New York: Random House, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. 311 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Bowles' fifth book. Very near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears, some light edge wear, and a few traces of rubbing. More about Let it Come Down
London (Londini): Excudit S. Hamilton, 1816. Later edition. Hardcover. 24mo. 468 pp. Collates as complete. Bound in beautiful straight-grained red morocco with decorations in gilt on the boards and spine (spine is in six compartments). All edges gilt. A later edition of Franz van Oudendorp's edition of De Bello Gallico... More about De Bellis Gallico et Civili Pompeiano nec non A. Hirtii Aliorumque De Bellis Alexandrino,...
London: George Newnes Limited [1934], 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 3 volumes, consecutively paginated: (i)-iv, 1-512; (i)-iv, 513 - 1024; (i)-iv,1025 - 1668. Three-quarter crimson morocco over dark red cloth, spines in 5 compartments with gold lettering and decorations, marbled crimson endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait... More about The Great War
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards... More about The Hunt for Red October
London: John Murray, 1890. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo, 500 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt vignette on the front board and gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Darwin. Bookplate of distinguished surgeon and Captain in the Royal Navy (serving during the first world war) Hugh... More about A Naturalist's Voyage. Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the...
London: Chapman & Hall, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 609 pp. Bound in brown calf, spine with red morocco label, 4 gilt decorated raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering, patterned endpapers and pastedowns. 43 plates by Robert Seymour (first 7 plates following the vignette titlepage), Robert William Buss... More about The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
New York: Random House [1938], 1938. First American edition. Hardcover. 341 pp. Orange cloth covered boards quarter bound in black with bird embossed gold on the front board, gold lettering and design on spine, yellow-green topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of the... More about Out of Africa
New York: Random House, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 247 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Near Fine in a jacket with traces of rubbing, a few closed tears and tiny chips, and some darkening to rear panel. More about Intruder in the Dust
New York: Random House, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 436 pp. Blue cloth covered boards 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 about The Mansion
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 501 pp. First printing of the first edition. An attractive copy of Gould's first book, an influential work in evolutionary developmental biology, uncommon in such fine condition. Near Fine book with some mild foxing to the top... More about Ontogeny and Phylogeny
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. 12mo. 2 vol. 296 pp.; 345 pp. Gathered in 12s except the O gathering (ends at O4). I9 of Volume One signed A. Bound in... More about The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus; Fables Ancient and Modern...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1940A-1. Near Fine book with very slight spine lean and a contemporary gift inscription (dated December 25, 1940) in pencil on the free front endpaper in a Very... More about The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. 499 pp. Red cloth-covered boards with Kerouac's initials in gold on the front board, and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. A presentable copy of Kerouac's first book. Very Good book with rubbing... More about The Town and the City
London: Printed for J. Johnson, W.J. and J. Richardson, W. Otridge and Son, F.C. and J. Rivington, et. al. 1805. Twenty-first Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vol., 510 pp.; 459 pp. Bound in mottled calf with board edges gauffered, spine decorated in fine gilt with a black morocco label on each... More about An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome copy of the eighth Travis McGee novel. More about One Fearful Yellow Eye
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 445 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Basis for the well-received film produced and directed by Robert Redford. More about The Milagro Beanfield War
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874. First edition thus. Hardcover. 12mo. 393pp. 6 pages of publisher's ads bound in at the rear. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, black lettering, and vignettes in gilt on front board and spine. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Translated from the French and with a preface... More about The Hunter and the Trapper in North America; or Romantic Adventures in Field and Forest
Topeka, KS: Published by the Authors, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 630pp. Light brown cloth with gilt titles, black lettering and vignettes in black on front board and spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous illustrations and portraits, folding map at rear. An attractive example of this history of the Overland... More about The Overland Stage to California
New York: The Overlook Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $10.95 on front flap of jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold endpapers. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy of Rushdie's first novel. Ahearn APG 001c. A Fine book in a.... More about Grimus
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 318 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The author's second novel. Near Fine book with some slight separation between backstrip and top textblock and a tiny spot of... More about The Seersucker Whipsaw
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First printing. Hardcover. 260 pp. Small 8vo., bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near Fine book with a small crack to the rear hinge (binding is... More about The £1,000,000 Bank-Note
Hartford, CN: The American Publishing Company, 1897. First printing. Hardcover. 712 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling and decorations on the spine. Includes several black and white illustrations. The first printing of the first American edition. BAL 3451. An account of Twain's travels around the British empire, expressing his disdain... More about Following the Equator
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1971. Pamphlet. 4 pamphlets (each one a folded sheet), pictorial covers. Price of 10 cents ($5.50 per 100 and $6.75 per 100 for Marihuana) on the rear cover of each pamphlet. Each pamphlet is illustrated with psychedelic art on the front... More about Marihuana; Narcotics; LSD; Sedatives Some Questions and Answers
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 about Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization
New York: Harper & Brothers [1941], 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 386 pp. Bound in dark blue cloth, front board with title and author's name stamped in gilt within green rectangles bordered in gilt separated by two gilt rules with narrower gold rectangles at the top and bottom of the design... More about The Hills Beyond; With a Note on Thomas Wolfe by Edward C. Aswell