New Arrivals
Chinese Maritime Customs Service Customs Gazette: Medical Reports Forwarded By the Surgeons to the Customs at the Treaty Ports in China July 1876 - September 1886, issues 12-32
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1877. First Edition. Softcover. Contemporary half leather, boards worn and detached, generally very good internally. Bound up in three volumes, most of the original yellow wraps discarded, old stamps from the CT State Medical Library. A remarkable collection of colonial documents..... More
China: Imperial Maritime Customs, Special Series No. 2, Medical Reports 1887-1904, Issues 33-67
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs Kelly & Walsh Limited, 1887. First Edition. Softcover. 35 issues of Imperial Maritime Customs Medical reports bound up in an old 3 ring binder. Old stamps of the Connecticut State board of health here and there, old labels inside cover -..... More
Liliput Dictionary: English-Dutch
Leipzig: Schmidt Gunther, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in green pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048392. More
Dictionnaire Liliput: Français-Anglais
Leipzig: Schmidt Gunther, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in green pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048391. More
Dizionario Lilliput: Italiano-Inglese
New York: M. Minkus Verlag, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in brown pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048390. More
Liliput Dictionary: English-Danish-Norwegian and Dansk-Norsk-Engelsk
Leipzig: Schmidt Gunther, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two miniatures in brown pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048389. More
Liliput Dictionary: English-Italian and Italiano-Inglese
New York: M. Minkus Verlag, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two miniatures in brown pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048388. More
Liliput-Woordenboekje: Nederlandsch-Engelsch
Leipzig: Schmidt Gunther, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in brown pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Rust from snap on front blank. Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048387. More
Liliput-Woordenboekje: Nederlandsch-Engelsch
Leipzig: Schmidt Gunther, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in green pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Rust from snap on front blank. Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048386. More
Liliput Dictionary: The Little Webster
New York: Miniature Dictionary Publishers, 1930. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in pebbled leather with snap closure. Slight wear. Undated ca. 1930s. ca. 2" x 1.5" Size: Miniature. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 8. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048385. More
Diccionario Lilliput Langenscheidt Español-Inglés
Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1961. Hardcover (Full Leather). Miniature in red suede with snap closure. Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 048384. More
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
New York: Knopf, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight shelfwear - a sharp copy of the first US edition. Old bookseller ticket to endpaper. Based in part on an early story of Mann's and con man Georges Manolescu's autobiographies, Mann was still working on Felix Krull when he died in 1955..... More
The House of the Spirits
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. ar. Faint shelfwear to book and jacket, slight browning to pages, otherwise a fine copy of the 1st UK edition. Promotional bookmark laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 048382. More
Harmonium: A Book of Poems
New York: Knopf, 1950. Third Edition. Hardcover. Toning to jacket spine, fading to red cloth; overall an attractive copy of the second printing of the 1947 third edition of Stevens's masterwork. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048380. More
The Floating Opera
New York: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Discoloraton to jacket, browning and light wear. Gift inscription dated 1959 from Charlie Leach. Glenway Wescott's copy with his Exlibris laid in. Small hole about the size of a punch through the middle of the title page. Still, an attractive copy of..... More
A Book of Common Prayer
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear, a bright copy in an unclipped jacket. An attempt to find order in disorder, structure in the unstructurable. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 048378. More
Four Quartets
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1943. Second Edition. Hardcover. The second impression of the first edition with no statement on copyright and no codes. In the first state jacket - much of the original first printing was discarded and the jackets used on the second impression. Chipping and significant..... More
The Incomplete Enchanter
Philadelphia: The Prime Press, 1950. Early Edition. Hardcover. SLight chipping to jacket at edges with a touch of loss at corners, rear panel a little soiled, book itself just about fine. Signed by De Camp on the title - a 1950 reprint of the 1941 first edition with a new..... More
The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight rubbing to jacket, otherwise fine. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; ISBN: 0674980883. ISBN/EAN: 9780674980884. Inventory No: 048374. More
The 210th Day
Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2002. Softcover. Faint wear to covers; scarce. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0804833206. ISBN/EAN: 9780804833202. Inventory No: 048373. More
De abditis rerum causis libri duo
Paris: Andreas Wechel, 1560. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Contemporary rolled pigskin and leather over boards, boards heavily worn at the corners and fore-edge. Lacking the front blank, notes to pastedown, neat early underlining and marginalia throughout, 3 pages towards the end heavily marked. Modest age toning, a bit of..... More
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Chicago, 2002. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to jacket Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 048372. More
Crazy Hope and Finite Experience
Jossey-Bass, 1994. Hardcover. Slight shelfwear Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; ISBN: 0787900168. ISBN/EAN: 9780787900168. Inventory No: 048371. More