Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling - 1897

Edinburgh/London.: William Blackwood & Sons., 1884.. Red cloth, dark brown coated endpapers.. Spines sunned, covers partially sunned & lightly soiled, front hinge Vol I very slightly cracked, Vol II binding cracked, but not broken at page 113; spine top of volume 2 lacks 1/2" x 5/16" piece, texts clean: Good+ to VG-.. small 8vo. 1st edition, 1st issue: 1/2 title in each vol. Gold-stamped diamond-shaped front cover ornament. Spines are lettered, in gold, "An/ Old Man's/ Love [line] Trollope" inside of a box, the volume #, and "W. Blackwood & Sons/ EdinB & London". Wolff 6788

London: Printed for F. & C. Rivington; Otridge & Son; J. Nichols; J. Sewell etc., 1802. Full leather. Occasional foxing mostly opposite plates, pages 209-10 & 289-90 have 4" closed tears, covers rubbed, bindings sound/tight: VG+. 8vo. Frontispiece, vignette title page + 14 full page engravings. Includes: The Life of Dr. Young by Mr. Herbert Croft

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927 1st ed/6th printing Dec 1927, long inscription on the first title page in author's handwriting and signed by Author and Biller Houser to a Helen Lord, in the inscription gives a hint to who these people were, they were fellow teachers at an all male prep school named The Lawerenceville School in NJ, were Mr Wilder taught FRENCH, and had close ties to Princeton. BOOK: is very clean and the sections(signatures) are still very well bound,but the webbing between them is showing at some places, still very secure and held together tightly,other than that appears to be better than the Good+ I rate it.. included is a 9th printing,with its dustjacket which has chips and darken spine,maybe use it to protect the good one.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1932. Included is a signed 3x5 card from the Hirsh Cohen collection, by the AUTHOR. Dustjacket I am listing this book without one, but it has one that is bad with large pieces missing. But I do have a slipcase from First Edition Library. Book: has two bottom corners bumped slightly, minor shelf wear, top of the spine has a little wear, and unevenness due to a manufacturing error which also cause a small wrinkle, light stains(small), orange cloth with gold boxes with title and publisher name, no cracking, very tight and square. A nice copy. The "A" is present as well as the seal, this is the 1st issue.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good-Very Good book/VG+ slipcase/poor dustjacket. Included is a signed copy of God's Little Acre by Franklin Library. And a BCE of Tobacco Road so it can be read instead of the valuable one.

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

New York: Aperture, 2000. Signed by Salgado and rare thus. First edition / First printing. Black cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1977. First Edition / first printing. From the library of Del Close, signed "To Del - Best Wishes - Frederick Pohl" the title page. Book is in very good + (pages aged, light wear along bottom edges of boards) condition with a very good + (light wear at corners, 1/4" tear at lower rear) unclipped ($8.95) dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York. : The Limited Editions Club. , 1989. Limited edition, #171 of 600 copies.. Hardcover, quarter black cloth over tan cloth boards, gilt spine titles, slipcase. . Fine in slipcase. . 4to.. Signed by the author and the artist on the colophon. LEC newsletter laid in. Heavy set, weight: 10.2 lb. requires extra postage. Introduction by the author. Photogravures by Hank O’Neal.

Three volumes, near fine; this book appears unused. Eminent 19th century medieval historian, patriot and activist Henry Charles Lea's famous and exhaustive compendium of materials concerning witchcraft from the writings of the early Hebrews down to 1547. A rather amazing collection of materials, both legal and historical, concerning the origin, development, traditions, influence, stages of belief and influence, and differences by region in the practice of witchcraft, magic and sorcery. Organized and edited from Lea's notes by Arthur Charles Howland, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, who also verified Lea's citations. Inscribed gift of editor.

Paris: Le Livre, 1921. Limited Edition . Full-Leather. Near Fine. 4to. Gustave Buchet. 81pp French text.One 425 numbered copies.Fine designer binding (with light wear) A very good and clean copy with fine colour illustrations.