New York; (1983): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. First printing, 399pp. When the attorney for Dr. Edward A. Kantor for the claim that he had supplied the drugs that began to cause Barbara Hutton's rapid decline, when, in fact, Dr. Kantor was only 14 in 1943. Random House recalled 58,000..... More
Paris: Leroud, E., 1883. Quarto. Frontispiece map. 524, (1) pp. errata, p. 525 Table of Gravures, profusely illustrated with both full page and textual engravings. Besides the major places in the Near East, the author has included a section on the Samaritans. One of the finest works by the illustrator..... More
Paris: E. Lerous, 1889. Quarto. x-202 pages. French text. One of the most important primary sources in translation of the author, Usamai ibn Munqid, who was born in the first year of the First Crusade (1095) to a family who were the lords over the Shayzar Fortress on the River..... More
Kobe, Japan: Ikuta Press, 1977. Octavo. 47 pages. Besides the book being inscribed to Eva La Gallienne, it includes the author's long letter to her reminiscing of her appearing in "The Royal Family", he notes a mutual friend, Jay Hildreth, who hoped with her to make an opera of Ibsen's..... More
London: A. & C. Black, 1937. Octavo. Frontispiece, 410 pages, index, with 16 plates and 4 maps (some folding). With the coming of World War I, this region became of vital interest in geopolitics. The first 260 pages give in detail the social structure of the region around Syria. Beginning..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 322 pages. Illustrated by J.Allen St. John with four black and white illustrations. Bound in red cloth lettered in black, spine lettering black, light wear to corners joints rubbed, second front blank weith minute tears near gutter. A very good copy..... More
[Quota Press, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 1938]. Octavo. 18pp., four full page illustrations. J.R.R. Adams, "The Quota Press; a preliminary review: (Linen Hall Review, Vol. III, no. 1) Spring, 1986) Ulster was the center for these small print runs. OCLC reports this item only in the British Library, The National Library..... More
Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company, 1920. Octavo. 121 pages. Color pictorial half-title and other charming illustrations in color and in black and white by Susan Beatrice Pearse. One of the popular children's series and the adventures of Ameliar Anne who in this small book has a poor mother who took in washing..... More
New York: Appleton, 1855. First Edition. Small Octavo. Besides Thanatopsis, it includes June (which Poe considered one of the finest of early American poems). It was almost issued simultaneously with a one volume illustrated edition which Bryant tolerated but in a letter to R.H. Dana he writes that it is..... More
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Darmstadt: Lehruckerei Techische Hochschule, 1995. Small Octavo. 3 volume set, in facsimile. Volume I-2. Manuel Typographique 1764 and 1766. Volume 3. Fournier on typefounding (1930 translation). Pierre-Simon Fournier was one of the major typographers of the 18th century. His work not only accomplished "a standardized measuring system that would revolutionize..... More
Privately Printed, 1926. First Edition. Octavo. Limited to 500 copies on antique wove paper, printed by William Edwin Rudge with typography by Bruce Rogers. unopened. Bound in 1/4 red cloth over brown paper covered baords, spine lettering gilt, in original glassine wrapper with a bit of chipping to edges. A...... More
New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1903. First Edition. Small Octavo. Limited to 450 copies. The present copy is number 105 designed by [Bruce Rogers] with his printer's mark in red. 137pp., translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page with an introductory essay and notes, title page decorated in..... More
Birmingham, England: Drunken Dragon Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. First hardcover edition. 373pp. Author's first book which was first published in paperback in 1988 and winner of the Locus Award for best first novel. A mix of science fiction and magic realism that takes place on a future colonized Mars..... More
London (1975): Weidenfeld and Nicolson. First UK Edition. Octavo. 236pp. A Vietnam War veteran, Haldeman critiques the futility of war through the description of future war with an alien race lasting more than 1000 years. Considered one of the most important military science fiction books ever published, as well as..... More
New York, (1986): Random House. First American Edition. Octavo. irst printing. 287(1) pp. edited and with an introduction by James Fenton. The author's family numbered fourteen when it left the fallen city of Phonom Penh. Only four of those survived the rule of the Khmer Rouge who took over Cambodia..... More
Chicago: Moses Wartren and Co, 1878. Quarto. 15th edition. 305pp. (3) pp. advertisements. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated, Not only does this book teach you how to write formal letters, business letters, important documents, it also shows how to secure a copyright, tables of weights and measures, Toast, and sentiments, about books..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin Limited, 1927. Octavo. 323pp., unopened. Later revised edition. This work contains the final text of the author's poems of his youth with revisions. He has enclosed in brackets those passages in "The Land of Heart's Desire" which are omitted when it is played at the Abbey..... More
New York; (1997): Random House. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author, 539pp., This is the second novel of the author's trilogy. This story confronts the primal relationship between a dangerous father and his desperate sons and the ways in which his death had shaped their lives. His son Lucius..... More
New York; (1990): Random House. First Edition. Large Octavo. Signed by the author.372(1) pp. The story of the contradictory Mister Watson, a plantation owner in the Everglades who awes and terrifies his neighbors, who love and admire, hate and fear him in equal measure. A fine copy bound in 1/4..... More
London: For John Stockdale, 1804. Quarto. Large paper edition in two volumes. Vol. I: viii. (Advertisement, Directions to the binder for placing the 17 Stothard engraved plates which include the frontispieces and title pages of both volumes. 405pp. Vol. 2: v, 446 pp. The timeless story of a castaway who..... More
Tucson: Peccary Press, 1993. Quarto. 24 pages. A very special edition limited to 26 copies, designed and handbound by Mark and Linda Sanders who began the work in their Saltbush Studio in 1991 and completed in 1993. Bound in a special relief depicting the Santa Cruz Mountains with a slipcase..... More
New York; (1941) But [1958]: Gnome Press. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with red lettering on black cloth spine [Currey, Binding A", with first issue dust jacket showing publisher's address at 80 east 11th st New York with list of 35 titles of Gnome science fiction classics. 188 pages. Anatomy..... More
London: For T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davis, 1798. First Edition. Octavo. With a fore-edge painting depicting a man in a boat fishing with grasses and trees on both sides of the water. Gilpin published a series of these illustrated picturesque volumes basically as guide books for the traveller with..... More
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1964. Later printing, 385pp. Revised and enlarged edition of a classic treatise on frontier history of Arizona. Illustrated. Chapter notes. Index. Biographical sketches of the principal characters. Bound in red cloth lettered in black, ruled in gilt, spine black and gilt, map endpapers. A fine bright..... More
