London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. Hardcover. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Second impression. 278 pp, bound in red cloth. Corners lightly bumped, all else very good. W.& G. Foyle bookseller's label on front pastedown. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has light edgewear and rubbing.Translated from the Arabic by... (Item #19036)
New York: Random House, Inc. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First printing. All pop-ups functional, light handling wear. Short gift inscription crossed out in pen on title page; otherwise clean. Pictorial boards featuring R2-D2 on the cover. Illustrations by Wynne, paper engineering by Penick. Published the same year the... (Item #19034)
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp 413, 416-420 (blank "Traveller's Memorandum" pages) + 24 (ads). Original flexible salmon cloth, sunned at spine, lightly soiled, previous owner's name in ink on title page, date (oddly, 1837) written on top edge, but quite sound and... (Item #19033)
London: A. & H. Bonner; R. Forder; Watts & co. 1898. Hardcover. Good. 129 pp, cloth-backed boards. Boards lightly soiled, old dampstain visible mostly on endpapers and first and last few leaves (which are also foxed), but also about 1/8 inch of bottom margin of text block; text unaffected. An... (Item #18975)
Edinburgh: William Tait, 1860. Softcover. Good. 7 x 10.25 in, pp [5], 179, with frontis portrait of the author. Wrappers chipped at the corners, with some dust soilng and foxing, dampstain to portrait leaf only (presumably occurred prior to being bound in), some dogeared corners; contents clean, binding sound. Elliott... (Item #18974)
London: Myers & Co. [1900]. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. iv, 52, in original wrappers with mounted paper label. Some creasing to wraps, light handling wear; very good. Lists 785 books offered for sale by Myers & Co., Booksellers, from the library of the widely traveled Scottish artist... (Item #18973)
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New York: Underwood & Underwood, [1902]. Softcover. Very good. Text booklet to accompany Underwood's set of 24 stereoviews (not present here). 3.5 x 6.75 inches, 70 pp, with folding map (approx. 18.5 x 11 inches) of Yosemite Valley Showing Wagon-Roads and Trails. Light soiling and two small chips to front... (Item #18971)
London: J.Watson, 1841. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint (first published in New York in 1801). 4.5 x 7 inches, 140 pp + publisher's ads. Original black cloth stamped in bling' one small loss of cloth on the spine, moderate wear to extremities. Binding sound, text with some pencil lines in the... (Item #18969)
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 334 pp, with bibliography, index. Lightly bumped corners; internals clean and sound. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, mild toning to spine. A modern critic writes: "Written simultaneous to Richard Aldington's Biographical Inquiry (and... (Item #18968)
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. 293 pp + illustrations from photographs Mild spine slant, else a fine copy; dust jacket has slight edgewear. This biography gives particular emphasis to Lawrence's personal life (as opposed to his militarty exploits... (Item #18967)
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896. Hardcover. Good+. Complete set of 4 volumes. 7.5 x 10 inches, bound in half white cloth over grey paper boards. Paper spine labels, top edges gilt, bottom and fore edges untrimmed. Title pages in red and black, beautifully illustrated with 131 photogravure plates. Bookplate... (Item #18966)
Hanover: Hahn, 1832, 1837. Hardcover. Good. First edition in German. Two volumes, complete as issued. Volume I: pp. xlviii, 407, with 4 maps and plans and 9 colored plates illustrating 18 uniforms; Volume II: pp. xl, 580, 210 (Namentliche Liste sämtlicher in der Königlich Deutschen Legion dienender Officiere zur Zeit... (Item #18965)
New York: Ludlum and Beebe, 1946. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition. 136 pp + index, extensively illustrated with b/w photographs. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt, in cardboard slipcase. Very minor foxing to a few pages and fore edge, slipcase unevenly sun-faded, chipped, and possibly lacking a mounted label. History... (Item #18963)
Pasadena, CA: Radiant Life Press, 1917. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. 48 + 7 b/w plates, in original stapled pictorial wrappers. Some chipping and tiny tears to wrappers;contents clean. James first saw Captain, a performing horse owned by W.A. Sigsbee of Chicago, at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San... (Item #18962)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good in a good dust jacket. A good copy in original cloth. Mild spine slant, light soiling to boards, abrasion/discoloration on front pastedown where jacket flap was once glued down, old bookstore stamp on rear pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Dust jacket... (Item #18959)
Cincinnati: U.P. James. Softcover. Good. Later edition, undated, c. 1854. 84 pp, with six wood-engraved plates, including frontis portrait of Murel (Murrell), and the first 7 pp of "A History of the Feud Between the Hill and Evans Parties of Garrard County, KY" by J.J. Thompson (published by U.P. James... (Item #18957)
Chicago: The Werner Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. very good-. 590 pp, in original pictorial cloth, decorated in silver and gilt. Extensively illustrated, with plates by Remington and other illustrations in the text. Wear to edges of boards, small bump to lower corner of text block, binding somewhat tender. Miles... (Item #18954)
London: A.M. Philpot, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Trade edition. 8vo, 240 pp, indexed. Original brown cloth binding; no dust jacket. Cloth frayed at spine ends, light foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise clean and sound. Penzer's selection of what he considered among the most interesting of... (Item #18953)
Batavia, Java: Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij. Softcover. Good. Undated, c. 1930. Approximately 9 x 12 inches, oblong; [80] pp. Chipped at head and foot of spine, with loss of about 2 inches of paper at the foot, and old tape repairs visible; general shelfwear, binding tender. Gift inscriptions on inside and... (Item #18952)
Philadelphia: John Gillespie, 1819. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition overall (per title page), "revised and greatly enlarged." pp. xviii, 312, in contemporary full leather binding. Lacking rear free endpaper, some pencil scribblings on pastedowns, light foxing; all else very good. Purves was a Scottish Universalist minister. Here... (Item #18951)
New York: Isaac Collins, 1797. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo, pp xii, [2], 360. Contemporary full leather binding with red spine label. Front board nearly detached (holding on by one cord), otherwise very good. Ownership signature dated 1828 on title page, which also shows evidence of an erasure. Text clean... (Item #18950)
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1828. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Fair copy, but with all 12 color plates present. 12mo, 181 pp. In contemporary (probably original) binding of red and black leather. Scuffed, lacks endpapers, part of half title is missing and that leaf is detached and laid in, otherwise complete... (Item #18949)
Newark: W. Tuttle, 1806. Hardcover. Very good. Later edition. 12 mo, 192 pp, ub contemporary full leather binding with red spine label. Rubbing to corners, leather just starting to split at lower front joint, but still quite sound. Some light soiling to bottom 2 inches of the first 4 leaves... (Item #18947)
London: Macmillan, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo,122 pp + ads. Publisher's burgundy cloth ruled in gilt. Mild edgewear, repaired tear to first page of text, else sound and clean. During his travels in France, Arnold visited several French secondary schools, which he found superior to their English equivalents... (Item #18946)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in a good dust jacket. 224 pp, illustrated with photographs, maps by A. Spark, and sketches by George Djourkouic. Very good copy with some rubbing to the spine lettering, offsetting from dust jacket flaps to endpapers. Binding tight, text clean... (Item #18945)
