New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc. [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-721, [7] pp. Black cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with one full-page map. Signed by the author on the title page, dated June..... More
Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xviii, [1], 20-591, [5] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in five compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gold; all edges decoratively speckled. Fully illustrated by eminent artists: with two frontispieces, six plates, and numerous in-text..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 4-303, [3] pp. Brown cloth with pink lettering on the front board and spine, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several in-text line drawings by..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-265, [11] pp. Quarter white cloth over navy paper boards with a gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $11.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A...... More
New York: Random House [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-365, [7] pp. Half navy cloth over yellow paper boards with orange decorations on the front board and blue lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 002a. Irving's second novel. A..... More
London: J.F. Dove, 1820. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-579, [3] pp. Later half maroon morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. lllustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1964), 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-211, [1] pp. Grey-green patterned boards quarter-bound in orange cloth with the author's name stamped in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; grey-green topstain. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front..... More
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press [1986], 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-179, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $13.95 on the rear panel of the dust jacket. A small remainder mark on the bottom textblock, else a Fine..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-x, [4], 3-167, [1] pp. Quarter beige cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A name on the free front endpaper and minor..... More
New York: Random House (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xii-xix, [3], 3-419, [7] pp. Bound in red cloth with author's initials and floral design in metallic red on front board, gold lettering on the spine, blue topstain and blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $8.95 on front jacket..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-234 pp. Quarter black cloth over blue paper boards with a gold publisher's seal on the front board and with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-x, 1-740, [2] pp. Beige cloth with red lettering on the front board and red and black lettering on the spine. Price of $16.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. With a...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 5-275, [3] pp. White cloth with silver lettering on the spine and a silver decoration of an angel on the front board. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. A presentable..... More
New York: Random House [1943], 1943. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-438, [2] pp. Bound in tan cloth with author's initials embossed in gold on the front board, gold lettering and blocking in red on the spine, publisher's name stamped in red; red topstain. Title page in red and black..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 5-209, [7] pp. Pale yellow paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine and the author's initials embossed in gold on the front board. Price of $15.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive..... More
New York: Scribner [2005], 2005. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-288, [6] pp. Blue-grey paper over boards quarter-bound in grey textured paper with silver lettering on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $25.00 on the front flap. Frontispiece photograph of the author's parents. A touching memoir of growing..... More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, Publishers [1951], 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-xiii, [2], 2-365, [3] pp. Quarter navy cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. A nice copy of one of Melville's classic tales. Toning to the pages with the faint odor of tobacco, top..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/ Seymour Lawrence, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-247, [1] pp. Quarter white cloth over beige paper boards with the author's signature in facsimile gilt on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. A..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [2], 1-317, [1] pp. Blue cloth with an orange label printed in black on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xiii, [10], 6-344, [4] pp. Quarter black textured cloth over patterned paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Housed in a brown slipcase with a paper label printed in black on the spine. Decorated..... More
London: John Lane the Bodley Head LTD., 1929. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v, [3], 2-222, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eleven plates, and with in-text decorations by John Kettelwell. A...... More
New York: Scribner [2006], 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-355, [1], 12, [4] pp. Quarter red paper over black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $26.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated at the end with a facsimile of King's partial manuscript for Lisey's Story..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [15], 5-651, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few full-page and several in-text color illustrations. Gass'..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1891. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-224 pp. Blue cloth with gold, yellow, blue, and green decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page wood-engravings designed by Harrison Weir..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers [ca. 1960], [ca. 1960]. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [9], 1-421, [7] pp. Black cloth with a pictorial inset pasted on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with..... More