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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
NY: Hadham Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book near fine and inscribed by the author top of ffe. Green cloth. In cusom made typed wrapper missing pieces to spine. xiii, 236. Handsomely typeset. More
Worcester MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1914. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Paper covers chipped here and there, internals near fine, 126 pages. More
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First series of plays by a young Noel Coward published, first US edition. Book very good, Large chunks of Art Deco dustjacket missing but overall serviceable copy of original edition. More
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1935. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition in first state dustjacket. Ownership copy of attorney Arthur Leonard Ross (d. 1975) who was a friend of Emma Goldman and represented the literary estates of Fred Harris and the like. With Ross' printed bookplate drawn by German artist Otto Ubbelohde..... More
NY: World Publishing, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author Fredericks, Sunday picture editor of The New York Times on the half title. Compelling history of often overlooked 19thC conflict. More
London: Sherwood, Neely, And Jones, 1820. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, two volumes, bound in red, half leather, spines of which have been charred, with attendant stain to endpapers no affecting rest of text, which is quite nice. Library collection stamp on ffe and title page only. Sturdy, serviceable reading..... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes, smooth tan sateen cloth, gte, gilt titles to spine. Covers moderately soiled, shallow loss to head of spine Volume 1. No previous names, bookplates. SUPINO 60.1.0. More
New Haven: Durrie & Peck and J. W. Barber, 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, sound unsophisticated copy in original full calf binding that is worn about edges and edges Binding firm, some sporadic spotting , but all plates and engravings extant, including the hand colored foldout map of Connecticut..... More
NY: H.S. Parsons & Co, 1842. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A sound, unsophisticated copy of the most uncommon of Barber's state historical collections. In original full calf, gilt stamped titles missing here and there at spine. Sqaurely bound, internals quite nice. All plates extant, including the color foldout map of New..... More
NY: S. Tuttle, 1841. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, sound unsophisticated copy in original full calf binding that is worn about edges and ends, rubbed and missing half of its red leather spine label. Binding firm, some sporadic spotting , largely confined to front and rear signatures, but all plates..... More