New York: Century Co., [1932]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's yellow pictorial cloth stamped in red and black, red topstain; vi,392pp. Corners tapped, light dust-soil to boards, else Very Good and sound overall. Adventure novel by the prolific English author, this one set in India. More
![Item #25971 The Devil's Guard [alt. title: Ramsden]. Talbot Mundy](/pictures/thumb/25971.jpg?v=1678814137)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1926]. Presumed First American Edition, though no statement provided on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's maroon buckram stamped in green; 334pp. Light shelf wear, contemporary bookseller ticket and ownership ex libris of a James C. Dine to front pastedown, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality..... More
London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden Bookseller in Cambridg [sic], 1660. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary blind-tooled calf, recently rebacked with mottled calf, red gilt spine label, new endpapers; liii,[3],526,[2]pp. (¶^4 - 3¶^4 * - 3*^4 A - 3X^4, collated presumed complete with publisher's advertisements on final leaf);..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1905. First Dulac-illustrated edition. Octavo. 292 pp. Six color plates by Dulac, complete. Illustrated dust jacket. In publisher's boards decorated in dark green and gilt.; top edge gilt. Dust jacket shows some slight chipping along edges and spine with faint patchy dampstaining..... More
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. New and Improved Edition. Two volumes; octavos; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines; viii,463; [4],495pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities, brief splitting at top half inch of Vol. I upper spine edge, dampstain to bottom gutter..... More
![Item #25889 Churchill: A Life [Signed]. Winston S. Churchill, Martin Gilbert](/pictures/thumb/25889.jpg?v=1678207614)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Martin Gilbert with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo. 1066 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Purple and black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket shows light wear..... More
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794. First Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, red gilt spine label; 357,[3]pp ([A]-2E6, collated complete, errata cancel mounted to p. 357).; engraved portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates including three folding, bound without plate VII as usual. Light scuffing to leather extremities, textblock uniformly browned and occasionally..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Later Printing. 12mo; full brown morocco by Suttaby, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, elaborate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, floral endpapers; [12],346pp. Some foxing to preliminaries, most heavily to title page and tissue guard, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else a Very..... More
Boston in New-England: Printed for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhil, 1727. First Edition. Small octavo (17.5cm.); separated; [4],v [but iv],39,[1]pp. (A-F4, collated complete with half title); title page printed within thick black rule. Faint dampstaining to textblock, else a Very Good, sound copy. Begins with a...... More
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for Edward Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill, over-against the Old-Exchange, 1740. First Dublin Edition. Octavo; full contemporary calf, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments; xxxvi,[2],[41]-352,[6]pp. (A3 B-2X4 [2]Y2 [2]Z2, collated complete despite error in pagination). Minor scuffing to leather extremities with a few tiny chips..... More
Boston: Manning and Loring, 1808. 12mo; publisher's midnight blue paper-covered boards, black titling to upper cover printed within decorative rule, sadly rebacked with recent cloth tape; ix,[10]-131,[1]pp. Boards quite scuffed and black titling almost completely obscured by the dark blue of the paper, title page nearly separated, rather extensive underlining..... More
Brookfield, MA: E. & G. Merriam, 1828. 24mo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf; xxvii,[28]-192pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, tiny chip mid-spine, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in an attractive American binding. Scarce American edition of the English Nonconformist minister's tract first published..... More
![Item #25645 Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times [Charles Wilkes' Copy]. Earl of...](/pictures/thumb/25645.jpg?v=1676585361)
[London]: [John Darby], 1732. "Fifth Edition, Corrected. With the Addition of a Letter concerning Design." Three volumes; octavos; full 19th-century blind-ruled calf, all edges stained yellow; engraved frontispiece at head of Vol. I, additional vignettes throughout. Light scuffing to leather extremities, joints a bit tender and spine leather darkened, supplied..... More
New York: American Tract Society / D. Fanshaw, Printer, n.d., ca. 1834. 12mo; publisher's cloth over marbled boards, green printed paper spine label; 163pp. Boards a bit scuffed with shallow losses at corner, cloth starting to split along spine ends, textblock a bit dampstained and foxed, 20th century ownership rubberstamp..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, [1983]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; 252pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, front jacket panel a bit wrinkled and toned, small soil spot to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. Barbara Pym's first book, though it..... More
Washington, DC: Lawyers' Literary Club, 1959. Facsimile Reprint of the Second Edition. Two volumes; octavos; publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines; [6],xxxviii,[2],688; xv,[1],691pp. Corners bumped, faint glue residue from previously removed ownership labels to both front pastedowns, later (1990) ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good, still..... More
Boston in New-England: Printed for S. Gerrish at the lower end of Cornhil, 1727. First Edition. Octavo. [2], v [i.e. iv], 39 pp., lacking half title and with p. iv mislabeled v. Printed wraps, disbound. Light chipping to edges of title leaf, else Very Good. Begins with a...... More
![Item #25590 Our Village [Limited Edition]. Mary Russell Mitford, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Hugh...](/pictures/thumb/25590.jpg?v=1676407577)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First Large Paper Edition, Limited to 470 copies. Large octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, later brown gilt-lettered morocco spine label, housed in custom cloth slipcase; lx,256pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged. Top half of front joint cracked, corners a bit bumped, preliminaries foxed, else a Good..... More