London (April 1836-November 1837): Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. First edition in the original monthly parts; 20 parts in 19, original green wrappers. A NEAR PRIME COPY, lacking just 3 of the 11 points required in Eckel's bibliography "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens." These... More about The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - 20 Parts in 19 - A NEAR PRIME SET, Having 8 of 11...

London: Chapman & Hall, 1870. First Edition. first issue, 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... More about The Mystery of Edwin Drood (In Original Monthly parts

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1801. First Edition. Small Ocavo. With a biographical and critical account of the author and his writing. Bound in contemporary leather spine and boards. Very Good- with outer and inner front hinge cracked, scuffs and edge wear boards, dampstain, scattered foxing, pencil writing enpapers, ink... More about PARADISE LOST, A POEM, IN TWELVE BOOKS

London: The Crime Club, 1953. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Dated 1953 on page 191. First English Edition. Bound in red cloth. Very good+ with mild fading spine in a very good dust jacket with chips, short closed tears, and slight age darkening. 191 pp. More about AFTER THE FUNERAL

Chicago (1920): Reilly & Lee. John R. Neill. First Edition. The earliest printing of the first edition, with perfect type on page 150; with 12 full-color illustrations and "Glinda of Oz" on verso of half-title. 279 pages, full color label on front panel. Pictorial end papers in black and white... More about Glinda of Oz

France (ca. 1450). A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours, in Latin, on vellum; 115mm x 83mm; verso and recto. Gothic littera bastarda script, in red and dark brown, or black ink; single column, 14 lines. One-quarter panel border decoration of rinceaux, with burnished gold ivy leaves and floral... More about Illuminated Manuscript Leaf on Vellum, Book of Hours, France c 1450

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. Near fine copy with paper clip marks ffep, half title and title page, small light stamp lower edge in a near fine dust jacket with minimal chips. xxiii, 264 pp. A nice tight, clean copy. More about NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

Paris: Victor Masson, 1854. Quarter Leather. Octavo. Offered is a very good++ entire Vol. 41 of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in nice quarter brown leather binding and marbled paper covered boards with raised bands spine, gilt lettering on black leather spine label. Light rubbing cover edges, scattered foxing... More about SUR LES VITESSES RELATIVES DE LA LUMIERE DANS L'AIR ET DANS L'EAU. In Annales De Chimie et De...

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1918. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. First edition, Second Impression, Bound in maroon gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine copy with minmal fading spine. Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) Won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923. His "oil Drop Experiment" (published 1913) was the first measurement of the... More about THE ELECTRON. Its Isolation and Measurement and the Determination of Some of Its Properties

New York: Scribner, 1980. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON FFEP without personaliztion. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with minimal fading spine of dust jacket. 311 pp. More about INNOCENT BLOOD

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 about WAR AND PEACE A Historical Novel

London: Faber & Faber, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED BY P. D. JAMES ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. Near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 216 pp. More about AN UNSUITABLE JOB FOR A WOMAN

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DENIS JOHNSON ON TITLE PAGE. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst, with his armorial bookplate laid in. First edition of the author's first book. A fine, unread copy, as issued without duat jacket. Published in a.... More about THE MAN AMONG THE SEALS Limited Edition