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New York: The Viking Press (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-619, [3] pp. Publisher's buckram with decorations in brown on the boards and spine, brown lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Decorative endpapers and pastedowns printed with a section of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Elmer Hader. The "First Edition" slug on the jacket's front flap's bottom corner. Ahearn APG 014d. Goldstone & Payne A12. The 1940 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. Steinbeck's tour de force which deeply moved readers across the United States, including the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. This novel played a major role in reshaping American labor laws. It stands as a warning against completely unchecked, unfettered capitalism (one of the reasons why it became a target of book bans). Throughout the novel, greed and apathy each take their turn in ruining the lives and prospects of the Joads, and other… Leer más

New York: Random House [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American westward expansion in the middle of the nineteenth century. Litrerary critic Harold Bloom regarded Cormac McCarthy as one of the greatest American novelists of his generation. This novel made Time Magazine's top 100 list of the greatest English-language novels published between 1925 and 2005. A lovely example. Faint foxing to the textblock, mild, sporadic foxing in the pageblock; a tiny repair (3/4 c.m. wide) to the jacket's spine panel.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-597, [1] pp. Red cloth with Hemingway's signature in black lettering on the front board, gold lettering blocked in black on the spine, several gold rules on the spine. Price of $2.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Gotham Book Mart bookseller's tag on the rear pastedown. Grissom A.16.1.a. Hanneman 16. A large collection of Hemingway's short stories and his only play, The Fifth Column, set during the Spanish Revolution. The 1921 short story "Up in Michigan" is published here for the first time, a very early writing from Hemingway. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Capital of the World", and "Old Man at the Bridge" all appear in this publication for the first time. A beautiful copy, difficult to find in this condition. Minor toning on the endpapers and pastedowns, a strip of discoloration to the bottom textblock; jacket has a couple traces of edge wear. Leer más

[Geneva]; [Paris]: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani, 1557. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 4to. [8], 1-395, [5] pp. Eighteenth-century maroon morocco with twin gilt rules to each board, gilt fileting to the boards edges, spine in six compartments with gilt rules and gilt lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title page in Greek and Latin. Publisher's device on the title page. Text and notes in Greek. Quae cum omnes multo quam antea castigatiores eduntur, tum vero una, quae mutila & decurtata prius erat, integra nunc profertur. Scholia in easdem plurimis in locis locupletata, & in pene infinitis emendata. Petri Victorii cura et diligentia. Adams 9. Dibdin 237-238. Graesse 29. Moss 8. Renouard 446. The first complete edition of Aeschylus, as this is the first edition in which the tragedy Agamemnon was printed in its entirety. With the intelligent and thougthful notes of M. Etienne (the second), the printer of this edition (Etienne II's notes are particularly valuable… Leer más

Coloniae Agrippinae [= Cologne]: Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4 vol. (8 vol. bound in 4). Folio. [8], 2-452, [2]; 1-238 (with a section of these leaves mispaginated); [4], 2-499, [2]; [4], 2-916, [1]; [2], 2-815; [2], 2-851; [4], 2-486, [1]; [4], 2-967, (a lengthy, unpaginated index of words and subjects at the end of the volume plus a blank before the rear endpaper) pp. Contemporary full blind-tooled pigskin, contemporary ink titling on the spines with the volumes numbers; all edges decoratively stained black. Volume one with an engraved title page and its title page printed in red and black, also with several in-text engravings and charts. The later volumes each have their own title page, all volumes with engraved initials, head, and tailpieces. Brunet 276. Graesse 321. NCBEL 346. Oxford DNB, J. Campbell, "Bede [St Bede, Bæda, known as the Venerable Bede] (673/4-735)". This edition was first published in Cologne in 1612, these volumes are the second… Leer más

Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 vol. 12mo. [7], 4-358; [7], 4-370; [7], 4-371, [1] pp. Half later red morocco over vertical-grain red cloth, boards ruled in gilt, spines in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations; all edges gilt. Later marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume bound with its half-title page. Bowden 77Aa. Worthington 1-18. With the cancellans in volumes one and three, with the typographical error Bowden calls out in volume two. Volumes one and two bound without the printer's imprint leaf (the final leaf before the blanks). A charming set of Scott's historical novel, a story of romance and war, set during the attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty to the English throne. A discoloration on the rear board of volume one, the set's leaves are toned and some are very slightly foxed, a few leaves in volume one with a dampspot to their fore-edge.

