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19979174Scranton Pennsylvania U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc. New. 1997. Paperback. 039331667X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY AVOID WEEKS OF DELAY ELSEWHERE. -- 671 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- -- with a bonus offer-- . W W Norton & Co Inc paperback
198265586Art Center & Gallery. As New. 1982. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 120 pp. With 50 ills. 4 col. . 26 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Art Center & Gallery paperback
19087474Boston: L. C. Page & Company 1908. First Edition Fourth Printing. First edition fourth printing - with "Fourth Impression September 1908" stated on the copyright page. Measures approximately 7.75" x 5.25" with 429 numbered pages. Comes with a brand new facsimile reproduction dust jacket for protection and display.<br /> <br /> This book is in good minus condition. Moderate surface wear and staining to the boards. Both hinges are cracked. Previous owner's signature nameplate and author's photo on the front pastedown. Lacking the front endpaper. Interior pages are well read and have scattered creasing and tearing. <br /> <br /> "Anne of Green Gables" is the story Anne Shirley an orphan who was mistakenly sent to work as a farmhand at a farmhouse in Green Gables. Although siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had originally sent for a boy to help them run the farm they chose to keep Anne anyway and adopt her. This heartwarming tale chronicles her journey of overcoming and exceeding boundaries.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory # Q5-2. L. C. Page & Company unknown
199553IN3G003GZUHoughton Mifflin 1995 1995T. paperback. Good. in x in x in. Good condition cover has some wear might have some writings. Houghton Mifflin (1995) paperback
1962151288Beverly Hills CA: Chrislaw Productions 1962. Archive of two Draft scripts one unbound a partial "last half of script" an 83-page "Scene Breakdown" four collections of revision pages two of which have annotations and a contact sheet of eleven images from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>The bound script is undated and without revisions likely a first draft. The unbound script largely yellow and blue revision pages dated 7/16 through 8/3 1962 is predominantly a carbon typescript with several ribbon typescript pages both on onionskin and 27 mimeograph duplication pages with a single dialogue annotation on page 26-A and page and scene number annotations on all mimeograph pages in holograph ink. The partial script dated 8/7 through 8/14 is a carbon typescript on on pink onionskin with a typed note "Last Half of Script sent to uncredited producer or crewmember Joe Wiseman" attached to the first page by a clip.<br/><br/>The "Scene Breakdown" is an undated 83 page carbon typescript on onionskin with a single dialogue annotation in holograph pencil likely screenwriter Joseph Landon's initial but extensive treatment. <br/><br/>The collections of revision pages include an eight page carbon typescript "Giordano Mountain Meeting" scene dated 7-18-62 on yellow onionskin. Three copies of a four page carbon typescript on pink onionskin "Notes on Five Victims" dated 8/7 with a handwritten note on purple paper attached by paper clip of "8/7 - Notes on Five Victims Third Rewrite." 46 pages of revisions ranging from page 3 through page 47-A dated 8/17 all on pink paper except for one mimeographed white page 28 of which are on pink onionskin with 36 pages carbon typescript nine ribbon typescript with annotations regarding dialogue motivation plot and strikes in holograph pencil and ink on 17 of the pages. The last collection of revision pages are 29 pink pages all but one are mimeograph duplication dated 10/10/62 five of which are page 124-A including the first page which is carbon typescript on onionskin noted as "Added Scene" by director "Bill Asher" with annotations in holograph pencil and ink the remainder are eight copies of pages 124 125 and 125A. <br/><br/>Lastly is a contact sheet of eleven images with top left image removed five of director William Asher on set three with Henry Silva with the remaining six of a bearded and heavily made-up Silva on the set.<br/><br/>Based on the 1959 Gold Medal paperback crime novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland about an exiled American mobster who sends an Italian outlaw to the US to assassinate his enemies. <br/><br/>Set in Italy New York City and Hollywood shot on location in Southern California. <br/><br/>Bound Script:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph Landon. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>8/3/62 Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/3/62 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Largely carbon typescript duplication with several ribbon typescript pages and several mimeograph duplication pages rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-16-62 and 8/3/62. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge unbound<br/><br/>8/14/62 Partial Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/14/62. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 187. Carbon typescript duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/7 and 8/14. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good plus with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge bound with metal clip to top left corner.<br/><br/>Revision Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light edgewear.<br/><br/>Contact Sheet 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Selby Master List US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Chrislaw Productions unknown books
