Dust Jackets For Sale

Beautifully preserved bindings in early dust-jackets or boxes, in date order:

FORGET ME NOT for 1828 (London, Rudolph Ackermann, 1827). Green decorated boards and green decorated slipcase. A stunning copy, just light rubbing at extremities but looks nearly unused. Slipcase also near fine, with title and date hand-lettered in contemporary hand on edge. Provenance: from the fabled Fürstenbergischen Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen library. $750.

[sealed jacket] POETICAL WORKS OF THE LATE RICHARD S. GEDNEY (London, Mancheser, New York, 1857). Second edition. Publishers' blue cloth, gilt. Fine unopened copy in the original sealed wrapping jacket. Jacket with tears down fore-edge but still sealed. Remarkable survival. Comes with three other copies not in jackets, of the blue, green and salmon bindings, one with a descendant signature. (These extra copies should stifle your wicked desire to open the sealed copy.) $12,500

[400 color plates] Joseph Carl Weber, DIE ALPEN PFLANZEN DEUTSCHLANDS (Munich, Christian Kaiser, 1867-68). Third Edition. Four volumes. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt. 400 colored plates. Printed dust jackets. Slipcase for first three volumes, and another for the fourth supplemental volume. Books fine, each with 100 plates, complete. Jackets very good, boxes very good. Remarkable survival. $3,500.

[African American stories] Kathryn Floyd Dana, OUR PHIL (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1889). First edition. 12mo. Publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in very good original plain bindery jacket, with half inch removed from top of jacket spine by clerk to reveal title. Illustrated by E. W. Kemble, artist of original Huck Finn illustrations. African American stories. Unused copy. $350.

Rudyard Kipling, THE FIVE NATIONS (New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903). First edition. 12mo. Publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket. $750.

[science fiction] Rudyard Kipling, WITH THE NIGHT MAIL (New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909). First edition. 12mo. Publisher's decorated cloth. Fine in very good complete dust jacket repeating binding design of airship. Beautiful copy. $1,200.

[with letter] James Herriot, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (New York, 1972) First printing. Fine in about fine complete dust jacket, not price clipped. With armorial bookplate and letter to owner from Herriot tipped in at back. Letter typed and signed in felt pen. One page letter describes Herriot's work and writing and his preference for the former and upcoming books. Letter has air mail postmark January 1972. Fine all around. $500.

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Copies of my book, "Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets" (Private Libraries Association & Oak Knoll Press, 2016) can be purchased new at the web sites of the publishers. A few first editions still left.