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

Edinburgh: Thomas George Stevenson, 1875. Cloth. Very good.. Red cloth, with paper label on spine, wear to extremities. On rear hinge the paper is starting to separate but the hinge is strong. Foxing to preliminary pages. Handwritten on front free endpaper in pencil: "A 'Witchcraft' classic. Only a few copies of the original edition know to exist. This reprint is also rare. Limited. See p. liii." [The reference to liii refers to the last page of The Prefatory Notice which says, "The Impression printed has been Extremely Limited."] Penciled x next to paragraph. pp. viii-liii, (28) unnumbered, 1-264, i-ciii, iv-xxiv.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition. Boards. Very good/very good. Cream colored boards with 1/4 light green, gilt lettering spine, unclipped dust jacket, light wear to top and bottom of spine, and to top corner. Light foxing to top of pages. Signed by author on title page. 273 pp.

Chicago: University of Ilinois Press, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine, tan dust jacket, has one closed fold mark. Illustrations throughout. 134pp. Text in English, many of the illustrations in different languages.

New York: Avon Publishing Co., Inc, 1932. First Edition. Paperback. Good.. 7 x 5 inches (18 x 11 cm), paperback, pictorial cover, some wear to extremities, slight separation on inside of spine but still attached, some wear to page edges. 283 pp.

New York: The Scribner Bookstore, 1938. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 4 3/4 x 7 inches (12 x 17.5 cm), dark blue cloth, with silver design on front and lettering on spine, fading on spine, and fading to bottom inch of front. Some white stains to front and back. A list of books, some published as Modern Library books with descriptions with points for first editions. Most of the listing include the true first edition of the book, often with a comment about the Modern Library edition. Prices range from $10 -- 1850.00. Unpaginated but contains (331) books.

Boston: Percy Ives, 1906. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Blue cloth, with black illustration on front, with gilt and white lettering on front, black lettering on spine, lettering is darkened, wear to extremities. Foxing on front flyleaf, black and white frontispiece. Stamp from book company in Athens, Georgia, is on front free end paper twice. Spine starting to separate at top. Anonymous tales of an actress on the theatrical scene. 312 pp.

New Castle, DE: Oaknoll Press, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Beige cloth with black lettering on front and spine. Unclipped dust jacket, (18) illustrations, mostly photos. 350 pp. First Edition.

New York: Knopf, 1926. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good. Blue cloth, with gilt on front and spine, green design on front and spine, wear to head and tail of spine and corners. Former owner's name and date on half title page, minor foxing to edges of pages, some separation to rear of spine. 415 pp. including index First American Edition.

Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Contains two pamphlets: 1) Thomas Nairne, A Letter from South Carolina (London 1710) and 2) John Norris, Profitable Advice for Rich and Poor (London 1712). Nairne includes many facts and statistics: demographics, trade, costs of settling, and natural resources. Norris gives a dialogue in the form of questions and answers.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Very good -/good. Tan cloth with black lettering on spine, stain to top of book, dust jacket not price clipped, in good condition, has water stain that carries through to book, open tear and some rubbing to dust jacket. Top edge of pages also has stain. Memoir of a bookseller who started out in a low income area of Chicago. 205 pp.

New York: Norton, 1971. Cloth. Very good. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, no dust jacket, front hinge is slightly loose. A historical survey of sexuality. 666 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisianna State University Press, 1991. First Edition. Cloth. Very good/very good. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket in good condition. A collection of essays on places and people of the modern South. 268 pp. First Edition.

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.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. Book Club Edition. Boards. Very good/fine. Black boards with gilt lettering on spine, dust jacket fine condition, no price on dust jacket, apparently a Book Club Edition. 174 pp.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Blue boards with quarter cloth, black lettering on spine, unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by author. Some minor wrinkling to DJ. Minor foxing on top page edge, otherwise clean tight copy. 257 pp. Curry was a white woman who was a member of SNCC in the 1960's.

New York: Avon Publications, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Good.. 7 x 4.5 inches (18 x 11.5 cm), pictorial cover, wear to extremities, small tear and top flyleaf, age toning. 120 pp. By the author of "The Postman Always Rings Twice."

Durham, NC: Whole Women Press, 1977. Stapled wraps and wraps. Very good.. Issues 4-16 edited by Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson. Issues 18-21 edited by Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich. All have age toning, and a few have foxing. All bindings are tight, no rips or tears. Issue 6 has Erratum stapled in, issue 19 has an insert by Michelle Cliff and Adrienne Rich explaining why this issue was delayed. Inside the front cover of issue 9 is hand written the name of Charlene Ball, award winning author of Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer and short stories that have been published by a variety of journals. Most issues are 103-115 pages.

Durham, NC: Whole Women Press, 1978. Stapled wraps. Very good. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm), Cream colored wraps, age toning mostly around edges. 103 p. Cover art by Joanna Spilman. Sinister Wisdom started publication in 1977 and is still being published today.

Durham, NC: Whole Women Press, 1987. Wraps. Very good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches (21.5 x 14 cm). Cream colored wraps, 143 p. Cover art by Judith Waterman. Inside the front cover is hand written the name of Charlene Ball, award winning author of Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer and short stories that have been published by a variety of journals. Sinister Wisdom started publication in 1977 and is still being published today.

New York: Softcover Library, 1966. Third printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 7" x 4-1/2" perfect-bound paperback. A little rubbing at the spine and corners, covers a trifle rubbed, but a clean, bright, unread copy. Ranked by the People's Almanac as one of the ten most prolific American authors of all time, Neubauer wrote under a number of pseudonyms, including William Arthur, Christine Bennett, Ralph Carter, Joan Garrison, Jan Hathaway, Rebecca Marsh, Norma Newcomb, and Gordon Semple in addition to Norman Bligh. Between 1944 and 1967 (the pace slowed down slightly thereafter) he produced one novel every five weeks and sold every single manuscript -- all 240 of them -- to a commercial publisher. 156 pp.