London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Written by Jonathan Swift, though not identified. Rare first edition, with the "list of treatises by the same author" facing page 1. 8vo, (10), 322. Copy originally owned Owen Wynne (1665-1737), Irish general and commander in the British Army and a...... More
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 1st US Edition Thus. Hardcover. Limited edition, this #86 of 1030 copies. Blue cloth, sides uncut, paper spine labels variously tanned. Pictures are of only two exemplary volumes but set is complete. Extra shipping charges will apply. More
NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A plainly signed first edition of Rushdie's second book. Book near fine, save some trace spotting side edge. Dustjacket has two, short closed tears top edge front panel and the front flap is price-clipped and has a short flattened narrow crease. The spine, typically..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Hardcover. A complete, 12 volume set of the Thornton Edition, in original green cloth with gilt decorations and titles to spine, gte, sides untrimmed. Internals gently toned, as is usually seen. Re-issue of the Thornton Edition first published beginning in 1898. Gilt to spines a tad..... More
Edinburgh; London: Caledonian Mercury Press for Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, and Longman, Huirts, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Scarce first edition, metaphysical meanderings of Baron Mackenzie, leading to biological questions about the size of the brain and intelleigence, among other things. Rebound in full mottled leather, gilt..... More
Boston: Fields, Osgod, & Co., 1869. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, State A, Binding A (BAL 13129), and scarce thus. One of 1000 copies printed in Nov 1868, with the erratum slip at page 286-287. On page 97 is the erroneously numbered 7 (instead of 5 corrected later) and on..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. 1st Edition, limited. Hardcover. Paper by scholar Hartman on Surrey's Fourth Book of Virgal followed by a facimile reproduction, the original being then owned by banker and bibliophile Carl H. Pforzheimer. Inscribed "with affectionate regards" to an unidentified person by Pforzheimer on the ffe, and..... More
A. Milar, 1749. 1st Edition, Second issue. Hardcover. Sometimes referred to as first edition, second issue, sometimes second edition, this is the 1749 printing with errata corrected and a full list of contents for all six volumes printed in the beginning of Volume 1. Apparently, in its original binding of..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1900. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. An early printing of the second edition, 2 volumes, maroon fine linen, triple, blind-ruled coves, gilt to spine, a wee faded. Williams College student '28 name and dorm address on pastedown both volumes. Soilid, nicely preserved copies. More
Birmingham: Johannis Baskerville, 1772. Hardcover. 1772 edition by famous printer Baskerville. 8vo, old (perhaps original) binding of mottled calf and delicately designed compartments in gilt to spine, marbleized endpapers. Front hinge revealed but holding. Numeral 6 indelicately written in purple marker on fly. Engraved frontispiece. (6) 276 (2). More
Boston: Houghtgon Mifflin, 1899. Early Printing of New Edition. Hardcover. Rust-colored cloth stamped in black on front and gilt and black on spine. 8vo, xlii, 499, 12. Some rolling to cloth head of spine, else a much better than very good copy. Druggists & Pharmacists, Books & Stationary stamp of..... 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
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
London: Elek Books, 1956. First English-language edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with review slip laid-in. More
NY: Harper& Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy in very good unclipped dustjacket. Top edge moderately soiled. INSCRIBED by the Solomon to her editor at Harper's, Kitty Benedict on the ffe: "For Kitty - With so much affection - and lets hope, after this - novels! Many..... More
NY: Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in better than very good, unclipped dustjacket with a short close tear top of spine. Red on spine unfaded for a title where the dustjacket spine is usually seen faded. Plainly signed by Cheever on the free front endpaper. Awarded the..... More
NY: Viking, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Associaton copy. Inscribed by author DeLillo to fellow author Ann Arensberg and her husband publisher Dick Grossman on the half title: "To Ann and Dick/ Best ever/ Don DeLillo" Arensberg won the Americna Book Award 1981 for her first novel "Sister Wolf". She had..... More
NY: Viking, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First novel of Ann Arensberg (1937 - 2022) and winner of the National Book Award in 1981. Dustjacket spine sunned as it almost always seen with this title, else near fine. Signed by Arensberg on the ffe. More
London: Macmiillan, 1933. Later Printings. Hardcover. Two uniformly bound full leather later printings of WONDERLAND (1937, 189,000th thousand) and LOOKING GLASS (1933, 127th thousand). 8vo, full, red polished calf, tripled ruled covers, 6 compartments with gilt to spine, aeg, marble endpapers, inner dentelles. Queen device in gilt front cover LOOOKING-GLASS;..... More
1875. No Binding. Undated note, (circa 1875) two sided, on polished sheet approx 7x4.5" from author Anne Thackeray, daughter of the famous William Makepeace Tackeray, with embossed letterhead with her address in South Kensington, London "8 Southwell Gardens, South Kensington Gentleman I write to acknowledge/ with many thanks the safe/..... More
London: John Murray, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, not published until 1929. Near fine copy with the bookplate of American bibliophiles and Grolier Club member Sherman and Anne Lyon Haight of Manhattan and Litchfield, CT. Dustjacket moderately soiled. More
Wesr Cornwall CT: Locust Hill Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Anthology of literary criticism from peers like Robert Creeley and scholars. Fine, unused copy. Publication #28 in the Locust Hill Literary Studies Series. More
various. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Four titles by the Welch dramatist, author and poetThomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) ( 1903 - 1949), son of a quarryman from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire (Gwynedd today), in north Wales. He is primarily renowned in the present day for his novels about..... More