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Salt Lake City: Northwest Publishing, 1992. A fine copy. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 224 pages. Boards; dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and with letter from author laid in. First Edition. "Bolt from the Blue is Pintoff's vivid accout of his stroke and his determined struggle to recover. A natural storyteller, Pintoff weaves an insightful tapestry of fear and love, depression and humor, and despair and the rebirth of dreams.

New York: Charles Scribner 's Sons, 1901. 2 volumes, octavo. Frontispiece and photographic plates. Contemporary plum morocco gilt, spine with acorn tool centered in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered in the remaining two, marbled boards, top edges gilt (slightly sunned, a few small chips at extremities). FIRST EDITION. An attractively-bound set.

Padua: Seminario, 1807. First edition. Dried and somewhat cracked, bottom spine compartment perished, internally a fine, crisp copy. Two parts in one volume, octavo (240 x 165 mm). 441 pages. Errata leaf at end. Contemporary Paduan red morocco, richly gilt, the arms of Padua at center of each side, a wide gilt floral border, spine gilt, black morocco lettering-piece, edges gilt. A major source, often cited, of bio-bibliographical information on the most famous citizens of Padua, framed around an exegesis of the statues surrounding the Prato della Valle. The two parts of the book divide the exterior ring (containing 44 statues) from the interior ring (containing a further 44 statues and obelisks). The square became the property of the city of Padua in 1767, having formerly belonged to the monks of Santa Giustina. The plan to restructure the square was that of Andrea Memmo (depicted in the final statue of the exterior ring). Among the notable figures represented with a statue, and described in… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927. Two volumes, 8vo. Plates. Original cloth; dust jackets. Owner's inkstamp crossing text on title, wear and chipping at extremities of jackets. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Scarce with jackets.

City of Washington: Sold by Wilder & Campbell, New York, 1825. Some light browning to text, soft creases (probably from pressing during rebinding) at beginning and end, generally very good plus. 8vo (21.4 x 12.7cm) Engraved portrait frontispiece after Charles Wilson Peale by Rawdon, Clark & Co (lightly offset on title). viii, 364 pages. Modern half calf preserving original spine label and marbled boards. First American edition, published the same year as John Murray's London edition. Sabin 80334.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1974. Fine. Quartro. Woodcuts in color by Robert Quackenbrush. Original patterned cloth, title label on spine; original glassine; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 605 of 2,000 copies signed by the illustrator.

London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society [by The Riverside Press, Edinburgh), 1924. 3 volumes, octavo. Printed in red and black. Frontispieces and plates. Original gilt-lettered and -decorated blue cloth, original purple silk page-markers preserved (slightest wear at extremities, generally clean and bright). Provenance: Walter Chrysler (morocco booklabel). A FINE SET OF THE NAVARRE EDITION. This reprints the text of the 1791 first edition, as well as the Appendix and "Principle Corrections and Additions" of 1793.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1927. 4to. 397 pages. Frontispiece. Portrait, facsimiles and plates. Quarter vellum, gilt-lettered on spine, marbled boards (vellum somewhat mottled). FIRST EDITION. Limited issue, one of 1480 numbered copies. This volume was issued uniformly in format with the Keynes Collected Works published by the Nonesuch Press two years earlier.

Haarlem: The Limited Editions Club, 1972. Limited edition, number 605 of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Fine. Folio. Illustrated by René Ben Sussan. Original floral-decorated cloth; original glassine; publisher's board slipcase. Translated from the French by Arthur Machen. Selected by J. Rives Childs.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull and with a slight tear. 8vo. Illustrated. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition of this work comprised of biographical portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Edison, Henry Ford, Lenin, Mussolini, and Calvin Coolidge. One of 200 copies in this binding and signed by Bradford. The dedication copy, inscribed by the author: "Mark Howe with the affectionate regards of Gamaliel Bradford, February 28, 1931." The printed dedication: "To M. A. De Wolfe Howe Whose Skill in Biography is Equated By His Genius for Friendship." Merle Johnson, p. 61. (BA) As Bart suggested to himself that a note be added about Howe, we comply: Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was an American editor and author, and recipient of the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his ' Barrett Wendell and His Letters'.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. A near-fine copy with some light spotting to sheet edges and spine panel of jacket. 8vo. 490 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition. The story of McGregor's early life in the inner city, through prison, and his eventual life as a Fortune Society counselor, prison-reform spokesman, and Hollywood actor.

New York: Asher Aarons / Harper Collins, 1992. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear to the jacket. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing. INSCRIBED by Rivers on the half-title: "For Susan / Happy birthday / Larry Rivers.