Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Bradbury Press [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 117, [3] pp. Red cloth with a black sign mimicking the design on the jacket's front panel embossed on the front board, black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.25 on the front flap of the dust..... More
New York: J. Winchester, New World Press, 1844. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-492, [10] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding map as the frontispiece. Graff 421. Howes B-839. Rinderknecht 44-1021..... More
New York: James Miller, 1862, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. Small 8vo. [5], 384 [6]; [5], 408; [4], 400; [1] page of ads, [9], 242, [3] pages of advertisements in the rear, [3]; [9], 233, [1], [6] pages of advertisements, [1] pp. Includes a steel-engraved frontispiece of the author..... More
Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co. LTD., 1901. First American edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements, including an advertisement for the folio book of the dead published at the end of the 1800's), [5], ii-xcvi, [3], 4-222, [2], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [4] (pages of..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc. [1962], 1962. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xv, [2], 2-255, [1] pp. Half black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; black topstain. Price of $6.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 003d. Maynard and Miles..... More
New York: TOR [1986], 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, 1-415, [3] pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in dark blue textured paper with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. Nicely inscribed by the author on the half-title page. An attractive copy..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 239, [1], 3 and [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several in-text drawings. Andrew Gasson, "Man and Wife" (accessed 7/27/2020). Parrish 80. The first American trade edition..... More
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [2], 3-264, [6] pp. Quarter beige cloth over blue cloth boards with a maroon label lettered in gold on the spine; top edge gilt. Lacks its slipcase. One of three-hundred fifty copies printed at the Lakeside Press. Illustrated with..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-x, 110, [6] pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontis sketch of Dirac and with several in-text diagrams. Lecture notes compiled by Richard MacKenzie and Paul Doust. Feynman's lecture is titled, "The..... More
New York: The Baker and Taylor Company [1902], 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. [6], v-vii, [1], 108, [6] pp. Grey paper boards with a black decoration on the front board and white lettering and decorations on the front board, white lettering on the spine. Title page printed in red and..... More
New York: Basic Books (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [3], 3-777, [1] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $18.50 on front jacket flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A nice copy of Hofstadter's well-known book..... More
Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], 5-464, [4] pp. Contemporary polished brown calf, blindstamped decorations on the boards, spine in six compartments, each spine with an orange and a black morocco label lettered in gilt; all edges gilt. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Each..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-265, [11] pp. Quarter white cloth over navy paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-761, [3] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gilt on the spine. Price of "7 5s.net" on the front flap of the dust jacket. Corrigenda slip tipped in. Dauben 1593. This classic treatise surveys..... More
London: Collins, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-318, [2] pp. Bound in textured light brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. The third book in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown and..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (1971), 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vol. [4], v-x, 291, [1]; [4], v-viii, 496 pp. Red brick cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Honderich 786. Ryle was famous for his work on what the purpose of philosophy is, and his publications..... More
[New York]: The Macmillan Company [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 7-184, [4] pp. Black cloth with purple lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author as "Donald E. Westlake" on the title page, here..... More
New 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..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-318, [2] pp. Quarter white cloth over orange paper boards with black and red lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The author's second..... More
New York: Printed for the Society, 1879; 1880; 1881. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [11], xii-xiv, [5], 4-503, [3]; [17], 6-559, [3]; [11], xii-xiii, [9], 6-489, [5] pp. Green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gold on each spine. The collection from 1880 is illustrated by a fold-out map..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 1-149, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. With a two-page frontispiece, featuring photographs of the statues of William Shakespeare and Sir Francis..... More
New York: William Wood & Company, 1864. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xvi, [1], 18-254, [4] pp. Blindstamped publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several in-text wood engravings. Translated from the German and edited by D.B. St. John Roosa, M.D...... More
New York: Random House [1954], 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-90, [4] pp. Green cloth with red and black lettering on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wallace A38. A nice collection of poems by one of..... More
London: George Virtue, 1840. First trade edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [3], iv, [1], iv, [1], 2-140, [2]; [3], iv, [1], 2-106, [2] pp. Full publisher's brown leather with gold decorations and lettering on the spines and boards; all edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with an engraved title page, volume..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-427, [5] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket, British trade price clipped from the bottom front flap, as..... More