London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo; 307 pp. Bound in dark blue cloth, with black lettering and pictorial inset on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge stained blue, color frontispiece wth tissue guard, 61 additional plates, 3 fold-out plans of..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [4], 6-67, [1], [12] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown cloth with black lettering on the boards and spine. A guide to raising children, with sections on common childhood diseases suffered in the nineteenth century, how a parent should feed..... More
[Lebanon, NH]: ForeEdge [2014], 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-241, [1] pp. Half maroon cloth over pink paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated by a pictorial title page, a map, and a few black and white photographs. The story of a young fisherman who was captured..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1973], 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xix, [3], 3-215, [5] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated from the French by A.M. Sheridan Smith. Part of The World..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929. First edition. Large 8vo. [13], 4-641, [1] pp. Bound in maroon cloth with border in blind on the front board, lettering and publisher's device in gilt on the spine, top edge gilt. Price of $6.00 on front jacket flap. ANB, Derek Pearsall, "Kittredge, George..... More
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, Inc. [1965], 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 293 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes over 100 illustrations and watercolors done by the author. A Very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More
Cosmopoli: The Kama Shastra Society of London, 1886. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-236, [4] pp. Three-quarter contemporary green morocco over green cloth, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Cassada 89. Penzer 173. The first edition of The..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. 260 pp. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Simon & Schuster [1991], 1991. First printing. Hardcover. 873 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. Includes several black and white photographs, a bibliography, and an index. A Very Good book with severe concavity to the spine and a slight separation between the backstrip and the..... More