1ster festival du roman et du film policiers du 2 au 13 mai, maison de la culture andré malraux reims 1979
1979. Softcover. French language program. Quarto, 28 pp. Black & white illustrations. Stapled wraps. More
Literature
Golden Millet Dream and Other Stories (Chinese-English Readings)
Knowledge Press, 1982. Softcover. 296 pages. In wraps. From private collection. Wraps curl out. Pages remain clean and unmarked. More
The Holiday Wreath
Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, n.d. Hardcover. Octavo, 80 pp. Decorative blue cloth binding. From private collection. Cloth is heavily worn along crown of spine. Previous owner's name on ffep. More
James Joyce: A Catalogue of His Works
Melvin Rare Books: London, n.d. Softcover. No date. 12mo, [14] pp. 80 catalogued items. In stapled wraps. Clean and unmarked. More
Mississippi (Little Classics of the South)
New York: The Purdy Press, 1927. Hardcover. 5 3/4" high x 4" wide. Paginated by section. Tan paper-covered boards with light wear to spine ends and corners of boards. Front hinge starting, but pages remain tightly bound. In tattered and soiled dust jacket. "These tales of the early thirties and..... More
New Connecticut: An Autobiographical Poem
Philadelphia: Albert Saifer, 1970. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of 1880 edition. 12mo, 158 pages. Blue cloth. Clean, unmarked copy. More
Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952
Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Octavo, 455 pp. Black cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Top corner of approximately 30 pp. bumped. Pages remain clean and unmarked. In like dust jacket. More
An A-Z of FantasyCon 2000: The UK's Premiere Fantasy Convention for Fans and Professionals
FantasyCon 2000, 2000. Softcover. Program to FantasyCon 2000 held from 8-10 September 2000 at the Britannia Hotel, Birmingham. Upper wrap features publisher's promotion of George R. Martin's Game of Thrones books. Quarto, 56 pp. Stapled wraps. Light rubbing and wear to wraps, with sticker scuff to upper wrap... More
American Poetry Through 1914
Chelsea House, 1987. Hardcover. Quarto, 576 pp. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. No ownership ink or bookplates. Clean, unmarked copy in like dust jacket. More
The Eildon Tree: A Journal of Fantasy, Volume 1, Number 1.
Los Angeles: The Fantasy Association, 1974. Softcover. Articles include William Morris: Dreams and the End of Dreams by Donald G. Keller, Lord Dunsany, Master of Wonder by Darrell Schweitzer, The Death of Robin Hood by Joe R. Christopher, and Which Does Not Touch Upon Mirror and Pigeon by E.E. Farley..... More
Two Years Ago and Yeast
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1900, 1902. Hardcover. "Charles Kingsley, (born June 12, 1819, Holne Vicarage, Devon, England—died January 23, 1875, Eversley, Hampshire), Anglican clergyman and writer whose successful fiction ranged from social-problem novels to historical romances and children’s literature." (Encyclopedia Britannica). Two handsomely bound reprints of works by Anglican..... More
Debits and Credits
London: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 416 pp. Red cloth with decorative gilt stamping on elephant on front board; title on spine. Light rubbing to edges of boards. Name in pencil on ffep. Dust jacket is browned and shows some edgewear. More
Home by Dark
Privately Printed, 2002. Hardcover. Privately printed novel about black sharecroppers in 1940s Mississippi. Octavo, 308 pp. Gray cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. Name of Donald's relative stamped on ffep. Pages remain clean and unmarked. In handsome dust jacket... More
Proper Boskonian 42, November 1997
Framingham, Massachusetts: New England Science Fiction Association, 1997. Gunn, Ian. Softcover. 8.5" x 11" 44 pp. Stapled sheets. Minor sticker scuff on back, else Fine. More
A King's Ransom
Ipswich: Pawsey & Havyes / London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1893. Leather. No copies in OCLC as of this writing. 19 cm x 12.5 cm. 207 pp. Rebound in decorative black leather with title gilt-stamped on spine. Previous owners' names printed on original front flyleaf. Single dog-eared corner returned to..... More
David the Hero
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1903. Hardcover. Scarce work by noted writer and leader in Philadelphia's movement for women's suffrage. Lowrie was a columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Ledger and a staff member of the Ladies' Home Journal. Octavo, 237 pp. Green cloth with profile of David gilt-stamped on front board. From..... More
The Member of the Wedding
New York: New Directions, 1951. Hardcover. Early printing in dust jacket with photographic frontispiece of Broadway stage setting. From private collection. Endpapers are agetoned with name printed on ffep. Dust jacket is in only Good Condition, with chipping and heavy wear ($275 price on front flap)... More
Seven: The New Magazine, No. 6, Autumn 1939
Cambridge, England: 1939. Softcover. Issue includes contributions from Nicholas Moore, Kay Boyle, Dylan Thomas, Larence Durrell, Herbert Read, David Gascoyne, G.S. Fraser, Dorian Cooke, Joan Bennett, Parker Tyler, and Henry Treece. Octavo, 33 pp. Stapled wraps. Wraps are a little agetoned and starting to split along crown of spine... More
Bouchercon XXIII, 8-11 October 1992, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Privately Printed. Softcover. 1992 program for the 23rd Annual Anthony Boucher Memorial Mystery Convention. Quarto, 76 pp. In wraps. Includes program flyer ("Progress Report") Clean, unmarked copy. More
Spicy Armadillo Stories
Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, 1990. Softcover. Publication does not state volume or issue number. Quarto, paginated by section. Stapled. More
Spicy Armadillo Stories, Volume One, Number One
Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, 1990. Softcover. Quarto, 44 pp. Stapled. Lacks back wrap (blank sheet). More
James Fenimore Cooper and the Development of American Sea Fiction
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Octavo, xv, 3329 pp. Blue cloth. From the personal library of Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln biographer and historian David Herbert Donald. No ownership ink or bookplates. Clean, unmarked copy. Dust jacket shows a few nicks. More
September Journal & London Journal
Vancouver, Canada: Manuscript Editions, 2005. Softcover. Octavo, 46 pp. Stapled wraps. From private collection. More
Most Recent Poems
New York: Dead Clam Press, 1981. Softcover. Octavo, 24 pp. Stapled wraps. Clean, unmarked copyh. More
Masquerade, Number One: The Magazine of Science Fiction Costuming
Cincinnati, Ohio: Once in a Blue Moon, 1980. Softcover. "Everything you ever wanted to know about WorldCon Masquerades--with photos to match." 1980 magazine appears to be a cross between cosplay and burlesque. Quarto, 50 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. From private collection. Wraps show faint foxing along..... More