London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-x, 276 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 10s. 6d. net on the front flap of the jacket. Slater 28. A.J. Ayer's third book, an exploration of the philosophy of metaphysics and epistemology. He..... More
New York: The Viking Press (1959), 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-341, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in durable tan cloth with titling in black, silver, and orange. First issue with yellow topstain. Jacket is either married or second issue since although it has the correct..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-384 pp. Quarter-bound in brown calf over red cloth, binder's ticket on the rear pastedown shows the book to be bound by Burn, in this case Robert Burn, the grandson of the London bookbinder Thomas Burn..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton (1958), 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 7-207, [1] pp. Red-orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of 12s.6d. on the front flap. The UK edition precedes the US edition. First issue, as per Ahearn (APG 019b). Near Fine with offsetting to the flyleaves..... 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 Open Court Publishing Company, 1901. First English language edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [9], 2-115, [5] pp. Bound in red cloth with lettering in gilt on the front board, lettering and publisher's device stamped in gold on the spine. Four pages of publishers advertisements at the rear. First edition..... More
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [3], 2-624, [2] pp. Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in five compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt with the spine showing blind and gilt tooling, marbled textblocks and endpapers. Bound from the original..... More
New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [3], 3-389, [1] pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter-bound in black with a flamingo embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust..... More
Glasguae [Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis Robertus Foulis, 1744. First edition thus. Hardcover. Foolscap 12mo. 15 cm x 9 cm. [7], 4-91, [2], 2-91, [3] pp. Contemporary mottled calf with the spine in six compartments, gold decorations on the spine, red morocco label lettered in gold on the spine; all edges..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. [5], 6-538, [4]; [7], 8-559, [5]; [5], iv, [3], 8-641, [5]; [5], vi, [3], 10-637, [5]; [5], vi, [3], 10-600, [6]; [5], vi, [1], 8-527, [7]; [9], 10-588, [4]; [7], 6-619, [5]; [5], 6-458, [4]; [5], 6-574, [4];..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxix, 511, [5], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Illustrated by a folding map of Santo Domingo, twenty-three plates, and numerous other small engravings within the text. The engravings include depictions of scorpions, iguanas, wildcats, and tobacco. The dedication..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 9-327, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's bright orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, decorations in green on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket..... More
Philadelphia: Aetna Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], 6-634, [2] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by three steel-lithograph plates, one of the author (the frontispiece), one of the Sultan of Turkey, and one..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 2-182, [4] pp. Bright blue cloth with dark blue lettering on the front board and spine; brown topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 009a. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper. A..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. vi. [3], 4-321, [1] pp. Tan cloth with brown lettering on the front board and the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Henderson 888. Hubin 661. A nice example of an Ellery Queen mystery..... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 3-122 pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with copper lettering on the spine. Illustrated with four folding maps, one of which is laid in. Published at the behest of the Shiloh National Military Park Commission. Broadfoot 474. Dornbusch III 2956. A thorough..... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 2-365, [5] pp. Quarter white cloth over light blue cloth with blue lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half title page. A very attractive..... 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: The Viking Press, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-188, [2] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue with the correct first issue dust jacket ($2.00 price and untrimmed corners). Ahearn APG 018c. Goldstone and..... 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
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [9], 2-320, [4]; [5], vi, [3], 2-320, [4] pp. Later nineteenth-century full blue fine-grain morocco, spine in six compartments with gilt decorations and lettering, edges of boards are tooled and decorated with gilt; all edges gilt. Bound by Hayday..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. [4], vii-xvi, [2], 3-368; [6], 1-365, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front boards and spines; top edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, 508 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a few in-text diagrams. The third edition, revised and corrected. Oxford DNB, John R. Gibbins, "Venn, John (1834–1923)". Risse Logica 2, 122. Slater..... More
n.p. Privately Printed, 1886. First English language edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [9], 2-76 pp. Green cloth with the front board ruled in gilt, gilt lettering on the front board and spine; all edges decoratively stained red. With the errata slip. Translated by Frederick Jameson. Likely the first English translation of..... More
London: Hutchinson (1964), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 11-511, [1] pp. Bound in burgundy cloth with swastika device stamped in black on the front board, four horizontal black bars and lettering in gilt on the spine, maps on endpapers and pastedowns. Price of 21s net on the front..... More