Oroonoko: A Tragedy
The Hague: Printed for T. Johnson, 1712. Early edition. Bound with Smith, Edmund. Phaedra and Hippolitus, A Tragedy. [The Hague]; Printed by T. Johnson, 1711. Early edition. Both plays printed..... (Item #2863)
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The Feign'd Curtizans, or, A....
London: Jacob Tonson at the Judges Head in Chancery Lane, 1679. First edition. One of two variant imprints with no priority according to ESTC, the present listing only Jacob Tonson..... (Item #3211)
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Letters to a Young Lady...
Hartford [CT]: Hudson & Goodwin, 1791. First American edition. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with morocco spine label. A tight, square copy. Contemporary ownership signature..... (Item #3932)
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858 (Manuscript Edition...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edition. Four volumes finely bound in crushed three-quarter morocco with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Small bumps to corners of volumes I and..... (Item #3097)
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To Nursery Land with Louis...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, n.d. [1909]. First edition. Publisher's pictorial olive green cloth, front cover decorated in red and gray. A bit of minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a...... (Item #3808)
Merry Times with Louis Wain...
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., n.d. [c. 1939]. Second edition. Unrecorded [Second] edition, and notably different than the first edition of 1916. Quarter red cloth over pictorial boards. Rear..... (Item #3809)
Commentaries on the Laws of...
London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1803. Later printing. Fourteenth edition overall (first published at Oxford 1765-1769), and the sixth edition published after Blackstone’s death..... (Item #3569)
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Brighton and its Coaches
London: John C. Nimmo, 1894. First edition. Bound ca. 1960 in full red calf, covers with double gilt-ruled borders, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments..... (Item #3570)
Anthropology and Modern Life
New York: W. W. Norton, 1928. First edition. Original cloth with paper labels to spine and front board. Spine sunned; offsetting to front and rear boards, most obviously to the..... (Item #3018)
An Account of Corsica
Glasgow: : Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, London, 1768. First edition. With all issue points called for by Rothschild. Contemporary sheep..... (Item #3571)
The Life of Samuel Johnson...
London: Printed by Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. Second edition. The first octavo edition, revised and augmented, with Boswell's Advertisement to the Second Edition and his Additions to Dr..... (Item #3572)
State Normal Herbarium, a collection...
1902. Half cloth over leather and card portfolio, floral paper interior. Containing 36 individual packets comprised of a descriptive hand-filled cover sheet, manuscript poem, and herbal specimen; 108 pages and..... (Item #3956)
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Pen Tamar; or, The History...
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1830. First edition. Contemporary straight grain morocco with griffin embossed in gilt to boards; rebacked to style with gilt to spine. All edges..... (Item #3244)
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Poems and Essays by a....
Bath: R. Crutwell, 1786. Second edition. Contemporary calf with morocco labels to spines. Hinges front and rear cracked on both volumes but holding well, with the front of volume I...... (Item #3180)
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Original Double Acrostics: Amusing and...
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1866. First edition. Original red publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Gentle wear to boards and bumps to corners; rear..... (Item #2838)
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Memorial Pictures of War and...
Rockford: Gazette Steam Book & Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Spine lightly sunned and corners bumped, front hinge..... (Item #2775)
Novels of the Sisters Bronte...
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. First Thus. Twelve octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm.). Handsomely bound ca. 1960 by [Rivière] for Henry Sotheran in three-quarter..... (Item #3576)
Villette
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American edition. Retaining original front wrapper with rear wrapper in facsimile. Front wrapper with a few short tears. Spine worn. Octavo (226 x...... (Item #3575)
The Complete Works
New York: Fred De Fau & Company, 1910. First Thus. Assisi Edition. Limited to 100 numbered sets (of which this is number 11). Twelve octavo volumes (8 1/2 x 5..... (Item #3577)
Men and Women
London: Chapman and Hall, 1855. First edition. Carter's binding variant "B" with Chapman and Hall in gilt at the base of the spine and other variations in stamping. Two octavo..... (Item #1577)
Poems
London: Robt. Riviere & Son, Ltd, [c. 1920]. Later edition. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1920 in elaborate paneled full brown speckled calf. Covers with double gilt rules surrounding..... (Item #3578)
All the Assholes in the...
Bensenville, Ill. Open Skull Press, 1966. First edition. Publisher's illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers, 12 unpaginated leaves, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. One of about 400 copies. This copy in Fine condition with..... (Item #639)
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Flower, Fist, and the Bestial...
Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, [1960]. First edition. One of 200 copies of Bukowski's debut chapbook. This copy one of approximately five "author's edition" copies with an original illustration by the..... (Item #1041)
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The Master and Margarita
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1967. First edition thus. First Harper and Row edition, and the first US translation by Michael Glenny. This translation follows the Mirra Ginsburg translation..... (Item #3136)
The Master and Margarita
New York: Grove Press, 1967. First American edition. The first appearance of the Master and Margarita in the US. Translated by Mirra Ginsburg. Preceding the other American edition of 1967..... (Item #3296)