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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Western publishing house, 1891-01-01. Unknown Binding. Scarce. This is an illustrated volume containing multi-layered chromolithographs of human anatomical structures (manikins), each layer opening to reveal the layer beneath. Each layer is linen-backed for safe opening and closing.The multi-layered chromolithographs feature human anatomical structures including the abdominal and thorax, the arm..... More
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., 1886. Hardcover. Color illustrated cover of a young girl in red dress and two lambs, cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Gift inscription in the prelims. Color frontispiece. Pages are lightly tanned. Profusely illustrated in black and white. SCARCE... More
1849-01-01. Hardcover. 1849 complete Godey's Lady's Book, all issues bound together without wraps. Includes 1st printing of Edgar Alle Poe's satirical dystopian sci-fi story "Mellonta Tauta" in the February issue (page 133 of the first half), 12 hand-colored plates (11 fashion plates and 1 botanical), many engravings and illustrations in..... More
London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1757. Hardcover. Scarce. 1757 first edition. Includes "Glory," addressed to the Duke of Cumberland, and "Paris, or the Force of Beauty," dedicated to David Garrick. Boyce was an English engraver and poet who worked in the South Sea Company House and who was friends with..... More
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Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. Hardcover. First edition, second state (1900) as indicated by Geo. M. Hill publisher, no box around the ads on page 2, imperfect type on p. 100 and 186. Scarce. Tanning/dust wear to boards. A couple pencil marks on boards. Splitting at hinges, but binding is..... More
de Laurence Company, 1910-01-01. Hardcover. A copy in FINE condition with some minor stains on the rear board. More
J. B. Lippincott Company, 1872-01-01. Hardcover. First edition, scarce. Ex-library copy with usual markings in a library binding with remnants of original cloth back on the spine. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
London: T. Woodward, et al. 1744. Hardcover. 2-volume set, in folio. v.1: [12], xvi, [4], 984 pp., 27 plates. v.2: [10], 1056 pp., [22], 34 plates. Bound in full calf with 6 raised bands on the spines, red title lables and black volume labels, gilt decoration and ruling. Top boards..... More
London: Dow & Lester, ca. 1890. Hardcover. An unusual Victorian autograph book. Names are signed in ink pen vertically down the middle of the page and the page is folded over while the ink is wet to create a "ghost" pattern as it smudges and blots. This copy has ghost..... More
London: Rivington & Fletcher, 1759. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. 8vo., [20] 455pp. and [8] 387pp. First English-language edition. 4 engraved plates, each with 2 images, plus a folding copper-engraved map. Mid-20th century binding in full leather with gilt decorations, covers show very minor edgewear. Patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned with..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1905. Paperback. Bell's Indian & Colonial Library edition, 1905. Original red wraps with minor chipping, rubbing, and creasing on the spine. Small stain on the edges, pages are lightly tanned and clean. Scarce. A precursor and likely inspiration for Burrough's classic "A Princess of Mars,"..... More