A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE LATE INTESTINE [WAR] WARR IN THE THREE KINGDOMS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & IRELAND
London: Printed by J. Best for William Lee 1663. Second Edition. Duodecimo in handsome brown leather boards, rebacked, Good+/No DJ: shelfwear, edgewear, some abrading and rubbing at edges of boards and front and rear joints, splits starting and front and rear hinges, boards bowed, minor chipping/handling wear to exterior of boards, age-toning to edges of text block and interior, some notations on front paste-down in ink, bookplate affixed to front paste-down, about 0.5" of the fore-edge are of the ffep is missing, light and sporadic foxing to interior, pages a bit stiff.

Edges of text block have marbled pattern. Text is clean; scarce bookplate affixed to ffep: bookplate of "The Right Honourable Basil Fielding Earl of Denbigh." Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, was a cousin of the novelist Henry Fielding. From The Dictionary of National Biography: "Kippis reports the familiar anecdote that the novelist (i.e., Henry Fielding, 1707-1754) accounted for the difference between his name and that of the other Feildings by saying that his branch of the family had been the first to learn to spell." Henry Fielding was the great-grandson of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh. Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh, and Henry Fielding were cousins. NB: the usual spelling of the name of the 4th Earl of Denbigh was Basil Feilding. On this bookplate, however, his name is spelled Basil Fielding.

A rare book, with a rare bookplate and a family connection to Henry Fielding.
Full title reads as follows: "A Brief Chronicle Of The Late Intestine Warr In The Three Kingdoms Of England, Scotland & Ireland With The Intervening Affairs Of Treaties, and other Occurrences relating thereunto. As also the several Usurpations, Foreign Wars, Differences and Interests depending upon it. Composed and ended by the happy Restitution of our Sacred Sovereign King Charles the Second. In Four Parts. [Book #9-97-1181843]
$1,200

King Jr., Martin Luther
STRENGTH TO LOVE
New York, Evanston, London: Harper & Row, Publishers 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Very good - condition / lacking dust jacket. Hardcover in dark gray boards with quarterbound black cloth spine with gilt text. Autopenned signature on front free endpaper stating "Best Wishes, Martin Luther King Jr." Otherwise text has no marks.Binding is sturdy. Minor shelf wear to boards, with sunning to spine and upper portion of boards. Edge of text block is deckled and has some foxing. 146 pp. All else is very good. [Book #9-74-1161453]
$350

Hurston, Zora Neale
MULES AND MEN
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1935. first edition. G+/Fair. 8vo in orange cloth boards. DJ is gray/brown, spine missing, white paper of mylar cover shows instead. Wear to boards; edges rubbed, corners frayed and lightly bumped, agetoning to spine and edges. DJ has significant wear; spine of DJ completely missing (all other pieces present though), front flap separated from front, agetoning, small tears and chipping to edges. Edges of textblock and pages agetoned. 343 pp. [Book #9-114-1160272]
$500

DuBois, W.E.B. [William Edward Burghardt]
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKS: ESSAYS AND SKETCHES
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. 1903. Third Edition. Octavo in black cloth boards, Fair/No DJ: shelfwear, edgewear, bumping to head and tail of spine and corners of boards, tail of spine chipped and abraded as well, some rubbing and abrading at corners of boards, spine cocked, some soiling/dampstaining to exterior, bottom edge and fore-edge margins also dampstained, front and rear hinges cracked, some age-toning and foxing to interior, writing in pencil on ffep. Offered "as is." A very early reprint of Dubois's classic work. [Book #9-74-1181594]
$125

Morrison, Toni
TAR BABY
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First Edition, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Approx. 5.75" x 8.5" NF hardcover in VG+ dustjacket with spine gently sunned to turquoise; lettering in yellow and brown. Shelfwear to dustjacket, now protected in clear mylar overlay; mild age-toning. Remnants of old sticker on front jacket flap, which remains unclipped. Author has SIGNED and INSCRIBED this copy ("To Alice") on title page. Clean and tight throughout. Includes three loose photographs showing Morrison signing posters and a book at an event. [Book #9-3-1181742]
$100

Hentoff, Nat (Intro.); Parkhurst, Charles (Appreciation)
FRASCONI AGAINST THE GRAIN: THE WOODCUTS OF ANTONIO FRASCONI
New York/London: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc./Collier Macmillan Publishers 1974. Limited SIGNED/NUMBERED Special Edition, First Printing. Approx. 8.25" x 11.25" VG+ olive green & oatmeal clothbound hardcover in VG brown glassine wrapper with VG hard board slate blue slipcase. Shelfwear to boards has been largely avoided due to protective glassine wrapper, which has sustained multiple top & bottom edge chips but remains intact; and to slipcase, lightly soiled and age-toned but doing its job well. Special Edition limited to 125 numbered copies (fifteen lettered copies were for private presentation), of which this is hand-numbered copy # 34. Artist has SIGNED on this limitation page and added a red chop with his initials. Clean and tight throughout with 216 crisp reproductions of detailed woodcuts, many in two or more colors. This copy lacks the laid-in limited, signed original woodcut print promised in the edition information; one hopes it has enjoyed an admired life framed on a wall outside the confines of this lovely set. [Book #9-13-1181813]
$325

Corsaro, Frank (Auth.); Sendak, Maurice (Illus.)
THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES: THE GLYNDEBOURNE VERSION
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1984. Limited SIGNED/NUMBERED Edition, First American Edition. Approx. 7.5" x 11" NF clay-colored hardcover with gilt lettering in NF tan hardboard slipcase with brown wraparound design. Minor shelfwear to very gently bowed boards; slipcase has light red scuffs on one side, else fine. Both author and artist have SIGNED on limitation page, which states that this is #60 in a Limited Edition of 200. Clean and tight throughout. [Book #9-35-1181816]
$225

Stone, R.P. [Rhymes]; Holme, C.G. [Illustrations]
THE OLD MAN BOOK
London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head 1907. First Edition Assumed. Quarto in quarter red and three-quarter dark green/illustrated boards, VG-/No DJ: minor shelfwear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine and corners of boards, edgewear and rubbing to edges, minor soiling to spine, verso of ffep has inscription in ink "from John" and also has a small bit of white-out present, some age-toning--primarily to endpapers and paste-downs. Binding strong and text clean. Illustrations clean. [Spine has red background and no text.[Book #9-48-1181911]
$350