hardcover
The Haploids
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1952. 248 pp. Approximately 5 1/4 x 7 3/4". First edition. Signed/inscribed by the author to "Loren Lewis, a good friend who I have found has an eye for the same sort of thing I have...Thanks. Jerry Sohl." Illustrated dust jacket with slight wear and some creases and minor chipping in very good + condition, not price-clipped; Black cloth over boards with title and design in color on spine, minor tanning, in near fine condition.
Jerry Sohl (1913 - 2002), was an American science fiction author who also wrote television scripts for such series as The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits and the original Star Trek series. This thrilling book is about the plot to exterminate the entire male population of the world. A classic in the genre.
The Immortal Lovers: Heloise and Abelard
Doubleday 1960 first hardcover printing. Book is tight and square. Dust jacket is bright, with minimal edge wear and corner bumping, small stain on spine. Interior is clean, no bookstore stamps or writing. Age toning is present as is common in books of this vintage. According to the jacket "This is a truly stirring recreation of two of history's most heroic and romantic figures."
The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth & Marvels
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1955. 638 pp.. Approximately 5 x 7 1/4". Dust jacket has slight sunning to spine and minor chipping to the top edge of spine, price clipped, otherwise very good. Green cloth over boards with gilt-decorated illustration and lettering on spine, colour frontispiece, green tint to top edge, previous owner's name on ffep. A near fine copy.
Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham throughout, this book is a collection of legends, myths, poetry and ghost stories written by an English clergyman naned Richard Harris Barham under the penname of Thomas Igoldsby. First printed in this edition 1898; this is a later printing. The best-known poem of the collection is the Jackdaw of Rheims about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.
The Jumblies
(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind & Harlot, 1991. (38 pp.) 2 7/8 x 2 1/4"; LIMITED EDITION of 74 copies, this being # 17. Transluscent paper protecting pale green boards with printed title label on spine, marbled endpapers, 7 hand-colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris, printed on handmade Hayle paper from Barcham Green in England, in fine condition.
A charming little poem, and rather fanciful as well, about some people traveling on the sea in a sieve to the land of the jumblies. (Bradbury, Wind & Harlot, 10)
The Library of Alexandria
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Alvey Jones, [2021]. LIMITED EDITION of 2, this being #2. Tan cloth over clamshell box with green spine cloth, lime green acrylic label on cover and green speckled marbling on box edges, enclosed are twenty-six miniature books (scrolls) in various media such as paper and wood (scrolls are non-removable), in fine condition.
Alvey Jones is a painter, printmaker and book artist whose work has been exhibited locally and nationally and is in many public and private collections in the United States and Europe. He has a BFA in illustration and design, an MA in art history and he mostly creates miniature books. This book is an homage to the famed ancient library at Alexandria, Egypt, which ceased to exist by the end of the Third century CE and contains miniature books (scrolls) in several languages.
The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
Harper & Brothers 1899 hardcover in good condition. No dust jacket. Book has some edge wear and corner bumping, loose hinge in front and back but no loose pages, spine is slightly frayed on ends. Interior is clean, no bookstore stamps but previous owner's name stamp is on front endpage. Age toning is present as is common in books of this vintage. Blue-gray cloth-covered boards with angel figure illustrated in silver. Shield depicts a cat, a tea kettle, an a tea cup. Non-fiction, memoir, or at least it claims to be. Sexuality.
The Man With the Golden Gun
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. 221 pp. Approximately 5 x 7 1/2". 1st edition, second state. Pictorial dustjacket in very good plus condition, price of 18s net on inside flap, minor tear and soiling. Black cloth over boards with gilt title on spine, First published 1965 on copyright page, green and white patterned endpapers, slight spotting on top edge, otherwise, near fine condition.
The thirteenth novel in the James Bond series, adapted to the movies in 1974 starring Roger Moore as James Bond and Christopher Lee as the assassin, Scaramanga.
The Marshes of Glynn
Dallas, TX: Aredian Press, 2018. Approximately 2 3/4 x 3". First edition, LIMITED EDITION of 10 copies with two out of series, with this being #10. Design binding by Patrice Miller of Aredian Press; paper over boards painted with ink and watercolor by the publisher and each is unique in the series, interior papers are layered unryu which are digitally printed in 8 pt Poor Richard on pale blue ribbed vellum paper in brown/green/blue inks, constructed in three sections: the poem, in a perfect-bound matchbook style, the bio/stamp in a trifold within its own covers, and the central accordion tunnel comprised of vintage postcard images of the Glynn marshes, a band of natural straw slips off to open the volume, signed and numbered by the author on the colophon, fine condition.
Miniature Book Society, Distinguished Book Award, 2018. The Marshes of Glynn in moveable book format is a long poem about the Golden Isles off the coast of Georgia. The book contains the poem itself, a short biography of the author, Sidney Lanier, and a US postage stamp issued to honor him.
The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased Officers.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889. 843 pp. First edition, original publishers sheep binding, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, scuffing to the bindings with some loss at various spots, back cover partially split, several tissue guards missing as is the fold-out map, some minor foxing and writing. Note: Copies in the publisher's sheep in good condition are considerably rarer than good copies in the cloth or morocco publisher's bindings. Overall, good condition.
Compiled during the war and written and published in 1866 by a professional encyclopedist, the book covers all battles and major skirmishes on land and sea, related political events, and inventions in military and naval science. Key events were reviewed and verified by actual participants. It is one of the best collections of original source materials available on the Civil War. Fully indexed. A must for historians, researchers, libraries, and those who like to read about the Civil War. The first comprehensive history of the American Civil War, it is loaded with original reports and correspondence between commanders and political leaders. Includes appendix biographies of over 400 of the elite of 19th-century America who fell in battle on both sides.
The Miniature Room
n.p.: The Miniature Book Studio, 1983. Approximately 1/2 x 3/4". Blue pyroxylin cover with gilt titles and decorations on spine and covers which are slightly blurry, extra blank pages at the end, in near fine condition.
This little book contains excerpts from Carol Wenk's full-size book "Shadow-box Miniature Rooms: A Basic Course to Creating Them", first published in 1975.