Alibris2 from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Scribner, 2002. Mass market paperback. Advance uncorrected proofs-not for sale [printed in rectangular box at top of front cover]. 220pp. Several pages have underlining and there is a small abrassion to lower front cover [merely cosmetic]. A sound, square, near very good reading copy.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

New York: American Legacy Press, 1983. Hardcover, red buckram in dust-jacket. 543pp., Index. 540 illustrations, 240 in full color. First edition, third revised printing. No name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A clean, unread, near as new copy. Very fine in very fine dust-jacket.. Third Printing. Buckram. Very Fine/Very Fine. 4to - over… Read more about this item

Wilmington, Delaware: The MIddle Atlantic Press, 1986. Hardcover, blue cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 190pp., Glossary, Index. No name, no book-plate, etc. The history of sail from prehistoric times through the whaling era to present, illustrated with full color photographs throughout. A near as new copy, very fine in like dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Very… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. Original decorative blue cloth stamped in gold by Margaret Armstrong. Extensively illustrated with full page plates, all with tissue guards. Mull exposed between front prelims, light wear to cloth and front board shaken. Untrimmed. A good or better copy of an attractive book.. Reprint. Decorative Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read more about this item

New York: The Heritage Press, 1944. Small quarto, white cloth spine over marbled gold paper covered boards, in gold slipcase. Sandglass laid-in. Illustrated by Fletcher Martin. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. No name, no book-plate, etc. White cloth backstrip toned to light brown, else a very fine copy in fine slipcase.. Cloth Spine Over Boards.… Read more about this item

Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. Original Cloth. First edition, fourth state of vignette title. Deep red horizontally ribbed cloth, the front and back covers are stamped in blind with double rul ed border interspersed with 12 floral designs on each cover. Front cover stamped in gilt with two cherubs about to do battle while mounted on wasps above a… Read more about this item

Alexandria, Virginia: Time Life Books, 1990. Pictorial Paper Pastedown. A title in the Time-Life series The Third Reich. Second printing. Black cloth with pictorial inset on front cover. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs, several images in color. An as new, unread copy.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Not Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. Original Cloth. Originally published in parts between 1853 and 1855, by William Makepeace Thackeray, the novel was first published in book form in two volumes in England in 1854-55. Bound in original elaborately blindstamped black cloth with gold lettering on spines. Both voulmes are slightly cocked and front hinge on volume I is starting,… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1992. Hardcover in dust-jacket. First printing with number line intact. History Book Club issue, with ISBN present and no indent on read board. 686pp. Includes short selections from the first Greek historians, historians of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Principate, selections from writers of the second century AD and… Read more about this item

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1871. Full-Leather. The first separate edition of this tale published in book form,. Originally published in 1850 as a selection in "Household Words", and again in 1858 in book form in the compliation "Reprinted Pieces." No contemporary English edition accompanied the American publication and it was not until 1899 that a separate book editio n… Read more about this item

London, 1850. Full-Leather. A compilation of all the Christmas numbers published in Household Words from 1850 through 1867. Bound in full forest green polished leather with raised backstrip, and two leather spine labels: one green and one red. Backstrip compartmentalized and stamped with gilt flower motifs inside double rules, with flower motifs repearted on each corner of front and rear… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1992. Stated First U.S. edition, first printing with number line intact. Hardcover in dust-jacket with ISBN number on flap but no price. Possible History Book Club issue. Foreword by Anthony Snodgrass. 256pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs, tables and maps. Dr. Zangger posits the theory that the… Read more about this item

Alexandria, Virginia: Time Life Books, 1989. Pictorial Paper Pastedown. No Jacket. Second Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A title in the Time-Life series The Third Reich. First printing. Black cloth with pictorial inset on front cover. Extensively illustrated with monochrome photographs, several images in color. An as new, unread copy.. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾"… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1988. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 391pp., Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Grant, an eminent classical scholar, focuses on the years c. 1000-490 B.C. following the collapse of the Mycenaean palace regimes and before the Peloponnesian Wars. No name, no book-plate, etc. First printing of the first… Read more about this item

London: George Redway, 1887. Original Cloth. Forest green cloth stamped in black and gold. Bottom of front board shows light stain and light wear to tips. Dark brown endpapers. This collections of shorter essays and articles was not reprinted in Miscellanies, and represents the first collected edition of some of the author's earliest periodical work, from his first contributuions to… Read more about this item

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846 Moderate blue fine-diaper cloth; front and back covers are stamped in blind with a triple line border. Illustated wth 4 vignette engravings by Samuel Palmer Adve rts and all text points called for in first edition. Light cover wear and corners lightly bumped. Old owners signature on front fly. A very good copy in… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1996. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Altogether, 55 accounts of famous archaeological discoveries, from the development of the field in the early 1700's to the late 20th century breakthroughs made possible by computer analysis. Illustrated with color and monochome plates. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.… Read more about this item

Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1852. Three volume set of this early Dickens title, dated 1852, 1853, 1854 respectively. All first editions/first issues in original reddish brown cloth. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Backstrips stamped in gold lettering inside elaborate shield shaped ornamental design. Boards stamped in blind front and rear, and gilt motif of Alfred reading to his mother… Read more about this item

London: All the Year Round, 1862. This cloth bound volume contains several Christmas numbers from "All The Year Round," in addition to several other miscellaneous pieces. All issues are bound without their original wraps in black cloth covers which show heavy staining. Included are numbers 154 through 157 of "All The Year Round," [April 5, 1862 to April 26, 1862],… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997. Cloth. Large format hardcover in original, non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated throughout with over 200 illustrations photographed by the author, 150 in color. Pictorial color endpapers. An examination of ancient attitudes to love and lust, passion and desire. An unread, fine or better copy in dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read more about this item