![A book of prefaces... [Opus 13]. H. L. MENCKEN](/pictures/thumb/30373_1.jpg?v=1496768732)
New York: Knopf, 1918. Second (Revised) Edition, 8vo, pp. 288; original dark blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on front cover and spine; light wear to extremities, spine ends creased, the gilt a little dulled, and with small whitish stains on front cover near bottom of joint; overall near... More
Rochester: printed by Erastus Shepard, 1843. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [1], 9-352; original brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine; a little sunned around the edges, but a very good, sound copy. American Travellers Abroad M-79: "The Biblical scholar took a health journey in 1841-42 to Egypt and the Holy... More
Saigon: Édition Photo Nadal, [n.d.] (c.1930). First edition, oblong 4to, pp. 113, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout with sepia toned and black & white photographic illustrations of various people, places, and way of life in Saigon & Cholon; parallel text in French and English; marbled endpapers, front hinge cracked, corners bumped... More
New Haven: Yale, 1927. First edition, 1000 copies printed, 8vo, pp. xx, 215; 43 plates of ships and diagrams; very good in original black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Follows the evolution of sails, rigs, gaffsails, headsails, ketches, brigantines, etc. from the 17th century. More
London: printed for the author, and sold by E. and C. Dilly [et al.], 1766. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 187, [1]; full contemporary calf, original red morocco label; scuffed, but sound. Pike (?1717-1773) "was a man of character and ability and considerable Biblical scholarship" (DNB) and was the compiler... More
![Divine authenticity of the book of Mormon. [Parts 1-6, all published]. Orson Pratt, one of the...](/pictures/thumb/54116_1.jpg?v=1562262194)
[Liverpool: printed by R. James, 1850-51.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; removed from binding; very good. Six tracts with continuous pagination. In this copy the first number bears the R. James imprint, and the last number is not dated. Crawley 521; Flake 6452; Sabin 64951. More
Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1846. First edition printed in America, from William Pickering's stereotype plates; 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [4], 71, [1] 1183, [1]; [2], 1185-2222, [1]; contemporary full calf, red morocco labels on spines, some rubbing and wear but generally good and sound. The most substantial lexicographical undertaking... More
London: Faber & Faber, n.d. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xii, 289, [1]; xii, 395, [1]; frontispieces, 96 plates; original black cloth gilt; free front endpaper of vol. I creased, else very good in dust-jackets with several chips and faded spine on vol. I and a bit of light soiling on... More
London: Macmillan, 1922. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 180, [2]; fine copy in the jacket, presentation copy inscribed "Ernest from AE 3.1.23." The presentee has been identified by a previous owner as Ernest Augustus Boyd, the Irish-American author, critic and linguist. More
London: J. & R. Tonson, 1765. First variorum edition of Shakespeare "and the foundation of hundreds of subsequent issues" (Jaggard); first Johnson edition, without the names of Longman and Corbet in the imprint, and with Johnson's Preface unpaginated; 8 volumes, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece of the bard in vol. 1... More
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1922]. First edition, first state with pictorial half-title of Kabumpo following the ownership leaf and the portrait of Princess Dorothy on p. [299]; 8vo, pp. [5]-297, [2]; 12 color plates coated only on the printed side; orig. blue cloth with pictorial cover label; front joint... More
London: Smith, Elder, 1878. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [6], 319; vi, 284, 4 (ads); original green cloth stamped in black and blind, spines gilt lettered; light edge wear to cloth, volume I a bit shaken, library label to front pastedowns, light foxing, still a very nice set of a scarce novel. Wolff, 6916. More
Londres: aux depens de la compagnie, 1764. 8vo, pp. xvi, 384; engraved frontispiece and 20 engraved plates; 20th-century full crimson straight-grain morocco by Zaehnsdorf, decorative gilt border on covers, gilt-paneled spine, and preserving the original blue printed wrappers which are bound in. First published without plates at Louvain in 1755... More
Philadelphia: J. L. Sibole & Co. (Baltimore, Md. : A. Hoen & Co., lithographers and printers), [1877]. First edition, small folio, pp. [6] plus 30 leaves printed on rectos only, may reproduced lithographically and with litho. illus., plus 4 full-p. chromolithographs; hinges cracked, corners bumped, else a very good copy... More
[Philadelphia]: March 16, 1795. 4to, 10 leaves, the last blank; original drab blue paper wrappers, stitched, as issued; previous folds, and a couple of short splits at them entering from the fore-margin; all else very good. Docketed on the back wrapper: "An act passsed 1795 with forms accompanying." Following the... More
