ALLURING ARIZONA
San Fransciso: William Hamilton Nelson, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Lacking dustjacket, spine a bit soiled, else near fine. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. Owner bookplate front pastedown. More
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A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN INDIA BURMA AND CEYLON including all British Inai, the Portuguese and French possessions and the Indian state
London: John Murray, 1933. Fourteenth Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt to front and cover, spine moderately sunned. cxliv, 812, (6). All maps in original folds, including pocket map in rear. Bookplate front pastedown, owner name top ffe. Uncommonly well-presserved. More
THROUGH EGYPT TO PALESTINE
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Top edge a wee dusty, else a near fine, apparently unused copy. Blue linen, gilt titles, 223pp, 15 full page illustrations and photographs taken by the author. Inscribed by author Smith and dated 1902 on the ffe. More
EINSTEIN'S RELATIVITY: A CRITICISM
Boston: Richard G. Badger (The Gorham Press), 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Solid copy, lacking dustjacket. Bookplate pastedown. More
EGYPT AND THE SUDAN: A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1929. Eighth Revised Edition. Uncommonly well-preserved copy showing little signs of use. Red cloth, spine moderately faded. PON top of pastedown and bookplate verso ffe. ccvii, 495. 106 maps (all in original folds), 56 woodcuts. A collectible copy. More
VAN STOCKUM'S TRAVELLERS" HANDBOOK FOR THE DUTCH INDIES
The Hague: W. P. Van Stockum & Son, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Nicely preserved. Marooon pebbled cloth, gilt titles, spine moderately sun-faded. Remnants of bookplate verso half title and original owner name top ffe. Internals uncommonly nice, apparently unused, all maps in original folds, including pocket map in rear. 613pp..... More
CONAN DOYLE'S BEST BOOKS IN THREE VOLUMES (Sherlock Holmes Edition)
NY: P. F. Collier & Sons. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Handsomely custom-bound in full olive moroccan leather with gilt decorations and red leather onlay on all covers, front and back, and inner covers, too. Olive silk-backed free frond endpaper, with its verso and adjoining fly in cream, clover-patterned moire silk. Each..... More
THE INNER METAGALAXY
New Haven/ London: Yale/ Oxford, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Some neat underlining in about 10 pages of the book. Solid copy in rubbed dustjacket. More
GALAXIES
Philadelphia: Blackiston Company, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition on copyright page dated 1943, and also printing of 1947. As the essays are based on lectures previously published we expect this is the first appearance in book form. An apparently unread copy in better than very good dustjacket... More
CARONI GOLD: VENEZUELA'S RIVER OF WEALTH
NY: Hastings House, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy of Dennison book on the Caroni River. An apparently unread copy, illustrated with b&w photographs in better than very good dustjacket with slightly sunned spine. Bookshop ticket for the American Book Shop in Caracas top corner ffe... More
DEVIL MOUNTAIN: THE LOST WORLD OF VENEZUELA (and) CARONI GOLD: VENEZUELA'S RIVER OF WEALTH
NY: Hastings House, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very nice pairing of two Dennison titles on Venezuela, one 1942, the other 1943, both firts editions. Apparently unread copies, both illustrated with b&w photographs in very good dustjackets with slightky sunned spines and a few tiny chips here and there. More
HANDBOOK TO BRITISH MALAYA 1935
(London): Malayan Information Agency, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy, all around. Sound binding, black cloth stamped in red, 233p, profusley illustrated with photos and maps. Bookplate on pastedown, as well as notice that "A poisonous inecticidal solution has been used in binding this book". Both foldout map and..... More
THE EMERGING REPUBLICAN MAJORITY
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First book by political author Phillips, and watershed in its impact, lending intellectual rigor to Nixon's "Southern Strategy", which transmuted by the GOP in the five decades since has begot variously the Tea Party, Christian-based politics, the Freedom Caucus and, ultimately..... More
SKY HIGH TO SHANGHAI An Account of my Oriental Travels in the Spring of 1938, with Side Glances at the History, Geography and Politics of the Asiatic Littoral. Written with Charity to All and Malice to None
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce title from prolific Australian novelist, traveller and reporter Clune. Lacking dustjacket, yellow cloth, stamped in black, 8vo. xiv, 379. Profusely illustrated with 61 b&w photographs, endpaper maps. Top edge dusty, internals near fine. More
ANIMATE CREATION Volumes 1 and 2 MAMMALIA, Volume 3 BIRDS and Volume 6 FISHES, REPTILES, ETC. (4 of 6 volumes)
NY: Selmar Hess, 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. AS NEW internals. all chromolithogrpahed plates bright and clean. Bindings solid, but red rot starting at spine and extremities and corners. At the time, a state of the art production, electrotyped by Smith & McDonald, NY and printed at the press of J...... More
HOMERI ODYSSEA GRAECA AND LATIN Item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni et Epigrammata (2 volumes) (and) HOMERI ILIAS GRAECAE ET LATIN Cum Annotationabus (2 volumes). (Odyssey. Iliad.)
