Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872. Revised Edition. Ten large octavo volumes. Frontispiece, maps, plates, and numerous small illustrations throughout each volume, including "Annual Revolution of the Earth Round the Sun" to volume three. Three-quarter contemporary sheep over marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine; five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873-1900. Octavo; about 1000pp per volume. Between 400 and 500 line-engravings and full-page illustrations per volume. Thirteen volumes half-bound in utilitarian library sheepskin with marble boards; 8 volumes bound in brown-black library buckram. All stitching of textblocks solid, and all textblocks clean and whole..... More
London: John Murray, 1804. Second Edition. Small Octavo; Vol. I xvi + 379pp + 4pp of publisher's prospectus; Vol. II 420pp; Vol. III vi + 322pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Each volume has an engraved portrait frontispiece (Moreau, Pichegru, and the Duc d'Enghien, respectively); the third also includes a...... More
Washington, D.C. and New York: National Gallery of Art/Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two quarto volumes in photographic slipcase; 1012pp in total. Linen cloth stamped in black. Pristine. Unopened in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Slipcase without flaws. Definitive Stieglitz catalog of 1600+ photographs, published in conjunction with the massive 2002..... More
![America: Great Crises of Our History, Told by Its Makers. A library of original sources [Signed]....](/pictures/thumb/6724.jpg?v=1595362421)
Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly toned..... More
![Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years [Six Volumes]. Carl Sandburg](/pictures/thumb/6831.jpg?v=1595942118)
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1926 & 1939. Mixed printings. Octavo. Blue cloth. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Yellow topstains. The Prairie Years Vols I & II (1926, First Edition); The War Years Vols I - IV (1939, Second Printing). Light wear to edges of..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1966-1970. Early but not first printings of the complete Oxford Illustrated Edition first published thus between 1948 and 1959. Octavo; volumes range from xx+299pp to xxii+880pp; printed by clever Oxford bookmakers on varying weights of paper to reduce disparities in spine width. All volumes illustrated with..... More
![The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri [Six Volumes Complete]. Dante Alighieri, Henry Wadsworth...](/pictures/thumb/6408.jpg?v=1592417053)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Limited Large Paper de luxe Edition, this being #336 of 650. Quarto. Brown cloth with paper labels to spine. Deckled edges. Flaxman's spare illustrations throughout. Some wear and fraying to spine ends, but bindings sound and interiors clean. More
![Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine [Seven Volumes]. Douglas Jerrold, John Leech, William](/pictures/thumb/6871.jpeg?v=1597183112)
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845-1848. Seven octavo volumes. Illustrations by John Leech. Dark brown cloth boards with lettered in decorated in gilt. Chipping at spine ends to all seven volumes, with substantial loss to two of them. Corners bumped with brief exposure and worn along joints..... More
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, ?1905-1924. Early printing in this form. 12mo; Vol I 190pp; Vol II 189pp; Vol III xiii + 176pp. Box with cover about 17x11x6cm. B&W frontispiece in all volumes, each with tissue guard still in place; Vols I and III include facsimiles of Poe's handwriting..... More
New York: Redfield, 1856-1857. Later Printings of Vols I-III, with apparent First Printing of Vol IV. Octavos (7.5" x 5"); Vol I - Tales (1857): lv, 483pp, portrait frontis with tissue guard; Vol II - Poems and Tales (1857): xxvi, 495pp; Vol III - The Literati (1857): iv..... More
![The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Twelve Volumes]. Edward Gibbon](/pictures/thumb/6315.jpg?v=1593098265)
London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. "A New Edition." Twelve Octavo Volumes Complete. Frontis portrait and two fold-out maps to volumes 1 and 2. Full contemporary tree-calf with black and red labels and gilt decoration to spine. Worn along edges, with bumping to corners and some loss to..... More
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929. "Privately Printed for Subscribers Only." "This edition is limited to thirteen hundred numbered copies of which this is copy number 1387"--a numerical impossibility which may indicate over-subscription or acknowledged over-run. Folio; Vol I xl + 515pp; Vol II extends pagination through p. 865; Vol III..... More
New York: The Nottingham Society, [c. 1900]. "Edition De Luxe." Octavo; Vol I: Silas Marner 186pp, Scenes of Clerical Life 377pp, The Lifted Veil 45pp, Brother Jacob 43pp; Vol II Adam Bede 544pp; Vol III The Mill on the Floss 546pp; Vol IV Romola 596pp; Vol V Felix Holt 477pp;..... More
![Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son [Four Volumes]. Hallam Tennyson](/pictures/thumb/5750.jpg?v=1574187188)
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1897. Limited 'Connoisseur' Edition, this being #37 of 250. Four volumes bound in three quarter leather over marbled paper boards; spines lettered in gilt; five raised bands; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations to each volume. Includes selections of Alfred..... More
![The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover [Complete in Three Volumes]: The Years of Adventure 1874 - 1920;...](/pictures/thumb/6366.jpg?v=1591993439)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1952. Complete in three volumes, all First Editions. Octavo. 496 p.; 405 p.; 503 p. Black and white photographs. Red, green, and blue printed dust jackets over red and blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jackets show shallow chips along edges and spine ends..... More
Hardcover. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1868-1874. 16mo. Bound in matching brown buckram with stained leather spines and corner tips and blue title cards to spines with gilt embellishment. Floral endpapers. Individual volumes dated: Beatrix (1868), Modeste mignon (1868), Honorine (1868), Le contrat de mariage (1870), Memoires de deux Jeunes mariees..... 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
![History of English Literature (Four Volumes in Eight) [Limited Edition, #1 of 500]. ippolyte,...](/pictures/thumb/6606.jpg?v=1594846626)
Philadelphia: The Gebbie Publishing Co., 1897. Limited Imperial 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. Bindings are..... 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
Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More
Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. First Edition. Three Octavo Volumes, being a complete set of the Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery. Octavo. 420 p.; 229 p.; 185 p. Printed white dust jackets over black boards with gilt lettering. Jackets are toned with some light wear and..... More
Paris: Didier, 1840. Troisième Édition. Four volumes (21.25cm.); publisher's dark blue morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. General shelf wear, brief peeling to leather of Vol. IV but otherwise a Very Good or better set. More
London: Printed for J. Sewell, Longman and Rees, 1801. Seven octavo volumes. Calf-backed marbled paper covered boards with black and red spine labels and gilt tooling to spine. Translated into English from the original French. Spine leather cracked in spots with some loss. Edges worn and corners bumped..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982-2012. Each volume stated First Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"); I: xxiii, 882pp, II: xxxiv, 506pp, III: xxiv, 1167pp, IV: xix, 712pp. Printed black, white, red, and gray dust jackets. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. All jackets clean and crisp with no..... More