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: 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
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
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
NY: C.H. Webb, 1868. Second Edition. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Published one year after the first and in similar format. Purplish-gray boards with gilt frog on front board and blindstamped frog on rear. Edge wear to spine ends and corners; spotting to a few pages; former... More about THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY and Other Sketches
Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1805. 1st American Edition. Leather bound. The first printing in America of Johnson's Dictionary, adapted from the fourth folio edition and with the addition of Walker's Pronunciation. Recently rebound in full brown leather with the original leather title label on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Text in very... More about A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Oxford: Moses Pitt, 1681. 1st Edition. Leather bound. x, 1-959, index, catalogue of books. Old stains throughout along top and outer margins. Old tape repair to frontispiece portrait of King Charles I; tape has been professionally removed but has left discoloration. Recently rebound in full leather ruled and stamped in... More about A SHORT VIEW OF THE LATE TROUBLES IN ENGLAND