Black Beauty: His Grooms and...
London: Jarrold & Sons, [1877]. First edition. Bound in Carter's C blue cloth binding stamped in gilt and black. Brown coated endpapers. A lovely example with just a bit of..... (Item #4494)
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The Convert
New York: Macmillan, 1907. First edition. Original publisher's quarter cloth over boards, embossed in gilt, brown, and blind. Title page a cancel as usual. A square, pleasing copy with a...... (Item #4465)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's...
London: Bloomsbury, 1997. First edition. First impression of the preferred hardcover issue, with all the requisite points: Bloomsbury imprint, 10-down-to-1 number line, and in the list of equipment on page..... (Item #4395)
Summa theologicae pars tertia
[Basel]: [Michael Wenssler], [not after 1474]. The rare First Edition of Part Three of the Summa Theologicae, Aquinas' great unfinished work. Each part of the Summa has its own separate..... (Item #4287)
An Act to Dissolve the...
[London]: [N.P.], 1801. First edition. Private Act: 41 George III, [Chapter 102]. Stitched at spine and measuring 300x190mm. Collating complete: 7, [1]. A tall, wide margined copy with several pencil..... (Item #4471)
Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan...Being Interspersed...
London and Dublin: Printed for the Author and Reprinted by Z. Jackson, 1794. One of three U.K. editions released the year before the American edition. Finely bound by Root &..... (Item #4467)
The Irish Guards (Signed Limited...
U.S.A. [N.P.], 1918. First edition. Number 3 of only 100 copies printed, signed by the author. A Fine copy, virtually pristine. Housed in a quarter red morocco slipcase with chemise..... (Item #4442)
Little Foxes (Author-Corrected Long Galley...
[N.P.]: [N.P.], 1909. 6 pages of galley proofs, each measuring 21x6 inches and folded in half (earlier fold creases present). The complete proofs of the story as it appeared in..... (Item #4441)
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Rip Van Winkle (Signed Presentation...
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First Thus. A Fine copy of the book, vellum a trifle yellowed, but remarkably, retaining the original acetate dust jacket and original silk ties. One of..... (Item #4439)
The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book...
London: George G. Harrap, 1933. First edition. Number 340 of 460 copies signed by the author. A Fine copy of the book, retaining its original glassine dust jacket and publisher's..... (Item #4438)
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An Appeal in Favor of...
Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding, with a bit of rubbing to extremities and slight cocking to spine. Textblock tight. Completely unrestored. Ownership stamps of..... (Item #4433)
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The Naked and the Dead...
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948. First Edition. A Fine copy of the book in a Fine dust jacket; extremely uncommon in this condition. Rear end paper browned, dust jacket..... (Item #4425)
Romeo & Juliet (Cosway Style...
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, [no date]. Finely bound in full crushed morocco with five raised bands and gilt to spine. Top edge brightly gilt. Inner dentelles gilt. Red brocade..... (Item #4408)
"To a Co-Ed" in Ole...
[Oxford, Mississippi]: 1919-1920. First edition. Embossed sheep over card, stamped in gilt to front board. Marbled endpapers. A bit of rubbing and shelfwear to covers; spine cracked and several signatures..... (Item #4386)
The Faerie Queene. (Finely bound)...
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1897. First edition. First Fairfax-Muckley edition, one of 100 large paper copies in three volumes rather than two, this one of an unspecified but..... (Item #4378)
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea...
London: F. G. Moon, 1842-1845 & 1846-1849. First edition. 6 volumes, folio (63 x 49 cm). Deluxe subscribers' copy, portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved map, 6 pictorial lithograph titles (originally The..... (Item #4294)
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Rights of Man. Being an...
Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. First American edition. Second Edition overall. [Together with]. Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part the Second Philadelphia: Printed by and For Messrs. Printed..... (Item #4272)
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Hesperides: or, The Works both...
London: printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, 1648. First edition. Octavo (167 x 108 mm). Contemporary sheep, rebacked with calf in 19th century, red speckled edges. Housed in custom..... (Item #4240)
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Alexander's Feast; or, The Power...
Campden: Essex House Press, 1904. First Thus. Limited edition, number 91 of 140 copies. Published by C. R. Ashbee at his Essex House Press as the 11th title in his..... (Item #4238)
Poems by the Way
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1891. First edition. Octavo. Original stiff vellum, yapp edges, original green silk ties, text printed in black and red. Vellum slightly bowed with natural discolouration and minor..... (Item #4236)
Letter signed by Darwin, the...
Down, Beckenham: [shortly after 27 November 1878]. Original Letter. Single sheet (183 x 114 mm) watermarked Charta Aspera L&S, written on one side only. Faint pencil date 2 December 1878..... (Item #4158)
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On the Origin of Species...
London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. One of only 1,250 copies printed (of which Mudie bought 500). Octavo gathered and signed in 12s. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, spine lettered and..... (Item #4065)
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Almanack (19 vols)
London: George Routledge, 1883-1895. 23 volumes, including several duplicates, duodecimo. All in original bindings, see note. Housed together in custom clamshell box. Illustrated throughout by Greenaway. Box lightly rubbed, the front..... (Item #4049)
Now We Are Six (Signed...
London: Methuen, 1927. First edition. Number 2 of 20 large-paper copies on Japan vellum, signed by both artist and illustrator. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard. 103, [1] pp. 1 vols. 4to..... (Item #3975)
37 year archive documenting the...
Dracut, MA [and Illinois; California; Oregon; Maine]: 1901-1938. A dense and research-rich collection of material, and a more concentrated social history than any we’ve handled before, containing opportunities for studying..... (Item #3524)