London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1892. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [5], vi-xix, [2], 2-298, [2], [4] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Full recent red morocco with a gilt border to each board, spine in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. With a preface written by Engels in the year of publication. Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky. The British Library, "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 by Friedrich Engels". Draper E171. First published in Germany in 1848, Wischnewetzky translated this work into English in 1887, where it was first published in the U.S. There was an unauthorized edition published in London in 1888 from the New York sheets, this is the first authorized U.K. edition. Published before the Communist Manifesto, Engels' treatise on industrialization and the class system in Manchester contains revolutionary ideas. It is a scathing criticism of the living conditions of factory workers, a… Leer más

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1793. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 4to. [3], iv-xii, [17], 2-516; [3], 2-588 [586], [4], 2-42 pp. Contemporary calf with the spines in six compartments, recent black morocco labels lettered in gilt on the spines, gilt decorations and stamping on the spines. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Johnson (a stipple-engraving by James Heath), volume two with two plates (the "Round Robin" plate and the facsimile of Johnson's handwriting). Completing the title page: "[with a] Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished". Grolier Club, 100 Famous Books in English Literature, 65. Oxford DNB, Gordon Turnbull "Boswell, James (1740-1795)". Pottle 79. Rothschild 463. Our… Leer más

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], 6-256, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth lettered in gilt and stamped with gilt and black decorations on the front board and the spine, decorations and border in blind on the rear board. Pale yellow endpapers and pastedowns. The front board is lettered in gilt with a gilt buffalo head and a stylized border in black. A portrait of Custer with tissue guard at the beginning of the volume, the volume is illustrated with seven additional plates. Dustin 81. Graff 961. Howes C 981. Luther High Spot 7. A striking example of the only full-length book Custer published during his lifetime, a high spot of Western Americana. Light wear and sunning to the spine, a tiny ink note on the front pastedown and a small abrasion to the free front endpaper's corner.

[Paris]: La Société Littéraire-Typographique, 1789. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 70 vol. 8vo. Please inquire if you require any pagination information. Contemporary full calf, spines in six and a half compartments, each with a red and a green morocco label lettered in gilt; several edges decoratively stained yellow. With 104 of the 122 recorded plates (Cohen-DeRicci calls for 122 plates), volume one is missing the tableau (the folding plate) and the dedication plate. Due to the vagaries of hand-press-era binding and to the large size of the set, it is difficult to determine which of the other 16 plates are the ones missing. The plates present depict Voltaire, scenes from his plays, and several fascinating figures from European History (including of course, Enlightenment-era figures). All other half-titles present (see condition statement). Bengesco 2142. Brunet 681. Cohen-DeRicci 1042-1047. This edition is the set most lauded for its completeness and beautiful typography. Baskerville's… Leer más

Amsterdam: Etienne Ledet & Compagnie, 1738. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], 4-399, [3] pp. Full contemporary calf with the spine in six compartments, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; all edges decoratively stained red. A blue silk-ribbon bookmark bound in. Title page printed in red and black with the publisher's device engraved on it. Illustrated with two frontispieces, six plates, a folding table, a full-page chart, in-text engravings and diagrams, and engraved head and tailpieces (quite elaborate ones). Babson 59-60. Bengesco 1570. Gray 33. PMM 97. SEP, Barbara Becker, "Émilie du Châtelet". The first state, as the Desbordes imprint is generally recognized as the later state. With the pagination error on p. 271. Voltaire is credited with having spread Newton's revolutionary contributions to science across the European continent. He dedicated this work to his romantic and scientific partner, the Marquise du Chatelet (herself an accomplished scientist). The Marquise completed… Leer más

Parisiis [= Paris]: In Gulielmi Rouillij et Philippi G. Rouillij Nep, 1563. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. [24], 1-559, [3] pp. Twentieth-century calf (bound in the style of the eighteenth century) with the spine in six compartments, gilt decorations on the spine, a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges stained red. Eighteenth-century marbled endpapers and pastedowns (apparently taken from an earlier binding). With engraved initials and headpieces, title page with an engraved border. Adams 1659. Brunet 196. Gordon 102. With the commentary of Dionysius Lambinus. The first Lambinus edition of Lucretius. A beautiful poem discussing the tenets of Epicureanism, the nature of atoms and natural qualities of substances, love, the mortality of the soul and the death of our universe. A rich discussion of ancient science and metaphysics, and the only known work of the mysterious Roman figure who was admired by Cicero. Lucretius was also a catalyst for the Renaissance and… Leer más

London: Printed by Charles Rivington, 1760. Later edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 11 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xli, [4], 240, [2]; [5], 6-272, [2]; [5], 6-316, [2]; [5], 6-277, [3]; [5], 6-280, [23], 4-28, [2]; [3], iv-cli, [4], 4-175, [5]; [5], 6-189, [3]; [5], 6-304, [2]; [5], 6-301, [5]; [5], 6-287, [4]; [5], 6-212, [76] pp. Volumes are uniformly bound in contemporary full calf with gilt tooling on the edges of the boards, spines in six compartments with gilt tooling and an unpolished calf label on each; all edges marbled. Beautiful marbled blue and white endpapers. Each volume also includes a lovely, thin blue-ribbon as a bookmark. The set is illustrated with numerous woodcut head and tailpieces (each new book of the poem is accompanied by a half-title with a head and tail-piece). At the beginning of each new book of the poem a miniature woodcut illustrates the page, and at the end of several of the books a woodcut illustration is also included. The miniature woodcuts include illustrations of famous… Leer más

