Boston: Little Brown and Company [1977], 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 265, [1] pp. Quarter brown paper over light pink paper, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Very Good book slightly askew with noticeable foxing to the... More about Last Ditch
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1969], 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 3-244, [1] pp. Quarter black paper over green paper, gold lettering on the spine. A Very Good book with minor bumping to the corners and an occasional spot of foxing; dust jacket is Very Good, price-clipped, and shows... More about Clutch of Constables
New York: Simon and Schuster [1965], 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7, [1], 9-319, [1] pp. Gold lettering on the spine and front board, gold topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes ten black and white photographs of portraits of Henri the VIII... More about The Divorce
[London]: HarperCollins Publishers (2006), 2006. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-407, [3] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £17.99 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. More about Sharpe's Fury; Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1986), 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-158, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A feminist examination of ancient Greek mythology and the roles women played in these stories. A Near Fine book with toning to the fore-edge in a.... More about Women in Greek Myth
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1895. Reprint. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [3], iv-v, [3], 787, [3] pp. Brown cloth with decorations stamped in black on the boards and spine, spine lettered in gilt. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A.H. Clough. Dryden's Plutarch revised by the British, ninteenth-century poet and... More about Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Later Edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Small 8vo. [iv], vi-xiv, [1], 16-347, [7]; [3], vi, [3], 10-334, [4] pp. Smooth calf (with the boards polished), stamped in blind with black decorations, textblock stained red. Lovely marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Each spine in six compartments, two red... More about Poems; In Two Volumes
Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1974), 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 3-260, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes an advanced review slip from the publisher. A Very Good... More about Black as He's Painted
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1982], 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 3-232, [6] pp. Quarter black cloth over red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $13.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Original price and date stamp on the free front endpaper. A... More about Light Thickens
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [4], vvi, [2], 109, [1] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Volume thirty in the Sather Classical Lectures. A Very Good+ book with minor toning to the free front endpaper and last few leaves, old bookseller's... More about The Greek and Macedonian Art of War
Bloomington: Indiana University Press [1990], 1990. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 3-311, [1] pp. Black cloth with red lettering on the spine. A Very Good+ book with occasional annotations in pen and a name on the free front endpaper in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More about The Fourth Way; A Theory of Knowledge
Oxford: Basil Blackwell (1987), 1987. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xxii, [3], 4-470, [2] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. The Persistence of Reality Volume II. Slater 607. A Near Fine book with a small erasure on the free front endpaper in a Fine dust jacket. More about Science Without Unity; Reconciling the Human and Natural Sciences
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1967], 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-174, [5] pp. Teal cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 049c. A very near Fine book with minor toning to the front pastedown in a very near Fine dust jacket. More about Hornblower During the Crisis; And Two Stories Hornblower's Temptation and The Last Encounter
[Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [3], 3-224 pp. Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Goldman is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and has done important work on epistemology and philosophy of mind. Honderich 322. A Near Fine book... More about Pathways to Knowledge; Private and Public
London: The Bodley Head (1956), 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-158 pp. Light blue cloth with red lettering on the spine. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy. Translated from the French by R.H. Blackley. A Very Good book with a tiny bump to the front board and minor foxing to the... More about The Village that Took to the Air
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-320 pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in yellow cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of dust jacket. A very nice copy of Hiaasen's second solo novel. Very near Fine... More about Double Whammy
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959. Second printing. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 1-184 pp. Bound in grey/tan textured paper with orange endpapers and pastedowns, black and white frontispiece and four full page black and white illustrations (two additional black and white illustrations inset within the text). Pictorial dust jacket. The... More about The Ghost at Skeleton Rock
London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1965), 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxvii, [3], 3-231, [1] pp. Four full-page black and white maps. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine, red horizontal bar wrapping around boards and spine, black and white maps on endpapers and pastedowns... More about Blitzkrieg to Defeat; Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xii, 1-346, [2] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.75 on front jacket flap. A presentable copy of the revised edition famously necessitated by Rosser's discovery that the axiomatic system originally... More about Mathematical Logic; Revised Edition
New York: The Viking Press (1978), 1978. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10, [1], 12-15, [2], 18-19, [4], 24-472 pp. One full-page map, twelve black and white plates. Green-yellow paper-covered boards quarter-bound in light blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of... More about The Great Mutiny: India 1857
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8, [1],10, [3], 14-356, [4] pp. Navy paper-covered boards bound in red with gold lettering on the spine, grey endpapers and pastedowns listing Asimov's first 100 books with Doubleday. Publisher's code BB27 in the gutter of p.... More about Foundation and Earth
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited (1946), 1946. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [1], 7-220, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brick cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of 8/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hubin 688. A Near Fine book in a.... More about Two Must Die; A Peter Gayleigh Story
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 300, [2] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Very Good book with a bookplate on the front pastedown in a Very Good... More about Japan in Crisis
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-144 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photgraphs and a few coloured plates. A Near Fine book in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More about Ancient Greek Literature in its Living Context
New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-181, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with minor toning and foxing to the textblock and a faint smoky odor... More about The Oasis