Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Hard Cover.
Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, light pencil marginalia.
323, 95 pp. CONTENTS: Part I. On the Reflexion and Refraction of Light: Catoptrics; Dioptrics. Part II. Physical Optics. Part III. On the Application of Optical Principles to the Explanation of Natural Phenomena. Part IV.....
Cambridge: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1886. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Bookplate of John E. Thayer on front endpaper. Thayer was an industrialist active in western railroad development, and also an amateur naturalist, collector, and author. He sponsored several scientific expeditions.
22, [22] pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards.....
Cambridge, Mass. The Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1906. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. No jacket. Author's bookplate laid in. Hinges starting, ink name on front free endpaper.
426 pp. Includes four plates and three maps. A study of the birds of Cambridge, Massachusetts. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Brewster (July 5.....
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn.
xvii, 238 pp. Since its discovery in 1909 by Charles Doolittle Walcott, then Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains has fascinated both scientists and the public with.....
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top slipcase edge lightly bumped.
1751 pp., paginated continuously between all three volumes. Collected and edited by Katharine M. Briggs, with a preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland, color frontispieces and black-and-white illustrations by Hannah Firmin.
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Firmin, Hannah. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top slipcase seam repaired with archival adhesive.
1396 pp., paginated continuously between all three volumes. Collected and edited by Katharine M. Briggs, with a preface by Kevin Crossley-Holland, color frontispieces and black-and-white illustrations by Hannah Firmin.
Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Large Hardcover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Top corner lightly bumped, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
167, [1]; 22 pp. Italian text, with English translation included in a separate paperback supplement. A collection of narratives of Italian voyages by notable individuals, with reproductions of color and black-and-white illustrations throughout.....
New York / Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1887. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Presentation slip from previous owner's teacher mounted on front endpaper, front hinge weakening.
viii, 330, [6] pp. Includes an introduction by J.H. Fairchild, president of Oberlin College. Sherlock Bristol was a Congregationalist clergyman who also participated.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, 1 inch chip from jacket spine base, with minor loss from other jacket corners, jacket toned.
432 pp. A novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Green Bay Tree, Possession.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #467 of 500 copies. Signed by author and hand-numbered. Lacks slipcase, but includes a second jacket that appears original and follows the same design pattern as the one beneath, with a different color scheme and thicker paper.....
New York: Random House, 1943. Eichenberg, Fritz. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Lacks slipcase, otherwise an exceptional set, with less toning to the boards than one usually sees with this edition.
Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1]; 212, [2] pp. 10 x 8. Engravings by.....
New York: Random House, 1943. Eichenberg, Fritz. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed with beginnings of a split along top seam, book boards toned as usual, ink name on front endpaper of each volume.
Two volumes originally issued together as a set in publisher's slipcase. 343, [1];.....
New York: Random House, 1943. Eichenberg, Fritz. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Bookplate signed by Fritz Eichenberg on front endpaper of Jane Eyre. 1 x 1 inch stain on rear slipcase edge, two slipcase seams beginning to split, ink name and date on front endpaper of each volume, spine.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Yohn, F.C.; Catlin, George; Frost, A.B.; St Memin; Seton-Thompson, Ernest. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Includes folding map following text. Faint stain to top marginal corner of some pages, front free endpaper removed, some tiny white spotting on rear board (paint spatter?).
xii.....
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London: Printed for C. Davis against Gray's-Inn-Gate, Holborn, 1751. First Edition. Full-Leather.
Rebacked, retaining original boards, boards rubbed with some loss and some new leather added along edges, handwritten biographical sketch of author on rear endpapers, owner bookplate, bookseller plate, and owner blind stamp on front endpapers.
viii, 406 pp.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Large Hardcover.
Revised and enlarged thumb-indexed edition. Light general wear to jackets of both volumes. Bottom page ridge of volume 2 bumped.
Two volume set. "For the past sixty-five years, the massive Oxford English Dictionary has offered the last word on the.....
New York / London: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1867. Howard, J.H. Hard Cover.
Includes plain brown paper jacket, which is unusual for books published in the 1800s, though this appears to be handmade by a previous owner (often called a colloquial jacket). Jacket split in two pieces at spine.....
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly rubbed. A few spots on top page ridge, jacket reverse foxed.
xxv, 346 pp. "An anthology including Henri Bergson, Charles Sanders Peirce, Willima James, Samuel Alexander, C. Lloyd Morgan, John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and Alfred North.....
New York: [Self-Published], 1962. First Thus. Soft Cover.
First edition, second state, with overstruck obscenities. Whited out price on front corner, small sticker ghost inside rear wrapper.
The first book by the irreverent comedian whose off-color brand of humor led to criminal charges of obscenity. In anticipation of the resulting.....
. Augustae Vindelicorum, Typis et Impensis Haeredum Ioannis Iacobi Lotteri, 1748. Hard Cover.
Boards lightly soiled and stained.
[xvi], 608, [13] pp. 8vo. Vellum binding, hand lettered spine, sprinkled edges. An extensive history of philosophy, by the author whose five-volume Historia Critica Philosophiae formed the basis of William Enfield's The.....
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1929. Rogers, Hubert. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Includes all three maps. Cover spine lightly soiled, jacket edges rubbed with a few creases and closed tears, and minor loss from corners.
384 pp. 8vo. An early jacket design by Hubert.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Jacket spine stained, small chip along bottom edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed.
310 pp. In this classic thriller by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, an English professor is drawn into.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few small chips and small tears, jacket reverse taped. Page ridges faintly foxed, pencil note on rear free endpaper verso.
318 pp. The final Richard Hannay novel. A long-forgotten promise made by Richard Hannay.....
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Large tear along front jacket joint, jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears. Ink gift note on front free endpaper.
367 pp. Hannay to the rescue once more! This time...our hero is summoned from his tranquil life in rural.....
New York: The Heritage Press, 1948. Covarrubias, Miguel. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Sandglass insert Number 9M laid in. Slipcase edges rubbed and toned, spine faded.
xxix, [1], 688 pp. Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck, with an introduction by Lin Yutang, an author's preface by Shih.....