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A SPINNER IN THE SUN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, 1906. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and gilt leaves and spiderweb. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 393 pp. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Good overall (previous owner's name, some spots of foxing, rubbing to spine).
Book ID: 89625More details Price: $20.00 -
PA GLADDEN: The Story of a Common Man.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Company, 1903. Hardcover first edition - The author's first and only book, a collection of stories, most which had appeared in magazines, featuring her beloved Pa Gladden character, and published less than a month after her death. Although she was born in Ohio, she was the literary editor of The Kentucky, Lexington Courier-Journal at the time of her death. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Jacobs with a tissue guard and seven inserted plates. 338 pp. Attractive binding of navy blue cloth with cream floral decoration and lettering by the Decorative Designers.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 89574More details Price: $30.00 -
THE CONGO and Other Poems.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1916 (c 1914). Hardcover - Introduction by Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry Magazine, in which she comments that William Butler Yeats asked Lindsay 'What are we going to do to restore the primitive singing of poetry?' and that this book is Lindsay's response. The first section of this volume contains poems to be read aloud, including the long title poem. Other sections are on the Christmas tree, moon poems, including some for children, and - on a more somber note - it ends with a section titled "War - 1914." xv, 159 pp. plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Near fine in mustard yellow cloth boards, with gilt lettering and red and navy decorations on front cover and spine (some toning to pages and endpapers, cover is bright and attractive)
Book ID: 88892More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WEB OF THE GOLDEN SPIDER.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A Lost Race tale set in the Andes. A story of romance, mystery, intrigue and adventure which opens in Boston, where Wilson, a former theology student, now homeless and penniless, rescues a young woman from over-officious police officers - and moves from there to a sea voyage and to the remote slopes of the Andes in South America and a search for the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, with a tissue guard , and three black-and-white plates by Charles M. Relyea. viii, 354 pp,
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth decorated with an embossed spider's web with gilt idol in the center, white lettering on front and spine (some shelfwear to the boards, corners slightly bumped, but a tight and clean copy)
Book ID: 87294More details Price: $40.00 -
THE ROSE GARDEN OF PERSIA.
Edition: Early printing.
Boston: L. C. Page and Company 1902. New edition. Includes a long introductory essay on Persian Poetry by Joseph Jacobs dated 1899. Illustrated with 11 illuminated pages with Persian motifs each with a tissue guard. All of the text pages have intricate red border designs. lil, 196 p. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Good overall in a decoratative binding of f fuschia cloth with a design in gilt and green - front hinge cracked, 2 gift inscriptions, photograph, etc, affixed to front endpapers, rubbing to spine.
Book ID: 84689More details Price: $30.00 -
THE COLONIAL CAVALIER or Southern Life Before the Revolution.
Edition: First thus -
Boston: Little Brown, 1895. Hardcover - First Little Brown edition, originally published in New York by Lovell, Coryell, in 1984. A social history of seventeenth century Virginians, with chapters on dress, news, trade and travel, amusements, man and maid-servants, church, education, laws and punishments, sickness and death, and other subjects. Illustrated with many drawings, some full page, by Harry Edwards. Notes, bibliography. 316 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in light green cloth with gilt lettering and art nouveau decorations on front cover (spine darkened, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 76025More details Price: $18.00 -
DONALD KIRK: The Morning Record Copy-Boy, #1 in series.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1912. Hardcover first edition - The first of two books in this series by an author who spent most of his life in the newspaper business (his memoir is called " Free-Lancing for Forty Magazines." Although Donald Kirk has been denied the education he desired, he is determined to learn and progress in his career. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece with a tissue guard and three internal glossy plates by George Varian. 273 pp. plus 4 pp publisher's ads. Cover by the Decorative Designers with their DD monogram.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated cream cloth (a bit of foxing to the spine but overall a tight, clean and very attractive copy).
Book ID: 76022More details Price: $60.00 -
TANTE .
