New York: Covici-Friede, 1931. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 323pp. Mild flaking to gilt lettering on spine, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original Art Deco dustwrapper, unclilpped (priced $2.50 on front flap); shallow losses to base of rear..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1939. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Brick-red cloth, stamped in gilt and black inks on spine; dustjacket; 320pp. A tight, Near Fine copy in the pictorial dustwrapper, all four corners clipped by publisher but not price-clipped (priced $2.50 on front flap); small chip at upper..... More
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. First Edition. First Printing, one of 3500 copies. Octavo (19cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],131,[3]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, gently sunned at spine and flap folds, with a few tiny scuffs to rear panel, and a...... More
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1895. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm). Original printed wrappers; 142pp + 16pp publisher's catalogue dated "Juin 1894." A bit of dusting and wear to wrappers, but a generally fine, unread copy, the text unopened. The catalogue at rear, printed on inferior stock, is slightly age-toned. An early study..... More
London: Effingham Wilson, 1831. Octavo (22.5cm). Later half brown calf, purple cloth over boards, and subsequently rebacked, with brown calf reinforcements to corners, top edge stained, other edges sprinkled red; orange endpapers; xx,576pp. Lacking frontispiece. Externally worn but skilfully repaired, internally clean with occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. A...... More
New York: Samuel French, 1929. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; red top-stain; 153pp. Fine, in somewhat spine-sunned dustwrapper (portions printed in red are nearly illegible) with a few closed tears, about VG. A working-class tragedy, one of two early Rice..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Red cloth, titled in gilt; [i]-[xvi], 388, 8pp; 6 pages of ads at rear. Straight and tight, lightly sunned at spine, head and tail rubbed, internally clean: Very Good. More
Troy: N. Tuttle, 1844. 12mo (19cm). Brown cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [i]-xii [13]-315pp. Spine title reads "Moral Law of Nations and American Polity." Tight and unfaded, but gently cocked, lightly rubbed, paper lightly browned with occasional spots of foxing: Very Good. An effort to explain..... More
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. First Edition. First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; frontispiece, [xii],108,[4]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $3.00). "An associational item designed to cater to the "Praed Street Irregulars," the book..... More
Sauk City: Mycroft & Moran, 1973. First Edition. First Printing, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x,237,[5]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $6.00). The sixth and last major collection of the Pontine series. With a foreword by Allen..... More
Black Rock: Hill House, 1996. Limited Edition. Limited edition, no. 022. Elephant folio (56cm). Blue cloth, titled and stamped in gilt; endpapers printed with the stamp of the British Museum Natural History; n.p.; 76 color plates. One or two minor marks to boards, else Near Fine. A beautiful, full-size facsimile..... More
Black Rock: Hill House, [1994]. First Edition. Limited edition, no. 005. Elephant folio (56cm). Blue cloth, titled and stamped in gilt; endpapers printed with the stamp of the British Museum Natural History; n.p.; 75 color plates. Fine. A beautiful, full-size facsimile. Gould was a major British ornithologist who published over..... More
Edinburgh & London: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1900. First Edition. First impression, British issue from American sheets. Octavo (21cm). Orange-tan pictorial cloth, titled in gilt on spine; cover title and decorative elements stamped in silver and dark brown; 434pp; frontispiece, 15 leaves of inserted plates (one folding); two folding maps..... More
Boston: Adams, Sampson, and Co., 1859. Octavo (24cm). Rebound in tan linen, backed in blue buckram, with original printed paper laid down over boards, original brown cloth laid down over spine; ads to endpapers; 540,88pp; with 88p of ads at rear, and ads to endpapers and boards; many ads with..... More
Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822, 1825, 1829. First Edition. First printings. Octavo (22cm). Three vols in later brown half-calf, marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on black spine labels; plain endpapers; vol. I: [i]-vii [8]-414pp; vol. II: 376pp; vol. III: [i]-xv [16]-327pp. Vols I and III bound without half-titles..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1880. Quarto (29cm). Four volumes in black morocco-grain cloth, titled in gilt on fronts and spines; brown coated endpapers; vol. I: xxxii,596pp; vol.II: lviii, 577pp; vol. III: [i]-[xiv], [i]-xii, 691pp; vol. IV: x,713pp; extensively illustrated with maps, plates, and in-text blocks, including color map of Boston..... More
[N.p., n.d.]. Limited Edition. No. 58 of 200. Green cloth-covered box (57cm) with large yellow label; containing five color prints (51x35cm) tipped onto publisher's cream laid paper folder, and one bifolium of printed text. Also with an extra print (55x38cm), reproducing a nineteenth-century lithograph of two kangaroos. Box with minor..... More
New York: New York Condensed Milk Company, [1893]. Oblong octavo (15cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet bound with blue cord, in original cream wrappers printed in blue; 56pp; halftone illustrations. Fresh, with minor external soil, edges gently rubbed, but internally clean: Very Good or better. Advertising pamphlet about the New York Condensed Milk..... More
London: T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, [et al.], 1801. Octavo (22cm). Two volumes half-bound in later brown morocco, with marbled paper over boards, gilt rules along edges of leather, tooled in gilt and blind with six-pointed stars to spines; marbled paper endpapers; vol. I: [vi],xxxi,[1],274pp; vol. II..... More
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1890. Octavo (19cm). Two-piece yellow and red cloth binding, stamped in black and gilt; [vi],297pp; illus. by Harry Beard. Anecdotes of New York city characters and incidents. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (21.75cm); turquoise and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; blue topstain; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; x,182pp. Mottling to cloth covers, faint stain to base of spine, wiht some sunning to topstain; contents clean;..... More
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1976. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],270,[6]pp. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Light wear to spine ends, subtle toning to right margin of front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [4],159,[1]pp. Tiny crease at crown, some rough erasure to front endpaper, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s. net), with some gentle sunning and..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); lime green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-156pp. Gentle sunning to spine and extremities, faint foxing to text edges and preliminary leaves; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn and a little sunned, with some..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1872. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Light brown publisher's cloth series binding, stamped in black and gilt; endpapers printed with publisher's ads; iv,107, [11]pp; 10pp of ads at rear. With gift inscription to Miss Rosella Stevens from her teacher Jas. A. Foshay, with chromolithograph..... More
