New York: John B. Alden, 1891. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 7.5"x5.25". Olive cloth with gilt lettering and embossed black decorations on spine and cover. 268 pp. Several small stains on covers. Hinges overopened. Foxing to endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. The is a first edition of Elder David Bartley's allegorical religious novel about..... More
New York: New American Library, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 8.5"x5.75". Blue boards with black stamped spine in pictorial dust jacket. Black and blue illustrated endpapers. 221 pp. Jacket edges are lightly scuffed. Bottom of front cover curled. 1/2" tear at top and bottom of back cover, no loss..... More
![The Works of Charles Dickens [12 volumes]. Charles DICKENS](/pictures/thumb/1518.jpg?v=1583885204)
Chicago: Louis Lloyd Co., 1871. Cloth. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt stamped decoration on front cover, blind stamped rear cover. Illustrated plates by S. Eytinge Jr. Edge wear to all volumes, with some chipping to corners, header and footer of spine. Front hinge of Dombey and..... More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over blue boards. Pictorial dust jacket. 355 pp. Signed by author on title page. This is a signed first edition, first state of Frazier's National Book Award and Pulitzer-winning Civil War novel. This state has the "man-woman"..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Orange cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 80 pp. Price-clipped. Touch of wear to top jacket edge. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Book is fine. This is a first printing of Golding's only play, a limited printing of 2000 copies. By the author of..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 253 pp. Rear jacket cover has some minor scuffing along top and right edge and a small nick at left edge of jacket spine. Touch of discoloration bottom right corner..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Reddish purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 224 pp. Rear jacket cover has some minor scuffing along bottom and left edge. Book is fine. This is a first printing of Golding's early novel. By the author of..... More
![L'opere d'Oratio Poeta lirico comentate da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine [Poems of Horace]; in...](/pictures/thumb/1535.jpg?v=1588805063)
Venice: Appresso Gio Battista, Marchio Sessa, & fratelli, 1573. 2nd edition. Hardcover. In Italian and Latin. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 6. Elaborate printer's device depicting a cat between cherubs on title page. Collated and complete. [vi], 389 ff. Binder's copy. Front board loose, 1 inch chip from spine base, boards rubbed..... More
![The Works of Victor Hugo [set of 8]. Victor HUGO](/pictures/thumb/988.jpg?v=1567714048)
Philadelphia: University Library Association, [1880s]. Cloth. 8vo. 8.25"x5.75". Green cloth with pastedown on spine. Gilt top edge. Several illustrated plates. Covers have some superficial stains and scratches. Pastedowns' foxed. Minimal foxing to some endpapers. Man Who Laughs 1 and Bug-Jargal have small bored holes on bottom edge. Tight and clean. This..... More
![Schindler's Ark [Schindler's List]. Thomas KENEALLY, SIGNED](/pictures/thumb/1321.jpg?v=1580061178)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo. Black cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 432 pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and some light rubbing along bottom edge. 2.5" grey scuff along top of right block edge. Signed by author on title page. This is a signed first printing of..... More
![Œuvres [complete in 9 volumes]. R. P. Henri-Dominique LACORDAIRE](/pictures/thumb/1047.jpg?v=1569867110)
Paris: Poussielgue, [1871-1872]. Quarter leather. 8vo. 7"x5". In French. Quarter brown morocco with marbled boards, hubbed spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, and marbled endpapers. Ex-library. Spines of vols. 5-9 lightly scuffed. Each volume has some foxing present throughout. Each volume blind stamped twice with "St. Mary's College" embossment and..... More
New York: Putnam, 1933. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Hand-pressed rag paper. Deckle edge. 364 pp. Signed by Masters on colophon. Ex-library with a mark on spine, bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, card pocket pasted on facing page, and an embossment on title..... More
New York: Tyrant Books, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Paperback original book and 45 RPM record in unopened shrink wrap. Book is 8vo. 6.5"x5.5". 222pp. Record sleeve is 7.75"x7.75". Shrink wrap is torn in 2 places, but book and record have not been removed and are in new condition. This is a signed..... More
Longmans, Green and Co., 1873. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. This is a first printing (no errata leaf) of Mill's autobiography bound in green buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Corners are bumped, and buckram is loose at top of spine. Hinges are weak but binding is holding well. Owner's..... More
![The Dramatic Works of Moliere [complete in 6 volumes]; A New Edition with a Prefatory Memoir,...](/pictures/thumb/1093.jpg?v=1570900327)
Philadelphia: George Barrie, [1878]. Cloth. 8vo. 8.75"x6.25". Dark green pebbled cloth with spine pastedowns. Gilt top edge. Steel engravings by Horace Vernet, Desenne, Johannot, and Hersent. Hand-pressed paper. Minor edge wear and scuffing to all covers. Spine headers and footers all have a bit of tearing. Hinges overopened. Cover of Vol..... More
![How the Steel Was Tempered [complete in 2 volumes]. Nikolai OSTROVSKY, R. Prokofieva](/pictures/thumb/64.jpg?v=1576376701)
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1952. Reznichenko, A. Hardcover. Set of 2 hardcovers (parts 1 and 2 of the novel) without dust jackets, handsomely embossed. The cover of volume 1 is rather stained, and both are stamped on flyleaf: "Distributed by 'NEWS-FACTS,' 753, Bathurst St., Toronto." Both are illustrated and..... More
Viking Press, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second state (no period between "talk" and 'this" on line 11 page 112). Dust jacket is price clipped and has slight rubbing around corners. There is a small stain on dust jacket cover over second "o" in "Moon." Lean to spine. This..... More
Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is price clipped, has a small brown stain on front cover, and slight loss at bottom left and top right of spine. Former owner wrote her name and address on inside cover and on page 97. Spine is cracked at very back..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1885. Leather bound. Large 8vo. Flexible padded ooze calf with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Rounded gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated plates. 772 pp. Leather edges mildly scuffed. 1" closed tear to covering at header of spine. Previous owner's gift inscription on 2nd free..... More
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1894. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 6"x8". Gray cloth with gilt lettering and illustrations on cover and spine. Variant binding A. Illustrated plates by Dan Beard. 219 pp. plus advertisements. 1/8" tear on left edge of spine and some minor scuffing to header and footer. Brown discoloration..... More
New York: Knopf, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Violet quarter cloth over blue boards. Dust jacket. 259 pp. Jacket has minor wear to edges and a light red scuff at top edge of front cover. Book is fine. This is a first edition of Updike's 1966 short story collection. This is the..... More
New York: Knopf, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue quarter cloth over brown boards. Dust jacket. 241 pp. Jacket has minor wear to edges, some scuffing at header and footer of spine. 1/4" closed tear at upper left of rear jacket cover. Book is fine. This is a scarce first edition of..... More
![Bech Trilogy: Bech: A Book; Bech Is Back; Bech at Bay [3 volumes]. John UPDIKE, SIGNED](/pictures/thumb/1336.jpg?v=1580094286)
New York: Knopf. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. This is a set of three first edition John Updike books about the character Henry Bech. Bech Is Back and Bech at Bay are both signed by the author on front free endpaper. More
![The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier [complete in 9 volumes]. John Greenleaf WHITTIER](/pictures/thumb/985.jpg?v=1567713997)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1892-1894. Half leather. 8vo. 8.25"x5.5". Brown morocco with gilt lettering, 6-panel hubbed spine, and gilt top edge. Marbled boards and endpapers and several illustrated plates. Occasional light foxing to endpapers and very minor scuffing to some corners. Middle hub is scuffed on volume 7. Tight and clean, appears..... More