![Item #9805 An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book [Jacket Title: An Air Fighter's Scrapbook]. Ira Jones](/pictures/thumb/9805.jpg?v=1623704496)
London: Nicholson & Watson, 1938. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 332pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, twelve leaves of plates, chiefly photographs. A number of chips and closed tears to jacket extremities occasionally touching text, crudely repaired internally along margins, jacket spine significantly faded, spine slightly cocked, offsetting..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First American Edition, after the Fifth English Edition. Octavo; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green and gilt; xv,[1],423pp.; photographic frontispiece, sixteen leaves of plates including folding map, additional illus. in text. Light shelf wear, corners rather bumped and spine cloth a shade..... More
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. Later printing. Octavo. 57 pp. Stapled printed wraps. Toning and rubbing along edges of wraps; binding sound. Previous owner's inscription facing title, but pages otherwise unmarked. Uncommon in retail. More
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / Dial Press Inc., 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red-orange blind-embossed buckram, spine lettered in black; [2],vi,[2],310pp. Light shelf wear, a hint of fraying at spine crown, spine cloth significantly sunned, light soil to top textblock edge, hairline crack to front hinge, else..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Reprint with fewer plates and 1910 date to title page. Octavo. 126 pp. 16 color plates by Rackham with tissue guards, complete. Green cloth stamped in gilt with color plate pasted to front cover. Dark topstain and light green endpapers with no map. No..... More
New York: George H. Doran Company, [n.d. but 1926]. Presumed First American Edition with GHD initials on title page verso, though dust jacket lacks price. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; 304pp. Jacket a bit chipped with a few small closed tears to extremities, bottom..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's olive-grey cloth lettered in red, red topstain; 267pp. Corners and spine ends gently bumped, spine cocked, rear hinge cracked, else Good to Very Good, albeit lacking the rare jacket. Inter-war mystery novel by one of the most..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue cloth, front cover lettered in red; [8],262pp. General shelf wear to cloth extremities, very brief exposure are corners, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge lightly soiled and dusty; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Lacking..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's bright orange cloth, front cover and spine stamped in blue, blue topstain; [8],290pp. General shelf wear to cloth extremities, corners rather bumped, spine cloth a few shades faded, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound. Lacking..... More
![Item #14652 Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the XVI and XVII Centuries [Limited Edition]....](/pictures/thumb/14652.jpg?v=1670423945)
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 [but 1928]. First Edition, Limited to 375 copies of which this is no. 227. Large, slim quarto; publisher's parchment over green pictorial boards, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; 110pp.; full-page illus. and sheet music throughout. Parchment rather discolored from dust-soil, brief..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1936. First Edition, Limited to 790 copies of which this is no. 470. Large octavo; publisher's red cloth over paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, housed in matching paper-covered slipcase; xviii,435pp.; five leaves of plates including four die-cut facsimiles tipped in and one folding map. Spine..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color..... More
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned, front..... More
![Item #12214 A Red File for Callan: An Inner Sanctum Mystery [alt. title: A Magnum for Schneider]....](/pictures/thumb/12214.jpg?v=1643670941)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 173pp. Light edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, boards bowing a bit at fore-edge, brief tape residue to jacket verso, textblock margins a bit foxed, else a Very Good, bright copy..... More
Pennsylvania? Jane Alden, [2005]. Second Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's comb-bound printed card wrappers; [12],314pp. Some light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Self-published account of the author's thirty years of experience as a crime reporter in the United Kingdom, though at the time..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1882]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's olive cloth over pictorial glazed cream paper-covered boards, all edges stained blue, bright yellow glazed endpapers; 64pp.; illus. throughout printed in color by Edmund Evans. Boards a bit scuffed and paper rather discolored from dust soil, corners bumped..... More
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1861. Later Printing. 16mo (6.25" x 4"); 278pp. Engraved frontis. Lavender cloth-covered boards with "Carter's Fireside Library" blindstamped to front and back panels and gilt lettering to spine. Boards heavily rubbed along edges and corners, with fading along edges, scuffing and some exposure along..... More
![Item #25407 Lives of the Admirals, and other eminent British seamen [Vols. I and II only]. John...](/pictures/thumb/25407.jpg?v=1675436603)
London: Printed by John Applebee, For J. and H. Pemberton...and T. Waller, 1742. First Edition. Two volumes; octavos (20.5cm.); full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments; [16],496,[28]; [8],480,[26]pp. (collated complete); woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Light occasional foxing to textblock, final two blank leaves of Vol. I neatly..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1979. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (23.5m.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Ex-Simpson Library-UMW with their usual markings, spine labels of Vol. 2 & 3 removed with some glue residue (Vol. 1 shows no evidence of ever having had a spine label), else a Very Good..... More
London: Samuel Bagster, 1820. Second Edition, "With Corrections and considerable Additions, including the Linnean order of ferns, together with essential characters and types of the genera of all the other orders or cryptogamia." 12mo (16.5cm.); contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt; mixed paginations ([A]4 2A2 B-2R4 2S-2X2). Boards..... More
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and Sold by John Wilkie, [1782]. Small 24mo (10cm.); inlaid red, white, and blue elaborately gilt-tooled morocco with central motif of an anchor surrounded by myriad floral patterns, at its head a bird, at its foot a bee, marbled endpapers; housed in matching..... More
![Item #002282 Christ the Hunter [Signed Limited Edition]. John Lehmann](/pictures/thumb/002282.jpeg?v=1600371879)
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription and numbered 497 of 500 copies on limitation page. Octavo; 55pp. Blue buckram with silver lettering to spine, housed in gray paper-covered slipcase with paper title card to front. Boards are square with a couple spots..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. First American Edition. Three volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, purple glazed endpapers. Faint cracks starting along hinges of first volume but bindings all sound, light shelf wear to all volumes, top textblock edges dust-soiled, discreet modern (1988) ownership signature..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1938. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; [10],289pp. A number of short closed tears to jacket extremities with subsequent creasing, though never approaching text, minor offsetting to endpaper, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket... More
Exeter: Abel Brown, 1826. 12mo; publisher's full mottled cloth, gilt-ruled spine; ix,[10]-176pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with an 3/4" superficial gouge to back, spine quite dried and darkened and gilt mostly effaced, faint pencil ownership inscription of a Solomon Allen at top of title page, endpapers a bit..... More