New Castle: Hurst & Company, 1882. Arlington Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 13cm). iii,194pp. Red cloth covers, embossed titles and decorations to upper cover and spine. Wear to head/tail of spine, edges; spotting to covers. Pages brown, joint splitting at title page, rest of text block tight and unmarked. OCLC..... More about Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; Including Some Poems Not Hitherto Introduced in His Works
Boston: Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1876. Hardcover. 4to (25 x 18cm). Half-bound brown leather with brown cloth covers. Spines with gilt titles and five raised bands. Wear to spines, corners and covers. Marbled edges with matching marbled endpapers, text blocks tight and unmarked. More about A Popular History of England (Four Volumes); From The Earliest Times To The Accession Of Victoria
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. Household Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (20 x 14cm) xxi, [4], 656pp. 129 B/W drawings by various artists. Blue cloth covers with gilt lines, four wreaths and title to upper cover and gilt titles with two wreaths to spine. Light wear to edges and head/tail of..... More about The Complete Poetical Works Of John Greenleaf Whittier
Japan: Seifu Shobo, 1968. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (26 x 36cm) [12], 120, [2]pp. Sens ga paintings with all text in Japanese. Blue cloth covers with title (in Japanese) to upper cover in silver gilt. 48 color, 72 b/w (page 17 loose but intact) images. Including Saburo Miyamoto’s “The Meeting..... More about Greater East Asia War Painting Art Collection – Army and Navy Edition; Dai T asen kaiga bijutsu...
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (24 x 16cm). 2 Vols. xxi [iii],707 [iv advs.] ; xvii [iii], 808 [iv advs.] pp. Original 3/4 brown morocco and red marbled boards with four raised bands, matching marbling to endpapers and all edges. Volume I wear to..... More about The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (two volumes
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 13cm). viii, 423, [1], (16 pub. ads); viii, [2], 475, [1], (16 pub. ads)pp. Original green cloth covers. Volume one: case loose, head 12cm of spine cloth loose (still attached to upper cover) with 3cm horizontal tear at..... More about The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
San Francisco: Ransohoffs (printed by The Grabhorn Press), 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Folio (40 x 27cm). 1/250. Red/ tan cloth boards, tan spine with brown leather label in gilt. Spine darkened, covers lightly scuffed, corners bumped and a 6 x 3cm stain to head of upper cover. Front hinge endpapers..... More about Addresses Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of...
London: G. W. Bacon & Co. Ltd. Hardcover. 12mo (19 x 12cm). 38, [3]pp. , map. Red cloth covers with black titles to upper cover and spine, 3s.6d. price, 40pp. guide to London and large color linen fold-out map (69 x 89cm). Wear to edges, head/tail of spine, corners bumped..... More about Bacon's New Large Print Map of London and Suburbs; Extending from Highgate to Crystal Palace,...
New York: W. W. Norton, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (22 x 15cm). 189pp. Red/blue cloth covers, red titles to spine, fading fading/wear to head/tail of spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ, 1cm chip to head of spine, wear to edges, in Mylar. More about An epitaph for Dixie
Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1805. Later printing. Leather bound. 8vo (22 x 14cm). iv, 584pp. Unmarked brown leather covers, missing title label to spine with faint gilt lines remaining. Upper cover loose, but present. Corners bumped, edges worn. Missing map, no pagination but all other pages appear present. PO inscription (1813)..... More about A Geographical Dictionary; of the United States of North America.; Containing A General...
