New York [Chicago]: Harper & Brothers [Western News Company], 1870. First American Edition. Apparently unrecorded state retaining the Harper & Brother sheets bound in the wrappers of the Western News Company, though all publisher's advertisements, including upper cover verso and rear wrapper recto and verso for works published by Harper..... More
New-York: A.H. Inskeep, 1815. First Edition. Attack on Great Britain written in response to a series of unflattering articles written by Charles Jared Ingersoll following a trip to the United States. In turn Paulding portrays Great Britain "as a degenerate, despotic kingdom, burdened by parasitical aristocracy, and jealous of America's..... More
London: William Kidd, 1831. First Edition. Satirical verses inspired by Germany's annual Valpurgis night, first published in the London paper "Intelligence," with illustrations by Robert Seymour, best known for his contributions to the works of Dickens. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA 1831, catalogued under the pseudonym "Facetiae," noting an 1833 edition illustrated by..... More
London: Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; [53]-66pp. Dust-soiling, edge wear from handling with very shallow separation at spine crown; about Very Good. More
Buffalo: Black Academy Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,148pp. Mild dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Nigerian doctor's psychological study of a group of African students in Britain. More
New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. Slim quarto (26cm); light green pictorial cloth, stamped in black, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; [46]pp. Boards and dustwrapper dampstained/wrinkled, rubbed about extremities; short tears to dustwrapper upper edges; moderate soiling and toning; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock has mild handling wear..... More
London: Heinemann, 1920. First Edition. First impression, with 1920 date on title page. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's pictorial black paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 178pp + 2pp publisher's list. Brief split to paper at base of front joint; mild rubbing to board edges, marginal toning to text throughout; Very Good. In the original..... More
London: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1921. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 242pp + 6pp publisher's catalog. Fine and tight, with the private bookplate of La Fayette Butler of Hazleton, PA. Dustwrapper slightly soiled with some rubbing..... More
Lancaster: Jonathan Cape, 1946. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's turquoise cloth, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 28pp; frontispiece and six full-page illustrations in text. A tight, clean copy, Near Fine, in the original dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and nicked with a brief (3/4") closed tear at upper front..... More
London: Ernest Benn, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers, yapp edges; 32pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, glue residue in title page gutter, a few unobtrusive pencil check marks in margins, else Near Very Good and sound. Lecture on the life and career..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1864. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original brown cloth ruled and lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; 122,[6](ads)pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, small loss at spine crown, joints cracked but holding, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown; About Very Good. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket, grey topstain; 451pp.; color portrait frontispiece, 8 leaves of black and white photographs, one graph in text. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Third volume of..... More
Lanham: University Press of America, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 265pp. Lengthy authorial inscription inside front cover to "Jim," undated. Mild external fading and wear; text tight, clean and unmarked. There was no clothbound edition. More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo. Linen backed pictorial boards, with photographic portrait inset device; dustjacket; xxv, 15-338pp; illustrated endpapers and jacket design by Ethel C. Taylor. Contemporary ownership signature to verso of half-title, bit of flecking to upper edge of text block, else a...... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930. Later impression (originally published 1914). 12mo. Red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine; 213pp. Slight toning to text, else a tight, straight, VG or better reading copy. More
London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper; near-new. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Bard Graduate Center, 2005-2006. More
Raleigh: Holden & Wilson, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 32pp. Front signature separated but present, some shallow chips and tiny losses along margins, textblock rather foxed; Good only. Admiring account of the life and deeds of Oliver Cromwell by the Bishop of North Carolina. SABIN 2286. More
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Sherborne, Dorset: Dorset Publishing Company, 1980. Limited Edition. A loose bookplate, generically inscribed by Fowles, datemarked Lyme Regis 1996, laid in at title page. First edition thus, limited to 595 subscription copies. Quarto (30cm). Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 600pp. Facsimile, with glosses by Fowles and Legg, of Aubrey's 17th-century manuscript..... More
London: Athloe Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],252pp.; portrait frontispiece. Tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, light toning and dust-soil, brief fraying at bottom corner of upper board, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously-published biography of John Thurloe (1616-1668), one..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 123pp. Cloth mildly toned at extremities; a few specks of foxing to front endpapers, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, all four corners..... More
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, vi,312pp. Some rubbing to cloth extremities, dampstain to top textblock edge, else Very Good. NCBEL III 515. More
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 239pp. Fine in a crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $15.95 on front flap), barely noticeable sunning to spine else Fine. Banks' second published novel. More
London: C.W. Daniel Company, [1930]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original tan cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, dark brown topstain; 86,[2](ads)pp. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title, minor foxing to preliminaries and textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. Brief study of the cities of Great Britain in the early years of the economic..... More
Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, 1845. First American Edition. Nautical tale by the prolific English sailor and author, often writing under the pseudonym the "Old Sailor." This a minor work for children, recounting the adventures of young Frank Fairfield, who becomes a cabin boy and sails to Jamaica, falls ill with..... More
