Venice: Iuntas, 1607. Hardcover. Bound in half-vellum with decorative paper boards, hand-inked title to spine, missing the bottom corner of the bottom board, otherwise shows minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and soiling. Contemporary inscription of former owner on the front free endpaper. Copper-engraved title page and nearly 600 woodcut illustrations... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing. Pages are clean. First American edition. Scarce. More
Hamburgi: Bibliopolio Frobeniano, 1906. Hardcover. 2-volumes-in-1. Rebound in black leather with red title label and raised bands on the spine, gilt ruling and lettering. Cover shows minor wear. Woodcut illustration of man planting a tree with the motto "Posteritati" on the title page, woodcut initials and headpieces at the chapter... More
Georg W. Mentz, 1832-01-01. Hardcover. Bound in full contemporary calf, plain boards with 2 leather and metal clasps, one of which is partially missing. Signatures of former owner on the verso of the front free endpaper, marbled endpapers. Pages show moderate foxing and tidemarks. Text complete and unmarred. More
The Reilly & Lee Company, 1960-01-01. Hardcover. Dust Jacket is in a removable, clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear and tear, fading. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Dick Martin on the front pastedown. More
Bailliere, 1865-01-01. Hardcover. Bound in hardcover with original wrappers, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, tanning. Pages show minor scattered foxing. More
New York: C. P. Gilman, 1913. Hardcover. Volume 4 of The ForeRunner, all issues from 1913. Illustrated brick cloth cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. Gift inscription in the prelims. Ex-library copy with usual markings. More
London: W.P. for John Young, 1714. Hardcover. Half-leather with marbled boards, cover shows heavy wear and edgewear, loose top board, rubbing and loss. Pages show minor scattered foxing. More
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO@, 1964-01-01. Hardcover. Early Book Club Edition. *Appears to be signed by Winston S. Churchill near top of the first end paper. Bound in red cloth with gold stamped lettering. Includes Dust Jacket which is in a removable, clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Mild wear, some rubbing and a...... More
New-York: George H. Colton, 1845. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. All issues of volume 2 bound together without wraps, including the first printing of Poe's "Eulalie" in the July issue, an essay by Poe on American Drama in the August issue, and "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case" in... More
Printed for A. Strahan, and T. C, 1796. Hardcover. First edition. Volume I only! Front board has detached, could be repaired by an expert. Otherwise in good condition! Bound in full tree calf with gilt border, 6 raised bands on spine, gilt-tooled floral motifs. Some bumping to corners, a few... More
Barcinone: Joannis Piferrer, 1743. Hardcover. Full leather binding with minor rubbing and wear. Missing title page. Some pages repaired, impacting text. Torn/missing half of last page of text, two leaves of tipped-in handwritten adendum at the back of the book. Minor holing on the endpapers. Pages show minor foxing but... More
Cadell and Davies, 1813-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings, tape-reinforced spine, some erosion to the extremities. Loose hinges/gutters, reinforced with binder's tape. 139pp. Bound together with "Ode to Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Great" published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815, 27pp. & "Poetical Epistle to the Right Hon..... More
Paris: Chez Pierre le Petit, 1674. Hardcover. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt, heavy erosion on the spine, cracked joints. Minor writing on the front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean. Minor writing on the title page. More
Printed by Arthur Shirley, 1821-01-01. Unknown Binding. Full-calf cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling, staining and discoloration. Former owner's signature and extensive writing and scribbles on the front free endpaper, signature and minor scribbles on the title page. Minor foxing of the endpapers and prelims. Pages are..... More
Charles Scribner, 1940-01-01. Hardcover. Early Printing with no Scribner's "A" - *Signed, inscribed and dated by Ernest Hemingway on a small piece of paper which is taped onto the ffep "To Barrett C. Kiesling/ with sincere good wishes / always./ Ernest Hemingway. / Jan 29 1941"- Bound in original cloth... More
The Obelisk Press, 1936-01-01. Paperback. First edition. 267pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Tand and red illustrated wrappers. Very good. Age toning to backstrip. Gentle bumping to extremities of covers. Housed in a custom chamois and slipcase. More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1925. Hardcover. 26-volume set, the complete works of Honore de Balzac, uniformly bound in handsome half-leather with raised bands, gilt decoration, marbled boards, show minor wear. Top edges gilt, deckle. Pages are lightly tanned and clean, text are intact and unmarred. This item may require extra shipping due... More
The Macmillan Co., 1903-01-01. Hardcover. First edition, 2nd printing, July 1903. Decorative green cloth cover with gilt lettering shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
WM. H. Allen & Co., 1852. Hardcover. An incredible piece of history! Published by the booksellers to the East-India Company, contains directions for sailing to and from the East Indies. Boards have separated from textblock, but are held in place by booktape on the inner front hinge. Heavy age staining... More
Amsterdam: Gedrukt voor den Auth, 1692. Hardcover. Etched t.p. by Jan Luiken. Engraved port. of Cornelis Tromp. Plates by Luiken, Bastiaen Stopendael and Thomas Doesburgh. Signature Y repeated (pages 169-176). Includes index. [8], 496, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates (6 folded, one ripped) : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)... More
Chez Edouard Kelmarneck, 1751. Hardcover. Bound in thin boards covered in marbled paper which so some rubbing, typed label on the spine says "JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU". Tender hinges. Minor bookseller's writing on the front pastedown, handwritten author name added to the title page. Engraved frontispiece. Pages lightly tanned and clean... More
D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Hardcover. First edition. Two volumes in beautiful condition. Very rare full Moroccan leather binding on both volumes. Elaborate stamped design on boards, raised bands on spine, vibrant gilt lettering and dentelles. Light shelf wear along edges of boards. Light rubbing to raised bands on spine... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Bro, 1835 - 37. Hardcover. Complete 4 Volume Set + the Volume of plates, in Quarto. All 5 Volume are rebound in matching 1/4 black cloth with gray cloth boards, gold lettering to spines; new end papers are added. - Vols 1 & 2 are 1835;... More
D. Appleton & Co., 1869. Hardcover. First American edition, 1869. Re-bound in library binding, leather spine with green cloth boards, white-out label on spine. Splitting along hinges, back board is loose. Old Pomona College Library bookplate on front pastedown, "withdrawn" stamps on spine. On the very last page someone wrote... More