New York: Willey Book Co., 1938. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 55pp.; chiefly plates throughout, six (including frontispiece) in color. Some minor chipping and wrinkling to jacket extremities, spine panel quite sunned, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, else..... More
London: Philip Chetwind, 1670. "Revised, Corrected, and Inlarged [sic] by the Author himself immediately before his Death." Folio (34cm.); modern half sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, retaining original endpapers; [12],1095,[44]pp. (collated complete, collation available upon request); steel-engraved frontispiece and added title page printed in red and..... More
![Item #12940 Feeling You're Behind: An Autobiography [Signed to Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green]....](/pictures/thumb/12940.jpg?v=1649964647)
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1984. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper to actor and singer Phyllis Newman and her husband, the playwright and lyricist Adolph Green with inscription "For Phyllis and Adolphe [sic], I hope you manage to decipher some of this story of a provincial..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 267pp. Light shelf wear to jacket along with some scratches to back panel, boards lightly shelfworn with nudging to spine ends. The final appearance in book-form of Modesty Blaise, the multi-talented, gun-toting ring-leader of..... More
![Item #9540 Last Day in Limbo [Limited Edition, Signed]. Peter O'Donnell](/pictures/thumb/9540.jpg?v=1621347057)
New York: Mysterious Press, 1976. First Edition (stated First American Edition), Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is no. 2. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket, housed in black cloth slipcase; [2],256pp. White portions of jacket a bit toned, ink with which the..... More
![Item #13768 The Silver Mistress [Limited Edition, Signed]. Peter O'Donnell](/pictures/thumb/13768.jpg?v=1659445738)
New York: Mysterious Press, [1984]. First American Edition Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 86. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in metallic red, housed in matching cloth slipcase; 219pp. A hint of dust-soil to slipcase, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. More
New Edition. London / Edinburgh: H.D. Symonds / Robertson and Berry, 1792. New Edition. Quarto; [ii], 77pp +1 ads. Green paper-covered boards with white cloth spine. Front board and endpapers completely detached, with back board becoming so but still holding by a few inches of cloth. Covers edgeworn, scuffed, smudged..... More
Paradise, [PA?]: Henry Witmer, 1823. Second Edition. Octavo. 116 pages. Printed string-tied wraps. Housed in modern pamphlet binder. Wraps worn and chipped at edges and corners folded over. Cover loose but it and rest of gatherings holding. Ownership inscription to cover. Pages toned and a bit brittle... More
Boston: Manning and Loring, 1808. 12mo; publisher's midnight blue paper-covered boards, black titling to upper cover printed within decorative rule, sadly rebacked with recent cloth tape; ix,[10]-131,[1]pp. Boards quite scuffed and black titling almost completely obscured by the dark blue of the paper, title page nearly separated, rather extensive underlining..... More
![Item #11416 A Modern Tragedy [Signed]. Phyllis Bentley](/pictures/thumb/11416.jpg?v=1635532632)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. First US Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and dated 1934 on front free endpaper. Octavo; [x], 435pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in brown cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration. Black topstain. Jacket shows a number of..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],314pp.; pictorial endpapers. Shallow chips and closed tears along jacket extremities, bottom half of front flap fold split, inscription to front free endpaper enthusiastically effaced, else Very Good in a Good or better..... More
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); xiii,[1],306pp. General minor edge wear, jacket spine and rear panels a bit toned, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. The British novelist's memoir, billed "The..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black pictorial cloth, red titling to upper cover and spine; vii,[3],305pp. Shallow flawing along top board extremities from biopredation, textblock extremities foxed and dust-soiled, faint evidence of effaced ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Good to..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. First American Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's green decorative cloth, black title to upper cover and spine; mixed pagination. Light wear and dust-soil to boards, front hinge cracked, else a Very Good, internally sound, copy. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Stated First Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper in green ink by the editor to journalist William Safire: "For Bill - Strength through your [indecipherable]. / Bob / 1977." Octavo; 208 pp. Dust jacket with original $6.95 price. Green cloth binding on spine..... More
[London]: The National Society of Operative Printers & Assistants, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pages. Black and white plates. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards are worn at extremities with exposure. Front boards show significant paper remnants from previously removed label (?). Remnants heavy on front..... More
![Item #12017 A Quiet Belief in Angels [Inscribed and Signed]. R J. Ellory](/pictures/thumb/12017.jpg?v=1642531138)
London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd, 2007. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in unpriced photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],353pp. Just About Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page: "A life: no more nor less than that... Roger J. Ellory / 22.08.07." The English author's best-selling thriller, set..... More
Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., [1980]. First Edition. Slim quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in blue photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly half-tone photographic illus. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners very gently bumped, faint clear tape reinforcement to jacket corners, else Very Good or better overall. The second title in..... More
Brookfield, MA: E. & G. Merriam, 1828. 24mo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf; xxvii,[28]-192pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, tiny chip mid-spine, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in an attractive American binding. Scarce American edition of the English Nonconformist minister's tract first published..... More
New York: Brentano's, 1926. First Thus, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 32. Quarto; publisher's parchment over blue boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xiii,[1],169pp.; twelve full-page illus., text printed within decorative border throughout. Boards recased with..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 492 pp. Two lithographs with tissue guard (Sketch of Medinah and additional title); fold-out map of Burton's route. Original brown publisher's cloth, recased, brown endpapers. Originally published in three volumes the year prior in England, here condensed to one..... More
![Item #14426 One Hundred and Eleven Poems [Limited Edition, Signed by Flint]. Robert Herrick,...](/pictures/thumb/14426.jpg?v=1667161403)
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. First Edition, Limited to 105 copies bound in alum-tanned sheepskin of which this is no. 47. Quarto; publisher's full cream pictorial sheep, front cover embossed in gilt, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, binder's stamp "Bound by S&S, London" [Sangorski and Sutcliffe] on bottom turn-in of..... More
Dublin: E. Lynch, G. Burnet, P. Wogan, et al., 1792. Volume III only. Octavo. 361 p. + 21 p constituting "The Table." Full leather with floral decoration to front and rear and red leather spine label lettered in gilt. Boards are chipped with loss at top of spine..... More
Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. Reprint. Octavo. 199 pp. Black and white illustrations. Black boards with silver lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities, binding sound, and pages unmarked. More
London: John Murray, 1829. First Edition. Octavo. 221 p. + advertisements. Engraved frontis. Rebacked with green leather and new title label to spine, preserving original boards. Bookplate of Harvard Professor Arthur Stone Dewing to front pastedown. Boards worn at corners with exposure and some general rubbing and scuffing to..... More