Search Results: Titles starting with A from Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

New York: Woner Books/ Grosset & Dunlop, 1946. Laminated Pictorial Boards. Fine/No Dustjacket. Sarkin, Jack. Part of Wonder Books wth the Washable Covers series. Presumed First Edition or Early Printing.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ownership copy of stage designer Jo Mielziner, with his signature upper right corner dated 1938 of the ffe. ABE LINCOLN was the first production of The Playwrights' Company formed in 1938 by Sherwood along with fellow playwrights Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, and Kurt Weill, for which Mielziner designed the set. Laid-in is a TLS on The Playwrights' Company letterhead, dated July 16, 1949, from Sherwood to Mielziner and his wife Jean. In the letter, Sherwood laments the bad reviews he had just received that morning in the newspapers for MISS LIBERTY, w a Alan Jay Lerner musical for which he had written the book that had opened the night before. Sherwood thanks Mielziner for the opening night telegram and notes that despite the less than enthusiastic reviews for MISS LIBERTY, the audience "was about the friendliest" and noting paranthetcially - "I am sure you remember the barrage of coughing that greeted ABE LINCON IN ILLINOIS".… Read More

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1970. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket of the 1970 edition by MIT Press after the firts of 1960 with a new introduction by typographer and type designer Zapf. Neatly signed by him on the title page in pencil. A lovely copy.

NY: privately printed, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. As new, 8vo, pictorial green, polished cloth, map endppaers, 117p, bibliography. A historic report of ICR's "organization, financing and subsequent simplification of debt and capital structures through May 1955." RAILROAD HISTORY.

Boston: Thomas and Andrews, 1798. Full Calf. VG-. Original or ealy full calf binding, black leather label on backstrip, worn with some loss spine tips. With folding map of North America as frontispeice. A solid, unsophisticated copy.

NY: E. Weyhe, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 1675 copies. Black cloth, stamped red titles and eagle design. Lacking dustjacket, spine faded. Illustrated with a series of woodcuts of eagles by book designer Armitage. Inscribed by Armitage to Milton Lancelot, author and authority on WWI aircraft on the dedication page: "For Milton Lancelot/ good colaborator/ and good friend! / Merle Armitage" (suggesting Lancelot advised on the WWI historical section of Armitage's book).

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. McVicker, Charles (jacket illustration). A novelization of the CBS Television Special. Inscribed by Rock to the show's producer.

NY: Doubleday, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare signed first edition of socialist, Piulitzer Prize wiinning playwright Elmer Rice, inscribed on the ffe: "to Leonard L. Hess E. L. R. July 1923". Hess was a NYC author, whose short stories appeared in the American Mercury, Harper's Weekly, The Bookman and The Saturday Review mid-1920s-early 1930s. Rice was one of the founders of the Playwright's Company, along with Mazwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Kurt Weil and lawyer John F. Wharton 1938. The Adding Machine has been revived in recent years, this uncommon first edition of the play a production of The Theatre Guild. Orange cloth, black stamped titles, lacking dw. Covers soiled, mostly about edges and spine.

NY: New York Botanical Garden, 1930. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Three issues in fine, unused condition dated June, September and December 1930. Each volume has 8 colored full page plates. The series made possible by a trust established by Judge Addison Brown, hence the title Addisonia.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. Uncommonly well-preserved copy - red cloth covers stamped in black - scarce dustjacket gently soiled around edges and missing a very narrow strip head of spine. Internals almost as new. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desireable thus.

Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second printing type A (BAL 3369). Two critical points: laid not wove paper and collation of the first "xiv"pages. Full calf, repaired in 1977 (bookbinder's invoice laid-in): rebacked with new endpapers. Corners missing some calf over board. Internals quite nice. From the private library of H.H. White with his library ticket rear pastedown and his penciled signature dated 1877 from original endpaper laid-back down onto front pastedown.

NY: George H. Doran, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Large, sqaure 4to, illustrated pastdown on front printed in brown, illustrations inside b& w, with yellow decoration. Some wear to spine ends, spine a wee shaken, internals as nice as we could expect to see.

