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
-
Freddy Plays Football
Brooks, Walter R.New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 4-265, [1] pp. Grey cloth with red lettering on the spine, Freddy embossed in red on the front board; grey topstain. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of.....
-
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.....
-
Private Lives of Kaiser William II and His Consort; Secret History of the Court of Berlin
Fischer, Henry W.New York: J.R. Smith & Company Publishers [1909], 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [6], ix-xix, [3], 1-241, [5]; [8], i-v, [3], 243-503, [7]; [10], i-vi, [2], 505-558, [3], 2-191, [5] pp. Half red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt with the spines in five compartments, spines lettered.....
-
The Spectator Bird
Stegner, WallaceGarden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-214, [2] pp. White patterned paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award, this.....
-
Opera Iterum Recensuit [= Works]
Taciti, C. Cornelii [= Tacitus]Lipsiae: Apud Weidmannii Haered et Reichium, 1772. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-lvi, [6], 896, [2]; [3], 4-752, [the unpaginated Historical and Latin Indices], [4] pp. Contemporary vellum with the title and volume number written in contemprorary script on the spines; top edges decorativey stained, all edges decoratively.....
-
![Biblia [= Bible]; Das ist; Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments ... des Dritten Buchs...](//www.eveningstarbooks.net/pictures/medium/00008790.JPG?v=1630689187)
Biblia [= Bible]; Das ist; Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments ... des Dritten Buchs der Maccabear [= Old...
[Bible]Germantown, PA: Christoph Saur, 1763. Second edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 5-992, [3], 4-277, [1] pp. Printed in German Gothic type. Full leather calf, spine in six compartments, two metal clasps remain on the front board, volume lacks the straps and the clasps on the rear board. Based on Martin Luther's.....
-
The Comic History of England
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott[London]: Published at the Punch Office, 1847; 1848. John Leech. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [3], vi-viii, [3], 2-304, [2] pp. Later full smooth calf with gilt borders to the boards, gilt gauffering and detail to the interiors of the boards, spines in six.....
-
The Black Arrow; A Tale of the Two Roses
Stevenson, Robert LouisNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-328 pp. Black cloth with an inset illustration by Wyeth on the front board and gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns (also done by Wyeth). Illustrated with a pictorial title.....
-
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; Fiction, Fact, & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the...
Pyle, Howard; Johnson, MerleNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. [12], xi-xvii, [3], 3-246, [6] pp.Tan paper-covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, black lettering and a color pictorial inlay to the front board; top edge stained orange. Color Frontispiece (Pyle's painting "An Attack.....
More info about Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; Fiction, Fact, & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers &...
-
The Politics of Ecstasy
Leary, TimothyNew York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-371, [5] pp. Beige cloth with pink and green flowers on the front board with pink and green lettering on the spine; pink topstain. Pink and white endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of.....
-
On the History of the Dogma of Infant Damnation; To Which is Added a Brief Statement of the Doctrine Taught...
Hayden, William B.Portland: Printed by David Tucker, 1858. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. [3], iv, [1], 6-32 pp. Pink sewn wrappers printed in black. Pamphlet. A Lecture Delivered in Deering Hall, Portland, on the Evening of January 10, 1858. As of 11/3/2021 there are no copies in commerce.....
-
Thucydides; Translated into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Notes, and Indices
Thucydides; Jowett, Bejamin [Tr.]Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1881. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-xx, [1], 2-708, [2]; [7], viii-lxxxviii, [1], 2-550, [4] (pages of Corrigenda), [2] pp. Full contemporary polished vellum with gilt decorations on the spine, a red and a green morocco label on each spine lettered in.....
![Biblia [= Bible]; Das ist; Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments ... des Dritten Buchs...](http://www.eveningstarbooks.net/pictures/medium/00008790.JPG?v=1630689187)
