London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. Small octavo. T.e.g. 172,[2] pp. First UK edition, first impression. Finely bound in recent full brown morocco. Spine with five raised bands, titles lettered and compartments ruled in gilt; single ruled border on boards. Textblock fine, clean and fresh; a......
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Dramatic red and black decorated cloth boards, black lettered spine. [8], 42, [6] pp. (9⅞ x 6⅝"). Near fine copy with some little foxing to the endpapers, ever so lightly sunned near spine. Limited edition, number 222 of only 330.....
London: Printed for R. Ackermann, Strand, 1824. First edition, two volumes. Hardcover. Octavos. Bound by Riviere & Son in full honey calf, the spines tooled in gilt with contrasting twin spine labels in red and brown leather. Vol I: xvi, 364; Vol II: [6], 397, [1] pp. Clean, tight text.....
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Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1905. First edition. Hardcover, two volumes. Thick octavos. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, gilt spines and decorative upper board. Decorative endpapers. Color frontispiece with tissue guard present in Vol. I, xx, 409, [1] pp.; 9 text figures, 41 half-tone plates, and 89 color plates. Vol.....
London: Samuel Curtis, March 1, 1828. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's stitched blue-grey printed wrappers. Seven fine original hand-colored copper engraved plates (t. 2805-2811), drawn by W. J. Hooker, engraved by Joseph Swan, accompanied by corresponding descriptive letterpress text leaves. Plate tab 2806 features a rare orchids from the island.....
London: Samuel Curtis, January 1, 1828. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's stitched blue-grey printed wrappers. Seven fine original hand-colored copper engraved plates (t. 2791-2797), drawn by W. J. Hooker, engraved by Joseph Swan, accompanied by corresponding descriptive letterpress text leaves. Plate tabs 2795 & 2797 feature rare orchids. Wrappers intact.....
London: John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill, et al. March, 1823. First edition. 12 mo. Original grey printed paper wrappers for the monthly Parts issue Volume VIII. Engraved title page, 10 hand-colored plates (one is a fold-out), 10 leaves of text. This fascicle has the plates numbered 701-710. Extremely rare in.....
Spitalfields, London: Richard Evans, 1814 [1950s?]. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. Red cloth, black spine. vi, 398, [26] pp. General Index, 19 pages of color Herbal Illustrations follow text. Nicholas Culpeper's famous text, The English Physician / Culpeper's Complete Herbal was reprinted multiple times during the 20th century, including notable editions in.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1934]. First edition, fourth state. Hardcover. Small octavo. Published green pebbled cloth, silver spine and front panel. xxi,167,[1] pp. Color frontispiece followed by legend, black and white, and color illustrations. Preface by the author, contents, list of illustrations (with an indication when they.....
New Haven: Yale University / The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1985. First edition. Quarto. Softcover sewn wrappers, printed paper label to front panel. 24 pp. A facsimile production of an envelope and five-page letter Pound wrote to Viola Baxter, a very young woman of his acquaintance, regarding incidents.....
New Haven: N.p., 1947. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Perfect bound, red wrappers printed in black on spine and front panel. 350 pp. Black and white half-tone photographs throughout illustrate the text. White ink numerals on lower right edge of front panel, cracked at front gutter but holding firm; ink mark.....
Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1927. First American Edition (published simultaneously with the UK edition by Baillière, Tindall & Cox). Hardcover. Small octavo. Publisher's original green cloth binding with gilt titles to front boards and spine. xv,[1],112 pp. Printed in Great Britain. Text block exceptionally clean, and firmly bound throughout.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1850-1852. A new edition, in four volumes, corrected, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. Octavos. Half burgundy leather with marbled paper boards, endpapers and text block edges. gilt spines. Vol. I: xl, 429, [3]; Vol. II [4], 396; Vol. III [5], xii, [3], 4-399, [3]; Vol. IV [3], iv.....
Lynbrook, NY: Charnel House, 1992. Deluxe, limited edition. Hardcover. Deluxe green Japanese silk moire boards, stamped in black on front panel and on spine. xviii,195 pp. Frontispiece and four full color, full page illustrations by Pamela Lee. No. 216 of 750 numbered copies, the limitation page is signed by both.....
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Arlington Hts., IL: Dark Harvest, 1993. First expanded edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Grey patterned cloth, spine stamped in red. 258 pp. No. 168 of 400 copies of this limited edition. Signed by Jonathan Kellerman, and by Dean Koontz who provides the Introduction. Initially published in 1986 but, according to Mr. Kellerman's.....
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Glossy decorated boards. xii,296,[4] pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. Like new, a fine unmarked copy without a dust jacket, as issued. This is a one-volume history of medieval Scotland, concentrating on the period between the middle of the eleventh century.....
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. First edition, thus. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloth, gilt spine. 251 pp. A truly fine copy in an equally fine illustrated dust jacket. "Alvise Cornaro (c.1484-1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious.....
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New York: Viking, [1976]. First edition, first impression. Hardcover. Octavo. Black cloths spine, black boards. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper, "March 23, 1976 / To Gene & Dorothy / from their friend, / Joe / P.S. Hope you have a splendid / bicentennial." A......
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition of Mitford's exposé of the American funeral industrial complex. Light use, but a very good, scarce copy.
San Francisco: Grey Fox Press, [1981]. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Decorated card wrappers. [12],112,[4] pp. Sunned on spine and first quarter of rear panel. The author, formerly a defender of the Cuban Revolution during the 60s and early 70s, reconsiders the regime from the point of view of a gay.....
New York: Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press, 1983. Second revised edition. Paperback. Illustrated wrappers. 55 pp. Glorious poems, full of curiosity and questions that shed light on the lives of Black women who shoulder the additional burden of negotiating a heterosexual world with its expectations of "good hair" and the.....
Oakland, CA: Diana Press, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Decorated wrappers, perfect bound. 224 pp. Top right edge of half-title cut off, spine cracked, a small snag at toe of spine, else good or slightly better. Women's adventure stories, gathered by the editor beginning in 1974. An early example of the.....
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1925. First US edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Navy blue cloth spine with printed paper label, blue and gold patterned paper boards. Decorated endpapers. [8],103,[1] pp. Boards edgeworn, bumped and handsoiled; internally remarkably near fine. First US edition, from British leaves, of the.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original patterned blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom edge untrimmed. [8], 303, [5] pp. A four-page publisher’s catalogue concludes the text. Spine panel lightly faded and dulled with minor bumping to spine ends, preserved in a mylar dust jacket in.....
New York: The VIking Press, 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine. Decorated dust jacket designed by Sue Richards, cover illustration by Reynolds Stone. Copy is near fine, and the dust jacket is lightly sunned at spine and at the top edge, else very good. The.....