New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Original Wraps. Octavo. Review Copy. Very good+ dust jacket over wrappers with newspaper clippings tipped-in ffep and verso of front cover. Front dust jacket flap with $3.95 price and 11/55. Dust Jacket by Sam Sugar. 408 pp. National Book Award Winner 1956. More
Paris: Victor Masson, 1857. Hard Cover. Offered is a Very Good++ hardback ex-library Volume XLIX of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in maroon buckram binding with gilt lettering spine. Library stamp and number in ink ffep. No other library markings. 8vo. Noted in DSB Vol. 10 p. 411 as..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Early Printing with page number 9 an "o" - "Refrred" on page 321 (5th line down), smaller "G" on page 381, line 4 and "Domininque" on page 480 (2nd line down). In second issue dust jacket with author photo and..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1866. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. 302, 318 328pp. half-titles present in volumes one and two, bound in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, green morocco spine label within one compartment, spine decorated with a gilt vine motif, marbled..... More
Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1980. First Edition. octavo, 315 pages; INSCRIBED on ffep "Many Thanks! / Jim Roherty" - Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, a scholar on international politics and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations..... More
London (1844-49): The Shakespeare Society. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo, 4 volumes in the original brown blind stamped cloth, spine printed in gilt. The four volumes of the Shakespeare Society's occasional papers ("being contributions too short in themselves for separate publication"). A scarce and fascinating compendium of articles about Shakespeare..... More
Kingsport, Tenn. Southern Publishers, Inc., 1932. First Edition. octavo, "First Edition, May, 1932" stated on copyright page. Publisher's original red cloth, printed in gilt; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.50 on front flap and minor repair at head of spine. Illustrated in color and black and white. Errata slip..... More
New York: Covici, Friede Publishers (1936). Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. A spectacular copy of the Third Edition (the second edition, according to Goldstone & Payne), in publisher's dark blue cloth, spine printed in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with all 4 flap corners cut at angle and author of "Of..... More
New York (1947): The Vanguard Press. First Edition. Octavo, 313 pages; owner name and date on FEP; dust jacket is price-clipped and has a 1 inch loss at lower rear panel. This is the 1947 re-issue. More
New York: Edgar S. Werner, 1913. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Original Wraps. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" (5)pp., bound in pictorial wrappers stapled. A fine copy, with a small closed edge tear. More
Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Jim Sharpe. octavo, 617 pages; publisher's full black leather, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. Signed by the author on a front end paper. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark. As new. More
NY: New Directions, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 144pp. Bound in the first issue binding of original rose cloth stamped in black; a near fine, bright copy, in pink and white dust jacket depicting a rose; unclipped, a tiny chip along top edge of rear panel..... More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Hard Cover. Octavo, [xii]121 pages; number 211 of 300 numbered copies printed. Quarter red leather over decorative boards. America's first color plate book: "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates - one hand-colored and one left uncolored -..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1941. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 219pp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt letterig spine. A very good+ copy with some faint spotting to spine, off-setting to endpapers, in clipped dust jacket designed by Vanessa with darkening to the spine..... More