An e-list of 20 mostly newly-acquired titles, from Joyce to Roethke, Shakespeare to Parkman to Hardy, Yeats to Sinatra (and everybody to Brooklyn, by way of Philadelphia!).
Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1898. Second Edition. Softcover. Card covers, Sewn Binding, 572 pp. Measuring 9" x 6" x 3/4". Large Color Street Map folded and laid in, and color Bicycle Map of Long Island. Incredibly chock full of every sort of information one might want to..... More
Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1900. First Edition. Softcover. Card covers, Sewn Binding, 640 pp. Measuring 9" x 6" x 3/4". TWO Large Color Maps folded and tipped in: GUIDE MAP TO THE BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN, has a long, even separating tear along one of the folds, and..... More
London, England: Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. George Catlin. Second State. Leather-bound. Quartos. Recent brick-red half-morocco over marbled boards (10" x 6 3/4"). Title page reads "With four hundred illustrations carefully engraved from his original paintings", but because some are missing (Howes notes which, with..... More
Paris, France: Published for the Egoist Press, by John Rodker, 1922. First English Edition, Limited 1/2000. Leather-bound. Though actually printed by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France.). One of 2000 copies, without errata. Top edge gilt. Beautifully rebound by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, England, with original blue wrappers bound in at..... More
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Charles Seide. Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth-covered boards. First printing of the second book of one of one of the most beloved of American poets, who died of a heart attack at age 55. who went on to win -- six years after..... More
London, England: B. and J. White at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, 1796. Fifth Edition. Leather-bound. Small quarto, Contemporary mottled calf measuring 8 1/2" x 5 3/8". Front and rear boards each double-ruled in gilt with a continuous gilt device (appearing like tiny life preservers strung upon a striped rope), and a...... More
London, England: William Heinemann, 1919. Sixth Printing. Leather-bound. Quarto. Half-bound in navy morocco (goatskin) over four-colour, stone-marbled boards. Four raised bands (five compartments) to spine, with bright gilt-on-black spine label, which, oddly enough, names the illustrator, but neglects to mention the playwright, (whomever he was!) Thick paper, lightly toned. Forty..... More
London, England: Printed for Thomas Wilcox, Bookseller at Virgil's Head, opposite the New Church in the Strand, 1757. First Edition (Limited Thick Paper Edition). Leather-bound. First Edition of the very first history of New York, and one of a very few copies on large and thick paper. Quite scarce in..... More
Virginia: U.S. ARMY 64TH ENGINEER TOPOGRAPHIC BATTALION (USAFICPA). 1944. Poster. Three informational (propaganda) posters in a series, comprising 4009-1; 4009-2; and 4009-7, each measuring approximately 17 1/2" x 11 1/2". Each of the three shows a central fold crease, and one shows considerable smudging or perhaps dry mold; each is..... More
Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelly and Sons), 1903. Hardcover. 110 volumes of the Lakeside Classics. Missing 7 early books in the series., but does include the very first title -- the rather scarce 1903 Franklin's autobiography. Missing Items : 1904 Inaugural Addresses; 1905 Inaugural Addresses; 1906 Fruits of Solitude..... More
