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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1925.
First edition of the ‘Tarzan’ novelist’s Western classic. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece by Modest Stein. In good condition.
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Alderney: Privately Printed For The Author, 1962.
Signed limited edition of the final book published during White’s lifetime. Royal octavo, original publisher’s half vellum with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with others untrimmed, frontispiece portrait. One of one hundred numbered copies signed and dedicated by the author with an original drawing, this is number 4. In nearContinue reading "T. H. White Verses."
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
Finely bound editions of Badeau’s important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war,” a continuation of Grant’s Personal Memoirs. Octavo, Vols. II and III of three volumes, original publisher’s cloth stamped in gilt and black. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of Vol. III in the year of publication,Continue reading "Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, From April, 1861, to April, 1865."
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Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1947.
First French edition of Zorba the Greek, published one year after the first Greek edition and six years prior to the first English translation. Octavo, original wrappers. Association copy, inscribed by the author to the publisher on the front free endpaper. “Au cher ami et editeur August Bloemsa, N Kazantzakis Paques 1953.” Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) wasContinue reading "Alexis Zorba ou le Rivage de Crete [Zorba The Greek]."
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London: Printed and published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1930.
Signed limited edition and first edition in book form of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the limitation page, this is number 104. Octavo, original half vellum over green silk boards, marbled endpapers. Fine in the rare original dustContinue reading "On Being Ill."
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
The Bombay Edition of Kipling’s collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.
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London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1865.
First edition of this pioneering, scholarly study of lycanthropy. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters leather over marble covered boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
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New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1957.
First edition of this pioneering and foundational text in decision theory, organizational behavior, and cognitive science by the most cited name in Artificial Intelligence. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Richard D. Edwards with best wishes Herbert A. Simon.” The recipient, was Simon’s colleague Richard D.Continue reading "Models of Man: Social and Rational."
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London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill, 1690.
Exceptionally rare first edition published at the end of 1689 in an edition of likely only 1,000 copies (with quire Q in second, of two, settings. Octavo, bound in full calf, morocco spine label, gilt tooling to the spine, blind stamped to the front and rear panels. Title-page within double rule. In very good condition.Continue reading "Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown"
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London: Printed for R. Gosling, at the Crown and Mitre, against Fetter-Lane, in Fleet-street, 1734.
First edition of this exceptionally rare collection of Atkyn’s political tracts. Octavo, bound in full paneled calf with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, all edges speckled red. In near fine condition. Scarce.
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1925 & 1932.
First British editions of these classic collections of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, volume one in the original publisher’s pictorial half-cloth boards, volume two in the original publisher’s green cloth. Volume one in very good condition dust jacket. Volume two is very good in a very good dust jacket. Volume two jacket design is by VanessaContinue reading "The Common Reader. [and] The Common Reader Second Series."
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London: Printed for D. Brown and W. Rogers, 1691.
First edition of this seminal, early statistical survey that analyzes 17th-century Irish land, people, and government to propose improvements for efficiency, taxation, and union with England. Duodecimo, bound in full speckled calf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within double ruled gilt bands, morocco spine label, and gilt turn-ins. In very goodContinue reading "The Political Anatomy of Ireland…To Which is Added Verbum Sapienti."
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New York: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 1997.
Signed limited edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original publisher’s maroon cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, illustrated by Wesley Dennis. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies signed by the author, this is number 77. Fine in the original publisher’s matching slipcase which is in fineContinue reading "Misty of Chincoteague."
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London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.
First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with two illustrations by J. Noel Paton. In near fine condition. BookplatesContinue reading "The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby."
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London: [Printed by Thomas Dawson] For John Harison and Thomas Man, 1580.
Scarce first edition in English of this collection of John Calvin’s sermons. Octavo, bound in full levant morocco with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling and central gilt arabesques to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins, wide typographical borderContinue reading "Two and twentie Sermons of Maister John Calvin. In which Sermons is most religiously handled, the hundredth and nineteenth Psalme of David, by eight verses aparte according to the Hebrewe alphabet."
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
The Bombay edition of this collection of 13 Kipling short stories mainly written between 1893 and 1896 while Kipling was living in Vermont. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front andContinue reading "The Day’s Work."
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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913.
The Bombay edition of this collection of Kipling poems and tales. Octavo, bound in three-quarters morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In near fine condition.
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Geneva: Printed by Gabriel de Tournes & Sons, 1723.
The collected medical works of Thomas Sydenham. Royal octavo, written in Latin, volume one only, bound in full calf with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, morocco spine label, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, all edges stained red, engraved frontispiece of Thomas Sydenham, illustrated.Continue reading "Thomae Sydenham Med Doct Ac Practici Londinensis Celeberrimi, Opera Medica. [Medical Works of Thomas Sydenham]."
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Philadelphia: Printed For Henry and Patrick Rice, 1795.
First American edition of Radcliffe’s classic 18th century gothic novel. Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruling to the spine. In good condition. Chip to the spine label, G1 & 2 tear at head within text, with minor loss, Q1 torn and stained at foot, with loss ofContinue reading "A Sicilian Romance."
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Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1937.
First Danish edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original wrappers. In near fine condition. Rare in this condition.
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London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Ave-Mary Lane, 1690.
First edition of John Locke’s landmark second Letter of Toleration, a profound influence on Jefferson, Madison and the architecture of the American Constitution on freedom of religion. Octavo, bound in three quarter calf with gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers. In very good condition, paper repair to lower corner D1, faint early ink ownershipContinue reading "A Second Letter Concerning Toleration."
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London: Putnam, 1937.
First British edition of the author’s classic memoir, which recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. An exceptional example, rare in this condition.
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London: Heinemann, 1965.
First edition of the author’s fourth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “B. Payne best wishes John le Carré.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning to the spine.
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London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1871-1879.
First English edition of this critical biography that attempts to demythologize Napoleon Bonaparte. Octavo, four volumes, bound in early twentieth century three-quarters morocco over marble covered boards by Zaensdorf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In very good condition.
Read more Badeau, Adam. [Ulysses S. Grant].
Kazantzakis, Nikos [Kazantzaki].
Baring-Gould, Sabine.
Atkins, Robert. [Robert Atkyns].
Petty, Sir William.
Calvin, John. Translated from the French by Thomas Stocker.
Sydenham, Thomas.
