Search Results: Titles starting with P from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

New York: McBride, 1925. First Edition. Inscribed by the author in 1932. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. Primarily a novel of capitalism, but with some sea fiction content, the author’s specialty and strength.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket with a little sunning to the spine.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981. First Edition. As new in dust jacket.

London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth. Very good.

Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, 1929. First Edition. Abut fine in a damaged box.

New York: Viking, 1984. First American Edition. Signed in 1994 by the author. Fine in the earliest dust jacket.

London: Henry & Co, 1897. First Edition of the second volume of this annual publication; the first volume was issued a year earlier in the same format. Cloth spotted; some foxing; bookplate; very good in the rare pictorial jacket, which has some chips and creasing and interior archival mending (the jacket had been folded and laid into the book). The cloth, designed by Charles Ricketts, is decorated with gilt doves; the jacket cover illustration incorporates the same design of these doves in front of trees against a brick wall, the pageant passing by on the other side (flags appear above the wall). Presumably, given the identical birds, this illustration was also accomplished by Ricketts. With contributions by Beerbohm, Lionel Johnson, Housman, Rossetti, Crane, Rothenstein, et al. The most attractive art in this volume is a color woodblock print by Pissarro.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. About fine in dust jacket.

New York: Viking, 1943. Printed wrappers; an advance, promotional publication, printing 32 pages from the published book. Very good to fine.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. Basis for the musical and the film of the same title.

New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. First Edition; 400 copies were printed. Fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus, 1978. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; bookplate; very good or a little better. The French began a sea level canal in 1880 but failed to complete the project, which required several additional decades of engineering expertise, political turmoil, intrigue, not to mention many thousands of lives.

London: Bles, 1951. First Edition. Publisher’s file copy stamps; very good to fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with minor staining.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1987. First Edition. Fine in dust jacket.

Boston: Published for the Mass. Homeopathic Hospital by Marion & Co., n.d. [probably 1870]. First Edition; presumed second printing; original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. The Bibliography of American Literature (#270) devotes a lengthy discussion to the printing history of this book. In brief, the book was produced by the two young daughters of Aldrich’s Beacon Hill neighbor and intimate friend, Dr. Israel Talbot, for sale at a fair held to benefit the hospital. Apparently, the first printing was done on a cheap amateur press that Marion Talbot owned, and she reprinted the pamphlet on a more expensive “Novelty” press which she found for sale at the local Mechanics’ Fair.

New York: Scribner’s, 1901. First Edition. Tiny name stamp inside the front cover; nearly fine. Illustrated by William Glackens.

London: privately printed For the Family - Humphrey Milford, 1936. First Edition. Original printed wrappers; nearly fine. Gilbert A23. Despite the fact that 500 copies were printed for private distribution, a substantial number, this booklet is very scarce, turning up seldom enough to prompt us to wonder if only a portion of the edition was actually gifted or sold.