DONALD WOLLHEIM COPY
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STUART, W.J.
Forbidden Planet.
8vo, original yellow cloth, faint trace of rub-
bing along extremities; dust jacket, very mild overall rubbing with thin area of age-toning
along upper flap edges; Donald A. Wollheim rubberstamp on rear free endpaper.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1956)
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION AND A GOOD ASSOCIATION
of a near fine to fine copy in like dust jacket.
Ex-collection Donald Wollheim, a major science-fiction figure eminent both as a writer and edi-
tor who “was one of the pioneering fan publishers in the 1930s...and was a founding member
of the original Futurian society” (Smith, p. 597). The novelization based on the classic 1956
film. Scarce.
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THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE.
Vanity Fair.
Illustrated with 40
etched plates, including frontispiece and additional pictorial title page, and numerous in-
text wood engravings. 8vo, contemporary full crimson hard-grain morocco, covers
gilt-paneled, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, turn-ins, by Bayntun Riviere, all edges gilt;
occasional mild foxing and discoloration to plates as is usually encountered, lacking adver-
tisements; cloth slipcase.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM
,
FIRST ISSUE
in an attractive binding. Contains the fol-
lowing first issue points: no street address on title-page verso, last line of dedication
measuring 2 and one-eighth inches, heading on page [1] in rustic type, “Mr. Pitt” on
page 453, and with the woodcut of Lord Steyne on page 336 that was later sup-
pressed. Van Duzer 231; Wolff 6699.
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THURBER, JAMES.
The Middle-Aged Man On the Flying Trapeze.
Illustrations by Thurber. 8vo, original
1
/
4
cloth-backed pictorial boards; dust jacket, light
scattered rubbing, spine panel slightly faded, few short closed edge tears, price clipped.
FIRST EDITION
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New York: Harper & Brothers, (1935)
[150/250]
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