New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; 429pp. First State dust jacket with "Author on the left" caption on back and original $1.00 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at spine ends, with a few smaller chips and tears..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 335 pages. Frontispiece; 15 black and white plates; fold-out map printed in black and red tipped in at rear. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.00" price present. Plum glacé boards stamped in black at spine and front board..... More
New York: Random House, 1957. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 1168pp. Original illustrated dust jacket overgreen cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is price-clipped, with a 3" x 1" chip at bottom front along with a few shallow chips over spine ends and a few scuffs along folds. Boards bumped at..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 546 pages. Signed by Cesar Chavez on half title with inscription, "To Joe and Marie / best wishes / Cesar Chavez / 9/16/85." Price-clipped photographic dust jacket is chipped along edges with tears to spine ends and..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Stated First Printing / Printed in the United States of America. Octavo; 216pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with Cock Robin Thriller emblem on front and marigold lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly edgeworn and spine a bit rolled, with a small chip at..... More
London: James Duncan, 1827. First Thus. Octavo. xxviii, 551 pages. Drab olive cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Worn with some exposure to extremities. Spine a touch faded. Some staining and scuffing to boards. Markings in pencil to endpapers; some light foxing to pages; binding is sound and pages otherwise..... More
Meriden, CT: The Ralston University Press, 1928. First Edition. Volume II only, including Lessons Two and Three. Octavo. 142 pages. Light blue variant cloth stamped in navy. Edges are worn a bit frayed in spots; spine is browned; some spotting to front and rear boards. Foxing to top of text..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. First Edition. Large Octavo. 729 pages. Signed by Yew on title page to author and Presidential Speechwriter William Safire with inscription, "To William Safire / Tear into this with your sharp, / acid pen in your column. / and get me a few more readers..... More
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1974. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 296pp. Printed photographic dust jacket with original $7.95 price intact; book in black cloth-covered boards with silver and fuchsia lettering. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, along with some light scuffing to surface. Spine..... More
Philadephia: John C. Winston Company, 1949. First Thus. Octavo. 417 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout plus 8 color plates. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Abridged by Maugham and includes his introduction. Dust jacket is lightly chipped at corners and spine ends with two..... More
London: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2017. First Edition. Octavo. 305 pages. Volume 52 in the Camden Fifth Series. Illustrated dust jacket is a trifle worn at corners. Red boards are stamped in gilt at spine and show some very light smudging to bottom edge and a...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 293 pages. Lacks dust jacket. Signed on printed presentation leaf by Zukor to a Trevor Faulkner. Blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Chipped and frayed at spine ends with some loss..... More
New York: Random House, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 307 pages. Signed by author without inscription on half title. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket is lightly rubbed and creased along edges. Some toning to spine. White boards in blue cloth with spine stamped in copper. Some fading and soiling..... More
New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 688 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket shows some creasing along edges, more pronounced at spine ends, and light rubbing to front panel. Black boards are stamped in green at spine and red to front. Tugged and with some wear to..... More
![La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] (3 Volumes). Dante Alighieri, Luigi Portirelli, Girolamo...](/pictures/thumb/5745.jpg?v=1574188455)
Milano: Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani, 1804. First Thus. Three Volumes. Octavo. I: lxvii, 336pp, [2]; II: li, 441pp., [3]; III: 453pp., [3]. Three black and white illustrations plus frontispiece. Quarter contemporary leather with marbled cardboard boards. Brown leather spine labels. Speckled edges. Includes life of Dante written..... More
Boston: John H. Eastburn, 1832. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 21 pages. Upper edge of title page a bit soiled. Evident ex-library copy with "Dup discard" in pencil on title and call number to rear. Quincy lectures on the American Revolution as the result of historical circumstances rather than..... More
Beaujeu, [FR]: Imprimerie Philippe Thomas, [ca. 1910]. First Edition. Oblong Duodecimo. Original printer yellow wrappers printed in forest green. [31] pages. Illustrated. Wrappers a bit soiled, spine a bit boxed, some light internal foxing. Very Good. An illustrated trade catalog for these prize-winning patent pruning shears, designed according to..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1954. First Edition. Octavo; xiii + 272pp, including bibliography and index. Rainbow jacket. Tan cloth with gold lettering in black panel on spine. Jacket spine chipped crown and foot; spine faded. Binding clean, square, and tight. Slight soiling to top edge of..... More
Fitchburg, MA: [Livermore & Knight], 1896. First Edition. Oblong octavo; [28] pp. Illustrations and local advertisements throughout. Printed in three columns on coarse brown butcher paper. Stiff burlap wrappers with decorative ribbon binding and a wax seal. Side staple binding. Wrappers are cracked and separated from the text block..... More
Chicago: Independent Religious Society, 1908. First Edition. Small octavo; Side-stapled in paper wraps, rebound between protective stiff boards with canvas spine. Slight sunning to board edges; minor stains on front face. This record of a debate between a believer in the historical Jesus, Rev. Crapsey, and a disbeliever, Mr..... More
Swarthmore: The West Basement Press [Swarthmore College], 1944. Small octavo; [40pp]. Author-drawn cartoons on every page. Side-stapled in paper wraps. Wraps lightly soiled. "Editorial cartoons" for the college-paper audience, based on campus life in 1943 and 1944. Many Swarthmore-specific in-jokes, now indecipherable, but an interesting picture of flirtation, gender-mixing..... More
New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1912. First Edition. 12mo; 148pp. Brown card softcover with lettering and borders in black on face and spine. Reglued spine; hinges eroded but still holding. All corners bumped with some crimps to corners of textblock, now straightened. All outer surfaces lightly soiled. A...... More
Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "With the best wishes / from Temple Bailey / 1930." Lacks dust jacket. Blue publisher's cloth with spine and front stamped in black with blue topstain. Wear to extremities;..... More
![Broadside] FRANCO Is a Fascist Executioner! Abraham Lincoln Brigade](/pictures/thumb/5730.jpg?v=1573844785)
New York: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, [1963]. First Edition. Broadside, approx. 8 x 5.5 inches. Navy ink on offwhite paper, now evenly yellowed to a parchment hue. Very clean; previously crumpled but now well-flattened in mylar. A call to attend a protest on 3 May 1963 against..... More
London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1957. First Edition. Octavo; 255, [1] pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original "16/-net" price. Red cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket bright with minor rubbing and edge wear, small chip to foot of spine. Closed tear on top back..... More