Boston: D. C. Johnston, 1837. Second edition, oblong folio, pp. 19, [1]; 4 engraved plates containing 39 illustrations, near fine in original printed brown wrappers. A satire of a phrenological text, pontificating on the many virtues of secretiveness, order, amativeness, benevolence, firmness, and so on, each with an accompanying caricature..... More
London: R. Baldwin, 1697. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [14], 80, 80, 80, 64, 80, 110; contemporary paneled calf with tasteful modern rebacking and red morocco label on spine, extremities worn and boards a little splayed, but overall good and sound. Jones (fl. 1676-1720), a captain in the English Royal..... More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1861. First edition, 12mo, pp. 361, [1], [10] ads; numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, 38 full-page; recent quarter brown calf over marbled boards, maroon morocco label on spine; very good. "This narrative may have been written by John D. Jones, but conclusive evidence is lacking. The..... More
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1831. First edition, 12mo, pp. [5], iv-viii, 287, [3]; engraved vignette title page, 21 composite engraved plates at the back; original pink muslin-backed boards, printed paper label on spine; spine sunned, tear entering from the margin of leaf 15-1 (no loss of letterpress); all else very..... More
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1872. 8vo, pp. 32; original printed orange wrappers sewn into old library boards, Yale bookplate marked withdrawn, old accession number crossed out on the verso of the title page; very good. Reprinted from the author's Speeches, Addresses and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions. More
Newark, N.J. F.C. Bliss & Company, 1880. First edition, 12mo, pp. 198; frontispiece illustration of the National Capitol, numerous portraits and engravings; bookplate on front paste-down; a very good, sound copy in original red cloth with gilt-decorated upper cover and spine. More
Londini: J. Robinson, J Lawrence [et al.], 1709. 2 parts in 1, 8vo, pp. [30] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; [16] plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; both title pages printed in red and black; full contemporary paneled calf, slightly later red morocco label on spine slightly chipped; in..... More
Fort Madison: printed at the Statesman Office, 1850. First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; self-wrappers; nice copy. Howes K131: "First imprint of this city." Streeter Sale III, 1895: "Here Kilbourne accuses Galland of selling some $200,000 worth of Iowa lands from the Sac and Fox Half Breed Tract to which he..... More
Boston: printed by John Wilson and Son, 22, School Street, 1860. First edition, 8vo, pp. liii, [1]; original printed salmon wrappers with small stain in the gutter and with some chipping along the spine; all else very good. Established in 1747, the Redwood Library and Athenaeum was "the first library..... More
Thessaloniki: Columbia University Press, 1988. 8vo, pp. xvi, 410; printed paper wrapper; slightly musty, text clean and sound. No. 42 on Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Papers from the XVIIth Conference on War and Society in East Central Europe, 6-8 June 1985. More
[Lexington]: University of Kentucky Press, [1956]. Chickamauga Edition, autographed by the author for members of the Civil War Book Club; 8vo, pp. [2], xxviii, 217, [2]; 5 portraits and 6 maps, map endpapers; fine in original terracotta cloth'. More
Moscow: Russkii Jazyk, 1986. 8vo, pp. 752; text in two columns, red cloth gilt; crease on upper cover, last two leaves folded, very good. More
[Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1966. Square 8vo, unpaged; original white printed wrappers (some soiling); edges quite toned, else very good. Contents include an interview with Ginsberg. More
Washington City: printed and published by John S. Meehan, 1823. First edition, 8vo, pp. 20; stitching renewed, inscribed by an early owner on the title: "David Choate, Essex, Mass. from his brother, Tho. Sewall." Sewall was a physician and memver of the College faculty. Columbian College subsequently became George Washington..... More
Paris: chez J. -B. Bailliere, 1842. 8vo, pp. viii, 744; 1 folding plate showing 26 figures; quarter calf over marbled boards; joints cracked, spine ends a little chipped; textblock clean and the bindings sound. More
Chicago: Star Publishing Company, n.d., [after 1883]. 8vo, pp. [4], 9-774, 32 full-page illustrations in the text including the frontispiece; page of facsimile signatures; contemporary full sheep, black leather labels on spine; scuffed and rubbed, the rear joint partially cracked, clean tear in p. 516-17; a good, sound copy. See..... More
New York: M. Day & Co., 1843. 8vo, pp. 34; orig. brown printed wrappers; aside from a few minor nick at the wrapper edges, this is a fine copy. Two editions were published in 1843, one in Providence and the other in New York. "Internal differences led Graff to believe..... More
Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1900. Small 8vo, pp. xxviii, 497; original limp grey printed cloth, light wear, mostly to hinges and spine ends; later (1920) ownership inscription on ffep, else very good. "Hommage de l'Editeur" rubber stamped in purple on title page. More
[Washington]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of Education, Division of International Education, [1955]. 4to, pp. 23; map, text in typescript; original grey pictorial wrappers, minor rust stains around staples, edges toned, corners a bit worn from shelf wear; interior fine. Forms part of the series "Studies in..... More
Florence: privately printed, 1928. 8vo, pp. [2], 365, [1]; title page printed in red and black; original black moiré-patterned cloth, paper label on spine printed in red and black; crimson endpapers, edges uncut; fine copy. The book is likely one of many contemporary piracies. See Roberts A42 for a discussion..... More
London: Martin Secker, [1923]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 255, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; touch of fading to spine, else fine. More
Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. First edition limited to 810 numbered copies, 8vo, pp. 216, [1]; some spotting of the text else fine or better in the jacket and in the publisher's slipcase (paper label on spine a little faded). Roberts A54, noting that the book was written "during the last..... More
London and New York: William Heinemann, Ltd. and the Viking Press, [1932]. Special edition limited to 525 copies, this copy #456; 8vo, pp. [2], xxxiv, [2], 889, [3]; printed on onionskin paper and bound in Japanese vellum, title printed in black on spine, vignette on upper cover; vellum split on..... More
Avon, Connecticut: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Edition limited to 2000 copies (this, no. 1534) signed by the artist Sheila Robinson; introduction by Robert Gorham Davis; large 8vo, pp. x, [4], 443; 12 full-page color plates, & 16 smaller black & white illustrations; fine in full Irish linen, paper label..... More
Berkeley, New York & London: Univ. of California Press, [1977]. Large 4to, pp. [6], 624; mostly of facsimiles; as new copy in the publisher's shipping carton. Contains six fragments of "Paul Morel," the penultimate version of Sons and Lovers. More
