Rare Books from Eric James

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 242" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;---also included are a plain white flimsy paper dust jacket,… Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 259" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;---also included are a plain white flimsy paper dust jacket,… Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 246" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;---also included are a plain white flimsy paper dust jacket,… Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 262" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;---also included are a plain white flimsy paper dust jacket,… Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 268" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;---laid in is a folded sheet of stiff cream-coloured paper,… Read more

Amsterdam, Netherlands: WereldBibliotheek-Vereniging, 1949. Hardcover without dust jacket, 29 pages including wood engravings;--- text in Dutch;---"Dit is nummer 260" of this limited edition, numbered and signed by the illustrator H. D. Voss; this is one of the personal copies of Voss, later a Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer;--slim elegant book in golden orange covers which have… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton Small 15 cm x 11 cm softcover pamphlet, undated (roughly c1880-1920 by my guess), consisting of 1. an outer brown paper folder with flaps printed on front with title and author over a square partially coloured floral motif; front and back age toned and lightly foxed, flaps much lighter with… Read more

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991. Mass market paperback, 291 pages, plus black-and-white photographs: one moderate spine crease but spine still flat, tight in binding, light reader's crease to front cover, corner creases to front cover bottom and first (non-text) page, light rubbing along edges, tiny price sticker on back cover, pages age toned, but overall gently… Read more

Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA: Destiny Publishers, 1943. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, third (1945) printing, 358 pages; book very gently used, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, bookplate and tiny name/address rubber stamp of previous owner on free front endpaper,… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Pimlico, 1997. Trade paperback, xiv + 472 pages; very light bump to spine bottom, very small pale faded waterstain to the corner of the fore and bottom edges with barely visible page penetration to the outer margins of a few scattered pages, but tight in binding, very… Read more

Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Escudo de Oro, 1984. Oversized glossy paperback, 63 pages including full colour photographs on every page; front cover reader's crease, otherwise very gently used, not abused, very clean and unmarked throughout. … Read more

Toronto: Baxter Publishing , 1969. Trade paperback, 68 pages;---signed on the title page in full as Freda Newton Bunner above the publisher's name/address, and below that in the author's handwriting the full name and address of the distributor;---light rubbing to covers, spine creased, heavy vertical crease down centre of front cover in addition to a light reader's… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket (price "10s. 6d. net"), 271 pages; book gently used, only very light traces of shelf wear, traces of pale faded white stains barely visible on front cover, slightly more so at top of back cover, spine slightly slanted but still tight in binding, silver gilt… Read more

New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing , 1904. Hardcover without dust jacket, 255 pages;---elegant book in a variant teal cloth with black lettering and simple decoration to spine and front cover, plus a small circular motif on the front (NOT the skeleton smoking a pipe);---very gently used, tight in binding, covers and ever so slightly faded spine are… Read more

Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 394 pages, plus two two-page maps;---First Edition, First Printing, "This is copy number 456 of a limited Collector's Edition of 500.";---Signed in green ink by Julian May on numbered by hand Collector's Edition page bound in before the half title page;---book very gently read, not… Read more

London, United Kingdom: Pimlico, 1997. Trade paperback, xiv + 472 pages; very light bump to spine bottom, a small pale faded stain at corner of fore and bottom edges without page penetration (or possibly just shelf scuffing), but tight in binding, very gently read if at all, interior very clean and unmarked. See also our… Read more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Clarke Irwin, 1949. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, x + 287 pages including drawings, plus full colour Plates; very gently used, tight in binding, only tiny traces of shelf wear at cover edges and spine ends, some patches of fading corresponding to chips in DJ, several rubber stamps of a high… Read more

Boston: C. M. Clark, 1901. Blue cloth hardcover with top edge gilt and bright and clear gilt embossed lettering to front cover and an illustration in shades of blue and gray, without dust jacket, fourth printing of this First Edition in year of publication, 442 pages, plus illustrations;---publisher's complimentary copy with a… Read more

New York: Noonday Press, 1971. Trade paperback, 114 pages. tiny traces of shelf wear, residue of two price stickers on front cover, a small strange patch of lamination loss at back cover top spine hinge, but spine and covers flat/uncreased, tight in binding, very gently read, if at all, interior very clean and unmarked,… Read more

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1931. Trade paperback in stapled binding, with dust jacket, 127 pages including drawings; tiny traces of shelf wear, but very gently used, a small brown Eaton's cash register receipt from 1929 laid in has toned squares of the same size on the two adjacent pages, interior otherwise very clean and unmarked, pages surprisingly … Read more