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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1926. First Edition, First Issue of the author's first book, with "conversation" for "conversion" on p.196, line 13, and "explaininn" for "explaining" p.202, line 12. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth over decorated cloth covered boards. 230 pp A fine copy, without the dustjacket, only lightly mellowed at the spine panel and with two old ownership plates to the front and rear pastedowns. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK.

Oxford: Edmund Gibson, 1695. First edition of Edmund Gibson’s translation and the first to include Morden’s maps, considered among the of the period. With 50 double-page engraved maps, including two fold-out, most by Robert Morden. 9 plates of coins or other antiquities, and numerous woodcut or copper engraved illustrations throughout, several of which are quite large including one nearly half page engraving of Stonehenge and with a frontispiece portrait of Camden. Folio, finely bound in full calf in contemporary style with blind paneled boards, the spine in correct period style with raised bands ruled in blind creating panels with a large central gilt tool, red morocco label boldly lettered in gilt and with gilt edge decoration. cxcvi, 1116, [44] pp. A very handsome and beautifully preserved copy of this scarce work, the text-block and maps and engravings in quite excellent condition, the leaves crisp and clean, occasional mild evidence of age, the binding in excellent, very fine condition.… Read More

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. First Edition. With 130 beautifully printed photographs, including many of Adams' most famous images, accompanied by extensive captions detailing technical information. In addition, there are nearly 30 drawings and technical illustrations. 4to, publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and in the publisher's illustrated dustjacket. xiii, 203 pp. A fine copy in a pleasing dustjacket, showing just slight evidence of use or age. FIRST BOOK IN THE NEW ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES. ADAMS' NOW-CLASSIC APPROACH TO PHOTOGRAPHY. Adams emphasizes the role of careful craftsmanship, whether the purpose of the image is creative or functional. To photographers of every level, The Camera is a definitive guide to the instrument and the art form."- publisher

London: for T. Payne and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1796. 5 volumes. First Edition. 8vo, bound in antique half dark brown calf over marbled boards, the spines with gilt ruled raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment and gilt volume numbers in a second compartment, bound with the one page advertisement in Vol. I included, this leaf is often lacking but is present here. Internally a very fresh and attractive set, the text sturdy and tight and very clean, the antique bindings with some wear to the leather along the joints and at the spine tips, front board to the final volume all but detached, all others firm, the marbled boards attractive. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S GREATEST COMMERCIAL AND CRITICAL SUCCESS. Like her early novel EVELINA, CAMILLA was published anonymously, although by this time Burney was already quite famous as "the Author of Evelina and Cecilia". She was also one of the most prominent members of the Blue Stocking Circle and was a close acquaintance of Samuel… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. First Edition. Illustrated with four full page lithographic colourplates. 8vo, publisher's original forest green cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt and black, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated with a leaping antelope in gilt, and blocked in black, original coated yellow end-leaves. [1], xiii, [1], 258, 32 publisher's catalogue pp. A very good and bright copy, the cloth in pleasing condition with only minor evidence of age or use, the text-block sound and clean, Lifford Reading Society list of books tipped in, generally speaking, a very well preserved copy of this rare book. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK ON MILITARY AFFAIRS AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Lucas served in the Cape Mounted Rifles and was present and active in the worst of the hostilities between white and black in the mid-1800's. The author writes also of various hunts he engaged in. There are chapters on the Zulus and Zulu land, the diamond fields, the… Read More

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1911. First edition. With Ms. Du Cane's wonderful paintings reproduced on fine colour plates, and with a folding map at the end of the book. Large 8vo, in the publisher's original sea-blue-green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and with decorations to the spine and upper cover in an all-over design in dark blue. vii, 172, 3 ads. pp. A quite pleasing copy of this elusive A. & C. Black illustrated title. The cloth still in pleasing condition with just very light age evidence, the blue and gilt decorations all very bright, the textblock clean, the plates all fine indeed. FIRST EDITION OF THIS BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATED WORK ON THE CANARY ISLANDS. Ms. Du Cane's watercolours, rich with floral pinks and purples, were the perfect choice to capture this beautiful group of islands. Ella was an accomplished artist and her sister Florence a writer. After their father died in 1889 they decided that they would travel the world unchaperoned. They visited China, Japan,… Read More

Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. First Limited Collector's Easton Press Edition, Illustrated by Sylvain Sauvage with full page colour watercolours and black and white throughout the text. The colour frontispiece of Voltaie by Charles Alleberry. 8vo, publisher's original gray morocco, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated in gilt on the spine and covers, silk endpapers, a.e.g. xix, 131 pp. A pristine copy, as mint. A PRISTINE EXAMPLE OF THE LIMITED, ILLUSTRATED EASTON EDITION. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. With an Introduction by Paul Morand. Candide was first published by Caron de Beaumarchais in 1759. Since that time it has been published in over a dozen languages. This collector's edition was published by advance reservation exclusively for subscribers to The Easton Press collection of "The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". The frontispiece portrait was specially commissioned for this edition.

