First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 352pp. Illustrated dustjacket over red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a couple small tears along edges with creasing to top back and some fading to spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Old phone..... More
First U.S. Edition. New York: New Directions, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. In illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Affixed sticker which reads "W.W. Norton & Co." has a price of $9.95. Purple boards with spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has some wear to spine ends and corners..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1953. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Black and white illustrations. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.75" price present. Mustard boards with spine stamped in light blue. Dust jacket is heavily chipped at spine ends and corners and stained across front and rear..... 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
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
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
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London: B. Law, 1774. First Thus. Octavo; Vol I xii + 404pp; Vol II xii + 441pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses bound in. Contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine. Gilt filleting on all board edges, and additional trio of small gilt stamps on spine crowns..... 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