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
Chicago: Third World Press, [1970]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; lightly rubbed, else a fine copy in original decorative wrappers. More
Buffalo: Courier Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. vi, [ix]-xii, [2], 17-360; photogravure frontispiece portrait and 40 wood-engraved plates; publisher's brown pebble-grain cloth, gilt stamped on spine and upper cover; some minor rubbing, but generally very good, sound, and bright. This copy inscribed on the flyleaf: "Given to Mrs. Elizabeth Spicer -..... More
New York: A. T. Goodrich & Co., 1819. First edition, 24mo, pp. 60; extra engraved title-p.; original black calf-backed marbled boards, scuffed and rubbed, small pieces missing from the spine extremities; good and sound. American Travellers Abroad L-31: "Twenty-five letters from Greece and Turkey describe life and sights in the..... More
[Tuscaloosa], Alabama: Gorgas Oak Press, 1977. Edition limited to 75 copies (this, no. 67), 8vo, pp. [30]; title page printed in red and black; original brown paper-covered boards on which a facsimile of one of the letters printed in white; generally a fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker..... More
New York: 1962. Edition limited to 850 copies designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press, 8vo, pp. 131; title-page printed in red and black, 31 plates; fine in original natural buckram over gray paper-covered boards, black morocco label gilt on spine, publisher's slipcase. Grolier 1884-1984, no. 128..... More
New York: 1962. Edition limited to 850 copies designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press, 8vo, pp. 131; title-page printed in red and black, 31 plates; fine in original natural buckram over gray paper-covered boards, black morocco label gilt on spine, publisher's slipcase. Grolier 1884-1984, no. 128..... 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
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
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska, 1985. Edition limited to 200 copies (this, no. 81), 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; original green cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine. Printed by Harry Duncan on Kochi paper. More
New York: Derby & Jackson, publishers, no. 498 Broadway, 1860. 12mo, pp. [iii]-vi, [2],16-354, [4] ads (paginated 29, 6, 5, 4); ads on recto of rear free endpaper; frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Brady; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine faded, small hole in front free endpaper, all..... More
Cambridge: John Bartlett, 1855. First edition, 12mo, pp. vii, [1], 295, [1]; original blue cloth, boards decorated in blind, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, very good. Grolier, American 100, 64: "There were nine editions in Bartlett's lifetime … This "nest-egg of the mind" (the phrase is Christopher..... More
Portsmouth, [N.H.]: printed at the Oracle Office, 1810. First edition, 12mo, pp. xi, [2], 134-148; bound with, almost certainly as issued: Physiognomy, a Poem, by Joseph Bartlett, Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell, 1810, pp. 19, [1]; together in full contemporary sheep, scuffed and rubbed, joints cracked, spine flaky, cords holding..... More
Portsmouth, [N.H.]: printed at the Oracle Office, 1810. First edition, 12mo, pp. xi, [2], 134-148; bound without, Physiognomy, a Poem, by Joseph Bartlett, Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell, 1810, pp. 19, [1]; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; last gathering extended; good and sound. It has been asumed by some, including me..... More
Lincoln, [Mass.]: Penmaen Press, Ltd., [1980]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; printed in green and black; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, [1962]. First edition, large slim 8vo, pp. [51]; near fine in original orange cloth (spine slightly discolored), in a very good dust jacket. Boldly signed by Leonard Baskin on the front free endpaper. This is Esther Baskin's first book. More
New Haven: [Officina Bodoni for Yale University Library], 1967. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 125), 8vo, pp. 27, [5]; color frontispiece after William Blake, 9 illustrations on rectos and versos of 8 plates; reproductions in collotype and offset by Meriden Gravure; fine copy in original brown morocco-backed tan..... More
Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1937. First edition limited to 225 copies, signed by Bass on the half-title page; 8vo; pp. [10], 13-72, [2]; title page printed in red and black; fine copy in original red cloth with printed paper label on upper cover, torn original glassine jacket. From the..... More
[Iowa City]: Christmas [printed at the Stone Wall Press for our family and our friends], 1962. 16mo, pp. [8]; 2 wood engravings by John Roy; fine in original salmon wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Not in Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker. Amherst only in OCLC. More
