Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 366 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Lacks the dust jacket. Illustrated with twelve plates of maps. Howes A-198. A historical piece on the tensions between historical Virginia and West Virginia, with discussion..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-256 pp. Blue paper boards with dark blue lettering on the front board and spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the top corner of the jacket flap (bottom corner of the flap is clipped..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xii, [3], 4-909, [5]. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine, map on endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. A presentable copy of Massie's..... More
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, [2006], 2006. Bagram Ibatoulline. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [12], 5-198, [2] pp. Pale green paper-covered boards with pocket watch in blind on the front board and gold lettering on the spine, diamond-patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $18.99 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Bagram..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press (2006), 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-299, [3] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering and twin gilt rules on the spine. An attractive example of this collection of papers by one of the leading current researchers in metaphysics. A very near..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xiv, [2], 1-163, [3] pp. Navy cloth over boards with a gold horizontal rule and lettering in red and gold on the front board, gold lettering within two red rectangles bordered in gilt and publisher's device in gold on the..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [3], 2-553, [1] pp. Bound in yellow cloth with border in black on the front board, gold lettering in black rectangle inset on the spine, twin gilt rules bordering a black rule at both the top and bottom of..... More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-75, [1] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). An early volume in the long-running Studies..... More
New York: Joseph Graham (Boltons Books), 1934. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [6], vii-xvi, [2], 167, [5] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. No dust jacket. Illustrated with 30 duotone plates of the author's drawings of tools, food, houses, and the pottery of the Native..... More
London: A. & C. Black, ca. 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vi-viii, 230, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Blue cloth with gold and green decorations on the front board and spine, gold lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece, seventy-four plates..... More
Richmond, Va. Bell Book & Stationery Co., 1913. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 10-303, [2], ii-xvi pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Thomas Ritchie and three additional plates. No dust jacket. ANB, Joel H. Silbey. "Ritchie, Thomas (05 November 1778–03 July 1854)"..... More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (2010), 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], 8-861, [3] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $29.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a facsimile of the author's signature printed on..... More
New York: The Modern Library (1963), 1963. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [3], 4-209, [3] pp. Grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine. First printing of the first Modern Library edition as per Toledano 339.1. Pageblock is toned; jacket is price-clipped. More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-lxvii, [1], 352, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Navy endpapers and pastedowns. Translated with an analysis and critical notes by J.E.C. Welldon, M.A. First published in 1892, this is..... More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (2013), 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], 8-783, [1] pp. Blue cloth with red lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $34.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a facsimile of the author's signature printed on..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. [5], 6-538, [4]; [7], 8-559, [5]; [5], iv, [3], 8-641, [5]; [5], vi, [3], 10-637, [5]; [5], vi, [3], 10-600, [6]; [5], vi, [1], 8-527, [7]; [9], 10-588, [4]; [7], 6-619, [5]; [5], 6-458, [4]; [5], 6-574, [4];..... More
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Batavorum: Jacobum a Poolsum et Johannem Visch, 1721. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [35], 2-756, [2]; [3], 4-578, [158] pp. Mid-eighteenth century paneled calf, neatly rebacked in the style of the period, with the spine in seven compartments, gold decorations on the spine, recent red morocco labels on the..... More
London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1837. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [4], 2-306, [2] pp. Latter nineteenth-century (ca. 1875) smooth-grained green morocco with gilt pointillé on the boards, gilt decorations on the boards and spine, gilt decorations to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering; all edges..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 128, [2] pp. Quarter green cloth over grey paper boards with green lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $1.25 on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 030a. Wharton's historical novel focused..... More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 227, [2], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gold, black, and green decorations on the front board, red and black lettering on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 116, [2] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with duotone full-page drawings by James Barkley. Baumgarten 9. The..... More
London: Williams and Norgate, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [2], 2-242, [5], 4-62 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Anellis, Irving H. "Review" The Review of Modern Logic Volume 11 Numbers 1 & 2 (June 2007–December 2008) [Issue 33], pp. 87–105..... More
Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. Royal 8vo. [2], v-xxiii, [2], 3-752, [2]; [4], 5-616, [2]; [4], 5-645, [1] pp. Publisher's green cloth with the spines in five compartments, spines lettered in gold; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Gutters protected by publisher's..... More
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Paris: Furne, Jouvet et C, Editeurs, ca. 1866. Early Reprint. Hardcover. 4to. [3], vi-vii, [1], 230, [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with decorations in gold and black on the boards, spine lettered in gold; all edges gilt. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Baron and several..... More
Glasguae [= Glasgow]: In Aedibus Academicis, Excudebat R. Foulis, 1744. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small (Foolscap) 8vo. [7], 4-342, [16] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, a brown morocco label lettered in gold on the spine, with gilt decorations on the boards, boards' edges, and on..... More