Edinburgh, London, and Glasgow: A. Fullarton & Co., [n.d.; ca 1855]. Octavo (24cm). TWo volumes in dark brown half-morocco, purple cloth over boards, gilt titles to spine, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; vol. I: 756pp; vol. II: [ii],742pp; 80pl. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight, sound copies, rubbed..... More
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968. Quarto (26cm). Black paper over boards, backed in beige buckram, in green burlap-covered slipcase; [xvi],250pp; black and white illus. Straight and clean, pushed at head, with minor scuff to front: Near Fine. Slipcase gently rubbed with short loose threads at edges..... More
London: 1980. Octavo (23cm). Green cloth, stamped in orange and gilt, top edge stained orange, in off-white cardboard slipcase; 268pp; black and white wood engravings. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead to f.f.e.p. Straight and clean, spine sunned, else Very Good or better. Slipcase lightly rubbed and smudged, Very..... More
London: Putnam, 1956. First Edition. First impression. Small octavo (20cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 200pp. Tight, straight, and Near Fine, with faint offsestting to endpapers and an occasional freckle of foxing to text. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 13s. 6d. at base of front flap), slightly rubbed and..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; patterned paper-covered boards (hardcover); 28pp. Issued without dustwrapper; priced $2.50 at upper fore-corner of front free endpaper. Tight and Near Fine, with just a tiny bit of outwards warp to the front board. Momaday's fourth published collection, issued as No..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1947. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (21cm). Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 236,[8]pp. Fine copy. In the original photo-portrait dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); mildly toned at spine and extremities; Very Good+. Original publisher's prospectus laid in. With the printed bookplate of noted..... More
New York: Bigelow, Brown & Co., [n.d.; ca 1900]. "Edition De Luxe." Octavo (21.5cm). Six volumes in black cloth, titled on paper spine labels, top edges gilt; vol. I: [xxx],604pp; vol. II: [iv],551,[1]pp; vol. III: [iv],527,[1]pp; vol. IV: [iv],514pp; vol. V: [vi],524pp; vol. VI: lxxi,[3],323,[1]pp; frontispiece in each volume. Ownership..... More
London: Max Parrish, 1953. Library issue. Small quarto; full blue linen over boards, with gilt decoration on front cover; dustjacket; 36pp; illus. Tight and fine but for the expected offsetting to endpapers. In the pictorial dustwrapper, which has been clipped at both upper and lower corners of front flap, otherwise..... More
Albany: State University of New York Press, (1983). First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial cloth hardcover, no dustjacket, as issued; 240pp; illus. A fine, apparently unread copy. In the publisher's series, "SUNY Series in Modern Jewish History." More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First Edition. First impression. Quarto; tan buckram hardcover in dustjacket; 244pp; illus. Tight, fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper; Near Fine. Scholarly study of the history of maritime trade in the Near and Middle East, with particular attention to the history and culture of the..... More
Paris: A. Maloine, 1897. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Contemporary morocco over marbled boards; xii,[4],631pp; illus; one photographic plate (portrait); 52pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Gentle rubbing to joints and spine ends, else a fine copy. Contemporary ownership signature of a C.H. Harbaugh, M.D., datemarked Paris, 1898. Text entirely..... More
San Francisco: A. Roman & Co, 1867. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Original green, beveled cloth-covered boards; i-xiv;[15]-432pp; 2-pp publisher's catalog at end of text. Front free endpaper lacking, else a tight, straight copy, with the bookplate of Edward Richardson, datemarked Hong Kong, 1869; later ownership sginature of Elizabeth H. Lemmon..... More
Paris: Morizot, 1859. Large octavo (27cm). Brown pebble-grained cloth backed in leather, gilt stamping to spine, all edges gilt; white moiré endpapers; viii,592pp; 89 hand-colored plates. Straight and sound, externally rubbed, amateur repair to headcap, front flyleaf partly detached with split to front hinge, foxed: just Very Good. Natural history..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1838. Octavo (27cm). Full leather, gilt tooling to spine, titled on black leather spine labels; brown and pink marbled endpapers; vol. I: [i]-[viii] [9]-597,[1]pp; vol. II: [i]-[iv] [5]-592pp; vol. III: [i]-[iv] [5]-624pp; hand-colored frontispiece map and numerous in-text wood engravings, including large country maps. Bookplate..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 12mo (19cm). Brown cloth, titled in black and gilt; yellow coated endpapers; xii,166,26pp; 24pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed at edges: Very Good. More
[Dunedin]: Dunedin City Council, 1999. Quarto (30.5cm). Two volumes in blue cloth, titled in gilt, in blue cloth slipcase; vol. I: 576pp; vol. II: [577]-1216pp; in-text color illustrations. Ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. to front free endpapers. Sound and clean with slight sunning to spines, else Near..... More
Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1975. First Spanish Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover in dustjacket and clear acetate protector (as issued); 271pp. Tight, fine copy, with bookseller's ticket of Macondo Books (New York) affixed to front endpaper. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, mildly toned on spine panel and extremities..... More
![The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961 [Limited Edition, Signed]. Dwight D. EISENHOWER](/pictures/medium/57423.jpg?v=1656119526)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 1,500 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.1,268. Thick octavo (24.5cm); beige buckram, blocked and titled in olive green and gilt on spine, with Presidential seal stamped in gilt on..... More
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New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Trade Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 copies specially bound and signed by the author (this copy unnumbered). Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; all edges gilt; matching cloth slipcase, with author's facsimile signature stamped in..... More
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 300 copies specially bound and signed by the author (this one unnumbered). Octavo (24.5cm); full burgundy leather, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's facsimile signature stamped on front cover; all edges gilt; publisher's..... More
Stockholm: Hasse W. Tullberg, 1902. 5th edition. Quarto (29cm). Original blue cloth, titled in black on front, with board corners rounded, all edges stained red; original black coated endpapers; [viii],243pp; relief illustrations throughout. Text in three languages (English, German, and French) in three columns. Occasional contemporary pencil annotations. Straight and..... More
Paris: Shakespeare & Company, 1929. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. 12mo; printed wrappers; 194pp. A somewhat worn copy, with losses to paper at spine ends; wrappers toned and curling at margins, text slightly age-darkened; complete and Good. Beckett's first book appearance. More
Hollywood, CA: Marcel Rodd Co., 1947. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; brown cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 128pp. Fine, fresh and unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 inside front flap), slightly toned on spine and extremities, lightly dusted, Very Good or better. More
London: Calder & Boyars, 1971. First Edition. First impression, cloth issue (simultaneously issued in wrappers). Small, slim octavo; black cloth hardcover; dustjacket, 156pp. Fine in a crisp, fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced 35s / £1.75 at base of front flap). The American novelist's first book, which appeared only in this UK..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First Edition. First impression. Purple cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 63pp. Tight and near fine, with three tiny pencil marginalia to text. In the original printed dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12s6d at base of front flap), slightly toned on spine and margins and with a small (. More
