Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [5], 3-272, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece photograph of a manuscript page from Tabeau's original narrative..... More
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 4-237, [11] pp. Blue-green cloth with gold lettering on the spine; dark yellow topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 002a. A collection of Cheever's short stories that were published in..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xi, [6], 4-111, [1] pp. Orange cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $4.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Chomsky's lectures given at Cambridge in honor of Bertrand Russell. A beautiful copy of..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, [3], 4-299, [5] pp. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $14.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The Woodbridge Lectures delivered at Columbia University in November of 1978. An overview..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [14], 3-208, [4] pp. Grey cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine, green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Full-page illustrations by Michael Heslop. Winner of the Newbery award. The fourth book in..... More
London: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD. (1930), 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], v-xix, [4], 4-304 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of 21/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and pastedowns..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977. First edition thus. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [[2], 2-82, [4] pp. Bound in light blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of £2.75. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited with a preface by P. T. Geach, translated by Geach..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], viii-xiv, [3], 2-301, [3]; [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-286, [2] pp. Contemporary three-quarter smooth blue calf over bright blue pebbled cloth, spine in six compartments, each with a red morocco labe lettered in gold, spines lettered and decorated in gold;..... More
New York: The Viking Press (1980), 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 428, [2] pp. Black paper covered boards bound in orange cloth with black and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $13.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Ahearn APG 009d. A nice copy of King's sixth novel..... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-ix, [3], 3-383, [3] pp. Black boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.50 on front flap. Selected and with an introduction by August Derleth. Currey 323. A lovely copy of this later collection of Lovecraft tales..... More
[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Harvard University Press, 1972. First edition thus. Hardcover. 2 vol. Folio. [4], v-xl, [2], 1-547, [3]; [7], 548-916 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece portrait of Isaac Newton, taken from the 1726 edition of Newton's Principia. Facsimile half-title, title, and..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [4], 4-249, [3] pp. Bound in brown cloth with labyrinth design stamped in gold on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Translated and..... More
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1898. Later edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [5], 2-389, [9]; [5], 2-351, [5] pp. Contemporary full smooth calf, spines in six compartments with gold lettering on the spine, all edges gilt. Title pages printed in red and black. Oxford DNB, "Davies, (John) Llewelyn". A deluxe edition..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [2], 2-359, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front jacket flap. Slater 743. A presentable copy of Quine's overview of set theory which includes..... More
Venetia [= Venice]: Vincenzo Vaugris [= Vincenzo Valgrisi], 1545. First Italian edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [24], 440, [1] pp. Every other text page paginated. Recent (early 20th century) tan paper-covered boards. Title page with publisher's device, woodcut initials, final page of text with publisher's device on the reverse. Translated from..... More
Chicago: The Winters Co., 1896. Sheets. Chromolithograph calendar, 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8” x 11.25” (or 20 cm by 29 cm). Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter, spring, summer, and fall (in the latest fashion of the day). The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald, issued..... More
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, 1766. First edition thus. Hardcover. Royal 8vo. [7], 2-536, [2] pp. Later green morocco with the spine in six compartments, gold rules to the boards and spine, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt; blue and purple marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated bookplate on the..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-186 pp. Orange cloth with black and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Wideman's first novel. The author was a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop..... More