New York: McDowell Obolensky [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 339 pp. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition, first issue as per Ahearn (Collected Books, 4th ed.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1958. A presentable copy of Agee's best-known work, published..... More
New York: Viking Press (1975), 1975. First printing. Hardcover. 487 pp. Yellow paper covered boards quarter bound in gold cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. His eighth novel, winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and one..... More
London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 24mo. [5], 2-468, [4] pp. Bound in beautiful contemporary straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. Biographical Portrait of the Netherlands: "Franz van Oudendorp". Oxford Classical Dictionary 238..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vi-xi, [2], xiv, [1], xvi-xviii, [1], xx-xxvi, [5], 6-364 pp. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a preface by Carnap, a bibliography, and a translator's preface. Translated by Rolf A. George. In..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 436 pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns, yellow topstain. Price of $4.75 on front flap of dust jacket. Correct code on flap as called for in Ahearn APG..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [2], xii, 1-479, [1] pp. Bound in yellow cloth with narrow rule border on the front board in black, gold lettering on the spine inset in a solid black rectangle with black and gold rules at the top and..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 170 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated from the Spanish by J. S. Bernstein. First printing of the author's first book to be published in English in the first issue dust jacket (Ahearn APG 001a). Some mild..... More
London: Oliver & Boyd (1962), 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-viii, 1-72 pp. Bound in tan cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Translated by B. Meltzer, with an introduction by R. B. Braithwaite. This is the first edition in English of one of Godel's landmark works..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 206 pp. Bound in grey cloth with series design in red/orange on the front board, title on front board in white divided by a white horizontal rule, white lettering on the spine with a red/orange horizontal..... More
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd. (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 164 pp. Price of 10 s. 6d. net on front flap of jacket. Frontispiece, 12 plates following page 62, and 64 plates following page 164 (all black and white and printed on coated stock, primarily from photographs taken by..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [4], 3-285, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A magnificent collection of papers by one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, exceedingly uncommon in collectible condition. A Very near..... More
Paris: Chez Denully, 1742. Later Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], ii-xxiv, [1], 2-315, [7] pp. Full contemporary maroon morocco, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt. All edges gilt, the edges of the board's interiors show lovely gilt gauffering. Beautiful later eighteenth century marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by an engraved..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 216 pp. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first edition. Signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful copy of Pelecanos' first novel. More
Boston: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Bound in light green cloth with twin gilt rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gilt rules and both gilt lettering and..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 428, [4] pp. Three-quarter bound in red morocco, over red cloth with five raised bands on the spine and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Gilt rules between the leather and the cloth, top edge gilt. Endpapers and..... More
Philadelphia: Reading & Company, Publishers, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, 278 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates (steel engravings and photographs) and two maps, including a chromolithograph of French colonial currency used in turn-of-the-century Western Africa. The illustrations include portraits of native peoples, Mrs. Reading, several different churches in..... More
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [7], iv-xxxiii, [2], 2-298, [4]; [5], 4-327, [5]; [7], 4-371, [5] pp. Half-bound in green morocco over textured green cloth with twin gold rules on the borders on both front and rear boards, spine with 5 gilt raised..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [3], 2-391, [1] -12 (advertisements for other works on butterflies by Samuel L. Scudder) pp. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece, eight coloured plates beautifully illustrating the..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of the dust jacket. Broadfoot 521. A sharp copy of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner, one of the most highly-regarded and popular historical novels centered around the Civil War. A very..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with a buckram-colored spine, 8vo. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A collection of short stories by one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A11, Ahearn APG 013a..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 444 pp. Black cloth-covered boards with ‘Ring and eye’ device stamped on front cover in purple and gold, title stamped on spine in gold. Purple topstain, fold out map of Middle Earth in rear. The price of $6.00 is printed on the front..... More
Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [6], 7-712, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine, inset blue and pink decoration of an elephant on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of Mark Twain and by numerous in-text..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, 1-232, [3] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Errata slip laid in. Price of 37s 6d. on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Rush Rhees, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Translated..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxix, [1], 32-291, [2]; [5], vi-ix, [4], 14-291, [3], vi-xxv pp. Illustrated with sixty-four full-page illustrations including a map. Frontispiece of volume one features Sir Richard Burton, frontis of volume two features a photograph of Isabella Burton..... More