The Centaur Letters.
Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 38 pages. Tan boards. Limited to 850 copies. Small stain to bottom right corner of cover. More
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1964. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 168pp. Green cloth, no jacket. Fading and some scratching to the spine. Reprint of this classic work of chemistry, originally done in 1808. Part of The Science Classics Library. More
The Maltese Falcon.
London: The Folio Society, 2000. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 239 pages. Red cloth with falcon design to cover housed inside pictorial slipcase. Light edgewear to slipcase. Previous owner's embossed stamp on title page. More
Fashioning the Body: An Intimate History of the Silhouette.
Bard Graduate Center, 2015. Hardcover. Quarto. (10 1/2" x 8 1/2") 271pp. Exhibition catalogue held at Bard Graduate Center, NY. April 3 to July 26, 2015. A very nice copy. More
The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov.
New Directions, 2013. Hardcover. Small quarto.9" x 6". 1063pp. Corner creass to two pages at top edge. A very nice copy in dust jacket. More
Treatise of Man.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 23.5 x 17.5 cm. Octavo. xlviii 232pp. Index. Red cloth in dust jacket. Facsimile of the French text, L'Homme de René Descartes, as well as translation into English and commentary by Thomas Steele Hall. Harvard Monographs in the History of Science. Glue residue on..... More
Children's Stories from Dickens.
London/New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons/David McKay Co, nd. Hard Cover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper. There are 12 color plates illustrated by Harold Copping. More
The Book of Tobit and The History of Susanna.
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. First Edition with the illustrations of Russell Flint. Hard Cover. White boards with gilt lettering and design to cover and spine. This is an unnumbered copy of the limited edition of 875. Four mounted color illustrations by W. Russell Flijnt. Ties. Some soiling to covers. "Reprinted..... More
The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna; Reprinted from the Revised Version of teh Apocrypha
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Bound in white boards with gitl borders and letttering to cover and spine. This edition is limited to 875 copies. Four tipped in color illustrations by W.Russell Flint. Some light soiling to covers. A very nice copy in a mylar wrapper... More
A Folio Anthology of Poetry.
London: Folio Society, 2009. Hard Cover. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt design and lettering to covers and spne. A beautiful coyp in slipcase. More
The Count of Monte Cristo in four volumes.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Limited edition. Hardcover. Complete four volume set in slipcase. 27 x 18.5 cm. 288 314 295 340pp. Bound in full black natural-finish linen with gold-stamped design by Ward. Limited to 1500 sets signed by the illustrator, Lynd Ward, at the colophone in volume..... More
Letters to His Son on the Fine Art of becoming a Man of the World; Two Volume set
New York: M.Waltter Dunn, Publisher, 1901. hardcover. Octavo. (23cm x 16cm) Two Volume set. Bound in 3/4 brown leather over burgundy clloth. Marble endpapers. 408pp. & 435pp. Gilt lettering to spines. Five raised bands.Photogravure frontispieces in each volume. Light wear at outer hinge of front covers.Very nice set... More
The Fall of the House of Usher.
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1928. Limited. stiff wrappers. Stiff paper wrappers.50pp.This is copy #91 of an edition of 300. Five tipped in illustrations by Alastair. Tissue guards. Chipped with loss of about 1/2 inch to bottom of spine. Very light rubbing to edge. More
The House of Mirth.
The Limited Editions Club, 1975. Hardcover. 27.5 x 17.5 cm. Quarto. 294pp. Bound in blue boards wrapped in decorative linen. Limited to 2000 copies this being copy 851 signed by the artist Lily Harmon. Previous owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper. Lacking slipcase. Gilt top foredge, which shows a few..... More
Poems of the Dance; An Anthology (1500 B.C.-1920 AD)
Knopf, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 263pp. Twelve pictorial photographs by Edward Dickson. Lacking dust jacket. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown. Very slight edge rubbing. More
Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony.
New York: Da Capo PRess, 1968. Hardcover. 19.5 x 13 cm. Sm 8vo. 150 pages. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Unabridged reproduction of the first edition with a new introduciton by Ned Rorem. Dust jacket flap is clipped, dust jacket spine faded, some soiling to jacket. More
Pillory and Witness-Box.
Hamburg: Overseas Publishing Co., 1920. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 293 pages. Grey boards. Frontispiece. Rubbing to the corners. English language text. More
Reminiscences of the Blue and Gray '61 - '65; Embracing the most brilliant and thrilling short stories of the Civil War From the time of the memorable toast of Andrew Jackson, uttered int eh presence of the original secessionists to the assassination of President Lincoln and the end of the War, Including Words and Deeds of Famous Women
Chicago: The Preston Publishing Co., 1895. First edition. Hardcover. 28 x 20.5 cm. Quarto. 705 pages. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering. Frontispiece. Over 300 in-text engravings. Edgewear to the boards. Front and rear gutters cracked. Front free endpaper detached but present. Previous owner's inscription on 2nd front endpaper..... More
Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763; Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press.
New York: McGraw-Hil Book Co, 1950. Deluxe Edition. Small quarto. 370pp Bound in brown leather. Leather title label to spine. Marble endpapers. Bookplate of former owner on front endpaper. In slipcase. A beautiful copy. This edition of "Boswell's London Journal" was set in Waverley type and printed by the Maple..... More
Caricature of To-Day.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni Inc, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth. Quarto. (11 1/2" x 8 1/2"). Gilt lettering to cover and spine.16 pages of text and 136 pages of plates. Many full page. Some rubbing at tail of spine. More
New Orleans; 50 photographs
GMP, 1985 May. First edition. Paperback. Wrappers. 109pp A very nice copy. More
Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing.
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. Hardcover. 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 318pp. Bound in red cloth. Spine is faded. More
Drawings of Kley Volume 2.
Los Angeles: Borden Publishing Co., 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (16cm x 31cm) 40' x 12"..Blue cloth in pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Colored frontispiece and other illustrations in black and white. Very light wear to jacket at bottom edges. A lovely copy. More
Snow Glass Apples; A Play for Voices
Biting Dog Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. The book is in slipcase and housed in an original handcarved hinged wooden box with the design from the front cover of book repeated on the box. Silver design and lettering to front cover. Wood engravings by George Walker. Limited to 250..... More