Rare books from The Wild Muse

Boston: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. First edition of the original 1893 edition. Not the reprint. Hard cover. Published Boston: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893. 8vo., vii+357+ 3 plates. Brown cloth with black embossed design and cover pictorial, black titles. Minor spotting along edges, else near fine, clean, bright copy with no signs of wear, of an early, very scarce Sheldon title. Only twelve copies in WorldCat.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo..

NY: New York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1836. Finely bound original 1836 New York Protestant Episcopal Press issue. Only 2 copies in OCLC. 4to., 9" x 11" x 2." 478, 132, 125 [6] pp. Full brown leather with embossed covers and lightly raised bands, gilt decorative spine and cover rules, marbled edges. Trinity Church, Wolcottville, gilt stamped on cover. Mostly clean and bright, binding straight and tight. Front inner hinge split, mild foxing/creasing to endpapers, some mothing into the edges, moisture stain along top margin of the Hymns, few page corners chipped - not affecting text, some scuffing/rubbing to the leather. Good plus overall, with textblock very good. Very scarce.. 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

United States Lawn Tennis Association, 1953. First edition. 22 official programs of various USLTA Tennis Championships for the entire 1953 season, complete as published. Bound in green buckram with gilt tiles. USLTA officer S. Ellsworth Davenport, Jr.'s copy, with his name embossed on cover. 22 programs for matches at various US locations from June 7 - Aug 29, 1953. Each program is approx. 30 pages, profusely illustrated with b/w photos, plus a full color cover, vintage ads. All programs near fine in very good cloth covered boards, 9" x 12". . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio. Magazines & Periodicals.

NY: Feeks and Bancker, 1863. First edition. Original wrappers. Published NY: Feeks and Bancker, 1863. 12mo., 4 7/8" x 7 1/4", printed glazed orange wrappers, 48pp. Only two copies of the 1863 first edition in world Cat. "A satirical history of the administration of Lincoln told in biblical language." Some chips/creasing to the covers, loss along the spine, stain to lower corner first few sheets. Good. . 1st. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo. Manuscripts Paper Collectibles.

NY: Morrow, 1932. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Author's scarce first book. Published NY: William Morrow Company, 1932, first printing. 8vo., 266pp., purple cloth with yellow titles. Spine and cover edges sunned, pastedowns and a few pages have mild foxing, else clean and bright. Very good. Only eight copies in WorldCat. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907. 12 volumes of a 19 volume edition. Edited by Chester David Hartranft and Elmer Ellsworth Schultz Johnson. All first editions, except vol 15, which is a second printing. Bound in leather and marbled boards. Includes Volumes 1 to 10, 12, 15. Published Leipzig and Norristown, PA: Breitkopf & Hartel / Schwenckfelder Church, 1907-1960. Thick 4to's., 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 3", approx. 700 - 900pp. per volume, illustrated with facsimilies. Text in German with introductions and commentaries in English. Three quarter leather with gilt spine titles and marbled boards and edges, decorative endpapers. External wear to first eight volumes, with rubbing and scuffing to leather and covers, some inner hinges tender on older volumes, markings on spine of volume seven, no other markings, text clean and bright. Very good. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Peterborough, NH: McGraw-Hill, 1980, first printing. 8vo., 7 1/2" x 9 1/4", 235pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. A seminal work by a pioneer in computer graphics and cinema techniques. Near fine, clean and bright, in a very good dust jacket with edgewear and a short, closed tear. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. DeLuxe first edition. Bound in red paneled leather with gilt spine and cover titles in Fraktur, top edge gilting. Published Düsseldorf: Floeder-Verlag, 1934. 4to., 8 1/4" x 11", 319pp., illustrated with full page photo plates, 5-panel fold out panorama attached at rear, frontis portrait. Text in German. Published in the early days of Hitler's rise to power as a "book of honor" to chronicle and commemorate his achievements. Slight rub/scuffing to extremities, else a well preserved example in very good plus condition. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to. DeLuxe Edition.

