Grey Dawn - Red Night
Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, and tanning. Cover with minor wear. Pages are lightly tanned, textblock is square. Name stamp of former owner on the title page. More
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The Atmosphere.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. Hardcover. Decorative green cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and edgewear. Contemporary gift inscription on a blank prelim. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. 10 chromo-lithographs, 86 woodcust, 7 pages of advertisements at the rear. More
Fighting the Boche Underground
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1918. Hardcover. Scarce. Dust jacket with moderate to heavy chipping and rubbing, has been repaired and reinforced on the edges and creases, is tanned. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing to the corners. Name stamp of former owner on the title page. Pages are tanned and clean..... More
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Hardcover. Navy cloth cover with gilt shows minor wear, rubbing, and bumped corners, lacking dust jacket. Name of former owner on the half-title page. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
The Camels Are Coming
London: John Hamilton, 1937. Hardcover. Scarce. 4th or later edition, undated but catalogue at rear dated autumn, 1937. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. Lacking dust jacket. Light blue cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing to the extremities, some soiling and staining, fading on the spine, splitting at the corners and slight..... More
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)
Donald M Grant, 1982-12-01. Hardcover. First edition, stated. Trade edition. Dark reddish-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Jacket in mylar, faded at spine, very minor edge wear at corners, otherwise VG/NF, unclipped. Pictorial endpapers (only first eds have this). Copy has been read carefully. Pages clean, binding sturdy. More
Ham on Rye (Signed Limited Edition)
Black Sparrow Press, 1982. Hardcover. Limited edition copy #290 of 350, SIGNED by the author with a doodle on the limitation page. In a clear acetate dust jacket. Near pristine with some foxing on the top edges. More
Paul McCartney: Paintings
Bulfinch, 2000-09-01. Hardcover. A pristine copy, SIGNED by Paul McCartney on the half-title page, first edition with full numberline. A Fine example. More
Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club Selection #59)
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988-03-12. Hardcover. Stated first American edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. FINE condition, with faint smell of tobacco. More
The Professor's House
Alfred A. Knopf, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. First edition, 1925. Dust jacket is whole with minor chipping, rubbing, and light tanning. Orange cloth boards with blue spine shows minor rubbing. Contemporary name of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
Cours de mathématiques. Tome quatrième.
Paris: Jean Jombert, 1693. Hardcover. Scarce. First edition. Volume 4 only. French language text. 8vo. [26]-276-28 plates-[8]-180-36 plates. 64 engraved plates in total, early diagrams in mechanics, physics, and mathematics. Bound in full leather with 5 raised bands on the spine, gilt decoration in panels, red title labels, minor rubbing..... More
Big Game Shooting In India, Burma, And Somaliland.
Horace Cox, 1913-01-01. Hardcover. 8vo, 1st edition, 1913. Original green "crocodile-skin" cloth with gilt lettering and black illustration of a tiger in vignette on the top board, cover shows minor wear and rubbing to the extremities, bumped corners. Slight rubbing and writing on the front endpaper. Pages lightly tanned and..... More
The Sportsman's Vocal Cabinet, Comprising an Extensive Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Original Songs and Ballads, Relative to Field Sports: Viz. Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Hawking, Angling, Archery, Cricketing, &c. &c.
London: T. Griffiths, 1830. Hardcover. Polished calf spine and corners with marbled boards, rasied bands and gilt decoration on the spine, cover shows minor wear and rubbing to the edges, some edgewear to the foot of the spine and the corners. Marbled edges and endpapers. Gift inscription from 1889 in..... More
Le Jardin d'Épicure
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1895. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed and SIGNED by the author in the prelims. FIRST edition, 1895. This is the author's first work of social criticism (title translates as "The Garden of Epicurus"). French language text. Bound into full leather hardcover with original wraps bound in. Raised bands and..... More
Human animals
William Rider & son, 1915-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with with minimal markings. Green cloth cover shows minor wear, pages are lightly tanned and clean. Not your typical Werewolf, Vampire book. Penned long before Hollywood’s interpretations, this Is the author’s collection, folk-lore, first hand accounts of animal-human transfiguration, transformation, intercourse, and..... More
THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, & ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE, BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. (Volume 1 Only)
Published By James P. Parke, No. 1808-01-01. Hardcover. Volume 1 only, scarce 1st American edition of English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's book about the progress in abolishing the slave trade, published only a year after the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Bound in full polished calf, cover shows..... More
The Arcana of Arts and Sciences, or, Farmers' and Mechanics' Manual
J. Grayson, 1824-01-01. Hardcover. Bound in full polished calf which shows minor wearw, rubbing, and edgewear. Writing and some scribbles on the endpapers, contemporary name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned and foxed. Scarce work on agriculture, dying, preparing and mixing colors, staining wood, varnishes, metals, bronzing..... More
An Enquiry Into the Morals of the Ancients.
A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch et a, 1737-01-01. Hardcover. Full calf binding with raised bands and label on the spine, binding is sturdy by joints starting, cover is heavily rubbed. Pages are lightly tanned with some minor soiling. More
Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s
Doubleday & Company, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Stated FIRST edition, SIGNED and inscribed by Ted Kennedy on a blank prelim. Typed and initialed note from Kennedy on his letter-head addressed to Jerome Factor, son of alleged gangster John "Jake the Barber" Factor. John Factor was the largest doner to John F. Kennedy's..... More
The Hieroglyhick Bible; or Select Passages in the Old and New Testaments, Represented with Emblematical Figures, for the Amusement of Youth. Third Edition.
Plymouth: Joseph Avery, 1820. Hardcover. Original pictorial & printed covered boards with calf spine shows heavy wear, rubbing, loss. Name of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are shaken and tanned with foxing and tidemarks throughout. More
The Romance of Tristram and Iseult.
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott, 19, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with decoration in gilt shows minor wear. Top edges gilt. Pages are lightly tanned with very minor scattered foxing. Profusely illustrated with beautiful tipped-in full-color plates. More
Thompson's New Arithmetic: The Youth's Assistant in Theoretic and Practical Arithmetic. Designed for the Use of Schools in the United States.
Woodstock: David Watson, 1828. Hardcover. Leather spine with marbled boards. Marbling is faded, showing resued printed paper underneath, some minor chipping and rubbing, edgewear. Pages are foxed with a few minor tears. More
The Country Dyer's Assistant.
Brookfield: E. Merriam & Co., 1798. Hardcover. 12mo. Scarce. First edition. Full contemporary calf shows wear and rubbing, loss on the corners. Names of former owners in the prelims, minor writing on the rear blanks. Pages are lightly tanned with minor soiling, foxing, and holing... More
The Chinese Fairy Book
London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1922. Hardcover. Illustrated green cloth cover with decoration in green and orange, gilt title on the spine, cover shows minor wear. Bookseller label on the front pastedown. Foxing on the edges. Pages are lightly tanned with some minor scattered foxing. Some minor underlining throughout, handwritten..... More
Star people,
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. Original dust jacket shows moderate wear, tear, tanning, chipping, and foxing. Cover is near pristine. Light foxing on the edges, pages are clean. More