Bubbles by Hewitt, Arthur Wentworth - 1920

London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.

Dinesen, Isak: Last Tales, A Collection of Twelve New Tales of Compelling Beauty 1957, Random House. First Edition. Stated First Printing Thus. Used. Very Good/Good+ original red dust jacket, price-clipped. Jacket states 11/57 on front flap. 5 3/4 X

East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Printing Shop. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1896. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. A light mark to the front cover, spine tail slightly bumped, bruise or dent to the head edge of the rear cover. Occasional, foxing to the pages, some pages foxed in the gutter at the head. ; In a periodical, Roycroft printed the first US appearance of George Bernard Shaw's essay on the institution of the church, primarily the Catholic Church, and churchgoers' reliance on organized religion. Although Shaw, via a postcard, had given Elbert Hubbard permission to publish this work, Shaw was horrified to find that Hubbard had taken liberties and edited the essay instead of printing it as it stood. Thereafter, Shaw disassociated himself from the Roycroft version, treated it as a piracy, and did not miss an opportunity to vilify Elbert Hubbard. From the essay, Shaw's thoughts on how drink, smoke, drugs, or the lack thereof, produce creative works, including… Read More

[i-vi]+vii-viii+[ix-x]+390 pages. Octavo (8 7/16" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with initials "SL" impressed on cover decorated with impressed laurel branch superimposed over cover initials; gilt title in black rectangle on spine; author's name in black on gilt rectangle on spine. Dust jacket in blue with red and white banner on cover lettered in verso, gilt and white on spine. 33,250 printed of the first edition in dust jacket. (Pastore:259) First edition. In the Summer of 1939, Lewis and Fay Wray collaborated loosely on a play titled (and unpublished) Angela is Twenty-Two. Lewis did the writing with the intention of playing the male lead; Fay Wray helped with the staging and visual dramatics. Lewis became more involved with drama and acting, even so far as joining Actors Equity, sponsored by Helen Hayes. When the play opened on December 30, 1939, it was well-received leading Lewis to take it on the road where he not only acted but directed as well. This tour became the narrative… Read More

New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. first edition 2nd printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. First printing (no additional printings listed). Green boards with white titles. 256 numbered pages. The spine is slanted. Light shelfwear. Faint foxing to the endpapers. An unmarked copy in a tight binding. The dust jacket is edgeworn, including small chips at the spine ends and the bottom corners. Spots of soiling. The jacket price is intact. In Brodart dust jacket protector.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1963 Undated Apparent First Edition Of This Scarce 1963 Collection Of Hugh Garner's Short Stories Which Won The Governor General's Award, Ranked By Some As The Best Ever Written. Some Of These Stories Were Read On Cbc Radio On 'Stories With John Drainie." Garner Immigrated From Yorkshire With His Family As A Child. In The 1930'S He Rode The Rails Before Volunteering In The Spanish Civil War. He Apparently Had A Falling Out With Jack Mcclelland And Switched Publishers To Ryerson, Who Were The Publishers Of This Collection. Very Good Butter Yellow Boards With Black Stamped Titles, No Writing Or Marks, Clean And Square. Dust Jacket Is Unclipped But Quite Tattered.

THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.