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New Haven: The Sunday Paper, 1999. Soft Cover. First Printing. A clean copy of a scarce (and charming) title.
New Haven: The Sunday Paper, 1999. Soft Cover. First Printing. A clean copy of a scarce (and charming) title.
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1985. Hard Cover. Second edition. Previous owner’s name and date on the front free end paper; otherwise a copy without any marks. Introductions in English. Presented with the Greek on the verso and the English on.....
Baltimore, [MD]: The Franklin Press, [1817]. Hard Cover. In half calf and drab paper-covered boards with morocco title label. A mildly ex-library copy with “Reference” and date stamped to rear pastedon; a blindstamp on the title page but no other.....
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940. Hard Cover. First Edition. The First Edition of this collection of ghostly tales by one of the masters of the genre. In the publisher’s black cloth, with a previous owner bookplate on the pastedown, but.....
New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo. (7 1/2” x 5 1/8”); in the publisher’s decorative cloth binding; 267 pages; the front hinge is cracked, but this is a reasonably bright copy with.....
Lancaster, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1989. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Quarto; in tangerine cloth-covered boards ,with dustjacket; xxxvii, [xxxviii]; 514 pages including; with slipcase which has a light stain.~~Consists of 25 years of film reviews by Mr. Ellison; signed gold ink on.....
New York: E. P, Dutton, 1933. Hard Cover. Fourth Printing. 8vo.; in the publisher’s green cloth binding, with titling in orange; [6], 7-254 pages, with toning to the endpapers; the binding is slightly cocked; pencilled on the pastedown is “Blue.....
Berlin | New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1986. Hard Cover. A copy of the “Examination of the Function of Gods in Homeric Epics,” by Hartmut Erbse. Text in German. Eleven pages at the rear, minimally marked in pen. Foxing to.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1904. First Edition. One of the more peculiar children’s tales we’ve encountered, about a pyromaniacal little girl who burns off her head; it is replaced by a kettle with features drawn into place and held.....
An 18th century novel in 2 volumes, in old calf with raised bands and floral motifs and titling in gold to the spine. With two attractively engraved title pages, and seven engraved vignettes by Aveline after Liot at the head.....
New York | Stratford-Upon Avon: Houghton Mifflin | Shakespeare Head Press, 1926. Limited Edition. The Large Paper Edition, in 10 volumes, in paper-coved boards backed in buckram with morocco labels. Volumes I, II: Joseph Andrews; III: Jonathan Wild; IV-VII: Tom.....
Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. Full Leather. First American Edition. The First American Edition of Fielding’s Select Works, complete in two volumes.; with “A Memoir of the Author” by Scott. Bound in sheep, with morocco labels. Scuffing to the boards.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. Half Leather. First Edition. A clean copy of all three volumes. Half bound in contemporary polished calf with gilt fillets at the edges. Marbled paper covered boards, with marbled endpapers and edges.....
London and Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1907. Hard Cover. First Edition Thus. From the Bell’s London and Colonial Library Series, “issued for Circulation in India and the Colonies only”. This copy with loss to the cloth particularly at the.....
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1994. Full Leather. Bound in full brown leather, with elaborate decorations in gilt, raised bands to the spine, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon marker, and all edges gilt. There are no marks of any kind.....
Tokyo: Keimeisha, [1953]. Signed. Tokyo imprint, undated but certainly pre-dating the First American Edition issued by Grove Press in 1961. Signed with a personal inscription by Henry Miller on the front endpaper. Red buckram binding with titling in yellow; dustjacket.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856. Full Leather. Attractively bound in black calf, ruled in blind in a ‘mock Cambridge-style” binding; raised bands, with blind rules in compartments and titling in gilt. There is wear and scuffing to the joints.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1886. Quarto. Full Leather. An attractive set of Longfellow, in six quarto volumes; flexible brown leather boards with gilt rule to the perimeters and “Longfellow” stamped in gilt to the front board of each volume;.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1886. Quarto. Hard Cover. An attractive set of Longfellow, in six quarto volumes; green cloth boards with gilt rule to the perimeters and “Longfellow” stamped in gilt to the front board of each volume; with.....
Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1952. Original Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s printed wrappers; 112 pages, with illustrations.~~Post-war humor fit for the nascent baby-boomers. “Your college education in a nut-shell ... It gives you the low-down on everything.....
Berlin: Verlag von Karl Siegismund, [1897]. Pictorial Boards. Late 19th century picture book and prime for teaching ABC’s and rudiments of spelling. With photographic illustrations of a young boy showing the shape of the mouth when pronouncing the vowels. With.....
Philadelphia PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1936. Hard Cover. Bound in orange cloth with black lettering. Dust jacket has shelf wear,spine is a bit sunned, is price clipped and is now protected in a new mylar cover. A romantic tale.....
D. Lothrop and Company. Illustrated by: [1891]. Hard Cover. First Edition. A collection of Victorian Christmas stories (e.g., “How Dot Heard ‘The Messiah’”) which have their own charm. By the author of the popular Zig-Zag Stories. A bright copy of.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First Edition. Signed with Drawing. 8vo; in the publisher’s black cloth, with dustjacket; 32 unnumbered pages, with illustration; printed in red and in black; with a splendid drawing of Matilda by the illustrator of.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1842. Illustrated by: Jo Leech. Hard Cover. Previous owner's name written on ffep. No pencil or ink markings in text. Red embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations. Light to moderate edge wear to extremities. Archival.....