Search Results: Literature/Fiction from Midway Used and Rare Books

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1936. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 24 x 17 cm. 39pp. Bound in red decorative cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Limited to 300 copies. Woodcut frontispiece and title page decoration by Ben Albert Benson. Marble endpapers. Fading to the spine of the cloth. Two small tears to the spine.

Easton Press, 1990. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. fine. Octavo. 9 1/2": x 6 1/2". 364pp. Bound in burgundy leather withj gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. Three raised bands. Moire endpapers. Ribbon.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 19 x 13 cm 12mo. 347pp. Bound in blue-grey cloth. First American edition with no additional printings noted and 1922 on title and copyright page. Light scuffing to the cloth at the spine. Nice copy.

Simon & Schuster, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. fine/fine. Ocatvo. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". A beautiful copy in dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1998. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Fine. 24 x 16 cm. 313pp. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Illustrated by Richard Sparks.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1999. Full Leather. Very Good. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 355pp. Bound into full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Part of the "Signed Modern Classics" series, signed by the author. COA, also signed by the author and "a note about" laid in. Some scratching to the gilt foredges.

Easton Press, 1999. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. near fine. Bound in full brown leather with gilt design and lettering to cover and spine. Four raised bands. AEG. Moire endpapers. SIGNED by Anne Tyler. Laid in is the Certificate of Authenticity which is also signed by Anne Tyler, Blank bookplate laid in. and "A note about ..." card loosely laid in.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. New Edition, revised and corrected. 3/4 leather. Very Good - (minus). 22 x 14 cm. Octavo. 311pp. Bound in 3/4 green leather, brown boards. Early 1 volume edition, with preface for the 3rd edition. Illustrated with 24 steel engravings by George Cruikshank. Marble endpapers and foredges. Scuffing to the outer hinges. Small stain to back cover, scuff to cloth on back cover. Front gutter is cracked. Spine toned to brown.

London: Folio Society, 2003. First Folio Society Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 5 volume set, housed in slipcase. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. Illustrated cloth, each book in a different color. Illustrated by Nick Hardcastle. Introduction by Andrew Lownie. Titles consist of "The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Power-House", 314pp, "Greenmantle", 298pp, "Mr Standfast", 385pp, "The Three Hostages", 338pp, "The Island of Sheep", 269pp.

New Direction, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket. 21 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 159pp. Red and black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. First edition with no additional printings noted, preceding the UK edition. Small piece, ~1 x 1 cm, out of front of jacket, and jacket spine is faded. Bit of light edgewear to the jacket. Jacket is the fourth and final dust jacket designed by Andy Warhol for New Direction. Satirical novel.

Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jackets. 29.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. 782 pages.Two volume green cloth set in dust jackets and slipcase. Limited to 1500 sets SIGNED by the artist, John Austen, in volume 2 this being set number 31. Foxing to the edges of the jacket. Toning to dust jacket spines, Small closed tear to bottom of dj of vol 2. Some rubbing to the edges of the slipcase.

London: Folio Society, 1993. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Three volume set in slipcase. 20 x 13.5 cm. Octavos. Illustrations by C. Walter Hodges. This is the second Folio Society printing, done in 2009. Green cloth spine, illustrated covers. Small bump to one corner of "New Treasure Seekers" Titles: "The Story of the Treasure Seekers", 218pp. "The Wouldbegoods", 314pp. "New Treasure Seekers", 278pp.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. 16.5 x 11 cm. 16mo. 336pp. With 4 illustrations by George Cruikshank. Bound in 3/4 red leather, marble boards. Armorial bookplate of William Joy on front fixed endpaper. Scuffing to edges of leather. Front gutter starting.

Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Sophisticates, 1927. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket and very good box. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. xii, 303pp. Bound in green gilt embellished boards and in dust jacket and box. Frontispiece and 8 other plates in gilt. Fading to side of box and label. Some uncut pages. Beautiful condition.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1975. Full Leather. Fine. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 498pp. Bound into full brown leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine. Part of "The Collector's Library of Famous Editions" with "Notes from the Archvies" laid-in. Preface by Sir Walter Scott and illustrations by Honoré Guilbeau.

Charles Winthrope & Sons, 2014. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. fine/fine. 22 x 17 cm. Octravo. 366pp. A veyr nice copy in dust jacket. Card from Charles Winthrope & Sons regarding this edition loosely laid in. Also folded note in envelope "From the desk of Prof. Bruce Michelson regarding Huck Finn. Part of Bradford's "The Million Dollar First Edition Library" which aims to create facsimiles of rare and desirable first editions. These facsimile have similar bindings and include any edition points, advertisements, and typographical errors present in the original.

Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine in Very Good dust jackets. 29.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. 660 pages. Two volume grey and blue cloth set in dust jackets and decorative slipcase. Limited to 1500 sets signed by the artist, John Austen, in volume 2 this being set number 31. Toning to the dust jacket spines. Some edgewear to the slipcase.

Ashgate Publishing Co., 2009. Hardcover. fine/fine. 190pp Very nice copy in dust jacket. In a brodart protective wrapper.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Full Leather. Fine. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 246pp. Bound into full dark green leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers, silk ribbon. Frontispiece by Dan Brown. Minor scuff to gilt foredge.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine. Translated from the old Welsh by Gwyn Williams. Illustrated with 11 color engravigns by John Petts. One of 350 numbered copies. Full red cloth with gilt-stamped design on front and title lettered in gilt on spine. In decorative gold slipcase. Publisher's Prospectus laid-in. Some sunning to spine. "This interesting satire on Women, which may have been written around 1510, was considered sufficiently important to be included in a manuscript anthology of 1550. It was produced in a "familiar mediaeval and anti-chivalric tradtion of warning against the dangers of love and marriage.