London: A. & C. Black, 1908. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); decorated red cloth, linen grain, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt; vii, 117+[6]pp; frontis., 19 plates. Spine toned; boards mildly soiled, scratched, rubbed; spine heel bumped. Textblock comprehensively foxed, except plates (plates do show some yellowing); top edge soiled; ex..... More
London: George Virtue, n.d., ca. 1860. Octavo (21.5cm.); contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt; 7,[ii]-xxxi,[7]-352pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, two leaves of plates. Leather rather dried and scuffed at extremities, joints starting to crack but holding, frontispiece foxed, contemporary ownership signature effaced, later (1939) ownership..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); brown/pictorial paper wrappers; xii;180pp. Comprehensive, small crease to lower leading corner; wrappers show shelf wear, some minor scratches; text edges and margins subtly toned. Overall Very Good or Better. This groundbreaking atlas of Anglo-Saxon England contains 244 maps, comprising a cross-section..... More
Birmingham: Silk & Terry, 1942. Edition not stated. 12mo. Staple-bound silk-over-card wrappers; 11pp. Near Fine. Proposal for a centralized world economy, "to make economic and systematic provision for the disposal of surpluses after all internal and home-market needs of the countries participating have been fully satisfied..." Hill's other works included..... More
Little, Brown & Co., 1935. First Thus. First printing. Octavo (20cm.); green pictorial publisher's cloth-backed boards w/ gilt lettering, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; frontis.,viii,132pp. Textblock slightly worn on fore edge and toned w/ spot of soiling on top edge. Gift inscription on inner front endpaper, else pages clean and sound..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,301pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor wrinkling to jacket spine crown and top corners, else Near Fine. John Ruskin: The Later Years, would not be published until 2000. More
New-York: T. and J. Swords, 1825. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[5]-48pp. Extremities very slightly chipped and toned, else Very Good and sound. Later work by the Episcopal bishop, based on his travels through Europe from 1823 to 1825. SHOEMAKER 20917. More
London: Alexander Strahan, 1865. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (20cm.); publisher's maroon blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black glazed endpapers; vi,320; vi,368pp. Cloth extremities and spine faded with some erosion of sizing, rear cover of Vol. I appears to be faintly paint (?) splattered, else a Near Very Good set, interiors..... More
Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1850. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); dark brown cloth, fine rib grain, stamped in blind and gilt; viii, 10-260pp. Spine chipped at heel and crown; extremities rubbed, especially along lower corners; boards mildly scratched. Textblock foxed and dampstained throughout. Else a Very Good, sound copy. English humorist Thomas..... More
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, [1928]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); original buckram in pink and black pictorial dust jacket, original blue belly-band advertising this title as "The Dutton Book Of The Month For May"; v,[1],309pp. Upper jacket panel unevenly faded, additional fading to jacket and belly-band spines; some..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 247pp. Dampstaining to top and bottom edges of rear jacket panel, not bleeding into boards, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Jacket subtitle: "A Fan's Life." The author's..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First Edition. Handsome copy of this travelogue, chronicling Howells's impressions on his visits to famous cities in the British Isles. BAL 9795. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); publisher's vertically-ribbed grayish-green cloth, with titles stamed in gilt and red on spine and front cover; top..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1913. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green gilt-ruled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; viii,316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. A hint of shelf wear else Fine. WILSON 30. More
London: Alston Rivers, 1906. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original reddish brown decorative cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt, top edge gilt; xiii,[1],217pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, spine a few shades sunned, else Very Good and sound. Collection of twelve articles originally published in the Tribune. HARVEY A17a. More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1910. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original teal printed card wrappers; xxxipp. Spine darkened, tiny losses to ends, else Very Good and sound. HARVEY A29. More
London: Kropotkin's Lighthouse, 1973. Second Edition. Quarto (23cm). Mimeographed sheets, stapled and tape-bound along upper edge. Fine condition. Collection of anarchist passages from the works of William Blake, Percy Shelley, DH Lawrence, Joe Hill, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Gerrard Winstanley. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1903. New Edition. Two volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); contemporary half blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xxxix,[1],259; xi,[1],315pp.; frontispieces, eleven leaves of plates including facsimile. Boards scuffed and leather starting to fade to green at spines..... More
New York: New Review, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Red ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 155pp. Scuffed at heel of spine, else Near Fine, with text clean, tight and unmarked. More
Hull: Whitefriars Press, [ca 1900]. Ferens rose to eminence in the 1880s as a principal of the firm of Reckitt & Sons, a prominent manufacturer of household goods and cleaning products. He served 13 years as an M.P. for Hull, beginning in 1906, and was a member of the Privy..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Contemporary note with envelope tipped to front flap fore-edge signed "RK" and addressed to "Lois": "As you see from the fly leaf this copy of Ingersoll's report is one I want you to have. I intended to get it for you after..... More
London: Institute of Race Relations, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's pale grey-blue printed card wrappers; 84pp. Light shelf wear and toning to wrapper extremities, a hint of soil to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Articles include a translation of a 1764 Portuguese pamphlet titled "Negro Slavery in..... More
[New York: Irish Republican Headquarters], 1922. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. Light dust-soil and toning, else Near Fine. Small pamphlet issued by the fraternal oath-bound Irish Republican Brotherhood, reprinting excerpts by General Macready in Dublin and Churchill and George from the House of Commons regarding the Irish Civil..... More
Ruislip, Middlesex: The Racial Preservation Society, N.d. [ca 1968]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to wrapper extremities, else Fine. Anti-miscegenation tract from the right-wing "Racial Preservation Society," a National Front-affiliated racist group that operated in Great Britain from the mid-Sixties through the early Seventies..... More
Brighton: The Racial Preservation Society, N.d. [ca 1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to wrapper extremities, else Fine. Anti-miscegenation tract from the right-wing "Racial Preservation Society," a National Front-affiliated racist group that operated in Great Britain from the mid-Sixties through the early Seventies. Identified..... More
