New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, several small chips, on small closed tear, spine sunned, two repairs made with 'invisible' tape, else bright and clean. Brown cloth boards, silver gilt lettering. 8vo. 340pp.
Price: $45.00
London: Secker & Warburg, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy of this minor, important classic. Light shelf/edge wear, discrete owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light toning (focused at spine), price clipped. Small 8vo. 352pp.
Price: $65.00
New York: The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at preliminaries, related clipping tipped in at front pastedown, owner bookplate at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light to moderate shelf/edge wear, several small chips (focused at head and tail).....
Price: $45.00
New York: John Day Company, 1942. First American Edition. Hardcover. A collection of Gandhi's appeals to the British written between April 26 to July 26, 1942. Minor shelf/edge wear, light toning to leaves, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, even toning (focused at spine). Beige cloth.....
Price: $125.00
Chicago, IL: Paul Theobald, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes essays, colour and black and white reproductions. Light foxing/staining to boards, owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ remains are present (front panel and flap; spine and rear panel missing). Beige cloth boards, black and white ink decorative.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Canadian Centre for Architecture / Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001. First Wraps Edition. Original Wraps. Exhibition catalogue for show of the same name at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Richly illustrated (630 illus. over 100 in color) and including essays.....
Price: $175.00
Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "An introduction to the work of maverick Swiss architect Peter Märkli. The Swiss architect Peter Märkli is best known for La Congiunta, the gallery in the canton of Ticino that houses the reliefs of the sculptor Hans Josephson. He has also.....
Price: $445.00
New York: Random House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes brief biographical note. Touch of sun at the top of the boards, light toning related to newspaper review laid in, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minimal shelf/edge wear, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, red and gold metallic.....
Price: $125.00
New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1971 & 1972. Later Printing/First Edition. Hardcover. Eleanor and Franklin was the winner of both the Pulitzer and National Book Award in 1972. The Alone Years continued the story beyond FDR's death. Overall, a handsome set. Minor shelf/edge wear, postage stamp affixed.....
Price: $125.00
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968 [1969]. First Editions/Early Reprints. Hardcover. Vol. 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940. Vol. 2: My Country Right Or Left 1940-1943. Vol. 3: As I Please 1943-1945. Vol. 4: In Front Of Your Nose 1945-1950. Overall, a handsome set. Minimal shelf/edge wear, V1 has.....
Price: $325.00
Chicago: Canterbury Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. "Walter Shelley Phillips, known as El Comancho, was a self-educated and self-trained naturalist, artist, geologist, newspaper reporter, freelance writer and author of numerous books. ... Over the course of his career, he wrote professionally and illustrated for many newspapers and magazines, including Forest.....
Price: $125.00
London: Sheed & Ward, nd [1957]. Reprint. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light toning at rear, spine toned, else bright, and clean. Geen cloth boards, brown ink lettering. Small 8vo. 255pp.
Price: $45.00
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953. Second Revised. Hardcover. A very handsome copy. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, price clipped, light toning (focused at edges), spine toned, else clean. Purple cloth boards, gilt lettering. 12mo. 100pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Bibliography. Index.
Price: $45.00
Edinburgh: John Grant Booksellers, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Richly illustrated (over 350 illustrations). A very handsome copy of this minor classic. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, crease at front flap, price clipped, else bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, blue ink lettering. 12mo. 142pp. Illus (b/w.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. First posthumous collection of essays, published the year Owell died. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, price clipped, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering. 8vo. 200pp.
Price: $125.00
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Pnin was Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English. Published a year before Lolita, the "success of Pnin in the United States launched Nabokov's career into literary prominence. Its eponymous protagonist, Timofey Pavlovich Pnin, is a Russian-born assistant.....
Price: $225.00
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Issued in red and blue versions of the DJ, the remains of a blue version found here. A very presentable copy of the first American edition [in a very damaged DJ]. Cornerstone of modern dystopian fiction. Minimal shelf/edge wear.....
Price: $275.00
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, ownership signature at ffep, gilt toned, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows moderate shelf/edge wear, spine sunned, several small chips and small, closed tears, else bright and clean. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering.
Price: $125.00
New York: Dutton, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Noted flaws notwithstanding, a presentable copy. Light shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, rubber stamp at ffep, tape attaching flaps to front and rear pastedown (lift damage at front), else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows several closed tears, wear at head and.....
Price: $65.00
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. This set bears a libary ownership bookplate indicating it was a gift from John Murray Forbes [American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist...and president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s]. The set.....
Price: $125.00
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Even sunning at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred; slipcase shows light shelf/edge wear, else tight. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, floral printed paper boards, paper onlay spine label. Small 8vo. 68pp.
Price: $45.00
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. Small gift inscription on ffep, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, price clipped, else bright and clean. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, blue ink decorative elements. 8vo. 268pp. Diagrams. Index.....
Price: $75.00
London: The Bodley Head, 1927. Early Reprint. Hardcover. English translation of French original. Light shelf/edge wear, gilt toned at spine, spine lightly sunned, title page shows 'punch' text indicating library ownership (no other ex libris marking), light toning to text block edges, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth boards.....
Price: $75.00
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1893. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. World Classics was a short-lived series by Joseph Knight, which in1892 moved to Boston and incorporated as Joseph Knight Co. having been founded as Merriam, Moore & Co in Troy, NY. Well illustrated and bound in pleasing publishers bindings, it is.....
Price: $145.00
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of materials to commemorate the death of Robert F. Kennedy. Contains eulogies by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, John Glenn, Sen. Jacob Javits, Ambassador Arthur J. Golderg, and many others. It also collections tributes from Norman Cousins, Arthur.....
Price: $45.00