The Roger Williams calendar
Central Falls: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers, [1897]. 8vo, pp. [8], 370; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good and sound. Quotes from Williams's pen for 365 days in the year. More
Central Falls: E. L. Freeman & Sons, printers, [1897]. 8vo, pp. [8], 370; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good and sound. Quotes from Williams's pen for 365 days in the year. More
Westminster: reprinted for Machell Stace, 1813. Fourth edition, slim 8vo, pp. [4], 27, [1]; title printed in red and black; an untrimmed copy in later 19th century half red morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine. The first edition appeared in 1565 and the third in 1603. These early editions are..... More
Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., 1903. First edition, 16mo, pp. 192; original brown cloth, spine gilt, upper cover decorated in green, pink, white and gilt; cover rubbed and discolored, remnants of advertisements which were pasted to rear endpapers; a good or better copy. "The poetry of smoke." More
New York: Fowlers and Wells, hydropathic publishers, 1853. 8vo, pp. [5], 6-144, [4] ads; text toned, 3" vertical razor cut in the title page (no loss), title browned; a good copy without wrappers. Surprisingly uncommon. Only AAS and Princeton in the U.S. More
[Welwyn Garden City]: [c. 1995-1999]. Five volumes, 1-3 are first editions limited to 250 copies, 4-5 are second edition; folio, punch bound; totaling about 1,200 pages; pictorial paper wrappers; light foxing to edges and covers, volume four with a small break in the binding, very good overall, or better. An..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900, 1901. Second state, small 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 313, [3]; photographic author portrait frontispiece and tissue guard detached but present, full page illustrations throughout, title page printed in orange and black; original brown decorative cloth stamped in white, t.e.g.; spine a bit browned..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First edition, sm. 8vo, frontispiece and 18 full-page illustrations, plus title-page and text vignettes throughout (virtually every other page) by H. W. McVickar; a fine copy in original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, red and gilt. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition, sm 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 176, [2] 6pp. advertisements; 1 frontispiece, 11 plates and 12 in text; blue green cloth, gilt lettering; slightly worn, spine faded; else very good. BAL 728. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition, sm. 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 171, [1], 4pp. advertisements; frontispiece and 9 plates; yellow pictorial cloth, brown slightly worn spine, top edges stained orchid; else very good. BAL 744. More
New York: Macmillian Co., 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 200, [2], 5pp. advertisements; blue cloth, gilt letters, presentation copy by author "To Geo. H. Picard, with the cordial regard of a wanderer on the lower slopes of Parnassus, his friend John Kendrick Bangs ,April3:1914";l slightly worn else very..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. First edition, first state, sm. 8vo, pp. [xii], 265, [1], 6pp. advertisements; frontispiece and 18 full-page illustrations, plus title-page and numerous text vignettes throughout by H. W. McVickar; a good copy in original yellow pictorial cloth stamped in black, red and gilt. BAL 722..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First edition, sm. 8vo, pp.[vi], [2], 202, 4pp. advertisements; frontispiece and green decorative cloth, with gilt letters, spine worn; else good. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. First edition, sm. 8vo. pp. [vii], 185, [1], 6pp. advertisements; frontispiece and 35 plates by Edward Penfield; green-blue pictorial cloth, top edge stained orange, slightly worn spine, flyleaf excised; else good. BAL. 739. More
London [et al.]: Richard Bentley [et al.], 1833. 12mo, pp.[iii]-vii, [1], 490; engraved frontispiece and title-p.; bound without the series title in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine. First published in 3 volumes in 1831 and here issued in Bentley's Standard Novels series, with a new..... More
London: Pr. for W. Feales, 1735. 12mo, pp. [5], 8-79, [1]; frontispiece engraving by Vander Gucht after Vanderbank, title page printed in red and black; removed from binding, with sewing holes, margins lightly toned, spine re-backed in archival tissue, otherwise very good. More
London: printed by A. Strahan for T.Cadell and W. Davis, 1804. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [3], 632; 3 engraved plates (2 double-p.), 5 hand-colored aquatints after William Alexander, a little light foxing to text and plain plates, frontispiece slightly offset; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine..... More
Oxford: Humphrey Milford, [1928]. Reprint of the 1914 World's Classics edition, 24mo, pp. xxiii, [1], 376, 16, ads; very good in original blue cloth gilt, pictorial dust-jacket is brittle with spine split and front panel a bit darkened, chips at the edges and some creasing. More
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, 1966. Edition limitedto 250 copies signed by Barth (this, no. 125); 8vo, pp. [2], xxxi, [1], 710; original beige cloth lettered in brown on spine, publisher's slipcase. A fine copy. More
London: Secker & Warburg, [1967]. First UK edition, 8vo, pp. xxxi, 710; previous owner's name and stamp on front free endpaper; very good in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, in lightly worn and torn dust jacket. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. Stated first edition, 8vo, pp. x-[xii], 201; very good in price-clipped dust jacket with darkened spine and a few small, scattered stains, the upper forecorners of pp. 159-172 creased. The blurb describes this as "neither a collection nor a selection of stories, but a sequence..... More
Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1984. First edition limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 149, slim 8vo, pp. [6], 35, [2]; illustrated endpapers; original two-toned purple pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; fine. Signed by the author on the limitation page. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967. New edition, "revised by the author," 8vo, pp. [10], 252; illustrations; original cloth in grey dust jacket printed in black and blue; jacket spine ends a bit chipped, else about fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1956]. First edition of the author's first novel, 8vo, pp. [6], 280; illustrations in text; original brown cloth, slightly worn dust jacket; signed by the author on half title. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1979]. Edition limited to 500 copies, specially bound and numbered and signed by the author, of which this is no. 210, large, thick 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 772; original black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, matching cloth slipcase; spine shows just the slightest fading..... More