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ref. 1022668358.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. elala3150Bungay: C.Brightly And T.Kinnersley 1807. 8vo. pp. vi 325. 4 engraved plates. contemporary tree calf rubbed Bungay: C.Brightly And T.Kinnersley, 1807 unknown
ref. B9783375139131Hardback. New. hardcover
ref. B9783382123925Paperback / softback. New. paperback
ref. 67-0405Worcester MA: J. Grout Jr. 1855. Small pamphlet with sewn blue paper covers. 32mo. 24 pp. 3-3/4 x 4-7/16 inches. Poems for children. Sample alphabet. Front and back cover illustrations. 6 full-page wood engravings spot art in text. Covers slightly soiled with bumped outer corners. Inner pages slightly age-toned with some foxing. Overall Very Good. Also included is an ALS from bookseller offering this for sale.From the collection of Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. 1926-2014 the founder of the Detroit based reference book publisher Gale Research. Worcester, MA: J. Grout Jr., [1855.] unknown
1938ref. 1388226New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 369 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is illustrated brown print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners tears to bottom edge with small portion torn away. Price unclipped: “$2.50”. Boards in blue cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners and rear bottom edge. Text block has blue tinted top edge. Tanning to endpapers lightly shaken binding. Signed note from author tipped in at front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1388226. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
1937ref. 1408147Mount Vernon: The Limited Editions Club 1937. Limited Edition #386/1500. Hardcover. Octavos 3 Volumes. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's heavily worn green paper slip case. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines. Minor shelf wear. Top edges of textblock dyed dark green. Light foxing to endpapers. Signed by Wilson and enumerated on limitation page in rear of Volume III. Shelved in LECs. 1408147. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1937ref. 057021The Limited Editions Club. A beautiful crisp clean three volume hardcover copy in fine condition. Includes slipcase in very good condition with small tear to paper at upper corner. No. 176/1500 limited edition copies signed by the illustrator Edward A. Wilson. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1937. The Limited Editions Club hardcover
1937ref. 021133Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines a little faded. Near Fine in a Good slipcase with neatly repaired split at the top edge. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #473 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover
1927ref. 626795New York: George H. Doran 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Two volumes. Tall octavos. 932pp total. Illustrated. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth topedges gilt. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped else a very good set lacking the slipcase. George H. Doran hardcover
1929ref. rbr1-125Tinted top edge; uncut unread pages; rough cut page edges; "Poetry essentially of an ornately late Romantic character" frank.org. This is #61 of a limited edition of 175 copies signed by the author. Very scarce. A Near Fine Unread copy of the Signed Limited Edition in a VG Dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. hardcover
1943ref. 76242New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Owner name on the verso of the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a touch of rubbing. An unusually fine copy of the first novel in Allen's Disinherited series. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover
1926ref. 18255George H. Doran Co 1926. near very good condition in red cloth. George H. Doran Co hardcover
1937ref. 018407Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine in an intact Very Good slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #540 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1927ref. 626795New York: George H. Doran 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition. Two volumes. Tall octavos. 932pp total. Illustrated. Gilt-stamped burgundy cloth topedges gilt. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped else a very good set lacking the slipcase. George H. Doran hardcover books
1943ref. 76242New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Owner name on the verso of the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a touch of rubbing. An unusually fine copy of the first novel in Allen's Disinherited series. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1937ref. 1408147Mount Vernon: The Limited Editions Club 1937. Limited Edition #386/1500. Hardcover. Octavos 3 Volumes. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's heavily worn green paper slip case. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spines. Minor shelf wear. Top edges of textblock dyed dark green. Light foxing to endpapers. Signed by Wilson and enumerated on limitation page in rear of Volume III. Shelved in LECs. 1408147. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1938ref. 1388226New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo 369 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is illustrated brown print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners tears to bottom edge with small portion torn away. Price unclipped: “$2.50”. Boards in blue cloth. Wear to spine caps and corners and rear bottom edge. Text block has blue tinted top edge. Tanning to endpapers lightly shaken binding. Signed note from author tipped in at front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1388226. FP New Rockville Stock. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1916ref. h46341El Paso: McMath Printing Co 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Author's first book. 6.75 x 5.25 inches softcover good copy with some foxing/spottiness to covers light surface soil small divot to fore-edge of text block light foxing to outermost pages. 43 pp. Provenance: University of Pittsburgh deaccession of duplicates from Hervey Allen Collection ca. 2014. Allen was born in Pittsburgh in 1889 graduated from Pitt in 1915 and served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. That year he published a collection of poems Ballads of the Border. He also served as a lieutenant and later a company commander of Company "B" of the 1st Battalion 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August 1918. After that he taught English at the University of Pittsburgh spent some time teaching in South Carolina where he met Dubose Heyward who became a close friend and collaborator. He published widely both poety and novels including a poetry collection that won the Yale Younger Poets award; his novel "Anthony Adverse" 1933 is probably his best known and most accomplished work considered one of the great examples of the modern historical novel. McMath Printing Co unknown
1916ref. h46343El Paso: McMath Printing Co 1916. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Author's first book. 6.75 x 5.25 inches softcover good with some extensive uneven tanning to front cover less so to rear cover general light surface soil to binding else nice clean copy. 43 pp. Provenance: University of Pittsburgh deaccession of duplicates from Hervey Allen Collection ca. 2014. Allen was born in Pittsburgh in 1889 graduated from Pitt in 1915 and served as a 2nd lieutenant in the 18th Pennsylvania Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916 during the Pancho Villa Expedition. That year he published a collection of poems Ballads of the Border. He also served as a lieutenant and later a company commander of Company "B" of the 1st Battalion 111th Infantry Regiment of the 28th keystone Division United States Army during World War I and fought in the Aisne-Marne offensive July-August 1918. After that he taught English at the University of Pittsburgh spent some time teaching in South Carolina where he met Dubose Heyward who became a close friend and collaborator. He published widely both poety and novels including a poetry collection that won the Yale Younger Poets award; his novel "Anthony Adverse" 1933 is probably his best known and most accomplished work considered one of the great examples of the modern historical novel. McMath Printing Co unknown
1921ref. 22266Yale University Press New Haven 1921. PBO Bound STIFF blue Paper Wrappers 1921 1st LTD EDITION 500 COPIES VG-/G- AS-IS SOFTCOVER MUCH Chipping & Loss of some Lettering Pictorial Cover EDGES Chips extremities Cover Interior relative nice tight clean but with some Tape repairs Inner Hinges Few Pencil marks interior & tiny chips Extremities light FoXing 69 pages Tape Repair OUTER HINGES COVER . iNCLUDES When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane Dragons Breath ETC Very Rare. First Edition. Printer Wrapper. Yale University Press, New Haven paperback
1979ref. 24769Midland TX: Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 184 pages; Signed by J. Evetts Haley on half-title page. Price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. ; Signed by Associated . Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library hardcover
ref. 004555Higginson Book Company. Hardcover. Near Fine. Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carrol County Indiana by Dr James Hervey Stewart. Hardcover reprint of 1872 edition published by Higginson Book Company. No jacket as issued. 372 pages. Higginson Book Company hardcover
1908ref. 14818London: T. N. Foulis. Fine. 1908. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 246 pages . T. N. Foulis hardcover
1937ref. 502874Limited Editions Club 1937. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 6.25 x 9.75 inches each 3 volumes. Illustrations by Edward A Wilson. 1500 copies printed of this limited edition signed by Edward A Wilson of which this #683. Very good condition scuffing on covers and faded spines but interiors in fine condition with striking illustrations. This is a heavy set and may require additional shipping costs. Limited Editions Club hardcover
