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188427097NY: Scribners 1884. Reprint edition. 10 volumes. Some minor binding wear o/w a very good set bound in tan cloth stamped in brown. This seems to be a reprint set with volumes 3 7 8 dated with the original publication date of 1884 the other 7 volumes are dated 1891. Includes original stories by: Rebecca Harding Davis; Frank Stockton BAL 18879; Mary Putnam Jacobi; Harriet Prescott Spofford BAL 18481; Frances Hodgson Burnett BAL 2063; Celia Thaxter BAL 19890; Constance Fennimore Woolson BAL 23463; N. P. Willis; Henry James BAL 10567; Park Benjamin; Edward Bellamy BAL 955; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Thomas Nelson Page; T. A. Janvier etc. Scribners unknown books
1967WRCLIT84076Bucharest: Editura Pentru Literatura Universala 1967. Two volumes. Laminated pictorial boards. Very good to near fine. First edition thus edited by L. Moscovici with prefatory notes on the playwrights by Petru Comarnescu. Representative plays by O'Neill Anderson Sherwood Wilder Odets Saroyan Williams Miller and Albee translated by various hands. Editura Pentru Literatura Universala hardcover books
1738New York: The Macaulay Company 1927. . 8vo dark-green textured cloth. This impressive compilation edited by Van Wyck Brooks Alfred Kreymborg Lewis Mumford and Paul Rosenfeld features 72 writers many luminaries but others now largely forgotten New York: The Macaulay Company, 1927. hardcover books
192928002New York: The Macaulay Company 1929. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a couple longer closed tears. Among others there is work collected here by Hart Crane William Carlos Williams Malcolm Cowley Gertrude Stein Allen Tate Archibald MacLeish Eugene O'Neill Robert Penn Warren Louise Bogan John Dos Passos Ernest Hemingway and Edmund Wilson. 843 pages. Uncommon in jacket and in this condition. The first volume in the distinguished Caravan series of anthologies. <br/><br/> The Macaulay Company unknown books
188737425New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1887. Later edition ca late 1880s. Orange printed wrappers entitled BEADLE'S DIME DIALOGUES. Modest wear less than usually encountered. Unobtrusive spot to left side of front wrapper. Paper beginning to yellow as usual. A VG copy. v - viii 9 - 87 13 = 96 pp. Adverts last 13 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-3/16" <br/><br/> M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
188736798New York: M. J. Ivers & Co. Publishers 1887. Later edition ca late 19th C. Orange printed wrappers. Some light wear to paper at spine ends. Bookstore stamp to front wrapper. A solid VG copy. v - viii 9 - 92 8 = 96 pp. Adverts last 8 pages. Woodcut vignette of a young man in a melodramatic pose to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" <br/><br/>A compilation of pieces by such luminaries as Daniel Webster John G. Whittier Wm. Cullen Bryant Hon John P. Kennedy Thos. Bailey Aldrich Judge Story George William Curtis James T. Fields & Thomas Carlyle. M. J. Ivers & Co., Publishers unknown books
187641544New York: Robert M. De Witt Publisher 1876. Early printing ca 1876. Original publisher's printed orange paper wrappers. Rear wrapper with series advert through No. 6 "Comic School Speaker". Wear chipping & soiling to wrappers with 1" paper loss at top of spine. Text paper yellowing. A VG copy. 90 6 pp. Adverts last 6 pages. Woodcut vignette to front wrapper. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/> Robert M. De Witt, Publisher unknown books
1995WRCLIT69602New York: Granta Books 1995. Cloth and boards. First American edition. About fine in dust jacket. An anthology of twenty-two stories on the topic of families by Saul Bellow Peter Carey Angela Carter Raymond Carver Bret Easton Ellis and Doris Lessing among others. Granta Books hardcover books
1981WRCLIT35075New York: State University of New York 1981. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Exhibition catalogue. Poets include Creeley Heyen Gillman Turco McHugh et al and the artists include Frasconi Jim Sylvia Callner Kadish and many more. About fine. State University of New York unknown books
1981WRCLIT59318New York: State University of New York 1981. Printed wrappers. Illustrations. First edition. Exhibition catalogue. Poets include Creeley Heyen Gillman Turco McHugh et al and the artists include Frasconi Jim Sylvia Callner Kadish and many more. About fine. With an adhesive label marking the move of the exhibit to Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery in 1983. State University of New York unknown books
