![Item #2281490 The Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio. in Three Volumes. [Decameron]....](/pictures/thumb/2281490.jpg?v=1657815478)
Londra [London]: Guglielmo Pickering, 1825. Full-Leather.
Edges rubbed, spine labels mostly absent, minor splits to spine heads and feet along joints, first gathering of volume 1 (free endpaper, flyleaf, and half-title page) loose but included. An attractive set that could be beautiful with some minor restorations.
Complete in three volumes.....
London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., Cheapside, 1820. Westall, Robert. Hard Cover.
Rebound in plain blue cloth with gilt titles and rules, new endpapers. One gathering sprung in first volume, front and end matter, plates, and a few text pages foxed. A nice candidate for an elaborate new binding, though we.....
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1892. Bieler, Montegut, Myrbach, Picard, Rossi, Conconi. Hard Cover.
Thirty Years of Paris Volume: Spine cocked, front joint starting, stained. Light general wear to other volumes.
Six volume set. Top page ridges gilt. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 – 16 December 1897).....
Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1855. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Boards lightly rubbed and faded, rebacked in leather.
Leather spine over pebbled cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, blind-stamped borders, marbled endpapers. A collection of four works by Rene Descartes in the original French, including Discours de la.....
New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers / Argyle Press, 1887. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Arlington Edition, circa 1900. Pages toned, front endpapers lightly foxed, hinges just beginning to weaken.
128, [14] pp. 8vo. Translated into English from the original French by Jacob Abarbanell. The author was a popular feuilleton writer, and.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1900. Hard Cover.
No jacket. All volumes: A few small spots on page ridge, ink name on front free endpaper.
Six volume set. "Erckmann-Chatrian is a pen name for two writers : Émile Erckmann (Phalsbourg 1822 - Lunéville 1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (Soldatenthal 1826 -.....
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company / J.J. Little & Ives Company, 1928. Darcy, [Lyse]. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First English translation. Boards faintly foxed, 1 inch closed tear to front jacket corner with tiny associated chip, jacket spine faded.
xvi, [4], 16-147, [1] pp. 8vo. An English translation.....
![Item #2321121 The Iliad of Homer [with] The Odyssey of Homer. Homer, Alexander Pope](/pictures/thumb/2321121.jpg?v=1656361682)
New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Flaxman, John. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Both volumes include publisher's slipcase. Sandglass inserts Number 8G and 3F laid in. Spines slightly faded, slipcase edges a bit toned.
Two matching hardcover volumes. xxviii, 478; xvi, 357 pp. Original cloth hardcover bindings with beveled edges, Iliad in.....
![Item #2327467 The Iliad of Homer [with] The Odyssey of Homer. Homer, Alexander Pope](/pictures/thumb/2327467.jpg?v=1664134234)
New York: The Heritage Press, 1943. Flaxman, John. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Both volumes include publisher's slipcase but lack Sandglass insert. Slipcase edges rubbed.
Two matching hardcover volumes. xxviii, 478; xvi, 357 pp. Original cloth hardcover bindings with beveled edges, Iliad in red, Odyssey in blue, each with gilt designs and.....
Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1886. Large Hardcover.
Binding was repaired previously, portion of spine has loosened since, spine toned, ink name on half-title page.
437 pp. 11 1/4 x 8 1/4. A Dutch translation of Homer's Iliad arranged in hexameters, by C. [Carel] Vosmaer, a poet and art critic. Illustrated with.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1894. Demarest, A. Hard Cover.
Spine head and spine base rubbed, one gathering loosening but still holding.
xxii, 530 pp. Three pages of publisher ads follow text. Blue cloth boards with elaborate gilt decorations on front board and spine. Includes frontispiece and one plate from.....
![Item #2316868 Notre Dame de Paris [The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]. Victor Hugo, Clayton Hamilton](/pictures/thumb/2316868.jpg?v=1644908270)
New York: Ives Washburn, 1928. Pape, Eric. Hard Cover.
