New York: HarperCollins, 2014. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo; xiii, 558pp. Photographic dust jacket with $29.99 price intact; book in black and white paper-covered boards with silver lettering tos pine. Jacket bumped at top corner with some adjacent creasing..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [xii], 204p. Illustrated dustjacket over mauve paper- and black cloth-covered boards with bronze lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Moderate pencil underlining..... More
![The Prose Works of Charles Lamb in Three Volumes [Zaehnsdorf Binding]. Charles Lamb](/pictures/thumb/6005.jpg?v=1580240905)
London: Edward Moxon, 1835. First Thus. Three Octavo Volumes. 356p; 340p; 296p. With printer's error in pagination - page 108 numbered 110 in volume 2. Half morocco over marbled boards. Ruled in gilt; four raised bands; gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with bookplate of Oregonian businessman..... More
South Pasadena: Semiotext(e), 2017. First Edition. Octavo; 345pp. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. Jacket a bit rubbed along edges with some general smudging to surface, but no chips or tears. Boards bowing outward a bit at fore-edge, else sturdy and solid. Binding is sound and..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; vi, [7]-304pp. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards scuffed and smudged, with a nickel-sized abrasion at top front, rubbing to corners and spine ends, and a bit of a roll to spine. Opens easily..... 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
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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
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Limited Large Paper Edition, numbered 43 of 50 copies and signed "Charles Whittingham & Co." (the Chiswick Press). Bound by J.P. Gray and Son, Cambridge, with binder stamp at bottom of front pastedown. Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington, Esquire of Cossington in County..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 250 pages + 2 pages advertisements. Red boards with spine stamped in gilt. Chipped at spine ends, more heavily at top. Corners bumped and cracked. Boards somewhat crudely recased but binding now sound. Interior unmarked. A very good first..... More
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Stated First Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, 209p. Printed dustjacket over black cloth-covered boards. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and barcodes to book, but no card pocket. Jacket crisp but with remnants of mostly-removed laminate, now in a new mylar cover..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); xviii, 104p. Photo-illustrated dustjacket over gray paper-covered boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears..... More
London: Richard Taylor and Co., 1807. "A New Edition, with Additional Notes." 12mo; Vol I xxvi + 336pp; Vol II 305pp; Vol III 345pp; Vol IV 341pp. One engraving, in Vol III, illustrating Satire 8 of Bk II of the Satires. Reverse-mottled calf. Parallel Latin and English in each spread..... More
Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co., Ltd., 1897. Imperial Edition. Limited Edition, this set being number 1 of 500. Four volumes in eight. Octavo. Frontis portraits to each volume. Red cloth with brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Spines faded with some staining to boards..... More
Terre Haute: Dictionary Society of North America, 1984. Stated First Printing. Octavo; 97pp. Portrait frontis. Maroon grained leatherette-covered boards with gilt border and lettering. Covers very faintly shelfworn, but sturdy and square with no bumps or marks. Gilt titling a but dulled. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); xxiii, 900pp. Peach topstain. In photographic dust jacket with original $35.00 price. Bronze textured cloth boards with spine and front cover stamped in silver and gilt..... More
New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows light edgewear, but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding and interior sound. Review slip laid in at front. More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. First U.S. Edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); xx, 408p. Blue and green dustjacket over black buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are square with a small bump at top back..... More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 372pp. Illustrated dust jacket over maroon buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket and back board bumped at top corner, else jacket is crisp with no chips or tears and boards sturdy and square. A few..... More
Hardcover. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Octavo; 231pp. Black, white and orange dust jacket with clipped price. Black cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket has some edge wear including chipped front top corners and a closed tear (>1 inch) about halfway down..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo; xxiv + 336pp, including bibliography and index. A map, calligraphic reproduction, or historical novel illustration opens each chapter. White dust jacket of laid paper with blue and black lettering and cover illustration. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Dustjacket..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Turquoise and navy decorative dust jacket by noted Czech book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Binding also by him, in aegean-blue cloth with silver and turquoise spine stamping, including ivy motifs; author's initials, with ivy motif, stamped in turquoise on front panel. Standard Knopf..... More
[Paris]: Editiones du Seuil, 2003. Octavo (10" x 7"); 476p. French-language. Front cover and first few pages creased along fore-edge, else lightly shelfworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1074p. Front cover creased at bottom front, but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Corner-creasing to first 30 or so pages, not involving text. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
[Paris]: Editions du Seuil, 2002. Mass market paperback; 1046p. Covers lightly shelfworn but with no chips, tears, or marks. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More
![The Lives of the English Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works [First Edition]. Samuel...](/pictures/thumb/6579.jpg?v=1593611152)
London: C. Bathurst [et al.], 1781. First Edition. Octavo; Vol I v + 480pp; Vol II 471pp; Vol III 462pp; Vol IV 505pp (includes final advertisement page). Vol I frontispiece engraved by Thomas Trotter after the famous Joshua Reynolds portrait of Johnson looking very much like an irascible, judgmental... More