Indianapolis (1929): Bobbs-Merrill Company. early printing, without "First Edition" on the copyright page; INSCRIBED in the year of publication, to fellow author Joseph C. Lincoln [Together with] an early printing (1911) of "Cap'n Warren's Wards" in a very good+ dust jacket, by Mr. Lincoln. Publisher's gray cloth, printed in orange..... More
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine, marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge..... More
New York, 1933-38: Charles Scribner's Sons. First American Edition. All first printings, with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright pages; dust jackets are all unclipped, very good to near fine. "Churchill's biography of his illustrious ancestor, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. A lovely set, much scarcer than the British edition..... More
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First Edition. 12mo, 76 pages; original printed boards. Author's first trade publication, one of 500 copies printed. Light, occasional foxing on some leaves. Bookplate, neat owner name on front end paper, news article affixed to front free end paper. Housed in a handsome quarter-leather slipcase..... More
London (March 1852-September 1853): Bradbury and Evans. H. K. Browne (Phiz). First Edition. First edition in the monthly parts, 20 parts in 19, in the original green printed wrappers. ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present. An outstanding set, with parts VII..... More
London (January 1843-July 1844): Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. Publisher's Presentation Copy, with "With The Publisher's Compliments" stamped onto front wrapper of part V. ALL wrappers are correct. Substantially all ads and slips are present, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, with the following exceptions: the rare..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition. in the original 6 monthly parts, in green printed wrappers. A fine set, with ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver; notable are the famous "Cork Hats" ad in part II and the elusive "Chapman & Hall" ad in part V...... More
London (May 1849 - November 1850): Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. Original Wraps. ALL wrappers are correct. ALL Advertisers, slips and ads are present and in accord with the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography, but for one leaf of the scarce Lett's Diary in part VIII, which has 7 specimen leaves..... More
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New York / Concord: Lane & Scott / Rufus Merrill. First Edition. 3" X 4 1/4" Two lovely children's books in a marvelous wooden box made in Romania, with color illustration of a girl on the hinged front cover; "The Wolf Hunt and the Blue Bird, (1851) 20 pages, marbled..... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First Edition. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1945. Printed Wrapper. Quarto. A complete copy of the rare Litho-print issue, of the Smyth Report. (193)pp., Single sheets, stapled, with textured cream-colored wrappers. The following litho-printed on the front: "Released for Publication on__________." As professor Smyth states, the litho-printing was done, under heavy security..... More
New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886. First American Edition, First Issue. Small Octavo. First English translation. Three volumes in six, translated from the French by Clara Bell. First issue, each with the Gottsberger imprint on the verso of the title page (First Set, Before Tilsit) Vol. 1; 322pp. (6)pp. ads..... More
New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. First Edition. First printing, large octavo, vii[2]400 pages; publisher's original red cloth, printed in gilt. A fine, unread copy of the Big Book; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. No dust jacket. One of just 4,650 copies printed and one..... More