Welcome to the home of Evening Star Books. We offer fine and rare books in many fields, but specialize in literature of all periods, modern first editions, and works of historical significance. We regularly buy and sell fine and collectible books in these areas.
Featured Items
-
A Manual of Greek Mathematics
Heath, Sir Thomas L.Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-552 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text diagrams. Oxford DNB, Maurice Headlam and Ivor Thomas, "Heath, Sir Thomas Little". The Manual is a condensed version of Heath's two-volume History.....
-
Complete Theories
Robinson, AbrahamAmsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-129, [3] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). A volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and.....
-
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-x, [2], 273, [3] pp. Quarter yellow cloth over red paper boards with red lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. A very.....
-
The Hand-Book of Games; Comprising new or Carefully Revised Treatises on Whist, Piquet, Ecarté, Lansquenet, Boston, Quadrille, Cribbage, and Other...
Henry G. Bohn [Ed.]London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [2], 3-617, [1] pp. Red blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with charts and in-text diagrams, including examples of draughts moves in various game scenarios. Jessel 140. According to Jessel this was the standard handbook of.....
-
The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration
Stanley, Henry MortonNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Original green publisher's cloth with gold lettering and decorations in red, gold, silver, and brown on the front board and spine. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece.....
More info about The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration
-
The Rose Tattoo
Williams, TennesseeNew York: New Directions (1951), 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, 144 pp. Pink cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue as per Ahearn (APG 011a). Signed by the author on the title page. A Near Fine book with.....
-
Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica; The Third Edition (1726) with Variant Readings
Newton, Isaac[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [4], v-xl, [2], 1-547, [3]; [7], 548-916 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, taken from the 1726 edition of Newton's Principia. Facsimile half-title, title, and.....
-
Ontogeny and Phylogeny
Gould, Stephen JayCambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top.....
-
Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
Plutarch (Trans. John Dryden)Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. First edition thus. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. 4 page publisher's catalog dated 1863 bound in at the beginning of Vol 1, [2], 3-414, [6]; [2], iii, [1], 422, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 452, [2]; [2], iii, [1], 570, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 618, [4] pp.....
More info about Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
-
The Complete Works of Venerable Bede, in the Original Latin, Collated with the Manuscripts, and Various Printed Editions; Life, Poems...
Bede (Saint Bede); Rev. J.A. Giles, [Ed.]London: Whittaker and Co., 1843. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], xii-clxxvi, [1], 2-252, [2]; [7], 6-402, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf with a gilt border to each board, edges of the boards with gilt dentelles, spines in six compartments with gilt tooling and decorations and two red.....
-
Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life.; Edited by Gulian C. Verplanck With Critical Introductions, Notes, etc. Original and Selected
Shakespeare, WilliamNew York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Later Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 4to. Pagination begins and ends with each new play in all three volumes. Text printed in two columns. Quarter bound in black morocco over red cloth, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on each spine. Volume.....
-
Manners and Customs of The Ancient Egyptians; A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; Including...
Wilkinson, J.G.; Wilkinson, J. GardnerLondon: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1837; 1841. First edition. Hardcover. 6 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], viii-x, [1], xii-xxxii, [3], 2-406, [2]; [3], iv-xxxiv, [1], 2-446, [2]; [3], iv-xxiv, [1], 2-404, [2] (volume three lacks the publisher's advertisements); [3], iv-xxix, [2], 2-444, [2]; [3], iv-xxv, [2], 2-483, [3]; [3], vi-xi.....