London: Johannis et Pauli Knapton, 1740. Second Edition Thus. Hardcover. Samuel Clarke's edition of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, quartos, uniformly printed and bound in polished calf, gilt-ruled covers, more gilt to spine. . Clarke (1675 - 1729) was an English philosopher and Anglican cleric. He is considered the major British..... More
Q. Horatius Flaccus, Ex Recensione & cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii
Cambridge: 1711. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition. Lesser known work of the prolific classic scholar Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742) critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. Bentley became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700..... More
The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon and the Escape
Hartford: American Publishing C0, 1866. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Early printing of first edition. Original covers front and back detached, and leather spine mostly lost, making this a candidate for rebinding or reference copy as it held in a home-made brown paper wrapper. Internals very good. More
THE FAIR LAVINIA
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1907 on both title and copyright page, variant binding, burgundy cloth, instead of lavender, same climbing rose design, stamped in red and green. Cloth moderately soiled, binding solid. More
MALE AND FEMALE: A STUDY OF THE SEXES IN A CHANGING WORLD
NY: William Morrow, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Mead on the ffe and dated October 5, 1949, the year of publication. An apparantky unread book with some rubbing to spine in an unclipped dustjacket that has a large chip missing top and bottom of spine. More
TENNESSEE. THREE PLAYS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. THESE ARE THE STAIRS YOU GOT TO WATCH. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Washington DC: Librix Continuum, 2002. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Large folio, elaborately produced, bound in full Italian leather and housed in full leather box, all of which is still in green publisher's storage box. Limited edition, this 66 of 1500 copies, numbered and signed on the title page by one..... More
PEOPLE AND PLACES
NY: World Publishing, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Warmly inscribed and dated Christmas 1959 by anthropologist Mead to the grandchildren of author and close friend Edith Cobb, whom Mead met at Columbia University while Cobb was doing graduate studies. Some rubbing to spine largely confined to about an inch square chip..... More
THE GREEN PASTURES
NY: Farrar& Rinehart, 1930. 1st Trade Edition Thus. Hardcover. Story suggested by Roak Bradford's Southern sketches "Ol' Man Adam an'His Cillun". Thes lightest edge stain to lower right edge of front panel, traversing lightly into prelims, else a solid, clan copy. More
A FIELD GUIDE TO FERNS (The Peterson Field Guide Series)
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy to Edith Cobb, wife of author Boghton Cobb, to whom Boughton dedicated his book, with his inscription on the ffe. Ninth printing 1963, after the first of 1956. Green cloth covers, lacking dustjacket. More
THE CUCKOO'S SECRET
London: Sidgwick & Johnson, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, covers slightly soiled. All one wants to know about the cuckoo bird. One-leaf statement by author tipped in after ffe. Scarce title. BIRDS ORNITHOLOGY. More