Rabbit at Rest (Signed Limted Advance Reading Copy) by Updike, John - 1990

N.P.: n.p., 1939. broadside (9 3/4 by 12 1/4 inches). Signed and dated etching by Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Nason was a print maker from Lyme, Connecticut, known as the "poet engraver of New England." Nason became known for his poetic and somber observations of the rural New England landscape.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf., 1999. First edition. Hardcover, brown cloth. 750pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by Schama on the half-title page

New York: Random House, 1960. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. Octavo, 296pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, light edgewearSeminal book in the field.

New York: New York University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. 265pp. illustrated. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. closed tears and creasing to edges, chip top edge of rear panel. First volume in the Anthology Film Archives Series.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. First Trade edition. Hardcover, blue cloth. Four volumes. Octavos. 1530, [1]pp. Illustrated with 12 color and 400 b/w plates. 2 folding maps. Slight bump to lower corner of Vol. 4 else a Near Fine attractive set.

Mexico: Cultura Economica, 1954. quarter calf, dust jacket. Mexico. thick 4to. quarter calf, dust jacket. 579, (3) pages. Second edition, revised by Agustin Millares Carlo. Full bibliographical descriptions of 16th-century books printed in Mexico accompanied by biographies of the authors. Illustrated. Jacket chipped with pieces missing. Slight wear at spine ends.

London, England, and Paris, France: Ernest Benn and Éditions Albert Lévy, n.d.. cloth. folio. cloth. xl, plates. Text in French. This French edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Table of contents, acknowledgments. 212 specimens of modern typography from England, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Sweden since the commencement of the 20th century, with descriptive information. Scattered spots on covers..Covers lightly worn at edges and at extremities of spine.

(Paris, France: Picaron Editions, 1996. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. Picaron Editions. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, glassine front cover, string bound. xxxvii, 99+(1) pages. Text in English, French, and German. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Table of contents, index. Color and black and white illustrations. Binding by Studio Corazza, design by Rik Gadella. Printed on recto only. Light tanning at edges of text. Two advertisement cards laid in.

WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston. Box. Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom. Illustrated by Michele Wood. [Somerville, MA]: Candlewick [2020]. Oblong 8vo, [56]pp. Color pictorial boards. Black endpapers; color illustrations on nearly every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by Newbery Honor author Carole Boston Weatherford.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Henry Brown wrote that long before he came to be known as Box, he "entered the world a slave." Put to work as a child and passed down from one generation to the next — as property – he lost his wife and children when they were sold away out of spite. But Henry Brown found hope — and help —in the form of the Underground Railroad. And escaped enclosed in a box!

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1923. Later Printing. Leather Binding. Very Good. 2 volumes, complete as issued. Attractively bound in 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun of Bath, spines with raised bands and gilt titling and date, covers ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (some rubbing to leather and boards, small spot to bottom edge of text of volume I affecting several leaves).