Paris: Charles Schmid, no date (ca. 1899). Hardcover. RARE! Hardcover with gray cloth boards, ca. 1899, folio, unpaginated, illustrated with 12 halftone plates on 11 pages. Book fair with foredges of cloth removed from boards and fraying, cloth discolored and soiled, title band on spine 90% worn off, wear to.....
8.5 inches tall, on blue paper with some white mottling to top, signed in pencil by three of the author-speakers, and in pen by Betty Smith (of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn fame). For Tuesday June 20 [1944].
Edinburgh and Dublin: Brown and Wardlaw - Chalmers - Oliphant - White, 1824, 1827, 1830. Later edition. Hardcover. Bound volume of 4 of John Brown's religious works. The author has inscribed the first title to the Library of Jefferson College on the title page. All books are later editions. The.....
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by Charteris on the titlepage. First edition, 1929. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine, gilt top edge, map endpapers, clean unmarked text, 399 pp., illustrated, Near Fine copy, light discoloration and wear to the book's covers, no dust jacket.....
New York: Random House, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 1943, First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Sound binding; unmarked contents; light fading to the blue topstain; mild discoloration to the foredge of the text-block; gutters browned (as usual); faint spotting to the cloth. The.....
London: Macmillan, 1879. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original cloth, very good, minor wear, flashy little bookplate on pastedown of a Dr. Sydney Ross, RPI. 376 pp, publisher's catalogue dated March 1879. One of the great physicists, introducing the second law of thermodynamics, the concept of entropy, and the.....
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1913. First printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth gilt, in dust jacket, book near fine sharp copy, jacket far with wear and loss especially along spine (some splitting of the jacket along front joint, neatly held in place with jacket protector, shallow loss to top of jacket. Rare.....
London: Printed for the author by W. Mantz, 1807. First edition. Hardcover. 1807, First Edition, self-published. Hardcover, small 8vo., contemporary 1/2 leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt bands and a single leather and gilt title label on the spine. xi, 324 pp. Engraved frontis, 'Valletta the capital of Malta.".....
Small quarto, leather-backed marbled boards, approx. 150 pp of handwritten essays, orations, poems, etc., by a Middletown CT politician and author, with emphasis on moral and political essays, and showing much admiration for Daniel Webster, the premier Whig orator of his day, and for anti-slavery positions, etc. Author unknown but.....
Philadelphia: Dobson, 1791. First American edition. Hardcover. 12mo (5 inches tall), original calf, 202 pp, very good, light wear to binding, early pages show mild tide-marks from old damp staining. Preface is by Addison, although not so noted. Evans 23292, rare in commerce and in institutions. First published in the.....
12.5 x 9 inches, single sheet folded once to make four sides, all handwritten in with the specifics of the sale, with several signatures. Very good, light wear and offsetting. Please see photos for more details.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1865. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth, good copy with new spine cloth and label, minor exlibrary marks from Library of Congress. 276 pp. Much on the early petroleum and oil industry in WV.
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co. and Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1821. Second edition. Hardcover. Complete 18 volume set bound in half-mottled calf and beige cloth boards, second edition, 1821, octavos (5 1/4 x 8 3/16"), varying paginations, volume one has a frontispiece engraving and volume six has a fold out.....
Leipzig: Springer & Moller. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1920s. Tall folio, a few pages text and 25 color plates, beautifully printed, of interior design, wall paper, carpeting, room painting, etc. Ex-library; rebound in tan library buckram, library treatments to endpapers, purple ink stamp to margins of four of the 25.....
London: George Kearsley, 1807. First English language edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, full contemporary calf of the period, green title labels, very good, light rubbing, some neat restoration to outer joints of first volume, hardly noticable. Text bright and free of marks, with 24 engraved plates, almost all of which.....
Bruxelles: Revue internationale de Philosophie, 1950. First printing. Paperback. Contributor Carl G. Hempel's own copy with his signature on label affixed to the front cover. First edition, 1950. Softcover, 112 pp., clean unmarked text, Fair copy, fragile copy with heavy wear to the binding, label on front cover, age-toning to.....
Bergen, Norway: Universitetsforlaget, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1980, hardcover with printed cloth boards, octavo, 816pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, hint of rubbing to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
New York: The Century Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Complete in Two Volumes. First Edition. c.1883. Hardcover. Folio. Green cloth, gilt titles, gilt edges. 52 full color plates. Very Good+. Light general shelfwear, mild age toning to page edges.
Paris: Plon, 1955. Limited ed. Paperback. 1955. One of 500 copies. Large softcover (9.75 x 13 inches), a facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript. Book housed in paper jacket, and also includes the supplementary text with introduction and description by Marchand, in French. Light bumping to the spine ends, otherwise.....
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1872. First printing. Hardcover. First edition with the Lacroix notes, also seems to include some tales from the Heptameron. 1872, 4 volumes, one of 500 copies on Hollande (Van Gelder paper), small 8vo (16.5 cm), full cherry red morocco gilt with floral spine emblems, 5 raised.....
Milan: George Taveras, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 2007. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in reflective silver boards. Unpaginated, with full color photographs by Davide Gasperini and metallic decoration, with Claudio Merazzi mission statement laid in. Near fine, with minor bumping to corners and rubbing to boards. Internally very bright and unmarked.....
Cork, Ireland: Printed by J. Connor, 1807. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1807. Quarto, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, lovely engraved frontispiece, 147 pp, bookplate from the well known Hoare family of Cork and signature of Edward Hoare on title page. Very good, light rubbing to spine, bit of.....
New York: Conjunctions, 1981-1988. Paperback. The first 12 issues of this important literary journal. This is the Softcover edition. From the collection of editor and publisher William Targ, who contributed a short essay about James Laughlin to Volume 1, which is inscribed to Targ by the editor, Brad Morrow, as.....
Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1876. First edition. Leather Bound. First Edition. c.1876. Small folio, with recent dark brown leather spine and new leather corners, new marbled endpapers, retaining original cloth gilt boards. 242pp with many lithographs of landscapes, industrial scenes, homesteads, local luminaries, etc.. Very Good+ with minor.....
Franklin, PA: The Venango County Historical Society, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Gilt stamped blue cloth boards, large quarto, 651pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has mild rubbing to boards, binding tight, previous owner's info to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. No DJ. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING.....