London: Arthur Barker [1980], 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 6-158, [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. First printing of the first edition. The more common jacket variant (generally thought to be second state) with no advertisements on the rear panel and no..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xii, [1], 14-576 pp. Brown blindstamped cloth with decorations in black and gilt on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated by a wood-engraved frontispiece, a map, thirty-two full-page illustrations, and several in-text illustrations. The..... 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
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-218, [2] pp. Navy cloth with light pink lettering on the spine. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Currey 19. A very attractive copy of this early Asimov science fiction novel, and uncommon thus. Just about..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 2-441, [5]; [3], vi-xvi, [1], 2-474, [2] pp. Bound in navy cloth with gold lettering and decorations in gold and black on the boards and the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece, 235..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-219, [5] pp. Brown paper-covered boards quarter-bound in white with lettering in black, brown, and yellow on the spine, dark grey topstain, gold endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket..... 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
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
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 2-225, [1] pp. Navy cloth with copper lettering on the spine. Price of 45s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. SEP, "Promises". Slater 581. Lyons' first book: here the classic objection to rule utilitarianism..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Kodansha International Ltd. (1970), 1970. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-159, [1] pp. Bound in grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Translated by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum. The first printing of the first edition..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 5-291, [7] pp. Black paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials in gold on the front board; red topstain. Price of $24.00 on front flap of dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xiv, 678, [2] pp. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering and red and gold decorations on the front board and gilt lettering and two gold star decorations inset in a black bar with gilt bordering (the..... More
London: J. Lister for T. Becket and P A. de Hondt, 1767; 1772; 1774. First English language edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [1], 20-342; [4], 3-386; [6], iii-viii, [2], 3-400; [5], 4-399, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements); [6], 3-416 pp. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments, each..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859. First edition thus. Hardcover. 5vol. 8vo. 4 page publisher's catalog dated 1863 bound in at the beginning of Vol 1, [2], 3-414, [6]; [2], iii, [1], 422, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 452, [2]; [2], iii, [1], 570, [4]; [2], iii, [1], 618, [4] pp..... More
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Paris: Georges Carré, Éditeur, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [1], 432, [2] pp. Quarter red leather over marbled boards, spine lettered in gold, sprinkled textblock, decorative endpapers and pastedowns; binding dates to early 20th century. Redigées [edited] par J. Blondin, agregé de l'Universite. Illustrated throughout by diagrams and..... More
Philadelphia: Gebbie and Company, 1904. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xxxvi, 176, [2]; [6], 201, [3]; [6], 304, [2]; [6], 238, [2] pp. Half-bound in smooth brown calf over marbled boards with marbled endpapers and pastedowns. The spine of each volume is lettered and decorated with gilt, top..... More
London: William Shoberl; Parry & Co., 1852. Second edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 12mo. [3], iv-x, [3], 2-347, [3]; [3], iv-vi, [1], 2-413, [3] pp. Half-bound in green leather over green cloth, top edge gilt (binding ca. 1895). Spine is lettered in gilt with five raised bands, marbled endpapers and pastedowns..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvii, [5], 3-374, [2] pp. Quarter blue paper over light blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on front flap of the dust jacket. Broadfoot 521. A sharp copy of the 1975..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. Later Edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 4to. Pagination begins and ends with each new play in all three volumes. Text printed in two columns. Quarter bound in black morocco over red cloth, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations on each spine. Volume..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxvii, [2], 2-528, [2]; [3], iv-x, [1], 2-483, [3] pp. Finely three-quarter bound in recent green Morocco over green cloth bordered with twin gilt rules, spine in six compartments bordered by twin gilt rules, black..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 9-260, [3], 9 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [3] pp. Bound in tan cloth with gilt, brown, and black decorations on the front board. Illustrated by a frontispiece. BAL 3436, Ahearn APG 045a, McBride 135. A Near..... More
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xviii, [1], 20-591, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements) pp. Three-quarter leather over textured brown cloth, spine in six compartments with gold lettering, decorative textblock and marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Fully illustrated by eminent artists: with two frontispieces, six plates..... 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
