Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1975. First edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Quarto soft covered volume. Original red card-stock covers, lettered and decorated in black. 109 pages of text followed by over 60 black and white images. Contains essays by Nigel G. Wilson, Jean Irigoin, Cyril Mango, Hans-Georg Beck, and Kurt Weitzmann. As new. This volume has somehow.....
Wahpeton, ND: (1938). First edition. Wraps. Fine. Illustrated stiff card stock wrappers. Quarto size, 28pp. "The material for this history was compiled and written by F,. G. Callan, under the direction of the Federal Writers' Project Division of the Works Progress Administration. No date provided in this book but several bibliographies give the date as 1938. Further research supports this.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. FIRST LIMITED ED. Hardcover. Limited Edition Number 296/500. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. This book was published as a paperback original, however, 500 hardbacked copies were published two week earlier in a special limited edition. This is number 296 of this limited.....
London: Collins, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of the export edition. Identical to the domestic UK edition but without the price on the jacket flap. Pages toning evenly, common with this title. The jacket is not clipped. Signed by the author on the title page.
London: Arthur Gray, (n.d. 1934). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original publisher's pale green cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 256 pp. The book remains very solid. The top edge shows moderate foxing. The dust jacket is bright and solid though the spine is toned. The jacket shows the artist's name.....
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1905. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. This beautiful book is a facsimile edition published by the Lakeside Press in 1905. This edition consisted of 500 copies printed on imperial Japan vellum and signed by the author's wife, Julia Sutherland Field, and the couple's five children. The copy on offer here is unnumbered. 4to edition on 90 unpaginated.....
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original dark green boards, with lettering in orange to the front panel and the spine. Green patterned endpapers. In a bright and complete dust jacket. The U.K. Hodder edition came out in 1927. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy and quite rare in.....
London: N/A, 1709. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quite a mystery here. Everybody and their mother attributes this short work to Robert Harley, the Earl of Oxford, but I have yet to find this information supported in an independent source. The dates work and the biography fits but...I would love to find another source to confirm. Harley did write brief.....
The Hague: Servire Press, 1934. First Limited edition. Paperback. Near Fine / fine. The original glassine is intact. The book is bright and crisp with no staining or fading. There is no browning, darkening or discoloration to the white of the covers. The original box is fragile but intact. A very fine and desirable copy. Opening letter and cover decoration.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date but 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very good. Original light blue cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 314 pp, 6 pages of publisher's ads to the rear. The book is solid and the corners are true. Some very minor edge-wear and the endpapers are a bit.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely bright, clean and pleasing copy in a beautiful dust jacket.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original pale orange cloth lettered and decorated in black on the front panel and the spine. Illustrated throughout and on the dust jacket by Robert A. Graef. Translated into English by Max Shachtman. Some minor restoration to the jacket visible only from the reverse. Scribner.....
London: Picador, (2014). First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author directly to the title page. A fine and bright copy in all respects. This prescient book was highly regarded at its inception. Then, with the enormous success of the HBO series the title is in even higher demand. This.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this spooky vintage mystery novel. Original russet colored cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. In the complete dust jacket with the admonition on the interior front flap - "Do not start reading it late at.....
Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the true first edition. Original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very faint and narrow damp-stain of the bottom edge of the first few pages. Very minor impact. The first book appearance of the Maryland State Song.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1909). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. In original olive green cloth, lettered in white to the front panel and spine. Early previous owner inscription blotted out at the front free endpaper. Barzun and Taylor call it "her masterpiece." The book is bright and solid with true corners and virtually no wear. The complete.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this scarce adventure novel of a quest for buried treasure in the English Channel. Lovely cover art on the jacket by A. D. Rahm. The jacket shows some very minor edge-wear but overall remains quite lovely...
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1892. First edition. Fine. Three 4to volumes. Original green cloth, decorated in ferns outlined in black on the front board and spine. Gilt title on front boards. Spine heavily decorated in gilt and black on green cloth. a.e.g. Volume 1 was published in 1892, Volume 2 in 1893 and Volume 3 in 1894. All three are.....
New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, (1940). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / very good. Original brown cloth, lettered and stamped in black and gilt. 8vo - 316 pp. The book is very clean, bright and solid with true corners. The complete dust jacket is bright and solid with some very minor rubbing at the spine ends and a shallow closed tear.....
New York: The Crime Club, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. A small plane crashes and the pilot and only passenger are found dead. But the parachute is missing. The wonderful jacket, designed by Clayton Rhight, remains very bright. There is a small chip at the head of the spine.....
New York: The Crime Club, 1929. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the first US edition. The jacket is fine and bright save for a small crease along the top edge.
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. First US Edition. Scarce in this lovely condition.
Edinburgh: Grant & Murray, Limited, (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered and stamped in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 208 pp. Previous owner stamp to the front paste-down, completely hidden by the front flap. The flap is clipped but a 3/6 price is present on the spine. Internally the.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1929). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt to the front panel and spine. In a very clean, bright and complete example of the very scarce dust jacket. "A young Chicago reporter undertakes to find out if a trunk contains any papers that support a claim to the.....
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original parchment backed boards with paper spine label printed in dark brown. Illustrated throughout. From a limited edition of 600 copies, this one being number 313. Signed by Yeats at the limitation page. The jacket is browned along the edges with minor edge-ear. The jacket also has.....