Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1892. Third edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 5vol. 594 pp.; 576 pp.; 543 pp.; 645 pp.; 541 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board, top edges of all volumes are gilt, edges of boards are beveled. Revised and corrected with... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. 525 pp. Number 163 in the Loeb Classical Library. Translated by Paul Nixon, a former Latin professor of Bowdoin College. Includes eight pages of advertisements for Loeb at the end of the volume. Volume III of V of Plautus' plays. Very few... More
New York: Random House [1974], 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 179 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Hubin 671. A Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with a tiny crease to the front flap. More
New York: The Viking Press (1981), 1981. First printing. Hardcover. 270 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of jacket. The author's first novel and the first book in his popular and long-running Sharpe series. A very near Fine book in a very near Fine dust jacket with one tiny... More
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons [1986], 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 206 pp. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. Whitbread Prize winner; a stunning copy of the second book by this Granta List author. More
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book (1998), 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 287 pp. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a small spot of residue from a former owner's address label on the front pastedown in a very near Fine... More
Chicago: Acme Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4vo. 1033 pp. Bound in pebbled brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations on the front board and spine, all edges gilt. The front and rear boards are decorated with flowers stamped in blind, with beveled edges. Four raised bands on... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. 384 pp. Quarter-bound in brown calf over red cloth, binder's ticket on the rear pastedown shows the book to be bound by Burn, in this case Robert Burn, the grandson of the London bookbinder Thomas Burn (Packer, 26). Brown... More
Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1924; 1924; 1925; 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 4vol. 173 pp.; 168 pp.; 164 pp.; 175 pp. Includes all four series: A History of the Pepper Trade with the Island of Sumatra; A History of the "George", "Glide", "Taria Topan", and "St. Paul", in trade... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1879. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 311 pp. Bound in brown cloth with brown endpapers and pastedowns and gilt lettering on the front board and spine and decorations stamped in black on the front board and spine. Includes steel engravings from the original illustrations by J.W.... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1992], 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 390 pp. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A wonderful collection of poems from Snyder. A Near Fine book with a slight push to the textblock and a few flecks of foxing; dust jacket is very... More
London: Methuen & Co. LTD (1966), 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 296 pp. Strawson was an important philosopher of the twentieth century, and made significant contributions to philosophy of language, most notably in his academic opposition to Russell's work. This book is Strawson's analysis of Kant's seminal work. Strawson attempts to... More
London: Fontana Press/Collins [1985], 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 230 pp. Price of £10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An exploration of ethics and the challenges ethical theory faces in the modern world. Williams argues that ethical theory is constrained by modern rationalism, and encourages turning to classical... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1956], 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 278 pp. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A nice copy of Vidal's first published collection of plays. A very near Fine book in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a few hints of edge... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1969), 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 159 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. With eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. A very sharp copy of Van Gulik's fifteenth Judge Dee book, based on both the historical Judge Dee's life... More
New York: Harper & Brothers [1960], 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 211 pp. Price of $3.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Chinese detective story suggested by original ancient Chinese plots. With twelve plates drawn by the author in Chinese style. A lovely copy of Van Gulik's fourth Judge Dee... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1959], 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 184 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. With ten plates drawn by the author in Chinese style. Van Gulik's novel incorporates features of the magisterial political system of China during the Tang Dynasty, and is partly... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1967], 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 207 pp. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With twelve illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. The thirteenth novel published in the Judge Dee Mystery series, based on political events during the Tang... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1967], 1967. First printing. Hardcover. 203 pp. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With nine illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. The eleventh novel published in the Judge Dee Mystery series, this one only loosely based on the... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1966], 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 143 pp. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. The tenth novel published in the Judge Dee Mystery series, based on Judge Dee's life during the... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1971], 1971. First printing. Hardcover. 143 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A Judge Dee mystery with eight illustrations drawn by the author in Chinese style. Based on the life and history of Judge Dee, a historical figure who lived during... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 590 pp. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pale pink endpapers and pastedowns. All illustrations are present as well as the two maps. Includes four pages of advertisements. The illustrations are beautiful black and white lithographs, with what appears... More
[New York]: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press (1969), 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 186 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket, date code on the rear flap. Bright blue boards with the author's signature embossed in gold on the front board, and red, black and gold lettering on the spine. Ahearn... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart [1941], 1941. Ross Santee. First printing. Hardcover. 356 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white drawings by Ernest J. Donnelly. Part of "The Rivers of America" series. Series edited by Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer... More
