Letters of Max Beerbohm 1892-1956. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
New York: Norton, [1989]. First U.S. ed. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Octavo.
New York: Norton, [1989]. First U.S. ed. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Octavo.
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, [1957]. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Jacket has a few short tears and light chips around the edges. Cloth. Octavo.
London: Methuen, [1958]. First edition. Fine in lightly edgeworn d.j. with two small tears at top of back cover. Boards.
London: Methuen, [1958]. First edition. Fine in lightly edgeworn d.j. with two small tears at top of back cover. Boards.
[[London:]: Thames and Hudson, [1993]. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Large quarto.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1877. Joints lightly cracked, but cords very sound. A very good, bright copy. Cloth. Small octavo. viii, 472 + publisher's catalogue, dated 1881.
London: W. Darton, jun. 1819. First edition of a collection of stories cautioning against cruelty to animals by the prolific children's writer, Mary Belson Elliott (1794?-1870). [2], 177, [1, adverts] pp., with Darton's engraved advertisement leaf at the end. Engraved frontispiece and two plates. Corners lightly worn, front free endpaper.....
Milan: de l'Imprimerie de Jacques Pirola, 1829. First edition of a rare ladies courtesy book and educational guide, detailing a program for the academic, social and religious education of young women. The author takes the young lady through 165 precepts from waking, mass and communion, and evening prayers to classes.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1931. First edition. Top corner bent. Very good. Wrappers. Octavo.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Boards. Octavo.
Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, [1993]. First edition. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Rockport, Massachusetts: Rockport Publishers, [c1988]. First US edition. Color illustrations throughout. Boards. Quarto.
London: Methuen, 1899. First edition. Three maps, one folding, frontisportrait of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. Binding lightly spotted. Hinges cracking, but cordsd sound, a little foxing. Contemporary ink signature of an infantryman serving in Manila. A good copy. Cloth. Octavo.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies... 1803. First published in 1789, this courtesy book in epistolary form went through a number of editions, both in England and America. The author, a clergyman who also wrote Strictures on Female Education (1780) aimed to “rouse young ladies from a......
Clevaland: World Pub. Co., [1951]. First edition. Fine in dust jacket with neat internal tape repairs and tear on front flap. Cloth. Octavo.
New York: Bennett Book Studios, [1941]. One of 1,250 copies. Fine in fine d.j. Half green morocco over marbled boards. Octavo. 254 pp.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1891. Spine rubbed and discolored, about half the letter on the label has worn away. One inch tears along both joints near top of spine, but a good, sound copy. Front cover inscribed: “With the Publisher’s Compliments.”. Original blue-gray boards with parchment backstrip, printed paper spine label.....
Bristol: Thoemmes, [1990]. Reprint of 1837 ed. A fine copy. Cloth. Octavo.
London: Robert Bent, 1839. First edition. Title-page in black and red, with vignette of old books and scrolls, with a bust of Shakespeare in the background. Corners lightly worn, small tears along joints near top edge. A very good copy, tight and clean. Publisher's brown cloth with covers and spine.....
London: University of London, The Athlone Press, 1968-71. First edition. Fine in very good dust jackets, with light soiling, a couple of short tears, and one small tape repair. Cloth. Three volumes, thick octavo.
Norwich: Sold by the author, near the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; sold also by Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, London; Stevenson, Matchett and Stevenson, Norwich; Deightons, Cambridge; and all other booksellers, 1821. First enlarged edition. Engraved frontisportrait. With list of subscribers, and with publisher's slip indicating "Names of Publishers omitted in.....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, [1949]. Volumes I and II of a set that eventually extended to seven volumes. Volume II is a first, Volume I is a reprint. Ink signature in each volume. Near fine in price-clipped, partially faded very good d.js. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, [1991]. Fine in fine d.j. Cloth. Octavo.
Paris: Chez Humblot, 1771. First edition. Corners. spine ends lightly worn, small worn spot on front cover of Volume I. A very good copy. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-decorated spines with brown morocco labels, marbled edges. Two volumes, twelvemo. xvi, 425; xii, 431 pp., plus leaf of advertisements at the end.....
Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1957. First edition. Ink signature. A very good, clean copy, lacking the d.j. Cloth. Octavo.