325 items available at our booth at the 2023 Georgetown Rare Book Fair 5/19-5/21 at the City Tavern Club
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Jacket reverse lightly soiled. Boards and bottom page ridge lightly soiled.
liii, 407 pp. F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is the opening statement of his literary career. Published originally in 1920, the novel captures the rhythm and.....
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Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1965. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus, one of 300 copies (originally printed in The Princeton University Library Chronicle). Includes onion skin jacket. Jacket lightly toned, ink name and date (Charles H. Burkman, 2 April 1965) on front endpaper. Burkman was a research librarian at Princeton's.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition, second state ('Aind' corrected to 'And' on page 14, 'wich-hazel' uncorrected on p. 62). Signed and dated by author without inscription on title page ('Robert Frost, Fitchburg 1938'). Lacks jacket. Spine and edges faded, newspaper.....
Kent: Midas Books, 1978. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Reissue. An exceptional copy.
407 pp. Includes over 400 illustrations. A comprehensive study of one of Britain's most influential schools of art, and of its birth and development from its international forebears. Commencing with Palaeolithic engraving, influencing the wood engraving of Henry Moore.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Allison, W.M. [William Merle]. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 808, Howes G-73). Spine toned with some loss from paper label, board edges slightly toned, ink historical society stamp on half-title page.
1927 revision of the 1882 work published by.....
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed but not signed by the author on volume one front flyleaf ('With compliments of author'). The recipient was William D. Doan, author of Birds of West Virginia (1858). One page corner repaired with clear tape.....
London: J. Tonson / M. Downing / T. Osborne; A. Peisley / J. and H. Pemberton / James Crokatt / Henry Woodfall / Edward Owen / W. Innys / John Jolliffe / J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1732. Full-Leather.
Owned by a distant.....
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books, 2015. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. Top edge of rear jacket flap bumped.
207 pp. As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the.....
Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, Publishers, 1890. Reprint. Large Hardcover.
1890 printing. Front and end matter foxed, some light spotting on front board, ink gift note on front endpaper.
102 pp. Grey cloth, gilt titles, black decorations on front board. A collection of engravings with commentary by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Related newspaper articles laid in, associated transfer on front wrapper verso.
x, 393 pp. ...the letters of Florentine humanist Poggius (1380-1459) to his friend de Niccolis regarding the rediscovery of lost classical texts. Translated from the Latin with.....
New York: Random House, 1982. Gorey, Edward; Penick, Ib. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. A couple pages lightly foxed, but all pop-ups and moveable elements present and functional.
Unpaginated. 11 3/4 x 7 5/8. Rhyming verse accompanied by stunning pop-ups illustrated by Edward Gorey, and engineered into three dimensions.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips, jacket spine toned. Pencil note on rear free endpaper recto.
269 pp. A book which probes the psychology of marriage among the intellectuals living in the shadows of the University of.....
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1933. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, #140 of 500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon. Laid in is a 1934 broadside folded once on the top edge detailing the history of the work, as well as a newspaper article with more background. Faint crease on rear.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1956. Facsimile. Hard Cover.
1956 facsimile of 1640 original, with a companion volume on the history of what is now among the most collectible of all printed works. Near fine volumes in a near fine publisher slipcase. Paper mounted on slipcase panel lightly soiled
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Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spot on top edge, otherwise near fine.
xx, 479 pp. Provides brief biographical sketches of women civil rights activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and includes listings of bibliographical sources for each woman.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1929. Leighton, Clara. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, #1283 of 1500 copies, signed by illustrator Clara Leighton on limitation page. Lacks jacket. Corners a bit rubbed, otherwise an excellent copy.
x, [4], 484, [2] pp. Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of.....
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket faintly toned.
348 pp. 8vo. "In the realm of psychological suspense, Thomas Harris stands alone. Exploring both the nature of human evil and the nerve-racking anatomy of a forensic investigation, Harris unleashes a frightening vision of the.....
. Harley-Davidson Motor Co., 1932. Stapled Binding.
Two light wrapper creases, small tear to spine base.
23 pp. An early motorcycling periodical, featuring photographs of early models of Harley-Davidsons, with ads for accessories.
Rochester, New York: The Strong Museum, 1986. Large Softcover.
Sticker ghost on rear cover.
iv, 38 pp. Preface by the author, endnotes. Published to accompany an exhibition at the museum. Explores the material culture of domestic reading. Black and white illustrations.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Thus. Hard Cover.
1948 first illustrated edition ('A' and Scribner emblem on copyright page). Lacks jacket. Tiny spot on spine label, otherwise an excellent copy.
xi, 363 pp. Illustrations by Daniel Rasmusson, and a new introduction by the author written for this edition.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state, with no disclaimer on p. [x] (Hanneman 8A). Lacks jacket. First page of text and blank opposite stained, boards a bit soiled with minor scrapes and minimal loss from label edges, ink name and date 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.....
London: Printed for A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, S. Birt, C. Hitch, L. Gilliver, T. Astley, S. Austen, and J. Rivington, 1742. Third Edition. Full-Leather.
Third edition, with additions. ESTC T61185. Rebound in modern full leather with red spine label, gilt titles and rules, new end sheets.....
London: J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, E. Symon, 1726. Second Edition. Full-Leather.
Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Front joint weakening, a few abrasions on boards, lacks spine label, page base margin lightly stained (larger stains on first section of.....
London: A. Millar over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand / T. Longman in Pater-noster Row, 1755. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (ESTC T99472). Rebound in beige cloth with leather spine labels, gilt titles, new end sheets.
[xii], xlviii, 358; [iv], 380 pp. 4to. Among the Scottish literati and illuminati who.....