Books from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: New York University Press, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 240pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Handsome, tight first edition.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black/white spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 97pp. Fine/near fine. Bright and tight fourth printing of this unlikely bestseller about a New Yorker's 20-year correspondence with a London used book dealer -- so popular it occasioned a stage play and a 1987 film version. This unusual copy bears fine… Read more about this item

Dayton: Press of United Brethren Publishing House, 1912. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Quarter brown morocco with gilt spine lettering and faux vellum paper over boards. xii, (8pp), viii, 383pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers. Very good. Lightest of binding wear only; tight and internally fine. Slightly enlarged from the 1907 first edition, this daily calendar includes a… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 520pp. Frontispiece, 11 maps. Very good. Spine gilt heavily rubbed, else a tight and internally fine copy. Attractive first edition of this highly-regarded biography of Lincoln's powerful cabinet member -- and with intriguing provenance and unique autograph addition: From the collection of Adlai… Read more about this item

Paperback. Group of twenty (20) hand-colored woodcuts clipped from unidentified book and bound into stiff brown wrappers.16mo. (20pp). Very good. This bibliographically-cryptic group of woodcuts is clearly French in origin and of 18th century vintage, but defies all attempts at identification beyond that. Each of its 20 woodcuts bears a printed caption beneath in identical typeface, and all are… Read more about this item

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 330pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faintest of binding wear, though tight and internally fine. Tight and nice first edition of the first volume of a highly-regarded biography by Holmes' former secretary (second volume not published until 1963). This intriguing comes from the… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2000. Hardcover. Translation by John E. Woods. Introduction by Michael Wood. Illustrations by Leonard Rosoman. Small 4to. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pictorial cloth, slipcase. xvi, 697pp. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates. Fine/fine. Superb, tight first of this modern edition of the German writer and Nobel Prize winner's best-known novel "Der Zauberberg" (first… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 1995. Hardcover. Edited and introduced by Merlin Holland. Illustrations by Ian Archie Beck. Complete 3-volume set. Small 4to. Beige cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, slipcase. xxii, 456pp; x, 492pp; viii, 576pp. Color frontispieces, illustrations. Fine/very good. All volumes tight and pristine, while slipcase shows touch of rubbing and bit of archivally mended edgewear.… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter yellow cloth with orange spine lettering and orange patterned paper over boards. 479pp. Map endpapers. Near fine. Lacks dust jacket. A tight and nice first edition of this oddball novel by the Chinese politician and historian (1903-84) who became mayor of Shangai and head of the Taiwan Provincial Government. Half-title page… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2000. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown decorative cloth with gilt spine lettering, brown paper over boards slipcase. 254pp. Fine/fine. Pristine copy of the poet's celebrated memoir and the first of the Folio Society's two editions (the 2020 version illustrated). Angelou co-authored a screenplay, turned into a made-for-television film that aired on CBS in 1979 -- and… Read more about this item

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1965. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jeff Hill. 12mo. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 61pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome, quite tight first edition -- from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81).

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Hardcover. Folio. White cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 292pp. Extensive illustrations (most color), 2 large foldouts, maps, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Top and bottom edge of binding (only) shows minor dampstain, else tight and internally fine; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on front flyleaf. Handsome first edition of this lavishly… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering. xi, 692pp. Very good. Faint bit of binding wear; light stain to outer page edges, else tight and internally near fine. Tight and attractive first edition. From the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois (1969-81) -- whose large, bold ownership… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958. Hardcover. Foreword by Bell I. Wiley. Complete 2-volume set. (35pp), 707pp; (17pp), 808pp. Frontispieces, illustrations, maps. Near fine. Very faintest of binding wear and volume II spine ever-so-lightly sunned, else both are tight and internally fine. First of this edition -- other than Wiley's excellent introduction, a facsimile of the 1881 first edition (New… Read more about this item

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. Hardcover. Square 16mo. Glossy pictorial paper over boards, slipcase. (Ca. 200pp). Color frontispiece, extensive illustrations (most color). Near fine/very good. Card stock slipcase faintly edgeworn. Handsome and tight second edition of this survey of the holdings of Russia's largest art museum -- one hundred works pictured and described from the 14th through 20th centuries.… Read more about this item

Cincinnati: The Society, 1893. Hardcover. Small 4to. Emerald green blind-embossed pebble-grained cloth over beveled boards with gilt lettering and decorations. 578pp, (26pp). Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, tissue-guarded full-page plate, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Very faintest of minor binding wear to otherwise spectacularly fine copy. Superb, tight first edition of this reunion series, here containing reports for the 21st, 22nd and… Read more about this item

London: Elek, 1971. Hardcover. Translation by Eveline Hart. 8vo. Salmon cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Superb, tight, bright first edition of this survey -- and with surprising autograph addition, for this copy has been extra-illustrated with a tip-in facing the title page (frontispiece, in effect) from a well-known modern… Read more about this item

New YT: The Century Co, 1902. Hardcover. 12mo. Olive green cloth with ivory lettering and ivory/blue/burgundy pictorial front board stamping. 153pp. Near fine. Most mild of binding wear, else tight and internally fine; tiny Christmas 1902 nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Quite tight and attractive early printing of this 1901 bestseller about poverty in a Louisville neighborhood, the… Read more about this item

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 228pp. Fine/near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of this two-column compendium that begins in 105 BC and ends in 1967.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1938. Hardcover. Translation by Constance Garnett. Illustrations by Fritz Eichenberg. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 484pp. Frontispiece, full-page illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with slightly sunned spine and several miniscule edge chips. Tight, handsome "Heritage Reprints" war-date printing -- one of very few titles that… Read more about this item