New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1983. Folio. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Grey boards stamped in black. Text in English. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Boards gently worn with a slight lean to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
London: G. Scott, for J. Robson, 1770. First English Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges stained yellow; collated and complete: [A]-2F8; [*]2 A-S8 TU8 X-2D8 E2; [*]2 A-2E8 (final two leaves blank); folding plate of sheet music in rear of Vol..... More
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall..... More
Skippackville, PA: J.M. Schuenemann, 1863. First English Language Edition. 12mo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth; xii,140pp. Extremities a bit rubbed with exposure at corners and shallow loss at spine ends, stock rather browned, else a Very Good, sound copy, internally clean and free of markings. Early Schwenkenfelder treatise first..... More
![Inkdeath [Signed Limited Edition]. Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell, trans](/pictures/thumb/8427.jpg?v=1613499941)
Frome, UK: Chicken House, 2008. Signed Limited First Edition, this being #755 of 1000. Signed bookplate affixed to half title. Octavo. 713 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated purple boards in illustrated slipcase. Text in English. Boards lightly worn at corners. Binding is sound. Corner-creasing to pages 58 and..... More
![Text in Japanese] Seishin Igaku Hyakunenshi: Jinbunshi Eno Kiyo [Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie]. Emil...](/pictures/thumb/6794.jpg?v=1595873147)
Tokyo: Sozoshuppan, 1998. Octavo (21.5cm.): publisher's boards in mustard textured paper dust jacket printed in black; 287pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Text entirely in Japanese. More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1979. Second Impression, 1986. Octavo; xiii + 601pp, including 15 appendices (on Polish, French and British co-breaking of the Enigma Code; matériel; documents about methods; Axis planning; chain of command; etc.) and index. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering against..... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... More
Frankfurt/M: Galerie Neuendorf, 1989. First Edition. Folio (29.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [4]pp. & 100 leaves of color plates. Light wear and soil, minor toning to wrapper extremities, old price sticker to rear cover partially obscuring brief paper flaw not approaching text or image, else Very Good or better..... More
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1962. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth lettered in white; viii,[2],434pp. German-language throughout. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, spine lettering a bit faded, paper flaw to rear pastedown from previously removed label, else Very Good, internally fine. Studia Judaica: Forschungen..... More
[Stuttgart: Heidelberg, ca. 1950.] First Spanish-Language Edition. Slim oblong quarto (21.5x32cm.); publisher's comb-bound decorative card wrappers; [18]pp.; chiefly illus., including color photographs. Light wear and toning, else Very Good or better. Date of publication based on the mark "100 Años de Máquinas de Imprimir Heidelberg, 1850-1950" printed inside upper cover..... More
![Songs and Lyrics by Heinrich Heine and Other German Poets [Signed by Geicke]. Heinrich Heine,...](/images/noimage.png)
Edinburgh: James Thin, 1887. First British Edition. Signed by translator with inscription to previous owner on half title. Octavo. 188 pages. Green cloth with spine label. Green endpapers. Top edge gilt. Boards worn along extremities with exposure. General spotting and rippling. Spine label worn and largely illegible. Some gatherings..... More
Libanon, PA: Jacob Stöver, für J. Schnee, 1811. Erste amerikanische Auflage [First American Edition]. Two volumes in one; 12mo (16cm.); contemporary roan-backed boards; 272; 192pp. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, spine leather rather crudely touched up, boards quite rubbed and worn with exposure and some old..... More
![Der Tod Des Vergil [The Death of Vergil]. Hermann Broch](/pictures/thumb/7603.jpg?v=1603736892)
New York: Pantheon Books Inc., 1945. First German Language Edition. Octavo. 524 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $6.50 price intact. Red and black boards with red spine label lettered in gilt. Red topstain. The English translation of Broch's masterpiece preceded the publication in the original German. Scarce in dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's grey decorative paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; vii,[1],185pp. Minimal shelf wear, light foxing and brief soil to textblock with a faint curve to front board, else a superlative, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Copyright..... More
Paris: Editions G.P., [1945]. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's decorative tan card wrappers printed in red and black; 222pp. Front cover cleanly separated but present, extremities a bit chipped with a few short closed tears to upper cover margins not approaching text, one-inch loss at spine crown..... More
Lyon: Chez J.F. Rolland, Libraire. 24mo (5.25" x 3.5"); ii, 220pp. Illustrated frontis. Contemporary leather with red title card to spine and gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Concave warp to boards, with rubbing along edges and corners. Bottom inch of spine backing separated but present..... More
Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... More
Leipzig: Karl Tauchnitz, 1830. Octavo. 657 pages + 4 pages sheet music. Contemporary mottled calf with brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Two brass clasps. Marbled endpapers and edges. Text in blackletter German. Some wear and flaking to edges and spine ends and cracked at top of front..... More
![Love in the Wars: A version of Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist [Signed by Banville]. John...](/pictures/thumb/8467.jpeg?v=1612983307)
Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland: Gallery Books, 2005. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Just About Fine condition. Signed by the author on title page. One of a series of three adaptations penned by Irish author John Banville based on the tragedies of..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First American Edition. Octavo (24x17x6cm); xxv + 821pp, including indices. Dust jacket with portrait photographs. Deep purple cloth with silver spine stamping and Arendt's and Jasper's signatures blind stamped on front panel. Both unclipped jacket and volume are impeccable, with no signs..... More
Unpublished autograph travel diary in a small notebook. May-June 1901. One commercially-produced octavo notebook (19cm x 12cm) of 48 unlined pages, sewn gatherings, all pageblock edges gilt. Covered for preservation in black plasticized faux leather, with a stylized vintage label—Tagebuch [Journal]—painted in silver, by an amateur hand, on the front..... More
Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; 202pp. Light wear from handling, brief soil at bottom fore-edge corner and rear wrapper, else Very Good. At head of upper cover: "Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung." More
![The Turtle Catcher [Inscribed and Signed]. Nicole Helget](/pictures/thumb/6806.jpg?v=1595876614)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; [6],288pp. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski. Historical novel set amongst the German immigrant population in rural Minnesota after World War I. More
Esslingen: Paul Neff Verlag, 1910-1912. First Edition. Two volumes; oversize octavos (26cm.); recent full brown cloth, black paper spine labels lettered in tan; xiii,[3],350; xxi,[1],500pp.; color frontispiece, thirty-six color plates, half-tone illus. throughout text. Front hinge of Vol. I a bit loose, else a Very Good or better set in..... More