Washington DC: The Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto edition bound in blue cloth and lettered in gilt on the spine. Contains the following essays: Philip Grierson - The Tombs and Obits of hte Byzantine Emperors (337-1042); with an Additional Note by Cyril Mango and Ihor Sevcenko; Harry A. Wolfson - The.....
New York: Oxford University Press, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. Original light red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black to the front panel and the spine. Octavo. xxvi, 548pp. Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Indiana. An American Guide Series volume. Illustrated throughout with seven in-text maps.....
New York: The Crime Club, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of this scarce and early Allingham title. Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red on the front panel and the spine. The bright and complete dust jacket is by PIC. The jacket is not price clipped and the $2.00 original price is.....
London: Methuen, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Original red cloth, image of jousting knight stamped in gilt on front cover. Lettered in gilt. 195 pp. With preface by Charles J. Ffoulkes, curator of the Armouries at the Tower. Frontispiece in full color and tissue guard and 18 black and white illustrations on twelve plates and three in-text diagrams.....
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, (1986). First printing. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Large quarto in original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the front panel and the spine. In the complete and pristeen dust jacket. This volume presents the author's photographic survey of the cave church of Byzantine Cappodocia,now central Turkey. Contains 90 pages of text, including the.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extremely bright and attractive copy. A 3'6 price on the spine. A lovely reprint edition. Spotted foxing on the fore-edge.
London: Michael Joseph, (1938). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. This copy issued one day before the stand alone issue of Flying Colours. Original green cloth, lettered in silver. The jacket is complete. The dust jacket for this copy has had minimal archival repair, mostly to remove tape from the verso. The book is now very clean and.....
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red to the front panel and spine. Frome one of two pseudonyms for Zenith Jones Brown, the other and equally famous one being Leslie Ford. A neat previous owner dated inscription to the front free endpaper, dated.....
Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1994-2005. Hardcover. Fine. Nine volumes, complete. Original green cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. This set is "as new." Illustrated map endpapers. Volume I is dated 1994, Volume II is dated 1994, Volume III is dated 1992 and is a first edition as are the remaining six volumes. Volume.....
London: Puffin, 2011. First Limited Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. As new. The first title in the Higson Young Bond series. This edition does not cut corners. The rich blue and silver cover glows in the dark. It is signed and limited and housed in an engraved Perspex slip-case. It is then nestled safely in a sturdy box. Limited to 1000.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Massive and exquisite production from the University of California Press. Three volumes plus the original prospectus still in the envelope. This set is as new. It remains in its original shipping box. Bound in light tan cloth with red leather spine labels, lettered in gilt. Issued without dust jacket. This.....
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.....
London: T. Becket, P. A. De hondt, and T. Cadell, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. Large quarto volume bound in 3/4 leather with lettering in gilt on the spine. Full page illustrated frontispiece opposite title page. The boards are bit scuffed but the book remains very clean and solid. Ludlow was one of the judges who ruled to execute King Charles.....
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Very Good. This is volume eight of the Dumarton Oaks Papers. Large quarto, bound in blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to the front panel and lettered in gilt to the spine. In the original and quite scarce dust jacket which shows some minor wear to the.....
London: William Heinemann, 1931. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in white to the front panel and spine. In a beautiful full color example of the dust jacket illustrated by Robert Lawson. "First Published 1931" to the copyright page. Small 4to, pp.[xiv]. 3-266 +[1]. Pictoral title image plus four more full page.....
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: New Amsterdam, 1896. FIRST. NF / M.
Baltimore: Turnbull Brothers, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original dark red cloth with gilt design of Washington Monument on front board and gilt lettering on the spine. There is an abrasion to the front board beneath the aforementioned gilt design. Beveled edges.The book remains solid and unmarked save for the inscription by the author, dated May 28th, 1874, the.....
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.....
London: Arthur Barker, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this classic Spillane work. Lovely period cover art. Some rubbing to the spine ends.
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: G. Howard Watt, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. The first US edition of this title. Hard to find now in any condition, let alone this fine condition. The dust jacket is extremely scarce. The book is in fine condition, very clean and bright. The edges of the dust jacket shows just some minor wear but.....
Boston: Small Maynard, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very clean, bright and attractive copy of the First US Edition. One very small chip along the top edge of the rear panel.
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: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Volume privately printed for subscribers. Bound in original half cream parchment and half pale green buckram. In a fine and complete pale green dust jacket label affixed at the spine. An identical label is present on the spine of the book. From a limited edition of 1000 copies.....