A list of new arrivals with a countdown to our print catalog and to our next book fair.
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New York: Atheneum, 1967. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 3-180, [4] pp. White cloth with red and grey lettering on the front board and spine; black topstain. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Barthelme's first..... More
New York: Viking Press (1975), 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 487, [7] pp. Quarter gold cloth over yellow paper boards with black lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. His eighth novel, winner of the 1976 Pulitzer..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-292, [4] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The second novel to feature Dave Robicheaux, the sequel to..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company (1987), 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-248 pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the jacket. Ahearn APG 007b. An attractive copy of Burke's first Dave Robicheaux mystery..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], iii-xiii, [3], 3-248 pp. White paper boards imitating vellum with a gilt decoration and lettering on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, several black and white plates..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons [1975], 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [7], viii, [1], 2-69, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white lettering on the spine and publisher's device stamped in white on the front board. Dirac was one of the twentieth century's most important theoretical physicists and was..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-432, [2] pp. Contemporary polished sheep with a gilt border on each board, spine in five compartments with gilt rules and a black paper label lettered in gilt; all edges sprinkled red. With a preface by the Rev..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company[1937], 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, xvi, [2], 3-226, [8] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns printed in red. Price of $2.50 on each front flap of the dust jacket. With a double..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [4], v-vii, [2], 2-282, [4]; [4], v-vii, [2], 2-265, [7] pp. Beautiful contemporary polished calf with triple gilt rules and gilt decorations on each board, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations; top edges gilt. Navy..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [6], vi-xvi, [1], 2-294, [2]; [3], iv-xvi, [1], 2-400, [2], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Maroon publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spines; top edges gilt. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-viii, 1-527, [3] pp. Publisher's green cloth with beautiful gilt decorations and lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. With its green linen dust jacket lettered in gilt on the spine. Title page printed in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1902. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [2], 2-244, [1], 2-23, [1] pp. Blue cloth with a chariot wheel in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Oxford DNB, J.P. Phelan, "Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832–1904)". From the Oxford DNB: "In 1879 Arnold..... More
[London]: University of London / The Athlone Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7] 8-126, [2] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 15s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. An important work in modality, Goodman posits that all possible worlds exist in..... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, 1880. Thirteenth edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-xi, [2], 2-525, [1], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and decorations and black borders on the front board and spine, rear board with decorations in blind. Brown coated endpapers and..... More
New York: Random House [1962], 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-182, [2] pp. Quarter black paper over yellow paper boards with yellow and red lettering on the spine; red topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hubin 853. A sharp example. Jacket with light..... More