London: M. Flesher for Richard Mynne, 1634. First English language edition. Translated out of the original Greek; with notes: by Meric Casaubon, Marcus Aurelius' extremely influential expression of Stoic philosophy. Small... (Item #2605)
London: Printed by E. Flesher for Richard Tonson, 1678. First Edition. Expertly bound in full red straight-grained morocco, gilt stamping to boards and spine, marbled end-papers, page edges stained yellow... (Item #2156)
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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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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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)
London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Second (first published) edition. The book that forever changed the face of children’s literature. In the original publisher's red, gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges, light blue..... (Item #2689)
London: Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, 1652. Second Edition. Second complete edition in English and the first edition of both parts issued together (and first English edition in... (Item #2116)
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Hartford, CT. Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783. First edition. Octavo in fours (6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm). [1]-208 pp. Map absent as is... (Item #1851)
London: Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby], 1611. First edition. Quarto in eights (8 1/8 x 6 inches; 206 x 153 mm). [-]2; a8-b8 ([-]1 inserted after a3); b4; c8-g8; h4-l4; B8-D8... (Item #897)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with the spine very slightly toned and a pea-sized rub mark on the coated front... (Item #1520)
Paris: Appresso Giacomo Langlois, 1651. First Edition. First edition (not to be confused with the French edition which published later the same year, the Italian edition being much more rare)... (Item #2178)
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First Edition. The first separate printing of Einstein's influential work on relativity. Octavo, 64pp. Original tan wrappers with printer's imprint "Druck von Metzger & Wittig... (Item #2406)
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New York: Signet Books, 1948. First edition thus. First publication of "The Old Man" as a stand-alone work (originally published as part of "The Wild Palms"). Inscribed by the author... (Item #2038)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Warmly inscribed by the author on the first blank: "1928 Princeton For Chad Davis from his devoted friend F Scott Fitzgerald." A.... (Item #2527)
London: Edward Arnold, 1936. Later printing. SIGNED by E.M. Forster on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by W.H. Auden on the front endpaper: "To Bill and Phil / with best... (Item #661)
[Parma]: Angelus Ugoletus, [1494]. First edition. Quarto (200 × 144 mm). Contemporary blindstamped calf backing beech boards, clasps and catches (clasps gone), early spine label lettered by hand. Contemporary marginalia... (Item #968)
Boston: Printed by Isaac Knapp, 1838. First edition. Original quarter cloth and boards; yellow printed paper label on front cover spelled “Catharine.” Slight chipping to crown and foot of spine;..... (Item #1973)
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. First English language edition. Extremely rare wrappers issue of the first English translation of Hunger. Unrestored wrappers in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition... (Item #1994)
London: Felix Kyngston, 1610. First Collected Edition. Small quarto in eights (pages 190 x 133 mm), collates [20], 875, [1, blank]: complete. Leaf Oo4 is a cancel as usual. Leaf... (Item #2388)
London: Printed by W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, 1755. First Edition. Two large folio volumes (410 x 254 mm), collates complete. Bound in full diced calf and expertly... (Item #2398)
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London: Printed by William Stansby [and] Printed for Richard Meighen, 1616, [1631]-1640 (ie. 1641). First edition. First volume printed 1616, second volume printed 1640, but dated 1631, 1640 and 1641... (Item #2403)
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Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, [1915]. First edition. Cream-colored wrappers with folding flaps, front cover with Ottomar Starke's famous charcoal drawing of a man clutching his head in front of an open... (Item #1658)
New York and London: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1917. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with offsetting on the end pages from the dust jacket, otherwise clean and... (Item #570)
London: by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, 1690. First edition. Elizabeth Holt imprint, the first issue according to Yolton 61A; PMM 164; Pforzheimer 599. (Current scholarship is mixed as to... (Item #1752)
London: John Murray, 1830-1833. First edition. A handsome set of this important early scientific work. Bound in contemporary three quarter calf over cloth boards. Each volume rebacked, volume one with... (Item #2606)