Search Results: Titles starting with T from Peter L. Stern & Company, Inc.

London: Stanley Nott, 1936. First English Edition. Front cover a little stained; very good.

London: Methuen, 1950. First Edition. A fine copy in dust jacket.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. First Edition. Ex-library; with the usual faults; good. The frontispiece and decorative title are photographs. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “Mrs. Fluras [?] with kind regards A. Bronson Alcott.”

Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1955. First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with a foxed spine and in the original cardboard slipcase with front cover and spine labels.

New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Ingo Preminger Agency label on the front free endpaper; fine in a very good dust jacket. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author.

London: Collins, 1948. First Edition. A little cloth fading, very good or better in a very good dust jacket with numerous small chips and tears. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “Stephen from Agatha/ Nov. 1948.” Stephen was Stephen Glanville, dedicatee of Five Little Pigs. A number of years ago we sold several books presented to Glanville by Christie. A Poirot novel.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First Edition; first binding; publisher's maroon cloth; 32 page publisher's catalogue (not present in all copies); owner’s 20th century ink notation on the front free endpaper; hinges and spine archivally mended (not rebacked or recased); some foxing; a very good copy.

London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [presumably 1925]. First Edition (presumably). Publishers’s paper-covered boards with a relief medallion-like title on the front board; 1928 gift inscription; very good. [With] Tootleoo Two. London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [ca. 1925 or later]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher’s paper-covered boards; owner’s initials on the front free endpaper; very good.

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. First Edition; first printing (BAL 16146). Bound with the front and back blanks, the half-title and the integral four pages of ads (but not with the additional 16 pages of advertisements) in dark burgundy morocco, decorated in gilt and blind; all edges gilt; raised bands and gilt decorations in compartments; titled in gilt “Poe’s Tales.” Later bookplate; the original owner’s name, J.A. Cassedy, is gilt stamped at the bottom of the front inner dentelle; his 1856 Ohio pencil owner’s inscription on the half-title confirms that this was bound in America not long after the book’s publication. Aside from some foxing and minor page stains, overall an excellent copy with wide and tall margins; in a custom clamshell box. The Bibliography of American Literature, a thorough, detailed and authoritative work, notes three printings of this book (although cautioning that the presumed second and third could prove to be states of a single printing), and notes that the… Read More

London: Jarrold and Sons, 1902. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth; presented by the translator; gift inscription; very good.

New York: Macmillan, 1950. ABA Edition, issued for the Golden Anniversary of the American Booksellers Association. Spine lettering flaked, else a fine copy. Issued without dust jacket. One of 1500 copies signed by Michener.

New York: Macmillan, 1950. ABA Edition, issued for the Golden Anniversary of the American Booksellers Association. Spine a bit dull, a fine copy; issued without dust jacket. One of 1500 copies signed by Michener.

New York: Macmillan, 1950. ABA Edition, issued for the Golden Anniversary of the American Booksellers Association. Spine lettering flaked and rubbed, else a near fine copy; issued without dust jacket. One of 1500 copies signed by Michener.

New York: Macmillan, 1950. ABA Edition, issued for the Golden Anniversary of the American Booksellers Association. Spine lettering flaked and rubbed, else a near fine copy; issued without dust jacket. One of 1500 copies signed by Michener.

London: Hutchinson, n.d.[1930]. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. The recipient has penned a note on the verso of the title page ”May Sinclair’s favorite - ‘Fame.’ “ Short stories.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1925. First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with some chipping.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1943. “First Tower Books Edition.” (Tower was an imprint of World Publishing). Inscribed and signed in full by Karloff in 1944; pages yellowed, inevitably, otherwise very good in dust jacket. [With] an exceptional 2 1/2 page holograph letter on “Arsenic and Old Lace” letterhead. Dated May 20, 1943, Karloff writes the publisher, one Dr. Sheare, in New York. A long paragraph concerns the contents of this volume, insisting on the inclusion of some stories, but suggesting the dropping of a Dunsany tale (omitted in the published book). A second paragraph notes that the play is returning to Portland and Seattle (”Of course there is a charming interlude of ten days of one-nighters before we get to Portland which we will negotiate by means of oxcart, bus and wheelbarrow or whatever is handy...”), and that this obligation will delay the completion of his introduction. The original envelope, addressed by Karloff, with his name and address on the verso, as well as a… Read More

New York: Gilley et al., 1829. First American Edition (? another American edition was issued the same year); the two volume English edition was published in 1828. Publisher’s muslin backed paper covered boards; worn; paper spine label mostly perished; notes on the rear endpapers; a good copy, but scarce, especially as originally issued. The editor is anonymous, and while Wolff questioned the reliability of the attribution, he added a “k” to Shoberl’s first name. So much for reliability.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First Edition; three volumes; bound without half-titles in contemporary quarter-morocco and marbled boards; spines decorated simply in gilt; minor foxing and water staining; a very good set. Issued anonymously.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First American Edition; first printing; first issue publisher’s catalogue. Publisher’s cloth; top of spine frayed; a very good copy with a contemporary ownership inscription, bookplates and a bookseller’s old description tipped onto a rear blank. This volume prints Longfellow’s most enduring poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.”