London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1924). First edition thus. Hardcover. No date, but published 1924. First Edition with the Nielsen illustrations. Hardcover, 4to., original green cloth with elaborate titles and decoration in gilt. 12 tissue-covered tipped-in color plates by Nielsen, 16 full-page b&w illustrations and numerous other small embellishments throughout. Very...
New York: Putnams, (1935). Hardcover. First edition (1935). Cloth in dust jacket, book fine (pages unopened and uncut), jacket near fine with light soil and a couple closed tears. Author's second novel, the story of Striker Godown, who gets involved in a labor dispute at the Jericho Iron Works. Bell...
New Milford, OH: 1858. 12 x 10 inches, very good with some very short tears to right edge and minor tape repair to one corner on verso, not staining the paper. Gurley advocates a barter system, but also goods at reduced prices ranging from sugar and spices to razors, wallets...
London: Printed for the author, sold by Becket, Robson, Robinson / Payne, et al, 1776-1789. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set in 4 volumes. First Editions, published 1776, 1782, 1789. Hardcover 4tos., in full calf, with gilt decoration and red leather title labels. Engraved frontis of the author (after the Reynolds...
New York: Aperture / The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by Callahan. First edition, 1976. Large quarto, cloth hardcover with pictorial paper onlay in dust jacket, 201 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, crease to the front flyleaf...
London: Longman, Hurst, et al. 1820. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1820. With the signature of 'Charles, P. of Leiningen' on the first blank. Tall 8vo, early or original full reddish calf, raised bands, diced blind pattern on spine, maroon gilt spine label, 807 pp. VG tight copy with some...
Provenance: purchased from a scout who attended the estate sale a few years ago at the Cheever house in Ossining, NY. 25 letters, funny, personal, warm, gossipy and literary. With original envelopes. All no more than a page in length, detailing life for Cheever at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood...
Paris: Dunod, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 2004. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 1117 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, owner's signature on the half-title page, minor creasing to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector...
Paris: Imprimerie De Ch. Houel, 1798. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1798, 23 volumes complete. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf gilt, with red and black gilt spine labels. Good solid set with minor library marks (bookplates on pastedowns, barcode stickers to rear flyleaves, blindstamp to title pages), bindings with some wear...
London: Dent, 1926. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1926, 8vo, green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in dust jacket, book about fine, jacket VG with some tanning and darkening, specially to spine.
Pittsburgh: Cramer & Spear, 1818. Hardcover. 10th Edition, 1818. 8vo, original half leather and marbled boards, 304 pp., with strip river maps and maps of Pittsburgh and the Falls of the Ohio. Good to very good copy, some dryness and rubbing to spine and corner leather, but joints and inner...
New York: Dashwood Books/ Boo-Hooray, 2010. Limited edition. Paperback. SIGNED on the rear wrap by Carl Johan De Geer. 2010. Limited edition of 250. Pictorial wraps, 8vo. 40pp. black and white photography. very good. Light edge wear to wraps. Internally unmarked.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition thus. Hardcover. First edition thus (was serialised throughout 1843 and 1844), 1844, octavo, hardcover with 3/4 leather boards, 624pp., illustrated with b&w plates (MISSING ONE PLATE AT PAGE 42). Book VG with rubbing and shelfwear to boards, spine handsome with gilted bands and...
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, second issue with footnote on p. 9, but first leaf of folding music unnumbered, see Cohn. Tall 8vo, bound in dark blue full morocco gilt, gilt ruled, raised bands, gilt pictorial spine compartments, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe...
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1989. Hardcover. Limited to 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by Erte. Quarto, blue leatherette with cover onlay, a fine copy but for a rather scrawled inscription from 1991 to flyleaf, in slipcase that has a touch of wear to the tips. 242 pp, ill.
London: Swann Sonnenschein, 1886. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1886, quarto (10.5 inches, 27 cm), nicely bound in handsome half brown morocco gilt, green cloth boards, near fine copy, handsome gilt decorations to spine, 427 pp, illustrated, pages with text are slightly toned, but plate pages printed on better laid paper, quite a bit brighter.
Bruxelles / Brussels: Sous le Manteau, 1881. Hardcover. 3 volumes bound in one, published 1881, each limited to 175 copies for subscribers, 8vo, 1930s quarter calf, marbled boards, frontispieces in bistre by Rops (we believe) WITH AUTOGRAPH EROTIC POEM possibly signed by Theophile Gautier, bound in at the beginning. Lacking...
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873. Hardcover. Early edition, 1873. Green cloth hardcover with black designs on the front cover and spine and elaborate gilt title on the spine, illustrated, 560 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, age-toning to the pages and page-edges, a bit of wear to...
New York: Viking Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition, 1969. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 208 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket, owner's blindstamp on half-title page, light wear to the tips of the dust jacket, very minor...
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Editor Carl Hempel's copy with his signature on the front flyleaf and his ink-notes to a couple of the pages of the text. First edition, 1983. Cloth hardcover, 424 pp., Very Good copy, a bit of soiling or age-toning to the...
Cincinnati: L. A. Hine, 1860-1869. Hardcover. Thick 8vo, bound in half leather, very good. A haphazardly bound assemblage of L. A. Hine's works on economics and social and political reform, including a copy of his very rare anti-banking and pro-justice-reform novel, The Money-Changers (1860) of which there are only two...
Cleveland: NP, 1891. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1891. 8vo, cloth, 464 pp, a frontispiece of the author. VG, light wear to spine, pages quite tanned, neat japanese paper reinforcement to inner hinge. Striking narrative from a rare female perspective, about pioneer life in 19th century rural Ohio.
Two original letters from Julia Child, dated 1970 and 1976. The first, handwritten by Julia on stationary from the Barclay in Philadelphia and dated November 3rd (postmark indicates 1970), reads: "Dear Dick: Would that we were not so far away from you and Higbees, and from the Cleveland we saw...
New York: Random House, 1931. Limited edition. Hardcover. SIGNED on the limitation page by Rockwell Kent, INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For that little Cherubim, From a fellow Cherub" by Random House founder and publisher Bennett Cerf to Democratic Congressman Anthony Charles Beilenson. 1931. Limited number 825 of 1850. Hardcover...
London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884. Hardcover. Published 1884, quarto, 3/4 deep red morocco and red cloth boards, tulip motif on spine with morocco inlays of orange and green morocco by Bayntun, Bath, viii, 304 pp, frontispiece of La Fontaine plus 24 etchings. Near fine copy, tiny bit of...