Detroit: Detroit Black Writers Guild, 1990. Softcover. Good. 159 pp. Moderate cover wear (creasing, fraying of paper, ink scribble on front cover), internally clean, with some general wear from use. According to the introduction, "The Black Writers' Guilf was founded in 1983 as a non-profit organization for the specific purpose..... Item #22943
New Hampshire: Monadnock Press, 1903. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 115 copies printed in black and red on handmade paper (an additional 10 were printed on vellum) by Temple Scott. Beautiful double-page title woodcut and printer's device designed by F. Tolles Chamberlin. A near fine copy (boards slightly splayed) in..... Item #24385
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. viii, 366 pp, with 19 steel-engraved plates (portraits and views of the authors' homes), 14 wood-engraved vignettes (of which 7 are printed in color), and 16 facsimiles. A handsome copy in publisher's full morocco with stamped decoration and raised bands..... Item #21559
New York and Lndon: Samuel French & Son. Softcover. Very good-. 44 pp script in original printed wrappers. Undated, but ca. 1878-1887 based on publisher's address. Some loss of paper at lower spine, very mild vertical grease, otherwise very good. This adaptation was first performed in the fall of 1838..... Item #23426
Washington: Anderson House, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper "Arthur Millier, His Copy, Maxwell Andserson 1939." Very slight spine lean, small spot of abrasion on front pastedown, otherwise sound and clean. No dust jacket. Arthur Millier was a printmaker and the long-time..... Item #23447
![Item #23447 Winterset, A Play in Three Acts [SIGNED]. Maxwell Anderson](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23447_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707104249)
Venetia [Venice]: Appresso li Milochi, 1653. Octavo, [277] pp. 16 cm, paper-covered boards with vellum spine. Printed in double columns, with 51 allegorical woodcut vignettes [one at the beginning of each of the 46 cantos, plus five with the appended "Cinque Canti," which has its own title page) additional woodcut..... Item #24368
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp xxxii, 228, in publisher's mauve cloth ruled in black, with gilt insignia on upper board. Mild rubbing to spine ends, corners lightly bumped, some faint staining to rear board, closed tear to half-title, with tiny archival tape reinforcement..... Item #18550
![Item #18550 Last Essays on Church and Religion [ASSOCIATION COPY]. Matthew Arnold](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18550.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1485465144)
London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret and Richard Whitaker, 1625. Hardcover. First issue of the first complete edition of the Essays, and the last edition to appear during Bacon's lifetime. It "contains fifty-eight essays and is the text most commonly reprinted today. For this reason the present edition..... Item #24374
Philadelphia: Nicholas L. Brown, 1918. Hardcover. Near fine. 7" x 5.5", beautifully bound by James Macdonald in full blue leather with gilt rules, inner dentelles, spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, satin endpapers. Very slight sunning to spine, else fine in a blue cloth slipcase. A special copy of..... Item #24364
New York: Grove Press, 1972. Softcover. Very good. First printing of the first Evergreen edition (E-588). Light cover wear, internally clean and sound. Collection of 10 short stories first published in 1934. Item #23848
New York: Grove Press, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Trade paperback. First printing, 95 pp, illustrated. Evergreen Original E-502. Slight cover wear, internally clean and sound. Schneider contributes an essay on directing. Item #23850
New York: Henry Holt, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing of Benchley's first book, in original pictorial cloth. Ownership signature on front free endpaper, repaired tear in cloth at foot of spine, otherwise an attractive and sound copy. Item #22375
Manoa, HI: Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Arts and Humaniities, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. Softcover. Good. 7" x 9.75", 68 pp, illustrated, stapled binding. Covers soiled, small stain on first 4 pages. Otherwise clean internally, binding sound. Short essays explore the history of Kabuki in Hawaii..... Item #22294
Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very good. Single volume, 1172 pp, extensively illustrarted, containing all three volumes in this set. 10" x 7.5" x 2.75", bound in three quarter leather and light brown cloth, with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Leather scuffed at extremities, binding sound, text pristine..... Item #23636
![Item #23636 The Life of Samuel Johnson [Three Volumes in One]. James Boswell, Roger Ingpen](https://walkaboutbooks-net.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/23636_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745776841)
Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1948. Softcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Reprint of the Dent edition of 1931. Softcover in dust jacket. 128 pp. Fine copy in dust jacket with light shelf wear. "Flesh and Blood opens with a muder-case - the violent death of a popular novelist -..... Item #810
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 88 pp, with frontis portrait of the author. Paper-covered boards with cloth spine and corners, paper spine label. A few spots of abrasion to the boards; contents clean and sound. No slipcase. Item #167
Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First printing. 414 pp + publisher's ads. Bound in original green cloth; no dust jacket. A somewhat worn copy with tears in the spine cloth along the joints, split in paper over front hinge, light soiling to boards and page edges. Binding..... Item #21427
Benares: Printed by the Kama Shastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1888. Hardcover. Very good. pp. viii, 282; 7.5" x 5.25", bound in full white vellum with gilt spine lettering, date at base of spine, beveled edges. Boards show light dust soiling, internally clean and sound, with two small bookplates..... Item #24015
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 444 pp + publisher's ads, with 96 illustrations, including color frontispiece. Original red cloth binding decorated in black and gilt, with top edge gilt. Spine a bit dulled, minor abrasion to gilt at top edge; still quite an attractive..... Item #22334
London and New York: John Lane the Bodley Head and Dodd, Mead, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. 222 pp + 12 plates, illustrated endpapers, bound in black cloth stamped in gilt. A most attractive copy with slight wear to top and bottom edges..... Item #2908
New York: Paul S. Erikkson, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. A scarce "typographical novel" akin to concrete poetry, using typewriter symbols and letters to compose images that are part of the narrative. The dust jacket proclaims that "Typoo is a new kind of..... Item #24574
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression of Conrad's first novel, originally published in 1895. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. A very good copy with some rubbing to extremities, small white spot on front board, bookplate of Alfred Fowler on front pastedown. Publisher's description from the..... Item #22230
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing. pp 236, [1], + publisher's ads. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. A very good copy, with bumped corners, light foxing to endpapers. Item #22385
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. First paperback printing, issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition. 172 pp. Light cover wear, internally sound and clean. Item #23845
Paris: Blaizot, 1911. Hardcover. Very good. Small quarto. 109 pp, profusely illustrated with etchings by Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet. In a fine Riviere binding of crushed red morocco decorated in gilt, top and fore edges gilt, marbled endpapers, spine in six compartments. One shallow scratch on front board, some rubbing..... Item #19761