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857. Later printing. Full leather. 8vo (19 x 12cm). 502 [2 pub. advs.). Half bound brown leather with marbled (matching endpapers) covers. Covers loose, but still attached. Wear to corners, edges head/tail of spine. Spine missing title labels. PO inscription (1857) to second free endpaper..... More about Villette
New York: Columbia Records, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (31 x 35cm). Vol. I 60pp; Vol. II 32pp. Two volume set each with vinyl record in sleeve at rear. Vol. I: signed by Richard Bales on title page, rest of text block tight and unmarked, spine faded with tape residue..... More about The Union; The Confederacy (two volumes set with two 33 1/3 vinyl records
London: David Nutt, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (19 x 15cm). 143pp. "The first edition, first issue of North of Boston appears in five binding variants" (Crane, 14). This copy is binding F, in olive cloth with fore and tail edges uncut. One of 200 copies in this binding. Original..... More about North of Boston
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1958. Irene Robinson. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to (26 x 18cm). [6], [4, map], 86, [2] pp. 288/300 from Plantin Press. Covers decorative paper, tan cloth spine with paper label. 2 x 1cm stain to tail of spine, tail corners bumped. Signed by Lillian and Saul..... More about The Malibu; I. Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit: A Historical Approach by W.W. Robinson II. Personal...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (24 x 18cm). xiv, [2], 251, [1] pp. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover and spine, 3-1cm fading to fore-edge of upper and lower covers. 1cm (oil?) stain to tail of recto/verso of free endpaper..... More about All In A Day's Riding
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Will James. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (24 x 18cm). xvii, 217pp. Grey cloth covers with black titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped ($3.50) DJ in Mylar. Frazier pp. 1-8. More about Cowboys North And South
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (25 x 15cm). ix, 431, [3]. Green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped Orange DJ with "N. Y. Herald Tribune" quote, edge wear, light fading and 2 1cm..... More about Lone Cowboy; My Life Story
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 15cm). [6], 314pp. Signed by author on additional non-bound and untrimmed (21.5 x 14.5 vs 21 x 14.5cm) title page which is still attached to uncut pages 9/10 & 9/10. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped..... More about Big-Enough
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Will James. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (21 x 15cm). x, [2], 328pp. Green cloth covers, black titles to upper cover and spine, fading to edges of upper cover. Inscribed by author on a 3x5 index card pasted to half-title page, rest of text block..... More about Sand; The Story of a Man and a Horse
Cambridge, MA: John Eliot, 1680. Second Edition. Folder. 4to (30 x 22cm). Leaf folder. [3]pp. Yellow manila folder with description by Wilma Corcoran (Zion Research Library, Boston University) to first two interior pages with leaf (18 x 15cm, II Kings) attached (by ribbons) to third interior page. Upper and lower..... More about The First American Bible; A leaf from a copy of the Bible translated into the Indian language by...
Madrid, Spain: Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1723. Third Edition. Vellum. Folio (30 x 21cm). [32], 268, [12] pp. Contemporary vellum. Red/black title-page, moderate worming to lower portion of leaves throughout, without rear free endpaper. "has earned the distinction of being the first work published by a native born American author" Servies..... More about La Florida del Inca
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1935. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (24cm x 17cm). 941pp. Red cloth covers with tan spine and dark brown leather label, subscriber's name in gilt to upper cover. Signed by author on free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. More about The Record Of America
New York: Harper and Brothers. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo (21cm). Various paginations. Five with black cloth covers, 1 blue paper, 1 brown paper. All spines with white paper title labels. Various editions/dates. All text blocks tight and unmarked except Fatal Interview (upper hinge loose, inscribed by PO). Huntsman, What Quarry;..... More about Various Titles (set of seven
Society of Art Collectors, 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to (31cm) Leather-bound Artist's proof (no seriograph) with multicolor inscription on verso of title page to Henry and Charlotte Kimelman, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Henry L. Kimelman was an American businessman, political adviser and diplomat (Ambassador to Haiti 1980-1981)..... More about The Art of Yankel Ginzburg
Garden City: Doubleday, 1993-2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 1,8vo (22cm); 14, 4to (25cm). Various pp. All inscribed by author to his copy editor at Doubleday. Consisting of : The Chamber (1993), A Painted House (2001), Skipping Christmas (2001), The Summons (2002), The King of Torts (2003) , The Last Juror (2004)..... More about Inscribed First Edition John Grisham Novels. (Set of 15