Biography, history, literature, and other genres can be found in this month's list.
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Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1867. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5, vi-xxiii, [2], 26-358, [4] pp. Brown smooth publisher's cloth with blind rules on the boards, gilt lettering and a wolf's head in gilt on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. With 198 illustrations, done in black and white, one full-page..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 8-185, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Green publisher’s cloth with a gilt wheel with feathers in gilt and gilt floral design on the front board, gilt lettering, a gilt harp, and publisher’s device in gilt on the spine..... More
Oxford: William Pickering and Talboys and Wheeler, 1826. First edition thus. Hardcover. 4 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-394, [2]; [5], 4-416; [5], 2-395, [1]; [7], vi-xi, [2], 2-428 pp. Full contemporary calf (tree calf on volumes three and four), the spines have been rebacked in period style, twin gilt..... More
New York: Crown Publishers [2011], 2011. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-374, [2] pp. Black paper boards with white lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A tour de force of 80's nostalgia, and the basis for the Steven Spielberg film. Cline's..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1851. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xvi, [1], 18-260, [1], 2-6 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with a gold device on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Salmon coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a full-page..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 1-310 pp. Three-quarter black cloth over orange cloth with the faces of the Marx Brothers embossed on the front board, green lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.00 on the..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xxi, [2], 2-458, [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with two black borders on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. New edition, from the sixth English edition, with additions and corrections..... More
New York: Random House [1964], 1964. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xxii, [4], 3-317, [7] pp. Teal cloth with a decoration in blind on the front board, gold lettering with the publisher's device in gold on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-401, [5] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon Studio. Currey 233. A philosophical tale of a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xvii, [5], 3-235, [1] pp. Black cloth with the Presidential Seal on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Jacket design by Ricki Levinson. Edited by John W. Gardner. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. With a special..... More
London: Collins, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-318, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 14s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Russell 364. The basis of the 1961 film starring Gregory Peck. MacLean's second book, based on his service in..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 5-301, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 006h. According to Ahearn this copy has..... More
New York: Random House [1992], 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xvi, [7], 4-412 pp. Quarter green cloth over brown paper boards with a decoration in blind on the front board, silver lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with eight..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [8], 3-262, [8] pp. Three-quarter contemporary brown morocco over perriwinkle cloth, boards ruled in gilt with the spine in six compartments, gilt borders and lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Light blue and green endpapers and pastedowns. A...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 3-607, [1] pp. Navy blue cloth with gold lettering, twin gold rules, and publisher's device in gilt on the spine. Price of £5.00 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. SEP, Wenar, "John Rawls". Slater 757..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1961], 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-302 pp. Brown cloth with pink lettering on the front board and silver and pink lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes in-text line drawings by Walter Dower. Ruark's memoir emphasizing..... More
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence (1973), 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 295, [7] pp. Orange cloth with facsimile of author's signature embossed in gold on the front cover and gold and blue lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 1-81, [3] pp. Green and grey patterned cloth with a white paper label printed in black on the spine. Price of 3s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Harold Jones. A bookseller's..... More
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [6], vii-xvi, [1], 2-311, [1], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Orange publisher's cloth with white and brown decorations on the front board and spine (shells, based on the House of the Shells in Salamanca), gilt lettering on the..... More
Boston: Woman's Temperance Publication Association / Geo. E. Smith & Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [4], v-xvi, [3], 2-698, [2], 3-6, [2] pp. Green publisher's cloth with gilt, silver, and black decorations with silver lettering on the front board, black and gilt lettering and black, silver, and gilt..... More