London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5 x 10 inches, 134 pp, in publisher's gilt-decorated cream cloth binding. With 40 tipped in color plates and additional black and white plates and illustrations in the text. One corner lightly bumped, spine toned... (Item #18879)
New York and London: S.S. McClure Co. 1896. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards; spine gilt with raised bands. Some scuffing to the leather; internals sound and clean. Includes (among other things) Stephen Crane's "The Veteran" and "The Little Regiment," two poems by Kipling ("The 'eathen,"... (Item #18878)
Chicago: Trusty Publishing Co. 1900. Softcover. Good. 175 pp, in original wrappers. Front wrap chipped at both outer corners and with a 1.5-inch closed tear mended on the inside. Tape reinforcement to front hinge, otherwise sound and clean internally. A c. 9 x 11 inch folded portrait of Lincoln--which may... (Item #18877)
[1892]. Very good. Menu for a picnic held to celebrate the first Pullman Car manufactured in Australia. Single sheet of cardstock folded once, 11 x 15 cm (4.5 x 6 in) when unfolded. Light dust soiling to the front cover; very good. P.N. Hyden is listed as the Superintendent of... (Item #18876)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume containing six complete issues (bound without their original wrappers). pp viii, 794. Publishers drab green cloth boards with beveled edges, decorated in gilt on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Front board scuffed, spine slightly toned; very good... (Item #18874)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. Very good. Bound volume containing six complete issues (bound without their original wrappers). pp viii, 768. Publishers drab green cloth boards with beveled edges, decorated in gilt on spine and front board, top edge gilt.Mild shelfwear; very good. Dora Keen (1871-1963) was the... (Item #18873)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 207 pp, in publisher's red and black checked cloth; no dust jacket. Spine slanted, mild wear to corners, previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Text clean, binding sound. A semi-autobiographical novel with explicit homosexual content, originally published anonymously for that reason... (Item #18872)
New York: 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. iv, 480. Bound volume containing six monthly issues, January-June 1846, with index, frontis engraving of a statue of Thomas Jefferson, and four engraved portraits by T. Doney. Edited by Thomas Prentice Kettell. Contemporary quarter-leather and marbled boards. Spine and corners... (Item #18871)
Amsterdam: C.P.J. Van Der Peet. Softcover. Fine. Bookseller's catalogue, 38 pp, 4.5 x 5.75 inches, listing 318 books on fencing and duelling in many languages, dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Undated, c. 1960s. (Item #18870)
The Star of the East, [1924]. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Pamphlet, 37 pp, in plain (unprinted) white stapled wrappers. Minor soiling to rear cover, tiny chip to head of spine; else fine. An early work, from when Krishnamurti was still connected to Theosophy. "This work provides an insight into... (Item #18869)
London: T. Cadell, 1790. Hardcover. Fair. Second edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 351, 16 (publisher's catalogue). Contemporary full calf binding, but both boards detached. Text block sound and quite clean--an excellent candidate for re-binding. Francklin (1763-1839) "was admitted as a cadet in the service of the East India Company in 1782... (Item #18868)
London: Macmillan, 1923. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition, revised and enlarged. lxi, 651 pp + publisher's catalogue. Indexed. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Rubbed at corners and spine ends, previous owner's name on front endpaper. Binding sound, text clean. This edition incorporates corrections and responses to criticisms of... (Item #18867)
London: Birn Brothers, 1887. First Edition. Very good. An unusual and scarce double leporello, with two sets of six embossed chromolithographed panels. Approximately 9.5 x 37 inches when unfolded. A few archival repairs to the linen joints between panels, but still very good or better, in original paper folder, which... (Item #18866)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1856. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. pp xii, (13)-500, in publisher's brown cloth. Boards lightly scuffed, corners rubbed, chipping to cloth at spine ends. Binding sound, text with light foxing. Robinson (Wayward Women, 25-26) described Austrian-born Ida Pfeiffer as "the first full-time woman traveller... (Item #18865)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a Good+ dust jacket. First printing ("A" on copyright page). Publishers's half red cloth and black paper boards show some rubbing and very light soiling. Binding sound and square, text and endpapers unmarked. Dust jacket has creasing to... (Item #18864)
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. 82 pp + illustrations from photographs. Minor shelf wear, small stain to front endpapers at gutter; text clean, binding sound. "The purpose of the present paper is to present a more accurate account of Cliff Palace than was possible before the... (Item #18862)
Philadelphia and Washington: John Bioren & W. John Duane and R.C. Weightman, 1815. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Five volume set, complete. Volumes I, III, IV, V an original set in matching full sheep with red spine labels, matching ownership signatures on front endpapers; Volume II married and with a slightly... (Item #18861)
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, 488 pp. with four hand-colored plate and two folding maps; lacking free endpapers. Original blue paper-covered front board, spine and rear board skillfully replaced to match, with new paper label on spine. Internals sound and clean... (Item #18860)
London: Printed for J. Wilford at the Three Flower-de-Luces, 1733. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. [iv] (Title page and Preface); 685, [19} (Index). Bound volume, complete for the year 1733; the second volume of this periodical issued. Front board detached, but held on with an unfortunate amateur repair of clear tape... (Item #18859)
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. viii, 327 pp. Publisher's red cloth binding; no dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper, foxing to first and last few pages; all else very good. A study of Nazi leaders, described in the preface as "an... (Item #18857)
New York: Macmillan, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. vxii, 462 pp, with index and illustrations. Original brick red pictorial cloth binding; no dust jacket. Rubbing to extremities, some light soiling to boards, archival reinforcement to front hinge. Binding sound, text clean. Autobiography of one of the most influential social... (Item #18856)
Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 1909. Softcover. Good. 90 pp + ads, with many b/w illustrations from photographs. Moderate wear and soiling, but sound and complete. Includes a report on the National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909, as well as articles on photography in glacial Alaska, The Discovery... (Item #18854)
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New York: Tyler Graphics Limited, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 9 x 12 inches, 23 pp, in glossy illustrated wrappers. Near fine, with light handling wear. Includes a lengthy, illustrated essay by Wallace (Frank Stella's JUAM, Having it Both Ways) followed by two full-page plates (JUAM and JUAM State... (Item #18853)
Chicago: Thomas G. Newman & Son, 1878. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, pp 286, [12] (ads for a variety of bee-keeping products and equipment). Publisher's green cloth with gilt bee on upper board. Soiling to spine, corners rubbed through, otherwise very good; internals clean and sound. Includes sections on the anatomy... (Item #18852)
London: Richard Chiswell, 1684. Hardcover. Very good. First edition of this translation, by Gilbert Burnet (1643-1714; Scottish philosopher, historian, and Bishop of Salisbury). 8vo, [22], 206, with original rear blank (P4); front blank (A1) appears to have been replaced. Early, possibly original, boards, rebacked with recent new leather spine and... (Item #18851)
