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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928. Cloth spine over red boards, with leather spine label. Some age darkening to cloth spine and boards very slightly bowed. A sound, clean copy of an interesting scholarly study of Dickens treatment of the law in his fiction. Very good. Podeschi H250. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Avon Books, 1997. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 279pp. First edition, second printing with number line beginning with 2. The true story of a 43 year old's mid-life crisis which manifested itself in the journey from amateur tournaments and mini-tours all the way to the PGA Tour Qualifying School and beyond. No name, no book-plate, etc. A very clean copy in bright flawless dust-jacket. Very fine in like jacket.. Second Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Hutchinson & Co., 1891. Half-Leather. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered/signed. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First limited, signed edition of this biographical study of Dickens's youth. Edition de Luxe on special hand made paper wit h proofs and illustrations on India paper, Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the publisher, this copy being #155. Quarto, in half crushed red levant extra by Blackwell. Slight shelfwear to board s and extemities, else a very good+ copy of a very scarce title in this edition, in attractive leather binding. Podeschi H292. Limted/numbered/signed. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1988. Hardcover in original pictorial dust-jacket. 263pp., Illustrated with half-tone photographs throughout text. First edition, first printing. Signed presentation copy by the author, signed on front free endpaper with thin marker with bold signature of Naomi Woronov and date-- 10/88. The story of one teacher's two year sojourn in China, a personal and intimate travelogue. Avery nice copy, clean, square and tightly bound. No previous ownership marks but for presentation inscription by author. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Buckram. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996. Trade paperback. 188pp., Selected Bibliography, Index. Third printing of the first paperback edition. A very clean, square, tightly bound copy. An unread, as new copy.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Spark Publishing, 2005. Soft-cover. 162pp. The No Fear Shakespeare series contains a complete edition of a Shakespeare play on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an accessible, modern English translation on the right. One of the more difficult Spark Notes titles to find. No marks, no writing or underlining, etc. Never read, near fine copy.. Third Printing. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 381pp., First edition, first printing with numberline intact on copyright page. No previous ownership marks, no name, no book-plate, no remainder marks. A clean, square, tightly bound copy, near as new. Very fine in a very fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Buckram. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: R. Dampier, J. Panton, T. Davidson, W. Nixon, A. Manson, H. Newton, S. Darnton, and M. Oldman, 1757. Hardcover, rebound in modern tan cloth with title and author in gold lettering on spine. New endpapers. 300pp. Printed without illustrations or map. An important primary souce. Chronicles Norden's voyage through Egypt in the years 1737-1738, and to this day remains a primary source for the looks of Egyptian monuments before widespread 19th and 20th century tourism and excavations. Originally published in English in 1757 as Travels in Egypt & Nubia, in 2 vols., and abridged the same year as A Compendium of the Most Approved Modern Travels, vol. 4, The Travels of F.L. Norden through Egypt and Nubia [Title was first pubished in French in 1755 as Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie.] This copy is circa 1757 and is most likely a pirated edition, possibly published by J. Smith of Dublin, who also published the title under his own imprint.. We can find no copies listed in any of the… Leer más

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorne House, 1936. Hardcover, black cloth spine over teal paper covered boards with printed pictorial label on front board. Original beige pictorial dust-jacket not price clipped. 55pp. Illustrated by author with color and line drawings. Limited to an edition of 975 copies. No former owner's name, no book-plate, no writing or marking, etc. Front free end-paper excised and very mild shelf-wear to extremities of boards. Dust-jacket age soiled and lightly chipped at top and bottom of backstrip, not affecting lettering. A nice collectable copy of this whimisical retelling of the biblical flood story.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Viking, 2005. Brand new hardcover book in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. First edition, first printing. Illustrated with photographs. Remainder mark on bottom edge of bluked sheets, publisher affixed blank white label over UPC code on rear jacket panel, The story of four doctors captured after the fall of Corregidor and how they managed to survive not only the deprevations and cruelty that defined the Japanese prisoner-of-war experience during the Second World War, but also the friendly fire of American submarines and B-29's that killed over ten thousand of their fellow American POW's. An unread, new copy.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. Hardcover, red cloth spine over red paper covered boards, in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 437pp., First edition, first printing with number line intact. An as new, apparently unread copy. Book and dust-jacket as new.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Brand new hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. First edition, first printing. Illustrated with photographs and maps. The story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake by the author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa. An unread, new copy.. First Edition. Boards. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The New York Times, 1924. Quarto, periodical bound in printed wrappers. Contains a contempory account of of the discovery of the Tomb of King Tut-enkh-Amon, with an intorduction by Howard Carter. among other articles. Special 16 page section containing 24 brillant color plates extant. Several contemporary news clipping regarding the discovery also laid in. Paper backstrip torn and lacking top 2 inches of spine. Front wrapper reattached with clear tape to spine, and showing light edge-wear. Else solidly bound with all pages firmly attached and interior clean. A very scarce contemporary report of the major Egyptian archeological find of the 20th century. Good. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chicago: University of Knowledge Incorporated, 1937. Hardcover, brown buckram with decoratively printed spine. 382pp. No name, no book-plate, etc. Volume III in the University of Knowledge series. Illustrated with numerous photographs and pictorial endpapers. The first third of the book deals with the lands and cultures of the ancient Near East; the second third with early Crete, Greece and Rome; and the thrid with early India, China and Tibet. Moderate rubbing to tips else a clean, well bouind copy. Very good.. First Edition. Buckram. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933. Red cloth sans dustjcket. Ilustrated with 20 photographs. An examination of some of the places: inns, houses, buildings and locals, that populate Dickens novels. Bright red cloth faded on backstrip and endpapers and half-title lightly foxed. There is also foxing to the edges of bulked pages, albeit interior text and illustrations are clean. Good+. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Chatto & Windus, 1932. Decorative Boards. Hardcover, pictorial boards. A title in the Dolphin Books Series. Prelims and end-sheets show old tape marks--from onion-skin protective wrappers--and neat former owners name on front endpaper. Publishers cataloge appended. Very good+.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: C.W. Daniel Company, 1927. Original salmon cloth, front board slightly bowed. Free endpapers toned. Facsimile of parts wrapper no. III supplied as frontis. Scarce. Not in Podeshi.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1930. A Collection of the Advertisements in the Original Parts of the Novels by Charles Dickens. Teal cloth stamped in balck. Backstrip faded to brown per usual. Illustrated. Tight, sound copy. Podeschi H120.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Whittlesey House, 1943. Hardcover, small quarto in green cloth in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. Includes David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, all condensed by Mary Louise Aswell. Illustrated by Doanld McKay. No name, no book-plate, etc. Fine in near very good dust-jacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Near Very Good. Illus. by Donald McKay. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1930. A Collection of the Advertisements in the Original Parts of the Novels by Charles Dickens. Teal cloth stamped in balck. C olor portrait of Dickens tipped in as frontispiece. Illustrated. Tight, sound copy. Podeschi H120.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.