Utrecht: la Compagnie, 1742. Hardcover. 3-volume set. Full contemporary calf with raised bands and gilt on the spines, detached boards showing heavy wear and rubbing, erosion and cracking on the spines. Marbled endpapers. Textblocks are square and intact. Signature of former owner on the half-title of volume 1. Pages are... More about Memoires pour servir a` l'histoire de Port-Royal, et a` la vie de la Reverende Me`re Marie...

Wien: Drescher & Comp. 1890. Hardcover. Decorative red cloth cover with black and gilt decoration and lettering, cover shows minor wear. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, marbled endpapers, loose hinges. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. German language blackletter. More about Franz Grillparzer: Ein Bild seines Lebens und Dichtens

Philadelphia: William Duane, 1809. Hardcover. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, shows moderate wear and ear, edgewear and rubbing, missing the backstrip. Marbled edges and endpapers. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing and tidemarks. More about The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Vol. II

Philadelphia: William Duane, 1817. Hardcover. Half-leather bottom board with marbling is detached, replaced top board, missing the backstrip. Marbled edges and rear endpaper. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing. A good candidate for rebinding. More about The Works of Dr. Benamin Franklin. Vol. VI

Librairie Plon, 1971. Hardcover. 20-volume set, uniformly bound in brown paper which looks like leather, extensive gilt decoration. Pages show minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More about Oeuvres Complètes de Charles de Gaulle, Tomes 1-20

London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900. Hardcover. 7-volume set, complete. Uniformly bound in half leather with raised bands and gilt on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, fading on the spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages are clean. More about The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters. In seven volumes with Portraits and...

[The China Publishing Company], 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Seventh Impression of Edition Deluxe, Sept 1938. - Signed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek on a Presentation Page ( with her red 4 character seal mark beneath signature). - Bound in original red silk, gold lettering to front; floral print to spine; bound with purple... More about Sian: a Coup D'Etat and a Fortnight in Sian: Extracts from a Diary

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1905. Paperback. Publisher's lithographic pictorial wrapper, cover shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing, soiling and creasing. Illustrated. Pages tanned. 8vo. Presumed first. More about Confessions of a "Con" Man. His Adventures While Trimming Easy Marks

New York: Virtue and Yorston, 1869. Hardcover. Decorative red leather cover with gilt lettering and blindstamped designs, raised bands, shows minor wear and soiling, moderate rubbing and loose joints. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More about Episodes of Fiction, or Choice Stories from the Great Novelists with Biographical Introductions

Prentice-Hall, 1959-01-01. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover shows minor wear and soiling, no dust jacket. First edition. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. Note written on stationary from Hotel Pierre, New York, from Cecil B. DeMille to Barrett Kiesling, MGM Publicity Directory, dated June 21, 1931, laid-in... More about The Autobiography Of Cecil DeMille

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 about Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire (With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by...

E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1932. Hardcover. First ed, signed and inscibed under frontispiece by the author only 2 months before her death and inscribed to Barrett Kiesling, publicity director for MGM during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Personal letter and obituary in an envelope pasted on title page. Pink... More about So Far, So Good! (An Autobiography

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 about An Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions