Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): An Appreciation

Rothschild, Loren R. · 1984

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Los Angeles, California, Printed by The Castle Press for The Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine exhibition catalogue of manuscripts, books, & graphic images held at the Huntington Library, San Marino, ...

Johnson's Dictionary

Rothschild, Loren R. · 1984

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

Pacific Palisades, California, Rassalas Press, for the Book Collectors Club of Los Angeles, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Being an Account of Certain Facts Concerning its Author; Method of Preparation; Significance; and Continuing References to Vario...

Peronnik the Fool

Moore, George · 1926

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Mt. Vernon, New York, Willian Edwin Rudge, 1926. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Peronnik The Fool in this Limited Edition by George Moore was designed by Bruce Rogers. Illustrated blue paper-covered boards. Light wear on exterior, mostly unopened ...

Pioneer Printing at Dartmouth

Nash, Ray · 1941

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College printed by George T. Bailey, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Two bookplates inside front flap, that of the Merrymount Press of Boston and by Graydon E. Spalding of Pasadena, California, representing Windsor, Vt. & V...

Odd Numbers or Arithmetic Revisited

McKay, Herbert · 1943

$13.60 (€12.34 | £10.29 | ¥2,172)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1943. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Priced at $17.00 because, well, it's a prime number, eh? Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extrem...

Memoir of Rev. Gordon Hall, A.M. , One of the First Missionaries of the Amer. Board of Comm. For for. Missions, at Bombay

Bardwell, Horaito · 1834

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

Andover / New York, Flagg, Gould and Newman / J. Leavittoratio BardwellPublished by Flagg, Gould and Newman, Andover, 1834, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of a title exceedingly scarce in the trade; nothing fancy, bu...

English Literature 1660-1800: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, Founded by Ronald S. Crane, Compiled for Philological Quarterly, Volume V, 1961-1965

Alleman, Gellert S., Gwin J. Kolb, Curt A. Zimansky, Henry K. Miller, Charles N. Fifer, and Donald T. Torchiana · 1972

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also edit...

Christopher Isherwood: A Bibliography 1923-1967

Westby, Selmer and Clayton M. Brown · 1968

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

Los Angeles, California, Published by the California State College at Los Angeles fo rthe John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, ...

Scottsboro: The Firebrand of Communism

Crenshaw, Files, Jr. and Kenneth A. Miller · 1936

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.43 | ¥10,221)

Montgomery, Alabama, Brown Printing Co, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only two copies available currently on-line. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, ...

Aspects of Hindi Grammar

Kachru, Yamuna · 1980

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New Delhi, India, Manohar Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, slightly forward cocked. Bright and shiny dust jacke...

Alaska Then and Now

Noonan, D.A. · 1923

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Seattle, Washington, D.A. Noonan, 1923. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper. Edition not stated, but yet 1921 and 1923 copyrights are listed at copyright page. Sherman Printing and Binding printed this collection of Alask...

Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

Legman, Gershon · 1975

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.95 | ¥3,577)

New York, Breaking Point, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Massively heavy, oversized volume bound in blue cloth in Imperial octavo hardcover format, lightly shaken boards, sunned along edges, lightly soiled, else clean of interior. From the pers...

Two Black Crows in the A.E. F.

Charles E. Mack · 1928

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

Indianapolis, Indiana, Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Set in Buford, Tennessee, Two Black Crows in the A.E.F. tells the tale of two obscure citizens gone a.w.o.l. and a romance and the search for justice, the attempt to right a great wr...

Dialogi Selectiores, in Primis Deorum, Grã¦Ce

Luciani Samosatensis [Lucian]; Georgius Henricus Martini, ed. · 1794

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.95 | ¥22,359)

Lipsiae, Germany, Caspari Fritsch, 1794. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line of this collection of the sayings and satires of Lucian. Lucian of Samosata[a] (c. 125 – after 180), accordin...

A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy

Helsham, Richard · 1743

$440.00 (€399.20 | £332.99 | ¥70,271)

London, England, Bryan Robinson, 1743. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only a single additional copy available on-line. Stated Second Edition, bound in calf leather, gilt lettered title over red Morocco leather in ...

The Trophies, with Other Sonnets

de Heredia, Jose-Maria · 1929

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

New York, The John Day Company, 1929. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As translated for the first time from the original French into English by John Myers O'Hara and John Hervey, this perfectly serviceable reference copy is not fancy, but is complete...

The Penny Histories: A Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers over Two Centuries

Neuberg, Victor E. · 1969

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little wor...

Traitez Libre-Arbitre, Et de la Concupiscence, Ouvrages Posthumes

Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne · 1731

$156.00 (€141.53 | £118.06 | ¥24,914)

Paris, France, Chez Barthelmemy Alix, 1731. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Not seemingly available to the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. French language little tome, bound in a short 12mo hardcover format, published in ...

Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

Patterson, R.F., ed. · 1924

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

London, Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. First Edition, brown linen cloth over boards, brown paper tit...

Two Letters Addressed to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France

Burke, Edmund · 1796

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An apparent First Edition, with newly rebound covers in two-tone, light blue paper over boards, white vellum-back, beveled spine edge, gilt lettering to sp...