Chicago: ca. 1969. Poster. 24 x 20". Broadside. Imagery is that of a young man in flames holding his fist up in solidarity with the Chicago 8. Text reads: You Can't Jail the Revolution, Stop the Trial, Free the Conspiracy 8, 28 E. Jackson Chicago 427-7773. Printed on cream paper..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1879. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 8-445, [4] (including a [1] pp of publisher's advertising, for Harper's Catalog) pp. Original navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine; front board is decorated by a Bedouin riding a camel while wielding a spear, all..... More
London: Gibbings & Co. Limited, 1896. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. Small 8vo. [4], iii-xxxii, 249, [3]; [4], iii-ix, [1], 341, [3]; [4], iii-x, [2], 355, [1]; [4], iii-ix, [1], 346, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on each spine; top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-125, [5] pp. Pictorial boards quarter bound in navy cloth with a paper label on the spine. Krumhansl 103c. The first hardcover trade edition, one of 400 copies numbered and signed by Bukowski, this being number 393..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vol. [7], viii-xvii, [2], 2--6, [1], 8-386, [2]; [4], vi, [1], 2-412, [2] pp. Three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
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Paris: Chez Napoléon Chaix, 1864. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], ii-lx, [3], 4-425, [5]; [7], 4-450, [4] pp. Green pebbled cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine (each front board contains the phrase in gold "Lycée Impérial D'Orléans"); all edges decoratively speckled. Part..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xi, [2], 2-320; [3], vi-vi, [2], 2-309, [3] pp. Bound from parts as evidenced by the stab-holes throughout. Two volumes bound in one (title pages state "In Two Volumes", "Vol. I"; "In Two Volumes", "Vol. II"). Bound in three-quarter contemporary..... More
New York: Random House, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-436 pp. Blue cloth 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
Washington DC: The National Geographic Society by the Estate of William Ziegler, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. [2], v, [5], 3-630, [6] pp. Half-bound in rich maroon leather over fine-grained maroon cloth, edges of leather are ruled in gilt. Spine has a red morocco label with gilt lettering, top..... More
Oneida, Madison County, NY: Published and bound by the author, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [1], 8-425, [6] pages of sheet music for the hymns: "Homeward Bound", "Glory to the Lamb", "Come Sing to me of Heaven", illustrated with a steel-engraved frontispiece. Brown textured cloth, lettered in gilt..... More
London: Printed for J. Tonson in the Strand; Printed for J. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1735; 1745. Sixth Edition; Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], vi-cxi, [1], 296, [2] pp.; [59], 2-345, [5] pp. I9 of Volume One signed A. Set bound in 19th century full..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-286, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 4-247, [1] pp. Patterned red paper boards with black lettering blocked in white on the spine; green topstain. Price of $2.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 012a. Bruccoli A 12.1. Ross Macdonald is widely..... More
Cosmopoli: The Kama Shastra Society of London, 1886. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-236, [4] pp. Three-quarter contemporary green morocco over green cloth, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Cassada 89. Penzer 173. The first edition of The..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [4], 4-543, [1] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a few in-text diagrams. Honderich 645; Parfit, Reasons and Persons; SEP "Personal Identity and Ethics". Parfit's magnum opus, a masterful exploration of the issue of personal..... 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
London: Richard Bentley, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxx, [1], 2-424, [2]; [3], iv, [1], 2-433, [3]; [3], iv, [1], 2-475, [3] pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, spines in six compartments with a maroon and a black morocco label on each spine, lettered in gold..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], xi-xv, [1], 17-277, [1], [8] (pages of publisher's advertisemets) pp. Bound in olive-green cloth with decorations in gold and black on the front board and spine. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves..... More
Chicago: The Winters Co., 1896. Sheets. Chromolithograph calendar, 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8” x 11.25” (or 20 cm by 29 cm). Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter, spring, summer, and fall (in the latest fashion of the day). The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald, issued..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers [1977], 1977. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 361 pp. Price of $15.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, first published in 1977, has..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 128, [2] pp. Quarter green cloth over grey paper boards with green lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $1.25 on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 030a. Wharton's historical novel focused..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company (1938), 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-285, [1] pp. Pink cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition. Ahearn APG 030d. A nice copy of..... More
New York: Scribner & Welford, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xx, [3], 2-200, (several unpaginated plates), [2] pp. Brown cloth with black rules on the boards, black lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine, gold decoration on the front board. Illustrated with a map of the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1868. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-383, [3] pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titling on the spine. A later edition, printed in one volume, revised and corrected. An attractive copy of this classic adventure tale. More