London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], iv-lx, 1-272 pp. Brick-colored publisher's cloth with several black borders to the front board, two gilt borders and gilt lettering to the front board with gilt lettering on the spine. Brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Oxford DNB, Stefan Collini..... More

Chicago: Union Publishing Company, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 5-570 pp. Contemporary sheep with the spine in five compartments, a black leather label lettered and ruled in gold. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several full-page portraits (all in black and white). Completing the title page: "Containing biographical sketches of..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xii, [3], 2-368, [2] pp. Orange cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine. ANB, Alexander J. Field, "Galbraith, John Kenneth". The Affluent Society is Galbraith's best-known book. It builds on one of his early publications, titled American..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], vii-ix, [2], 3-434, i-xiii, [5] pp. Blue cloth with a gold device and gold lettering on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; red topstain. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the..... More

New York: Dissent, 1957. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. [1], 210-336 pp. 22.5 cm x 15 cm. Bound in blue paper wraps printed in black. The summer issue of 1957. Lennon 57.1. This issue of Dissent is where Mailer's short essay was first printed. His piece was and remains a controversial..... More

New York: Random House [1961], 1961. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-310, [2] pp. Blue cloth with lettering in gold and decorations in black on the front board and spine, red topstain. Price of $3.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Groseclose A.016. A Very Good book with..... More

London: John Russell Smith, 1856. Later printing. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-174, [2] pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with black decorations and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges decoratively stained red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait..... More

London: George Allen & Unwin LTD (1959), 1959. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 11-93, [1] pp. Black cloth with orange lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Price of 7s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Blackwell & Ruja A108. The first UK edition of Russell's..... More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-255, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a folding chart. Jomo Kenyatta was the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya to hail from..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, 1-594, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [4], v-xiv, 1-600 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Title pages printed in red and black. Volume one illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait of..... More