Girard, Kansas: E. Haldeman-Julius, 1929. 21.4x13.5cm: varying page counts, between 61-64pp. Vols. 1, 3-8 are First Printings, Vol. 2, Later Printing. Publisher’s stapled wrappers with black and red titling and illustrations to cover. All volumes with tan wrappers, except Vol. 2 has yellow wrappers. General browning throughout with light creasing.....
n.p., n.d. (ca. 1964). 28x21.6cm: [70]pp. manuscript in semi-bound plastic sleeves (recto only) with 41 loose leaves (recto only). Manuscript is color-illustrated using black ink and color pencil in shades of orange, gold, and purple, with typescript text. Loose leaves include a three-page typescript outline of story, 24 leaves of.....
This archive highlights the life of a remarkable nurse at two New York City hospitals, City Hospital on Blackwell Island [now Roosevelt Island] and the Lower East Side’s Gouverneur Hospital at the turn of the 20th century. Jessie A. Stowers, born and raised in Waddington, New York, wanted a different.....
New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969. 23.5x16cm: 254pp. First Edition. Translated from Spanish by Helen R. Lane. Publisher’s khaki cloth with black lettering to spine. Color illustrated dust jacket. Bumped spine just starting to fray. Top edges soiled. Scattered foxing to text block edges. Dust jacket has light spotting to.....
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1863. 17x6cm (shape book): [16pp]. First Edition. Stiff chromolithographed wrappers cut in the shape of Red Riding Hood with wolf. Wrappers bound with thread sewn through the fold. Each page printed with text from the tale and surrounded by attractive color illustrations. Faint spot on.....
Block measures 15x10x2cm. Partially finished design for a family bookplate. Ex Libris along top of block and THE SCHREIS along bottom of block, all in reverse. Sailing ship on water carved to center of block. Ship carving is mostly complete whereas the lettering is primarily unfinished.
Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1974. 15.8x11.1cm: [43] color illustrated panels, printed rectos only, including two panels for the legend. Special Edition for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Printed on a single sheet of cream colored stock paper (about 4 meters long) folded accordion-style and affixed to green cloth.....
[New York, 1982]. 34x60in. Green felt parade banner with silver foil lettering and small butterfly embroidered on the left side. Accompanied with a double-sided paper poster advertising the parade, in green ink on yellow paper (17x17in) stapled to strips of cardboard. A few tears and small holes in felt. Yellow.....
Paris: A. Capendu, n.d. (circa 1900). 40x30cm: [21pp]. Originally printed and edited by Pellerin & Cie. Color illustrated paper covered boards over red cloth spine. Color illustrated title page with 20 hand-colored woodcut broadsheets with versos blank. Boards rubbed and soiled with some scratches. Spine ends bumped with a few.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. 21.5x15cm: 340pp. First Edition, Second Printing. An important association copy, signed and inscribed by Guthman to Charles Z. Smith, with acknowledgement of his role as one of the ‘band of brothers.’ The inscription reads: To Charles Z. Smith / who shared Robert Kennedy’s /.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. 19.5x13.5cm: 86pp. First American Edition, First Printing with the publisher’s identification key of B-V [February 1946]. Green cloth boards with publisher’s imprint on front board. Spine sunned but title remains visible. Minor edge wear with some fraying at spine ends. Pages generally clean with.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. 21x13.5cm: 137pp. First Edition, First Printing. Drawings by Barbara Corrigan. Red cloth boards with author’s monogram blindstamped to front cover. Gilt titling to spine. Minor fading to board edges. Corners bumped. Interior clean, except for an old paperclip indentation on top of pgs. 11-16.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. 19.5x14cm: 129pp. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with twenty line drawings by Robert Binks. Blue cloth boards with green line illustration stamped on front board. Gilt titling to spine. Minor fading to board edges. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Bright green end.....
A beautiful handmade wooden journal measuring 30.5x24cm. Inside are 300 pages of blank cream colored speckled paper measuring 28x21.5cm (8.5x11in). The exterior of the journal is constructed of oak wood. Three large brass and leather hinges are used to secure the spine and boards. There is some wood polish bleed.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. 19.5x13.5cm: 103pp. First American Edition, First Printing with the publisher’s identification key of A-F [January 1956]. Light blue cloth boards quarter bound in navy blue cloth with red lettering to spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. Small nick to cloth on front board. Offsetting.....
New York: Viking Press, 1990. 23.5x16cm: 64pp. First American Edition, First Printing. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Bound in blue cloth over tan paper boards with titling to spine in blue foil. Colorful dust jacket with illustrations by Blake. Spine slightly cocked. Small wrinkle to head of dust jacket spine. Fine.....
New York: Hurst & Company, undated (c. 1912). 19x13cm: v, 378pp. Tan cloth boards with a green color pictorial pastedown affixed to front board. Decorative spine with gilt and black lettering. Spine ends bumped. Mild soiling to boards with wear to corners. Spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's name on front.....
Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1949. 23.5x16.5cm: viii, 104pp. Black wrappers with three decorative title panels. Lettering in black and red. Wrappers worn along edges, corners, and spine. Corners creased. Internally clean with the occasional spot of soiling. Very Good. This booklet is a collection of readings selected.....
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980. 24x19.5cm: viii, 573pp. First Edition, First Printing. Green cloth boards with silver lettering to front and spine. Binding shows some wear to edges, corners, and spine ends with some spots of soiling present. About a 1-inch tear at the bottom of the half.....
[Los Angeles]: AMMO Books, LLC, 2007. 30x23.5cm: 239pp. First edition, with an introduction by Johnny Depp. Blue paper boards with an image of Thompson in red and orange to front. A bit of creasing at joints causing some bubbling to the plastic coating, else Fine. A fascinating collection of.....
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1967. 16.2x12.3cm: 100pp. The Pocket Poets Series: Number Twenty. First Edition, First Printing, one of only 5000 copies printed. Stiff white wrappers printed in red and black. Light wear along the bottom edge and corner of the front wrapper. Small stray mark along text block.....
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004. 22x21.5cm: 285pp. First Edition, First Printing. Bound in glossy black and color-illustrated stiff wrappers. Wrappers a bit rubbed with light edge wear. Barely noticeable but present, an approximately 1” tear to top of rear wrapper, next to spine. Spine creased. Better than Very Good.....
San Francisco: Intersection for the Arts, [February 1977]. 35.5x21.5cm: Broadside SIGNED by Jack Hirschman. Printed on thick off-white colored paper with a geometric design illustration in red at the top. A hint of toning along edges. A few smoothed out creases and a small spot of rubbing along top edge.....
San Francisco: Sore Dove Press, 2012. Letterpress poem (25.5x19cm) tipped into black boards (29.5x22.5cm). Opposite the poem is an original abstract painting (21.5x14cm) by Hirschman. Boards lettered in silver and internally lined with red cloth. This work was limited to 75 numbered copies, of which this is No. 37. Both.....
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. 15.8x12.3cm: 98pp. The Pocket Poets Series: Number Eighteen. First Edition, First Printing, meeting all points as indicated in Cook’s Pocket Poet’s Bibliography. One of only 3000 copies printed, with this most certainly the nicest copy that we have ever handled! Stiff white wrappers printed.....