1937161417N.p.: N.p. 1937. Final script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy belonging to uncredited screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the front board and his annotations in manuscript ink on the cast page noting the names of actors.<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. <br /> <br /> A beautiful secretary finds herself the subject of unwanted attention from her bosses and decides to make herself look as ugly as possible in order to be treated with respect. Marion Davies' last movie before retiring from the screen. <br /> <br /> Bound in full red leather with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present dated 1/19/37 stamped copy No. 104 with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lawrence Riley Earl Baldwin Lillie Hayward and Jerry Wald. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
19441228381944. First Edition. Signed. MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN Bernard. Poems from the Desert. Verses by Members of the Eighth Army. London: George G. Harrap 1944. Octavo original half navy morocco uncut original cardboard slipcase. $1850.Signed limited first edition of this collection of 27 poems written by members of the Eighth Army while in the Western Desert in 1942-43 number 53 of only 110 copies signed by General Bernard Montgomery who has written the Foreword with etched frontispiece by Stephen Gooden.Twenty-six of the poems gathered here were the winning entries taken from 403 poems submitted to a competition organized by the Eighth Army's newspaper Crusader; poems had to be written in the Western Desert to be considered. The twenty-seventh poem ""has a unique history. Written on a scrap of paper it fluttered into the hands of a soldier sheltering in a slit trench during the battle of El Ahgeila."" As the renowned commander of the Eighth Army Montgomery of Alamein writes in his foreword ""It is not too fanciful to see in the poems that follow something of the greatness of mind and spirit with which this valiant Army has been fired and to which so many of its finest achievements can be attributed."" With original cardboard slipcase. A few spots of foxing to endpapers and cloth boards. A near-fine signed copy. hardcover
1935160310009London: George Harrap and Co. Ltd 1935. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition. 318 p. Green cloth with navy lettering. Very Good in original unclipped dust jacket. Fore edge foxed. A little bit of edge wear and very slight foxing to endpapers. Jacket presents well but is chipped at head and tail with a spine chip clumsily affixed with masking tape on verso by previous owner a few wear spots on verso. Price crossed out in colored pencil. An adult novel from the creator of Anne of Green Gables that is sought-after in any jacket especially rare thus. George Harrap and Co. Ltd unknown books
1920feb123572<p>1920. First Finnish Edition of Anne of Green Gables</p><p>Annan nuoruusvuodet</p><p>Used. For more details please contact me</p> Werner Soderstrom hardcover
1907WRCLIT84385New York 1907. Original charcoal on paper matted and framed under glass. Image size to edges of mat 32.5 x 28cm 12.75 x 11". Not examined out of frame a few minor background smudges but very good. A stern self-portrait by the artist in 3/4 profile with characteristic tousled hair and expansive eye brows. Inscribed by Flagg likely in the 1930s to his friend Willis Birchman: "Bill -- This is what I seemed to look like in a glass about the age of 30 - Monty." In 1937 Flagg appeared in and contributed an introduction to Birchman's FACES & FACTS BY AND ABOUT 26 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. unknown books
193712969INSCRIBED ORIGINAL PENCIL AND WATER COLOR SKETCH OF FRIEND AND FELLOW ARTIST JOHN LA GATTA measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches depicting La Gatta holding up a drawing of his naked model with a full rear end view. Humorously INSCRIBED by Flagg to him thusly "Signor Giovanni La Gatta ~ That is not such a comic Strip -No from his friend Jim Flagg." Along with a printed photo of an illustration of La Gatta by Flagg A marvelous associational item between two famous illustrators. N. p. unknown
