New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). Arthur Hawkins, Jr. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-299. Bound in green cloth with black lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. A bright copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has chips, most notably on the.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First Edition, Fourth Issue. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. (8), 175, followed by 2 pp. of publisher offerings. Lavish frontis. and title page. Illustrated with engravings by Maclise (two plates) and three each by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and Clarkson Stanfield. Bound in blindstamped ribbed red.....
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition. Leather. 8vo. Pp. 190. Engraved title. Engraved frontis. port. of Dickens by J. H. Baker after the 1863 photograph of Dickens taken by Mason & Co., with tissue guard. With 12 plates by L. [Luke] Fildes, also with tissue guards. Bound in old.....
Whitefriars [London]: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Samuel Palmer. First Edition. Full Leather Binding. 12mo. Pp. [2] (two pages advertising new and revised edition of "Oliver Twist" and a new untitled novel (Dombey and Son, per Eckel), 269, [1], followed by two pages of Dickens titles. With the original backstrip, titled.....
New York London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. Haberstock. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 352. Bound in bright blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front board and spine. In the price-clipped dust jacket, designed by Haberstock. Former owner name in pencil on inside dust jacket flap, dust.....
Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. Pp. 334. Bound in full red cloth, gilt lettering and publisher emblem on spine. In pictorial dust jacket, elaborately printed. A trifle fading to spine of dust jacket. The American edition preceded this first English edition, although both published the same.....
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1807. J. Berryman. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xv, 525; 499. Illustrated with woodcuts. Index. Bound in three-quarter dark brown roan over marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges, raised bands, gilt decoration and blind stamped lettering on spines. Boards rubbed and edges chafed, corners.....
New York and Philadelphia: D. and G. S. Appleton & Co., 1849. Fine Literature. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 240. Brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Front and rear endpapers excised. Cocked, with heavy foxing throughout. Uncommon novel by the author of "Misrepresentation," "Eastbury," etc. Bookseller inventory STDD-NS-DW.....
London: Jacob Tonson, 1694. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. (12); 82; (2). Verso of half-title page features an advertisement for "The Works of Mr. John Dryden in Four Volumes," also published by Tonson. Four-page dedication (to the Earl of Salisbury) follows the title page. Play is complete with only.....
[Paris]: ND. Loose photo and calling card in archival sleeve. Black and white photographic print measures 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Inscription reads "A Monsieur le Professeur Nitze, amical et fidèle souvenir [signed]." The calling card, featuring Duhamel's 5th Arrondissement address at 28 Rue Vauquelin (today emblazoned with the sign "Villa.....
Chicago: The White House Publishers, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1-6], 7-292. Bound in light blue cloth with black lettering stamped on front board and spine. Binding starting at title page. In the dust jacket that's notably fresh. A fine example of a romance from the.....
Philadelphia New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1953). Robert Hallock (dust jacket design). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 350. Frontis. photo portrait. Index. Bound in brown cloth with blindstamp HJ monogram and silver lettering stamped on front cover, gilt and silver lettering stamped on spine. Light stains.....
Boston: William C. Brown, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 142 + 142. Illustrated with engravings, tissue guards. Table of contents. Bound in embossed black cloth, gilt stamped device front and back in blind stamped rules and decoration. Blind stamped rules and gilt stamped title on the spine. Edges trimmed.....
London: Denis Archer, 1933. Beresford Egan (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. 287 followed by four pages of publishers advertising. Light green cloth, titles and rules stamped in black on the spine, device and border stamped in black on the cover: spine and edges sunned, top.....
(New York): Timothy McSweeney's, (1999). First Printing, First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. Pp. 190, (2), with the last page misnumbered as 125. Bound in stiff, printed wraps. Very slight evidence of age, with two small dots on spine and faint abrasion on front cover, else Fine. The first printing of an.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1934). First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. viii, [2], 3-391. Bound in blue cloth with white decoration and lettering stamped on spine. Top edge dyed gray. This copy mostly unopened. In the three-color illustrated dust jacket, spine a trifle dulled, and.....
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1863. First German Edition. Vellum. In English. Two vols., 12mo. Vol. I, 391. Vol. II, 375. Decorated endpapers. All edges dyed red. Cloth bookmark bound-in. Bound in full vellum, beveled edges. With gilt and deep red stamped scroll pattern on front covers, gilt flourishes and lettering stamped.....
Waltham: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. [9], 10-68. Original yellow half-cloth over brown paper-covered boards. Printed spine label a tad worn. Light foxing to endpapers; remnant of removed bookseller tag on rear pastedown. Ownership signature of former Los Angeles Times Literary Editor Paul Jordan Smith. First.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 448. Bound in bright blue cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows insignificant wear at head of spine, which is a tad darkened. Translated from the.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. David Hendrickson. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 145, followed by a one-page poem, "L'envoi". Frontis. by David Hendrickson, and with several more of his pen-and-ink illustrations throughout. Bound in blue cloth with a chimney vignette stamped in blue on front board, blue.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. David Hendrickson (dust jacket illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 242. Color frontis. illustration. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. Bound in taupe cloth with green lettering stamped on front board, green lettering on spine. Slight age-toning to cloth. In the dust jacket separated.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Company / Liberty Book Club, 1948. Alan Haemer (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 280. Pale red cloth, titles stamped in white on the spine, endpaper maps. Liberty Book Club first edition: edges minimally age toned, half title page marked in ball.....
New York: Random House, (1948). E. McKnight Kauffer. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 247. Title page printed in blue and black. Bound in black cloth with stylized gilt and blue lettering and rules stamped on front board and spine. With note on front free endpaper. In the.....
USA: Privately Issued, 1934. Limited Edition. Leatherbound with Slipcase. 8vo. Pp. vii, 84. Index of authors. Title page with green decorative border. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Exquisitely bound in red calf with covers stamped with gilt rules and decorations, which are repeated inside on turn-ins. Spine stamped with gilt.....
London: Grey Walls Press, 1948. Gordon Noel Fish. First Edition Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Tall 8vo. Pp. 150. Illustrated with Gordon Fish drawings, several in full-page duotone. Typography by Seán Jennett. Title page printed in burgundy and black. Bound in bright yellow cloth, Fish illustration stamped in blue on.....