Books:English Literature:Fiction from ZH BOOKS

Mexico City: Joaquin Ausiro, 1951. Hardcover. First edition (limited to 500 copies, this #40); 5 x 7 1/2; pp. 196; full polished calf; four raised bands to spine ruled in gilt; hand-colored illustrations; minor rubbing and wear to boards, corners, and along spine; several penciled-in notes along margins; near fine. Signed by author on limitation page.The first book of… Read more about this item

Chicago: A. Kroch Publisher, 1928. Hardcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. [6], v-vii, 1-150, [2]; cloth-backed paper over boards; paper label to spine with age-toning; faint fading to upper margin of covers; some rubbing to paper on boards' edges else clean; internally fine; illustrated with photographs; signed and inscribed on first free page; overall very good.Set… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. First edition [limited, autographed]; 5 x 7 1/2; pp. [12], 3-341, [3]; original blue boards; wear along edges of spine; few spots to covers; front hinge reinforced with a thin linen strip; pages mostly very clean; good to very good condition. Gertrude Atherton was born in 1857 in San Francisco. She began… Read more about this item

Lapeer, MI: Woodland Press, 1992. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 9"; pp. iii-ix, [1], 1-181 including text to last page; original glossy pictorial wraps; full-page b & w illustrations; very minor wear to covers; near fine. Signed with a lengthy inscription by author to title page. Robert Milne has been arguably one of the… Read more about this item

New York: Walker and Company, 1986. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"; pp. [4], 5-190, [2]; original brick red boards; copper title to spine; glossy printed DJ; very minor wear to head and tail of spine; near fine. Jacket with a small nick to head of spine, else near fine. Signed by author… Read more about this item

Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; pp. [8], 1-183, [1]; original green boards; pictorial DJ; near fine with a few small rubbed spots to head and tail of spine. Jacket very good or better with some wear mostly to spine edges.… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1949. Hardcover. Fine. First edition; 5 1/2" x 8 1/4"; pp. [10], 1-308, [2]; original mustard boards; pictorial DJ; fine with very minor wear to head and tail of spine. Jacket bright and clean with a few chips to head of spine; very good. Signed and inscribed by author to Eleanor Rattigan-Rubin.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1936. Hardcover. Good. First edition thus [reprint from the first self-published edition of 1830]; 5 3/4" x 8 3/4"; pp. [4], v-xxix, [3], 3-254, [4]; original pictorial boards; no DJ; wear mostly to corners and along edges of spine with some rubbing and a small puncture with loss of cloth to front edge… Read more about this item

Point Reyes: Point Reyes Press, 1984. Soft cover. Fine. Uncorrected proof; 7" x 8 1/2"; pp. [4], 3-217; clear plastic wraps with some faint yellowing, else fine. Signed/inscribed by author. A copy of an apparently unpublished/unrecorded 'murder mystery" book with psychic experiences and sleep-research supercomputers thrown in the mix by California author Paki Stedwell, who is also the… Read more about this item

James Nisbet & Co., London, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Edition, published a few months after the First Edition of the same year (1880). An interesting work on post services and communications in England. Condition: original green covers with elaborate gilt and black decorations and title; relatively minor wear to boards-mostly head and tail of spine; several small… Read more about this item

James R. Osgood, Boston, 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. This first American edition of Tennyson's influential work bears the bookplate and signature of Robert Clarence Pruyn, who was a famous American inventor, banker, businessman, and politician. Among other things, he established the Santanoni Preserve in the Adirondack Mountains, which is today a state park and National Historic Landmark.… Read more about this item

Scribner, Armstrong & Co, NY, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition, First State (two titles listed to title page verso). Beautiful full-page plates. Condition: Externally Fair - rubbing, fading and some soiling to covers; head and tail of spine with 1/2" missing; corners worn; some darkening and soiling to page edges. Internally Very Good - pages mostly… Read more about this item