Rare books from Boyd Used & Rare Books

New York: New York University Press, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by Augie Pabst Jr. to Thomas N. McGowen on the ffep. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has a few light scuff marks and a coffee drop in the upper left corner of the front panel; in a clear archival sleeve. 451 pages. 9 x 6 inches. A sharp copy. The inscription reads ''To Tom McGowen - / former President and C.E.O. / present Chairman of the Board / part time fly fisherman / would be hunter / and very good friend / August Uilhlein Pabst / 11/10/81''. August Uihlein ''Augie'' Pabst, Jr, is the great-grandson of Pabst Brewing founder Frederick Pabst. He joined the family business in 1966, following a highly successful motor racing career, and served the company in a variety of capacities, including as vice-president, before his retirement in 1983. Thomas N. McGowen had been on Pabst's board of directors since 1973 and was chairman from 1981 to… Read More

New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good-/Fair. First American edition. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black and silver. Boards are soiled and worn. Fore-edge of text block stained (not affecting page-faces). Interior is unmarked; a few pages have spots of soiling, else clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition: front panel is chipped; rear panel is very grubby and has damage; old repairs on reverse; not price clipped ($2.50); in a clear archival sleeve. The rear panel of the jacket shows a biographical sketch of the author by Malcolm Cowley. 238 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Rare in dust jacket. Robert Coates' first novel, The Eater of Darkness, was first published in Paris by Contact Editions in 1926. This is the first American edition, as issued by the Macaulay Company.

London: Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Niroot Puttapipat. Limited to 1000 copies [445/1000] with an original etching signed and numbered by Niroot Puttapipat. Hand-bound in vellum blocked in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips. Gilt top edge. Fine in fine clamshell box. Introduced by Michael Morpurgo. Illustrated by Niroot Puttapipat. pp. 195, [1]. 32 x 24 cm.

Basil: Printed and fold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1800. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by George Lyman Kittredge on flyleaf. One-quarter calf with tortoise-shell paper sides and green corner-tips; tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. 8vo. 96 pages. Front matter includes the Preface to the Second Edition (1767) and the Advertisement prefixed to the Third Edition (1789). George Lyman Kittredge's copy. Kittredge (1860-1941) was a Harvard professor, best known for his authoritative edition of Shakespeare's works. Also, inscribed ''Ex Libris / Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo / et amicorum / 28.VIII.57''. Antonio ''Tony'' Giarraputo (1923-1989) was born in Boston, served in WWII, graduated from Harvard in 1950, and studied in Florence, Italy, as a Fulbright fellow. He was a known poet in Boston, and taught in its schools for more than two decades, including at the Boston Latin School, English High School (his alma mater), and the Lincoln School.

Roma, 1905. Hardcover. Good. Eight issues in two bound volumes. Library bindings, green cloth with marbled sides (rubber stamp of Berliner Verein fur Luftschiffahrt (Berlin Airship Association) on initial issue; bookplate of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). Bindings show some edgewear. The 1906 volume has five pages with surface damage where pages had been stuck together (leaving a few words effaced); one leaf has a large chip to the fore-edge margin, affecting the last letters of some words; otherwise, the issues are in good condition. Full-year indexes at the end of each volume. Illustrated with many photographs and diagrams throughout. Scarce. Early Italian aeronautics periodical (1905-1906), extensively illustrated, chronicling the research, development, and experiments with gliders, air balloons, dirigibles, as well as airplane and helicopter prototypes. Includes aerodynamic studies; records of flights in Italy; notes on developments in the United States and Europe; reports of displays… Read More

London: J. Hogarth, 5 Haymarket, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library (non-circulating). Rebound in quarter black leather with green faux-leather cloth sides. Spine gilt stamped (matching call number), with raised bands. Outer hinges rubbed. Library bookplate on front pastedowns. Pinhole library stamps on title pages, dedication page, and on one additional text-only leaf in each volume. Edges of leaves are toned; scattered foxing; dampstains in the margin of the first four plates in Vol. II. Tissue guards are present for all but a couple plates. A few leaves loose. Errata-page for both volumes at terminus of Vol. II. Ninety-six engraved plates, complete. Vol. I 98 ff.; Vol. II 102 ff. Folio. 14.25 x 10.5 inches. Scarce. Though ex-library, still an attractive set. Each of the portraits is followed by one or two pages of text describing the her family. Dedicated by William and Edward Finden to Her Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager.

