Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1924. 12mo. [ii], x, [ii], 118 pp. Blue morocco over boards, worn and rubbed at edges; very minor intermittent spotting. Ownership inscription on flyleaf. The present work is a compilation of Drummond’s best poems including The Habitant, Johnnie Courteau, The Voyageur, and the Great Fight, all..... More
New York and London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1901. 8vo. [ii], vi, [ii], 159, [5] pp., including 2 pages publishers’ advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece with original tissue-guard plus 17 text illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn. Publisher’s pictorial cloth; a fine copy. First edition of Drummond’s second published volume of poems. More
New York and London: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1908. 8vo. ix, 142 pp. Frontispiece and 14 plates with printed tissue guards. Calf-backed boards, gilt portrait of “the Voyageur”on top board, backstrip rubbed and chipped, top portion detached; uncut, t.e.g. Written in the French-Canadian vernacular, this book of verse tells of..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1926]. 8vo. xxxiii, [i], 449 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece woodcut portrait of author. Publisher’s decorated blue cloth, with dust-jacket, chipped and repaired; ownership inscription on the fly-leaf. First edition. This collection includes a memorial sketch by S. Weir Mitchell, an appreciation by Neil..... More
London & New York: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; Harper Bros. 1892; 1895; 1898. Three volumes. 8vo. FIRST EDITION IN SINGLE BOOK FORM; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE MARTIAN. With hundreds of illustrations. Uniform bindings by Bayntum in blue polished calf, covers with gilt double-ruled around edges and inner dentelles, spine..... More
New York: The Greystone Press, 1939. 8vo. 248 pp. First American edition. Portrait of author tipped-in on half-title. Original red cloth, dust-jacket lightly sunned at spine and very slightly chipped. First American edition. The present work “constitutes a complete survey, from the point of view of a Frenchman, of the..... More
Buenos Aires: [np], 1961. 8vo. 116 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. With photographic frontispiece plus 1 plate. Blue cloth, slightly worn at head and foot of spine. Inscription on fly-leaf, “To Max Rokofsky with compliments, Bernard Ehrenpreis.”. First edition. Ehrenpreis (1898-1976) was an Argentinian radiologist originally from Eastern Europe. His..... More
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. Thirteen works in thirty volumes. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. Uniformly bound in half-red levant morocco and marbled boards by the Club Bindery. More
London: Methuen & Co., [1920]. 8vo. xviii, [ii], 155, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. Original blue cloth. With dustjacket (spine torn away but present). Interior fine. First edition, first state. Presentation inscription by the author on the title to Gene Andrewski dated 29 iv 58. More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. 8vo. xiii, [i], 83 pp., including half-title. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Cloth-backed patterned boards; an excellent, uncut copy. First American edition, released in the same year as the first (English) printing. Limited edition of 750 copies. The present work was a culmination of..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1904. 8vo. xiv, 300 pp., including half-title, plus 4 pages publisher’s advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s brown cloth. Inscribed “To Dr. Beddoe from the author, January 1904.”. INSCRIBED COPY. First edition of an interesting study of the various psychological, social and hereditary factors that may have..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1926]. 8vo. ix, [iii], 357 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Emerson. Black cloth; an excellent, uncut copy. Emerson (1803-82), whose original profession and calling was as a Unitarian minister, left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking, becoming one of America’s best-known and..... More
London: R.H. Evans, 1810. Four volumes. 8vo. [iv], xxiii, [i], 384; [viii], 364; [viii], 364; [vi], 367 pp. Third edition. Contemporary green blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front hinge to Volume I loose; apart from very light scattered foxing, a lovely uncut copy from the library of Charles Tyler..... More
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906. 4to. v, [i], 79, [1] pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Armorial vignette on title page. Original green gilt cloth; end-papers browned and lightly foxed; uncut. First edition, printed for the members of the Town and Country Medical Club. A collection of verse, chiefly medical..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. Four parts in one volume. 8vo. xvii, [ii], 704 pp., including frontispiece and more than 30 text woodcuts. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s green gilt cloth, worn on edge of spine, front hinge cracked; interior fine. Gift inscription in pencil on fly-leaf. FROM DICKENS’ BIOGRAPHER. First edition..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. 8vo. [vi], 304 pp., including half-title. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original green decorated cloth with green printed end-papers; an excellent uncut copy. THE PHYSICIAN-SLEUTH. First American edition of this story of an enigmatic jewel heist. More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1933. 8vo. v, [iii], 344 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Publisher’s orange cloth, no dust-jacket; an excellent, uncut copy. First American edition. The only one of the Thorndyke novels to be based on an actual case, in which a Mr. Druce claimed to be the..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. 8vo. [vi], 312 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Publisher’s original blue pictorial cloth, sunned at spine, no dustjacket; some spotting to endpapers, otherwise a very nice uncut copy with the stamp of the England Bros. Circulating Library to fly-leaf and library date stamps to..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1934. 8vo. 319 pp., including half-title. FIRST EDITION. Original blue cloth, bottom cover spotted, otherwise a fine copy. First edition. The story of a man who witnesses a murder, is convinced by his wife to say nothing, and ends up a suspect in the murder case..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. 8vo. ix, 290 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Red pictorial cloth in original dust jacket, slightly chipped at edges and near head of spine, otherwise a fine, uncut copy. First American edition. Told by Dr. Thorndyke’s great friend Mr. Polton, whose invaluable childhood experiences..... More
Madison: [np], 1931. 8vo. [iv], 368 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers. Uncut and partially unopened. Water-stains at spine of front wrapper, affecting first few gatherings; reddish stains as well as water-stains to spine of back wrapper affecting last few leaves. First edition. Giese was Emeritus professor of Romance Languages..... More
[New York]: Totem Press, [1961]. 8vo. 47 pp. Original printed wrappers, faintly soiled, else a fine copy. Contains an introduction by William Carlos Williams. Includes Ginsberg’s poems A crazy spiritual; Marijuana notation; The blue angel, and many others. Wallace, B88. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1942]. 8vo. [viii], 52 pp. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original cloth in dust-jacket; an excellent copy. First American edition. “ An unmistakably Irish combination of brilliant humor, trenchant thought, and moving sentiment marks this latest collection of Gogarty’s poetry. Probably his finest work to date..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. 8vo. [x], 294 pp., including half-title. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original blue cloth in dust-jacket, chipped on top edge; uncut, interior excellent. First American edition. A “witty, delightful account of an Irishman who gave up the emerald green for the bustle of London and..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, [1938]. 8vo. xi, [i], 321 pp., including frontispiece. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Original tan cloth, pictorial end-papers; uncut. With copy of article on Gogarty from The New York Times Book Review laid in. Inscribed by Gogarty on flyleaf, “To Ralph H. Gutz, with the best wishes..... More
