London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition limited to 75 copies signed by Manning, 8vo, pp. 30-[33]; a fine copy in original maroon morocco-backed yellow paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, gilt-rules on covers, t.e.g., the orig. acetate jacket with some scuffing and a small tear at upper spine. Shifreen..... More
Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb [Knowles & Vose, printers, Providence], 1839. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 48; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; the spine a bit flaked, else a very good, sound copy. Inscribed by Pabodie to "Hon. Job Durfee, with the respects of the..... More
Providence: printed by Knowles and Vose, 1842. First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; stitched, as issued; uncut; faint Providence Athenaeum stamp at the top of the title page; very good. An anti-Dorr tract with a sophisticated discussion of the historical and constitutional issues. Not in American Imprints; not in Bartlett; Sabin..... More
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., [1989]. Large 8vo, 40 illustrations, fine copy in original blue-green clipped dust-jacket. Review copy giving publication date as August, 1990; American distributer's label mounted to title page. More
[Rochester, N.Y.]: Rochester Institute of Technology, [ca. 1980]. 4to, pp. [186]; illustrated throughout; original red buckram stamped in silver on upper cover and spine; fine. A collection of facimiles drawn from a number of other sources (mostly periodicals: The Library Scene, Publisher's Weekly, etc.) and compiled for use at the..... More
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1933. 8vo, pp. 140; later red cloth, gilt-stamped spine, original printed wrappers bound in; fine. Series LI, Number 4 of The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Bound with: "Hezekiah Niles as an Economist" by Richard Gabriel Stone. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1992. Edition limited to 135 signed copies, this being one of 35 (copy no. XV) in a box with 5 matted examples of marbled vignettes; 4to, pp. [6], 8, [2]; original black Japanese cloth lettered in blind on spine and upper cover; together in a...... More
Paris: Editions Nilsson, [1928]. Large 8vo, pp. 225; 6 tipped-in plates of pochoir illustrations on glassine paper by P. Charavel; original stiff wrappers in pochoir-illustrated glassine dust jacket; small chip to upper jacket cover edge, 3-inch tear to jacket spine; interior fine. Forms part of the "Collection 'Lotus'" More
Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press, 1980. 16mo, unpaginated; illustrated title page, full-page illustrations (one folding) throughout; accordion binding, text printed on both sides, original green cloth, paper label with decorative border, decorative front endpapers; a fine copy. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. Collector's edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 62; portrait of Stein by Paul Tchelitchew; original paper covered boards in pink and silver with yellow spine lettered in black, matching slipcase, publisher's wrap-around band; fine. More
Amsterdam: Jacques Desbordes, 1729. 2 volumes in 1, 4to, pp. [10], 502; [12], 412pp., engraved frontispiece portrait which is not found in all copies; engraved vignette title pages printed in red and black, text in triple column; an unrestored copy in full contemporary calf, red morocco label; a very good..... More
London: Gordon D. Knox, [n. d.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, 111; frontispiece portrait after bust by de Marchand; original dark green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, b&w pictorial onlay on front cover, the spine a little faded and boards slightly warped, several underlinings in blue..... More
London: stereotyped and printed by A. Wilson, Camden Town, for T. Cadell and W. Davies [et al.], 1818. 8vo, pp. [4], ix, [1], [11]-90, [2], 601, [1] appendix, [2] ads; lexicon in double column; full contemporary diced russia, gilt lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; spine a bit scuffed, but a...... More
[Taipei]: Wu Shouli, [2002]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 155, [1], [64], [2], [64] (facsimiles), [4]; text in Traditional Chinese; green printed boards; touch of soiling to upper cover and fore-edge, new address tipped in to colophon and title list updated in pen, else fine. This title is no..... More
St. Paul: D. Ramaley & Son, 1893. First edition, 8vo, pp. 371, [1], [4] ads; original red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine; front hinge cracked, else very good. The rabbi converses with a banker, wagon maker, doctor, grocer, book-keeper, local editor, law student, school teacher, pianist, a landlady..... More