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Hardcover. Good. With author's autograph letter signed and dated 1854 tipped in. Two volumes. Boards in publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering on spines; ornate decorative blind-stamping on spines and front covers. Top of each spine is chipped; fore-corners exposed. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title pages and address label on front pastedowns. Newsprint portrait of author affixed to ffep of Vol. I. Frontispiece portrait of Joseph Reed with tissue guard in Vol. I. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [2], 26-437, plus [2] ads; [9], x-xv, [2],18-507. [Howes, R137] Biography of Joseph Reed (1741-1785), Founding Father of the United States, aide-de-camp to George Washington, member of the Continental Congress, and third President of Pennsylvania, written by his grandson, William Bradford Reed (1806-1876). An interesting if slightly worn copy of this scarce biography of a Founding Father, with the author's 1854 handwritten letter which touches on the death… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Early printing of du Maurier's first novel with rare dust jacket. Boards in green cloth stamped in dark green on spine and front cover. Head of spine pushed and sunned, else near fine. Internally very clean. The dust jacket is from 1932 and states ''Her first novel, ''The Loving Spirit'' which we published last year...'', has a green and gold design with black lettering, a front pictorial that matches that on the front board, and the rear panel provides a portrait and short bio of du Marier; no price on front flap (probable book club issue). Jacket has light chipping at head of spine; spine faded; minor soiling on rear panel; in archival mylar sleeve. 365 pages. Du Maurier's first novel was written in 1929 at Ferryside, the du Maurier family's holiday home in Cornwall, located in the village of Bodinnick, just opposite Fowey. The Loving Spirit is a family… Read More

New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. First Edition with the Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Boards in green cloth with blue lettering and gilt striping on spine and front cover. Green top stain shows a bit of dust soiling. Interior is unmarked. Small worm hole near bottom edge of pages 35-70. Dust jacket edge-worn; some surface wear on spine; small spot of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 334 pages. Scarce first printing with dust jacket of the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

New York: Random House, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed on ffep ''For Nanna / from / Oakley / Iowa City, 1950''. Stated First Printing. A few spots of surface damage (front cover and spine). Tide mark on front cover. Ends of spine lightly worn, publisher's name at foot of spine rubbed. Internally clean. 302 pages. In an archival mylar wrapper. A signed copy of Oakley Hall's scarce second novel. [We made some effort to make an educated guess as to the identity of Nanna. His grandmothers were ruled out, as both were deceased prior to 1950, as was his wife's maternal grandmother. If it was a grandmother, it could have been his wife's paternal grandmother, Mary Ulysses (nee Johnston) Edinger (1865-1953), or alternatively his wife's step-mother's mother whose identity we could not confirm.]

Boston - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s.… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, first printing (February, 1935). Original brown foliage-pattern embossed cloth stamped in pale green. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; small area of light soiling at top lip of a few pages (mostly ffep and half-title pages, more slightly to title page); small spot of soiling in side-margin of about eight consecutive pages, else interior clean. Dust jacket not price clipped ($2.00); chipped at foot of spine and shallow chipping at head of spine; spine faded, marked and lightly soiled; light surface blemishes; in an archival mylar sleeve. 275 pages.

San Antonio, Texas: Shepard Bros. & Co., Printers and Publishers, 1884. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind with gilt pictorial on front cover. Light wear to boards. Front inner hinge shows mild cracking, but is still firm. Previous owner's name on ffep and at head of ch. 2. Light colored-pencil scribbles on copyright page and in the margins of page 18. Some instances of minor page soiling, else generally clean. Nine in-text illustrations. pp. [2], 411, [5 blank]. [Jenkins BTB 192, Howes S801, Graff 3909]. An important primary source for Texas Indian Wars and pioneer history, written by Andrew Jackson ''Jack'' Sowell (1848-1921), who had served as a Texas Ranger and was also the son of a Texas Ranger. Per the historian, bibliographer, and former ABAA president, John H. Jenkins, this is ''one of the basic sources on the vicissitudes of the pioneer settlers in Texas, this work contains numerous accounts gathered from… Read More

Simi Valley, CA: [privately published], 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s). Two volumes, each inscribed by the author. Stated First edition, first printings, March 1989. Velo-bound. A couple small spots of tea splash on fore-edge of one volume, else clean and unmarked. Approximately 500 & 300 leaves, printed on rectos only. 11 x 8.5 inches. Three copies noted on OCLC (Wheaton, Marquette, Bowling Green). Inscribed by Paul Nolan Hyde on preface pages, ''Bruce / I hope these / benefit you. I think / now you have everything I / do that is in print. It is a / bit overwhelming, but perhaps / useful after all. / [signature]'' and ''Bruce, / I think that / your enthusiasm for Tolkien's / linguistics may have overcome / you. It is not a totally unpleasant / disease. / [signature].'' Hyde's reverse dictionary of Tolkien's Middle-earth languages, like his seven-volume A Working Tolkien Glossary that consisted of four copies, is also… Read More

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with yellow/orange lettering on spine and front. Very slightly spine cocked. Blue and white floral endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chips at spine ends, corners, and with a small chip to top edge of front panel; spine darkened and scuffed; not price clipped ($2.50); partial splits at hinges (three very small pieces of archival tissue on verso); in an archival mylar sleeve. 349 pages. Faulkner's second novel.