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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 7x5x1. Hill, W.E. 2nd printing in second issue jacket. Jackets in any state are scarce for this title. Also includes new facsimile jacket. Hinges loosening, boards a bit scuffed with internal closed puncture to middle of spine cloth. Large chip from front jacket corner, some loss from other corners, minor repair on jacket reverse along front flap crease. 1922 Hard Cover. 449, [1] pp. 8vo. Jacket art by W.E. Hill. Fitzgerald's second novel, published just two years after his debut, This Side of Paradise. "The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather's death. His reckless marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and is destroyed by greed. The Patches race through a series of alcohol-induced fiascoes -- first in hilarity, and then in despair. The Beautiful and Damned, a… Leer más

London: Printed for A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, S. Birt, C. Hitch, L. Gilliver, T. Astley, S. Austen, and J. Rivington, 1742. Third Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Third edition, with additions. ESTC T61185. Rebound in modern full leather with red spine label, gilt titles and rules, new end sheets. Ink gift note on front flyleaf ('The Gift of P. Jackson to Chas. Thomson') and several ink names (including Thomson's, and two that both appear to be Andersons, but are difficult to discern) on title page. Charles Thomson was an Irish-born patriot leader in revolutionary America, and secretary of the Continental Congress - in this capacity, his name and John Hancock's were the only two to appear on the first draft of the United States Declaration of Independence. Thomson was also an associate of Benjamin Franklin, and a member of Junto, the organization which later became the American Philosophical Society. An important work with an exciting provenance. Margins… Leer más

Hartford, Conn.: Chicago, Ill.: Cincinnati, Ohio. : The American Publishing Company / A. Roman & Co, 1876. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Brehm, Worth. First edition, second issue, variant A, printed on laid paper with mispagination of prelims (BAL 3369). Unusually well-preserved (boards are often soiled and/or abraded). Hinges weakening but still holding firmly (this edition is notoriously fragile), one gathering proud at fore edge but not sprung from binding, light creases down front free endpaper, ink name on front paste-down (James H. Finney, Port Jervis NY). 1876 Hard Cover. xvi, [17]-274, [6] pp. Blue cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Arguably the most important novel in the American literary tradition. Inspiration for multiple film, television, and theatrical adaptations, and iconic enough to inspire references in other media as well, from comic books to the popular song by Rush. Tom Sawyer has a nose… Leer más

S.N, 1912. Unbound. Very Good. 8x6x1. Nicely framed with paper backing over grey linen background. Inscribed 'To Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Hodgman with the best wishes of Theodore Roosevelt Aug 23d 1912.' This signature is dated several years after TR's tenure as U.S. President, and shortly after the Progressive National Convention which saw the formation of the Bull Moose Party. An attempt to assassinate Roosevelt was just two months in the future (he was shot and survived but, rather than seeking medical attention, proceeded to give a 90 minute speech). Some fading to photograph edges, minor wear to frame edges. 4 5/8 x 6 5/8. Frame is 7 7/8 x 11 7/8. Hardboard backer, wooden frame with black border accents.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. First edition, first state, in original first issue jacket. Jacket toned, some loss from jacket corners, amusing ink note from an acquaintance of Fitzgerald's on front endpaper: "J. Kenly Bacon, Read 1948. When I was in Yale, I knew Scott Fitzgerald + his sister Anabelle. She was very attractive + he was a heavy drinker.". 1935 Hard Cover. 407, [1] pp. 8vo. Fitzgerald's fourth collection of short stories. Includes: The Scandal Detectives; The Freshest Boy; He Thinks He's Wonderful; The Captured Shadow; The Perfect Life; First Blood; A Nice Quiet Place; A Woman with a Past; Crazy Sunday; Two Wrongs; The Night of Chancellorsville; The Last of the Belles; Majesty; Family in the Wind; A Short Trip Home; One Interne; The Fiend; Babylon Revisited. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of… Leer más

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x5x0. Moore, Thomas Sturge (cover and jacket design). First edition, one of 2500 copies (Wade 158). Includes scarce jacket. 1/2 inch chips from jacket spine head and foot, and corner of rear panel, with minimal loss along other edges. Binding tight, pages clean and bright, boards in excellent condition with all gilt decorations still present. 1928 Hard Cover. vi, 110, 2 pp. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decorations by Thomas Sturge Moore, mirrored in the jacket design. "...the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner... Yeats, however complicated his thought, remained a consummate musician in his expression of it..." (Connolly, The Modern Movement 56a) Includes: Sailing to Byzantium; The Tower; Meditations in Time of Civil War; Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen; The Wheel; Youth and Age; The New Faces; A Prayer for My Son; Twon Songs from a Play; Wisdom; Leda and the Swan; On a Picture of… Leer más

Philadelphia, PA: G.M. Hopkins Co, 1935. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. All volumes complete, with thumb tabs intact. Interiors clean and bright, mainly aesthetic wear to spines and corners, though volume 2 has minor loss from the spine head and foot. Overall an excellent set of books that are very seldom found together. 1935 Half-Leather. Complete in five volumes. Maroon leather spines and corners over grey cloth boards, gilt titles, decorations, and rules. A collection of maps showing property ownership and notable infrastructural details throughout the city of Rochester, New York and surrounding suburbs in the mid-1930s.

