New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [2], 1-269, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white and brown lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket design and in-text drawings by Peter Parnall. Ahearn APG 004b..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1871. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-224 pp. Red publisher's cloth with blue, gilt, and black decorations on the front board: a raven dropping a pebble in a hydria, spine with gilt lettering and gilt and black decorations. With 114 beautiful in-text illustrations..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [10], 3-187, [5] pp. Green cloth with black decorations and borders on the front board, gilt lettering on the front board and spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns printed in black (maps). Price of $1.25 on the spine panel of the dust..... More
Oxford: William Graham, 1847. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-379, [5] pp. Half red morocco over marbled paper boards (ca. 1860) with the spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. An in-text diagram. Translated by D.P. Chase. With..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 2-242, [2] pp. Bound in navy blue cloth with publisher's device and lettering stamped in gold on the spine. Price of 25s. net on the front jacket flap. Edited by J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock. Austin was one of..... More
London: William Pickering, 1825; 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; 1834. First edition thus. Hardcover. 16 vol. For pagination, please inquire. Later (mid-nineteenth century) smooth calf with twin gilt borders on each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges and turn-ins, spines in six compartments, a red and green morocco..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. [1980], 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-181, [1] pp. Brown cloth with a gold key on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Price of $9.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Robert Sabin..... More
London: Printed for R. Hunter, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-408 pp. Contemporary half green calf over blue cloth with the spine in about six compartments, purple morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four additional plates..... More
New York: The Viking Press (1953), 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-536, [2] pp. Half grey cloth over black cloth with orange lettering on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Hallock. Ahearn APG..... More
Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-298, [2] pp. Red cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine. Red endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Bernard Colonna. Inscribed by Blume on the..... More
London: John Murray, 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. Small 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Half mid-nineteenth century polished calf over marbled boards with the spines in six compartments, gilt decorations and a red and a brown morocco label lettered in gilt on the spines; top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xv, [2], 18-492, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in blind on each board, a gilt crescent moon on the front board, copper-coloured lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 1-369, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with a design on..... More
New York: Random House [1951], 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-209 pp. Beige cloth with brown, green, and black lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Illustrated title page. Jacket design by Miriam Woods. Ahearn APG 004a. Capote's fourth book, a tale of outsiders trying to make it in a...... More
New York: Random House [1948], 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-231, [3] pp. Beige cloth with a green rule on the spine and front board, red lettering on the spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket; green topstain. Jacket design by Sol Immerman. Ahearn..... More
New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-209, [7] pp. Black cloth with silver and yellow lettering on the spine; grey topstain. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by Leo Manso. Title page blue with an illustration of a...... More
London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., 1879. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x, [3], 2-260, [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Burnt red publisher's cloth with blind borders on each board, gilt lettering and rules on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, Henry Jones. Dedicated..... More
Boston: Manning and Loring, for David West, 1796. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [1], 2-46 pp. Contemporary glazed sheep with the spine in six compartments, a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine, spine with gilt rules. With forty plates drawn by the author. Austin 452. Evans 30186..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [4], v-xix, [1], 1-380, [2]; [2], iii, [1], 1-489, [5] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, volume one with an etching of Paine laid in..... More
London: A. & C. Black, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [4], v-xxvi, [2], 1-325, [5] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over decorative paper boards with the spine in six compartments, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine; top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns. A yellow ribbon bookmark bound..... More
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1897. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-253, [3]; [6], vii-viii, [2], 3-226, [2] pp. White publisher's cloth with gilt decorations and borders on the front boards, gilt lettering and decorations on the spines; top edges gilt. Red linen dust jackets. Each..... More
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1926. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxxii, 1-614, [2] pp. Full contemporary vellum with an illustration on the front board, an illustration on the spine with red and black manuscript lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Textured marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound with the original..... More
Paris: Richard, Libraire, 1796. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxxii, [1], 2-507, [1]; [5], 6-535, [3] pp. Contemporary tree calf with a gilt border to each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges, spines in six compartments, a brown and a green morocco label lettered in gilt on..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company [1903] [1904] [1906] [1918], 1903; 1904; 1906; 1918;. Later edition. Hardcover. 12 vol. 8vo. For pagination, please inquire. Half contemporary red morocco over pink cloth, boards ruled in gilt, with the spines in six compartments, spines lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges gilt. Brown endpapers..... More
London: John Murray, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-379, [1], [1]-32 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green publisher's cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering and gilt rules on the spine. Green coated endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Edmonds & Remnants of London..... More