An Account of Corisca
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)
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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)
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)
Heart's-Ease in Heart-Trouble.
London: Printed for W. Johnston, 1762. Early Edition. Bound in modern full red crushed morocco, gilt stamping to the boards and spine, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled end..... (Item #2321)
A Clockwork Orange
London: Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Fine in original black publisher's cloth, in just about Fine jacket. Trivial toning to text block; unmarked but for a neat ownership signature to the..... (Item #3422)
In the Closed Room
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. First edition. Publishers ribbed green cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Octavo (8..... (Item #3784)
Iracema, or Honey Lips; and...
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. First English language edition. Finely bound by Boundey, Root & Son in half morocco over marbled boards. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally a...... (Item #3374)
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Finely bound by Bayntun in half calf over cloth, with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of..... (Item #3087)
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First Footsteps in East Africa...
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. Second issue (without suppressed appendix iv, as usual). Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 141 mm.). Original red-orange..... (Item #3580)
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Woman's Work and Woman's Culture...
London: Macmillan, 1869. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and boards embossed in blind. A square, bright copy, with just a touch of sunning to the..... (Item #3851)
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The Works (in 4 vols)...
London: John Murray, 1823. Four octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 133 mm.). Full contemporary citron straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively stamped in gilt and blind. Spines..... (Item #3583)
The Works of Lord Byron...
London/New York: John Murray/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900-1904. First Thus. A New Edition, revised and enlarged. Thirteen octavo volumes ( 202 x 129 mm). Uniformly bound, c. 1904, by William Worsfold..... (Item #3582)
Chronicon
Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 13 September 1483. Second Edition. After the undated first edition printed in Milan ca. 1475 and the first edition to mention Gutenberg as the inventor of printing..... (Item #2417)