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New York: Ensign & Thayer, 1850. Leather. 70p plus foldout map. A small hardcover book bound in full brown leather with gilt decorations on the front. Good condition overall. Small tear in the spine, about 1.5" from the bottom. Boards lightly chafed all over, but gilt detailing still bright and.....
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.
Jackson, MS: Price and Fall, 1848. Leather. 1111p. SCARCE ANTEBELLUM MISSISSIPPI IMPRINT. A hardcover book bound in full brown leather. The entire spine is reinforced with clear tape, covering cracks where the boards were detaching. The boards have lots of scuff marks, and smudges of ink and age-related discoloration. Spotty.....
NY: Dodd Mead, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 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.
London: W. and A. Strahan, 1778-1793. Second Edition. Leather bound. Complete five-volume set of the second edition of the Biogrphia Britannica, revised and enlarged by Andrew Kippis. Bound in five folio volumes in matching 18th century bindings of 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Covers rubbed, leather worn at extremities. Minor.....
Cincinnati: Morgan. Lodge and Fisher, 1827. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 100p, plus two plates. RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, bound in full black leather. Recently restored with newer matching leather spine. The endpapers are original and contain the signature of one David Van Matre and the date of July 1827. A scarce.....
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London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 124p. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CECEIL BEATON. An orange cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine and top edges faded, and corners lightly worn. Binding is cockeyed, but still tight. Endpapers tanned; otherwise clean. Memoir of life at Ashcombe.....
London: Thomas Davison, for Taylor and Hessey / Edward Moxon, 1823. 1st Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 341p; 283p. FINE BINDINGS BY BAYNTUN. A set of two hardcover books bound in full golden-brown calf with gilt-decorated spines, gilt dentelles, gilt foredges, and marbled endpapers. Very good condition overall! Edges of spines.....
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Paris: Libreria de Arthus Bertrand, Librero de la Sociedad de Geografia, 1838. Hardcover. lxxix; 300p; 135p; 72p appendix; atlas. Ex-library; REBOUND. An oversize hardcover book that has been rebound in black buckram with black cloth boards. Call number on spine, stamps on foredges, and various library markings on endpapers and.....
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.....
Paris: Florentin Delaulne, Hilaire Foucault, and Michel Clouzier, 1717. Leather. 312p; 296p. Ex-library. A hardcover book bound in full brown leather with five raised bands on the spine. The ends of the spine are chipped, the corners are worn through to the cardboard, and the boards are scuffed. Call number.....
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.....
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.....
London: The Folio Society, 2007. Limited Facsimile Edition. Leather. 269p; 27p. An oversize hardcover book bound in full black leather with gilt decorations, gilt foredges, and a satin ribbon bookmark. Comes in its original black cloth box along with a companion essay bound in 1/4 black cloth. Fine condition; the.....
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Washington: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1966-1987. First edition. Hardcover. 12 vols. Ex-seminary library books bound in red cloth. Old paper labels on spines, stamps on title pages and foredges, and card pockets inside back covers. Light ink smudges on front cover of volume 7. Tiny flecks of ink on.....
1863. Paperback. 8p. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. An eight-page pamphlet in very good condition. Vertical creases down the middle of the front and back covers. Text unmarked and binding secure. Inscribed by the author on the front cover (signed "Hommage de l'Auteur"). In this essay, Francis Lieber (d. 1872), who.....
Mexico: Jens & Zapiain, 1877. 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 and.....
London: Robson & Kerslake, 1886. Limited Edition. Leather. 20 plates. FINE SIGNED BINDING BY RIVIERE. LIMITED EDITION; #148 OF 200 COPIES. A hardcover book attractively bound in dark olive-green leather with gilt spine decorations, five raised bands on the spine, gilt dentelles, and a gilt top edge. Very good condition!.....
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 432p; 12p advertisements. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a good dustjacket. Corners mildly bumped else a fine, clean, tight book. The jacket's spine is faded (as is often found) and the corners worn through. The head and foot of the.....
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New York: Dutton, 1957-1967. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Complete set of all ten hardcover volumes. Very good condition overall. All in the original cloth, with Vols. 8-10 also having the dustjackets. Vols. 1-3 are from a private collection and have the former owner's name stamped on the endpapers and title.....
Montreal: R. and C. Chalmers, 1848. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 390p. Recently rebound in half black leather and cloth, lettered in gilt. Interior pages are uniformly a bit tanned by age, else clean and unmarked. Binding in fine condition, book in overall very good condition. RARE MEMOIRS OF THE FIRST.....
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London: 1825. First edition. Two volumes. Bound in half black leather and boards. Slight edge wear to leather. Interior pages clean and fresh. A good+ set overall. Important memoirs of Napoleon's sinister Chief of Police. Long thought to be fake but modern research has shown these memoirs to be authentic.....
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Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1740. Paperback. 2 vols. 628p; 626p. A set of two 18th-century books in their original wraps. FAIR condition. Both books are heavily worn and fragile due to age; the wraps are crumpled and splitting along the spines, leaving the last few pages loose in volume 1.....
NY: Scribner's, 1925. Maxfield Parrish. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, measuring 11.5 x 14 inches. ILLUSTRATED BY MAXFIELD PARRISH. 46pp text, complete with all Parrish illustrations: decorated endpapers, ownership page, title page, cast page, nine pages with border vignettes, and eleven full-page color plates. Original pictorial boards, good condition, with.....
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. A very good hardcover book in a like dustjacket. The book has bright clean covers. Top right corners of first nine leaves are very slightly bent with a half-inch closed tear to the top right corner of the front.....