New York: [Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union], 1952. Octavo (26cm.); original hand-sewn blue double card wrappers, manuscript label stitched to upper cover; [2],8pp.; original ink and water color illus. laid in rear. Upper cover label starting to separate, some old pencil scribbles to illustration verso, else a Very Good..... More

N.d. ca. 1930s. Two leaves (27.5x21.5cm.) printed mimeo on rectos only. Previous folds, one leaf toned, else Very Good or better. Collection of six tongue-in-cheek sample letters to write to customers with overdue accounts: "Just think, your account of $7.00 will have its first annual birthday this month! Shall we..... More

New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped..... More

N.d. ca. 1930s. Original manuscript filling recto and most of the verso of single leaf; approx. 350 words. Old soil along previous folds, one fold slightly obscuring text, else Very Good. Racy joke written in what could be a juvenile hand, possibly to be passed around in school. Recounts the..... More

York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift inscription from..... More

Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as..... More

Quincy, MA? ca. 1870. Small bifolium; pencil manuscript on first and last panels only; previous folds, some light soil, else Very Good and quite legible. Detailed guide to knitting baby shoes, printed on the blank leaves of the Lecture program of the 1870 Unitarian Society of Quincy, whose speakers that..... More

Virginia: n.d., ca. 1960s. Quarto (29.25cm.); orange post-bound folder, lettering pasted in black cut-out letters; [43] leaves used to completion on rectos only. Wrappers a bit worn, loss to the "C" in "Career" on upper cover, a few other letters starting to chip, else Very Good, internally near fine. Extensive..... More

"Entre Chtaura et Beyrouth" n.d., ca. 1920? Original unpublished holograph poem on recto only of single sheet of ruled paper (21x13cm.); faint horizontal fold, light wrinkling and a few tiny chips to extremities, else Very Good and fresh. Unpublished holograph poem by Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935), winner of the 1913..... More

New Hampshire: ca. 1870-1880. Thick 12mo (15.5cm.); contemporary dark brown morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine titled "Armory," all edges speckled, marbled endpapers; x,11-234pp., the remaining approx. 200pp. blank; text interspersed with 225 original ink drawings reproducing heraldic arms, most displaying exquisite and minute detail; six pieces of ephemera, chiefly..... More