New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1894], 1894. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-229, [2] pp. Green cloth with decorations and lettering in gold on the boards and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated title page, with several full-page and in-text black and white illustrations. Songs selected by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1870. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [8], 2-446 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece of William Camden. Facsimile title page of the 1674 edition. Wikipedia, "William Camden". A series of essays intended for a general audience..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 9 cm x 13.5 cm. [6], 8-141, [5] pp. Brown cloth with decorations in black, gold lettering on the front board, spine lettered in black, textblock decoratively stained red. A pocket-sized edition of an excerpt from the Phaedo. Very minute wear to..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1889. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [7], viii-lx, [1], 2-602, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [7], 2-615, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Volume one illustrated by a plan of a Roman camp designed to hold..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc. [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 12-410, [4] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine; black topstain. Rechy's first book. A Near Fine book with minor toning to the pastedowns; dust jacket is price-clilpped with a couple creases to the front flap..... More
New York: Springer-Verlag [1990], 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiii, [4], 2-242, [6] pp. Silver colored paper over boards, no dust jacket (following Springer's custom during the period). A sharp example of this book, one of the earliest introductions to classical logic from the perspective of automated theorem proving..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1973], 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 14-467, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine, green endpapers and pastedowns, light green topstain. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG122b. A nice copy of this..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011), 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xlviii, [1], 2-540, [4] pp. Navy boards with gold lettering on the spine. A collection of philosophical papers by Parfit, covering topics in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and other subject areas. Volume one of the..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. (1974), 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], 5-270, [2] pp. Navy boards with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. The story of British naval expeditions, in part designed to harass Spanish ships off the..... More
London: Rex Collings, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-197 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Admiral George Lydiard Sulivan, a map, and a few black and white photographs. The story of the Sulivan family, in particular, George L. Sulivan, and their..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-157 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Churchland's presentation of a strong form of scientific realism. According to Churchland, a successful theory cannot be regarded as peripheral to or parasitic on our common knowledge..... More
London: John Russell Smith, 1872. Later edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. [5], vi-xxxiii, [1], 304; [5], iv-viii, 314; [5], iv-ix, [1], 292 pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine. Translated from the Spanish version of Garciordonez de Montalvo. A Very Good set with mellowing to the spines..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xxviii, [1], 2-442, [4] pp. Full smooth contemporary purple calf, spine unpolished, in six compartments with gilt tooling to the boards edges and to the spine, maroon label on the spine. Endpapers, pastedowns, and textblock marbled. Illustrated by a frontispiece..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [2], 18-380 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated by a frontispiece and twenty-six additional plates with black and white photographs on them. A history of the Great Lakes and rivers upon..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii-xxvi, [2], 3-164, [2] pp. Quarter black paper over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a map and several black and white photographs. A compilation of Native American perspectives on The Great Sioux War, from..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 160 pp. Grey cloth with green lettering on the front board and spine; light blue topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Ralph Parker. With an..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press [2001], 2001. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xiv, [5], 4-160 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Translated by Richard Rojcewicz. Part of the series, Studies in Continental Thought. Written before Being and Time, this work is an informative representation of Heidegger's early..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 227, [3] pp. Grey paper covered boards quarter bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a small spot of discoloration..... More
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xl, 232 pp. Quarter blue cloth over white paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several diagrams. Feynman's notes for a course he taught at Caltech from 1962-1963 on the fundamental problems in gravitational..... More
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. (1996), 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], v-xiv, [1], 2-303, [3] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with red lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a photograph of a young Feynman and several diagrams. Feynman's lectures from 1983 to 1986 from his..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 5-475, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 015c. A very attractive copy of what is widely considered to be one of Le..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxviii, [2], 3-228 pp. Grey paper-covered boards quarter-bound in green cloth with bird motif stamped in gold on the front board and gold lettering on the spine, grey endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1999], 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxxiii, [4], 4-1070 pp. Brown paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $35.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A Very Good book with a remainder mark to the bottom textblock, light wear to the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. [1871], 1871. Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo. [2], 3-384, [2] pp. Publishers' advertisements on the endpapers. Brown cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Illustrated with several in-text woodcuts and a few pages of animal and mechanical illustrations in the rear..... More
London: Constable and Co. LTD., 1924. Later edition. Hardcover. 4to. [4], v-xxxvi, [2], 3-245, [3] pp. Quarter purple cloth over maroon boards with gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black, reproductions of some woodcut initials. A reproduction of the 1608 edition of..... More