[Zweibrücken] / Biponti: Ex Typographia Societatis [Studiis Societatis Bipontinae] [Deux Ponts Press], 1787. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 11 vol. [6], iii-c, [2], 3-267, [15]; [2], 3-368, [14], [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [4], 3-370, [4], i-vii, [5]; [4], 3-390, vii, [3], i-vi; [8], i-viii, [2], 3-359, [3]; [2], 1-380, [2]; [3], 2-424, [2]; [3], ii-vi, [2], 1-442, [2]; [2], 1-437, [6]; [4], 3-390, [2], i-viii, [2]; [2], i-xii, [2], 3-483, [1] pp. Contemporary tree calf with the spines in six compartments, each spine with a green and a black morocco label lettered in gilt, gilt decorations on the spines; all edges sprinkled. Each volume's title page with an in-text engraving of a bust of various ancient persons: Plato, Aristippus, Diogenes, Pericles, Alcibiades, among others. Text in ancient Greek, with the notes and commentary in Latin. With Henry Stephanus' commentary and editing. Also with notes and analysis by Marsilius Ficinius, with additional various notes. Brunet 761.… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [9], 9-140, [2] pp. Light blue cloth boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the jacket. Grissom A.24.1.a (Binding A, Jacket A). The last novel to be published during Hemingway's lifetime, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a key influence in Hemingway's receipt of the Nobel Prize. An attractive copy of one of the most acclaimed and important works in American literature. An inscription from October 1952 on the front pastedown; jacket has a small discoloration on the bottom of its front flap and a minute, subtle touch-up to the top of its spine panel.

New York: Arthur A. Levine Books (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 1-309 pp. Quarter red cloth over purple paper boards with a diamond pattern, gold lettering on the spine. Blue-green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. In-text illustrations by Mary Grandpré. Errington A4(a). With only the Guardian blurb on rear panel, raised gold foil on the front panel, the copyright page with its full numberline. A stunning copy of Rowling's first installment in the beloved fantasy series. Here we see Harry escape the Dursley's for the first time, and his first run-in with Voldemort. The series has captured the imagination of a generation, and launched several popular film adaptations of the books. First editions of the American version of the first book are becoming increasingly difficult to find. A name on the free front endpaper; the jacket has its original bookstore price sticker on the rear panel (price of $16.95, dated… Leer más

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Near Fine. 3 vol. 8vo. [7], 6-423, [5]; [6], 9-352; Black cloth with an orange and gold design (the ring and the eye of Sauron) on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Black cloth with a red and gold design on the front board (the eye of Sauron on the ring), gold lettering on the spine; red topstain. Black cloth with a purple and gold design (the same design as the other two volumes) on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; purple topstain. Housed in a black paper slipcase with a red paper label printed in green. Price of $6.00 on each jacket's front flap. Jacket designs by Robert Quackenbush. The first volume illustrated with a few full-page maps and a fold-out map printed in red and black at the end of the volume. The second volume with the same map as the first, and the third volume illustrated with a chart and the same map in the rear. Hammond and Anderson A5f i-iii. First… Leer más

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. [3], iv, [1], 2-336, [1], 2-24 (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations in blind and gold lettering on the spine. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Housed in a custom slipcase with marbled inner papers. Sadleir 16-17. Trollope Society, "The Warden". The publisher's catalog is dated September of 1854. Extraordinarily difficult to find in exceptional condition. The first of the Barset novels to be published, Trollope's Warden deals with zealous reformers pitted against the traditions of the Anglican Clergy. Trollope's favorite motifs of morality and tradition pitted against selfishness are explored, in a quiet, subtle Victorian setting. A bookplate on the front pastedown.

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 2 vol. [7], viii-xvii, [2], 2--6, [1], 8-386, [2]; [4], vi, [1], 2-412, [2] pp. Half contemporary calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with a black morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece. Casada 47; Penzer 72. Burton here recounts his visit to Dahome, ruled at the time by King Gelele. The king was known for his enjoyment of human sacrifices, the execution of his subjects, and the use of enslaved people to maintain and grow Dahomey's crops. Burton was thoroughly reviled by his experiences in Dahomey, but considered his travels in Dahomey a valuable source of information regarding the status of slavery in the western hemisphere. A fascinating record of diplomacy and of Victorian travel. A Very Good set with moderate foxing to the flyleaves and two small marks of ownership on the front pastedown and flyleaf of each volume. A pencil annotation on p. 367 of volume… Leer más

Venetiis; Romae: Haeredem Hieronymi Scoti; Iulium Accoltum, 1586. Later editions. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. Folio. [12], 1-149 (foliated leaves); [12], 1-269 (foliated leaves) pp. Later full vellum with manuscript hand on the spines; all edges decoratively stained blue. Later endpapers, though volume two retains an original rear endpaper. This is a married set, with volume two likely from a larger set of the complete works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Text in Latin. A few publisher's devices and engraved initials illustrate this set. Adams 1454. Aertsen, "Aquinas' Philosophy in its Historical Setting", Cambridge Companion to Aquinas 16. Encyclopedia Britannica, "Peter Lombard: French bishop". Graesse 139. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Thomas Aquinas". We could not locate the 1570 volume in Adams or Graesse. It is highly difficult to find all four books of this early work of St. Thomas Aquinas. Composed from 1252 until 1256, these commentaries are dense and systematic. They were written while… Leer más