Personal exposures.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1940]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 303; original rust cloth, spine stamped in gilt and black; very good in dust-jacket with some edge wear. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1940]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 303; original rust cloth, spine stamped in gilt and black; very good in dust-jacket with some edge wear. More
[Paris: Centre Culturel Américain, ca. 1958]. First edition, small 4to, pp. 142; illustrations (mostly photographic) on plates throughout; very good in original photographically illustrated stiff wrappers. Exhibition catalogue. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 669; publisher's navy cloth (a bit soiled), gilt-lettered spine; ex-Minnesota Historical Society with usual markings, else a very good copy. More
Athens & London: Univ. of Georgia Press[1998]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [6], 259; vignette title-p.; fine in dust-jacket. With a letter of transmittal from the publisher to Gwin Kolb. More
London: printed for Edward and Charles Dilly ... and by William Creech, Edinburgh, 1778. First London edition (the work first appeared in Edinburgh in 1776), 8vo, pp. [6], 555; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label; very good, sound copy. Beattie (1735-1803), the Scots moral philosopher..... More
London: William Pickering, 1831. Small 8vo, engraved portrait, Pickering's vignette anchor & dolphin device on title page; early 20th century half brown morocco by Riviere, gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments, gilt lettered in 2, t.e.g.; fine. Issued as part of the publisher's Aldine British Poets series. Contains a memoir..... More
London: Edward and Charles Dilly; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and W. Creech, 1773. 8vo, pp. vi, [9]-518; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine, red morocco label; very good copy. Beattie (1735-1803), the Scots moral philosopher and poet, was acquainted with Monboddo, Pope, Johnson, and many other notables of the day, and was..... More
[Paris]: au Palais Royal, chez Ruault, 1785. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], lvi, 237; later full speckled calf, red morocco label on gilt decorated spine; slight wear at the top of the spine, else generally a fine copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of Alfred Vaux. Beaumarchais (1732-1799) aided the American cause..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1952. Edition limited to 750 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. [3], 40; plus 51pp. reproducing 24 lithographs, with descriptive comments; a tiny black smudge on fore-edge of front cover, else fine in orig. gray cloth gilt. Political caricatures, originally published from August 1832 to August 1834, by..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 173, [1]; illustrated title page printed in red and black, plain text illustrations throughout; original brown pictorial cloth by Crane stamped in gilt, red and black, t.e.g.; spine a touch cocked, some minor offsetting to endpapers; contemporary..... More
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, tall 8vo, pp. xvi, 277, [3]; illustrations throughout the text; publisher's cloth with illustration on front board; fine in original glassine and publisher's slipcase. LEC Bibliography 313. More
Baltimore: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edition limited to 1500 copies signed by the illustrator, tall 8vo, pp. xvi, 277, [3]; illustrations throughout the text; publisher's cloth with illustration on front board; fine in original glassine and publisher's slipcase. LEC Bibliography 313. More
London: Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 1871. First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo; text printed in double columns; contemporary three quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-ruled and lettered spine in six compartments, raised bands, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; spines darkened, general shelf wear, light scuffing; contemporary ownership inscription on..... More
London: privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1922. Limited edition, limitation unstated, 8vo, pp. xviii, [6], 280; 22 plates; minimal foxing, free endpapers darkened, dust-jacket with faint spots on the spine and very light edge wear. The first editions of The Pleasures and The Confessions (1682 & 1683) give A...... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1953. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. 80; presentation copy, with author's inscription on ffep to Dan Kunitz; light wear to extremities, otherwise about fine in original maroon cloth, stamped in blind on upper cover, lettered in silver on spine. Indiana University poetry series. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. Fourth printing, 8vo, pp. [6], 536; original black and gray cloth stamped in orange on upper cover and spine, top edge stained orange; dust-jacket chipped at top of spine, along top edge, and at top outer corner (never any loss of letterpress), else very..... More
New York: Viking Press, [1968]. First edition, 8vo., fine in near fine jacket. More
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1868. 12mo, pp. [2], 344; a very good copy in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. More
London: William Heinemann, 1937. 8vo, pp. ix, 324; illustrated title page and 24 black and white photographic plates; red blind-tooled cloth with gilt stamped spine; V.S. Pritchett's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his initials on the front free endpaper. Small crack in the cloth at the..... More
[Moscow]: Moskovskii rabochii, 1974. 12mo, pp. 175, [1]; plain photographic illustrations; original green decorative wrappers; pages uniformly toned, dampstained manscript fragment pasted inside rear cover, else very good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Biography of Russian publisher brothers Mikhail Vasil'evich and Sergei Vasil'evich Sabashnikov..... More
A Londres: [publisher not identified], 1769. 8vo, pp. 15; 20th-century black cloth-backed boards; woodcut vignette on title page; title page foxed and last leaf foxed; very good. The imprint is fictitious, and the author likely so. At the head of the text: "Testament de Rose Belvue, fille d'amour, mourante." Five..... More
New York: Viking, 1953. First edition, 8vo., jacket price clipped; fine in near fine jacket. More
Barcelona: Herederos de Juan Gili, 1914. First edition, 8vo, pp. xliv, 282, [2]; contemporary green cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine. An Ayer Linguistic duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the front pastedown; no other markings. Includes a "Bio-bibliografia de Fr. Toribio de Benavente o Motolinia" on pages [v]-xxxv. This..... More
Mexico: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, n.d., [1969]. First edition in English, 1000 copies printed; 8vo, pp. 479, [1]; illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers; wear at the edges, old price sticker on title page, but on the whole, very good. From a blogger: Benavides "was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, on..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 289; color frontispiece, text illustrations throughout by Janet Smalley; publisher's yellow pictorial cloth (soiling) stamped in dark blue; yellow map endpapers; occasional soil spots throughout, else very good and sound. More