New York: Roy Publishers, 1954. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 140 pages. Black and white photographs including La Belle et la Bete frontis. Price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Green boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with soiling and rubbing throughout, predominantly to edges. Spine..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. First U.S. Edition. Tall octavo. 749 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Light chipping to edges of dust jacket with general rubbing throughout. Boards are lightly worn with some toning along edges. A few minor smudges. Binding is sound..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First Edition. Octavo; viii + 315pp + one-page publisher's prospectus. Fifty-one wood engravings of landscapes, geological, and volcanic/thermal formations. Original green publisher's cloth with blind-stamped borders and ornaments on front and rear panels. Gilt spine lettering. Magenta endpapers. Binding dulled but not..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. Decorative dust jacket. Burnt umber boards with spine lettered in gilt. Some light shelfwear to edges and a few colorful smudges. A touch of wear to extremities of boards. Sturdy and square in binding and interior unmarked. More
London: Faber & Gwyer, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Black and white illustrations; folding map at rear. No dust jacket. Red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Institutional copy from the Middle East Institute with white library markings to spine. Bookseller ticket to front board. Corners bumped..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1965. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 109 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped printed dust jacket. Brown boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is chipped along edges with general sunning and rubbing. A few small punctures along spine. Boards are worn..... More
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1960. First UK Edition. Octavo. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Hailed as a masterpiece upon publication, The Leopard [Il Gattopardo], covers the changing fortunes of the Salina family as Garibaldi sweeps across Sicily during the Risorgimento. Also basis..... More
Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1960. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 430 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red. Map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with some general toning and rubbing. Boards lightly worn at edges, but binding sound and..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1980. Stated First American Edition. Octavo; xvii, 199pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; book in silver-stamped patterned cloth-covered boards with beige cloth spine with silver lettering. Jacket very lightly rubbed at bottom corners and tail of spine, but with no chips or tears. Boards..... More
La Habana / Havana, Cuba: Maria Luisa Gómez Mena, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; 207pp. Twenty full-page color plates bound in; nearly 80 full- and partial-page B&W reproductions; 14 B&W photographic or painted portraits of the artists covered. Text in parallel Spanish and English throughout, including a separate title page for..... More
![Dollar Road [Dalen Portland]. Kjartan Fløgstad, Nadia Christensen, trans](/pictures/thumb/5878.jpg?v=1578338771)
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. First English Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "For Jeffery Paine, very best wishes, Kjartan Fløgstad." Octavo; [viii] + 203pp. Three-color dust jacket with Pegasus Prize image and explanation on back. Tan boards with red metallic stamping on spine. Unclipped jacket with..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 204 pages. Dual-language format with German on verso and English translation on recto throughout. Unclipped dust jacket over navy boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is lightly chipped along edges with one closed tear along rear flap and slight toning to spine. Boards..... More
Bethesda: Private Edition [Decatur Press], 1998. Octavo; 127pp. Celadon paper binding with black lettering on face. Haiku verses printed in three parallel formats: original Japanese script; romanized Japanese; and English. Slight fading to spine. Half-dollar-sized light water mark on back cover; goes through to back couple pages. Textblock clean, square..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Pink and beige boards spine stamped in purple and gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Some staining to boards, more heavily along upper portion of rear panel. Binding is sound but with separation towards top of spine. Previous..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1977. First Edition. Quarto; 144pp, including bibliography and index. Photographic dust jacket. Tan boards with gilt spine lettering. Documentary B&W photographs throughout. Unclipped dust jacket with a hint of fading, showing very polite shelfwear; slight nudging to crown and foot of jacket spine. Boards show..... More
![Pedagogy of the Oppressed [First U.S. Edition]. Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos, trans](/pictures/thumb/6307.jpg?v=1593010767)
New York: Herder and Herder, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 186 pages. Printed off-white dust jacket with original $5.95 price present; book in off-white boards stamped in black at spine. Jacket shows some toning, rubbing, and general edgewear, but no chips or tears. Toning to edges of boards..... More
New York: Isaac Collins and Son, 1801. First Edition. Two Volumes Bound in One. Octavo. 328 p.; 248 p. Contemporary full calf decorated in gilt with red spine label and inset ownership label of Timothy Nostrand, a merchant from New York, on front. Marbled endpapers. Volume one missing..... More
First Edition. London: Cassell and Company LTD, 1956. First Edition with original decorated publisher's box. Octavo. 274 pages. Blue/Purple silk boards in glassine with spine and front board in gilt. White publisher's box printed with title page info on front and price of 31s 6d. net on back. Errata slip..... More
London: James Duncan, 1827. First Thus. Octavo. xxviii, 551 pages. Drab olive cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Worn with some exposure to extremities. Spine a touch faded. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Markings in pencil to endpapers; some light foxing to pages; binding is sound and pages otherwise..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942. Stated First Edition. Octavo; xx + 288pp + fold-out storyboard. Black and yellow dust jacket unclipped, but with docked flap corners, as published. Blue-gray cloth with paper title+author panel on spine. Chipping of 1/4" to top and bottom of jacket spine; some jacket..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First American Edition, with integral New York title page and printer's attribution (Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., Edinburgh) on verso. Stub from errata slip attached to inner margin of page [1], but slip itself is missing. Octavo; xiii, 510pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards..... More
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1982, 1984, 1986. First Editions. Three separate ISBNs: 0835110036; 0835111938; 0835113647. Octavo; Vol I [xxx] + 575pp; Vol II [viii] + 630pp; Vol III [viii] + 647pp. Each volume has 13 full-page illustrations reproducing lithographs made for an 1888 edition of the novel; in addition, Vol..... More