Stories of Rainbow and Lucky
Harper & Bros. 1860. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG- in original cloth (some wear, foxing). Small 8vo 190pp+ads First published in 1859.Illustrated. More
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Stories of Rainbow and Lucky
Harper & Bros. 1861. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG- in orig. cloth (some wear, foxing). Small 8vo 190pp+ads First published in 1859. Illustrated by about 10 engraved illustrations (decs). More
The Teacher: Or Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young: Intended Chiefly to Assist Young Teachers in Organizing and Conducting Their Schools
Peirce and Parker, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (small). Slight wear to foot of spine (fraying); slight rubbing and browning to covers (cloth; chiefly at edges); slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to endpapers and edges). 293, [3], 3, [1] pages + plate. Important..... More
The Essence of Japanese Cuisine: An Essay on Food and Culture
University of Pennsylvania Press, November 2000. Hardcover. A Very Good copy. Book has shelfwear, soiling to covers and edges of text block, and toning to pages. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in. More
Biggle Berry Book: Small Fruit Facts From Bud To Box Conserved Into Understandable Form.
Wilmer Atkinson Co., 1911. Hardcover. Fourth Edition, 1911. Small meausring 4 x 5.5 in. 144pp., including index, and illustrated throughout with b/w vignette photos, and 15 color plates. Original blue cloth over boards, with titles stamped in red and black. Moderate wear to the boards, light rubbing in places, else..... More
Hansel and Gretel; and other stories by the Brothers Grimm
Easton Press, 1992. Leather Binding. Near Fine copy bound in full teal leather with gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, raised bands to spine, moire silk endpapers, ribbon bookmark sewn in. Easton bookplate with owner name to front pastedown. Color frontispiece and full page illustrations, with b/w illustrations by..... More
Fleur-De-Neige Et D'Autres Contes De Grimm
L'Edition D'Art, 1929. First Thus. Paperback. Copy #1112 of 2400 numbered copies. Complete with all 12 of Kay Nielsen's stunning tipped-in color plates. A scarce copy in the original pictorial Japan vellum wraps (some tears to spine; large chip at foot of spine; some wear). More
The Great Madness
Vantage Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Presentation copy from translator Rabbi Jacob Freedman to noted actor George Jessel: 'To my good friend and talented son of his people George Jessel. With the fond regards and admiration of Jacob Freedman. First American edition hardcover in..... More
The Federalist American State Papers
Franklin Library, 1977. Leather Binding. Bound in full navy blue leather decorated in gilt, spine label in red, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers. Fine unread copy. Series: The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Color Illustrations By Birney Lettick. More
Cuckoo's Nest: An Experiment of Dubious Worth
Payseur & Schmidt, 2006. Limited Edition. Saddle-stapled wraps. One of only 50 numbered copies printed, this being #5, created for the exhibition 'Eight Essential Ingredients' at the Richard Hugo House February 3 - March 31, 2006. [32]pp., with b/w and some color illustrations throughout. In tan printed wraaps. A touch..... More
The Life and Times of Patrick Gass
Martino Publishing, January 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A Fine As New Copy. Facsimile reissue of the origional 1859 edition. More
Hiroshima
Limited Editions Club, 1983. First Thus. Leather Binding. Copy #1379 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by artist Jacob Lawrence, author John Hersey, and Robert Penn Warren (who contributed a poem). A fine copy in publisher's supple black leather, in a good copy of the black cloth slipcase (book spine has..... More
The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young
Chatwin Books, Sublunary Editions, October 2022. First Edition. Trade Paperback. NEW! The Collected Poems gathers every Young poem that survives—published, unpublished, drafts—for a definitive edition that rivals the work of a university press. [...] Writing poetry prepared Young for writing magniloquent prose, and reading The Collected Poems prepares readers for..... More
The Collected Poems of Marguerite Young
Chatwin Books, Sublunary Editions, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW! One of 100 numbered copies signed by the three editors Phil Bevis, Joshua Rothes, and Jacob Siefring. New in original grey linen over pictorial boards. Over 35 years in the making, Marguerite Young's complete work. “The Collected Poems gathers every Young..... More
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, July 2024. Trade Paperback. New! // ' In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural..... More
The Nagle Journal: A Diary of the Life of Jacob Nagle, Sailor, from the Year 1775 to 1841
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, November 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. - over 7¾' - 9¾'. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, and wrinkling on the spine. Book has edgewear, else fine. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. More
Becoming the Virgin
Action Books, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Illustrated by the author on the title page with a robot in existential limbo below a thought bubble: 'I'm ok?' 55pp., a Very Good copy with light shelfwear. More
Jacob Pins: Woodcuts
Herzliya Museum of Art. Wraps. An exhibition catalog for a show held at the Herzliya Museum of Art from December 1992-January 1993. Square 8vo. - over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 96pp., illustrated with b/w and color reproductions. A Near Fine copy with slight toning in a Near..... More
King Grisly-Beard
Farrar Straus Giroux, December 1986. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in. Paperback edition. Mild wear to covers yet clean, tight binding, interior clean. Very Good copy. More
Rabelais's Doughnuts
Sublunary Editions, 2022. First Edition. Trade Paperback. New! 124pp. Rabelais's Doughnuts is an original collection of the short writings of Pierre Senges. It brings together seven monologues, essays, fictions, and glosses that have never appeared together before: “Suite', “Last Judgment (detail)”, “A Slightly Vain Exercise in Style', “On the Electrophorus..... More
History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
John P. Jewett and Company / Sheldon and Company, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Original brown cloth stamped in gilt (ex-library with light markings; some shelfwear and wear to hinges; slight staining to margins). Account of the rescue of a detained fugitive slave from jail..... More
Generation of Journey
The Untide Press, 1945. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Tall 8vos. [33] pages. '... contains the reactions of an American conscientious objector to life in Civilian Public Service camps in New Hampshire and Maryland' (colophon); dedicated to Ruth Suckow and Ferner Nuhn. One of 950 copies (the entire edition), printed March..... More
Generation of Journey
The Untide Press, January 1945. First Edition. Saddle-stapled wraps. First Edition of this publication from the World War 2 era U.S. conscientious objector camp publishing organization Untide Press. From the library of American poet and critic William Matchett, a Quaker and WW2 conscientious objector. A Very Good copy. Book has..... More
The Sound of Seattle: 101 Songs that Shaped a City
Sasquatch Books, August 2024. Trade Paperback. New! More