Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and Company, 1878. First Edition. Octavo. 406 pages + advertisements. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Plaid endpapers. Light wear to extremities.Top of spine is tugged and bottom nudged. Some faint rippling and staining in spots. Binding is sound. Stain to fore edge of text..... More
W.J. Hennessy. Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1870. First Thus. Octavo (8.25" x 6.5"); iv, 74p. Illustrations throughout by W.J. Hennessy. Rebound in green leather with gilt lettering and decoration, with gilt dentelle, marbled endpapers, and gilt page edges. Covers bumped at corners and scuffed along edges, with..... More
First American Edition. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1852. First American Edition, from the Second London Edition. Octavo; 179pp. Stamped red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Covers heavily faded and soiled, with bumping to corners and spine ends. Front hinge cracked, with covers opening a bit shakily and..... More
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Los Angeles: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd, 2000. First Edition, Limited to 1500 copies. Large quarto (31.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],127pp.; color photographs throughout. Light ink soil to rear jacket panel, minor shelf wear, else a Very Good or better copy. Fully-illustrated catalog issued..... More
Roseville, MN: Edinborough Press, 2009. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv,[1],318pp.; illus. throughout, including maps and photographs. Corners gently bumped, else Near Fine. First biography devoted to Ulric Dahlgren (1842-1864), the young Union colonel known for leading the failed Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid on Richmond during which..... More
Zanesville, OH: Edwin C. Church, 1846. First Edition. Octavo; full contemporary sheep, remnants only of black spine label; vii,[1],300pp. Leather quite scuffed and dried with some peeling and exposure, shallow chips and loss at spine ends, both front free endpaper and flyleaf torn with loss, though contemporary pencil ownership inscription..... More
Limoges: Martial Ardent Frères, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's Tiffany's-green gilt-embossed cartonnage boards; 180pp.; frontispiece. Boards quite rubbed and joints cracked, chip at spine foot, corners bumped, the whole a bit dust-soiled, text block significantly foxed, else Good or better overall. Prize copy with contemporary ex libris..... More
Philadelphia: WM. Rutter & Co., 1875. Two Quarto Volumes. 990 p.; 1054 p. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Worn at extremities; corners cracked. Rear joint of volume 1 cracked and separation at spine but binding is holding. Two inch tear to front..... More
Washington: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1847. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); removed; 15pp. Light dustiness, title page nearly separated, bottom fore-edge corner of text block dog-eared, else Good overall, internally fresh and sound. Indiana Whig politician's attack on the Mexican War policy of the Polk administration, especially in regards..... More
Paris: Librairie Administrative de Paul Dupont, 1869. First Edition. Large Octavo. 124 pages. Original printed wrappers. A defense of the national tobacco industry from the director of the state tobacco industries. Rolland was better known as a collector of French folklore. A bit foxed and soiled;..... More
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New York: Macmillan and Company, 1893. First Edition. 24mo (5.25" x 3.75"); 108pp +8pp ads. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Mottled blue gray linen boards with black and red lettering and illustration. Front board board bumped at top corner with an adjacent run to cloth. Boards otherwise smudged with a...... More
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [1858]. First Edition, Earliest Located Printing with all points present. Octavo; [viii] + 9-368pp + terminal 16pp of advertisements. Inserted frontispiece engraved in black and sepia, with tissue guard in place. Engravings by Avery throughout, reproducing originals by Phiz, Cruickshank, and many others. Olive..... More
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Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1887]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; x,332pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, shallow loss at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, text block a bit soiled, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed on front free..... More
Senigallia: Tipografia Lazzarini, 1837. First Edition. Octavo; [vi] + xlvi + 234pp. Engraved portrait of Arsilli as frontispiece. Quarter bound in sea-green leather with small leather corners. Boards in coordinated stone-marbled paper; textblock faintly speckled on all edges in same sea-green. Gilt lettering and ornament on spine; title set off..... More
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Roma: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half vellum over decorative textured boards, black gilt-lettered spine onlay, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers; 252pp.; illus. Light spotting to vellum, spine a bit toned, boards slightly bowed, endpapers and title page somewhat browned due to inferior paper..... More
New York: John R. Alden, 1887. Small 12mo (161cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 217,[1],[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy in attractive publisher's cloth binding. You've already deduced that παιδεραστής = pederast, haven't..... More
First Edition. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1867. Octavo; 429 pages +2 adverts. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Engraved portrait frontis. Boards are rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, with some runs to the cloth and a few stains and smudges. Pages toned with some fingerprinting..... More
Boston: Wright & Potter, 1868. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 15pp. Slightly ex-New York State Library with their faint rubber-stamp to upper cover, stock a bit toned and very slightly foxed, tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner of rear two leaves not approaching text, else Good to..... More
Paris: Delance et Lesueur, 1804. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo; full contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with two red onlays, marbled endpapers; [4],301pp. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners, a few late leaves with closed horizontal tear mid-fore-edge touching text without loss of sense, else a Very Good copy..... More
Pittsburg [sic], PA: A.R. Crum & Co., [1899]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.,); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 92pp. Some light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, very faint soil, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later fraternal prize inscription to front free endpaper to a Sir Knight (illegible), "for securing..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's terracotta cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; viii,275pp. Boards a bit rubbed, corners bumped, small indentation to rear cover fore-edge, some minor spotting to preliminaries, else Near Very Good, interior mostly fine. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1898. First Edition. Large Octavo. 272 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brown boards decorative chess board to front and spine and front in gilt. Top edge gilt. The second in Young's 'Chess Strategetics' series and includes chapters on major tactics, geometric and sub-geometric..... More
Paris: Émile-Paul, 1909. Cinquième Édition. Octavo (21cm.); recent calf over original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],x,366pp.; 22 leaves of illus. including photographs. Light wear, small chip to spine crown, text block uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound overall. Biography of the French statesman the Duc de Morny (1811-1865). More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press / Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1987. First Edition. Large quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[1],239pp.; half-tone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, spine panel sunned, else Very Good and..... More
New York: T. W. Strong, 1855. Stated 33rd edition, much enlarged and improved. 15.5 x 10 cm; 467 pp. followed by one page of advertisements. Ten black and white illustrations and three color plates. Blind-stamped green cloth binding with text in gold on spine. Corners of cover rubbed through to..... More