Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Random House, [c1978]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 421; 34 photographic illus on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine, unread copy in very good dust jacket. More
New York: Random House, [c1978]. First American edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 421; 34 photographic illus on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine, unread copy in very good dust jacket. More
London: printed for T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1775. 8vo, pp. [2], liv, 316, [4] index; contemporary tree calf, rebacked in varnished buckram, manuscript label on spine; looks a lot nicer than it sounds; a good, sound copy. Goldsmith's Life was first included in the ninth edition of 1771, where..... More
London: printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Fleet-Street; William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1812. 8vo, pp. xvi (i.e. xiv), 300; comprising Cantos I and II, and Poems, Appendix, and Translations (pp. 203-300); this fourth edition contains for the first time an..... More
London: John Murray, 1842. One volume extended to 3, thick 8vo; engraved portrait frontispiece and additional title pages in each volume, extra-illustrated with 425 plates, text in double column; late 19th-century three-quarter burgundy morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in 6 compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; spines a touch faded, front..... More
London: printed by Thomas Davison...for John Murray, 1813. Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 72; Wise I, p. 90; bound with: Byron, Lord, The lament of Tasso...Sixth edition, London: John Murray, 1818, pp. 18, see Wise I, p. 119 for the first (1817) edition; Byron, Lord, Beppo, a Venetian story...Seventh edition..... More
London: John Murray, 1821. First edition, first issue (with speech on p. 151 beginning: "What crimes?"), 8vo, pp. [2], xxi, [1], 261, [1], [2], 6, [2] (10pp. ads); uncut and partially unopened; original drab paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; both spine and label partially perished, upper board starting, textblock..... More
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street [printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars], 1821. First edition, first issue (with speech on p. 151 beginning: "What crimes?"), 8vo, pp. [2], xxi, [1], 261, [1], [2] ads; uncut and partially unopened; original drab paper-covered boards, brown papr shelfback, printed paper label on spine; spine with short..... More
New York: Cockcroft, 1878. 8vo, 10 vols.; frontispiece; original brown cloth, gilt stamped spine, library markings on spine; else very good or better; ex-MHS. More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1766. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 190; contemporary half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked with new red morocco label lettered in gilt; small closed tear on F2 & H4, old manuscript notes on the bottom of F7 regarding Mr. Knox, bookplate on..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762. Small 8vo, pp. [20], 151, [1]; contemporary full paneled calf, double gilt rules on covers enclosing a blindstamped panel with gilt fleurons in the corners, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, a.e.g.; joints lightly rubbed, tiny crack at..... More
Glasgow: printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, 1766. Small crown 8vo, pp. xxx, [2], 191, [1]; accompanied by: Memorials and letters relating to the history of Britain in the reign of Charles the First. Published from the originals. 1766. pp. xxxix, [1], 191, [1]. Uniformly bound..... More
New York: R. Worthington, 1878. 8vo, pp. [2], xvi, 268, 3 (ads); frontispiece portrait, vignette title-p., a number of wood-engraved illustrations throughout, some full-p.; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in black and gilt; mild dampstain along the top of the front cover, wear at the edges, especially at the spine..... More
Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1772. First edition, 8vo, 2 parts in 1; pp. xxviii, 160, 24; original full speckled calf; joints cracked, front board neatly reattached, head of spine chipped with minor loss; textblock toned; some foxing. Bookplates of the Peabody Institute and the Library Company of..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. Second edition, later reprint, 12mo, pp. xii, 383, [4, ads]; frontispiece, illustrations; original red cloth, spine gilt; spine a bit faded, else about very good. Freeman-Mitford was the first Lord Redesdale and may be most famous as the paternal grandfather of the famous Mitford sisters..... More
London: John Murray (for private circulation), 1852. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 173, 24 (Murray ads); errata slip tipped in after the plate list; mounted lithograph frontispiece portrait, 1 other mounted lithograph plate, 3 wood-engraved plates, and a tinted lithograph plate (not called for in the plate list); orig. blue..... More
Edinburgh: printed for A. Kinkaid, 1747. 8vo, pp. [4], 217, [3]; contemporary calf, red morocco label, gilt-decorated spine; joints cracked, else very good. Lord Kames (1696-1782) was a Scottish judge and "a country gentleman of small fortune É He was an ingenious writer, with a considerable knowledge of law and..... More
London: A. R. Mowbray, [1911]. First edition, 16mo, pp. xi, [1], 138, [2] ads; frontispiece, 2 plates (1 folding); very good copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. More
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [8], 177, [1]; original black cloth-backed gray boards, spine gilt, upper cover embossed, dust-jacket; top corners are bumped, else near fine in a very good jacket with darkened spine and some small chips and tears at edges..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 245; inscibed by the author on half title, some offset on front free endpaper, else near fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket. More
Washington, D.C. James William Bryan Press, [1921]. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. 100; portrait frontispiece, illustrated throughout; original blue cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover (a bit dull), some wear at extremities; all else very good in a new blue cloth clamshell box, black morocco label on spine. This copy..... More
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1976. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 416; 44 pages of facsimile letters and illustrations at rear; original pictorial dust jacket, slight scuffing; front hinge torn approx. 1 inch; else near fine copy or better. More
New York: published by order of the "Union Safety Committee," 1851. 8vo, pp. 16; removed; very good. Antislavery address by the Buffalo minister. More
New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert, [1888]. 7 volumes, 8vo, 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards by Ringer for A.C.McClure & Co., gil-decorated spines in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 2, t.e.g.; a few minor imperfections but generally a very good, bright and sound set. Includes the "First Series:" Jewish heroes..... More
Boston: Office of Littell's Living Age, 1848. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 37, [1]; original printed brown paper wrappers; ex-Sheppard Library, Mass. College of Pharmacy, with their stamp on front wrapper and first page of text, and with a "discard" stamp on the front; small chip in the fore-margin of..... More
Glasgow: printed by Andrew Foulis, printer to the University, 1787. Large (demy) folio, pp. xv, [1], iv, 130; bound with: Hammond, James, The Poetical Works, demy folio, pp. [4], viii, iii, [3], 45, [3]; together 2 volumes in 1, bound in recent brown calf-backed marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments..... More