NY: American Field Service. Soft cover. Very Good. AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE LETTERS. Eleven copies of the AFS (news)letters variously dated between 1943-1945: Nov 1943 No. 19, Dec 1943 No. 20, Oct 1944 No 30, Dec 1944 No 32, Jan 1945 No 33, Feb 1945 No 34, Mar 1945 No 35, Apr 1945 No 36, May 1945 No 37, Jun-Jul 1945 No 38, and Sep 1945 No 40. Founded during WWI AFS were volunteer "ambulancers", largely from American families of substantial means. The service was reconstituted in WWII, sending ambulance units first to France and then to the British Armies in North Africa, Italy, India-Burma and with the Free French for the final drive from southern France to Germany. The letters in these publications are eyewitness accounts, many written as daily diaries, of the work of individual volunteers in those campaigns. Each issue measures 8.5x11", with a photographic or pictorial cover, issues varying in length from 24-26 pages, stapled spines. A few covers detached, most worn about edges.

NY: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. SIGNED BY MILLER on the half title. This edition, signed, more uncommon than limited, signed edition.

NY: Viking Press, 1964. Limted Edition. Hardcover. As New. Signed, limited edition of 500 copies. Near fine copy, apparently unread rubbed spine in slipcase. Previous owner name free front endpaper.

NY: Viking Press, 1964. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed, limited edition of 500 copies. Near fine, apparently unread, in rubbed slipcase. Previous owner name on ffe.

NY: Phaidon, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Documentary of the devastation of the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the aftermath. An apparently unused, as new copy.

NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Memoir of American man-of-letters Canby whererin he describes growing up in the All-American way of life in Wilmington DE in the 1890s. Inscribed by him on the ffe to author and bibiophile Anne Lyon Haight. Laid-in is an inscribed card a b&w reproduction of the frontispiece (a picture of his family's house)" "Greetings from 'The Age of Confidence' to the Haights from the Canbys and Merry Xmas" Green cloth, a bity dusty, in pictorial dustjacket by illustrator Kruse, soiled/ worn about the edges, with a darkened spine chipped at head and foot. Solid binding.

NY: (The New Yorker), 1965. No Binding. Near Fine. Copy, likely a pull sheet or dummy from The New Yorker. of an Alan Dunn cartoon lampooning car safety features advocated by consumer activist Ralph Nader, sometime 1965, when his groundbreaking book "Unsafe at Any Speed" was published. Copy itself measures 10" x 11.25' matted to approx 18" x 18" with the clear acetate over just the matt printed with cartoon caption. Drawing is of a suburban woman in sporty convertible having driven through a farm fence on a country rode getting ticketed by a policeman. The caption, addressed by the driver to the officer, reads: "Unfortunately I was waiting until 'Unsafe at Any Speed' came out in paperback". Provenance: From the library of publisher Richard Grossman, who published Nader's book after it had been rejected by every "established" US publishing house. The book launched the success of Grossman Publishers and Grossman and Nader remained friends until Grossman's death in 2014.

NY: Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. OUR TREES; THEIR BARK LEAVES FLOWER AND FRUIT (title on cover) AN ALBUM OF OUR TREES: A GUIDE TO ASSIST THE YOUNG NATURE STUDENT AND A PERMANENT RECORD FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LEAVES Includes 3 pages of colored printed, paste-ins of different trees, 5 pages of text describing trees, 3 pages of record keeping of source of specimens (collected in the Chestnut Hill and Prospect Road in Litchfield, CT), 24 pages of carefully arranged and labelled (in juvenile hand) leaf specimens for white oak, horse chestnut, shagbark hickory, honey locust, hawthorne, maple, arborvitae, larch, upright yew, pig-nut hickory, black birch, apple, swamp oak, swamp white oak, etc. Distinctive album - not only for the discipline and meticulousness of the juvenile who assembled it, but how well it has been preserved for nearly 100 years. Fragile, obviously. 13.5" x 10.25", oblong scrapbook pictorial pastedon front cover, red cloth faded, Designed to… Read More