New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1886. First American edition. Frontispiece, printed in red, in each volume; cuts in text. Spines a bit darkened, corners and joints lightly rubbed. A good, clean set. Half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spines, top edge gilt. Two volumes, octavo. xvi, 302; xvi, 313.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884. First edition. Frontispiece portrait in Volume I; the remaining illustrations are cuts within the text. Corners slightly rubbed, but a remarkably fine set, with the gold very bright. Rare in this condition. Original black cloth. Covers and spine decoratively stamped in gilt and blind. Two.....
London: Leadenhall Press, 1893. First edition. An interesting chapter in the history of London popular culture. With twenty-eight inserted facsimiles of old lottery bills on paper of various tints (“It will be noted that the dirty red ink in some of them is exactly imitated.”), and with many text illustrations.....
London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. First American edition. Eighty-eight tinted plates. Spines a bit darkened, corners and joints lightly rubbed. A good, clean copy. Half red morocco over marbled boards. Gilt spines, top edge gilt. Octavo. xii, 354 pp. Ashton (b. 1834) is the author of a number of valuable.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. First edition. Fine in very good+ jacket. Jacket has a little edgewear and light soiling. Cloth. Octavo.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, [1999]. First edition. With 50 color and 74 black and white illustrations. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Folio.
Bologna: per Lelio dalla Volpe, 1769. First edition. A very rare collection of fourteen poems in honor of Conte Malvasia's successful term of office as Bologna's chief officer of justice. OCLC lists one copy, which is in France (Bibliotheque Nat. & Univ. Strasbourg). Engraved device on title page and fourteen.....
Newspaper clippings, posters, and other campaign promotional items laid in or pasted down on the first [90] pp., except for on a few blank pages. The remaining pages of the scrapbook are blank. Some of the items are in color and many of the newspaper clippings include photographs. Also with.....
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[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1914]. First edition. This article was published in 1914 but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. The article is complete. With two halftone spectrogram plates: “Spectra of Classes P and Q” and “Spectra of Novae.”. Some.....
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[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1915 ]. First edition. This article is dated 1915 and was published that year but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. With two zincographed plates. Some dust-soiling to front wrapper and small open tear at spine.....
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[ Cambridge: Published by the Observatory, 1913. First edition. Some light dampstaining to front wrapper along spine. Inconspicuous embossed labels of Pomona College to front wrapper and title-page. Lower wrapper lost. Spine somewhat creased and chipped. A bit of light foxing to fore-edge. A very good, clean copy of an.....
[ Cambridge: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College, 1914]. First edition. This article was published in 1914 but is often misdated because it was later reissued featuring a title-page dated 1916. It is also often misattributed to Edward C. Pickering, though the text of the present work explains that it was.....
[ Strasbourg: Johannes Knobloch, March, 1522 ]. An important early scholarly edition of the collected works, preceded only by two editions, printed by Jean Petit in Paris in 1519 and 1520. The editors of the present work were Christopher Porsena, St. Ambrosius of Camaldoni, Johannes Reuchlin, and Angelo Poliziano. There.....
Basle: 1760. Second edition of this treatise on animal souls, first published in 1756. Aubert (1709-1770) gives a history of the controversy as to whether animals have souls, from classical times. His own conclusion is that they have souls, but that they are inferior souls to those of humans. He.....
New York: Random House, [1962]. First edition. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket has some light soiling. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: Random House, [1956]. First edition ("first printing" on verso of title-page). Fine in near fine d.j. Some light soiling to jacket. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
New York: Random House, [1951[. First edition, preceding the English publication. Minor edgewear. Very good+ in lightly sunned dust jacket with a cojuple of tiny chips and tears. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
London: Faber & Faber, [1974]. Fine in fine d.j. Clothbacked boards. Octavo.
New York: Random House, [1974]. First U.S. ed. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1989. One of 150 copies printed on Saunders Mold-Made “Cream” paper. Title-page vignette and decorative endpapers by Dean Bornstein. Bottom corner of front cover lightly bent. Still, quite a fine copy. Prospectus laid in. Parchment wrappers with printed paper spine label. Octavo. [xvi], [123] pp.....
London: Faber & Faber, [1935]. First edition. Small contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown. Endpapers with a hint of foxing. Very good in bright, unfaded dust jacket. Jacket has a few minor nicks and tears, one internally mended, and an ink rule next to the list of Auden's books on.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1938. First edition. Some light damp at corner, not extending to text, endpapers lightly foxed. A good or better copy in dust jacket. Jacket has slight darkening to spine, and a closed tear has been repaired with archival tape. Jacket is bright and unclipped. Cloth. Octavo.....
London: George Allen & Company, 1911. First edition. 27 plates. A little light foxing, donor's bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Cloth. Octavo.
London: Faber and Faber, [1969]. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Several short tears at head of dust jacket spine. Boards. Octavo.
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1963. An edition of 300 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Two frontisportraits, the first being Mary Austin's graduation photo (dated 1888) and the second being her wedding portrait (dated 1891). Binding extremities lightly rubbed. A near fine copy. Clothbacked.....
