New York: Pynson Printers, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. 159 pages. Summer 1935. Contents include: Burt Emmett by Sherwood Anderson, America's First Bibles by Randolph G Adams, Herman Melville as I Recall Him by Oscar Weglin, Fly-Specks and Folios by Robert M Smith, A Note on Ernest Hemingway by Louis Henry Cohn, An Early American Story of Utopia by Nelson F Adkins, and more. A clean near fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Item #170020 More

Price: $15.00

New York: Pynson Printers, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Autumn 1935. Contents include: The Old Woman Who Lives in a Book by Codman Hislop, Off-Subject Books by John Carter, A Whitman Discovery by Charles Clicksberg, The Haunted Book Concerning Huckleberry Finn by Irving S. Underhill and more. A near fine copy with spotting and rubbing to the boards. In the advertisments is a 3-color print by Richard Floethe. Item #165249 More

Price: $15.00

San Francisco, CA: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1949. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 4-31, 1949. One of 1200 copies printed at the Graborn Press. Preface by Julien Cain. Divided into three sections: I, Le Livre Illustre, 1937-1948, II, Hommage A Quelques Grand Illustrateurs Disparus, and III, La Reliure D'Arte, 1890-1948. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Item #158936 More

Price: $25.00

New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1948. First edition. Hardcover. April 1948. Contents include: Stephen Crane War Correspondent by Ames Williams, Almost Books, Frederick Goff, Reflections on Rarity by John Carter, Silhouette of a Librarian by George Boas, Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts by Philip Hofer, This Harmless Drudge by Herman Liebert, and A Ghost from a Barber Shop by Carl Weber. A near fine copy. Item #165193 More

Price: $15.00

New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1949. First edition. Hardcover. January 1949. Contents include: Epic on an American Theme by Stephen Vincent Benet, Grabhornana by Oscar Lewis, Colored Paste Papers by Rosamond Loring, The Literature of the Gold Rush by Carl Wheat and Firsts, In a Manner of Speaking by Vincent Starrett and ilustrated by Susanne Suba. An about near fine copy with a little splitting to the top edge of the spine, some chipping and bumping to the corners and a former owner's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Item #165196 More

Price: $10.00

New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1949. First edition. Hardcover. June 1949. Contents include: On Belonging to Clubs by Christopher Morley illustrated by Richard Erdoes, "On Making A Few Books" by Alfred Knopf, "The Typophiles" by Deoch Fulton, "The First Famout Print" by A. Hyatt Mayor and more. A near fine copy with toning to the endpapers and edges of the pages. A clean copy. No dust jacket. Item #173840 More

Price: $15.00

Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. An anthology of essays edited by and with an essay by Allentuch and with additional contributions by William H. Gass, Eli Katz, Morris Golden and others. A close to near fine copy with some minor wear and Allentuck's ownership signature on the front free endpaper in an about very good dust jacket that has some chips, tears and a small faint stain to the rear panel and with a laid in order form. Signed and inscribed by Singer on the front free endpaper to Allentuck: "To Marsha Allentuck with love and gratitude for what she did (and will do) for me. Isaac B. Singer Feb 21 1970 (Pasadena, Callifornia)." Singer's inscription is perhaps prescient of the importance of this book in that he went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. Item #153882 More

Price: $350.00

New York: Pynson Printers, June 1931. First edition. Hardcover. June 1931. Includes an original limited edition linoleum cut by K. M. Ballantyne titled Wood Nymphs. The linoleum cut is 8.5 x 7.0 inches and it is in fine condition. Some of the articles from this issue are: Abbey at Franklin Square by W. A. Rogers, My First Novels There Were Two by Willa Cather, On First Getting Into Print, A. E. Coppard, and The Way of the Best Seller by Lillian Gary Taylor. A close to near fine copy with some light soiling to the boards but internally a clean copy. No dust jacket. Item #168552 More

Price: $20.00

Cambridge, MA: The Dunster House Bookshop, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 59 pages. Number 116 from an edition of only 300 copies. A clean very near fine copy. No dust jacket as issued. Item #169431 More

Price: $12.50

Newark, DE: University of Delaware Library, 1980. First edition. Oblong softcover. 21 pages. A catalog of 120 items. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #130029 More

Price: $12.50

Carbondale, IL: Morris Library, Southern Illinois Universty, 1974. First edition. Softcover. 20 pages. Published on the occasion of the Annual Dinner of the Friends of Morris Library on May 1, 1974. A catalog of 96 items related to Erwin Piscator who was best known as a theatre director and producer. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some sunning to and along the spine. Signed and inscribed by Piscator in the year of publication. Scarce thus. Item #162410 More

Price: $75.00

Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Library, 1976. First edition. Softcover. 14 pages. Number 7 in the Bibliography Series. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #129967 More

Price: $10.00