London: Cadell and Davies, 1808. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 10.6 x 9.2 inches, full contemporary flame calf stamped "Greenock Library 1783" on cover, gilt stamped on spine, with old bookplate from the Greenock Library. A lovely copy in a splendid full dark brown flame calf binding, rebacked with more recent.....
Philadelphia: S. Potter and Co., 1822. First edition. Hardcover. 1822, First Edition. Title page notes 'Part First' but this was the only one ever published. Hardcover, 8vo., contemporary full calf, repaired with later leather strips over the outer hinges for reinforcement. Spine partially rebacked with newer leather. viii, [9]-561 pp.....
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].
New Castle, PA: C. B. Randall, 1916. Hardcover. Letter "T" of 26 lettered copies. Translated and illustrated by Josef Pierre Nuyttens. 4 of 5 volumes (lacking the last volume), folio, 15.25 x 11.25 inches, bound in full brown pigskin with watered silk endpapers and printed on very thick handmade paper.....
New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1968. First printing. Paperback, 381pp.
Tokyo, Hakone: Hakone Open Air Museum, etc. 1972, 1991, 1994. 3 items, the first is a homemade book, probably one of only a few copies, 12 x 9 inches, stiff covers, with typed caption slips and original 8 x 10 photos (18 total) in b/w and color of installations and.....
London: No publisher / M. Lewis, 1776 / 1775. Hardcover. 2 works on the Moravian Church bound together. Hardcover, small 8vo., old quarter leather with marbled boards, with later cloth strips along the inside edge of the boards. viii, 41, viii, 72 pp. Good. Both boards detached, but present; spine.....
Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1873. First printing. Large 8vo, brick cloth gilt, near fine sharp copy. 512 pp, illustrated with portraits. Rare in this condition.
London: The Gogmagog Press, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. No. 73 of 100 on Hosho paper, signed. 8.5 x 5 inches, in stiff illustrated card covers with acetate dust jacket, fine copy, short poem with color embossed prints.
Pittsburgh: Dumars / Wright & Charlton, 1846-1848. First printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, 8vo, old half leather, good, spine covered in old brown cloth with windows cut out for title and volume labels, boards rubbed, contents good to very good, occasional foxing, has both the folding facsimile plate and the folding.....
London: John Duncombe, Ca. 1825. Hardcover. No publisher's date, ca. 1825, 8vo, contemporary half calf, flat spine, red label, 319 pp, portrait frontispiece of Sheridan, 19 half-page plates by Robert Cruikshank. Very good (minus) with some wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good, with very occasional spots, toning, foxing.....
Boston: The Stratford Company, C. 1916. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo, red cloth, light wear and soil, spine faded. Inscribed on the pastedown to Sidney Lanier Jr. from the translator, also signed on the flyleaf ("Bravo Lista!") by Enrico Caruso, and inscribed also very fondly on the half title to.....
Amsterdam: Freres Chatelain, 1713. Later edition. Hardcover. Volume 1 (Tome Premier) only. 1713, later edition. Hardcover, 12mo., 19th-century calf with newer leather spine (the spine from the rebind is housed in a glassine envelope affixed to the rear pastedown). Engraved frontis plus 24 plates, all of which are quite elaborate.....
Paris: Editions de "L'Effort Moderne", Leonce Rosenberg, ND, 1921. First printing. No. 49 of 100 on papier a la cuve de Canson et Montgolfier, quarto, wraps housing a single sheet tirage, plus the book, very good, light scattered foxing to the book, some wear and tanning to cover, the spine.....
Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames, for J. Hyde, 1727. Hardcover. Published 1727, rebound in quarter green calf, gilt ruled bands, 8vo, pp. vi 460 (44) 96. Very near fine but for some expert re-cornering of the title page, various old names, notably a Catherine Crafford (?) on first page of.....
Paris: Colllections des Arts, 1926. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1926, one of 300 copies on Rives, this one unnumbered, INSCRIBED by Duvernois to the theatrical couple Jeanne Silvain and her husband Edmond Roze in 1928, quarto, quarto deep red morocco gilt, marbled boards, 80 pp, heavily illustrated in color.....
Paris: Hachette, 1913-1946. Mixed. Hardcover. Complete set in 6 volumes. Inscribed by the author to his friend Andre Cresson on the half-title of the first volume. 1913-46, various editions: Volume 1 is a second edition and Volume 2 is a third edition, the other 4 volumes are Firsts. Hardcover 4tos......
Canyon, TX: Palo Duro Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket, book near fine, jacket very good plus with minor rubbing along edges and tips. Inscribed by the author to Roger Olien, a historian who has written a number of works on the history and culture.....
Dublin: Printed for the Author, 1823. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1823. Small 8vo, marbled boards with a homemade patterned cloth spine, old spine label with 'Duelling' written upon it in browning script, 106 (2) pp, with tipped in 2pp ad for the Anti-Duelling Association at rear, lacking frontispiece.
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Mukilteo, WA: Hundman Publishing, 1998. Hardcover. Inscribed by Hundman! Black cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong quarto [14.25" x 11.25"], illustrated in b&w, some of which fold out. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but has faint basement odor. DJ has.....
Rome: Stefano Ionescu/Esselibri, 2005. First English language edition. Hardcover. Gilt stamped maroon cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [9.75" x 13.75"], 226pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ fine, now in archival mylar wrap.
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 1875, First Edition of the author's first book. One of 1510 copies printed. 496 pp. Hardcover, original maroon cloth, 8vo. "James R. Osgood and Co." in gilt at foot of spine. Very Good copy: Spine sunned; shallow chipping to cloth at spine.....
New York: George Braziller, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Kepes on the half-title page. First edition, 1965. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 233 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Good dust jacket, some age-toning or discoloration to the outer pages and the page-edges, minor rubbing.....
Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co., 1902. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 15 x 8.5 inches in half leather and charcoal cloth boards, binding in poor condition with boards detached, corners rubbed and worn, spine rubbed and worn at joints and ends; the first 260 stock certificates have been filled out and.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1995. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. 1995, First Edition. Softcover. French text. Near Fine with minor shelfwear to the wraps. Includes original wraparound band. Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.