192447988Dublin. 1924. Loose as issued. 2 issues. Large folio. 448 x 288 mm. Printed text recto and verso in English and German in columns throughout large monochrome woodcut illustration by Cecil Salkeld to each issue. The rare short-lived and suppressed Irish literary periodical 'TO-MORROW' with the first appearance of Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan'.Edited by Cecil Salkeld and Henry Stuart 'TO-MORROW' despite its optimistic and future-looking title and the solicitation for content and subscription announcements saw only two issues in 1924 for August and September. The editors had however secured contributions a poem 'TO-MORROW' saw the first publication of 'Leda and the Swan' and an anonymous editorial from Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats Liam O'Flaherty and Lennox Robinson as well as many others see below and aimed to publish a forum for new Irish poetry and prose that was inclusive and expansive. Unfortunately 'TO-MORROW' was also controversial and was suppressed despite the support of Yeats and others; not only did 'TO-MORROW' fail to invigorate Irish art and bring about a free Irish Renaissance it helped usher in a climate of further repression supression and censorship.The first issue included prose works such as O'Flaherty's 'A Red Petticoat' Robinson's 'The Madonna of Slieve Dun' Salkeld's 'The Principles of Painting' Margaret Barrington's 'Colour' and L. K. Emery's manifesto-like 'A Primitive'. Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan' led the poetry section that also included work by Charlotte Arthur F. R. Higgins Joseph Campbell and R. N. D. Wilson. A sonnet in German by O. F. Fleck was also published.The second issue was in similar format a mixture of prose and poetry opening with Arthur Symons' appreciation of Honoré Daumier featuring the conclusion of Salkeld's 'The Principles of Painting' as well as 'The Poplar Road' by Iseult Stuart H. Stuart's 'In the Hour Before Dawn' 'The Garden' by Sachka and 'The Tendencies of the Younger Irish Poetry' by L. K. Emery. Poetry included further contributions from Charlotte Arthur R. N. D. Wilson and F. R. Higgins as well as a poem by Blanaid Salkeld. O. F. FLeck contributed another poem 'An P'. Each issue included a large woodcut by Cecil Salkeld.'In August 1924 a small literary magazine To-Morrow went on sale in Dublin. As its title implies the magazine's editors Francis Stuart and Cecil Salkeld were buoyed with optimism. They hoped for a new cultural movement in the arts that would parallel its development and in turn influence the newly founded Irish Free State.' Bernard McKenna.'My dream is a wild paper of the young which will make enemies everywhere and suffer suppression I hope a number of times with the logical assertion with all fitting deductions of the immortality of the soul.' Yeats writing to Olivia Shakespeare.'TO-MORROW' is necessarily fragile and the present copy has been folded in half with ensuing wear. The first issue does have small areas of discolouration and slight separation along the fold but is otherwise good; the second issue is in good condition.see Bernard McKenna's 'Yeats 'Leda' and the Aesthetics of To-Morrow: 'The Immortality of the Soul' in Vol. 13 No. 2 of the 'New Hibernia Review' 2009. unknown
1971355490725633London: Arcadia Press 1971. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION # 133 OF 250 COPIES copies 251-265 not for sale. Not issued with a dustwrapper. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full black morocco leather covered boards all edges gilt raised bands and gilt decoration on spine two coats of arms and facsimile signature of Montgomery all in gilt on front board inside edges of boards outlined with gilt decoration marbled end-papers. Signed by Montgomery on the title page. Published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the El Alamein battle. Housed in black felt-lined slip-case. A fine or better copy in a near fine slip-case. NB: The title page is dated 1971 but 'This Book was published on the 30th Anniversary of The Battle of El Alamein 23rd October 1972' is printed in red on the half-title. A beautiful production. Further photographs available upon request. Arcadia Press hardcover
1946894T2Germany: Printing and Stationery Service British Army of the Rhine 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A smart first edition of the author's account from the preparations for the invasion of North-West Europe signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front endpaper dated June 1946. Illustrated with a colour map frontispiece forty-five maps many of which are folding and three folding diagrams. Collated complete. The author's account of activity from his relinquishing of the command of the Eighth Army and returning to England to take over 21 Army Group in preparation for the invasion of North-West Europe to the Battle of the Rhine and the surrender. Written by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War. Previously held in the library of Sir Robert Francis Mudie a British civil servant and a member of the British Indian Civil Service during the British Raj. He was the last British and colonial Governor of Sind and served as the first Governor of West Punjab in the Dominion of Pakistan. In the original red cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the extremities. A singular worm hole from the title page to the seventh page. Author's inscription to the front endpaper. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Printing and Stationery Service British Army of the Rhine hardcover
