Gone Sailing
West Branch, IA: Toothpaste Press, 1980. Mikolowski, Ann. Soft Cover. Clean, crisp, and bright; no owners' marks; except for delicate rubbing along the spine and at spine ends and corners, excellent.
Small Press & Collectors' Editions
Latitude 18 South
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1940. Hard Cover. Crisp and clean except for a few tiny spots of foxing on the head edge; no owners' marks; binding square and tight. The hard cover shows only a small, brown smudge at the lower front and tiny spots of shelf-rubbing at...
Crossings / Traversees
Urbana, Illinois: The Finial Press / The Stone Wall Press, 1966. Cloth Hardcover. 4to. Signed and inscribed by Paulene Aspel to a named individual on the half title page. The pages are clean, crisp, and bright except for a bit of toning and light foxing on the page block edges...
John Marshall: A Life in Law (Two Volume Set)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1990. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or bookplates; first volume has scattered, small spots of rubbing in the gilding along the top edges of the pages and a few scratches on the bottom edges, and second volume has a tiny surface tear...
The Chalice of the Chipped Ruby (Second Edition, With an Additional Chapter)
Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1942. Second Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed delightfully to a named individual at the front free endpaper. Crisp pages bear age-toning in the margins and a small patch of brown staining on the front pastedown but are otherwise clean; square binding, though with outward...
Collected Stories & Later Writings
New York: Library of America, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. Library of America No. 135. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for a spot of corner rubbing at the bottom left rear corner of the hard cover and a few small surface wrinkles at the bottom open edge of...
Plymouth Plantation: Selections from the Narratives of William Bradford and Edward Enslow
The Lakeside Classics, 2009. Hardcover. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; indeed the hinges are still taut. As new. lviii, 308pp.
Red Alley
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription. Pages crisp and clean except for a clear drip spot and some dust staining on the head edge of the page block and a little toning starting...
The Age of Fable; or Stories of Gods and Heroes
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1995. Mugnaini, Joe. Full Leather. Clean and bright; except for a tiny chip at the top edge of the front board and a very tiny tap at the bottom front edge, as new. Full leather binding with gold decoration; bound-in ribbon, moire endpapers, all page...
Erewhon
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. Kent, Rockwell. Full Leather. Contents copyright 1934; this printing likely dates from the 1990's. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks or bookplate; there is one small rub mark in the gilt at the foreedge of the page block and one scratch on the heel...
The Tweed Ring (The Leather-Bound Library of American History)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1990. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or bookplate; a few very small rubbed spots in the gilding along the head and foreedges of the page block, gentle fading along the spine, and a slight outward turn to the leather at the spine...
Farewell, My Lovely
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2003. Full Leather. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks or bookplate; except for a very gentle inward turn at the top left rear corner of the cover, excellent. Bound-in silk ribbon, gilt-edged page block, full blue leather with gilt titles at spine and gilt...
In The Presence of the Creator
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1989. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or bookplate; binding square and tight; there are several small rub spots in the gilding along the top edges of the pages and a small scuff in the gilt at the bottom edges, and the cover...
The New World (A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume II)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Full-Leather. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks or bookplate; there are small spots of wear and short scratches to the gilt at head, heel, and foreedge of the page block, and the free corners and spine ends of the cover have small rubbing...
The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or bookplate; except for a few small spots of rubbing in the gilding along the top edges of the pages and scattered, light scratches around all gilt page edges, very light surface rubbing at the bottom...
Passage to America: A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (The Leather-Bound Library of American History)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1988. Full Leather. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks or book plate; a few small spots of wear to the gilt at the top edges of the pages, taps to the left rear corners of the cover with a very small crack in the...
Joseph Conrad: Short Stories
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Illustrated by Alan Phillips; Frontispiece by Chris Simon. Full Leather. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks or bookplates; except for a brief, light scratch in the gilt at the head edge and tiny rubbed spots at two of the free corners, as new...
Three Tales of the Sea: Youth, Typhoon, and The End of the Tether
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or wear; except for one short scratch in the gilt at the head edge of the page block and one tiny, reddish mark on the spine heel, as new. Full leather binding with gold decoration; bound-in...
Lord Jim
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1977. Color Lithographs by Lynd Ward. Full Leather. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks or bookplate; except for scattered, short scratches in the gilding at the page block edges, a tiny chip in the leather at the head edge of the front board and...
Sea Tales: The Pilot - The Red Rover
New York: Library of America, 1991. First Printing. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Library of America No. 54. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for a hint of corner softening on the slipcase, as new.
Tu: Poems by Cid Corman
Toothpaste Press, 1983. First Printing. Hand Sewn Paper. 8mo. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Clean and bright except for a band of modest age-toning across the lower front and a few pale spots of foxing forming amid the texture of the cover; cover corners bear modest shelfwear;...
Stephen Crane: Short Stories
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Illustrated by Penny Havard; Frontispiece by Chris Simon. Full Leather. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks or bookplates; as new. Bound-in silk ribbon; gilt-edged pages; full blue leather with black and gilt titles and decoration, moire endpapers. 204pp.
Prose and Poetry: Maggie - A Girl of the Streets - The Red Badge of Courage - Stories, Sketches and Journalism - The Black Riders and War is Kind
New York: Library of America, 1984. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Library of America No. 18. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; full cloth hard cover is only moderately softened at spine ends, slipcase gently wrinkled at the top right corner of the open side, otherwise excellent.
James Monroe (The Library of the Presidents)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1986. Full Leather. Clean and bright; no owners' marks or bookplate; three little pressure marks in the gilding around the page edges, points of wear at the tips of three corners of the cover, otherwise excellent. 577pp. Full dark blue leather with hubbed spine, gilt...
Experience of War (Two Volume Set)
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1992. Full Leather. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks or bookplate; a touch of rubbing to the gilding along the top edges of the pages and little points of wear at some of the corners of each volume's cover, otherwise excellent, nearly as new...