Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xxvii, 278 pp. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feminist Ada Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activism in the Resistenza as.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
xi, 391 pp. In 1910, Crystal Eastman was one of the most conspicuous progressive reformers in America. By the 1920s, her ardent suffragism, insistent anti-militarism, gregarious internationalism, and uncompromising feminism branded her "the most dangerous.....
London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First editions. Rebound in half-leather with marbled boards. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown.....
New York: The Modern Library, 1929. Reissue. Hard Cover.
1931-39 printing of Toledano 165.1, binding 7, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, ink name and date on front endpaper.
xii, 492, [6] pp. Edited by Madeleine Boyd, with an introduction by Ernest Boyd. Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler.....
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink gift note on half-title page appears to be from someone who frequented the Algonquin ('To Dot from one of the inmates with a very Merry Xmas!') though we cannot decipher the name (it appears to be.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine lightly toned, dime-sized spot on front board, 2 inch tear to one page of foreword.
xv, 235 pp. 8vo. Original beige cloth, forest green stamped titles. Includes photographic frontispiece of Beard, and pen and ink sketches.....
San Francisco: H. Keller & Co., 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition - the 1879 San Francisco printing, significantly preceding the Funk & Wagnalls edition of 1886, which is commonly mischaracterized as the first. Boards rubbed and soiled (most of gilt rubbed away), front free endpaper removed, hinges weakening.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, 2017. Bicentennial Edition. Hard Cover.
Bicentennial edition. Top corner bumped.
xxxvii, 110 pp. New introduction. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition. It was written by impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor, eloquent orator, and former enslaved.....
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Nashville, Tennessee: Celebrity Books, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper, with dedicatee's name blacked out. Boards lightly soiled and a bit rubbed, with some loss from title on front board.
xiv, 456 pp. Memoirs of a 'Kodak Girl', who married a......
New York: Johnson, Fry & Company, 1862. Chappel, Alonzo. Half-Leather.
One gathering loose but included in volume 1, a few spots and stains scattered throughout, boards heavily rubbed but leather spines and corners holding up quite well, pencil name and date on front flyleaf of each volume.
vii, [3], 488;.....
New York: The Rodale Press, 1955. Atkinson, L. [Leslie]. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase. Boards a bit foxed, damage to top slipcase corners.
xiii, 153 pp. Title page and in-line decorations by Leslie Atkinson, illustrated with reproductions of prints. A memoir by the Scottish courtesan and spy in Paris, who.....
New York: Random House, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor smudge to fore edge, minimal wear to corners.
1060 pp. Edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner, with introductory essays by Callahan. Selections of letters from the author of Invisible Man, spanning seven decades (1930s-1990s). An.....
New York / London: Charles Scribner's Sons / Bickers and Son, 1906. New Edition. Hard Cover.
A few minor tears to spine head on all four volumes, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of all four volumes, tissue loose but included in volumes two through four.
cxxxiii, 299; 491; 487; 497.....
London: The Folio Society, 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #181). Includes publisher's slipcase. Spine faded, a few minor blemishes to boards.
xiv, 253 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated with reproductions of contemporary illustrations. First published in two volumes in 1818, this volume.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. A few pages dog-eared.
xv, 407 pp. Revised translation by Eiichi Kiyooika, with a foreword by Carmen Blacker. "Here is the autobiography of a remarkable man. Yukichi Fukuzawa's life covered the 66 years between 1835 and 1901, a period which.....
New York: Paragon House, 1990. Trade Paperback.
Edges faintly foxed.
Gathers letters, journal excerpts, essays and art criticism by the noted French Impressionist.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1915. Hard Cover.
Near fine book in good jacket. Minor loss from jacket corners with several small closed tears along edges, ink name on front endpaper. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
263 pp. Includes 12 photographic plates. Memoirs of a Native.....
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. Large Softcover.
First printing. Minimal wear to corners.
v, [1], 146 pp. Profiles of 18 typographers who made significant contributions to the field, including oldies such as Gutenberg, Caxton, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, and several moderns whose work - Times New Roman, Perpetua, Electra, etc......
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. Ink name on front endpaper of each volume, minor wear to boards, spines slightly faded.
lii, 423; 476 pp. Two volume set. Original cloth binding, top page ridge gilt, deckled edges. Volume I includes fold-out and errata page.....
Rochester, New York: Center for Holocaust Awareness and Information, 2002. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Two corners lightly creased.
239 pp. Maps precede text, includes large section of black-and-white photographs. When Red Army soldiers discovered the Arndt, Lewinsky and Gumpel families in April 1945, there were seven survivors --.....
Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. An exceptional copy.
xvii, [1], 332 pp. English translation by Calin Cotoiu, edited by Dennis Deletant. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index follow text. Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story.....
London: Folio Society, 1957. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus (Nash, Folio 50 #109). Includes publisher's slipcase. An excellent copy.
xiii, 182 pp. Blue cloth spine with gilt titles and decorations, marbled paper over boards. Edited by Kenneth Fenwick. Includes nine plates comprising ten illustrations. Memoirs of an early 18th.....
New York: Crown, 2015. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
304 pp. Joan and Melissa Rivers had one of the most celebrated mother-daughter relationships of all time. If you think Joan said some outrageous things to her audiences as a comedian, you won't believe what she said.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, ink owner name and stamp on front endpaper.
350 pp. An account of Ted Bundy's serial murders, by the famous true crime writer who knew him previous to his connections with the.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jackert. Edges faded, boards lightly rubbed and soiled, edges faintly foxed.
350 pp. An account of Ted Bundy's serial murders, by the famous true crime writer who knew him previous to his connections with the killings.....