NY: Dillingham, 1897. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 214p. Recently rebound in full blue morocco leather, stamped in gilt, with five raised bands and gilt decor on spine, marbled endpapers. Fine condition. THE RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK. Terhune published this collection of stories about undergraduate life at... More about COLUMBIA STORIES
NY: Doran, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. A good copy. ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE'S PERSONAL COPY with his name stamped on the front endpaper. Terhune contributed the story "THE TRUE ROMANCE" More about THE WORLD'S BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1927
NY: Doran, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth. Spine faded. Good condition. TERHUNE'S PERSONAL COPY with his namestamp on the front free endpaper. More about THE AMATEUR INN
NY: L. Harper Allen, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Near fine. Very scarce Terhune novel set during the Siege of the Alamo. More about BLACK WINGS
NY: Lovell, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Touch of edge wear. Near fine. Warmly inscribed by Terhune in the year of publication to W.P. Hamilton one of his old newspaper friends. The novel is a prequel to his earlier work CALEB CONOVER RAILROADER. More about THE FIGHTER
NY: Harper, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth. Spine faded. Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Dated 1940. More about TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY
NY: US Army Recruiting Service, 1918. Small 32-page pamphlet. Very good. Terhune "B" item; not listed by Rais. A small pamphlet published by the US Army which reprints a Terhune story from The Saturday Evening Post. More about WHEN HE CAME HOME
NY: Henry Holt, 1919. First edition. Brown cloth. Very good condition. TERHUNE'S COPY; INSCRIBED TO HIM BY THE EDITOR. Mary LaSelle the editor of this short story collection designed for use as a high school textbook inscribed the book: "With sincerest thanks for the splendid story "The Wildcat" and dated... More about "THE WILDCAT" in SHORT STORIES OF THE NEW AMERICA
Philadelphia: Historical Publishing, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Reddish-brown cloth. Light stain on foredge. Good condition. Harland's account of the journey she and her son took through the Middle East. Terhune's version (SYRIA FROM THE SADDLE) focuses on his solo adventures while his mother's work is more concerned with culture and... More about UNDER THE FLAG OF THE ORIENT
Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A small gift book containing 27 b/w wood engravings by Foster of various scenes in Scotland. Measures 4x5 inches. Bound in decorated boards with leather spine; boards are decorated with tartan plaid design. All edges gilt. Corner of one plate creased... More about MEMENTO OF THE TROSACHS, LOCH KATRINE, LOCH LOMOND and the Neighbouring Scenery
Birmingham: Baskerville, 1772. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Full rose morocco with gilt tooling and gilt edges. 276p. Book in very good condition. Chip out of title plate on spine. Corners bumped. Some very light and small pencil marginalia in a few places. Else a clean and tight book in very... More about OPERA
London: E. Moxon, Son, and Co., 1870. Leather bound. Complete four volume set. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marbled boards. Gilt decorated spines with red/green labels; marbled edges and endpapers. Neat bookplate on inside front cover of each volume else clean and unmarked. Slight touchges of ahelfwear but overall... More about THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE AND WORKS OF CHARLES LAMB: Vols. I-IV
NY: Covici Friede, 1937. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the American edition of Lawrence Durell's second book, written under the pseudonym of "Charles Norden". Near fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The interior of the book has some slight age toning to endpapers and the light tan... More about PANIC SPRING
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. A PRISTINE COPY IN FINE, ALMOST MINT CONDITION. This book and its dustjacket appear virtually untouched since being printed in 1932. Houses in a custom made half-leather and linen cloth solander box. The leather spine of the boix is ornately... More about GOD AND MY FATHER
Berne: Ed. Beck, 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large folding map of Switzerland housed in a brown cloth case. The map is linen-backed and is in fine condition. Case in very good condition. Map folds out to approx. 26 x 18 inches. Original 1860 tourist map of Switzerland. More about KARTE DER SCHWEIZ
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1830. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS and rare thus. Minor shelf wear and bumping to corners; spine labels slightly worn at edges; scattered foxing throughout both volumes. In only good condition but certainly hard to find in the original boards... More about PAUL CLIFFORD
London: Chapman and Hall, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION, BEING #593 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Blue cloth with the original acetate wrapper. The wrapper is torn and tape repaired at the lower back corner. The book itself is in fine condition. The British issue of the limited first edition. More about BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake's Regress
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION, BEING #4 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Blue cloth in fine condition. The American issue of the limited first edition. This is only the fourth copy of the one thousand published. More about BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake's Regress
London: Chapman and Hall, 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, #201 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. A very good hardcover book in a like dustjacket. The spine of the book underneath the jacket is slightly faded with the gilt lettering still legible; the jacket is clean and... More about BLACK MISCHIEF
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY WAUGH ON THE TITLE PAGE. Eveyn Waugh autographed this work directly beneath his printed signatgure on the title page. A fin e hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. The spiune of the jacket is browned from age and the... More about EDMUND CAMPION
London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #257 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Red cloth decorated in gilt. A hardcover book in fine condition. The signed limited first edition of this brief work by Waugh. More about LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. #36 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR EVEYLN WAUGH AND ARTIST STUART BOYLE. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt. A hardcover book in fine condition. More about THE LOVED ONE
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh has neatly signed the front free endpaper with his less common method of "E Waugh". Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Light foxing to the endpapers; faint shadow on front board where an old... More about WAUGH IN ABYSSINIA
NY: Farrar and Rinehart, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY WAUGH ON THE TITLE PAGE. The author has neatly signed his name just underneath his printed name on the title page. The light burnt-orange cloth of the spine is a trifle faded else the book is in fine condition... More about A HANDFUL OF DUST
Rome: Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the... More about VINDICATIONES SOCIETATIS IESU