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Account of the Yellow Fever, Which Occurred in the City of New-York, in the Year 1822, to Which Is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Different Pestilential Diseases with Which This City Was Afflicted in the Years 1798, 1799, 1803 and 1805 with the Opinion of Several of Our Most Eminent Physicians... To Which Is Added a Correct List of All the Deaths by Yellow Fever. .

Hardie, James · 1822

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

New York, Samuel Marks, 1822. First edition. Quarter calf over original printed brown paper covered boards. [4], iv, 120 pp. [2]. 16mo. Remaining subtitle: "..With the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and c...

The Defence of the Realme, by Sir Henry Knyvett, 1596. Now for the First Time Printed, from a Ms. In the Chetham Library, Manchester

Knyvett, Sir Henry. With an introduction by Charles Hughes · 1906

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

[Oxford], At the Clarendon press, 1906. First edition. Blind ruled stiff paper wrappers with front edge beveled (paperback). xxxvi, [1], 75 pp. [1]. 8vo. Tudor and Stuart Library series. Henry Knyvett (d.1598), brother of Thomas Knyvett, wrote this treatise on the training and...

Tizian

Waldmann, Emil · 1922

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Berlin, Propylaen Verlag, 1922. First edition. Quarter brown morocco over paper-covered boards, green spine label, gilt titles. 255 pp. Illus. with 110 b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Freitag 12488. Tear to head of spine, extremities worn, front edge with minor foxing, but clean interior...

London

Russel, John · 1994

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1994. First edition. Cloth. 256 pp. Illus. with 86 color plates & 97 b/w photos. 4to. Signed by Russell -who was art critic for the New York Times until 1990- on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new.

Carved and Decorated European Art Glass

Grover, Ray and Lee · 1970

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Rutland, VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1970. First edition. Cloth. 244 pp. Biliography. Index. Illus. with 424 color plates. 4to. Warmly inscribed by both authors on the half-title. An authoritative study and standard reference on European Glass from 1880-1930, focussing mainly, thou...

The China Trade: Export Paintings, Furniture, Silver, and Other Objects

Crossman, Carl L. · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Princeton, Pyne Press, 1973. Second printing. Cloth. xii, 275 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Illus. with 40 color & 177 b/w photos. 4to. A very good clean crisp copy in a good- chipped dust jacket with heavy creasing and tears to inner panels.

American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum

Downs, Joseph · 1952

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Various pagings (approx. 500 pp.). Illus. with 10 color and 401 b/w plates. 4to. Signed by the author on the title page. Some foxing to edges else a very good+ crisp clean copy in a very good dust jacket but for a few sm...

Loose Change 2

DiCaprio, George and Stark, Bradford, eds. Harry Lewis, Paul Pines, Henry Weinfield · 1970

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

[New York], Half Ass Press, 1970. First printing. Stapled paper wrappers. 53 pp. Trade format. One of a series of free pamphlets featuring small books of poetry. Dicaprio would go on to publish underground comics and his son would become one of America's leading actors. A very...

The Prisoner of Alcatraz

Kent, Kenneth [ Pseud. Charles H. Miegs] · 1922

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Groton, Homestead Studios, 1922. First edition. Quarter muslin over red paper-covered boards. 59 pp. Illus. with tipped-in frontis photo of Alcatraz. 12mo. #110 of 199 copies, this inscribed by the author complete with frontis. A few minor scuffs to the edges else a near fine ...

LXXV Sonnets

Wordsworth, William. [Bruce Rogers, designer] · 1910

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1910. First edition thus. Blind-ruled brown cloth over brown paper covered boards. Paper label. 75 leaves. 8vo.[22 cm.]. Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin. Designed by Bruce Rogers American typographer and book designer (1870-1957)...

The Swann and the Eagle and Other Poems

Stafford, Clayton · 1974

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

San Francisco, Privately Printed, 1974. First edition. Cloth. 25 pp. 4to. Stafford's second book of poems. His work originally appeared in Ivor Winter's: "Poets of the Pacific. A fine copy. As new. No dust jacket as issued.

Meadow-Grass. Tales of New England Life

Brown, Alice · 1896

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston, Copeland and Day, 1896. First edition. Ninth thousand. Cloth. 315 pp. 12mo. Boards rubbed, call letter on spine, library gift bookplate on front pastedown, remainder of date stamp on rear, rear hinge just starting but still a good solid copy.

John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

Stockton, Frank R. · 1902

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First edition. Cloth. 365 pp. Illus. 12mo. A variant binding. BAL 18944. Extremities lightly rubbed, tiny scuff to edge of front board, some soiling to the edges, but otherwise square, tight, and clean. A very good or better attractive ...

Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York

Society of Mayflower Descendants · 1907

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York, n.p. 1907. First printing. Cloth. frontis, 126 pp. 8vo. Very early record. State number 371. Bylaws, officers, and members with their ancestry. Boards spotted and soiled, damp stain to lower edge of rear board and lower edge of leaves not affecting text, and still ov...

The Iron Gate and Other Poems

Holmes, Oliver Wendell · 1880

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1880. First edition. Cloth, top edge gilt, gilt titles, decorated endpapers. Port. frontis, 82 pp. Sm. 8vo. BAL 8949. Boards mildly rubbed, small chip to head of spine and top rear hinge, dampstain to endpaper and lower edge of frontis and tissue guar...

Dickens and Phiz

Steig, Michael · 1978

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1978. First printing. Cloth. x, 340 pp. Illus. with 126 b/w drawings. 8vo. Study of the relationship between Hablot Knight Browne, known as Phiz, and Charles Dickens. A very good+ clean copy in a very good dust jacket.

Amos Kilbright: His Adscititious Experiences, with Other Stories

Stockton, Frank R. · 1888

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. First edition, second printing, variant binding. Cloth. BAL 18892. A very good+ copy, tight and clean, with minor rubbing to boards.

Stories in Light and Shadow

Harte, Bret · 1898

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1898. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. BAL 7390. Boards and extremities rubbed with wear at head and heel of spine, owner's name to endpaper, else a very good tight clean copy.

From Sand Hill to Pine

Harte, Bret · 1900

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1900. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. BAL 7394. Boards and extremities rubbed with wear at head and heel of spine, owner's name to endpaper, else a very good tight clean copy.

Born on the Fourth of July," in Playboy. Vol. 23, No. 7. (July 1976)

Kovic, Ron · 1976

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Chicago, Playboy, 1976. First printing. Paper wrappers. 11 x 8.5 in. Published just before the book of the same title was printed, Kovic's great Vietnam memoir was later made into a movie with Tom Cruise in his best performance. A very good copy.