Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1982. 230 pages. 8vo, red cloth, dust wrapper; wrapper lightly edge-worn and sunned at spine. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, (1982). A near fine copy in a very good wrapper. More about The London Muse; Victorian Poetic Responses to the City
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 306 pages. 12mo, red and blue boards, dust wrapper. New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). First edition. A near fine copy. More about Had Enough?; A Handbook for Fighting Back
London: tonson, 1707. Frontispiece and copperplate illustrations. Small 8vo, old blindstamped calf, recased in brown leather with leather spine label. London: Jacob Tonson, 1707. The Eighth Edition, Adorn'd with Sculptures. A very good copy with light staining on some pages. More about Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books
New York: Scribner, 1908. 379 pages. 8vo, black cloth lightly worn at edges, corners gently bumped. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Second edition. A very good(+) copy. More about The France of Today
New York: Norton, 1984. 350 pages. 8vo, cloth backed boards, dust wrapper. New York: Norton, (1984). First edition. A near fine copy. More about Russia and the Russians; Inside Their Closed Society
New York: St. Martin's, 1985. 355 pages. 8vo, black cloth, lightly edgeworn dust wrapper. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1985). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good(+) wrapper. More about Klass; How Russians Really Live
London: Ackermann, 1817. 24 colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. Tall slim 8vo, full black morocco bound by Riviere. Ornately gilt spine tooled with floral ornaments, gilt covers and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, burgundy endpapers. Complete with the Introduction leaf, the Advertisement leaf, and the two Memoir leaves. Slight offsetting from frontispiece onto the title page. London: R. Ackermann, 1817. The First Rowlandson Edition with hand-colored aquatints by the artist. Near Fine. Tooley, 436. More about The Vicar of Wakefield. A Tale by Doctor Goldsmith
London: Longmans, 1882. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled boards, decoratively gilt spines, top edges gilt. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882-1884. First editions. Some edgewear and crackling of leather on spine, still a very good(+) set. More about Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 (2 volumes); &...
London: Bradbury, Agnew. Illustrated by John Leech, Browne and Maud in black & white, with hand-colored plates. 6 volumes, 8vo, 3/4 crimson polished calf, gilt spines with images of foxes, hounds and horses, top edges gilt. London,: Bradbury, Agnes, ca, 1890, Reprinted for Subscribers. Comprising Handley Cross, Hawbuck Grange, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, Ask Mamma, Plain or Ringlets, and Mr Romfords Hounds. More about Group of 6 of his sporting novels, as below; each with numerous hand-colored plates by John Leech
London: Macrone, 1836. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo, full dark green morocco, gilt spines, gilt tops by Zaehnsdorf. London: Macrone, 1836-1837. Second edition of the first two volumes, with an additional preface dated August, 1836. The Second series, complete in one volume, dated 1837 on the title page & 1836 on the pictorial title, is a first edition, with pages 25, 32 & 62 mis-numbered. Nice set of Dickens' first published work. More about Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People, WITH: Sketches by...
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. Engraved vignette title pages and 46 engraved plates by Richard Doyle. 2 volumes, full burgundy morocco, gilt spines & dentelles, large gilt cornerpieces on covers, patterned silk endpapers, top edges gilt. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854 - 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. More about The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, edited by Arthur Pendennis
London: Cassell, 1956. 4 volumes. Illustrated with maps and genealogical tables. Thick 8vos, beautifully rebound in 3/4 crimson morocco; spine panels with gilt-stamped lion emblems, raised bands. London: Cassell, (1956-1958). First Edition. Fine. A fine set of Churchill's classic history. I: The Birth of Britain. II: Renaissance and Reformation. III: The Age of Revolution. IV: The Great Democracies. More about A History of The English-Speaking Peoples
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. Small 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco, spine elaborately gilt, top edge gilt, original cloth bound in. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Laid in is a small mailing envelope, postmarked Cambridge, Mass, addressed in Longfellow's hand. The book presents as fine, but has chipped upper corners on 4 pages and two words written on the title page by an early owner. More about The Courtship of Miles Standish
New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. Thin 16mo, lavender pictorial wrappers, stapled. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First Edition. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. A relatively scarce title. More about The Lavender Leotard
New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1984. Curated by Jadvig M da Costa Nunes and Ferris Olin. 27 black-and-white illustrations. 36 pages, oblong 8vo, pictorial wrappers. New Brunswick: Rutgers Unviersity, (1984). A very good(+) copy. Includes a checklist from the exhibition. More about Baroness Hyde de Neuville: Sketches of America, 1807-1822
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. A Novel Without a Hero. With illustrations on steel and wood by the Author. Thick 8vo. 3/4 red crushed morocco, gilt spine & all edges gilt. London: Bradbury & Evans. 1848. First Edition. With the first issue readings on pp 336 & 453, and rustic lettering on p.1. A fine, clean copy. More about Vanity Fair
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. 3 vols. 3/4 red morocco with raised bands & elaborately gilt spine. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. First Edition. The title was changed after the first edition to that of the sub-title. More about The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45
New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1998. Many 118 illustrations, including 70 in color and 11 family trees. 128 pages, tall thin 4to, black cloth, d.w. New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1998). A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. More about The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings & Queens of England
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. x + 366 pages, 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w.; dust wrapper a little wrinkled. New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2015). First edition. More about Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1879. Frontispiece and some other illustrations throughout each volume. 12 volumes. 8vos, handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 brown morocco with highly decorative gilt spines, marbled boards, marbled page edges. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, (1879). A near fine set in handsome bindings. Contains: The Scarlet Letter & The Blithedale Romance; The House of Seven Gables & Snow Image; Tanglewood Tales & Dolliver Romance; The Marble Faun; Mosses from an Old Manse; Twice-Told Tales; A Wonder Book for... More about Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
illus. 4to, cloth, chipped d.w. Doubleday, 1971. vg. Air power during World War II. More about Airwar; Volume II: Tragic Victories
Lebanon: Whitman Communications, 2000. Illus. 130pp. Oblong 4to, cloth, d.w. Lebanon: Whitman Communications, 2000. Fine Signed by John Clement. One of 500 copies. Tribute to John Clement, a railroad mechanic from New Hampshire. More about John S. Clement, the Mechanical Man
Gillingham: Meresborough Books, 1981. Illus. 8vo, blue boards, spine sunned. (Gillingham): Meresborough Books, (1981). Very good. More about Kent Airfields in the Battle of Britain
Osprey, 1988. many color illus. square 8vo, pr. wrs. (London): Osprey, (1988). vg. More about The DEC Schneider Trophy Race
The Wings Club, 1985. illus. 27pp. 8vo, cloth. N.Y.: The Wings Club, 1985. vg. More about Aircraft Engines...Never a Dull Moment
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