New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Grey paper boards with pink lettering on the front board and spine, pig embossed in pink on the front board. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with full-page and in-text color drawings by Evaline Ness. Quite difficult..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-419, [3] pp. Yellow cloth with gold lettering blocked in red on the spine. Price of $12.50 printed on the front flap. Illustrated with nineteen black and white photgraph plates and a few figures at the end of the..... More
London: Macmillan & Co LTD, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, [1], 1-272 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 30s net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Nine essays on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Slater 29. Ayer's collection of essays is..... More
Hartford, Conn. S.S. Scranton & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-591, [3] pp. Brown pebbled cloth with gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Green floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eighteen wood-engraved plates, scenes from Grant's career, and with..... More
London: J. Tonson, 1732. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [15], 2-356, [4]; [9], 2-351, [3] pp. Modern half brown calf over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and gilt rules; new endpapers and pastedowns, brown topstain and red decorative speckling to fore-edge and bottom edge..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [1], 375, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 40s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Based upon the Tarner Lectures 1946. Honderich 102: "Braithwaite describe[s] uninterpreted formal systems, and..... 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
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1884. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Bright blue publisher's cloth with black and gilt decorations on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Floral grey endpapers and pastedowns. With a frontispiece and in-text illustrations done by Gustave Doré, Birket Foster, and..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvi, [1], 2-428, [2]; [5], vi, [3], 2-418, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with bright gilt and silver decorations on the front boards, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines; top edges..... More
n.p. N.P. [1897], 1897. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xi, [1], 17-528, [2] pp. Light brown publisher's cloth with decorations in orange, yellow, gold, red, silver, and black on the front board, spine with gold lettering and black and silver decorations; all edges marbled. Floral endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by..... More
Portland: Printed by David Tucker, 1858. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. [3], iv, [1], 6-32 pp. Pink sewn wrappers printed in black. Pamphlet. A Lecture Delivered in Deering Hall, Portland, on the Evening of January 10, 1858. As of 11/3/2021 there are no copies in commerce..... More
New York: The Modern Library Publishers (1929), 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], v-xxiv, 383, [1] pp. Price of 95 cents on the front flap of the dust jacket. Bound in green balloon cloth with a green topstain. Green endpapers and pastedowns. A complete and unabridged prose translation..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], ix-xiii, [4], 2-381, [1] pp. Light green cloth with green and gold decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Publisher's device on the title page. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous full-page and..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-256 pp. Bound in teal cloth with decorative light blue border and facsimile of the author's signature stamped in gold on the front board, spine lettering in gilt and twin decorative borders in gilt on the spine with publisher's..... More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First UK edition. Hardcover. 4to. [2], iii-xii, 1-326 pp. Green cloth with a white rule on the front board, Peary's gold seal and gold lettering on the front board, a polar bear stamped in white on the spine and rear board, and gold lettering on..... More
New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 313, [1] pp. Quarter black cloth over orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-151, [1] pp. Quarter purple cloth over beige paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. Proulx's first book of fiction, a well-received collection of nine short stories. More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 2-472 pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering and black rules on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and with five plates, one of which folds..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [7], 8-498, [4]; [11], 20-462, [4]; [5], ii-iv, [3], 8-309, [5] pp. Half contemporary calf over marbled boards with the spines in six compartments, gilt decorations and two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. Marbled..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1880. Second edition (thus). Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlvii, [2], 2-423, [1]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-594 pp. Pebbled orange cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device in gilt on each spine. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. With a frontispiece portrait of Adam Smith in..... 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
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 432 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine and the front board. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard, marginal illustrations throughout, full-page illustration preceding "Those Extraordinary Twins". First edition, first state..... 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
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 3-248, [1] pp. Green cloth with white lettering and two white rules on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 034c. Kirkpatrick A27. Edited by Leonard Woolf..... More