Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N. These orders will ONLY ship media mail and will not ship to Canada). A fine, fresh example in bright crips dust jacket with a miniscule chip to the top edge of the rear panel. Thick, oversized volume;.....
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Slim 8vo in blindstamped red cloth decorated in gilt with design of a pair of fish lting on a grassy streambank; spine lettered in gilt. 86 pp. including tables at rear. Color plate depicting 24 different flies (not: in.....
New York: C.M. Saxton, 1863. Hardcover. Octavo hardcover in dark brown cloth with spine letettred and decorated in gilt. 425 pp. with index. Frontispiece engraving of a Clydesdale stallion, numerous full page plates and drawings in the text. A comprehensive mid-19th century guide for horse keepers with sections on buying.....
Chicago: Goldsmith, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (no statement of edition). Oragnge paper covered boards printed in black. 248 pp. Juvenile. "The story of Tarley Theodore Ball the 'one man football squad' and the team he made and unmade...a stirring, fast-moving story of the gridiron." Near fine, minor bumping.....
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. (NO EXPEDITED SHIPPING THROUGH AMAZON, ALIBRIS OR B&N) First edition. Large, thick royal 8vo in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. xv+ 340 pp. errata slip tipped in at rear. Photographic plates that include 502 examples, plus drrawings and reproductions in the text.....
NY: Century, 1916. First. Cloth. First edition. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Eight black and white drawings by Henry Raleigh. Fiction. Novel of a religious impostor from the Ohio backwoods who gives himself out as God. Engaging depiction of pioreer life and peopled by characters of stong passions, courage and.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892. First Thus. Hard Cover. Two volumes, first editions thus; white cloth lined and lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. 279 and 287 pps. with index. Illustrated with striking color litho plates, a number by Childe Hassam and others by Ross Turner, F. Hopkinson Smith, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls;.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Thick 12mo. (4 7/8" x 6 7/8") in blindstamped royal blue cloyj with spine ornately decorated and lettered in gilt. 359 pp. Illustrated with six full page engravings. "...narrative of a boy's adventures and experiences in the Australian bush...written amid scenes and.....
London & New York: Effinham Wilson, 1833. First. Hard Cover. First American ediiton. Original cloth with paper spine label; 260 pps. with index. Deaccessioned from the Clionian Society College with 19th century oval ownership stamps on the title and first few leaves and final rear blank. In the introduction by.....
New York: Grove Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated) with number line with "1". Hardcover. 214 pp. Fine in ifne dust jacket (don't be fooled: what apear to be minor flaws in the jacket are actually part of the printed design). In 1944, Lucien Garr, a friend of.....
Chelsea, MI: Lewis, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Thick, heavy hardcover in glossy illustrated boards. 951 pp. with extensive reference list, index. Near fine, internally clean and unmarked; issued without dust jacket. Important scientific reference work on the enviornmental issues involved with the building and maintenence of golf courses. Among the.....
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. William Steig. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine (price-clipped) dust jacket. First edition. Slim hardcover. A collection of poetry for children that explains the biblical story of the Old Testament. Several charming drawings set the scenes.
St Martins Pr, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, previous owners blindstamp front free endpaper. In bright, crisp dust jacket. Former Chief Superintendent Lennon, now released from prison on a murder sentence, investigates the killing, allegedly by muggers, of a fellow Chief Superintendent.
Brattleboro, VT: William Fessenden, 1807. Full Leather. The first Vermont edition (first American edition was 1796). Contemporary full calf, tooled edges, red spine label lettered in gilt. (1) 144, xxi (appendix) (2). An early American tooled binding but well worn with cracking and a peeled spot front board as well.....
1969 NY: Dial. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. SIGNED BY KENNEDY ON THE TITLE PAGE. A fine, tight copy with a small publisher's defect on the outer edge of the title page resulting an oddly shaped 1/4 inch folded tear. In dust jacket with the usual spine fading.....
Austin, TX, U.S.A.: University of Texas Press, 1994. First edition. Collection of 13 essays from the first-ever symposium devoted to the study of the Launcelot-Grail cycle, the group of five prose romances composed on Old French between 1220-1240, centered on the love affair of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guenevere. These.....
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Amadeus Pr, 1990. Hardcover. Hardcover. 618 pps with index. Collection of articles by musician and musicologist Herman Klein, who knew and commented on the greats of the 19th century. Fine, tight copy in crisp, bright dust jacket.
Nashville, Tenn. and Dallas, Tex. Publishing House of The Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Scarce. First edition. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt. xx+407 pp. Folding plate. Appendix of Confederate dead in the Antietam Cemetery, the Camp Chase Cemetery, the Johnson Island Cemetery near Sandusky, Ohio and Frederick County.....
London: J. Mawman, 1815. First. Three-Quarter Leather. First edition. Tall 8vo. in black three-quarter leather, gilt compartments and lettering, over brown pebbled cloth; marbled endpapers. Half-title, title, xiii (preface and contents) with errata notes verso of p. xiii; 526 + advert listing of three additional books by the author. TIPPED.....
East Point, Ga. Will Delavoye, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover, ornately decorated in red, white and blue with circus scene. 318 pp. Illustarted with drawings and vintage photographs. Scarce book of American circus history, filled with stories and anecdotes of shows, performers, travel, etc. A tight, fine example.....
NY & London: W.B. Huebsch/Heinemann, 1925. First. Cloth. First trade edition. SIGNED BY LEONARD ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE AND WITH A TYPESCRIPT UNPUBLISHED LEAF FROM THE POEM LAID IN. This work first appeared in print in a pirated edition three years earlier and also in a signed numbered edition.....
London: J. Nourse, 1753. First. Full Leather. First edition. vi+ contents(6)+xxxii Introduction+664 pps. Index at rear. Full contemporary calf, hubbed spine. Very worn overall. Front free endpaper replaced, lacking rear endaper so that the final page of the index is the last leaf. Text is complete and clean. Prev. own.....
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1933. Wraps. 19 page pamphlet in printed stiff wrappers. Fine.
Philadelphia: McKay, 1925. First edition thus. Hardcover. Two volumes in one; first editions thus. Hardcover in green cloth. 87 and 47 pp. Profusely illustrated with throughout with diagrams, drawings and floor plans (several double-pageand one fold-out), and two photographs. A tight, fine example, 1940 Christmas gift inscription front free endpaper.....
Paris: Panckoucke, 1778. Leather_bound. Four volumes, 16mo., in period full speckled calf, hubbed spines, with compartments decorated in gilt, red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges of the text blocks stained red. 400, 653, 586, and 433 pp. + 4 pp. errata+ 2 pp. "Approbation" and "Privilege.....
