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
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. Signed by editor and translator Jerrold "Jerry" Schecter to author, journalist, and speechwriter William Safire on half title with inscription "For Bill, | With admiration for | your mastery of words + ideas. | Please consult on Kirov | and... More about Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1928. Later printing. Inscibed by author on half-title. Printed wraps. Sextodecimo; 116pp. 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 and... 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; 159pp. Text in Spanish. Black and white illustrations.I lllustrated dust jacket over patterned copper boards with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is worn... 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
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. Octavo; 187pp. Illustrated Wraps. 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, and... 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 China-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...
First Edition. Buenos Aires: Editorial Troquel, 1955. First Edition. Small Octavo; 99 pages. Black and orange printed wraps. Text in Spanish. An introduction to the Argentinian poet, novelist, and politician Leopoldo Lugones, whose work was an influence on authors Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Horacio Quiroga, among others... More about Leopoldo Lugones
Limited Edition. Middlebury: The Middlebury College Press, 1964. Limited Edition (number unspecified). Side-stapled pamphlet (9" x 6"); unpaginated. Covers lightly shelfworn with no chips, tears, or marks. Foxing to fore-edge and sparsely to interior, else pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Five memorial addresses delivered by Frost's friends... More about Robert Frost and Bread Loaf
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1908. Later Printing. Octavo; xxxii, 495pp + 32pp publisher's catalog at back. Red publisher's cloth with ornate gilt and black illustration and lettering. Covers edgeworn with bumping at corners and spine ends, along with some soiling and smudging down spine and more lightly on... More about The Techno-Chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts: Covering the Latest, Most...
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John McCrady. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First Edition with FR symbol on copyright page. Signed by author on half title with a charming inscription: "To the sweetest person I know - Devotedly, Hodding. (P.S. - It's you, Louise.)" Black and white illustrations throughout by John... More about Lower Mississippi [The Rivers of America Series
Second Printing. Hardcover. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Stated Second Printing. Signed on front free endpaper by J. Edgar Hoover with inscription to Dr. Marshall M. Parks, the first pediatric ophthalmologist. Octavo; 212pp. No dust jacket. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in red and gold... More about A Study of Communism