Paris: Librairie Stock, 1954. First Edition, one of 2,750 on Marais crevecoeur, from a total edition of 2910. Page size: 5.25 x 7.25 inches, 145pp. Bound in 3/4 bordeaux morocco and marbled paste-paper boards, spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original printed wrappers and backstrip bound in, fine. Humorous... More
NY: Ruder Photographer, ND but ca. 1890's. Original photograph, 5-3/4 x 4-3/8 inches, mounted on grey board, 8 x 12 inches, within triple rules, some sunning to top inch of board on which photo is mounted, lacking tissue guard was was previously affixed, photograph is fine. This is a handsome... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First Edition. No. 45 in the International Education Series edited by W. T. Harris. 8vo; (2), x, 311, (1-blank), (2-ads), 11 full-page illustrations & 2 text figures; neat owner's name at top of flyleaf, bookplate removed from front pastedown; original dark green cloth... More
Denver, Colorado: The Reed Publishing Company, 1905. First Edition. 8vo; 256pp; original pictorial green cloth printed in black with a wild landscape pictured; binding a bit rubbed and soiled, spine ends a bit frayed, corners bumped, about very good. With frontispiece portrait of the author; 28 other half-tone illustration. Emma... More
Boston: Privately Printed Thomas Todd, 1900. First Edition, inscribed on ffe by the author to Samuel Bowles and dated May 1, 1900, one of 50 (or 57) copies (notation on AAS copy cites 57 copies printed but colophon states 50), of this privately limited edition, a memoir of the author's... More
Boston, MA: 2011. Artist's book, one of 12 copies, on magnani pescia paper, and wood, signed and dated by the artist, Laura Davidson. Page size: 4-1/8 x 3-1/8 inches; 20pp. Bound: wrappers with plates loose as issued housed in small painted walnut wood box with silver point hand-written title on... More
Boston and London: Crosby, Nichols, and Company.. Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1856. First and only edition, first printing. 12mo, 468pp, including a page of ads for other books by Fuller; dark grey-green cloth, triple-ruled border, tips worn, spine sunned and stained, lacking both flyleaves, traces of label removed from... More
!["Mary's Lamb" [Mary had a little lamb...] [In] Juvenile Lyre: or, Hymns and Songs, Religious, Moral, and Cheerful, Set to Appropriate Music. For the Use of Primary and Common Schools. Sarah Josepha Hale.](/pictures/thumb/8991.jpg?v=1432126117)
Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, Hartford: H. & F. J. Huntington, 1831. First Edition thus. 8vo; 72pp; rebound in ¼ tan leather with black gilt-stamped label on spine and marbled paper over boards; words and music throughout; text age-toned, large dampstain on first 6 pages, first blank with early scribbling... More
Chicago: Chicago Kindergarten Training School, 1891. First Edition. 8vo; 207pp; original blue gilt-stamped cloth, teg, ownership inscription in ink on ffe (Helen M.A. Smell / Medina N.Y. March 1891), some soiling to front cover, minor wear to tips and spine ends, endpapers with dark smudges, very good. Elizabeth Harrison (1849-1927) was... More
[Europe]: 1902. Page size: 8 x 6"; 25 leaves (of which 7 are blank) printed on card stock; containing 8 original photographs of women pasted in, 5 small ink sketches, 1 full-page pencil drawing, 1 half-page watercolor, and 3 full page finished watercolor pictures; original red morocco with gold initials... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1919. First Edition, Inscribed by Laura Richards to Daisy Chanler on the ffe, "For my beloved Daisy. / with much love from / her devoted / LER / Christmas. 1919" . 8vo; original green gilt-stamped cloth; light blue dust jacket printed in dark blue;... More
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. First Edition thus, one of 250 copies numbered in red on the verso of the title page. With the addition of an eight-page Preface for this edition by the author, Sarah Orne Jewett. 8vo; [i-x] [1]306pp.;305pp; original drab paper over boards with smooth white cloth spine... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. First Edition. 309pp; green cloth, Sarah Wyman Whitman trade binding design with stylized flowering tree front panel, title in gilt on elongated trunk, the tree's roots enclosing the author's name. A tiny bit of rubbing to bottom of spine, endpapers sunned at edges, early... More
Marshfield Hills, MA: 2012. Artist's book, one of six copies, all on a range of papers, each copy signed and numbered by the artist, Viola Kaeumlen. Page size: box of 13 pouches (tied with brown silk ribbon) as envelopes holding the "letters" and related material written by the artist, printed... More
Forest Hills, LI: January 10, 1925. To Mr. DeLaitre, typed letter signed, one page, 10-3/8" x 6-3/4", 27 lines, signed in pen at the bottom, "Helen Keller" to Mr. DeLaitre. Evidence of quarter folds, else fine. Helen Keller (1880-1968), noted American lecturer and author, was blind and deaf from the... More
New York: February 21, 1946. Typed Letter Signed in pencil, one page 8-3/8 x 10-3/4", to Mr. Wilson, on Helen Keller's personal letterhead of 15 West 16th Street, New York, dated February 21, 1946. Traces of quarter folds, a bit of yellowing along folds, traces of two paper clip marks... More
New York: C. S. Francis; Boston: J. H. Francis, 1839. First edition. Page size: 7-3/4 x 4-1/2 inches; 317pp; 2pp. publisher's ads, brown blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine with chipped at ends, with lower left end piece about 1/4 x 1/4 inches missing a piece, joints split... More
New York: Published for the Authors, 1854. First edition. Page size: 7-3/4 x 5 inches; 288pp; Bound: blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt on spine, spine ends shipped, bottom edge rubbed, tips bumped and rubbed, dampstain at bottom of pages of front matter though p. 85, about 3 inches long... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1962. One of 195 copies all on Brentwood vellum paper, each numbered and signed by the author and artist on the colophon page. 8vo, [34pp;] 10 illustrations by Robert Parker, each hand colored, with Addendum laid in as well as announcement of publication from... More
New York: NY Woman Suffrage Party, October 1917. Leaflet, small 4to, 10-7/16" x 8-1/8" (unfolded), printed on white stock which shows a little age-toning. This leaflet has not been folded so is quite fresh and in fine condition overall. The entry of the United States into World War I caused... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First edition. 287pp; + 28 half-tones photographs of the Navajo women at work and one double page full color image of a double sand painting; original red cloth stamped in gold gilt, buff jacket printed in title and author in red with traditional Navajo... More
[Providence, RI]: W.C.T.U., 1888. Political ribbon from W.C.T.U. State Convention in Providence, RI Sept. 18-19-20, 1888. White silk, fringed at either end, 2-1/4 x 7 inches, fringe slightly dusty else near fine. In 1876, at Frances Willard's instigation, the W.C.T.U. adopted "For God and Home and Nativ Land" as its... More
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition, one of 200 specially bound and numbered copies, signed by Welty. 4to; 113pp; original tan cloth with author's facsimile signature in silver gilt, brown paper over boards slipcase, bookseller's label on slipcase otherwise fine. More
Amiens: Sterne/Presse de l'UFR Clerc Universite Picardie, [1992]. First Edition, one of 400 copies only. 8vo; 142pp; gray decorated wrappers printed in white on blue label. In 1989, Professor Claudine Lesage, while doing research on Joseph Conrad (who had visited Polish friends in Hyeres when he first came to the... More
Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur, 2001. First edition. 8vo; 158pp; buff printed wrappers, new. Printed here for the first time are over 150 letters from Edith Wharton to her intimate French friend, Leon Belugou, detailing their friendship of over 25 years. Wharton wrote these letters in French and they are faithfully... More
