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: 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 about THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENCE
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
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 about THE FIGHTER
NY: Doran, 1925. First edition. Full limp leather in publisher's slipcase. Fine. Inscribed by the author in 1929. Also includes a postcard photograph of Terhune also inscribed to the same person. More about NOW THAT I'M FIFTY
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
London: Kegan Paul, 1880. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 283p; folding map; 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Original green cloth stamped in gilt and black. INSCRIBED BY PARR: "with the author's compliments". A former owner has signed his name and dated it 1949 on the same page. Mild rubbing to covers with... More about A SKETCH OF THE KAFIR AND ZULU WARS: Guadana to Isandlwana
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
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 about EPHEMERIDES ORDINIS CARTUSIENSIS, VOLS I-V
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 about JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Set of two volumes bound in full diced leather; rebacked with new leather spines. Bookplate else unmarked. Very good condition. IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF NAPOLEON'S DEATH BY HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN. One of the key sources for the investigation into whether Napoleon died of poison. More about THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
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: Chapman and Hall, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION, BEING #593 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY EVELYN WAUGH. Blue cloth with the original acetate wrapper. The wrapper is torn and tape repaired at the lower back corner. The book itself is in fine condition. The British issue of the limited first edition. More about BASIL SEAL RIDES AGAIN or The Rake's Regress
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, 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
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 about EPISTOLARIO DE NUEVA ESPANA 1505-1818: Vols. I-XII
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 about LIBRO SEGUNDO DE LA CRONICA MISCELANEA, en que se Trata de la Conquista Espiritual y Temporal de...
NY: Ballantine Books, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The true first printing with S27 in gutter of p. 183. A fine hardcover book in a fine dustjacket. Illustrated with color stills from the movie. The original hardcover vesion of the novelization of the first STAR WARS film. The hardcover... More about STAR WARS
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 about THE OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE REFORMATION Vols I-IV
New York: American Book Company, 1894. Hardcover. 256p. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: stamps on endpapers and title page, otherwise clean and tight. Includes b/w illustrations. More about ROMAN LIFE IN LATIN PROSE AND VERSE: Illustrative Readings from Latin Literature
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Basel: John Herwagen & John Operinus, [1553]. First edition. Second edition of his History of the Roman Emperors bound with the first edition of his AUSTRIA. Folio: 1-726; 44. Final page with printters device shows some old paper restoration. Older vellum; binding firm and tight. Old name written on title... More about DE CONSULIBUS ROMANORUM COMMETARIJ [bound with] AUSTRIA
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
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 about VERSAILLES HISTORICAL SERIES IN 18 VOLUMES
London: The Verona Press, [1947]. First edition. #931/1200 COPIES WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY MARIE LAURENCIN. Neat bookplate on inside front cover else clean and unmarked. A fine hardcover book in a near fine dustjacket and slipcase. The jacket is slightly darkened on its spine and the light gray paper shows... More about THE GARDEN PARTY and Other Stories