Washington DC: The Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto edition bound in blue cloth and lettered in gilt at the spine. Contains the following essays: George C. Miles - Byzantium and the Arabs: Relations in Crete and the Aegean Area; Marius Canard - Les Relations Politiques et Sociales entre Byzance et les.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1928). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy of this novel in a bright, complete and very attractive old dust jacket. Pseudonym for Lily C. Nutt. Author listed in Bleiler. This novel is more romantic in nature with some mystery and intrigue as well.
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Fine. Original blue cloth lettered in orange to the front panel and spine. The spine is a little faded but the book and hinges remain strong. In a bright copy of the facsimile dust jacket. With frontispiece, four full page plates and dust jacket art all by Studely.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth with lettering in white to the front panel and spine. Stunning color design involving the frontispiece and title page as one canvas. Illustration on frontis page same as that of the jacket. Coles Phillips has designed this lovely image. With four full-page black and white.....
New York: The Crime Club, (1931). First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red. All edges red. Small previous owner signature and date on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is particularly nice. All corners of the jacket are bevel cut with no price stated. A very good period mystery.....
London: J. M. Dent, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth with embossed blind design on front board with J. C. in the middle. Lettered in gilt on the spine. Top and fore-edge smooth, bottom edge rough cut. "Sea" on page ix is perfect and "Privately Printed" does not appear on page iv. The complete.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very attractive copy in the scarce dust jacket. The only title by this author listed in Hubin.
New York: Scribners, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very nice copy of the First Edition with 8 full page Maxfield Parrish illustrations plus the title page. 1904 on the title page in Roman Numerals. The gold lettering is very bright. There is a minor crease to the spine. Beautiful illustrated endpapers. The corners are bumped but the overall.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. First issue. No disclaimer and Katherine for Catherine on jacket flap. Publishers Seal present. A very nice clean copy. One small chip to the top edge of the spine and some light rubbing at the hinge crease. A small stain at the top of the jacket's.....
London: John Trevisa, 16 May 1527. Third edition. Leather Bound. Near Fine. Ranulf Higden, (12??-1364) entered the Benedictine Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester in 1299. There is no evidence that he ever attended University or did much travelling. The one exception, which demonstrates his standing within the community of scholars and the respect merited by ìThe Polycronicon, ìoccurred when he.....
New York: John Day, 1957. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very solid and pleasing copy of this scarce title. Only some very minor soiling to the rear panel and some minor foxing along the top edge. The UK edition was published in 1956. Cover art by C. Walter Hodges. On board the Centurion with Captain.....
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original deep green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. The first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Now housed in a drop-back box.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / very good. A clean, bright and attractive copy of this extremely scarce volume. 8vo. A Crime Circle novel. Set aboard an ocean liner on the Atlantic before the war. Some minor chipping to the jacket. The jacket is price-clipped. Cover art by Bip Pares...
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. This is an Advanced Readers Copy in a large soft cover format with the original dust jacket present as the cover. The front and rear flaps are also present with the appropriate text and price. The rear panel has the blurbs by F. Scott Fitzgerald and John O'Hara. This copy.....
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: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Three volumes, complete. The Deluxe Limited Edition. The total number of printings was 250, this one being number 46. Edited, with Introductions, Notes, a Biography and Bibliography by A. L. Rowse. This set is signed by Rowse at the limitation page. Bound uniformly in three quarters brown leather with brown.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., (1926). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original red cloth on boards, lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. Previous owner name to the front paste-down. Occasional page creasing to the top right corner seemingly from an aggressive page turner anxiously looking forward to the next page. The.....
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1953. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Bound in original green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt. Illustrated by John Austen, and completed before his death. The engravings were then executed by Agnes Miller Parker. The second volume is signed by Agnes Miller Parker at the limitation page. Two volumes in the complete.....
New York: Random House, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Lovely dust jacket art by Martinot. Extremely rare in the jacket. The author's only mystery. Set in New England. Steeves, long a Professor of Literature at Columbia University, is praised on the rear panel by one.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. A very bright and pleasing copy. An elaborate and lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper is intriguing but, to me at least, very frustrating. I believe the presenter and receiver are significant people but I can't decipher either. It begins "From One.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow. In the complete and very lovely orignal dust jacket. Some very minor spotting along the top edge. Bruccoli state "A" indicating the true first edition, first issue. Parenthetical (1) at the final page and "motors" at.....
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Parenthetical (1) present on last page (406). Light rubbing to folds. Very minor chips along bottom of front panel and at the top of the spine. A few very shallow closed tears. Brief notation in ink along front flap - a......
London: David Nutt, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine. Now completely and beautifully rebound by the Chelsea Bindery in deep blue morocco with the original David Nutt cover design stamped in gilt with the additional flourish of a weeping swallow towards the bottom edge. Lovely flower patterned endpapers and decorative inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Though this copy is the second.....
New York: Stanford and Delisser, 1858. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translation by Winkworth of Hymns for the Sundays and Chief Festivals of the Christian Year. A beautiful edition in full leather with lettering in gilt. AEG. Spine with 6 compartments. Profusely illustrated. A very solid, tight and healthy copy. A quality volume.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1938). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original red cloth lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. Endpapers a tad two-toned from the offset of the jacket flap. Very minor and shallow wear to the spine ends. 7/6 price present on the spine. Dust jacket illustration by Fenwick. An excellent copy in.....