London: 1836. First edition. Folio. With 12 b/w engraved plates. Bound with leather spine and boards. A good copy. Rare work on dogs; not listed in Schwerdt. Contains 12 engraved portraits of dogs' heads by Edwin Landseer, A. Cooper and Charles Hancock. More about THE SPORTSMAN'S ANNUAL
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1929. First edition. signed ltd ed. #142 of 201 copies signed by the author. WITH ORIGINAL SIGNED B/W ETCHING BY LIONEL EDWARDS. Red cloth. Spine slightly sunned else a hardcover book in very good condition. The signed limited edition with the rare Lionel Edwards etching in... More about LETTERS FROM AN OLD SPORTSMAN TO A YOUNG ONE
NY: Dillingham, 1897. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 214p. Recently rebound in full blue morocco leather, stamped in gilt, with five raised bands and gilt decor on spine, marbled endpapers. Fine condition. THE RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK. Terhune published this collection of stories about undergraduate life at... More about COLUMBIA STORIES
London: Cassell, 1918. First edition. Green cloth. Fine. Very scarce. Published only in one edition in the UK; not published in America. A difficult title to obtain as its distribution was quite limited. More about WONDER WOMEN IN HISTORY
NY: Dodd Mead, 1908. First edition. Green decorated cloth. Bookplate. Very good. A scarce work of non-fiction based on a series of articles Terhune wrote for the New York World. More about THE WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS
Boston: Ginn & Co, 1897. Green cloth. Very good condition. ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE'S COPY SIGNED BY HIM WITH A DRAWING. The book was a text of Terhune's at Columbia University; on the front endpaper he signed his name and college address then added a humorous drawing of "Mrs. Kendal". The... More about SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE
NY: Covici Friede, 1937. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the American edition of Lawrence Durell's second book, written under the pseudonym of "Charles Norden". Near fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The interior of the book has some slight age toning to endpapers and the light tan... More about PANIC SPRING
Chicago: Daprato, 1928. ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ART. This is an original 1928 printing of the illustrated catalogue for Daprato Statuary Company. Daprato was the leading American manufacturer of ecclesiastical art for Catholic Churches throughout the great era of church building in the late 19th and... More about CREATIONS IN ECCLESIASTICAL ART: Twentieth Edition
Madrid: Don Antonio de Sancha, 1788-1795. First edition. Complete two-volume set. Bound in full 18th century leather; marbled endpapers; spines hubbed and decorated in gilt. Ex-library with library name stamps on endpapers and title pages; ink call numbers on spine; else generally clean. Tight binding. Books did not circulate and... More about COMPENDIO DE LA HISTORIA GEOGRAFICA, NATURAL Y CIVIL DEL REYNO DE CHILE
London: Alexander Moring, [1908]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 312p, plates. Folio, measuring 8.5 x 12 inches. Bound in half vellum and gray decorated paper-covered boards. A few old marks to covers; interior fine and in overall very good condition. Includes a tipped-in photograph and a ticket to a special Thanksgiving service... More about THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND DRAGOONS 'ROYALS SCOTS GREYS'
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY WAUGH ON THE TITLE PAGE. Eveyn Waugh autographed this work directly beneath his printed signatgure on the title page. A fin e hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. The spiune of the jacket is browned from age and the... More about EDMUND CAMPION
London: Chapman and Hall, 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. #257 OF 350 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Red cloth decorated in gilt. A hardcover book in fine condition. The signed limited first edition of this brief work by Waugh. More about LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. The Uniform Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. INSCRIBED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh inscribed this work on the half-title page "For Patrick Mahoney from Evelyn Waugh, Sept 20, 1950". Front upper right croner is slightly bumped else this is a fine hardcover book. This... More about PUT OUT MORE FLAGS
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 311p. Originalk blue cloth; light scratch and rubbed spot on front cover else in fine condition. Includes postcard designed for the reader to send back to the publisher with comments on the book. A rare work on the 1929 Stock Market Crash... More about WALL STREET UNDER OATH: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. First one-volume edition. Hardcover. 624p. Includes errata slip, 11 folding maps, and 76 engraved plates. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Interior very good, covers worn along spine edges. Spine lettering dulled. A hardcover book in good, solid condition. The one-volume large octavo... More about NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN Performed in the...
