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New York: Seaview, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 6 inches. 402 pp. Near Fine / Fine. Association copy. Embossed stamp of gifting owner at lower leading corner of front free endpaper: "Library of Harlan Ellison." Inscription with signature on title page from Ellison to recipient, long-time friend and fellow author Joe Hensley: "A Gift to Joe from his pal, Harlan Ellison 19 Feb 87." Red textured paper on board. Gold lettering on spine. White endpapers. Minor shelf wear to lower edges of boards and heel of spine. Small bumps to leading lower tips of both boards. Curved crease across spine 1 inch below crown. Text block square and tight. Interior pristine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Author's second book.

Indianapolis, IN: Douglas and Maguire, 1833. Second Edition, carefully revised, corrected and enlarged. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. Good. Original light brown cloth over board. 200 pp. Cloth stained, spotted, and edge-worn. All corners soft. Tips and some edges rubbed through. Lacking spine label. Turn-in partially detached at foredge of front board. Binding solid. Hinges loose but secure. Damp stains to endpapers. Small blue pencil markings to front pastedown. One-inch closed tear to foredge of front pastedown with paper detached from board. Two half-inch diameter unidentifiable stamps to front free endpaper. One-inch rough diameter missing material in front free endpaper, as if a third stamp had been excised. Creasing to front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked with significant foxing throughout. Howes S230. Quite scarce.

New York: (Williams and) Whiting and Watson, 1810-1812. Volumes I-VI. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.5 x 6 inches. Unpaginated. Good. Full leather on board. Early (1847) bespoke rebinding. Six decorative spine panels with gilt ruling still showing. Gilt lettering "Scott's Bible" in a red panel, content and volume number in a black panel. Early owner's name (D.S. Ebersol) in gilt visible at spine tail on some volumes. Publication: Vol. I, 1810, Williams and Whiting; Vol. II & III, 1811, Whiting and Watson; Vols. IV-VI, 1812, Whiting and Watson. Leather shows considerable edgewear, rubbing, scuffing, and scraping with traces of early worm damage. All volumes (except vols. 5 & 6, missing upper portion of ffep): "Nov 15 1829" in ink head of ffep, 2-inch strip excised from leading top corner ffep, "Silas Samson Jr" in ink below excised strip on ffep. All volumes: "D.S. Ebersol Oct 1847" in pencil at head of title page.Vol. I (Genesis through Joshua): Leather cracked through along entire front hinge, but hinge… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 8.75 x 11.25 inches. 267 pp. Fine / Very Good. Original unclipped dust jacket, with watercolor art by Gil Reid, shows price of $17. Light brown cloth over boards. Black leather strip on front board stamped with silver Hiawatha logo. Spine lettering in silver on black field. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, including frontispiece. Top edge very lightly foxed, else Fine. Dust jacket shows some edge wear, minor rubbing near crown and foot of spine, half-inch chip on upper edge of front panel, two three-quarter-inch closed tears on lower edge of back panel, and two-inch closed tear in lower right corner of front panel. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Signed. Hardcover. Thin quarto. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. 40 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine / Good+. Inscribed in pencil, with full signature in ink, and dated by author on front free endpaper recto, "to Peter, hello!, Maurice Sendak, Nov.'73." Publisher's original oatmeal linen binding with circular color pictorial onlay to front board. Light brown endpapers. Fully illustrated in color by author. Full color pictorial dust jacket has all points present (per Hanrahan) for first issue: front flap clipped on bottom corner, price of $4.95 intact at top, 1070 at bottom left; seven titles listed on rear flap. Silver Caldecott Honor Book sticker on front dust jacket panel, indicating that this copy was not distributed until after the award was given. Binding tight and square. Case has sharp tips and no edge wear. Boards clean with exception of a small smudge at lower center of front board and a small spot of stain at the center of the top edge of the… Read More

New York: Martin, Johnson and Company Steel. Edition not stated, assumed late 1800s. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 x 8.75 inches. Complete three-volume set. Good. Blind embossed dark brown full leather on thick beveled boards, gilt double-ruled edges, blind inside dentelles, five raised fillet bands with gilt-stamped lettering in two chambers. Original owner's name (O. B. Sappington) gilt stamped at foot of spine. All edges gilt. Comedies volume, pages [liv] 1-621; Historical Plays volume, pages 623-1097; Tragedies volume, pages 1099-1725. "Carefully Collated and Compared with the editions of Halliwell, Knight, and Collier: With Historical and Critical Introductions, and Notes to Each Play; and A Life of the Great Dramatist, by Charles Knight. Illustrated with New and Finely Executed Steel Engravings, Chiefly Portraits in Character of Celebrated American Actors, Drawn from Life, Expressly for This Edition." Pages age toned and foxed. Cases edgeworn and quite rubbed. Front hinge and bands of Tragedies volume… Read More

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25. 1589 pp (including index). Fine / Fine. Complete four-volume set. Teal cloth over boards. Gilt stamping to spines. Text blocks tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jackets show very light rubbing toward heads of spines, else Fine. Dust jackets now in archival protective covers. Additional shipping charges will apply.

New York, Touchstone Press with the cooperation of the Tribune Subway Gallery, 1948. Soft portfolio. 9 x 12 inches. Very Good. Nine of the original loose eleven black and white plates (plus cover art) in slightly worn portfolio. Contents clean, slightly toned. Please note: Text introduction by Anges Smedley missing. Communist era China, revolutionary period.

Mountain City, Tennessee: Johnson County Historical Society, 1986. Sesquicentennial Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. 511 pp. Very Good+ / No Dustjacket as issued. Red leatherette on board. Gilt-stamped debossed title, county seal, and triple panel border to front board. Gilt-stamped title to spine. Pictorial endpapers (four seasonal photos and poem to front pastedown, map to front free, blank family record to read free, blank family tree to rear pastedown). Case in Fine condition. Binding solid. Textblock square and tight. Slight foxing to leading edge of texblock. Foxing to front free endpaper and verso, title page, copyright page, and rear endpaper verso. Interior clean and unmarked with slight age toning at edges.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962. Tempo Books Edition, T10. First Printing. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 4.25 inches. 254 pp. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market paperback in pictorial wrappers with cover art by Jo Polseno. Edges dyed red. Text block square and tight. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wrappers. Slight browning to pages. School library stamp to top and bottom edges and versos of front and back wrappers, else free of markings. Extremely scarce early softcover issue.