First U.S. Edition. Philadelphia: H. Hooker & Co., 1857. First U.S. Edition ("Complete from the London Edition"). 16mo (6" x 4"); 162pp. Blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with chips at center of spine exposing binder's waste and shallow... More about The First of June: or, Schoolboy Rivalry. A Tale of Charlton School
Later Printing. New York: Penguin, 2010. Later Printing. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; 95pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn, but crisp overall with no chips, tears, or marks. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's fourth collection, and winner of the 2010 National Book Award. More about Lighthead
First Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 72pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.95 price; book in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a small, clean tear at top front and shallow chipping to head of spine. Boards are square... More about For the Union Dead
London / New York: Crosby Lockwood & Son / The Industrial Book Co., 1931. Later Printing of the 1930 First Edition. Octavo; 194pp +1 ads. 36 photo plates including frontis, all present. Black patterned cloth with white lettering. Missing dust jacket. Covers a bit scuffed and smudged, with shallow chips... More about The Talkies
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Two Volumes; Vol. I: 7th Printing, January 1928, Vol II: First Thus, 1928. Octavo; I: xviii, 443pp, fold-out diagram at back; II: xi, 507pp +xxxii index. Eratta slip for Vol I laid in at back. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. No dust jacket... More about The Decline of the West [Two Volumes
New York: Crown Publishers, 1946. First Edition Thus. Reprint of the 1936 Derrydale Editions. Octavos; 217 and 220p. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering, housed in cardboard slipcase with printed title panels. Covers are square with some fading and toning to spine. Both volumes open easily at covers and to... More about The Gentleman's Companion (Two Volumes) Vol I: Being an Exotic Cookery Book, or, Around the World...
First Edition. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 349pp. Photographic dust jacket over black leatherette with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is... More about Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War
First Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990. First Edition. Inscribed by editor and translator Jerrold "Jerry" Schecter to author, journalist, and speechwriter William Safire on half title page. Small Quarto. In dust jacket with original "$19.95" price present. Black boards with spine stamped in gilt. Inscription reads... More about Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1928. Later printing. Inscibed by author on half-title. Printed wraps. Sextodecimo. 116 pages. Lower half of front cover is detached from spine, but top half is holding. Spine itself is chipped and worn and detached at bottom, and back cover is barely holding on. Edges are chipped... More about Voyage Au Pays Des Articoles
First Mexican Edition. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. First Mexican Edition. Published in the same year in Argentina and Mexico. Sextodecimo. 159 pages. Text in Spanish. Black and white illustrations. In illustrated dust jacket. Patterned copper boards with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is... More about Manual de Zoologia Fantastica
Third Edition. Hardcover. London: Samuel Holdsworth, 1838. Third Edition, Enlarged. Gift inscription from senator and presidential adviser Gary Hart to author, journalist, and presidential speechwriter William Safire on front free endpaper, with additional handwritten letter laid in. 12mo (7" x 4.5"); xii, 280pp. Later red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering... More about A Dictionary of Derivations, or an Introduction to Etymology: On a New Plan. To Which is Appended...
Maurice LaLau. Paris: Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1923. Later Printing of the 1914 First Edition. French language. Quarto; iv, 154pp. Nine mounted color plates, with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's pink cloth with color illustration to front. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some scuffs down... More about Contes Roses de ma Mere-Grand
First Edition. Irvington-on-Hudson: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1977. First Edition. Signed by the author to Johns Hopkins political science professor and author Gottfried Dietz on dedication page. Octavo; 177pp. Original translucent glassine dust jacket over dark read leatherette with white and yellow lettering. Shallow chips to jacket at spine... More about Awake for Freedom's Sake
First Edition. Irvington-on-Hudson: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1965. First Edition. Signed to Johns Hopkins political science professor and author Gottfried Dietz with inscription "To Gottfried -- Confusion to the enemy! Leonard" on front free endpaper. Octavo; 67pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering. Covers lightly shelfworn with a few small... More about The Free Market and Its Enemy
First Edition. Irvington-on-Hudson, The Foundation for Economic Education, 1964. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription to Johns Hopkins political science professor and author Gottfried Dietz on dedication page. Octavo; 243pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Covers are square and clean with only very faint shelfwear. Binding... More about Anything That's Peaceful
First Edition. Irvington-on-Hudson, The Foundation for Economic Education, 1968. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription to Johns Hopkins political science professor and author Gottfried Dietz on dedication page. Octavo; 114pp. Two-toned red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Covers lightly shelfworn with a few smudges to cloth. Binding... More about Accent on the Right
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [n.d., ca. 1870s]. Octavo; viii, 528pp. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Red publisher's cloth with black stamped borders and black and gold ornamentation to spine. Boards edgeworn with bumping to corners and spine ends, along with some darkening to spine and a few smudges to cloth..... More about Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey
George Cruikshank; Robert Cruikchank. First Edition. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 184pp. Six plates including frontis, all present. Harvard University Library binding in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Harvard College Library bookplate on front pastedown with circular deaccession/"released" stamp on plate and small... More about Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. Octavo. 308 pages. In illustrated dust jacket with original $24.95 price. Textured sky blue cloth with spine and front board stamped in silver. Some very light creasing along top edge... More about The Widows of Eastwick
First Edition. Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: La Revista de Yucatan, 1919. Illustrated Wraps. Octavo. 187 pages. Black and white photographs.Text in Spanish. A chronicle of the 1910 rebellion of Valladolid, often referred to as the spark of the Mexican Revolution. Menendez was accused of sedition and inciting a rebellion... More about La Primera Chispa De La Revolucion Mexicana (El Movimiento de Valladolid en 1910) -- Estudio...
Second Edition. London: Trüber & Co., 1887. Second Edition. 16mo (6.75" x 4.75"); viii, 139pp +3 ads. Illustrated yellow cloth-covered boards. Covers lightly edgeworn with a chip to cloth at tail of spine and a fair bit of general smudging and soiling. Bookplate of The Benson Library of the Episcopal... More about Pidgin-English Sing-Song: or, Songs and Stories in the Chinga-English Dialect
First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1872. First Edition. Octavo; 685pp +5pp ads. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn with bumping to corners and spine ends, along with a few smudges and a couple small runs to cloth. Opens easily to between a few gatherings... More about Americanisms; The English of the New World
First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1952. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription to author, journalist, and speechwriter William Safire on front free endpaper. Octavo; 381pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Missing dust jacket. Covers lightly bumped at corners with some... More about The Story of English
Second Edition. London: J. & W.T. Clarke, 1823. Second Edition, Corrected. Octavo; iv, 219pp. Ad endpapers. Light brown limp cloth-covered boards with blind-embossed decoration and title card to spine. Covers edgeworn and bumped at corners and spine ends, with some soiling and smudging to face. Spine label half chipped away... More about A Law Glossary of the Latin, Greek, Norman, French, and Other Languages; Interspersed in the...
First Thus. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1918. First English Language translation, limited to 380 copies of which 350 were for sale, this copy numbered 348 on colophon at back. Octavo; 42pp. Some pages still uncut. Armorial bookplate of Constance Virginia Carter on front pastedown, with bookseller's ticket... More about The Jargon of Master Francois Villon, Clerk of Paris A.D.MCCCCLII. Being Seven Ballads from The...