[London]: Published at the Punch Office, 1847; 1848. John Leech. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [3], vi-viii, [3], 2-304, [2] pp. Later full smooth calf with gilt borders to the boards, gilt gauffering and detail to the interiors of the boards, spines in six..... More
New York: Random House [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-281, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn, Collected Books (4th edition), 75. Angelou's first book, an autobiography detailing her life..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xxii, [1], 2-440, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Berger's magnum opus. A Very near Fine book in a...... More
New York: The Heritage Press [1962], 1962. Later edition. Hardcover. 3vol. 8vo. [8], i-xvi, [2], 1334; [12], 1337-2650, [2]; [12], 2651-3975, [7] pp. Quarter cream cloth over orange and brown patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt; orange topstain. Each volume housed in a black slipcase. Decorated with illustrations by..... More
Lund [Sweden]: Carl Gustav Berling, 1749. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 cm x 14 cm. [17], 2-170, [6] pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards, binding is early nineteenth century. Title page with publisher's device, first page of text with a woodcut headpiece. Text in Swedish. The margins of some leaves..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-388, [6] pp. Quarter navy cloth over red paper boards with blue lettering on the front board and red lettering on the spine; light blue topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 001a. A very..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [1], 2-624 pp. Bound in later dark brown leather, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece (portait of the author engraved by Finden..... 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
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: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1971), 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 412 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The second book in Farmer's acclaimed Riverworld series focusing on Sam Clemens building of a riverboat and exploring the Riverworld. Currey 184. A nice copy of one of..... More
Boston: Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1840. First edition thus. Hardcover. 10 vol. 4vo. [5], viii-xxxvi, [4], 612; [5], vi-ix, [2], 557, [5]; [5], viii-xiv, [3], 577, [3]; [4], viii-ix, [3], 539, [3]; [5], iv-xiii, [3], 578, [4]; [5], vi-xiii, [3], 516, [4]; [5], vi-xxii, [2], 568, [2]; [5], vi-xxii, [2]..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 332, [4] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Ahearn 067a. A presentable copy, difficult to find in the dust jacket. Very Good+ book with a gift inscription on the front flyleaf dated..... More
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd. (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, [2], 164 pp. Price of 10 s. 6d. net on front flap of jacket. Frontispiece, 12 plates following page 62, and 64 plates following page 164 (all black and white and printed on coated stock, primarily from..... More
Paris: Chez Denully, 1742. Later Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], ii-xxiv, [1], 2-315, [7] pp. Full contemporary maroon morocco, spine in six compartments lettered in gilt. All edges gilt, the edges of the board's interiors show lovely gilt gauffering. Beautiful later eighteenth century marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by an engraved..... 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
New York: Basic Books, Inc. (1974), 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [2], 3-367, [1] pp. Bound in brown cloth with metallic green lettering on the spine, pink topstain. Price of $12.95 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition. Slater 686. Winner of the National Book..... 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: 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
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: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 7-332, [8] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine. Attractive Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with edge wear and a few hints of rubbing..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xi, [3], 1-299, [7] pp. Bound in red-orange cloth with lettering in gold and gilt rules on the spine. Foreword by Israel Halperin. Von Neumann discovered continuous geometry in 1935 during the course of his research on rings of..... 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
New York: Simon and Schuster [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 11-303, [1] pp. Quarter grey cloth over blue paper boards with red lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The first book in the "Solar Cycle", the..... 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