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
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, [N.d., possibly 1880s]. Later Edition. Small Quarto. 784 pages. Prize binding. Red leather boards with gilt emblem of Haileybury College on front, gilt border and spine ornamentation, and gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate on front pastedown to W.L. Ogle..... More about The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon: Consisting of an Alphabetical Arrangement of Every...
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First Edition. [Boston?, n.d., ca. 1850s]. First Edition. Small printed broadside flyer (20x14cm.), accomplished in manuscript. Light foxing, previous folds, else Very Good. Small handbill advertising a lecture delivered by abolitionist phrenologist Clother Gifford on Monday and Tuesday, October 17 and 18 in the School Room in Mansfield... More about Broadside] Mr. Clother Gifford, Practical Phrenologist and Physiologist
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 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 about A Selection of English Synonyms
First Edition. Pittsburgh: A. Jaynes, 1842. First Edition. Small Octavo (7.5" x 4.5"); vii, 216pp. Full leather (sheep?) with gilt rules and lettering to spine. Library bookplate with the Vincent family crest on front pastedown. Boards bumped at corners and chipped at tail of spine, with some general smudging. Endpapers... More about Logopolis, or City of Words; Containing a Development of the Sceince, Grammar, Syntax, Logic and...
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...
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
Hardcover. Leominster, Ma.: Adams & Wilder for Isaiah Thomas, 1803. Stated 24th edition. 12mo. (18x11cm); 138 leaves. 276 pp., followed by 2 pages of advertisements. Brown calf leather binding with lettering stamped in gold on red band on spine. Edges rubbed, corners bumped. Front hinge cracked and rear... More about An Introduction to the Making of Latin. Comprising, after an Easy, Compendious Method, The...
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 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
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
First Edition. Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately... More about Avenia: Or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement of the...
First Edition. Charlestown: Geo. Davidson, 1824. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 448pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine and corner tips with title card to spine and gilt lettering. Covers heavily edgeworn and scuffed, with rubbing especially to corners and some chips and smudging to paper over boards. Front hinge... More about An Inquiry into the Scriptural Import of the Words Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna: All...
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...
London: John Stockdale, 1813. Tall octavo; vii, 422pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corner tips. Blindstamped designs on spine with gilt lettering and rules. Marbled page edges. Descriptions of Hogarth's plates, but with no illustrations in this volume. Covers rubbed along edges, especially fore-edge of back cover, with... More about Anecdotes of the Celebrated William Hogarth with an Explanatory Description of His Works, with...