Paris: A. Mornay, 1922. Lébédoff. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half green morocco, sunned to brown on spine and edges. Fine woodcuts by Lébédoff- translated from the 1904 American edition (The Silent Places). Number 653 of 1000, original wraps bound in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Lébédoff. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped..... More about Terres de Silence
Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Original vellum covered boards, stained, esp. heavily to spine, worn at edges and corners. Very light scattered foxing internally, otherwise unmarked. Signed by Shorthouse on title verso. 577pp. Just 100 copies of this private edition were published, a year before the Macmillan trade... More about John Inglesant: A Romance
Olympia. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to wraps at edges, small puncture to front cover, fine internally. Number 489 of 1125 copies. Watt was largely composed while on the run from the Nazis in France from 1942-44. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046777. More about Watt
Utrecht: Sticghtin, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to green cloth - illustrated with 2 etchings Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046775. More about De Dood Van Cuchulainn Van Murhevna
Frankfurt: Trajanus-Presse, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear at corners of vellum backed paste paper boards, clean internally. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046773. More about Plus Ultra
Santa Fe: Los Santos Bookshop, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Light wear to edges, spine worn, tiny tear at top of title page, otherwise fine internally. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 046772. More about The Single Rose
Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400, slight wear to boards Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046771. More about God Speede the Plough
Cedar Rapids: Torch Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400, slight wear to boards Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046770. More about The Northern Lakes: A Summer Resort for Invalids of the South (1842
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1938. Mallette Dean. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint wear to boards - an attractive copy of the first Colt Press book; one of 350. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Mallette Dean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046769. More about Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California
London: The Cresset Press, 1927. Hardcover. Wear at corners, light soiling to boards; fine internally. An attractive edition of Lawson's New Orchard originally published in 1618. #372 of 650 copies. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Inventory No: 046768. More about A New Orchard & Garden: or The Best Way for Planting
London: Richard Holmes Laurie, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Publishers brown cloth, wear and slight bumping to corners and spine ends, wear to spine, modest scattered foxing, generally clean internally. 1202pp complete with 9 folding plates, slight wear and a small tear in the gutter to one illustration. A.... More about A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the Straits of...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 2 volumes in publsher's green cloth. Modest wear at edges and corners, sspotting, both slightly shaken, scattered foxing and age toning internally, heavy in a few spots, some toning to a few plate margins. 168 in text illustrations, 42... More about The Voyage of the Challenger: The Atlantic
London: JohnRichardson, 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf backed boards, covers detached but present, modest wear and discoloration to bards, modest browning internally, a few small dampstains in the outer margins. 124pp, 113 plates and engraved title. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category... More about The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
Venice: Aldina (Aldine), 1588. Later Edition. Hardcover. ca. late 18th century leather backed bords, spine worn, corners rubbed, head of tail of spine with loss of leather, trimmed a little close at top just touching the top title letters and the running title in places, staining to title, a few... More about Terentius, a M. Antonio Mureto locis prope innumerabilibus emendatus
Rome: Calvum, 1531. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern half vellum. 16 leaves, A-D. The first edition of Valeriano's work defending Clement VII's decision to wear a beard in mourning after the 1527 sack of Rome. One of the earliest works on beards - scarce. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More about Pro Sacerdotum Barbis
Northridge: Lord John, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 but not signed Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046762. More about Granted Wishes: Three Stories
Northridge: Lord John, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 specially bound but unsigned - with slipcase Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 046760. More about Entropy's Bed at Midnight
Northridge: Lord John, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Purdy - one of 250; no jacket Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046759. More about Proud Flesh: Four Short Plays
Northridge: Lord John, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to jacket - signed on the title by Francis. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046758. More about Scenic Route
Northridge: Lord John, 1984. Hardcover. Cloth backed decorative boards signed on half title by Crumley. Limited to 200, this an unnumbered presentation copy Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046757. More about The Muddy Fork: A Work in Progress
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1797. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary acid calf, boards neatly detached, very good internally, scattered light browning. Volume 1 only of an early American edition of Eutropius's Roman history. 360pp Size: Octavo (8vo). One volume of the 2-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046756. More about A Compendious History of Rome with an Appendix
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Later half leather over marbled boards, old bookplates on endpapers, old ownership signature to endpaper - boards detached, spine defective, frontis portrait resized and tipped back in, chipped at edges, very mild scattered foxing, old repair to bottom of one folding... More about A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I: Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe...
New York: T. Allen, 1794. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full period sheep, boards reattached with tape, worn. First volume is lacking the title and most of the first page of the first letter - separate title for volume 2. First few pages worn at edges, some scattered foxing, smal... More about Letters from France: containing a great variety of interesting and original information...
Mexico: Vicente G Torres, 1848. Softcover. Original wraps, mild wear, a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. More about Vindicacion que hacen Benjamin y Tomas Laurent, confutando la esposicion que dirigo al Excmo. Sr....
Mexico: La Voz de la Religion, 1849. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full acid calf, spine label a bit worn, small burn mark to front cover, title penciled to an added endpaper, old withdrawn bookplate from Yale at rear. Details an episode where a Chilean ship the Natalia was stopped in Mazatlán..... More about Esposicion de...sobre el juicio a que se sujetó, como encargado de la administracion de la...