New York: [Wiley & Putnam], 1845. Small 8vo, pp. [20]; removed from binding, mild dampstain to fore-edge throughout, light spotting and foxing. Whether this is a stand-alone publication or not is not known but with such a title page it's likely some of the edition was distributed as is, likely... More
Boston: printed by Samuel Etheridge, for B. Larkin, W. Spotswood [et al.], 1795. Small 12mo (approx. 5½ x 3¼ inches); pp. 358; contemporary red straight-grained goatskin, fancy gilt-tooled borders enclosing a central gilt panel with the original owner's name H. Learned and the date 1799 in gilt on the upper... More
New York: Charles Magnus, n.d., (ca. 1875?). Approx. 10½" x 8¼", the image being approx. 5" x 8". One small tear in the bottom margin, else a very good example. Charles Magnus was a print publisher, map dealer, bookseller and stationer working in New York City from 1850 to 1899... More
Worcester: Henry J. Howland, 1838. 8vo, pp. 12; original; green printed wrappers; fine. This copy inscribed vertically on the title-p., "Rev. William E. Channing, with respects of Geo. Allen." "Report ... to a committee of the Convention of ministers ... of Worcester, called together to express their sentiments on the subject of slavery." More
Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1884. First edition, 8vo, pp. 156; frontispiece and 5 plates of which one is double-page, drawings in text throughout; contemporary calf over marble boards, blind-tooled spine, bottom of hinges cracked; edges and corners rubbed; minor worm holes to bottom corners of first few leaves; rubber stamp and... More
Paris: Techener, Place du Louvre, 1839. Edition limited to 80 copies, 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; printed in Bordeaux by Th. Lefargue on pink paper throughout; contemporary full straight-grain calf, double gilt rules enclosing the gilt supralibros of the Bibliotheca Cortina on both covers; Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate; light wear; very good. More
Davenport: Glass & Company, 1888. First edition, small 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 182; frontispiece portraits of the author and R. M. Prettyman; some wear at the extremities, covers a little scuffed and dirty, and the front hinge cracked with binding askew; a good copy in original brown cloth lettered in... More
New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1909. First edition, issue B (no sequence) with the leaf inserted between 2-3 referring to Greenwood's The Shakespeare Problem Restated; 8vo, pp. [8], 149, [1]; 2 portraits; original green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; a very good, bright copy. BAL 3509. More
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Hanoi: Vien Dong-Phuong Bac-co Xuat Ban, 1948-49. 3 volumes in 2, 4to, text alternately in Vietnamese and French; table of alphabets, 3 maps (2 folding), 2 plates with 15 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos, 6 (of 7) folding plans, large folding table, tables and illustrations in the text, text... More
London: published (for the proprietors) by Henry George Collins, 1849. First edition, 2 volumes, thick large 8vo, engraved titles and frontis, text in double column; a near fine copy in contemporary half black calf. A rather uninspired effort in spite of its having been based on Johnson and Walker; the... More
Genève: Du Villard fils & Nouffer, 1778. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. 272; 334; title within printed border; woodcut ornaments; contemporary full mottled calf, red and black morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines; short crcaks in 2 joints else generally very good and sound. Quérard II, p. 440. More
London: The Scholartis Press, 1928. First edition, limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by the author (as Corrie Denison), 8vo, pp. 256; original red cloth, gilt title direct on spine, t.e.g.; prelims lightly foxed; else fine. Short stories and a novella before, during, and after World War I. More
[Stinson Beach, California: Enkidu Surrogate], 1960. Edition limited to 750 copies, square 8vo, pp. 71, [1]; illustrations, text printed from typescript; original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers (minor soiling) printed in black and green; about fine. "As produced in a dramatic reading at The Six gallery, 3119 Fillmore, San Francisco, January 1955" - title page verso. More
New York: Charles Scribeners Sons, and Paris: Goupil, 1900. Memorial Edition, limited to 1250 copies, large 8vo, 2 vols.; color portrait frontispieces and 22 plates, engraved tailpieces, original three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; t.e.g.; very slight cracking at spine... More
London: published for the Royal Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1891. First published edition being an offprint from the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 182 (1891). B, pp. 267-526; 4to, 7 plates, illus. and tables in text; bound without wrappers in contemporary green cloth-backed marbled... More
London: Cassell, 1959. First edition, 8vo, pp. [18], 320; frontispiece; original cloth in green dust jacket; some minor jacket edge wear, textblock top and fore-edges foxed, else about fine. The poet Leonard Clark's bookplate on front pastedown. Higginson & Williams A87. More
Londres: chez Edwards, n.d., [1793]. 4to, [8], 313, 77 (notes et eclaircissemens) & [2]pp., 77 (of 78) engraved portraits, 1 engraved view (lacking the second portrait of the author at p. 1); slightly later full polished calf neatly rebacked, joints starting, extremities rubbed, else very good. Lowndes, p. 985. More
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Dresden: H. R. Dohrn, 1902. Second edition (first published Dresden, 1899, in 2 volumes), 8vo, pp. [4], 213; illustrations throughout text depicting canings, whippings, and mechanical spanking devices; contemporary if not original maroon cloth, covers decoratively blind stamped, spine ruled and lettered in gilt; extremities showing a little wear, but... More
Montreal: Dawson Bros. 1874. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [4], [1], viii-x, 244; folding map, folding chart; a fine copy in original terracotta cloth, gilt-stamped spine. "The writer organized and conducted the overland expedition of Mr. Sandford Fleming from Fort Garry to Edmonton during the summer of 1872; and it... More
New York: Henry Holt, [1945]. Second printing, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 599; frontis and 19 illus. on 13 plates; fine copy in the jacket. More
New York: Comopolitan Magazine, [1929]. First printing of Lewis's short story, issued in advance of its appearance in the October 1929 issue Cosmopolitan Magazine; 16mo, pp. 34, [2]; illustrations in the text; original blue printed boards; without the clipped advertisement from Cosmopolitan, not issued in all copies; very good. The... More
Paris: Lacombe, 1778. 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xii, 320; 364, [1]; engraved frontispiece, 10 plates by Moreau and Duclos; early 19th century three quarter plum morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered and ruled in gilt; spines faded to brown, extremities rubbed and worn, cracks starting; modern bookplate on front pastedowns... More
London: C. L. Marsh & Co.; New York: Lockwood & Co., 1881. 16mo, pp. iii ads, [4], 170, iv-xvi (ads); endpapers included in pagination; folding frontispiece railway map (short tear along one fold) with routes and rates on verso; ex-MHS with old call sticker at base of spine and society... More
Omaha: Yellow Barn Press, 1981. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 34), 8vo, pp. 32; original full cream cloth, paper spine label, fine. The Yellow Barn Press's second book, and the first printed on their own Washington hand press. Walsdorf, A2. More
