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New York: Dodd, Mead, [n.d., ca. 1930] First U.S. edition, printed from the British sheets. Cloth. Quarto. Fine in near fine d.j. Jacket a bit faded. Uncut and unopened. A very fresh copy.

London: Heinemann, [1925] First English trade edition. Royal blue cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Quarto. Four full-page color illustrations, plus line drawings in text. Light shelfwear. Very good+ in chipped, repaired dust jacket. Jacket lacks 3" x 5" piece on the back cover portion. The dust jacket is rarely found in excellent condition.

A Paris: Chez maradan, Libraire… An VI, 1798 The very scarce first edition in French of Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest, a novel of mystery, suspense, and terror, in which a kidnapped convent girl is imprisoned by a depraved marquis and finally rescued by a handsome cavalier. Contemporary calf, gilt, red and black morocco spine labels, edges stained green. Marbled edges, old French book label in each volume. . Two volumes, twelvemo. Four engraved plates. Some small pieces of calf missing from each board, small wormhole through first ten leaves of Volume I, touching a few letters. Overall a good, clean set.

Norman: Univrsity of Oklahoma Press, 1947 First edition. Cloth. Large octavo. Very good+ in light ...the most extensiv record in book form of the source material about the American Southwest that has yet been assembled.

New York: Harrison Smith, 1932 First American edition. Blue-green cloth with spine stamped in black. Octavo. Binding a bit soiled, dust jacket a bit chipped and soiled. Very good.

London: Oxford University Press, 1930 First edition in English. Blue cloth. Octavo. Old bookseller's label on back pastedown. Very good+ in very good jacket. Jacket is price-clipped and has a chip at the head of the spine, with light toning to spine portion.

Paris: Libraire Damascene Morgand, 1907 First edition. Half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt. Large octavo. Edges of boards lightly rubbed. Very good+. With the bookplate of San Francisco book dealer John Howell.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1972 One of 85 copies on Canson Inges paper, signed by the author, out of a total edition of 335 copies. Ecru cloth over red paper boards, spine stamped in black. Octavo. Fine in acetate dust jacket.

London: Enitharmon Press, 1968 One of 100 copies, specially bound by Trevor Hickman, out of a total edition of 450 copies. Signed by Kathleen Raine. Quarter gray cloth over pictorial boards, in plain paper dust jacket. Quarto. Frontispiece by Cecil Collins. Wood engraving by Juliet Standing. Bottom corners lightly bumped, dust jacket lightly soiled with several short tears.

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1966] Facsimile edition. Series: Bibliotheca America. Imitation vellum boards with cloth ties, gilt spine. . Octavo. A little soiling. Near fine condition. In cloth slipcase, together with a 20-page pamphlet discussing the production.

London: Printed for the author by Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1950 Cloth. Octavo. Forty plates of bindings. Minor soiling. A very good copy.

Washington, D.C.: Places, Inc., [1937] First edition of the book that elevated the theory that Gustave Whitehead (1874 – 1927) achieved powered flight two years before the Wright brothers. . Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt. Octavo. With twelve photo plates (including frontispiece) and two maps. With an eight-page appendix that compiles affidavits and periodical articles on Whitehead's inventions. A fine copy in the near-fine pictorial dust jacket. In the present work, Stella Randolph (1895 – 1983) argues that Whitehead achieved powered flight two years before the Wright brothers and that the Wright brothers were directly influenced by his engineering. Randolph investigated Whitehead's workers, his family (including his wife Louise Tuba Whitehead), and his inventions to state her case, which she presents here along with a collection of supporting affidavits, articles, and diagrams. While Whitehead's claim to the title of "First in Flight" has been debunked by the Royal Aeronautical Society… Read More

Cambridge: Privately printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club, 1946 Half brown morocco over terra cotta cloth. Gilt spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. S.C. Ratcliff's copy, with a printed notice affixed to the front pastedown, presenting the book from Proby to Ratcliff. A newspaper clipping on the fly-leaf contains Proby's obituary, in March of 1947. . Folio 14 1/2" x 11 1/2. Parallel texts in Latin and English. Frontispiece facsimile of a portion of the Court Roll. Indexes. With a list of the forty Roxburghe Club members; this title was presented to the membership by Granville Proby. Light shelfwear. A near fine copy. This publication contains "a complete transcript and translation of all the Ministers' Accounts and Court Rolls of the manor of Elton in the county of Huntingdon which are known to have survived for the period between 27 November 1279…and Michaelmas 1351." Accounts of expenditures and of births and deaths are given, along with descriptions of Elton Manor… Read More

New York: Abbeville, [c1982] Later printing. Cloth. Quarto. 338 illustrations, 113 in color. Fine in fine d.j.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844 First edition. Half brown morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt spine with raised bands, front joint cracked and repaired. Carl Van Vechten's copy, with his bookplate. . Octavo. Printed by Charles Whittingham the Younger on thick, wove paper in Caslon Old Face (Great Primer leaded). Full-page woodcut coat-of-arms, decorative initials, headpieces, and publisher's device. A good copy of a book that marked the revival of Caslon types. "…the great primer 'old face' Caslon font…appeared first in 1844 in The Diary of Lady Willoughby. For this fictitious journal of a seventeenth century lady of quality, old style type was thought appropriate. The Diary was a success, artistically and commercially. Though its typography does not seem much of an achievement now, it came as a novelty and relief to printers who had long since abandoned good earlier type-faces in favour of the fonts of the school of Thorne…This was the beginning of the popular revival of… Read More

London: Printed by William and John Innys 1718 First edition of this collection that compiles Ray's letters on natural history, philology, chemistry, and more with figures including Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Henry Oldenburg, and Edward Lhywyd.. Contemporary paneled calf. Red speckled edges. Octavo. Decorative headbands, tailpieces, initial letters, and two figures in text. Title-page attractively ruled in red and black. Small contemporary ink ownership signature on title-page. Very clean and crisp throughout. Minor marginal worming, not touching text, to last few leaves. A very good, fresh copy of this important collection of Ray's correspondences with leading scientists of his day.

London: Printed by William and John Innys.. 1718 First edition of an important collection. Correspondents include Martin Lister, Hans Sloane, Henry Oldenburg, and Edward Lhwyd. Contemporary panelled calf, professionally rebacked with old spine laid down. . Octavo. Decorative headbands, tail-pieces, and initial letters, two figures in text. Binding extremities rubbed, light brown stain in gutter margin through first 35 pp. of text. Some light browning. A good copy overall. Keynes 109.

London: Ray-Ban, 2012 First edition. Pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. Full-page and fold-out phtographic illustrations. Fine in near fine publisher's acetate dust jacket. Jacket has a small crease, but no tears.

New York: Hyperion Press, 1939 First edition. Cloth. Twelve tipped in color plates, 95 black and white plates. Fine in dust jacket that is a little browned.

[New York:] Liveright, [1974] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Bottom of front board has one small chip. Very good in lightly soiled d.j.