Carlton-in-Coverdale, UK: Tartarus Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 350 copies. Signed and inscribed by Mark Samuels at the 2010 World Horror Convention in Brighton. 196pp. Purple cloth stamped in silver on the front panel and the spine panel, purple endpapers, silk bookmark. Collects nine stories. A fine... More
Paris: Chez Lacombe, 1766. Hardcover. Second edition after the one from 1765. Two volumes in one. xvi, 246pp; 224pp. Recent green morocco, spine with raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, all edges stained red. The memoires of Father de Singlande, military chaplain. Includes an account of the conquest of... More
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Black cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Collects fourteen stories originally published in various pulp magazines. Introduction by E. Hoffmann Price. Mild rubbing to bottom edges else a fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a short closed... More
Edinburgh: London, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover. iii, 205pp + 1p of publisher's advertisements. Cloth backed boards with leather label on the spine. Heavy wear to spine, bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper, scattered foxing throughout, wear to extremities. A good+ copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. More
Boston: 1836. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 62pp. Original blue wrappers with black lettering. Stitched. One of Spooner's best known early pamphlets in which the noted lawyer and philosopher attacked the orthodox tenets of Christianity and foreshadowed his distrust of authority. Chapters include The Early Spread of Christianity, The Nature and... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 364pp. Burgundy cloth stamped in gold on the spine panel. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a crease to front flap and a couple of nicks to spine panel. Advance review copy with publisher's letter laid-in stating, "Steinbeck's... More
New York: M. S. Mill Co. and William Morrow & Co., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in good dustjacket with a dampstain partially affecting lower edge of front and rear panel and a closed tear along upper edge of front panel. ; Octavo. More
Milano: Millhouse, 1853. First Edition. Printed wrappers. First English-Italian edition. IV, 443pp. Original wrappers. With a preface by the editor and a preface to the first european edition by the author. Text in English with footnotes in Italian. Bookstore stamp on front cover (Detken & Rockoll of Naples). Mild foxing... More
Parigi: Appresso Agostino Delalain, Pietro Durand, Gio: Claudio Molini, 1771. Illustrated by Gravelot, Hubert-François. First Edition. Hardcover. In two volumes. 331pp; 340pp. Contemporary full mottled calf, sides with triple gilt fillets, ornate gilt spines, gilt inside dentelles. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces, titles, dedication, nineteen inserted plates, nine full-page..... More
![Lincoln and Booth: The Inner Story of the Great Tragedy of Fifty Years Ago. As Published in the Dayton News, April 10, 1915 - May 9, 1915. Inclusive. [Scrapbook]. Winfield M. Thompson.](/pictures/thumb/24054.jpg?v=1453950281)
1915. Hardcover. Contemporary dark red half leather. Unpaginated. 22 cm. A scrapbook with eighty-seven newspaper clippings (including photographs and illustrations) pasted on slick paper. With the name Franklin D. Rice lettered in gold on the front panel. Front cover partially split at spine, some loss to the spine panel. A.... More
Fitchburg, MA: J. Garfield Printer, 1836. First Edition. Printed wrappers. 111pp. Original yellow wrappers, stitched. Wear along the edges, scattered foxing throughout more pronounced on the first and last few leaves, name in pencil on front cover, lacks back cover. A good+ copy. Uncommon. Sabin 93600. ; Octavo. More
San Francisco: Bankers Utilities Co. Inc., N.D. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Circa 1928. Original brown half cloth and paper covered boards. A large pictorial advertising book that was given to banks. It came with an easel that allowed it to be displayed in a lobby together with some book banks. With numerous... More
San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood / Miller, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Signed by Jack Vance on the limitation page. 143, [1]p. Grey cloth lettered in silver on the spine panel. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Wraparound dustjacket art by Stephen Fabian. ; Octavo; Signed by Author. More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. One of the famous Winston Science Fiction series for young adults. The author's first hardcover title. Red cloth with black lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers by Alex Schomburg. Slightly bruised upper corners. A fine copy in very good+ price-clipped dustjacket... More
Bruxelles / Paris: Dero-Becker / Aubert, 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. Original pictorial boards. Fifty plates with more than three hundred illustrations by Madou, Lauters, Tavernier, Leroy, and others. Text in French. The plates are clean but for some very mild toning. Front cover almost completely detached, toning to endpapers and... More
Washington, DC: 1831-47. Hardcover. Light brown half calf over marbled boards. A collection of twenty-six congressional speeches from the years 1831 to 1847 including: Speech of Mr. Allen, of Ohio, on the Bill to Separate the Government from the Banks; Speech of Mr. Wall, of New Jersey, on the Bill... More
Barquisimeto: Oficina de Joaquin Pérez, 1855. Broadside. Broadside issued by Zabulon Valverde, Governor of the Province of Barquisimeto, on August 2, 1855, in which he addresses his fellow citizens and explains his political agenda. It begins: "Zabulon Valverde, Gobernador, Jefe Sup.r Pol.co de la Provincia de Barquisimeto, a sus habitantes..... More
Boston: Henry L. Shepard & Co., 1874. Illustrated by Ferrat. Hardcover. 190pp. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel. With illustrations by Ferrat. Light rubbing to rear panel, a bit of edge wear. A bright, near fine copy. Taves and Michaluk... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Third Edition. Hardcover. xiii, 334pp. Green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel and the spine panel, brown endpapers. With one hundred illustrations. A touch of rubbing to extremities, two short creases to rear board. A near fine copy... More
Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, N.D. Hardcover. xi, 332pp + 6 pp of advertisements. Brown decorated cloth stamped in black on the front panel and black and gold on the spine panel. Decorated endpapers. With sixty illustrations. Mild scattered foxing, inscription dated 1884 on the flyleaf, tiny spot to... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the cover and the spine, top edge stained red. Mild soiling to cloth and light ripple to lower edges. A very good+ copy in tattered dustjacket with several creases, tears and old tape mends... More
Boston: The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. vii, 247, 54pp. Contemporary brown quarter morocco over pebbled cloth, spine with five raised bands, with gold lettering and decorations in blind, silk moire endpapers, all edges gilt. Three inserted plans (the Siege of Fort Stanwix; Rome, NY; Rome Arsenal)... More
London: William Heinemann, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 304pp + 16 pages of publisher's advertisements in the back dated mdcccxcvii. Full black morocco with four raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt, blue endpapers. Light toning to text block, a hint of foxing to half-title page, tiny... More
Baltimore: Borderlands Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 26 lettered copies. Signed by F. Paul Wilson on the limitation page. 398pp. Black leather stamped in silver on the front panel and the spine panel, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark. The sixth volume in the Adversary Cycle. A bright, fine... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. First US Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in the United Kingdom as Right Ho, Jeeves. 321pp. Full red morocco, spine decorated in gold, with raised bands and gold lettering, marbled endpapers, rounded corners. The second novel featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. A fine copy. McIlvaine... More