NY: Simon & Schuster, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uncommon true first edition (1958, years before the 2001 reprint which is commonly found), scarcer still plainly signed by author Hadley on the ffe. Spine cocked, internals quite nice. Price-clipped dustjacket chipped about edges and missing strip at bottom edge from front..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete in eight volumes, 1966-1986, all US first editions (first printings too), each near fine in very good dustjackets that are variously sunned to the spine and variously chipped, mostly at spine ends. All dustjackets are priced clipped and six have an ownership..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Edition of 1861 after the first of 1847. Origional bindings, brown-cloth, elaborately blind-stamped all over, covers slightly rubbed, internals toned (paper stock). Appears to be unread/unused. Solid pair of volumes. More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1904. First Thus. Hardcover. First edition of "a new edition with additional matter edited and annotated by to Morgan's original text. Large 8vo, ribbed blue cloth, gilt pressed device front cover and titles to spine, gte. xxiv, 332, illustrated, color frontispiece, foldout map. Covers just slightly rubbed..... More
Manuel Quesada Brfandi, 1964. 1st Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Facsimile of 1848 edition, folio, full tan leather gilt-ruled and titles stamped in brown front cover and spine. #306 of 1000 copies. The original edition published in 1848 by E. Atchley, Library of Fine Arts, London. 26 plates each with polished tissue..... More
Paris: Nyon, 1782. Second Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in qaurter leather, black leatehr label spine. 8vo, vi+368, sides trimmed, stained red. Internals quite nice. Second edition, with advertisement for both first and second edition, plus errata sheet, in front. CHINA JESUITS. More
London: Samson Low Marston & Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo, elaborately gilt-stamped white linen, a.e.g. 474 pp, illustrated with photographs by the author. A sparklling copy all around. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. SRI LANKA CEYLON TEA. More
Edinburgh: Silvester Doig and William Anderson, Sterling, 1792. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Six volumes complete, uniformly bound in early 19thC mottled calf, gilt and red and green labels to spines. Front cover volume 1 hinge slightly revealed but holding. Notes dated 1799 in black ink on the ffe and blanlk prelims..... More
np (London): 1667. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in half leather over marbleized boards, gilt spine titles, likely late 19thc. Trimmed, especially at top margin to measure 14.5 x 19cm, 35pp, leaves unevenly soiled, heaviest at title page. Half inch evidence of bookworm lower right corner in margin not affecting text..... More
Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes recently rebound, quarter leather over marbleized boards, sides stained yellow. Faint waterstain no more than 1/4" deep top margin for a few signatures in Lost, otherwise internals quite bright and nice. More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. A complete set - 10 volumes - of publisher Grant's original 1906 edition, uniformly bound in green cloth, with gilt to spine. Volumes are slightly cocked, with the gilt to spines variously worn and cloth variously, modestly soiled. Some nicks and short..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titles. Neat owner name, 1914 date on the ffe. Volume VII of the seven volume Haworth Edition set of the Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid, clean copy. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Better than very good copy. Neat gift inscription dated 1922 on the ffe, with another dated 1932. Solid copy. More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, olive-green cloth , decorations and titles in green, brown and gilt. Spine moderately browned as is often seen with this tile. Square, solid binding. Internals fine. No names, inscriptions or bookplates. More
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Katherine Hepburn. Novel of a young woman from Indiana who leaves behind the young man she's supposed to marry and at university in Chicago takes up with a professor much older than she who "also wishes to..... More
Belfast: Fred Bradbury and Municipal Techinical Institute, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. staed fifth thousand on title page, second edition with a new preface to this "new edition" before the preface to the first. Short 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 292 + xxi. With tables and figures in how to calculate..... More
NY: E. P. Dutton, 1912. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fourth edition 1912, after the first of 1911. Blue cloth, titles and blind rule in gilt, 8vo, xvi + 600p w/ index. Some dustiness to upper front cover, solidly bound, clean internals. More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1st Edition in English. Hardcover. Near fine book in worn dustjacket chipped about edges. most obviosuly bottom edge rear panel. More
Hartford: Elihu Geer, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Published annually the last week in May, this No. 17. Small 8vo, rebound with red cloth spine and marbleized boards, laying back the original brown cloth with gilt titles front cover, which is revealed but holding. (4), xxii, 309. Foldout map present but..... More
NY: Saafield Publishing Company, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to, light green cloth stamped in silver and black. Illustrated with 330 reproductions of famous paintings of or about Napoleon Bonaparte. Some modest wear to covers, mostly at spine ends, internals fine. Much better than most copies as it is still..... More
London: The Times, 1952. 1st Edition. No Binding. 12 mo, single leaf folded to make 4 pages, printed on all sides, faint damp-staining to bottom and fore-edge. In custom-made blue cloth slipcase, red leather label with gilt titles. First edition of the broadcast Churchill made to the nation the day..... More
NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial hardcover in dustjacket with matching pictorial. Owner names and Christmas 1931 date on ffe. Some staining verso dw, with attendant, slight waviness to some pages in front. Solid, reading copy, perfect for young children, of an early Petersham production. $2.00 price on..... More
NY: Thonas Seltzer, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First US editiom. Red cloth, spine paper label. Spien slightly faded, some wear at ends, stamp of the Paul Burke-Mahoney Memorial Library, The American School of Florence on the title page. No other library markings, and an owner bookplate on pastedown. Good reading..... More
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An apparently unused copy fine n slightly soiled dustjacket with light wear about edges. More