Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-viii, [2], 1-587 pp. Quarter black cloth over brown paper boards with gold lettering blocked in brown on the spine. Price of $12.50 on front flap of jacket. A fictional biography of Alex Haley's ancestors, following the..... More
Los Angeles, California: Sherbourne Press, Inc. [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 12-283, [3] pp. Yellow cloth with a black decoration on the front board and with black lettering on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with eight duotone plates of..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin LTD (1962), 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xvii, [3], 3-411, [3] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine, red topstain. Price of 42snet in U.K. only on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Casimir Lewy. Part of the Muirhead..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1963], 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-299, [5] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several full-page and in-text duotone photographs by Roger Riger. Edited by..... 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
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi, [1], 2-313, [3], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Original green pebbled cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Second issue with the errata leaf. NCBEL III 1552. ODNB, Jose Harris, "Mill..... More
London: G. Bell and Sons, LTD., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-429, [3] pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of 15/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Dame Millicent Fawcett, greatly admired by Strachey, and with fifteen..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [8], ix-xxv, [3], 3-454; [8], 455-948, [2] pp. Black cloth with white and gold lettering on the spine. Light brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $20.00 on the front flaps of the dust jackets..... 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
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. First American Trade edition. Hardcover. 4to. [6], 7-672 pp. Black and grey cloth with gold lettering on the spine, a gold decoration on the front board; purple topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated..... More
London: Rich & Cowan, LTD (1938), 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 11-278 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of 10/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of an ancient hydria featuring Sappho, in the collection..... 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
New York: The Viking Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxii, [2], 3-266 pp. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine; green topstain. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a plate, a photograph of the author..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1985), 1985. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8, 10-350, [2] pp. Half red cloth over orange paper-covered boards. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. As told to Ralph Leighton, edited by Edward Hutchings. Foxing to the textblock and a...... More
New York: The Century Co. [1932], 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-426, [2] pp. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Pictorial front board with black lettering and decorations in blue, orange, and black, similar design on the spine; blue topstain. Cream endpapers..... More
New York: Random House [1995], 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 4-122, [4] pp. Quarter brown cloth over pink paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $15.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated by a few in-text drawings. A remainder mark on the top textblock, else..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1942], 1942. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-250 pp. Grey paper over boards with black lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front jacket flap. Illustrated with four plates of black and white photographs of Gehrig, his family, and his teamates. Twentieth printing..... More
New York: Dood, Mead & Company (1985), 1985. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6],7-204, [4] pp. Black paper-covered boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. Gordon, one of the first female reporters to cover major league baseball, recounts her experiences covering the Toronto..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9],10-464 pp. Blue paper over boards quarter-bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine, dark blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap. Illustrated with numerous full-page black and white photographs of..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-347, [5] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine, a silver decoration on the front board. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Barlow..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1984), 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 11-232 pp. Blue paper over boards quarter-bound in navy blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine, red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $14.95 on front jacket flap. The story of Yankees third baseman Graig Nettles with..... More
New York: Random House (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], vii, [7], 3-421, [13] pp. Bound in light blue cloth with author's inittials stamped in dark blue on the front board, gold lettering on the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns, light blue topstain. Price of $7.95 on front..... More
Norfolk, CT: New Directions [1947], 1947. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-312 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering partially inset within a black rectangle on the spine. Frontispiece protrait of the the author in 1921. A presentable copy of Isherwood's autobiography up through age twenty-five. A Near Fine book..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [3], 4-252, [2] pp. Dark orange cloth over boards quarter-bound in red-orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $4.95 on the front flap. Illustrated by eight unnumbered pages of..... More
Philadelphia: The Westminster Press [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-192 pp. Bound in grey cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front jacket flap. Barber, who rose to prominence as a baseball broadcaster for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees, recounts some..... More