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.....
No Place: 1938. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Illustrated stiff card stock wrappers. (36)pp. Written and Arranged by Federal Writers' Project of Oklahoma - Jim Thompson, Director, Works Progress Administration in the State of Oklahoma Sketches by Wallace Simpson, Cowboy Artist and Walker Boone, Oneida Indiant Artist. Sponsored by the Oklahoma State Travel And Tourist Bureau, Ennis C. Helm, Director. An.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1899. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary full levant burgundy morocco binding stamped in gilt. The spine has six compartments also stamped in gilt, by Fazakerley of Liverpool with their stamp at the bottom of the interior front panel at the dentelle. Octavo, 332 pages. Marbled endpapers somewhat toned. Fore-edge painting by Winifred Arthur depticting "Bear.....
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1947. First edition. Fine / Fine. A lovely copy with an interesting twist. Fine blue pebbled cloth lettered in orange. First Edition so stated on the copyright page. With a slip of paper laid in which states, and I paraphrase, that this book is one of the few survivors of a fire that occurred on May.....
New York: The Crime Club, 1944. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original red cloth on boards, lettered in black on the spine. The book is near fine with only minor hints of wear. The complete dust jacket shows wear along the bottom edge and the corners but overall remains very bright and compelling. The tangled story.....
London: Granta, (2013). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Highly acclaimed novel and winner of the Booker Award.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original blue cloth stamped in white on the front panel and the spine. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1928. In the complete and quite scarce dust jacket. With minor rubbing to the front panel and spine. There is no fading of the colors.....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Bound in original dark green cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. In the complete and lovely illustrated dust jacket. This is the nicest copy of this title that I have handled. With a very lightly tipped in (easy to remove) book-plate to the front paste-down.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Original gray cloth, lettered in green to the font panel and spine. 8vo - 300pp. The book is quite clean and bright. The dust jacket has creasing along the bottom edge and a closed tear at the head of the spine. There is some chipping with loss.....
London: Arthur Gray, (n.d. 1934). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 252 pp. Previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is bright and solid with a few areas of tape re-inforcement to the verso. The jacket's spine is toned.....
London: John Long, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gold to the spine. 8vo - 288 pp. Minor shelf-wear. Endpapers somewhat toned. Printed list of author's previous works to the front paste-down, hidden by the flap. The dust jacket shows some edge-wear and there is some damage to the spine from.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original tan cloth, lettered and decorated in black. In a complete and bright example of the dust jacket. A mysterious person blackmails the Prime-Minister of England, demanding ten million pounds in ransom or he will murder the entire population with a newly developed deadly toxin. An exceptional.....
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt with decorations in black, white, red, and gold. All edges beveled. Contains stories by Henty and Fenn. Newbolt points out that the publishers had mis-spelled W. W. Fenn's name as G. M. Fenn. I list the incorrect spelling because it is printed.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First edition. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original torquoise cloth, lettered in orange to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 257 pp. The book is very clean, bright and solid with just the slightest hint of wear at the corners. There is a rectangular offset to the spine from a shape on.....
London: F. V. White & Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered in gold to the front panel and spine. In a complete dust jacket. There is some offsetting to the front and rear free endpapers due to the dust jacket flaps. That the jacket exists at all is a minor miracle. Some.....
London: Reeves & Turner, 1887. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First one volume edition. Original blue/gray cloth with paper spine label. 8vo - 450, [2] pages. The paper label shows some minor wear. An additional page of ads for Mr. Morris's works is tipped in at the front. A very interesting association copy. Morris presents this signed copy at.....
Bath: Venture Books Limited, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Lovely period cover art by Serge Drigin. The jacket is not price-clipped nor is there any fading. A hint of edge-wear at both spine ends, else fine.
London: Rubert Hart-Davis, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near fine. A very bright and clean copy of this very scarce early O'Brian title. Price-clipped and with a previous owner signature on the front free endpaper, else fine. Published in the US as The Walker and Other Stories.
New York: Doubleday Doran, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Two volume limited edition housed in the original illustrated slip-case. Maroon cloth, spines lettered in gilt, map endpapers, top edges gilt. White dust jackets are complete though the lettering on the spines is faded by half and there is moderate wrinkling to volume I, very minor wrinkling to.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original beige cloth, lettered in teal to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 299 pp. The book is solid and the corners are true. Some light foxing to the gutters. The dust jacket is clipped but overall remains very bright indeed. A really attractive and.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Bound in red and black, with lettering in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. From a limited edition of 500 copies and signed by the author on the limitation page. A lovely copy in all respects of this scarce volume from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Housed in.....
New York: Random House, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very lovely copy of this title. No chips or wear to the jacket. Previous owner signature on the ffep. Two pages at the end list Landmark books through #85 and World Landmark through # 38. Jacket states 195/195.
London: Herbert Jenkins, Circa 1940/1944. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original orange cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. In a bright and clean example of the dust jacket. The orange on the spine is slightly faded. One small chip at the foot of the spine. Lovely cover art by W. Heath Robinson. McIlvaine A44B. A......
New York: J. Watt, 1912. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very bright and crisp copy. Previous owner signature on the front free endpaper. The corners are perfect and the book is very tight and solid. Published 14 February 1912 which makes this the true first edition. Original black cloth with two oval color illustrated portraits of a man.....
London: Andrew Melrose, (1936). Hardcover. Good / Good. Original mustard colored cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 288 pp, and 28 page publisher's catalog. No internal date. The rear panel of the jacket advertises titles for "Spring 1936." Hubin lists the publishing date of 1936. The book shows moderate over-all wear. The corners are.....