First Edition. Hardcover. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866. First Edition, Second Issue (see below). Rebound in marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners. Octavo; vii, 344p. Missing adverts at back. Front board cracked and separating 3/4 of the way down joint, likely to separate fully soon. Covers scuffed... More about Poems and Ballads
Saratoga Springs: G.M. Davison, 1820. Octavo (8.5" x 5.25"); xv, 284pp. Leather boards with title card to spine. Covers rubbed along edges and corners with scuffing along bottom front joint and some smudging and scratching to leather. Missin front free endpaper, with half-inch strip cut along top of full title... More about The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Public Occasions,...
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 about Lady Geraldine's Courtship
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 about A Memoir of the Life and Labors of Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D., Late President of Brown...
A New Edition Enlarged. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1832. New Enlarged Edition. Octavo; 535pp. Full contemporary calf with gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of author and columnist William Safire affixed to front pastedown, with his blind embossed stamp on front free endpaper... More about English Synonymes, with Copious Illustrations and Explanations, Drawn from the Best Writers
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Thirteenth Edition. London: C.S. Arnold, 1826. Thirteenth Edition. Octavo (9" x 5.5"); xxxiv, [65pp]. Fold-out chart at front. Pink paper-covered boards with octagonal title label to front. Covers bumped at corners and rubbed along edges, with some soiling/smudging and a few waterspots. Half-inch tear to fold-out in margin near gutter... More about The Book of Fate [Napoleon's Oraculum
First U.S. Edition. Philadelphia: H. Hooker & Co., 1857. First U.S. Edition ("Complete from the London Edition"). 16mo (6" x 4"); 162pp. Blindstamped black cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with chips at center of spine exposing binder's waste and shallow... More about The First of June: or, Schoolboy Rivalry. A Tale of Charlton School
Fourth Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1846. Fourth Edition. Octavo (6.75" x 4.5"); [iv], 220p. Elaborately blindstamped leather boards with red title card and gilt lettering to spine. Front board and first gathering of blanks separated, with back board cracked down spine and just holding by stitching. Covers... More about So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby, as Relates to Her Domestic History, and to the Eventful...
Rockwell Kent. First Thus. Hardcover. New York: Random House, 1930. First Thus. SIGNED by Rockwell Kent on small paper strip laid in at front. Octavo (7.25" x 5.5"); xxxi, 822p. Missing dustjacket. Black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering and illustration. Covers lightly bumped at corners with some tugging and fraying... More about Moby Dick, or the Whale
Second Edition. Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1834. Second Edition with corrections and additions. Small octavo (5.75" x 3.75"); xxx, 311p +2p indices. Many pages still uncut. Printed paper wraps. Back cover barely holding on at spine, with front torn 3.5" up. Corners bumped and creased with some toning and foxing. Spine... More about Sulla Educazione dei Figliuoli: Dialogo del Giacomo Sadoleto
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1876. Later Printing of the 1873 Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, [17]-393p. Six color plates. Full leather with black title card and gilt lettering. Covers heavily chipped and frayed at spine ends, with a good but of scuffing and smudging to leather and along... More about On the Reproductive Organs and the Venereal
First American Edition. Philadelphia: Budd and Bartram for H. & P. Price [et. al.], 1803. First American Edition. Octavo. pp. cxxxi, [i], [990]. Rebound in three quarter morocco and marbled paper. Bookplate of author, journalist, language columnist, and speechwriter William Safire affixed to front pastedown. Recent binding is near... More about A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: In Which Not Only the...
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First Edition, with all BAL cloth-bound First Issue points except for a Second Issue portrait frontis (see below). Octavo, 366p. Engraved Huck and photographic Twain bust frontispieces with tissue guard between, along with numerous illustrations throughout. Green publisher’s cloth..... More about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Companion
New Edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. New Edition, with Introduction by Mrs. Henry [Millicent] Fawcett. Octavo; xvi, 287pp. Publisher's blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Covers bumped at corners and along edges, with some scuffs along joints, tugging at spine ends, and a few scuffs and smudges... More about A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
First American Edition. Philadelphia: W. Poyntell, 1804. Stated First American Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5")' [xxii], 610p. Full leather with title card to spine. Covers edgeworn, scuffed, and soiled, with chips to spine ends and cracking down joints (back board still holding by two stitches). Hinges cracking with Advertisement page... More about Opera: Interpretatione et Notis
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly... More about The Satires of A. Persius Flaccus
First edition. London: Rivingtons, 1889. First Edition. Octavo (9" x 6"); xix, 540p. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and star and crescent ornament. Ex-library of Reformed Theological Seminary, Lancaster, PA, with abrasions to back pastedown from pocket removal, sticker shadow/remnant to tail of spine, and stamps on verso of... More about Mohammed and Mohammedanism
F.O.C. Darley. First Edition. Hardcover. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886. First Edition. Octavo (8.25" x 6.5"); 87p. Six illustrations and four vignettes, all present. Rebound in black leather with original front panel with gilt lettering and decoration retained. Covers edgeworn with a few scuffs to face. Old gift inscription on... More about Knickerbocker Sketches: from "A History of New York"
Hardcover. Owensboro, KY: Industrial Publishing co., [1895]. First Edition. Green cloth-covered boards; vi, 310p. Adverts at back. Covers scuffed and soiled with some superficial chewing and apparent dampstaining to cloth, along with some bumping to corners and spine ends. Stamp of W.A. Hardten in St. Mary's, Kansas with the date... More about Nineteenth Century Handbook on the Manufacture of Liquors, Wines and Cordials Without The Aid of...