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Chadbourne, Glenn. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator. Publisher's copy of deluxe lettered edition, with 'PC' on colophon instead of a letter or letters denoting one of the 52 copies offered for sale. The rarest of the three versions (the others were released in limitations of 5000 and 750). Signed by Stephen King and illustrator Glenn Chadbourne. Slipcase corners lightly bruised, but otherwise an exceptional copy. 2006 Large Hardcover. The first of two volumes in Stephen King's series of illustrated short stories, with full-page drawings by Glenn Chadbourne. Includes: Home Delivery; Jerusalem's Lot; The Reach; The Road Virus Heads North; Uncle Otto's Truck; Rainy Season. This edition features a completely unique dust jacket with a design distinct from the Gift and Limited editions, black Italian lambskin spine and corners, brown Skivertex Sanigal, Oxford embossing,… Leer más

Amsterdam: S.N. [Elie Luzac], 1752. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Spine leather drying, light stain to front flyleaf. 1752 Full-Leather. 78, 109, 198, 58, 77, 56, 114 pp. Original full leather, leather spine label, marbled paste-down endpapers. A collection of works by the influential Enlightenment philosopher best known for L'Homme Machine, which takes materialist concepts introduced by Rene Descartes one step further to contend that human beings are automatons with no souls. These concepts later became influential in the theories of evolution and quantum mechanics. This volume includes: Discours Preliminaire; L'Homme Machine; Traite de l'Ame; Abrege des Systemes; Les Animaux plus que Machines; L'Homme Plante; Systeme d'Epicure; Anti-Seneque, ou Discours sur le Bonheur.

[Harrogate, Tennessee]: Lincoln Memorial University, 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, #399 of an unspecified limitation, this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894, but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board, minor wear to corners, spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt, decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works, including speeches, letters, biographical writings, etc., with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary, and also served in various other governmental roles, Hay going on to become Secretary of State… Leer más

London: Excudebat J.F. [James Flesher] pro Jona Hart, 1664. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Rebound with new end sheets: brown leather spine, marbled paper over boards, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 1664 Hard Cover. [viii], 230 pp. Last text page misnumbered 216. Descartes's fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, bound together with a work by one of the Utrecht Cartesians, Lambert van Velthuysen. This is the first British printing of the Meditations, though it does not include Descartes's 'Objections and Replies' as many editions do. Velthuysen was connected by marriage to Descartes's friend Henry Regnier, and corresponded with scientists and philosophers such as von Leeuenhoek, Spinoza, and Leibniz. The work included here shows the influence of Thomas Hobbes - unsurprising, given that Velthuysen is credited with translating Leviathan into Dutch. John Locke may… Leer más

A Londres [Paris]: S.N, 1734. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Boards rubbed with some loss/drying of leather, corners exposed. 1734 Full-Leather. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life's work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author's death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the best available contemporary sources. It would not be translated satisfactorily into other languages for several decades. This was in part due to de Thou's own demand that the work not be translated into French, fearing 'great faults and errors against the intention of the author.' This edition was translated from a critical… Leer más

London: Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly, 1792. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ninth edition, printed in the same year as part two's original release, and just a year after the first appearance of part one. ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Rebound in grey paper-covered boards with paper spine label and new end sheets. Brief pencil marginalia on just a couple pages, a few pages very faintly foxed, otherwise an exceptional copy. 1792 Hard Cover. viii, 110, [2], xiii, [14]-142, [2] pp. 4to. Both parts of Paine's famous work in defense of political revolution. The first part was originally printed in 1791, and the second part followed the next year. "Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the… Leer más

[Amsterdam?]: Au Pays Libre pour Le Bien Public, 1749. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Paper label on spine base, corners a bit rubbed, minor loss of gilt, bookplate of philosopher Paul Desjardins on front endpaper. 1749 Full-Leather. [viii], 124; [iv], 99, [5] pp. 16mo. Original full leather, gilt titles, decorations, and triple rule, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Two works in one volume: Essai sur la Liberte de Produire ses Sentimens, attributed to either Elie Luzac or Julian Offroy de la Mettrie (1749) [with] Pensees sur l'Interpretation de la Nature by Denis Diderot (1754 first edition). French text. "Elie Luzac, wishing to justify his publication of the book [L'Homme machine], had in 1749 brought out anonymously the Essai sur la liberte de produire ses sentimens. It was a crisp and well-reasoned work, which contended … that the honest search for truth requires us to give a hearing to every possible point of view…. Luzac was simply… Leer más

