First U.S. Edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Stated First American Edition. Octavo; 314pp. Beige cloth-covered boards with red and black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Library stamp of S.H. George & Sons Rental Library of Knoxville, TN on front free endpaper, but no other library markings, pockets, or..... More about Nineteen Eighty-Four

First American Edition. Philadelphia: Budd and Bartram for H. & P. Price [et. al.], 1803. First American Edition. Octavo. pp. cxxxi, [i], [990]. Rebound in three quarter morocco and marbled paper. Bookplate of author, journalist, language columnist, and speechwriter William Safire affixed to front pastedown. Recent binding is near... More about A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In Which Not Only the...

First US Edition. Hardcover. New York: Viking, 1948. First US Edition (October 1948). Octavo; 367pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $3.00 price. Red cloth binding with gold lettering stamped on cover and spine. Dust jacket sunned along spine and edges, wrapping around about 1 inch to front and back from... More about The Corner That Held Them: A Novel

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

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. 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...

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

First Edition. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 185 pages followed by fourteen pages of a blank ledger for recording wine purchases and notes. In dust jacket illustrated by film art designer Edward Carrick, with Borzoi Books colophon to base of spine. Marbled paper boards in purple cloth... More about A Book of Other Wines -- Than French

First Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 384 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $2.50 price present. Red boards with spine and front board stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is moderately rubbed and creased along edges and corners, with some slight chipping at corners and... More about The Gardener's Day Book

First Edition. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with 8s. 6d. price present. Navy boards with spine in gilt. Dust jacket is edgeworn and one closed tear on top right corner of front panel. Boards are square in binding. A trifle... More about Vegetable Cookery