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Century, 1911. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this writer who was born in the US, but moved to England as a child and spent the remainder of her life there. The story of a young girl, the ward of a great pianist and a jealous woman, whom she called "Tante, " this was a best-selling novel at the time - number 9 in 1912 according to the NY Times. Basis for the 1919 film "The Impossible Woman." Vintage novel attractively bound in red cloth with a black embossed flower design and gold stamping on the front cover and spine. 437 pp plus 1 pp list of other books by Sedgwick.
Condition: Very good condition (some spine slant) While not a scarce book, it is relatively uncommon in the first edition.
Book ID: 75248More details Price: $27.50 -
TANTE .
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Century, 1912 (c 1911). Hardcover - Novel by this writer who was born in the US, but moved to England as a child and spent the remainder of her life there. The story of a young girl, the ward of a great pianist and a jealous woman, whom she called "Tante, " this was a best-selling novel at the time - number 9 in 1912 according to the NY Times. Basis for the 1919 film "The Impossible Woman." Vintage novel attractively bound in red cloth with a black embossed flower design and gold stamping on the front cover and spine. 437 pp plus 1 pp list of other books by Sedgwick.
Condition: Very good condition (prev owner's name and "Chico,1912.")
Book ID: 75246More details Price: $20.00 -
GORDON KEITH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific "literary spokesman for the glories of the Old South." This begins in the South soon after the Civil War. Gordon Keith is the son of General Keith, an old-time gentleman, whose large fortune has been swept away during the war, and whose family estate, "Elphinestone, " has been purchased by a rich New Yorker with a wicked and unprincipled son. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and seven internal glossy plates by George Wright. Bound in an attractive Margaret Armstrong binding of dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and light blue decorative stamping. ix, 548 pp.
Condition: Very good (previous owner's name, minor wear to the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 75239More details Price: $30.00 -
JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE: Urban and Suburban Sketches.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover first edition - Six short pieces, alternating between New York City and the country. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and numerous en texte drawings by A.B. Frost, B. West Clinedinst, Irving R. Wiles and Kenneth Frazier. Bound in very dark blue clothe with art nouveau style decorations by Margaret Armstrong (with her monogram on the front cover) and lettering in gilt. Top edge gilt. xiv, 201 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription dated Christmas 1898, some fraying to the top of the spine)
Book ID: 75106More details Price: $30.00 -
OTHER MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910). Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, written between 1887-1889, a companion to 'Main-Travelled Roads', inspired by Garland's return to the West of his youth - Iowa, Dakota, & Wisconsin. Bound in tan cloth with gilt titling a gilt Art Nouveau corn motif decoration. viii, 350 pp.
Condition: Very near fine - a lovely copy.
Book ID: 75103More details Price: $35.00 -
MASTER OF THE VINEYARD.
Edition: 2nd printing (same month as the first)
New York: Putnam, 1910. Hardcover - A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and a gilt and purple grapevine, with her monogram on the front board. Color frontispiece portrait by Blendon Campbell with a printed tissue guard. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 372 pp.
Condition: Very good overall (front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated 1910).
Book ID: 75079More details Price: $20.00 -
THOSE OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD (Madame Corentine.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the French by L.M. Leggatt. First US printing of this novel of provincial life, set on Jersey island and the Lannion coast, originally published in 1893 (and which was filmed as a movie in 1914 in France under the original title of Madame Corentine). A good example of a decorative binding from the early 20th century - bound in blue cloth with white lettering, black horizontal lines, and a band of white flowers along the fore-edge of the front cover. 290 pp.
Condition: Some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, previous owner's name, but otherwise very tight and overall very good. Uncommon, and especially so in this condition.
Book ID: 41856More details Price: $65.00 -
THE VEIL AND OTHER POEMS
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, 1922. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems, many with rather gloomy themes: Wrecked, In the Dock, Drugged, The Suicide and so on. In a lovely very dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering and an art nouveau design of a lamp with swirling smoke extending across the spine and onto the back cover. 84 pp.
Condition: Very near fine (gift inscription dated Jan 19, 1922, usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 37448More details Price: $25.00