New York: Congdon & Lattès, 1980. First Edition (stated). Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's embossed boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],508pp.; illus. Minor wear to jacket and board extremities, light foxing to textblock edges, else Very Good or better. Batchelor's first book, a comic novel set six years in the..... More
Georgetown: Robert Alleson, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 8pp. Stock rather brittle, toned, and slightly foxed, shallow loss along top edge of each leaf not approaching text, contemporary ownership signature at head of title page with subsequent ink splatters, else Good or better. Anonymously-penned critique of the Madison..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [14],294pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Some wear to jacket extremities, including faint horizontal fold across entire mid-section, old tape repair to verso not visible externally, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Collective..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 241 pp. Grey boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Spine toned and toned around edges. Boards show light patches of staining. Binding is sound. Bookplate of Sidney Herschel Small to front pastedown. A touch of foxing to preliminaries..... More