1969WRCLIT33805New York: The Viking Press 1969. Printed wrappers. Fine. Advance "sample" from uncorrected proofs printing the text from the foreword revised via a large pasteover and poems by Nabokov Stafford Strand Simpson Wilbur Graves Oppen et al. The copyright is inserted on a pasteover and as always the glue used to affix the pasteovers has tanned. The Viking Press unknown books
1957WRCLIT47787New York: Random House 1957. Gray cloth stamped in black and in blind printed paper label. First edition unspecified later printing. Very good in moderately edgeworn and lightly rubbed dust jacket. Contributors include Faulkner Richter Bradbury and Saroyan. Random House hardcover books
1952WRCLIT57309New York: Random House 1952. Cloth. First edition. A nice copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Boyle Richter et al. Random House hardcover books
1952WRCLIT22398New York: Random House 1952. Cloth. First edition. Very good in dust jacket. Boyle Richter et al. Random House hardcover books
1967WRCLIT74837New York: Simon & Schuster 1967. Cloth. First edition. Review slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1935WRCLIT83953London: Jonathan Cape 1935. Small octavo. Printed wrapper over stiff wrappers. First edition. Wrappers moderately worn and soiled spine creased from reading snag at crown of upper joint edges a bit unevenly faded; a good copy. A commemoration of Jonathan Cape reprinting contributions from the firm's in-house organ. Jonathan Cape unknown books
191931893New York: Putnam's 1919. First trade edition. Blue cloth near fine. Signature of writer Carl Hovey. From Ira Gershwin's library with posthumous bookplate. <br/><br/> Putnam's hardcover books
196813368Paris L'Avant Scene 1966-1968. 1968. First editions. Small 8vo. Text in French. Profusely illustrated. Dust jackets few small chips. Very good. 3 volumes. Essays on such personalities as Eisenstein Griffith Korda Laurel and Hardy Cocteau Melies Disney Sennett Stroheim etc. F. Hardcover. Paris, L'Avant Scene [1966-1968]. hardcover books
1882133668London: James Blackwood & Co. 1882. Octavo pp. i-v vi-vii viii 1 2-391 392 note: title leaf is a cancel inserted plates plus illustrations in the text original pictorial cream paper over boards printed in red blue and black top edge stained gray plain endpapers. First edition The authors of about half of the contributions are identified the most prolific being Cuthbert Bede and George Frederick Pardon the latter's short novel MAY FAIR running throughout. The list of six titles on the rear cover includes CRUIKSHANK AT HOME published by Blackwood in 1882 and one of only two of the advertised titles recorded in Topp. The current volume is not in Topp who perhaps considered it a periodical and intentionally omitted it. Not in Topp perhaps considered a periodical and intentionally omitted. Not in Wolff who probably would have bought a copy if he had found one for sale. Some general dust soiling to covers spine rubbed and a bit darkened upper spine end worn with shallow loss small chip from lower spine small stain to lower margin of frontispiece a very good internally nearly fine copy. OCLC reports 2 copies; none reported by COPAC. #133668 James Blackwood & Co. unknown books
1956104891London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1956. Octavo boards. First edition. Original anthology collecting three novellas: "Envoy Extraordinary" by William Golding science fiction set in the ancient world "Consider Her Ways" by John Wyndham feminist science fiction set in a dystopian future and "Boy in Darkness" by Mervyn Peake a fantastic tale set in the world of Titus Groan. Golding's story was adapted later as a play and published as THE BRASS BUTTERFLY 1958. According the Berger Science Fiction and the New Dark Age pp. 196-8 Wyndham's "haunting" novella in which "the preventable is not prevented" is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-78. Reginald 13447. Gekoski and Grogan B1a. Very slight spine lean mild dust soiling to top edge of text block else a fine copy in bright very good plus dust jacket with light edge wear light age-darkening to spine panel and extremities of flaps mostly internal but with some show through on flaps and dust soiling to rear panel. An elusive book. #104891 Eyre & Spottiswoode unknown books
