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London: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd [1974] One of only 45 specially bound copies signed by the author. The binding is by Sancorski & Sutcliffe. Large octavo. Color plates. Spine a bit faded.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1963] Second printing, with minor changes. Cloth. Octavo. Light dampstaining to lower covers and spine, not extending to text. Otherwise a very good, tight copy in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some light edgewear and minor fading at spine.

London: Macmillan, 1921 Green cloth with gilt front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Folio. Photogravure frontispiece, text illustrations. Back hinge cracking, but sound. A few light spots to covers, fly-leaves browned. Very good.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, [[1948] Cloth. Octavo. Lots of neat pencil by a former owner. Otherwise very good.

Stratford-on-Avon: At the Shakespeare Press, 1911 First edition. Small quarto. Plates. Text in two columns. Minor soiling. A very good, tight copy.

Santa Barbara: T. Adler Books, 2004 First edition, limited to 500 copies. Oblong quarto. Four black and white prints hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box, with one leaf of text. A fine copy. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. This production, produced by noted graphic designer Don James, is the first of five portfolios of pioneering surfing photographs taken before World War II. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves.

New York: Putnams, 1932 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Plates. Fine in very good d.j. Spine of d.j. browned, one small tear in jacket near head of spine.

New York: Scott and Seltzer, 1919 First trade edition. Green cloth. Octavo. Light wear at head of spine, spine. Spine a bit dull. A good, clean copy.

New York: Scribners, 1910 First edition of this collection of five short stories, printed on fine laid paper. Brown sateen cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top edge gilt. Twelvemo. Spine mildly faded, small bookseller's label on front free endpaper. Very good.

Redfield: Clinton Hall, 1852 First edition, first Issue with the Errata page numbered 1 present. Original cloth, expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Twelvemo. Corners lightly worn, indentation on back cover, endpapers lightly foxed. Overall a very good, bright copy. A scarce title by Henry James, Senior (1811-1882), the father of novelist Henry James and philosopher William James, who was a Swedenborgian philosopher in his own right.

New York: Scribners, 1914 First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine slightly discolored, back hinge expertly restored. A very good, clean copy.

London: Macmillan, 1885 Publisher's green cloth, decoratively stamped in black and gilt. Octavo. Bookplate of British liberal politician Aneurin Williams. Spine slightly cocked. A very good, bright copy

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1981] Boards. Quarto. Black and white illustrations in text. Fine in fine d.j.

Oxford: Printed for the Roxburghe Club by John Johnson at the University Press, 1936 First edition. Note that the present item is seemingly the most thorough reproduction of the Bohun manuscripts to date. Images of the manuscripts, other than that made for Eleanor de Bohun, are still not accessible online (at least, not to the general public), and we could not locate any other significant reproductions of any of the Bohun manuscripts published in the intervening years. Publisher's quarter morocco over red cloth. Spine titled in gilt. Folio. With sixty-eight collotype plates fully reproducing five of the sumptuous Bohun Manuscripts, which were the only known to exist at the time of publication: three or four produced for Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (Oxford, Exeter College, MS. 37; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 4.4; Vienna, National Library, Cod. 1826; and probably a Psalter in the collection of T.H. Riches) and one for Mary de Bohun (Copenhagen, Royal Library, Thotts Saml. 547).… Read More

New York: Longmans, Green, 1911 First edition. Clothbacked boards with paper label. Octavo. Label browned, worn spot at fore-edge. A good, clean copy.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, [1920.] First trade edition. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Light shelfwear, labels browned, contemporary pencil inscription. A very good copy.

London: Macmillan, 1902 First edition. Cloth. Two volumes, octavo. Light shelfwear, old pencil signatures. A very good, tight set.

New York: Praeger, 1958 First U.S. edition. Navy cloth with gilt spine. Bookplate, ink numerals on front fly. Very good in lightly soiled very good d.j.

London: Spring Books, [1970] Reprint of 1953 edition, with additional material. Cloth. Quarto. Plates, text illustrations. Former owner's name in ink, a little spotting to fore-edge. Good to very good in like dust jacket. Jacket has several tears and tape repairs, but is bright and clean.

Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, [1987] Second edition. Boards. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket has a little light edgewear.