New York: Viking, 1945. First edition in the canary yellow binding. 8vo, publisher’s original canary yellow cloth lettered on the upper cover and spine in blue, in the publisher’s original dustjacket. 208 pp. As fine a copy of the book as one is ever likely to find. Due to the war standards in publishing, this book did not usually age well, however the paper is exceptionally fresh and clean in this copy, the yellow cloth bright and the duskjacket with only the most trivial evidence of age. EXCEPTIONALLY FRESH AND BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. The warm and funny story of the inhabitants of Cannery Row in Monterey, California. Steinbeck dedicated the book to his close friend Ed Ricketts upon whom he modeled Doc, the central character of the novel.

New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1987. First edition, SIGNED by the author. Illustrated with photographs, sketches, faux newspaper articles and more. 8vo, original red boards backed in black cloth, with the original decorated dustjacket. 287pp. A very fine copy, as new. FIRST EDITION BY ONE OF THE DEFINING AUTHORS OF THE DECADE. A social satire about the collecting of exotic people by the self-absorbed, it is a great work of fiction from the 1980s. This copy is signed by Ms. Janowitz.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First edition and printing. 8vo, publisher’s original green pebbled cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine, embossed in blind on both covers of a wreath within framed boarders. BAL's binding "A", no sequence determined. (6), 252 pp., ads (dated December 1864). A very good and handsome copy with only light edgewear or evidence of shelving to the tips, light and light mellowing internally. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Thoreau occasionally left his beloved woods to visit and write about other places. He went to Cape Cod, “Wishing to get a better view than I had yet of the ocean, which we are told covered more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few mile inland may never see any trace.” Thoreau's account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea. "Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. First edition, second printing. With two maps and 18 illustrations from numerous sources on double-sided plates, decorative pilcrows in woodcut style, pictorially decorated half-titles. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth backed in red cloth, the spine with a black cloth label lettered in gilt, in the original pictrorial dustjacket. x, [1], 306pp. A fine copy, the jacket with a touch of crinkling to the tips and corners. A LIVELY PIECE OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP ON PIRACY. "The legends that die the hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of the swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable... As the saga of the buccaneers unfolds, we see the impact on early modern life: social changes and Anglo-American politics... Best of all, Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates is an epic of adventure on the high seas and a tale of back-room politics on land that captures the mind and the imagination." - Dustjacket

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1934. First edition and printing, Signed by the author, "With best wishes," on the title page. Illustrated with ship identification charts and a map of the English Channel at both front and rear endpapers. 8vo, publisher's original navy blue cloth embossed with stars within a pattern of diamonds in blind to the upper cover and spine panel, American eagle on upper cover in gilt and with gilt lettering to the spine. The dustjacket is from a later issue of the book. 310, 6 ads. pp. A well preserved copy, especially so for Depression era books, the spine and boards slightly soiled, mildly edge-worn. Interior clean, binding tight. Dustjacket moderately edge-worn, a closed tear and creasing on bottom corner of rear panel, rectangle clipped from bottom of rear flap, corners clipped from both flaps. FIRST EDITION BY A MODERN MASTER OF HISTORIC FICTION, renowned for his scrupulous accuracy and unforgettable depiction of past times. CAPTAIN CAUTION is a… Read More

New York: The Century Company, 1897. First Edition, preceding the British printing. Illustrated with 21 plates from drawings. 8vo, green cloth gilt lettered, pictorially decorated in colors and gilt on the spine and cover, t.e.g. viii, 323. A fine, bright copy with very minimal evidence of use. FINE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. Kipling’s tale of a spoiled youth who becomes a man at sea is one of his best loved stories. Its themes are universal and timeless. The British and American editions where published in conjunction with one another, precedence has long been questioned. As it is the tale of the Gloucester fishing fleet of Massachusetts, written while the Kiplings were living in the United States, the American edition holds much appeal.

Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. First Edition. With 187 colour illustrations by Caravaggio throughout the text, and 172 thumbnail colour chronologidal images at the back of the volume. Folio, publisher’s original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the colour dustjacket with Caravaggio illustrations. 319, pp. A fine and fresh copy. FIRST EDITION. "Michelangelo Caravaggio (1571-1610) is considered one of the greatest pioneers in the history of art, celebrated for the groundbreaking naturalism and highly charged emotionalism of his paintings... The beautiful reproductions of Caravaggio's paintings in this volume make clear why he captivated the imagination of his contemporaries, a reaction that echoes today in the ongoing popularity of his work and the fierce debt that it continues to provoke among art historians." ”-Publisher.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929. First Edition. With maps and black and white photographic illustrations interspersed throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover and pictorially decorated in black with renderings of a giraffe on the spine and a gorilla on the upper cover. Cartographic endleaves. xix, 321, including appendices and index pp. A handsome, clean, bright copy, very well preserved. FASCINATING ACCOUNT AND ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION. Akeley worked on this project for 17 years and it was perhaps his greatest life achievement and contribution. He participated in 5 African expeditions during his life and considered Africa his greatest passion. It was his conception and work for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History that made the exhibit of the wild life of Africa so truthfully represented in their natural habitat. The exhibit was eventually named after him in recognition of his genius and superb achievement.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original orange cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover. 118 pp. A very good and well preserved copy. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK BY JUSTICE FRANKFURTER ON AN ICONIC AMERICAN TRIAL. In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death. Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, was considered to be the most prominent and respectable critic of the trial. This extremely well written analysis of the trial and the factors relevant to both the case and the author's critical legal analysis is… Read More

London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Limited and E. P. Dutton & Co., 1905. First Edition. Wonderfully decorated with 25 full-page colour illustrations and over 24 others in line. 8vo, in the original green wove cloth lettered and decorated on the upper cover and spine in gilt and dark green. xi, 330, folding map pp. An attractive and handsome copy, the colour illustrations all pristine, the binding firm and sound and the cloth unfaded.. AN UNCOMMON ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK. Ms. Noyes' watercolours and line drawings add immeasurably to her sister's text. The Casentino, a green and fertile valley in the heart of the Apennines, lies about 25 miles northeast of Florence. It is here that the Arno takes its rise and flows for manhy miles of its early course, fed by untold numbers of rivulets along the way. Ms. Noyes' book tells its story and provides lovely illustrations to augment.

New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, book club issue. 8vo, publisher’s original gray cloth gilt-lettered and framed in navy. 390 pp. A near fine copy, the cloth fresh and clean. In the dust jacket which has some edgewear though still complete and attractive. FIRST EDITION, BOOK CLUB ISSUE. ATTRACTIVE COPY. "This the nineteenth novel by Sinclair Lewis, is the intense story of a marriage. It is a romance of our time, written with unsparing realism and satire, yet with tenderness and maturity of understanding. Here are passion and struggle between a man and a woman bound together by the torments of jealousy and the quiet of their unity." - publisher

New York: Random House, 2007. First Edition. Signed by Norman Mailer on the half-title. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the pictorial dustjacket printed in colours. [x], 477, [4] pp. A pristine copy, as mint. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY NORMAN MAILER. A truly provocative work, and one of Mailer's last great books, this is the story in narration form, by a mysterious SS man in possession of some extraordinary secrets. A view into Adolf Hitler from birth with revealing portraits of his family. " A tapestry of unforgettable characters the book delivers its myriad twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil....At its core is a hypothesis that this novel employs with stunning originality.' Publisher

London: Cassell and Co, 1956. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original bright blue cloth gilt lettered on the spine, in the original bright blue dustjacket decorated in yellow, black and white. 203 pp. An unusually fine copy. The book was not produced to high standards and is typically not found so well preserved as this copy. Neither the book nor jacket exhibit any wear or even evidence of use. There is no fading to the bright blue and yellow of the jacket. There is a touch of age spotting to the edges or rear panel of the jacket. A beautiful copy. FIRST EDITION IN EXCELLENT CONDITION of this collection of 36 stories by the eternally popular English poet/scholar/translator/writer/Classicalist and novelist. Many of these stories were gathered from Punch to which Mr. Graves had been contributing. The title is taken from a Majorcan term meaning to fall off a ladder or damage one’s reputation. Thirty-five of these pieces are humorous, a side of Mr. Graves’ talent that has been… Read More