the top of the spine (Images Available). Marbled endpapers, the front free-endpaper became attached ages ago, but is still present. Text pages are opposite illustrations. One tissue guard is torn, and another is lacking. 15 pages text.

Philadelphia, PA: Samuel A. Dalton, 1961. HC. very good+ (hardcover) in very good slipcase FADING ON SLIPCASE. color illustrations. Copy 1257 of 1300 prepared as a Christmas Greeting in 1961. Card from Sam Dalton laid in. FADING TO PURPLE BOARDS ON SLIPCASE 47pp.

London: Printed for T. Becket. HC. very good, full calf (hardcover) light edgewear. ...Wherein are exhibited Views of several striking Scenes, with Curious and interesting Anecdotes, of the most Noted Persons in every Rank of Life, whose Hands it passed through, in America, England, Holland, Germany, and Portugal." First published in 1760, one of the bestselling novels of its day of the fantasy of a gold coin passing through the hands of various owners, the great, the vicious, and the foolish, narrating the faults and foibles of its spenders along the way. An exceptionally nice clean and tight uniformily bound set with raised bands, gilt stampings on spine and red and black spine labels. Volume I, Seventh Edition, 1771, 264pp; Volume II, Sixth Edition, 1768, 300pp; Volume III, Second Edition, 1767, 280pp; and, Volume IV, Second Edition, 1767, 277pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. HC. fine, black cloth (hardcover) (published without a dustjacket). B&W frontispiece. ISBN 0195061969 NEW UNREAD COPY - One of the publications from The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. 321pp.

Brookline Village, MA: Brandon Press, 1982. HC. very good++, maroon fabriquoid cloth (hardcover). ISBN O828317410 2 vols, 1327pp.

Boston, MA: Alfred Bartlett, 1900. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) small paper separation top spine. Contents: AN SUTO-ANALYSIS - CONKY STILES - THE STORY OF THE TWO FRIARS by Eugene Field. Supplement (laid in - as published) GLAD TIDINGS designed by Theodore Brown Hapgood, Jr. - small paper separation top of spine. p162 - p191.

Boston, MA: Alfred Bartlett, 1901. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) small separation top of spine. Contents: THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE [Uncollected Chapters] by Oliver Wendell Holmes. THE SILENT WINTER by Edwin Osgood Grover. Small paper separation top of spine. p226 - p255.

Boston, MA: Alfred Bartlett, 1900. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). First issue of this well crafted small. Contents: THE TRIBUNE PRIMER by Eugene Field, and (Detached Supplement - as published) A GOLDEN SUMMER by Edwin Osgood Grover. 31pp.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926. HC. good, orange cloth (hardcover) - no dustjacket. NO DUSTJACKET. 169pp.

Edinburgh: John Ballantine and Co, 1810. HC. good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards & endpapers (hardcover). Being a continuation of Dr. Johnson's Criticism on the Poems of Gray" 148pp.