Paris: Charles Clouzier, 1692. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in full original vellum with red spine label, printed in gilt. Above the label is the title again, printed by hand I believe. One full page engraving of titled "Poesies D'Anacreon Et De Sapho." 398 pp, and one page of advertisements, dated 1691. Text in Greek and French. The book is very.....
(Minneapolis): Minnesota Department of Education and Minneapolis Board of Education, 1940. First edition. Wraps. Fine. Original illustrated wrappers. 94pp. Illustrated. Compiled by Workers of the Federal Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Minnesota. A very clean,bright and solid copy. A scarce WPA publication. Dykes, #152.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue/gray cloth, lettered in pale gold to the front panel and spine. In a complete and quite lovely example of the scarce dust jacket with art by Politzer. The UK edition was published earlier in the same year. Hubin lists the authors to be Eva.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. FIRST. VG / VG. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK, PRECEDED BY WHOROSCOPE PUBLISHED BY HOURS PRESS IN 1930.
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.....
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1945). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, stamped in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 224 pp. The book remains solid and tight. Some minor soiling. The complete jacket has the original 7s 6d price present on the bottom edge of the front flap. There is.....
Chiswick: C. Whittington, 1821. Hardcover. Near Fine. In early and probable original full green leather bindings with blind stamped raised arabesque cartouche designs and gilt borders. Five compartments to each spine with black labels and gilt lettering. Two 16mo volumes. aeg. Marbled endpapers. Two very attractive fore-edge paintings: Volume I has an image of Burn's birthplace while Volume II has.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original light blue cloth. Map present at the rear. Perhaps the most re-published volume from the Federal Writers Project. This appears to be the ninth printing. It is a near fine copy in all respects. Octavo, xli, 427pp.
New York: Viking, 1986. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Signed by the author on a book-plate which is loosely inserted. A fine copy in all respects.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. 480pp. A very clean, bright and solid copy. The rare and complete dust jacket is very lovely. It has received some minor restoration at the spine ends. Compelling art work by Goetz. From a relatively small print.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. First Edition of first Hornblower book. 12,000 Copies were printed of the First Edition. Extremely scarce. This is a remarkably bright and pleasing copy. There is a faint vertical crease along the spine. There is a previous owner sigature on the paste-down and a Book Society Book Plate.....
London: Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and attractive copy. Original dark green pebbled cloth with blind corner designs. Lettered and illustrated in gilt. With twenty two large illustrations by Edward H. Wehnert. Nineteenth century gift inscriptions on the front paste-down and the front free endpaper...
London: Jonathan Cape, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. A lovely copy of this excellent work. Winner of the Whitbread Prize. Signed by the author on the title page.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue/gray cloth with lettering and design in black to the spine. A Crime Club novel. Light offsetting of the jacket flaps to the endpapers. In a bright and lovely example of the scarce dust jacket which has received minor restoration to the foot of.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto, 1/4 recent leather spine and corners, original russet cloth, lettered in gilt. A very solid and pleasing copy. Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn toured European dock yards and ship-building facilities toward the end of the 20th Century and filed this report. Seven photo-gravure plates plus a frontis of the.....
New York: Macmillan, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy of the poet's first commercially available book, preceded only by Flagons and Apples from 1912. The original blue cloth is bright and unmarked. The gilt lettering and design are quite bright. Top edge gilt. Previous owner book-plate loosely affixed to the front paste-down, and.....
London: Constable, (1934). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered and stamped in black. 8vo - 314 pp. The spine of the book is slightly faded. Some endleaves of obviously cheaper construction somewhat toned. Text block very clean and solid. The original dust jacket is very bright and solid though it is price-clipped. Original.....
London: Mills & Boon, (1923). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original olive green cloth, lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. 288pp plus 16 pp of ads. From the author of The Phantom of the Opera. In the complete dust jacket. The jacket does show some minor edge-wear but the colors remain very bright.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy. Lovely cover art. The spine of the jacket is just slightly darker than the front panel. Some minor closed tears, else fine. The jacket appears to have been price clipped but another printed price, $2.00, is present. Listed in.....
Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Nominated for the Edgar Award for "Best First Novel." Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page.
Norfolk, Conn. New Directions, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. In original deep red burlap weave cloth with paper label to the center of the front panel and another label at the spine. This copy meets all of the points to be listed as A21.1. The front and spine labels are in the small size. The name.....
Garden City: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original slate blue/gray boards, lettered in yellow to the spine. 8vo - 274 pp. The book is clean, bright and solid and the text block is bright. Two of the corners have minor dings and the spine ends are.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely bright, clean and pleasing copy. Some minor rubbing to the spine ends, else fine.
New York: World Wide Publishing, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of a very scarce title in near fine condition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. The pages are toning a bit along the edges.
New York: Crime Club, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely bright and clean copy of the first US edition.