Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1882. Octavo (23cm). In red orange publisher's cloth, boards bevelled, titled in gilt on spine; brown coated endpapers; [1-4] 5-188, [2]; one-page prospectus requesting subscribers for McCook's next work, on American Spiders; 13 tinted lithographs, depicting ants and ant habitats. A straight copy, rubbed, especially at extremities..... More
New York: Small, Maynard and Company, 1914. First Edition. A novel broken up into three books, first published in Cavalier, which chronicle how, "after a thousand years of suspended animation, an American engineer and the typist in the office next door awaken and rebuild a "finer, better" civilization. An explosion..... More
![Les Roses [Facsimile; with] Commentaries to Les Roses by P. J. Redouté: A Contribution to the...](/images/noimage.png)
Antwerp: De Schutter, 1978. Limited Edition. #287 of 510 copies. Elephant folio (56cm). In half red morocco, boards covered in red cloth, titled in gilt on spines and on red leather labels on front boards; plain endpapers; vol. I: [9], 6-156, [4]pp; vol. II: vol. II: [6] 5-122, [4]pp; vol..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Fictionalized biography of a worker-radical in the National Maritime Union. "...written as vigorously as [its] central characters lived, but in almost all other ways...quite lacking in the art of the novel" (Rideout, p.267). Still, very representative of the post-war Communist literary aesthetic, and..... More
London / New York: Gerald Duckworth & Company / Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First, Limited Edition. Number 7 of 215 numbered copies, signed by the author. Tall octavo (26cm). Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards; 80pp; lithographic frontispiece by Rex Whistler. Text partially unopened; prelims and rear endpapers somewhat darkened and foxed, but..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],325,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $25.00). A follow-up to Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead. More
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945. Second Impression. Octavo (19cm); flexible red cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-207,[1]pp. Light wear, gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, else clean throughout; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and..... More
![Death of a Bridegroom [Publisher's File Copy]. John RHODE, pseud. of Cecil Street](/pictures/medium/55084.jpg?v=1631054526)
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. First Impression, the publisher's file copy, with their rubber-stamp on the half-title page, and upper margin of p.5. Octavo (19cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in green on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-253,[3]pp. Mild offsetting to endpapers, tanning to text edges, with lower right board..... More
![Murder At Derivale [Publisher's File Copy]. John RHODE, pseud. of Cecil Street](/pictures/medium/55083.jpg?v=1630890905)
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1958. First Edition. First Impression, the publisher's file copy, with their rubber-stamp on front endpaper, dedication page, and upper margin of p.7. Octavo (19cm); teal paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-253,[3]pp. Tanning to text edges, tiny initials to upper rear endpaper, else..... More
![The Crock of Gold [Limited Edition, Signed]. James STEPHENS, Thomas MACKENZIE, novel, illustrations](/pictures/medium/55079.jpg?v=1631142441)
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. Limited Edition. One of 525 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator. Quarto (28.75cm); bluish-gray and vellum paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],viii,228pp, with black & white vignettes throughout the text, and frontispiece + 11 color illustrations by..... More
![The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel [Multilingual edition]. Rainer WILLMANN, Julia VOSS](/pictures/medium/55077.jpg?v=1631054526)
Koln: Taschen, 2017. Folio (40.5cm). In white pictorial cloth, with printed white paper labels on front and spine, with blue satin bookmark; black endpapers with diatoms illustrated in white; 704pp; heavilly illustrated with color facsimiles of Haeckel's original plates. Minor dirt to outer edge of lower board, else clean: Very..... More
Boston: Mutual Book Company, [1900]. First American Edition. Second state, with "five" spelled correctly on p. 16, line 5. Preceded by the London edition. In grey paper wrappers, printed in black and red; 28, [4]pp; one-page publisher's ad at rear. Ex-library, with bookplate, embossed stamps, and cancellation mark from the..... More
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Press, 1960. First Edition. Wrappered Issue. Quarto (28cm); pictorial card wrappers; [x],49,[5]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else Fine. Sharp copy of this early collection of poems published by David Haselwood, several of which first appeared in the pages of Yugen, Foot, Combustion, Galley Sail, and..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1881. Later printing of the first UK one-volume edition. In red cloth, stamped in black and gold on boards; floral endpapers; [i]-[xxiv], [1]-564, [1]-32pp; with a 32-pp publisher's catalogue at rear dating April 1881, and list of works by Twain at front; with numerous wood engravings..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First Edition. First printing. Sheets bulking 5/8 in. In red cloth, stamped in white, blue, and black, title in white on spine; plain endpapers; [iv], [1]-[121]pp; list of works opposite half-title; frontispiece by Albert Levering. A straight, tight copy, rubbed and faded, scattered spots..... More
Buffalo: Oliver G. Steele, 1834. Second Edition. 12mo (14.5cm). In original green paper-covered boards, printed in black, sympathetically rebacked with light brown cloth; plain endpapers; 90, 2pp; ads to rear board. With numerous contemporary ink inscriptions to endpapers, including a note about the birth of a child in 1842. A...... More
Hartford: Samuel Hanmer, Jr and John Jay Phelps, 1831. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18.5cm). In full contemporary tree sheep, tooled in gold on spine; plain endpapers; [i]-[vi] [7]-304pp; with stipple frontispiece portrait of Clay. A sturdy copy, rubbed on spine and edges, with old dampstaining to upper outer corner..... More
![The Gold of Mayani [Signed]. Walter SATTERTHWAIT](/pictures/medium/55052.jpg?v=1631744945)
Gallup, NM: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1995. First Edition. Trade Issue, one of 1,000 copies. Octavo (23.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-214,[2]pp; illustrated throughout by Ernest Franklin. Signed by the author on the frontispiece, dated 9/16/95. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Volume collecting a half-dozen..... More
![Dead Horse: A Novel [Signed by the Author and Publisher]. Walter SATTERTHWAIT](/pictures/medium/55051.jpg?v=1631227328)
Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publications, 2006. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],182,[2]pp. Signed on the title page by both the author, and publisher Dennis McMillan, Dated 12/16/06. Four tiny spots to text edges, else very Near Fine in a...... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, and Richardson and Lord, 1827. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (21cm). In original boards, backed in tan cloth, with remnants of printed paper label to spine, untrimmed; plain endpapers; [xii], 360pp; with 12 inserted lithographic plates by Pendleton. With extensive contemporary pencil annotations, much..... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1844. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (17cm). In publisher's purple cloth, stamped in blind on both boards, titled in gilt on front, inside decorative floriation; plain endpapers; 130pp. With the contemporary bookplate of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Women Friends to front pastedown. A straight, tight..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [11],12-256,[2]pp. Light wear and gentle sunning to spine ends, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s.net), lightly edgeworn, with a few small tears..... More
![The Sculptress [Signed]. Minette WALTERS](/pictures/medium/55033.jpg?v=1631054525)
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1993. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],308,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced £14.99). The English author's second novel. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. Two large octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth-covered boards; xvi,[1]-547; xvi,[1]-540; engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume and 43 inserted leaves of plates; text illustrations; large folding map ("Map of the Great Forest Region, showing the routes of the Emin..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First American Edition. First printing. 12mo (19.5cm). Black cloth-covered boards with green rules, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; frontispiece and three inserted leaves of plates; 147pp. Two small, faint spots of discoloration to rear board, else Near Fine in..... More
