Boston: James Redpath, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 102pp. followed by 2pp. publisher's catalog. Original purple patterned cloth. Pale yellow endpapers. Gilt spine title. Spine tips worn and small hole in hinge, spine evenly sunned to tan. While serving as a nurse in the Civil War, Alcott wrote several letters..... More
Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 192pp. 26 leaves of plates. Contemporary red leather spine, gilt; printed paper boards. Boards darkened, rubbed and stained, some roughness to the edges and corners, ffep perished else a good copy. On front printed board: By the author of Anecdotes of..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textured paper over boards, gilt spine title A fine copy. The dustwrapper shows the original 16s price. It has a little wear along the edges, a short closed marginal tear along the top rear, and a trace of foxing on the..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. First US edition. Hardcover. 5 Volumes, large 8vos. Bindings of textured brown cloth embossed in b blind on the boards and spines. and with gilt titles on the spines,. Chocolate-colored coated endpapers. Publisher's catalogue dated March, 1859, bound in the front of volume 1..... More
Not Published, (1880). First edition. Hardcover. Original cloth, gilt title. Cloth sunned to tan on spine, slight fading at top of front cover; waterspot. Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field was practicing law in New York when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing..... More
Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1684. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (vi),598,(xxiv)pp. Vignette engraving on title page. Full leather. Rebacked maintaining the original diced calf boards, gilt; spine in five compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled endpapers. The final page of the introductory section, 'Lectori', lacks the bottom..... More
London: William Hone, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Original paper covered boards and paper spine with paste-on label. Nicely done repairs to corners of boards. Spine shows usual signs of wear and soil but in essentially fine condition for a book bound in original boards. Protected in a custom..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 24 chromolithographed sheets (including the title page) printed on one side only in full color on heavy paper. The binding is a green cloth spine and rear board, printed paper upper board showing Little Miss Muffet. The upper board is..... More
London: Longman & Co., 1848. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. iv,(1),31,(2)pp. Thirty-two pages are chromolithographed by Humphreys, in addition there is a leaf of the illuminator' s remarks and one comprising an index of the miracles. Bound in the original black papier-mache covers designed to look like carved ebony. The binding..... More
Fahlunensis: n.p., 1694. Wraps. 12mo. 128pp. Contemporary blue paper wraps. Textblock and wraps soiled and stained with some neat repairs. This is the morning (first) dissertation, listing Olaus Troilus Zachrisson in the description and setting the date for 12 December, 1694 "ante meridiem". There was a second printing for the..... More
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Three volumes. 12mo. Original sand-grain violet cloth, gilt titles. Line engraved title pages. Sheridan Le Fanu was unquestionably the Victorian master of ghost and supernatural stories. This collection of tales came to LeFanu at the inn in Golden Friars..... More
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxv,(1),27-84pp. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones' Third Issue. Half-title is present. The 'Extract', pp. 73-84, is present. Both Extracts are sometimes attributed to John Mitford. Nicely bound to style in quarter calf, spine gilt; leather lettering label, gilt; marbled..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903-1910. First editions, first printings. Hardcover. Four 4to volumes, all in original mustard-color cloth with spines and upper boards blocked in black, red and gilt., With black and white illustrations by Howard Pyle. This is essentially a near fine set. These titles have traditionally..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912). Illustrated by Gustave Baumann. Hardcover. Thin 4to. Unpaginated; (10) plus twelve full page illustrations in colors, cut on wood by Gustave Baumann on rectos with Riley's poems on the opposing pages. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in gold on the upper board. A fine, bright copy. The dustwrapper..... More
London: G. G. Harrap & Co., n.d. (1913). Illustrated by Williy Pogany. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. Illustrated throughout in both black and white and color by Pogany. This copy bound in the somewhat scarce publisher's brown leather, spine intricately gilt and with the title and illustration on the upper..... More
Halae: Sumbtibus Orphanotrophei, 1740's. Early Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes bound in One. 1)Analysis et Explicatio Lectionum Masorethicarum, Kethibhan et Karjan Vulgo Dictarum, Ea Forma, Qua Illae in Textu S. Extant, Ordine Alphabetico Digesta Inque Usum Studiosae Iuventutis [no date-1750?] Editio Secunda, 80pgs. & 2)Explicatio Epicriseon Masorethicarum Quae Singulis Libris Biblicus..... More
London: Printed by M. Flesher for Henry Mortlock, 1685. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (ii),lxxiii,(ix),364pp. Bound to style in full calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands; red leather lettering label, gil. Title page strengthened at the outer margin; light soil; some old ink names on the t.p. else a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Asbury edition. Hardcover. 8vo. li,(3),169,(1)pp. Yellow cloth printed in Aquatone by the Edward Stern Co. Top edge stained green. Illustrated. Index. This is the first cocktail recipe book published in the United States, first appearing in 1862. The 1928 edition is the..... More
