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: Putnam's, 1930. Limited Edition. Leather bound. AUTHOR'S AUTOGRAPH EDITION, #876 OF 1,000 COPIES SIGNED BY ADMIRAL BYRD. Original 3/4 vellum and blue paper-covered boards in acetate wrapper. Fine condition, virtually new. A beautiful copy of the signed limited edition, nicer than usually encountered as the vellum tends to..... More
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
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
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Washington DC: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903. The Library Edition. Hardcover. Complete in 20 volumes. This work was published in variuous bindings and formats; we offer The Library Edition, so stated on the title page. Original green cloth with paper spine labels. The rear hinge of Vol. XX has been..... 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: Richard Bentley, 1839. 1st Edition. Leather bound. Complete two-volume set of this important account of the Pawnee Indians. Bound in half green leather and marbled boards. 473, 372pp, frontispiece in each volume. Small ink stamp on front pastedowns; slight shelf wear to covers. Usual offsetting to title pages from..... More
Pratis, AT: Typis Cartusiae S. Mariae, 1890. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Half leather oversized books. Complete five volume set. Covers show some sign of shelf wear and abrading. Leather is especially well preserved. Some light foxing here and there throughout set. But otherwise a clean and tight set of books in..... More
Wirceburgi (Wurzburg): Franc. Xaver. Rienner, 1789. Editio novissima. Leather. 17 vols. Ex-library. An incomplete set of seventeen hardcover books bound in 3/4 brown leather. Several of the spines are chipped at the extremities. Some of the title plates have been rubbed off over time. A few of the covers are..... 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: 1758-1849. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Uniformly bound in green 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Ex-libris with ink numbers on spines. Good to very good condition. A few spines chipped (especially Vol. III) but bindings firm and tight. Interiors clean and bright. LENGTHY RUN OF AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH NEWS RECORD. The..... 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
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 387p. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. This is #344 of one thousand numbered copies signed by the author. Original blue cloth. Neat bookplate on front free endpaper else in fine condition with clear acetate wrapper and publisher's box. The box has a light..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Waugh has neatly signed the front free endpaper with his less common method of "E Waugh". Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Light foxing to the endpapers; faint shadow on front board where an old..... 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
Guadalajara: La Republica Literaria, 1891. Leather. 886p plus 27p index. Ex-library copy of a 1/2 brown leather hardcover book in good condition. Library markings and stamps inside, on spine, and on edges of text block. Edges rubbed. Scattered small pencil marks in margins. However, the vast majority of the pages..... More
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926. Hardcover. Two volumes. Red decorated cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Complete with all maps and plates present. A clean, bright set in very good or better condition. An attractive edition of Catlin with beautiful decorative covers. 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
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
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
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
Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1856-1867. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Complete set of eleven large quarto volumes. Each book measures 7x10.5 inches and is over a thousand pages long with text in double-columns. Ex-seminary library books. Rebound in modern brown buckram. Old paper label on spines; name stamped on titlepages but otherwise clean..... More
London: J. Nourse, 1774. 3rd ed. 240p; 34 copper-engraved folding plates Bound in half brown leather and marbled boards. A very good copy. The plates are all in fine condition. A nice copy of this classic work on siege warfare. More