1914606026Chicago: Historical Feature Film Company 1914. Unbound. Near Fine. Film program. Octavo folded once to make 4pp. Illustrated from two black and white photographs. Two old horizontal folds a couple of thin stains on the front panel a bit of rubbing about near fine. A program for the film Money Talks in Darktown starring Florence McLain Frank Montgomery Bert Murphy and Jimmie Marshall. The Historical Feature Film Company was a White-owned production studio in Chicago producing films with largely Black casts but which still incorporated all of the racial stereotypes of the period. The company is largely credited with being established in 1915 though this program is for a film releasing on November 30 1914. Following poor public reception to their early films the company changed their name to the Ebony Film Corporation in 1917 in an attempt to appeal to the Black audience and hired Luther J. Pollard a young Black entrepreneur who was given the title of president and general manager. The company officially shut down just a couple of years later. Very scarce. Historical Feature Film Company unknown
19156043471915. "J. Montgomery Flagg" in black fountain pen ink on his Thirty-three West Sixty-seventh Street letterhead March 25 1915. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate leaves recto only. Fine. To Nichols who seems to be writing an article about becoming an illustrator: A long inspirational letter on becoming an artist and illustrator. Flagg thinks it unethical to talk about the "big" money to be made because it "incites the Kike and the trickster. . .and fills boarding houses and art schools with incompetents. . .Don't look upon illustration as a trade! . .It. . .takes more that the desire and determination and industry to become a good artist. . .it takes talent!". No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown books
19156043471915. "J. Montgomery Flagg" in black fountain pen ink on his Thirty-three West Sixty-seventh Street letterhead March 25 1915. 8 1/2" x 11"; 2 separate leaves recto only. Fine. To Nichols who seems to be writing an article about becoming an illustrator: A long inspirational letter on becoming an artist and illustrator. Flagg thinks it unethical to talk about the "big" money to be made because it "incites the Kike and the trickster. . .and fills boarding houses and art schools with incompetents. . .Don't look upon illustration as a trade! . .It. . .takes more that the desire and determination and industry to become a good artist. . .it takes talent!". No Binding. Fine/No Jacket. unknown
1936140948510Santiago Lima Pittsburgh et al.: No publisher 1936. Good. Archive of correspondence ephemera and newspaper clippings from the collection of Mal T. Melchades Thomas Montgomery. Overall Good condition with some soiling staining and toning. Born in Pennsylvania in 1878 Montgomery became a railroad traffic expert and worked in Pittsburgh Mexico Argentina Chile and Puerto Rico. This collection dates mainly from the late 1920s and early 1930s and includes the following:<br /> <br /> <p>-1928 scrapbook mottled and stained on the front board containing Chilean newspaper clippings relating to transit. Also tipped in is a carbon copy of a letter to Senor Montgomery noting that an "unfair" complaint printed in a Lima newspaper had been instigated by an army officer annoyed that his stop wasn't more conveniently located. Other articles are more complimentary; one scrapbook entry heaps praise upon Montgomery for his skillful management of the challenges of running buses through a densely populated city with narrow streets.<br /> <br /> <p>- 6 small leatherette notebooks dated 1923-1932 including 4 pocket diaries and 2 booklets filled with ruled or graph paper. Entries are minimal and consist mainly of names addresses and appointments. The 1932 diary was issued by the Westinghouse International Electric Company and features Spanish-language information about the company and a foldout map of South America. Moderate to heavy wear to notebooks; one lacking covers.<br /> <br /> <p>- 2 group photographs in which Montgomery appears. The larger creased and somewhat stained is annotated in red ink and features two ambassadors as well as "yours truly." <br /> <br /> <p>- 24 pieces of ephemera from South America including bus and tram ticket books annotated business cards and a pamphlet about the influence of communism on Chile.<br /> <br /> <p>- Correspondence and memoranda. Includes a study of a proposed bus service between Santiago and San Bernardo an opinion piece on scheduling a proposal for Green Bus Lines in Queens and an analysis of service improvements in Argentina. The last notes at the end that "the men are impossible in Tucaman but the manner in which they are controlled is the cause of most of the trouble." Workers were discharged before an investigation then recalled when exonerated with a mea culpa from the Manager -- a manner of proceeding not likely to inspire respect. <br /> <br /> <p>An interesting collection that sheds light on the challenges of transportation planning in the Americas. [No publisher] unknown
1916170525002Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth printed in black. Very Good. Spine toned cloth lightly soiled and with a water spot to the rear cover light wear to spine ends. Gilt stamping to front cover has almost all but tarnished to black as is very common with this title. Top edge of page block shows a stain foxing and a patch of wear. Previous owner initials in ink and small bookseller ticket to front free end paper. Pages foxed heavily throughout. The first of Canadian-born author L. M. Montgomery's books to be published by a Canadian publisher. The poem "The Watchman" was recited at the author's funeral. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart unknown
