New York: Modern Age Books, 1937. First paperback edition, after Viking Press cloth first edition. Bourke-White documentary photos throughout. Quarto; 55pp. Photographic card wrappers. No dust jacket. Novelist Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White, married two years after this volume was published, collaborated on this important exposé of impoverished..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1909. New Edition. Thick octavo. 752 pages plus advertisements. 16 color plates; black and white illustrations. Brown cloth decorated in gilt, black, and green in arts and crafts style. Mrs. Beeton died in 1865, but her influence continued through the Victorian era, the..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1920]. First Edition (code C-U). Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered and blind-embossed cloth, blue-grey topstain; [10],387pp.; portrait frontispiece. Spine a bit cocked and gilt quite faded, else a Very Good or better copy overall. History of World War I by the Austro-Hungarian diplomat..... More
Washington, DC: School of Advanced International Studies / Johns Hopkins University, 1987. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey and blue decorative dust jacket; vii,[1],180pp.; illus. Top margin and spine panel of dust jacket sunned to green, long closed tear at upper jacket panel not quite touching text, else Fine..... More
Washington, DC: William M. Morrison, 1859. Later printing. Octavo. 662 pages. Rebound in modern tan buckram with red and black leather spine label, stamped in gilt and black at spine. Ex-library with usual markings [Library of Congress]. Dred Scott versus Sanford case printed on pages 393 through 633..... More
Washington, DC: William M. Morrison, 1857. Early printing. Octavo. 662 pages. Tan buckram with red leather spine label, stamped in gilt and black at spine. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Dred Scott versus Sanford case printed on pages 393 through 633. Printed same year as the first edition, which..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1938. First Edition. Signed by Morse on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Mabel and Hillary, This is a true story of my pre-beach-combing days, before I learned to go to bed at 10 p.m. Frank P. Morse." Octavo. 288 pages..... More
[Atlantic Highlands, NJ]: Humanities Press, [1979]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in orange and white; xii,[2],336pp.; maps in text. Light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked, old price sticker to upper jacket panel and remainder rubberstamp at bottom textblock edge, else Very Good and..... More
[Haarlem, Netherlands: SOTA, 1998.] Octavo; publisher's yellow printed card wrappers; 221pp. Minor bumping at corners, ownership signature to title page, faint, brief pencil marginalia to a few leaves, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed in year of publication on title page: "With regards / Hoping..... More
Lancaster, PA: Lecture Printing Society of the Theological Seminary of The Reformed Church, 1891. First Edition. Octavo. 136 numbered pages, but each numbered page followed by an unnumbered, blank one. Wraps. Missing front wrapper. Remnants of spine and rear panel chipped and stained. Binding holding. Pages brittle. None in..... More
London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1851. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Improved. Small octavo; [viii], [9]-142pp +4pp ads. A few pages still uncut. Blindstamped pebbled purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards worn and bent inward in places along top and bottom edges, with fading to spine and a...... More
N.p.: Golden Hind Press, 1935. Privately Printed; Limited Edition of 1000 copies of which 950 were for sale. Octavo; 218pp. Illustrated title page, with few charts and tables throughout. Patterned paper-covered boards and ivory spine with gilt lettering and erotic illustration. Boards bumped at corners with the bottom front corner..... More
Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1930. Octavo. 517 pages. Black and white photographs. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Ex-library with usual markings. Boards are worn at extremities; some brown staining near edges. Library code to spine. Binding sound. Library stamps to preliminaries, pocket removed at rear. Interior..... More
New York: New York University Press, 1970. First Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo; Vol I xv + 275pp; Vol II ix + continued pagination through 624, including bibliography and index. Photo-illustrated dustjackets over color-matched cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Dustjackets clean and crisp with light edgewear and some toning to..... More
Cleveland, OH: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1935. Octavo. 1171 pages. Black and white illustrations. Red artificial leather stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Housed in a red and white box with a design echoing a deck of cards. All around interesting design choices for a Depression-era publication. Includes..... 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
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967. First Edition. Signed with inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; xxii + 248pp, including bibliography, list of monuments, and index. Map of monuments in France and 135 B&W photographs. Amaranth red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and title stamped in blind on..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Thus in the beloved 1930 Scribner format. Octavo; xiv + 347pp. Nine full-color illustrations plus illustrated cover and pictorial endpapers. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering and paste-on front panel illustration. Some polite scuffing to crown and foot of spine and panel..... More
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More
Zanesville, OH: Edwin C. Church, 1846. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary sheep, remnants only of black spine label; vii,[1],300pp. Leather quite scuffed and dried with some peeling and exposure, shallow chips and loss at spine ends, both front free endpaper and flyleaf torn with loss, though contemporary pencil ownership inscription..... More
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press, by Samuel Collingwood and Co., 1822. 24mo; full contemporary brown straight-grained gilt-tooled morocco, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt; approx. 500pp.; text mostly printed in double column. Leather scuffed at extremities, chiefly at spine edges, hinges very slightly loose, two later ownership..... More
Philadelphia: Mayfair Publishing Co., [1930]. 12mo; publisher's printed paper-covered boards; 62pp.; illus. throughout. Extremities bumped and rubbed with some exposure at corners, general light soil, paper flaw to upper cover from previously removed tape; overall Good or better, internally fresh and near fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition with "bite" instead of "bight" on page 281. Stated "First Published by the Viking Press in September 1952" to copyright page. Octavo. 602 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Green boards stamped in green and brown. Soiling to edges and..... More
Washington, DC: Historical Office / Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2017. First Edition. Thick octavo. 815 pages. Black and white illustrations. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Volume IX in the Secretaries of Defense Historical Series. Dust jacket is lightly worn at extremities..... More
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1972-1984. Mixed printings, only Volume 8 being a first edition. Eight octavo volumes. Black and white photographs. Printed wraps. A solid though incomplete run of the Foxfire series concerning "affairs of plain living." Affairs addressed include spring wild plant foods, snake lore..... More