NY: Doran, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine hardcover book in a near fine dustjacket. The jacket shows very minor shelf wear in the form of a couple miniscule nicks.Rais 29. A mystery novel by Terhune which features a collie prominently in the plot. More
Boston: Silver Burdett, 1896. First edition. 1st ed 1st printing. First edition of the author's first book in fine condition. The future best-selling author wrote this account of his adventures in the deserts of Syria in the late 1890s. This copy is in green decorated cloth; the book is also... More
NY: 1876. First edition. 201p; engravings. Brown decorated cloth. Front cover severely rubbed. A good copy. More
London: Odhams Press, [1953]. First edition. 22p. Softcover magazine in very good condition. COMPLETE WITH ALL PAGES AND DOLLS - NOTHING CUT OR PUNCHED OUT. Unusual and scarce. More
London: M. Cooper, 1744. Fourth Edition. Leather bound. 266p. Recently rebound in half brown leather with marbled boards. Some browning to textblock of pages else interior is generally clean. Overall in very good condition. A critique of the theories of Richard Bentley, one of the great 18th century Classical scholars... More
NY: 1899. 3rd ed. 365p; plates. Red decorated cloth. A very good copy. Neufeld was imprisoned for 12 years in Omdurman after the fall of Khartoum. More
Austin: University of Texas, 1931-1946. 1st ed. 630p; 618p; 623p; 514p Complete set of four hardcover volumes in original blue cloth. Ex-library: number painted on spine, library slips on endpapers, stamp on title page and page edges. Books are otherwise clean and tight and appear to have seen little use... More
Washington D.C. Government Printing Office, 1890. 553p. Ex-library book in good condition. Sunfading to spine and a small dent in top front cover. Old library marking residue on spine and some scuffing to covers. More markings inside else text clean and book tight. More
London: 1884. First edition in English. Two vols: over 700 pages. Red cloth. Spines lightly sunned else a fine set. Biography of the French marshal. Bugeaud was the commander of French troops in North Africa in the 1830s and 1840s. Scarce. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First edition. 129p; frontis. A fine hardcover book in a very good jacket; the jacket has 1/4-inch chip at the top of its spine. Memoirs of a sergeant in the French Foreign Legion during the First World War. The jacket is rare. More
NY: Stokes, 1921. First edition. AUTHOR'S SECOND BOOK IN THE RARE DUSTJACKET. Bookplate; lacks blank front free endpaper. A hardcover book in very good condition in a like dustjacket. Jacket is whole and complete with some mild chipping of 1/8 of an inch at the spine ends. The original Stokes... More
NY: Appleton, 1924. First edition. 339p; frontis. Blue decorated cloth. Bookplate; small smudge on spine else a clean tight and bright hardcover book in very good condition. A very scarce title being the author's third book and first non-fiction work. 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
London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. SCARCE. Inscribed by author. Shelf wear to boards; edges and corners rubbed, spine lightly frayed, corners slightly bent. Slight soiling to page edges. Otherwise a clean, tight set of hardcover books in good condition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Complete... More
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
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1941. First edition. 1st printing. Green decorated cloth. A clean tight hardcover book in near fine condition. Illustrated with plates and maps. Service in the Sikh Wars; China; Egypt; The Boxer Rebellion; and the Kut Campaign in World War One. More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY SCARCE. Title page INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author. Ex-library with label on dustjacket spine, stamps on title page, and stamps on back endpaper. Former owner's signature on front endpaper. Light soiling/staining to edges of some pages. Dustjacket front repaired with tape... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4 vols. 496p; 506p; 491p; 484p. A complete set of four large, new, gilt grey cloth hardcover books in fine condition, having only mild bumps on the heels of the spines and being otherwise clean and tight. Comes with a printed... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1871. 2nd ed, revised. 398p, illus. Red decorated cloth. Binding worn, hinges cracked, text block a bit shaken. No more than good condition. A famed 19th century account of ballooning adventure. Richly illustrated with numerous plates and lithographs, including six color chromolithographs. More
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
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Moreland & Anderson, 1815. 1st Edition. Leather bound. xii, 1-608, four engraved portraits. Recently rebound in half blue leather and marbled boards. Bookplate and former owner's name else interior unmarked. Paper slightly tanned, overall in very good condition. History of Napoleon's Campaign in Russia and the 1814... More
London: Charles Dolman, 1854. 6th Edition. Hardcover. 10 vols, each approx. 275p. A complete set of 10 brick-red cloth hardcover books in good condition. Spines deeply tanned. Corners bumped. Bookplates on front pastedown endpapers. Scattered underlining and notes inside. Some pages uncut. Corner chipped off p. 161 in Vol. IV... More
St. Louis: B. Herder Book Co., 1940. Hardcover. 12 vols, each approx. 225p. A complete set of twelve brick-red hardcover books in good condition. Sunned spines and occasional margin notes. Vols. IV and VIII are ex-library with the usual markings. The rest contain non-library stamps and signatures. Bindings tight across... More
Dartman, Longman & Todd, Seabury, Crossroad, 1963-92. Hardcover. Black cloth with colorful dustjackets for volumes 14-23. As a set, books and dustjackets in good condition. Volumes 3-13, 16-20 have underlining and/or marginalia. Volumes 2, 14, 15, 21-2 are marked at the table of contents. Volumes 1-13 lack dustjackets. Volume 14... More
Boston: Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1899. Limited Edition. Leather bound. COMPLETE SET OF 18 VOLUMES BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER. THE VERSAILLES EDITION, BEING #62 OF 800 NUMBERED SETS. Each volume bound in 3/4 and marbled boards; top edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark in each volume. The leather was originally a.... More