London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [3], 4-522, [2]; [3], vi-xiv, [3], 4-692, [2] pp. Later half black pebbled leather over purple pebbled cloth, spines in five compartments with gold lettering; all edges speckled red. Light blue endpapers and pastedowns. Bound without the..... More
New York: The Modern Library (1968), 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-302, [2], [10] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Orange endpapers and pastedowns. Toledano 38. The first Modern Library Edition. A Near Fine book with some moderate foxing to the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1985), 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x-xxix, [4], 2-702 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering blocked in navy on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns with Darwin's family tree. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with four plates, a full-page illustration, and with a few..... More
New York: Alred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [3], 3-308, [2] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Ownership stamp of science fiction editor, publisher, and writer Donald Wollheim on the rear endpaper. Near..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1989], 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], vii-xxiii, [3], 3-169, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over grey paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1995), 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], ix-xviii, [2], 211, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over white paper board with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $22.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A collection of lectures on poetry delivered by Heaney while..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1850; 1865. Reprint. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 2-480, [2]; [3], iv-xc, [1], 2-458, [2] pp. Half navy calf over marbled boards with the spines in six compartments, a red morocco label and a purple leather label lettered in gold on each spine; all..... More
London: Printed for J. Mawman, Poultry, 1803. Fifteenth Edition. Hardcover. 3vol. Small 8vo. [13], 2-314, [4]; [9], 2-316, [2]; [5], 2-320, [2] pp. Original sheep, spines in six compartments. Each spine with a red and black morocco label, textblocks decoratively spotted. A collection of essays on Knox's views on education..... More
London: Methuen & Co. LTD. (1934), 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [2], 2-174, [4], 3-8 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 6/- net on the spine panel. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph portrait of Landor. Edited with explanatory..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-viii, 1-215 pp. Orange cloth with blue lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of short, comedic pieces Milne wrote for the magazine Punch..... More
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. 5 vol. 12mo. [3], iv-v, [4], 10-309, [5]; [5], vi-xi, [2], 2-339, [3]; [5], 2-288, [2]; [3], 2-326, [4]; [5], 2-292, [39] pp. Contemporary calf with a gilt border on each board, gilt borders to the turn-ins, gilt decorations to the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-ix, [2], 2, [3], 6-189, [1] pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine, top edge gilt, including a gilt facsimile of W.M. Thackeray's closing for his letters. Illustrated with a frontispiece..... More
London: J. Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1824. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Small 8vo. [11], ii-iv, [1], 2-242, [4] (2 pages of publisher's advertisements) pp.; [7], 2-249, [5] (2 pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Later nineteenth century green calf, boards with borders in blind and in gilt..... More