Lacks slipcase. Frontispiece lightly foxed, spine faded, boards lightly soiled.
xxxi, 583 pp. The complete work in one volume, together with an introduction by Clayton Hamilton, and a note originally added to the end of the 1832 edition, explaining the inclusion.....
![Item #2297530 Plays: An English Tragedy: A Play, in Five Acts.; [with] Mary Stuart; [with]...](/pictures/thumb/2297530.jpg?v=1656686997)
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. 1863. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Professionally rebound in half leather by McNamee Binder, Cambridge. Spine toned, top corner lightly discolored, edges rubbed, ink name on front free endpaper verso.
582, [6] pp. 8vo. Green leather spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers.....
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1887. Dore, Gustave. Reissue. Full-Leather.
Rebacked with new leather, gilt titles and decorations sympathetic to original style, first gathering repaired at binding with tissue. Boards lightly stained, front matter lightly foxed, some pages toned.
lxiv, 839, [3] pp. Royal 4to. 12 3/4 x 10. Leather.....
![Item #1924495 Show Cases: Signed First Edition [Showcases]. Jacques Le Clercq](/pictures/thumb/1924495.jpg?v=1644907647)
New York: Macy-Masius Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Inscribed in French ('Pour M. John King, souvenir affectueux de l'auteur, Jacques Le Clercq, 6 or Mars, 1928') and signed by author on front endpaper. Spine toned, hinges just beginning to weaken, small bookseller's plate on rear endpaper
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some loss to jacket spine head and to spine base, jacket price-clipped.
vi, 510 pp. "Doctor Faustus (in German, Doktor Faustus) is a German novel written in the United States by Thomas Mann, begun.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1928. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1928 first thus, Toledano 138.1, binding/jacket style 4c, with unnumbered title list on verso but referencing 140 titles on the rear panel, 95 cent jacket price, yellow Bernhard endpapers. Jacket edges rubbed and beginning to split along flap creases with.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964. Large Hardcover.
Slipcase repaired. No jacket.
Two large hardcovers in slipcase. "These volumes are the first part of a projected catalogue of the books and manuscripts in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts established in the Harvard Library by.....
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #628 of 2000. Lacks two-part box originally issued with publisher. No jacket. Light general wear.
352; 384 pp. Two volume set. In this fourth volume, Proust's novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Near fine in good example of first state jacket ('first American printing 100,000 copies' stated without note of any additional printings on rear flap). Jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine head and minor.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. Wiese, Kurt. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Mottled discoloration of boards, interior clean and bright, binding tight and square.
293 pp. The novel that inspired the Walt Disney motion picture. Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Translation by Whittaker Chambers, with a foreword.....
![Item #2305728 Les Moeurs [with] Arrest de la Cour du Parlement [with] Les Moeurs Appreciees, ou,...](/pictures/thumb/2305728.jpg?v=1644908009)
. S.N., 1748. First Edition. Full-Leather.
Corners slightly exposed.
[32], 106; [107]-334; [335]-474 pp. Contemporary mottled calf, marbled endpapers, spine gilt with red leather label, red edges. Frontispiece, engraved vignette on title and on first page of each of the three parts as called for, this copy bound without the.....
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1891. Benett, L. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, which was also the first English translation of this work. Hinges loose but holding, boards a bit soiled, corners rubbed, 1 inch tear to marginal corner of frontispiece page. A good candidate for recasing
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Westport, Connecticut: Associated Booksellers / Bernard Hanison Limited, 1958. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Jacket spine toned, jacket edges lightly rubbed.
191 pp. A novel foreshadowing the modern totalitarian state and predicting the launch of an artificial satellite. Verne constructs two fictional American cities, one utopian and based on.....
Westport, Connecticut: Associated Booksellers / Bernard Hanison, 1959. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Jacket spine and edges a bit toned, jacket lightly rubbed.
191 pp. The second part of the work usually translated as The Mysterious Island. The sequel to Dropped from the Clouds, describing the adventures of five.....