Harrisburg, PA / Ann Arbor, MI / New York: The National Historical Society / Broadfoot Publishing Company / Edwards Brothers / The Fairfax Press, 1971. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x1. SHELVES IN PHOTO NOT INCLUDED. 1971-78 reissues. All records volumes without jackets as issued, atlas volume includes jacket. A few minor exterior blemishes, but overall an excellent set with no underlining, marginalia, or other internal marks. Complete in 128 volumes, together with the companion atlas. The volumes are numbered 1-111 and 114-130: volumes 112 and 113 were never published. The set and the atlas are reissues of the original works prepared under the direction of the United States Secretary of War and printed 1880-1901. Each book is individually indexed, and a general index to the full set is also included. This set is still in print and available from Broadfoot for $2500. An exhaustive account of one of the most trying periods of American history, providing a level of detail and continuity… Leer más

New York: Random House, 1965. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Signed by author. Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Hard Cover. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound included his/her monogram on the front corner: O.C.S. The classic work based on the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in Kansas, which inspired the 1967 film of the same name. A pioneering work in the true crime genre.

London: H.S. Nichols & Co, 1894. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First Smithers edition, also called the Library Edition (Penzer p. 117-123). Minor cosmetic wear, ink name on front endpaper of each volume, front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. 1894 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve volumes, a reissue of the 1885 Benares edition (which was printed by the Kamashastra Society for private subscribers only), edited by Leonard C. Smithers. 8vo. According to the preface, "In Lady Burton's edition, which was a reprint of the first ten volumes only of the original issue, it was thought advisable to omit no fewer than 215 pages; in this edition, which comprises the whole sixteen volumes (the entire work), more than four-fifths of these omitted passages have been restored. These few omissions are also rendered necessary by the pledge which Sir Richard gave to his Subscribers that no cheaper edition of the entire work should be issued; but in all other respects the original… Leer más

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. First American Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Dore, Gustave; Vedder, Elihu. First American edition thus. Corners exposed, boards a bit rubbed and lightly soiled with abrasion along front edge, one page loose but included, 2 inch stain along top margin of first third of pages. 1884 Large Hardcover. 23, [1], followed by 25 unpaginated engraved plates (Dore's 26th engraving appears on p. 17). Elephant folio: 18 1/2 x 14 5/8. Original grey cloth boards with beveled edges, all page edges gilt, black stamped titles. Front board decorated with an image of an angel with gilt-stamped wings. A variant exists which includes purple embellishments, mainly to the angel's face and body - these are not present here. Includes 27 engravings: 26 from illustrations by Gustave Dore, and a title vignette from an illustration by Elihu Vedder. This was Dore's last published work, released the year after his death. It was published simultaneously in the… Leer más

London: J. Tonson / M. Downing / T. Osborne; A. Peisley / J. and H. Pemberton / James Crokatt / Henry Woodfall / Edward Owen / W. Innys / John Jolliffe / J. Brindley, Bookseller to His Royal Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1732. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Owned by a distant relative of painter James Whistler, with their name (W. Whistler) and some genealogical details and the bookplate of a descendant (Rose Fuller Whistler) on front endpaper, front free endpaper and morocco spine label loose but included (label, which has some loss from edges, laid in), minor bookworm runnel to margin of rear paste endpaper and last few leaves, joints weak, boards rubbed with some loss of leather along spine and corners, minimal pencil notes in margins of just a couple pages. 1732 Full-Leather. 14, 27, 34, 84, 14, 36, 19, 21, [3], 19, 24 pp. Full leather, gilt decorated board edges. Sammelband of ten mid-18th century sermons (1732-1746) on various topics, most notably the establishment of Georgia as a colony.… Leer más

Providence: J.A. & R.A. Reid, Publishers, 1890. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1890 printing. Front and end matter foxed, some light spotting on front board, ink gift note on front endpaper. 102 pp. Grey cloth, gilt titles, black decorations on front board. A collection of engravings with commentary by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the noted utopian feminist and author of The Yellow Wallpaper. This was her first work, and is published under the name Mrs. Charles Walter Stetson, perhaps to leverage his reputation in the art world (Davis, Charlotte Gilman: A Biography). Stetson was her first husband, to whom she was married for only four years. She would later take the name of her second husband, Houghton Gilman. Charlotte's art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and her progressive opinions regarding the place of women in society are both evident in this work.