Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 303, [1]; 2 plates; near fine in dust jacket (old price sticker on rear cover). Full-length critical study of the full range of material in Johnson's Dictionary. "Although the Dictionary is primarily a...... More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 63; pictorial endpapers, mounted color frontis, 23 illus. on rectos and versos of 8 plates, illus. in text; complimentary card from the publisher laid in; previous owner's bookplate on half-title, else fine in orig. blue cloth. More

Suffield: printed by Edward Gray, for Oliver D. & I Cook [i.e., Cooke], and sold by them in sheets, or bound, at their book store Hartford, 1800. First edition, oblong 16mo, pp. 16, 223, [1]; A-O⁸; includes three pages of recommendations, a preface, and an introduction to English grammar, followed..... More

Suffield: printed by Edward Gray, for Oliver D. & I. Cook, and sold by them in sheets, or bound, at their book store, Hartford, 1800. Second edition, oblong 32mo, pp. 32, 223, [1]; A-B⁸ ²A-M⁸ N⁶; includes 3 pages of recommendations, a preface, and an introduction to English grammar, followed..... More

Chicago: American Medical Association, 1946. Large 8vo, pp. 11; plain photographic illustrations throughout; original blue printed staplebound wrappers (some water damage along lower edge affecting textblock); good and sound. Offprint from the Archives of Ophthalmology, February, 1946, Vol. 35. Not in OCLC as of June, 2014. More

Boston: [1899]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [12]; printed self-wrappers; fine. Condemnations of McKinley, imperialism, and the church. The senior Garrison was a prominent abolitionist, and his son was a reformer in his own right, involving himself in the single tax movement, free trade, and women's rights. He was married to..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 180; minute rubbing but generally fine in the dust-jacket. Inscribed by Guthrie on the dedication-page, and with a Polaroid snapshot of Guthrie laid in, signed by him on the front and with a short inscription on the back to "my favorite..... More

Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1968. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 116; very good in original printed wrappers. A 'Brookings Staff Paper.'. More

Boston: privately printed, 1893. Edition limited to 80 copies printed at the Riverside Press "from designs by D. B. Updike," 16mo, pp. [16]; original gray printed wrappers, spine partially split; all else very good. A native of Bristol, R.I., Howe served in many editorial capacities. In 1925 he won the..... More

Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1971. First edition. 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 501, [1]; photograph frontispiece; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine; near fine. Organized by state with the end of each section containing an index. The states covered include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana..... More

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875. First edition of James's second book, 12mo, pp. vi, [7]-401; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine sunned, spine extremities chipped; good and sound. First binding with the Osgood imprint on the spine; the sheets in this copy are sewn rather than stapled which..... More

Washington, D.C. American Council of Learned Societies, 1960. Second edition, small folio, pp. xiii, [1], 295; printed from typescript; very good in original orange wrappers. First published in 1957. Includes a 27-page glossary at the back. More

Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1904. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, [4], 301, [1]; title-p. printed in red and black; near fine in original white cloth-backed blue cloth sides, morocco label on spine lettered in gilt. First published the previous year, here reprinted with new introductory matter. More