1916170525002Toronto: McClelland Goodchild & Stewart 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth printed in black. Very Good. Spine toned cloth lightly soiled and with a water spot to the rear cover light wear to spine ends. Gilt stamping to front cover has almost all but tarnished to black as is very common with this title. Top edge of page block shows a stain foxing and a patch of wear. Previous owner initials in ink and small bookseller ticket to front free end paper. Pages foxed heavily throughout. The first of Canadian-born author L. M. Montgomery's books to be published by a Canadian publisher. The poem "The Watchman" was recited at the author's funeral. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart hardcover books
1912132574Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1912. Hardcover. very good. 1st Impression 1st edition. 6 306 4 2 pp catalogue at rear. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and front board with portrait illustration. Light shelfwear to boards and rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. A few wrinkles to cloth. Rear panel of jacket detached from spine but present. Most of top 1.75" and bottom 4" of spine perished with a few additional chips to edges of jacket chip to rear panel affecting a few words. Rear panel advertisement "Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea the Story Girl Kilmeny of the Orchard". Textblock edges slightly foxed fore-edge uncut. Previous owner's signature dated in the year of publication on ffep. Endpapers and first few pages light foxed with a few additional bits of foxing internally else a clean copy. very good An exceptional L.M. Montgomery rarity in the dust jacket. Until this copy and a better examplein this catalogue the jacket of the true first edition of Chronicles of Avonlea had not been seen by us. Unrecorded in Editions and Impressions. Although the jacket spine is missing portions the remainder of the jacket is virtually complete and the front panel illustration remains bright and unfaded. The light green boards are one of two variants the other being tan Lechowick P 43. Russell 222 See Editions and Impressions. 1912 L.C. Page & Company hardcover
1958850F12London: Collins 1958. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". Not Stated. A signed first edition of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's autobiography covering the full span of his career from boyhood to the post-war years. Signed 'Montgomery of Alamein F. M.' to the front free endpaper.The first edition first impression of this work in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with forty-eight photographic images and fourteen pages of maps. Collated complete.Montgomery is best known for his command of the British Eighth Army from August 1942 through the Second Battle of El Alamein and on to the final Allied victory in Tunisia in May 1943. Following the Allied victory he served as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe until his retirement in 1958.This detailed autobiography covers his childhood his wartime campaigns and the his post-war years. In the publisher's original cloth binding with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear to back strip tail. Signed to the front free endpaper. Closed tear to head of dust wrapper front wrap with light sunning to back strip and front wrap head. Minor chipping to back strip head with mark to head of rear wrap. Internally firmly bound. Light spotting to preliminary leaves with pages otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine Collins hardcover
1961167752N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1961 film showing director John Huston and screenwriter Arthur Miller during filming on location with a clapperboard in the foreground. Stamp of photographer Inge Morath on the verso. <br /> <br /> A bleak haunting film exploring the loss of independence about a recent divorcée who enters into an unstable relationship with an aging cowboy whom she meets in the Nevada desert.<br /> <br /> Photographer Inge Morath who had worked with Huston on several of his earlier films first met Miller on the set of "The Misfits." Miller's relationship with his then-wife Marilyn Monroe rapidly deteriorated during the film's production largely due to Monroe's growing dependence on prescription medication and the couple would separate after filming concluded. Miller and Morath began dating and married in February of 1962 just over a year after Miller's divorce from Monroe. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Reno and Dayton Nevada. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. About Fine lightly worn at the corners. N.p. unknown
1914012816New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 429pp. Popular Edition Limited to 150000 copies Yellow cloth cover with brown titles and color illustrated paste-down. Cover soiled and very slight bumping.Lower page corner loss on page 65 very minor page edge foxing. Otherwise clean. JC . Very Good Minus. Cloth. Thirty-eighth Printing. 1914. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1925155233New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Scarce Near Fine dust jacket. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover