Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1802. First American Edition. First American from the Second London edition. Quarto (26cm). Full brown calf, titled in gilt on red spine label; plain endpapers; xvi,428,20,pp; 15 engraved plates at rear. Ownership inscriptions of W. Brackett and Bruce Brackett, the later dated from..... More
New York: Committee for Constitutional Government, 1946. First Edition. Anti-labor propaganda by a private industry group. Illustrated with a few halftones documenting atrocities committed by union picketers and organizers. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 166pp; illus. Mild external wear; paper slightly tanned; else a tight, unmarked, VG copy. More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1967. Folio (32cm). Three volumes in half beige leatherette, with brown pape rover boards, titled in brown and stamped with gilt animals on front boards; vol. I: [34],586pp; vol. II: [xii], 591-818,[6]pp; vol. III [xxii],889-1130,[6]pp; black and white in-text illustrations. A straight, clean set with..... More
New York: Random House, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; green cloth over olive paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 116pp. A tight, straight copy with a bit of rubbing to cloth at spine ends. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap), touch rubbed on spine panel with some..... More
New York: Edward J. Clode, [1927]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm); textured dark brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 318pp. Tight and straight, with rubbing to cloth at base of spine and board corners; text slightly toned at margins; just Very Good overall and lacking..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 310pp. Tight copy, mildly rubbed at board edges with a touch of sunning to crown of spine; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), slightly worn at extremities..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1945. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 189pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped on front flap, lightly worn at extremities, still Very Good+. An Asey Mayo mystery. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo; tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 295,(5)pp. Straight, tight, Near Fine copy, publisher's maroon top-stain even and unfaded. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced Net $2.00 on front flap), lightly worn with a single old clear-tape reinforcement to verso;..... More
New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First, Limited Edition. One of 111 hors-commerce copies (the complete edition). Octavo (24cm); printed limp vellum wrappers; 111pp. Spine a trifle darkened, else Fine, in original publisher's card slipcase, Good only (lacking fore-edge panel, darkened and slightly rubbed). Some copies were signed (though not called for);..... More
Tours: Bibliothèque de l'Image, 2002. Folio (32cm). 40 volumes in stiff card wrappers. Sound, with light shelfwear and a few external smudges, internally clean: Very Good or better. Reprint of all the plates from Diderot and D'Alembert's groundbreaking Encyclopédie, complete in 40 volumes. More
Portland: Feral House, 2000. First Edition. Softcover issue (there was a simultaneous limited issue of 100 hardcover copies). Oblong quarto; pictorial card wrappers; 168pp; illus. A fine copy in the original wrappers. Reproduces the private crime-scene scrapbook of Santa Monica police investigator Jack Huddleston, originally compiled in the 1930s-40s. With..... More
New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. Reprint. Large octavo (27cm). 6 volumes in brown cloth, titled in gilt on spines; vol. I: [xvi],[590]pp; vol. II: xii,591-[1172]pp; vol. III: [xvi],1173-1762pp; vol. IV: xiv,1763-2356pp; vol. V: [xvi],2357-2962pp; vol. VI: xvi,2963-3556pp; 72 color lithographs and two thousand in-text wood engravings. Bookplates of..... More
Glasgow: William MacKenzie, [n.d.; ca 1870]. Folio (32cm). Half-black morocco, with brown cloth over boards; green foliate-patterned endpapers; [lx],[1168]pp; frontispiece, engraved title page, and 34 steel engraved plates. Sound and straight but externally rubbed with minor scuffs, front hinge cracked, generaly clean with scatted foxing: Very Good. John Brown of..... More
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927-74. Quarto (31cm). Rebound in blue half-buckram, with blue cloth over boards, titled on spine; 91,41,56,48,65pp; 38 maps and additional in-text figures. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. Externally fresh and sound, with a...... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1874. Eighth edition. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in dark red wave-grain cloth, with paper spine labels; brown coated endpapers; vol. I: xxxvi,480pp; vol. II: [iv],[481]-960,32pp; 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. II. 1877 ownership inscriptions of Fanny Hall to half-titles; bookplate of noted zoologist James..... More
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Two volumes. Small, square octavos (18cm); cloth hardcovers in dustjacket and publisher's pictorial slipcase. Fine, in crisp, unclipped dustwrappers (priced $12.95 on front flap) and the original slipcase, lightly dusted and very slightly sunned at extremities, Near Fine. Illustrations..... More
Los Angeles: Pazifischen Presse, 1946. First, Limited Edition. No. 172 of 250 hand-numbered copies. Octavo (25cm); publisher's quarter calf over paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 167pp. Small scuffs to spine at crown and heel, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original printed dustwrapper. Text entirely in German. Final selection of..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 531pp. Near Fine in lightly toned and edgeworn jacket, VG+. Day-by-day account, by an American journalist, of the 1968 Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. More
Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1966. "Viertes und funftes tausend". Octavo. Black linen-covered flexible boards, with applied spine label; dustjacket; 386,[16]pp. Front endpaper and flyleaf slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); with publisher's wrap-around band announcing..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1967. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; 387pp. Front endpaper slightly darkened from a laid-in clipping, else tight and fine in a crisp and unfaded dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.50 on front flap); Near Fine. The first English-language publication of this selection of the..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Gray-and-tan cloth, printed in red and black; publisher's top-stain; dustjacket; 343pp. A fine, straight, and unmarked copy, with black top-stain even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.50 on front flap), a half-shade faded on spine panel..... More
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Early issue of this counterculture magazine/catalog, focused on self-sufficiency, ecology, and the DIY ethos. The long-running publication was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, which ran from September, 1968 off and on until 1998. "The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation..... More
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Early issue of this counterculture magazine/catalog, focused on self-sufficiency, ecology, and the DIY ethos. The long-running publication was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, which ran from September, 1968 off and on until 1998. "The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation..... More
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.25cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, with a few tiny nicks to front wrapper; Very Good+. "Attack on the Hartley Committee of the House of Representatives for..... More
New York: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, [1948]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and subtle toning to extremities, 1cm closed tear to lower spine-fold; Very Good+. "Justification to UE members of the union's withholding of per capita payments to the..... More
