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
NY: Scribners, 1914. First American edition. A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Neat former owners name on front endpaper; spine of book slightly dulled else clean and tight. Dustjacket is faded along spine with some 1/4-inch chips at spine ends. First American edition of this early mystery..... More
New York: Doran, 1921. 1st edition. Hardcover. THE TRUE FIRST PRINTING THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUSTJACKET. The book is in fine condition and the jacket is in very good condition. Light brown cloth with collie head on front board stamped in dark brown and white; lettering on spine in dark brown..... More
NY: Lovell, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Touch of edge wear. Near fine. Warmly inscribed by Terhune in the year of publication to W.P. Hamilton one of his old newspaper friends. The novel is a prequel to his earlier work CALEB CONOVER RAILROADER. More
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
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
New York: McClure Phillips & Co., 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition, in the variant binding of blue cloth with gilt decorated spine as per Green & Green. Former owner's name else unmarked. Complete with frontis and 12 b/w plates. A clean, tight hardcover book in very good condition..... More
London: Richard Priestley, 1820. 1st Edition. Complete three-volume set. Bound in full leather, spines rebacked, preserving the original title labels. Very good condition. 411, 455, 476pp. Also contains a life of Berkeley and several of his letters. A sturdy set of the philosopher's writings. Best early edition of Berkeley's works..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. 1st edition. First printing, 1st state of Dicken's famed unfinished mystery novel. Complete with portrait, engraved frontispiece, and twelve plates. Bound in half green leather and marbled boards; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Marbloed boards show rubbing; some scattered spotting to text but generally clean..... More
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
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939. 5th printing. Hardcover. Red cloth stamped in black. SIGNED BY DALTON TRUMBO. Cloth shows a touch of wear along the spine edges. Former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper else clean and unmarked. A hardcover book in very good condition. Signed by Trumbo on the half-title page..... More
Pittsburgh: S. Engles, 1816. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 144p. 16mo, measuring 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Bound in full brown leather; large piece of leather torn from front cover exposing the cardboard beneath. Rear cover badly worn, missing a portion of the top edge. Old staining and foxing throughout..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1948. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. #285 OF 1426 COPIES SIGNED BY EISENHOWER ON A FACSIMILE OF THE ORIGINAL D-DAY ORDERS. Fine condition in clear acetate wrapper and publisher's box. This is Julia Rockefeller's copy, neatly inscribed to her for Christmas 1948 by "Bill" - the..... More
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
New York: Random House, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. DELIGHTFUL POP-UP BOOK SIGNED BY EDWARD GOREY. Gorey crossed out his printed name on the title and signed underneath. The book has a tiny bump at the top of its spine else all in fine condition. Pictorial boards, issued without a jacket..... More
New York: The Fantod Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fantod Press Edward Gorey set #1 published in 1966. The three booklets are in fine condition in the original publisher's envelope. The envelope is chipped along its edges but inherently whole and complete. An early Gorey item; this true first printing..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. #36 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR EVEYLN WAUGH AND ARTIST STUART BOYLE. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt. A hardcover book in fine condition. More
NY: Farrar and Rinehart, 1934. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED BY WAUGH ON THE TITLE PAGE. The author has neatly signed his name just underneath his printed name on the title page. The light burnt-orange cloth of the spine is a trifle faded else the book is in fine condition..... More
Rome: Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the..... More
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Argentorati (Strasbourg): Theodorici Lerse, 1708. Classical Studies. Leather bound. Two early 18th century works on Greek grammar bound in vellum as one thick volume. Very good condition. The Vigeri work was printed in Strasbourg in 1708 and is the Editio Novissima. The second work is by Matthew Devarius and was published in..... More
Mexico: Libreria Robredo, 1939-1940. First edition. Vols. 1-12 (of sixteen) only of this comprehensive collection of offical letters of the Mexican government under Spain. Red cloth. Ex-library with various library ownership markings else a clean tight set in very good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Mexico: Jens & Zapiain, 1877. Scarce. Hardcover. Ex library half leather on marbled boards. Plates. 8 1/2" x 12 1/4". xvi, 252p. Book in good condition. Crown of spine abraded and chipped. Cover edges rubbed and corners bumped. Library markings on spine, endpapers, title page, and first page. Foxing here..... More
Cambridge MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. Limited Edition. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, BEING #469 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER AND N.C. WYETH. Original half leather and green decorated cloth boards with acetate dustwrapper. Fine condition, with the only blemish being the slightest touch of rubbing to the top of..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Complete three-volume set. 318, 292, 293pp. 8vo. Bound in contemporary 3/4 leather and marbled boards; spines ornately decorated in gilt with red leather title labels. Expertly rebacked preserving the original spines. ACTOR EDWARD EVERETT HORTON'S COPY with his bookplate in each..... More
Dublin: George Faulkner & James Williams, 1770. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 288p, 198p + index. Contains two volumes bound as one book. Full 18th century calf stamped in gilt. Remains of old bookplate on front pastedown else clean and unmarked. Mild shelf wear, a study hardcover book in very good..... More