Paris: Claude Herirrant & Guillaume Desprez, 1763. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Folio, measuring 10x15 inches and being two inches thick. Bound in full brown leather, boards ornately stamped in blind. Spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised bands. This is an older binding but is not original to the book... More about L'ANCIEN ET LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT EN FIGURES Representes en cinq cens Tableaux graves d'apres les...
London: Henry Herringman, 1656. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Bound in modern three-quarter red leather and marbled boards. A rare but defective work which lacks the frontispiece portrait, title page and pp. 13-16 (which contain the drawing of the chessboard). There are therefore no illustrations in this copy. Multiple pages have... More about THE ROYALL GAME OF CHESSE PLAY
Paris: Ludovici Billaine, 1674. Hardcover. Bound in full vellum. Two volumes. 3 7/8" x 6 1/4". Fold-out plates. Books in very good condition. Covers somewhat soiled. Corners bumped. Title cards on spines in excellent condition in red and black with gilt stamping. Bound with five raised bands. Some deterioration at... More about VITAE REVERENDIS PATRIS F. HIERONYMI SAVONAROLAE FERRARIENSIS, ORD. PRAEDICATORUM (VOLS. I-II
Suffolk: Brightly & Childs, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. A pair of thick quartos, measuring approx. 9x11 inches and 2-3 inches thick. Bound in full leather, restored with new matching leather spines. Very good condition. In-depth history of the Napoleonic Era from the French Revolution through Napoleon's exile... More about AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE NAVAL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL EVENTS IN EUROPE
Dublin: John Milliken/H. Fitzpatrick, 1798. Leather. 163p plus appendix; 253p; 90p.A 1/4 black leather hardcover book with marbled boards. Very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed. Pages clean and binding tight. Three pamphlets bound together in one volume. A collection of several Irish parliamentary debates dealing with Catholic Emancipation. Contains a.... More about THE DEBATE IN THE IRISH HOUSE OF PEERS on a Motion Made by the Earl of Moira, Monday, February...
London: HarperCollins, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. A fine hardcover book in a like dustjacket. SIGNED BY ADAM TOLKIEN ON THE TITLE PAGE ALONG WITH ILLUSTRATOR ALAN LEE. Adam Tolkien is J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson and the son of the book's editor Christopher Tolkien. In the introduction, Christopher credits Adam..... More about NARN I CHIN HURIN - THE TALE OF THE CHILDREN OF HURIN
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st ed, 1st printing with K-Z code on copyright page. A FINE HARDCOVER BOOK IN THE SCARCE REMNANTS OF THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. This work is found in two different bindings, one being black cloth with a yellow title label and the other... More about MANHATTAN TRANSFER
Edinburgh: Robert Fleming, 1732. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Large quarto, measuring 8 x 12.5 inches. Frontispiece, [32], i-lviii, 1-488, glossary/index in 20pp. Recently rebound in half leather and marbled boards, new endpapers. Binding in fine condition. Pages clean with some scattered browning. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THE BEST VERSION OF... More about THE HISTORIE OF THE REFORMATIOUN OF RELIGIOUN WITHIN THE REALM OF SCOTLAND...together with the...
Rome: Sac. Cong. Propag. Fidei, 1661-2. Hardcover. Two volume set. Quarter vellum on marbled boards. 7" x 4 1/2". 614 & 698p. Leather title cards on spines intact and readable. Book 1 in good condition. Vellum intact but much of the marbling on boards has been rubbed off. Hole in... More about Book 1: IOANNES HENRICUS HOTTINGERUS. FRAUDIS & IMPOSTURAE MANIFESTAE CONVICTUS; Book 2: DE...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1949. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a very good, lightly edgeworn dustjacket. The book itself is flawless and appears unread. The jacket is clean and bright with two tiny chips: one along the top edge of the front panel measuring 1/8-inch deep... More about HUMAN ACTION: A Treatise on Economics