Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-208, [2]. Pages 23-26 bound in-between pages 2 and 3. Errata slip bound between [18] and [19] pp. Bound in green cloth with decorations and lettering stamped in black and gold on the boards and spine, top... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii-xiv, 2-498, [4], 2-32 (publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's fawn-colored cloth with decorations stamped in black on the front board, red lettering on the front board and spine, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Illustrated with three folding maps and four... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 624 pp. Bound in dark brown leather, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece (portait of the author engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise) along with... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 625 pp. Half bound in green leather over marbled cloth, spine with 4 gilt raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations, light yellow endpapers and pastedowns, engraved frontispiece and vignette titlepage along with 38 additional plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'). All... More
New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in black with bird embossed gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 591 pp.; 562 pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front boards and the spines. 1,366 illustrations with a frontispiece in each volume and one full-page map in volume 1. Du Chaillu... More
New York: Random House (1957), 1957. First printing. Hardcover. 371 pp. Bound in red cloth, top edge grey, grey patterned endpapers. Price of $3.95 on front jacket flap. First issue (jacket flap has 5/57 date code, printing error on page 327). An attractive copy of the second book in the... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 726 pp. Price of $15.00 on front flap of jacket. The author's second novel, winner of the National Book Award. The hardcover first (the book was simultaneously issued in paperback) is uncommon; there may have been as few as 2000 copies... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix, 511, [5] pp. Includes two pages of advertisements for other works published by Harper & Brothers. Hazard's book includes a nine page bibliography of other works published on the history of Santo Domingo and Hayti. The dedication page... More
London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 11 volumes. [iv-xli], 240 pp.; 272 pp.; 316 pp.; 277 pp.; 280 pp. [19], [28].; 175 pp.; 189 pp.; 304 pp.; 301 pp.; 287 pp.; 212 pp., [76]. The set is illustrated with numerous wood-cut head and tailpieces (each new... More
Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden [1877], 1877. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 3-496, [2] pp. Brown cloth with decorations stamped in black and gilt, lettered in gilt on the front board and spine. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a wood-cut frontispiece, sixteen full page illustrations, and numerous... 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
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], viii, [2], 3-438, [2] pp. Navy cloth with decorations in red and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with seven maps, a.... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 145 pp. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Miller's acclaimed play is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials which serve as an allegory for the Red Scare of the early 1950s and associated mass cultural and political hysteria... More
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pp. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth Peters" on the title page. 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
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (2004), 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Pale yellow paper-covered boards quarter-bound in beige cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $23.00 on front jacket flap. Signed by the author on the title page. A very sharp copy of Robinson's second novel... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [3], 3-98, [2] 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). Edited by L. E. J. Brouwer... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 252 pp.; 1 - (publishers catalogue dated December 1864). Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on the spine, coated brown endpapers and pastedowns. BAL 20115, binding C (sequence not determined). A nice copy of this collection of... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1941], 1941. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings by Ernest J. Donnelly. Part of "The Rivers of America" series. Series edited by Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 832 pp. Bound in brown leather over light brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules, black and white patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Heavily illustrated by some of the finest American illustrators of the era including... More
Washington DC: Treasury Department, Register's Office, 1833. First edition thus. Pamphlet. Oblong folio. [3], 66, [5] pp. Quarter brown cloth over marbled wrappers. From the title page: "General Washington's account of expenses during the Revolutionary War, in his own hand writing, is on file in this office: -- the annexed... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1944], 1944. First American edition. Hardcover. 148 pp. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes a foreword by Leonard Woolf. A beautiful copy of this posthumous collection of eighteen short stories, six of which were previously unpublished and six... 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
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1969), 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 157 pp. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Currey 570. A sharp copy of this influential post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, an expansion of Zelazny's eponymous novella; basis for the 1977 film of the same... More