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The Youth's Companion, Volume 76, 26 Issues Running Consecutively from January 2, 1902 to June 26, 1902

1902

$392.00 (€355.67 | £296.73 | ¥62,597)

New York, Perry Mason Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Seldom have I shuddered so in excitement upon acquisition of an item and contemplated its collation. Yes, this contains the first appearance of Jack London's magnificent short stor...

The Road to Wellville

Boyle, T. Coraghessan · 1991

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.51 | ¥2,427)

New York, Viking Penguin, 1991. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Replete with a "Dickensian cast of characters," Coraghessan Boyle offers a fictional account of 1907 Battle Creek, Michigan, at the height of the dietary frenzy started by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his cor...

Lot of Nine (9) Volumes of Robert Louis Stevenson, Some Containing Two Titles: The Medallion Edition: The New Arabian Nights, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, Virginibus Puerisque, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, Kidnapped, the Master of Ballantrae, Treasure Island; Travels with a Donkey; an Inland Voyage; a Children's Garden of Verse and Underwoods

Stevenson, Robert Louis · 1916

$72.00 (€65.33 | £54.50 | ¥11,497)

New York, Sully and Kleinteich, 1916. The Medallion Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Handsomely produced, uniform in size, being short octavo in format, nine (9) volumes comprising the Medallion Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, scarce as a complete...

Two Singers

Towne, Charles Hanson · 1928

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Limited Edition of 350 copies, signed by author. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with n...

The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Fifth Congress: Also, of the Special Session of the Senate

Rives, John C. · 1858

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.45 | ¥10,220)

Washington, John C. Rives, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy, a quite scarce item in the trade. Present but detaching front board, exposed to strings but...

Index to the Executive Documents, Twenty-Sixth Congress, First Session, Comprising Volume 1-7, Nos. 1-172

U.S. House of Representatives, United States · 1841

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Washington, Government Printing Office, . . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Index volume only. Undated, but circa 1841. Sturdy, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs. Leather-bound with some rubbing and scarring; bum...

Casket of Reminiscences

Foote, Henry S. · 1874

$56.00 (€50.81 | £42.39 | ¥8,942)

Washington, D.C., Chronicle Publishing Company, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dark blue embossed cloth decorated with gilt lettering and trim, with fraying and rubbing t...

An Address Delivered Before the Two Literary Societies, of the University of North Carolina in Gerard Hall, on the Day Preceding the Annual Commencement in June, 1845, Under the Appointment of the Dialectic Society

Davis, Thomas F. · 1845

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Raleigh, North Carolina, W.R. Gales, Register Office, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Scarce in the trade. Ex-library copy with usual markings to spine, endpapers, etc., including remains of paper stickers on covers. Originally softcover, now rebound ...

American State Papers. Class IV Commerce and Navigation. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, from the First Session of the First to the Third Session of the Thirteenth Congress, Commencing March 3, 1789, and Ending March 3, 1815, Volume VII

Lowrie, Walter and Walter S. Franklin · 1834

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.45 | ¥10,220)

Washington, Gales and Seaton, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Rebound in bl...

Shem Ham & Japheth: The Papers of W.O. Tuggle, Comprising His Indian Diary Sketches & Observations, Myths and Washington Journal in the Territory & in the Capital, 1879-1882

Tuggle, W.O.; Eugene Current-Garcia, ed., with Dorothy B. Hatfield · 1973

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Charlotte, North Carolina, University of Georgia Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor un...

Lost Man's River

Matthiessen, Peter · 1997

$14.40 (€13.07 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Random House, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Second novel in the "Mister Watson" trilogy, following upon the extraordinary Killing Mister Watson in 1990, set again in remote Florida Everglades in the early 1900s and the search of the sons of...

A Patchwork Planet, a Limited Edition

Tyler, Anne · 1998

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by the author at the Title Page. Sturdy, good-looking hardcover copy, a handsomely produced, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, clean, unmarked...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Styron, William · 1968

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Pulitzer Prize winner for 1968, a fine and gripping novel that is based on the true story of an 1831 slave revolt in the Deep South. This is Styron's controversial novel that was fiercely debated ...

Art Et Poesie Russes 1900-1930: Textes Choisis

Makhroff, Olga and Stanislas Zadora · 1979

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou / Musee national d'art moderne, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly reada...

The Island of the Day Before

Eco, Umberto · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt Brace, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, w...

Fearless Jones

Mosley, Walter · 2001

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author and dated at the title page, probably following a reading at Powell's Books of Portland, Oregon. This novel is set in 1950s L.A. and the search for an elusive, reclusive ...

Fernand Leger: Lettres a Simone

Leger, Fernand; Christian Derouet, ed. · 1987

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Paris, France, Musee National D'art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987. French. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sterling condition trade paperback with tight binding, no markings, and little if any wear to the cover. Illustrated softpaper wraps. Virtually pristine int...

The Selfish Giant: A Fairy Tale

Wilde, Oscar · 1948

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Homer H. Boelter, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Housed in a stiff plastic sleeve, though near pristine of interior, just a bit sunned/toned along edges. Green, black illustrations, quite fine, by Pauline French. Unpaginated, but roughly 2...

Children's Books of Yesterday

James, Philip; C. Geoffrey Holme, ed. · 1933

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, The Studio Ltd., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and accessible primer in vintage and antiquarian children's books, bound in green linen cloth, slight rubbing and soiling there, bright interior, sturdy of binding. Printed, illustrated ...

L'Opera de Mali: D'Apres la Nouvelle D'Henry Clerisse

Sircley et Jean Le Loup · 1936

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Paris, France, Editions Masspacher, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there seeming to be no more than one additional copy available on-line currently. Big, tall, skinny quarto hardcover format, three-color illustration...