London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Signed first edition. 2 volumes finely bound in crimson 3/4 morocco by Stikeman with raised bands and gilt titles. Power's autograph signature bound in. Published London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Large 8vo., 6" x 9", xv+440pp.; vi+408pp., with half titles and frontispieces etched by Hervieu present. Marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Name plate of noted collector Benjamin DeForest Curtiss on front pastedown of each volume. Power was a well known Irish comedian, actor and author. He toured the Eastern U.S. extensively and was lost at sea returning home from his last tour of 1841. He was great-grandfather of the Hollywood actor of the same name. Pages clean and bright white, page block crisp. Minor rub/scuff at extremities. A fine set in an elegant binding.. Signed. 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. Bound in full pebbled leather with raised bands, gilt titles and designs, marbled endpapers, speckled edges. Published London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo., xviii+479pp., plus28pp. publisher's catalog , dated May, 1861. Illustrated with 27 full-page engravings, including a folding frontispiece of a gorilla (the first ever of the animal), and 46 reproductions within the text. Folding map bound at the rear missing, front edge of first two sheets of catalog have old archival repair. Minor wear at the crown, hinges and tips else near fine. Internally fine, pages and plates bright white with no foxing - rare to find as such. French-American anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu spent nearly four years on his first expedition to Central Africa covering 8,000 miles. He brought back numerous specimens of exotic birds and confirmed the existence of the gorilla. His account is a seminal work on Equatorial Africa. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Rio de Janeiro: Diagraphis, 1972. First edition. Limited to 1,200 numbered copies, printed on Chambril and Kraft papers. Copy #299. Large folio, 14 1/4" x 20", with 21 illustrations in colored pencil by Candido Portinari reproduced in the size of the originals. Text in Portuguese. Suffering from lead and arsenic toxicity from paint, Portinari took up colored pencil in 1956 to create new illustrations for Don Quixote. In 1972, when the publishing project came to fruition, poet Carlos Drummond was invited to write 21 poetic glosses to accompany Portinari's drawings. The book is formatted as a folio, with loose sheets within paper covered boards in a printed dust jacket. Contents are fine, with all sheets present. 3 inch split at the lower front hinge, board otherwise strong and intact. Some splitting to the fold of dust jacket in same location, dust jacket has closed tears, old tape repairs, some soiling and is taped to covers. Three business cards of Banco Frances e Brasileiro S.A.… Read More

NY: Herman Miller Lot of 21 late 1960's, early 1970's Herman Miller publications all in very fine, as new condition. In original 10" x 13" Zeeland, Michigan, Herman Miller envelope. Includes: Action Office Acoustic Handbook 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 60pp., b/w illustrated booklet; The Morrison / Hannah Collection. Knoll International. 8 1/4" x 11 5/8" wrappers, 18pp. full color with fold-out; Eames Celebration - Reprinted from Architectural Design, September, 1966. 9 3/8" x 12" wrappers, 44pp., illustrated in b/w and color; Haller Program 24" x 30" full color, 2 sided, 6 panel foldout poster; Haller Program 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 12pp. self cover, full color booklet; Herman Miller Environmental Enrichment. 1972. 24" x 37" full color 8 panel foldout poster of Alexander Girard's designs; Herman Miller Library Group Catalog Brochure. 1968. Designed by Tomoko Miho. 8 1/2" x 11" wrappers, 24pp., full color catalog… Read More

Yonkers, NY: Harry A. Glynn, 1922. 5 original issues, including the first three that were published. April, July, August, December, 1922, (Vol. 1 Nos. 1,2,3,6); January, 1923; (Vol. II No. 7). Published Yonkers, NY: Harry A. Glynn, 1922-1923. 12mo., stapled wrappers, 5 1/4" x 7 3/4", each 32-34pp., plus 4pp. printed stiff covers, illustrated. The first issue (April 1922) was published as a quarterly, with the July issue beginning the run as a monthly. The first two issues bear the cover subheading "In Favor of Booze, Wild Women and Jazz", which was changed to "Intoxicated By Wit" with the August issue. With the January, 1923 issue it changed again to "A Magazine That's Intoxicated By Wit". Sections include Eve And Her Sex; Some Redhead Pickings; Information Worthwhile; Private Questions; Verse Or Worse. The second issue began carrying small display ads for risqué photos on the last page. "Eat, drink, raise hell and be merry, and tomorrow you can… Read More

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1929, first printing. 8vo., 253pp. Bright orange cloth with black titles. Very scarce second mystery novel by the author of Scarface. Light fray to the cloth at the lower spine end, gentle rub at the lower tips, else fine, clean, bright, unmarked, binding square and tight in good, internally repaired dust jacket missing the front inner flap. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Good. 8vo.

A fine wash drawing in blue tint of noted American artist Frederick Schiller Cozzens (1846-1928). Best known for his maritime and yacht paintings, Cozzens illustrated for publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The Daily Graphic, Yachts and Yachting, Our Navy and others. His widely received edition of lithographs, American Yachts, was published in 1884. Here, his subject is pastoral in a finely executed Japanese scene of mountains, forests and a mountain lake, in which a Japanese boatman is rowing, while another boatman, sitting upon the bank on an overturned boat, is contemplating the lake. Signed F.S. Cozzens in lower left. The drawing is on white vellum card and is unframed and measures 5 1/2" x 9 1/4". It is fine, with a 3/16" closed tear on the left edge and a few traces of foxing. There is a pencil study of mountains and human figures on the verso. Housed in a three part 6 1/2" x 10 1/2" custom case, the outer case bound as a book in half leather with gilt ornamented… Read More