Search Results: Authors starting with S from Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Later printing. Cloth. Very good/good +. Teal cloth with blue gilt lettering on spine, and blue gilt illustration of astrological signs on cover. Price clipped dust jacket has a price sticker on the bottom of flap. Dust jacket has age toning. Contents include basic astrology and more indepth materials for interpreting aspects. Includes glossary and cross index of aspects. 461 pp. Later Printing.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Later American edition. Cloth. Very good +/Very good. Kurt Wiese. Green cloth with gilt illustration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Some of the gilt is fading. Dust jacket in very good condition, minor chipping on extremities. Illustrated endpapers, illustrations throughout. 85th-95th thousand. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Translated by Whittaker Chambers. Originally published in German. Later American edition. 293 pages.

New York: Henry Holt, 1918. First Edition Second State. Boards. Good +. Brown boards, with lettering in black and spine, edges worn, tear on front free endpaper where something was erased. 147 pp.

New York: Sylvan Press, 1947. Limited Edition. Pebbled cloth. Very good. Rockwell Kent. Pebbled cover with large gilt illustration on front, gilt lettering on spine, some discoloration to endpapers. Number 183 of 1,499 numbered copies. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 11 full page black and white illustrations and smaller black and white illustrations throughout. 153 pp.

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974. Later printing. Cloth. Good. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front, gilt illustration on front. Endpaper has residue from a library pocket, front free endpaper is missing. This is part of the Twayne's United States Authors Series. 164 pp.

New York: Arco Publishing Co, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. 7 x 5 inches (18 x 11 cm), pictorial cover, wear to extremities, slight tear at bottom of front cover, front flyleaf detached, binding loose but intact, spine slightly slanted, chip on endpaper, some wear to page edges.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1910. First Thus. Cloth. Good +. Howard Chandler Christy. 9" x 11.5" (23 x 29). Green embossed cloth with red and black coloring on front and black print on spine. Worn at extremities, corners rubbed. Hinge starting to separate. Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Previous owner's name and gift inscription dated Dec. 25, 1917. Although the copyright date is 1910, this is probably a later edition since 1910 copies have gilt instead of red flowers.

New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First Thus. Cloth. Good +. Hunter green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front, 5" x 7", page edges rosy gilt, wear to extremities, illustration of interior of crypt frontispiece. Illustrations throughout. Map in front. 333 pp.

n.p.: Beacon Books, 1959. Paperback. Fine. 7" x 4-1/2" perfect-bound paperback. Covers bright, pages age-toned as usual, a very nice copy. 1959 was "a boom and a landslide" year (per Barbara Grier, writing in "The Lesbian Paperback" in 1966); this title was part of that boom. Lurid cover art by Fred Rodewald. 155 [5] pp.

New York: Harmony Books, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Sendak, Maurice. 10-1/2" by 14" (26 cm by 35.5 cm). First paperback edition. 24 posters. Good tight copy in near fine condition. Unpaginated [47].

Anaheim, California: Bruno Serato Publishing Company, 2007. First Edition, Deluxe. Cloth. Very good +/very good. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Picture of chef Bruno Serato on front of DJ. DJ has minor wear at extremities. 90 pages of glossy photos of food across from photos of shirtless men and 22 pages of recipes in rear. The dishes are works of art in themselves. 12 1/2 x 9 inches (31.5 x 21.5 cm) Inscription by author on page 7, which is a portrait of the author. The White House was an Italian restaurant in Anaheim that was burned down. Deluxe edition. Scarce. (Even Serato is not familiar with this edition.).

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. Second Edition. 1/2 cloth. Very good/very good. Red boards with 1/2 cloth, gilt lettering on spine, unclipped dustjacket. Inscription by author on title page. Some foxing on page edges. 356pp.

n.p., 1880. Wraps. Fine. 5 1/4 x 8 inches ((13.5 x 20 cm), stapled wraps. 23 pp. Fine. Seymour was one of the original members of the community which had been founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York, but which had formally ended as a utopian community by 1881. Seymour was notable for having been married to Tryphena Hubbard, the first local convert to the group; their marital troubles almost brought the entire enterprise to an early end in the late 1840s.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Cloth. Very good. Edmund Dulac. 10 x 7.5 inches (25.5 x 19 cm), green cloth, with gilt lettering and illustrations on front and spine. Wear to cloth on front, a few white marks on back, wear to head and foot of spine, edges and corners. Between front end paper and half title, the paper is partly separted from the inner hinge but still intact. There are 40 color plates illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Black and white illustrations at the beginning of each act. There is a prose description of the story written by A. T. Quiller-Couch. v-xxiv, 143pp.

London: The Folio Society, 1953. First Thus. Cloth. Very good/very good. Salvador Dali. Bright green cloth, gilt and black illustration to front, spine faded with gilt lettering. Pasted in bookplate on pastedown endpaper, with date, 7 April 1953. Foxing on endpaper, top of pages are red, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. Full color costume designs by Dali throughout. 93 pp.

New York: Gramercy, 1993. First Edition. Pictorial boards /1/4 cloth. Near fine. Hugh Thomson. Illustrated boards with 1/4 cloth, gilt lettering on front and spine. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Full page color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. Silk ribbon bookmarker.

Composing Romm + Graphic Typographers Inc, 1972. First Edition. 1/2 cloth and 1/2 leather. Near fine. Jack Wolfgang Beck. Gray cloth with 1/2 leather, 8-1/4" x 8-1/4" (21 x 21 cm). Illustrations by Jack Wolfgang Beck. Marbled endpapers, no page numbers. Full page black and gray illustrations throughout. Cloth slipcover with minor rubbing at opening.

U.S.: Nightstand Books, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very good.. 6.5 x 4 1/4 inches (16.5 x 11 cm), pictorial cover, crease on bottom corner of cover, otherwise clean bright copy. #1604, first edition. Andrew Shaw is a pen name for Lawrence Block. 188 pp. As of May 2023 no other copies are found in the trade.

New York: Harper and Row, 1915. Later edition. Cloth. Very good minus.. Red cloth, with gilt lettering on front and faded gilt on spine. Watermarks on back cover, top edges gilt, deckled pages. Inscription by Shaw on front free end paper to Emma Bugbee, a journalist who was a founder of the newspaper, Women's Club of New York. She is most known for her coverage of Eleanor Roosevelt and women's issues. This book was first published in September 1915. This copy was published October 1915. Written with the collaboration of Elizabeth Jordan. (30) photographs. The pages listing the illustrations are untrimmed. 338 pp. Hannah Howard Shaw was a leader of the women's suffrage movement, a physician, and one of the first ordained female methodist ministers. Her long time companion was Lucy Elmina Anthony, who was the niece of Susan B. Anthony.

Baltimore: Human Relations Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Leslie Delaney, cover artist. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering on spine. Normal wear to top and bottom of spine. Minor water damage to last few pages. Two pages of appendix separated. Some foxing to top edge. Unclipped dust jacket. Leslie Delaney, cover artist. Inscribed to Patricia Harris, later secretary of HUD in Carter administration. "To Honorable Patricia Harris, Ambassador to Luxembourg, with best regards, Gladys B. Shepperd, February, 1966." Mary Church Terrell was a civil rights activist in Washington, DC.