Recent Arrivals from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Knopf, 1985. First edition, this a review copy with signed & inscribed publicity photo laid-in. Octavo (8.75 x 6"), 163 pages. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in silver lettered gray cloth, in decorated dust jacket. A fine copy in like dust jacket. Author's first book, presenting 9 short stories including "How to Be an Other Woman," "The Kid's… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, no date (ca. 1930). Octavo (9" x 6.5"), 172 pages plus 12 tipped in color plates including frontis by Willy Pogany. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated terra-cotta cloth, in gold pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers. Spine slightly cocked, brief shelf wear, endpapers & pastedowns with modest foxing, otherwise very good in dust jacket… Read more about this item

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1970). First American edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), xv & 168 pages. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket which is quite faded at the spine but otherwise very good. Contents Include: Services: The Epic of Tullus Hostilius and the Myths of Indra: Myth and Epic; The "Horatii" and the "Āptya";… Read more about this item

"John R(ebel) Peacock, Unpardoned, Unrepentant, Unreconstructed. High Point North Carolina, Confederate States of America." 
High Point, North Carolina, September 13, 1954. Typed letter signed on illustrated letterhead. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), single sheet, verso blank, with the original mailing envelope. Folded twice horizontally, slight edge wear & soiling, otherwise very good. The envelope is soiled & a bit tattered but still good. Mr.… Read more about this item

Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket. Incudes: Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930; Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938; Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957. Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in… Read more about this item

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Eagle Carriage Co., no date (ca. 1914). Oblong octavo (6" x 8.5"), 56 pages plus covers, profusely illustrated. Publisher's pictorial stapled stiff paper wraps, the upper in color. Price list & separate correction slip laid in. This nor any other from this company found in OCLC as of 4/14/2024. Lightly soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good or… Read more about this item

New York: Edinburgh Fraternity, no date (ca. 1909). Limited edition, one of 1000 sets, complete in six octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated including frontis in color in each volume. Publisher's maroon cloth with printed paper labels on the spines. Bindings very slightly soiled, shallow loss & fraying at the top of the spine on volume six, spine… Read more about this item

[Bluffton, South Carolina: Sam Burnett, no date, ca. 1995]. Original photo shot with infrared film & developed in house using selenium toner, one of twenty-five examples signed & numbered in pencil by the photographer. The image measures 12.25 inches by 8 inches & is matted & backed to 20.5 inches by 16 inches. The label of Hilton Head Island's Pink… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First trade edition. Octavo (9" x 6.25"), xv & 335 pages, with illustrations throughout. Publisher's gilt lettered & decorated green cloth. Lightly rubbed, brief wear at spine extremities, "6" in white crayon (?) on the upper cover, brief gift inscription & date at the ffep, moderate toning & sporadic foxing, otherwise good or better. "These fragments will… Read more about this item

London: John C. Nimmo, 1893. First edition. Complete in two octavo volumes (9.5" x 7.25"), xxxii & 469; viii, 443 & [2] pages, profusely illustrated including one folding chart of the Sistine Chapel. Publisher's one quarter green over lighter green cloth with the coat of arms of Buonarroti Simoni in gilt, red, blue & black on the upper covers, the… Read more about this item

No place [Yokohama?], T. Enami & others, no date (ca. 1890s). Oblong Folio (12.5" x 15.5"), contemporary pictorial black lacquered boards inlaid in relief with bone, containing fifty hand-colored albumen photographs measuring generally 7.75 " x 10" mounted recto and verso to 25 thick card leaves, with tissue guards interleaved. Forty-four of the images are titled in the negative. Binding worn:… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1913. Limited edition, one of 1250 sets, this hand numbered 61. Twenty-six volumes, I through XXVI (of 28), octavos (8.75" x 6.25"), variously paginated, each volume illustrated with plates from paintings, engravings, etchings, drawings, photos, maps, etc., including frontispieces, with tissue-guards. Publisher's three-quarter crushed dark blue morocco & marbled paper over boards by… Read more about this item

New York: Roth Horowitz LLC, 1999. First edition, one of 500 copies. Oblong octavo (7.75" x 10") 39 pages, illustrated throughout (some in color, some folding). Publisher's light gray thick boards lettered in white on the upper cover bound by red wire rings. Boards slightly soiled & toned, trace edge wear, otherwise near fine. An extremely clever catalog for the Roth Horowitz… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1873. First edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 12 pages including covers, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 11 copies under 3 accession numbers as of 4/7/2024. Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including shallow creasing at the corners, otherwise good or better. "This essay received the… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1872. First edition. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.5"), 8 pages. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. OCLC locates 8 copies under 2 accession numbers as of 4/7/2024. Lightly toned & soiled, trace edge wear, otherwise very good. "To awaken attention to the improper use of check-reins, we wish to give a wide circulation to… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, no date (ca. 1886). First editions. Octavos (8.75" x 5.75"), single sheets folded once vertically forming 4 pages each, illustrated. OCLC records narrow holdings for numbers 1. 3, & 4 only as of 4/7/2024 Moderately toned & soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good. George Thorndike Angell (1823 – 1909) founded the… Read more about this item

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, printed by Wright & Potter, April 4, 1881. First edition. Original folio broadside measuring approximately 15 inches by 9.5 inches printed recto only on medium paper. Not found in OCLC as of 3/30/2024. Old folds, Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including creasing & a one inch tear, otherwise good or… Read more about this item

New York: The University Society / The Werner Company, (1908). Complete in ten octavo volumes (8.25" x 5.75"), variously paginated, illustrated throughout. Publisher's maroon pebbled roan & marbled paper over boards, the spines elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt. Bindings worn: mostly small losses at spine extremities, volume one with chip affecting lettering, volumes three & four with… Read more about this item

Chicago: Playboy Press, (1967). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), viii & 407 pages. Publisher's black cloth lettered in yellow & silver on the spine & decorated in blind with the Playboy Rabbit logo on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket with art work by Arnold Roth. A fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with slight edge… Read more about this item

New York: Bell Publisihing Company, (1967) "Revised Edition." Quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 128 pages, including 175 illustrations from photographs. Publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Very slight edge wear, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. As described by the New York Times, Peter Gowland (1916 - 2010), was "America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer." "In this… Read more about this item