New York: privately printed, [1917]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 144; frontispiece, illustrations in the text; original blue cloth decorated in black & yellow, name in ink to front pastedown, else near fine in pictorial dust-jacket with closed splits at folds and a few tiny chips at edges. Bleiler, p. 199. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1963]. First American edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 98, [1], plus 377 illustrations on plates at the back; fine copy in the dust jacket and publisher's box. The excellent facsimiles exhibit title and text pages drawn from presses working in the European tradition, from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. More
Easthampton, Mass. Pennyroyal Press, 1979. Edition limited to 175 (this no. 77), oblong 8vo, pp. [32]; title page and text printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, original pictorial gray paper-covered boards; small break in the paper at upper hinge, else fine. Signed by Barry Moser on frontispiece and colophon... More
![Reflexions prudentes, pensées morales, sentences: et maximes stoiciennes royales & politiques. [Parallel title in German.]. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.](/pictures/thumb/49080_1.jpg?v=1468016998)
Franckfurt: H. von Sand, 1672. First edition, published posthumously; 16mo, pp. [18], 463, [1]; engraved architectural title page (giving author's name as P. Niremberg); contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine darkened, old manuscript label on spine; spine ends chipped, remains of wax seals on endpapers, joints starting, but the binding remains... More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 685; spine ends a little rubbed, else a very good copy in orig. maroon cloth; newspaper clippings relating to the subject of Americanisms adhered to rear flyleaves and obscuring some advertisements. The author emigrated to Boston from Prussia in 1843... More
Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., [1902]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-402; 88 (of 90) plates (lacking, as usual - ?always? - the plate of The Winter Palace, at p. 54; and A Street in Tokyo, at p. 348); presentation copy from the son of the author, inscribed on the flyleaf; orig... More
[Livorno], Italy: printed for C. and J. Ollier, London, 1819. First edition, 8vo in 4s, pp. xiv, 104; bound without the initial blank leaf in later full blue straight-grain morocco, double gilt-ruled borders on covers enclosing a blindstamped roll, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, a.e.g.; nice... More
New York: H.D. Robinson, 1835. First American edition, 12mo, pp. 198; orig. terracotta muslin-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine. An alphabetical list of nearly 200 words evoking philosophic discussion. Some of the entries are as long as 4pp., and others as short as a few lines. Vancil, p. 224. More
London: J. Darby, A. Bettsworth [et al.], 1726. First quarto edition (first published as a folio in 1705-06), and second edition overall; pp. vii, [1], [806], [1] ads; title-p. printed in red and black; lexicon in triple column; title toned lengthwise along the gutter, prelims trimmed close at the top... More
London: H. S. Nichols, 1896. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 419; photographic frontispiece portrait; original olive green cloth lettered in gilt on spine; some wear to extremities with spine ends creased and just beginning to fray, fore corners bumped, and binding very slightly askew but internally fine; overall very... More
![Some impressions of western Europe. The informal letters of a midwestern small-town editor to his newspaper, dealing with his attendance at a convention of Rotary International at Nice, France, and his subsequent tour during the summer of 1937 [cover title]. Swain, dward, verett.](/pictures/thumb/51663_1.jpg?v=1496768988)
[Kirksville, MO? Kirksville Daily Express? ca. 1937.]. Likely the only edition, 8vo, pp. 93, [1]; original pictorial wrappers, front gutter marred and with tears, the whole restapled, a few pages dog-eared and back wrapper slightly stained, otherwise very good. Apparently rare. Not found in OCLC and likely unrecorded. Swain (1883-1972)... More
London: Myers & Co., 1926. Edition ltd. to 250 copies signed by the author, 8vo, pp. 38, [1]; printed in red and black by Sydney Matthewman at the Sign of the Swan, in Leeds; gravure portrait of Conrad, extra label tipped in at back, permission slip tipped in at front... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1862. First (pirated) American edition, 8vo, 2 vols. in 1, pp. vii, [1], 623, [1], 4 (ads); spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, else good in orig. dull maroon cloth. Sadlier, Trollope, 14. More
[n.p.]: United States Agency for International Development, 1973. 4to, pp. 63; printed from typescript; original white staplebound wrappers printed in blue, Jones's signature in red ink at top right-hand corner of upper cover, light shelf wear, else very good. A directory of officials and organizations in Saigon, which also includes... More
