Books from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

London / New York: Staples Press, 1952. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 80pp, (168pp). Numerous full-page illustrations (1 color). Very good/very good. Binding nice but for tiny mended scuff near foot; internally tight and near fine; jacket a bit edgeworn, with several chips and slightly sunned spine. Tight and nice first of this… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1936. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan paper over boards with brown lettering. 62pp. Near fine. Tight and internally fine, with single chip at head of spine. Apparent first edition of this fictionalized telling of an early colonial Floridian Native American love story, which title page notes as "Time April 15, 1528 to May 25, 1539." Tipped to front flyleaf… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 201pp, 412pp, 465pp. Near fine/near fine. Front flyleaf ownership signature and same at top of p. 33. Tight and handsome copy of this Modern Library Giant (G41). Not first of this edition (first published 1938), but late 1950s vintage. Bright, delightful… Read more about this item

Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1857. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green blind-ruled cloth with gilt lettering. viii, 159pp, (1p). Large hand-colored foldout frontispiece map. Very good. Spine a bit age toned, with bit of roughness at head and tail; both endpapers are expert contemporary replacements; text block lightly age toned; "School Library / District No 4 / Cornwall" inked… Read more about this item

New York / Boston: The Pierpont Morgan Library / David R. Godine, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Dark grey cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board decoration, dust jacket. xiv, 192pp. Numerous full-page illustrations (one foldout), small graphics. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight third printing of this exceptional survey first published in 1973 -- and this lovely copy bearing an archival… Read more about this item

London: Paul Elek, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by Philip James. 4to. Beige cloth spine with green lettering and blue cloth with ivory lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 166pp. Extensive full-page illustrations (some color). Very good/very good. Endpapers a tad age toned per usual; jacket a bit rubbed, age toned and edgeworn, with chip at spine foot. Tight and nice first edition… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1952. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 286pp.Near fine/near fine. Spine of otherwise fine jacket age toned. Handsome and tight first U.K. edition of Mailer's second book, signed boldly by him in black fineline on front flyleaf.

Chicago: The American Book Collector, 1972. Paperback. Small 4to. Pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations, advertisements. Very good. Lightly age toned (mainly to outer wrappers, else tight and nice. Attractive issue of this long-running bibliophilic monthly -- not its original iteration under Americana legend Charles Heartman (which ceased in 1935 after only 36 issues), but its second life under Thorsen (which… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 1992. Hardcover. Paintings by Ken Marschall. Introduction by Robert D. Ballard. Wide 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 227pp. Extensive illustrations (most color; one large foldout). Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this hefty study of all things Titanic in the light of Ballard's discovery of the wreckage -- but this tight and… Read more about this item

New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, dust jacket. viii, 448pp. Maps. Near fine/near fine. Ownership signature on front/rear flyleaves and at top of couple text pages. Tight and sharp reprint edition of the sixth printing of this (to cite front jacket panel) "modern guide… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. Hardcover. 4to. Black paper over boards with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 169pp. Extensive illustrations (most color), pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. Superb and tight later (10th) printing of this survey of French author Gaston Leroux's 1909 novel and its various iterations, first on film and then as a musical -- this… Read more about this item

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xv, 286pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this collection of film criticism essays regarding the Austrian-American film director, handsomely inscribed and signed by the editor (who also contributes three of its sixteen essays) on the half-title page: "July 1999 / Dear… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Hardcover. Folio. Glossy paper over boards, original clear acetate wrapper, slipcase. 151pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/near fine/very good. Quite minor slipcase wear; ownership signature on rear flyleaf. Tight and quite lovely first edition of the first book by the fashion and portrait photographer (1924-2003), accompanied by Capote's provocative text. While copies signed by… Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. xii, 331pp. Illustrations. Fine. Pristine first softbound edition of this study of the noted Japanese screenwriter and director (1902-81), handsomely inscribed and signed by the author on black fineline on half-title page: "To Tom, / Diana and my 'best / man' always -- with / admiration, respect, and… Read more about this item

Yankton, SD: The Pioneer Press, 1938. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xviii, 264pp. Near fine. Most handsome and tight later facsimile reprint of this pioneering dictionary by the American missionary and writer (1835-1917) who first published it as "An English-Dakota School Dictionary: Wa'sicun Qu Dakota Ieska Wowapi" in 1886 and then in this much-lengthened two-column format… Read more about this item

New York: Four Winds Press, 1970. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff printed wrappers. 317pp. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. Handsome first edition of the third in this series, "The Best Creative Work from the Universities and Colleges of the United States & Canada" as judged by Gwendolyn Brooks, Mark Van Doren and… Read more about this item

Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Full burgundy leatherette with blindstamped spine title and large front board gilt title and pictorial giltstamping. 360pp. Map, extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine. Pristine first edition of this thorough, well-rounded history (albeit heavy on thumbnail biographies of a vast number of residents) of this sparsely-populated region in the southeast corner of the… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. Paperback. Introduction by Frank Capra. Interviews by Leonard Maltin. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. x, 365pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine. Ever-so-faint spine sunning; small ownership signature at top edge of four text pages and rear flyleaf. Superb and tight first softbound edition of this (to cite front wrapper) "Behind-the-Scenes Story of the… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 232pp. Extensive illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright edition of this first thus, a highly-illustrated edition of Lord's 1955 account that sparked a renewed and never-ending interest (and a film version) of the famed disaster. This special copy… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Introduction by Charles G. Norris. Illustrations by Otis Oldfield. Small 4to. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and blue patterned paper over bevelled boards. (5pp), 390pp. Line drawings, marbled endpapers. Near fine. Choice copy of this first thus, being a reprint of the grim 1899 fiction about an unlicensed dentist who goes… Read more about this item