Gunning for Justice by Gerry Spence - 1982

Boston: T. Bedlington, 1826. Hard Cover. Very Good -. 2 volumes: each with a frontispiece and an added engraved title page; 15 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between double gilt rules; black spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title Life of Washington. Title page of vol. 1 is dated 1825; the added engraved title pages and the title page of vol. 2 are dated 1826. Stereotyped by T. H. Carter & Co., Boston. The front fixed endpaper of each volume bears the armorial bookplate of Geo. Dawson Coleman. The back of the frontispiece of volume 2 bears the name of former owner Peter Carpenter. Former owner Alfred Albert D.B. Carpenter has left variants of his name on both front fixed endpapers, as well as the title page and added engraved title page of volume 1, and the last page of text of each volume. Both Carpenters' names are also on the blank leaf following text at end of volume 1. George Dawson Coleman (1825-1878) was a member of the Coleman family… Read More

NY: W. W. Norton. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. B000858R70 . 1932 1st. Moderate outer wear, spine darkened. John A. Blum's copy dated 1/14/36 ffep. Handwritten on the rear endpapers, Blum (a Macy's executive) recounts a dinner with the author on 20 Feb, 1936. In part it reads: "After dinner last night, Mr Allison & I were talking about M. Thiers and he told me the real story of Thier's death...this ending...is of such a nature that its inclusion in a biography of this nature would ruin the whole thing, according to JMSA." Allison's findings are related here by Blum, dated 21 February 1936. ; 8vo; 294 pages .

SUMPTUOUS LEATHER-BOUND EASTON PRESS EDITION SIGNED BY FAYE DUNAWAY. This copy is #660 of only 1400 made. A lovely unread book in gift-worthy condition but is missing the Easton Press certificate. Expedited shipping is welcome; signed by author.

New York, NY: J. B. Lippincott, [1940]. First edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +. 8vo. 376 p. Bound in brown and cream zebra-patterned cloth, 'Adventure' in italics on front cover and spine, deckle edge, top-edge stained red. No other printings stated on copyright page. Lacking dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Very Good+, bright and clean, hinges strong and solid, very light rubbing to extremities and very faint age-toning to spine. Sharp copy.

n.p.: Myrtle Jones Longacre, 1963. Good. No DJ. Buckram cover is sunned and shows light soiling and shelf wear. Binding is split at title page. Interior is clean and without ownership marks. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. "A true account of the Jones family."

Chicago: Jensen, McClurg & Co., 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. 253 pages. Signed at the top of title page by Edward Coles; 'Mrs. Ogden with complements of Edward Coles August, 1884'. With 6 fold-out facsimile letters. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue-protected frontispiece engraved portrait of Coles. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Wear to top & bottom of spine, corners bumped, front hinge starting to crack, text & facsimile letters are very clean, no foxing etc. anywhere in the book.

New York: Random House, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Rebound in full blue calf, gilt, compartments. 259pp. speckled blue endpapers. Speckled blue endpapers. Sewn-in blue silk page marker. Near fine. New binding is of course fine; text block is lightly age toned; outer edge of boards (not text block) is slightly splayed, a characteristic sometimes noted in Indian bindings. Handsome custom-bound first edition of Stein's war memoir. Handsome custom-bound first edition of Stein's war memoir.

J. Munsell. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1865. No Edition Stated. Hardcover. Books are rebound w/brown leatherette spine, marbled boards and dark brown wood-type stain to top page ends; both volumes have foxing to pages, light edgewear, page ends toning, vol.2 has small bump to rear cover, bookplate inside front cover and couple pages have pen/pencil line in margin, second half of book has light moisture mark to bottom pages at spine .

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, in pencil, on front endpage - "Dear Tolman - This book is little changed from the Mss. I read you but as always it owes much to your encouraging criticism. Faithfully yours, Sherwood Anderson". Lacking the dustjacket, the book is Near Fine, a few small rubs to the cloth. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

T & W Boone, 1830. Book. Illus. by Arthur Rackam. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Dated 1830 on the title page. There are no further date or publishing information so it is presumed a first edition. Rebound in half leather with new marbled endpapers. The preliminary pages have some foxing & there are a few marks elsewhere but in general the text is clean. No torn or missing pages as far as I can tell. The page edges are unevenly trimmed..