London: Ernest Benn, 1925. Later printing. Octavo (9" x 6"); 192p. Plates, diagrams, and illustrations throughout. Addenda slip tipped-in at start of Chapter 1. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn witih some bumping to corners and spine ends, with a small patch of discoloration on front center..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Octavo; 1056 pp. Dust jacket with original $3.00 price; book in bindstamped blue cloth gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has some rubbing and small chips on edges. All text legible. Front and back pastedowns are toned from age. Edges foxed. Front hinge starting..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 624 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edge worn with small closed tears, not affecting text. Pages clean and unmarked. This issue includes a reproduction of an 1882 drawing, titled "Rain-in-the-Face,"..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; xix + 921pp, including appendices (commanders; matériel; command documents and orders; staff hierarchy) and index. Forty-three diagrams and tipped-in maps; maps are six-color, fold-out. Forty-six B&W documentary photographs. Dust jacket in flecked pale sage green fiber stock with black and hunter..... More
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New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 344 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Cover lightly toned. Edge wear with some small closed tears. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Trimming error by publisher left pages 279 -..... More
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New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First Edition, Limited to 950 copies of which this is no. 181. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed gilt-lettered boards; [2],xiv,[2],157pp.; frontispiece, eleven leaves of photographic illus., additional illus. in text. Corners slightly bumped, general dust-soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good, internally fine. More
Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5” x 6.25”); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but..... More
![The Dial, March 1923, Volume LXXIV, Number 3 [containing "Taos" by Lawrence]. D. H. Lawrence,...](/pictures/thumb/7171.jpg?v=1599930943)
Greenwich, Conn.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1923. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 328 pp. Original pale mauve printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout, with one full-color leaf of advertisements (one for Colgate and the other for Underwood Portable Typewriters) in the front portion. Cover edge worn with..... More
London: Martin Secker, [1924]. First Edition (23cm.); publisher's red cloth, white printed spine label; 175pp. Boards very slightly bowed, minor chipping to spine label, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Authors covered include Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville..... More
![The Dial, April 1922, Volume LXXII, Number 4 [featuring Poem by Cummings]. E. E. Cummings...](/pictures/thumb/7172.jpg?v=1599930710)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1922. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 448 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations throughout. Edge wear with some small closed tears, light smudges. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Small closed tear on the top of page 417..... More
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 124 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed with a crease running the length of the front and back cover. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. The Dial was..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1980. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 191pp. Printed red and white dust jacket with original $9.95 rice; book in blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Misbound with page block upside-down in the boards. Jacket lightly..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. Octavo (8.5 x 6 inches); ix, 500 pp. Original bright pictorial dust jacket with $3.50 price. Navy cloth binding with illustration stamped in light blue and gold on cover, text stamped in gold on spine. Pictorial endpapers depict Massawa Harbor and the location..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979. Second Impression, 1986. Octavo; xiii + 601pp, including 15 appendices (on Polish, French and British co-breaking of the Enigma Code; matériel; documents about methods; Axis planning; chain of command; etc.) and index. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering against..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
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Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1929. First Edition. Signed by Bradford on front free endpaper with inscription "Sherwin Lawrence Cook [?], with the best wishes of Gamaliel Bradford, March 9, 1929. Published March 22." Octavo; [xiv], 294 pp. 8 plates including..... More
![The Dial, December 1921, Volume LXXI, Number 6 [featuring Black Spot by O'Keeffe]. Georgia...](/pictures/thumb/7123.jpg?v=1599931807)
New York: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., 1921. First edition. Octavo (10" x 6"); 728 pp. Original pale pink printed wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Edges rubbed and worn. Chip to top edge of spine with a small closed tear that wraps around to the front cover, text is unaffected..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvi,[2],190pp. Light shelf wear, spine ends a bit rubbed with tiny chips not approaching text, flaps and endpapers rather foxed, contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in dust jacket..... More
Flint: Bamberger Books, 1988. Stated Second Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on title page. Octavo (9" x 6"); 37p. Printed orange paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but are crisp and clean overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Philadelphia: George H. Buchanan Company, 1909. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 66pp.; photographic frontispiece. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Collection of religious poetry published nearly fifty years after the author's death at the premature age of..... More
![Love in the Wars: A version of "Penthesilea" by Heinrich von Kleist [Signed by Banville]. John...](/images/noimage.png)
[Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland]: Gallery Books, [2005]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in three notebooks. February-August 1908. Each commercially-produced small octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 190 pages, ruled paper, sewn gatherings, thin oxblood leather covers, rounded corners, all pageblock edges gilt. Covers and stitching now loosened; gatherings separating but all pages present. Leather covers flaking with edge..... More
Fourth Printing. Hardcover. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Stated Fourth Printing. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription to collector/dealer Harold Mays on flyleaf. Octavo (8.5" x 6"); [vi], 485p. Printed dustjacket with $6.95 price; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Jacket lightly edgeworn..... More
![Ensayo sobre un proletariado sin cabeza [Essay on a Proletariat without a Head]. Jose Revueltas](/pictures/thumb/5127.jpg?v=1562608509)
Mexico City: Editorial Logos, 1962. Signed by the author with inscription "Para Alvarez Barret, en recuerdo de nuestra militancia revolucionaria" ["For Alvarez Barret, in memory of our revolutionary militancy."]. Octavo; 261pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers foxed and toned with a number of small tears along fore-edge, creasing and..... More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition, Limited to 501 copies of which this is no. 155. Large, thick octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, white embossed paper medallion inlay to upper cover, printed paper spine label (duplicate bound in rear), top edge gilt, housed in black cloth slipcase..... More