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London: Gibbings and Company, Ltd., 1895. Facsimile. Large Hardcover.
1895 facsimile of the 1802 third edition. Hinges weakening, interior clean and unmarked.
xv, 440 pp. Imperial 8vo. 9 1/2 x 11 5/8. Light brown cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Includes 62 plates in text, 33 plates in appendix, 8.....
Toronto: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - limited to 550 copies, including 150 signed and numbered by the author. This copy is the latter, hand-numbered 83 and signed by Shields on the limitation page.
10 pp. A brief work by the popular Canadian author who.....
Ottawa: The Borealis Press, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page.
81 pp. Carol Shields' critical examination of the work of Susanna Moodie is divided into three chapters: Mrs. Moodie and the Complex Personality, Mrs. Moodie and Sexual.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 2030), not to be confused with the revised edition released the same year by the same publisher. Lacks jacket. Fore edge lightly foxed, ink gift note.....
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press / Espresso Editions, 1990. Nees, Susan. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover.
Limited edition, #101 of 170 copies signed by author and artist on limitation page. Includes plexiglass case with a charming ribbon closure at the fore-edge. Minimal scuff to rear panel of case.
Unpaginated. Illustrated with six.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Owner bookplate, pencil name and date on front endpapers, a few words here and there in text underlined in pencil.
x, 325, [1] pp. 8vo. A memoir by the writer, lyricist, and composer who was also a prolific.....
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1946. Kramer, Frank. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, binding A (Bienvenue pp. 131-133). Includes original jacket. Stained along base, with minor tears and a few small chips along jacket edges, jacket price crossed out with new price ($2.00) in ink. Binding tight, text.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed and dated by author on half-title page (March, 1994), inscription ('For Dr. Ron Rigli') appears to have been added in a separate hand. Certificate of authenticity from an auction company laid in.
119 pp. 8vo.. Translated.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Early printing ($10.00 jacket price, M-S code with no first edition statement on copyright page). Signed by author without inscription on title page. Minimal wear to jacket corners.
xiii, [3], 580 pp. 8vo. Translated by Thomas P. Whitney. "Moscow, Christmas Eve.....
New York: Arcade Publishing / Little, Brown and Company, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('To Miriam, always a pleasure, always an inspiration, Terry Southern'). A bit smoky, top edge faintly foxed.
174, [4] pp. A novel by the author credited.....
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition (Bleiler 2077). Minor loss from jacket corners, 1 inch closed tear to front jacket edge, jacket a bit toned.
243 pp. 8vo. From the jacket flap: "Archeological discoveries in ancient Babylon, the first home of Adam and the.....
Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition.
xxi, 275 pp. "Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his or her social and mental.....
New York: The William T. Comstock Co., 1913. [Kent, Rockwell]. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Corners lightly rubbed, a few tiny spots on front board illustration and two faintly discolored areas on rear board, binding square and tight, text clean and unmarked.
208 pp. 8vo. Color frontispiece, black-and-white photographs.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. Du Bois, William Pene. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Near fine in very good jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket price clipped, jacket spine faded with a few light spots.
188 pp. 8vo. John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Galdone, Paul. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, first state (no reviews on rear jacket panel, $3.50 jacket price). Jacket edges rubbed. Ink name on front free endpaper.
x, 273 pp. Jacket art by Paul Galdone. In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday.....
Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1875. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1875 printing. Front and end matter and a few other pages foxed, corners a bit rubbed.
xxx, 623, [1] pp. 8vo. Frontispiece steel engraved portrait of the author and full-page engravings. A memoir by a wife and mother who was oppressed.....
London: Christopher Barker / John Windet for the Assignes of Richard Day, 1597. Full-Leather.
Nicely rebound with new marbled endpapers, likely in the 17th or early 18th century, and probably trimmed at that time (some of the margins are quite small). Ink name (J.J. Everist) on title page, the book.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Photoplay Edition. Hard Cover.
Includes jacket promoting the film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, and Lana Turner. Pages lightly toned, top corner of front jacket flap clipped, jacket a bit rubbed with small surface tear (sticker removal mark) on top edge.
65, [1], iii.....
London: Printed for Private Distribution Only, 1898. Limited Edition. Full-Leather.
Limited edition, #10 of 30 copies. Rebound in full red leather by Zaehnsdorf.
25 pp. Full red leather, gilt titles and rules, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Three short poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, etc.).....
Chicago, Illinois: The Newberry Library / The University of Chicago Press, 1968. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Top page ridge foxed, frontispiece lightly foxed.
xxv, 854 pp. The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which.....
Boston and New York / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, 1890. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1890 printing. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, bookplate of E.V. Stoddard on front endpaper. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.
xii, 530, [6] pp. Navy blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top.....
London: Published for the Buddhist Society, London, by Rider and Company, 1950. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Lacks jacket. Some loss of gilt from titles, endpapers foxed.
348 pp. Foreword by editor Christmas Humphreys. Twenty-five collotype reproductions from illustrations by old masters. Suzuki was a Japanese-American Buddhist monk who.....
London: Published for the Buddhist Society, London, by Rider and Company, 1950. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Lacks jacket. Minimal loss of gilt from titles.
187 pp. Foreword by editor Christmas Humphreys. Suzuki was a Japanese-American Buddhist monk who is largely credited with the introduction of Zen to Western.....
London: Published for the Buddhist Society, London, by Rider and Company, 1950. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Minimal loss of gilt from spine, front and end matter a bit foxed.
192 pp. Foreword by editor Christmas Humphreys. Suzuki was a Japanese-American Buddhist monk who is largely credited.....
London: Published for the Buddhist Society, London, by Rider and Company, 1949. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Lacks jacket. Several spots on front board, spine faded with some loss of gilt, minor ink underlining and marginalia on just a few pages, endpapers lightly foxed.
155 pp. Foreword by editor.....