Garden City: Doubleday, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 477pp. Black cloth spine, silver titles, blue textured boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped, has a bit of rubbing at the folds, else is near fine. Surprisingly scarce in first edition story of Joseph of Arimathea in Avalon. More
London: Walter Kettilby, 1688. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8), 136pp. Bound to style in quarter leather, gilt spine title, marbled paper boards. A very good copy. One of the many English treatises on the validity of Orders in the Church, this one by a Protestant Divine. Wing M725; ESTC R726..... More
London: John Murray, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, 8vo. xxix,(1), 444; xxv,(1), 483, xi,(1)37 pp .plus plates and publisher's catalogue dated March 1841. Full dark green polished calf by Tout and Sons. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, intricately tooled in gilt. Red leather lettering labels, Gilt rules..... More
Philadelphia, Printed: Boston, Re-printed. And sold by John Boyle: 1774. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet unbound. Complete in (4)pp. but apparently hurriedly misbound: (1-3), 4-24, 33-40, 25-32, 41-43,(1). Untrimmed with rough edges and a some short marginal closed tears, marginal worming to the lower left corner to pp. (1)-8 not reaching the..... More
Cortaro: Thorn Books, 2009. Limited edition. Stapled wraps. 8vo. (16pp.) Stiff stapled wraps. Includes a color facsimile of the eight page pamphlet printed in Lubeck around 1492 by Matthaeus Brandis. Introduction by James Owens. In 1492, twenty seven Jews of Mecklenberg were burnt at the stake in Sternberg on a...... More
New York: Caxton House, Inc., 1939. Hardcover. Black cloth blocked in red on the spine and upper board. Pages yellowed with age but a very good copy. The dustwrapper hs creases and closed tears, and old tape reinforcements on the reverse. It is only in good condition, but still striking..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Printed cloth boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by the author. Mild soil and corner wear else a very good copy. The dustwrapper has some chips along the top and at the base of the spine else it is..... More
(London): (The Pamphleteer), 1814. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp (243)-261, extract from Vol. III, No. v. A fine copy in modern marbled paper wraps, printed title label on the upper wrap. The author is unidentified, not unusual when criticizing police. Very scarce pamphlet on police practices, analyzing their inefficiency and..... More
(London): n.p., (1642). First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 8pp. Closely trimmed on the foredge else a very good copy, in modern wraps of marbled paper, printed lettering label affixed to the upper wrap. A criticism and warning to King Charles I to relax his arbitrary attempt to control the government. While..... More
n.p. n.p., ca.1927. Hardcover. Folio-sized scrap book of light brown laid paper over boards, pages tied by three ribbons to the boards. Paste-ons to the upper board and front pastedown on silver card with hand-lettering identifying it as the Clara TIce Scrap Book of Engravers Proofs of 10 printed illustrations..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. x,(2),343,(1) pp. plus advertisement for the Benson Murder Case. Black cloth printed in green. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is first state, with "Taxicab" listed on the rear flap and the closing quotes on the upper panel..... More
La Jolla, CA: Lane & Associates, (1979). First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 329, (1)pp. Pictorial wraps. Spine is lightly darkened else this is a very good copy. More
n.p. (Lexington, KY): University of Kentucky Library Press, (1971). Limited edition. Hardcover. 12mo. (34)pp. Finely printed letterpress by Shelia Maybanks & Ashley Bullitt at the press of Gravesend in the Margaret I. King Library, Charmingly illustrated throughout by John Michael Bruer. Bound in decorated paper over boards with a printed..... More
London: Frederick Arnold`, 1863. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 48pp. Original printed blue paper wraps. Illustrated. Wraps soiled, portions of spine perish, lacking corners of upper wrap and first three pages (no loss). A good copy. Housed in a quarter leather slipcase, spine titles gilt, blue cloth sides and chemise. More
London: Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1821. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, (1), 376pp. Half green morocco, spine in six compartments, gilt, gilt rules on the boards, green cloth sides, top edge gilt, cloth endpapers. First issue, with the first music sheet unnumbered, no foot note to page 9..... More
Hartford, Conn. A. D. Worthington and Company, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 653 pages, publisher's full sheep, rebacked, and contemporary black morocco label laid down. Illustrated with 6 chromolithographed plates, 5 steel plate engravings, and 17 woodcuts. Frontispiece portrait. The binding is well worn, first few pages soiled and spotted..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. black cloth spine, gilt title, decorated blue and black boards. A fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is near fine with only traces of wear. It is slightly shorter in height than the book, a...... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine printed in blue; orange paper over boards. Illustrated by the author. Book One in the Imaginarium Geographica series. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by James Owen on the title page and with..... More
London: Printed for Circulation Amongst Private Subscribers Only, 1897. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 258pp. Half red leather, spine in six compartments, gilt; marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, ribbon marker. Trace of rubbing else a near fine copy. One of three hundred numbered copies; this is number 18..... More
New York: Alfred A. KNoipf, 1926. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown ribbed cloth printed in dark brown. Light wear and soil to the binding and general aging to the text block else a very good copy. Without dustwrapper. More
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 8vo. Half brown leather. Spines in five compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind and with the title tooled in gilt. Marbled paper sides; yellow endpapers. The text blocks have occasional light staining; the frontispiece to volume 2 is stained along..... More
London: Colburn and Co., Publishers, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. 8vo. Contemporary bindings of brown half leather, spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt, linen-design cloth sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Engraved frontispieces in each volume, and with folding documents in facsimile in volume 2. Light rubbing..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and LoOngmans, 1849. Hardcover. The text was first published in 1842, now newly illustrated with woodcuts by George Scharf, Jr., after original and antique illustrations. Large square 8vo. 210pp. Half morocco binding by Henry Young and Sons of Liverpool. Spine in six compartments with raised bands..... More
New-York: Duprat & Co., 1892. Limited edition. Hardcover. 4to. xii, 170, (4)pp. Half black morocco; spine in six compartments, gilt, with red leather lettering pieces, gilt. Marbled paper sides, Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Light rubbing else a near fine copy. One of 350 numbered copies; this is..... More
London and Dublin: J. Johnston; R. Milliken, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Original drab boards, gray paper spine, uncut. (10), 164pp. plus 4pp publisher's catalogue. Half-title, folding hand-colored etched frontispiece and 4 hand-colored plates, as called for. Boards well worn, text has spotting and soiling, frontispiece folds have been reinforced..... More
