New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., many plates (fine bindings). Auction catalogue of 175 lots: "the complete writings of distinguished American, English and French authors in finely bound library editions."  Ruppert was a brewing magnate, US Congressman, and owner of the New York Yankees (1915-1939)..... More

New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 106p, several line ills. Unpriced. Unused bid sheet laid in. Auction catalogue of 373 lots, held on February 13, 1936. Includes 76 Stevenson manuscripts and books and 143 lots of "first editions, rare editions, autograph letters, manuscripts..... More

New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1937. First edition. Soft cover. 185p, several ills. of manuscripts. With unused bid form. No prices realized. Auction catalogue of 448 lots, many described in detail. Also includes Lafcadio Hearn autographs and first editions, manuscripts and letters by Samuel L. Clemens, "a..... More

New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More

New York: American Art Association / Anderson Galleries, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. Parts One and Two, totaling 267p, several plates. Unpriced. Unused bid sheets laid in. Two auction catalogues of 1388 lots, held January 17 and 30, 1930. With almost 100 Cruikshank drawings, proofs, books, etc. 2 items, sold..... More

New York: American Art Association, 1920. First edition. Soft cover. N.p., several plates. Auction catalogue of 132 lots, held on February 17, 1920; unpriced. Books, manuscripts, and association copies by or relating to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Byron, Clemens, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lowell, Swift, Thoreau, etc. Foley was a longtime Boston..... More

San Francisco: Arion Press, [1984]. Graves, Michael. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [8]p, a few line drawings in brown by Michael Graves; photo of Graves on cover. No stated author. Publisher's prospectus: "The Arion Press announces its fifteenth book to be published December 1, 1984: The Great Gatsby by F...... More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1865, 1875, 1882, 1898. Various editions. Hardcover. Each variously paged (from 480p to over 1100p), no ills. Occasional toning from material laid in. The 1865 edition is rebound in old half leather and marbled boards; the others are all in their original cloth bindings. (1) ..... More

Leipzig: C.G. Boerner, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. 215p, many ills. Auction catalogue of over 2700 lots, held May 30-June 4, 1904. A very large offering of German literature of the 18th-19th centuries (including a Wagner manuscript), German theater history (including opera and dance), autographs, portraits, etc. Joseph Kurschner was..... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Gauguin, La Farge. First edition. Hardcover. 329p, 122 ills. + 16 color plates. Brings together the "modernist primitivism of the French painter Paul Gauguin, the nostalgic exoticism of the American artist John La Farge, and the elite tourism of the American writer Henry Adams"..... More

Amiens: Encrage, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. 147p, no ills. In French. Study of the lives and work of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Pierre Ayraud), celebrated authors of psychological suspense fiction and romans policiers. With a bibliography of novels, stories, and serial appearances, and a chronology. The films Vertigo..... More

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Burkert, Nancy Ekholm. Stated first edition. Hardcover. 165p, many line ills. printed in brown + 10 color plates. Designed by Lance Hidy; typeset in Dante and Centaur by Michael & Winifred Bixler. Jacket is age yellowed, as usual. Eighty poems by Dickinson, sensitively illustrated..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace, n.d. [ca. 1939-40]. No stated edition. Hardcover. 46p. Jacket smudged, spine sunned. Endpaper hinges a little darkened from binding glue. Bookseller ticket of The Old Corner Book Store, Boston. An early printing of the U.S. edition in the first-issue dust jacket (price $1.50). Copyright 1939, no..... More