1931151120London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1931. Octavo pp. 1-6 7-256 original black cloth front and spine panels stamped in red. First collected edition. An omnibus volume combining UNCANNY STORIES 1916 and MORE UNCANNY STORIES 1918 which in turn were selected from PEARSON'S NOVEL MAGAZINE. Includes two early stories by noted mystery writer Roy Vickers; also death premonition story by Theo. Douglas Mrs. H. D. Everett. Routine commercial work of World War I-era. On the plus side it should be noted that these are stories seldom encountered elsewhere. "Mostly crude horror." - Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 690. Bleiler 1978 p. 7. Reginald 05932. A clean very good copy. A scarce book. #151120 C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. unknown books
1936154891New York: The Telegraph Press 1936. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-224 note: first leaf is a blank original gray cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. Published earlier in Britain as MY GRIMMEST NIGHTMARE 1935. Original anthology with twenty-two stories by Cynthia Asquith Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen H. de Vere Stacpoole Noel Langley Theodora Benson and others. The stories in this collection were originally broadcast in 1934 on the BBC program "Nightmares" produced by Cecil Madden. The compilation of the volume is sometimes mistakenly attributed to Cynthia Asquith. Barron ed Horror Literature 3-1. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 59. Bleiler 1978 p. 12. Reginald 10548. A bright nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with mild rubbing at edges and just a touch of dust soiling. #154891 The Telegraph Press unknown books
1863119333London: Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society 1863. Octavo pp. 1-7 8-288 five illustrations original pebbled gray cloth spine titled and ruled in gold. First edition Perhaps a later printing circa 1880s of this collection of didactic adventure fiction probably intended for young readers. These stories were probably first published THE LEISURE HOUR an illustrated penny-weekly paper which featured moralistic self-improving serial novels most of them published anonymously. Includes "Tale of a Detective" pp. 102-131 a crime story set in 1845. All the stories are presented anonymously but "A Race for Life" is credited to the author of "Danesbury House" and "A Life Secret" i.e. "A Life's Secret" both works written by Ellen Price Wood Mrs. Henry Wood. A popular book reprinted many times into the early twentieth century. Thirteen stories in all. "The Power of Music" tells two stories one about Bach another about Gluck. Hubin 1994 p. 24. A tight clean very good copy. #119333 Published at the Leisure Hour Office: The Religious Tract Society unknown books
1896136508New York: New Amsterdam Book Company 1896. Octavo pp. 1-8 9-256 four inserted plates with illustrations by A. Burnham Shute original decorated mustard cloth front and spine panels stamped in black fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A partial reprint of A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES a British Christmas annual of fiction and poetry published in 1867 by Tinsley Brothers with additions and omissions. Collects eleven supernatural tales by American and British writers presented here anonymously. Includes "Dickon the Devil" by Le Fanu first appearance in a book and "What Was It" by Fitz-James O'Brien. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 13510. Bleiler 1978 p. 121. Reginald 13510. Mild dust soiling to cloth a very good copy. A better than average copy of this attractive book. #136508 New Amsterdam Book Company unknown books
1904135945London: John F. Shaw & Co. 1904. Large octavo pp. 3-4 5-160; 5-96 note: complete despite gap in pagination inserted chromolithograph frontispiece other illustrations some full-page in the text original pictorial bevel-edged red cloth stamped in green blue black and silver chromolithograph mounted on front cover endpaper ads. First edition. A collection of patriotic adventure fiction for boys mostly military exploits on land and at sea set in various parts of the British Empire. Authors include Gordon Stables Harold Bindloss Frank Savile and others. COPAC reports 3 copies. Mild damp stains to rear cover a bright very good copy. #135945 John F. Shaw & Co. unknown books
