Structure, Verses, Agency Books

A Comprehensive Lexicon of the Greek Language, Adapted to the Use of Colleges and Schools in the United States

Pickering, John · 1857

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Boston, Massachusetts, Sanborn, Carter, Bazin, & Co., 1857. New, revised and enlarged editio. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. New and Revised Edition of 1857 built upon the 1826 true First Edition and the Second Edition of 1829. Previous owner's inscription, neatly render...

Studies of the Greek Poets, Volume I, Volume II

Symonds, John Addington · 1893

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

London, England, Adam & Charles Black, 1893. Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable set of two reference copies, complete in two volumes, good for reading and study; nothing fancy, but complete and still fairly sturdy beyond cracking to past...

A History of Classical Scholarship

Sandys, John Edwin · 1967

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, Hafner Publishing Company, 1967. Third Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Complete in three volumes, a fine and valuable survey of classical scholarship from the 6th-century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages. Stated Third Impression of the reprint edition...

Lewis and Clark: Across the Divide

Gilman, Carolyn · 2003

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.58 | ¥4,344)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution / Missouri Historical Society, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page, dated Sept. 22, 2005, being the ONLY such SIGNED copy on-line currently. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in...

Blood of My Bone; the First Born of Egypt: Volume V

Raven, Simon · 1989

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, England, Fredrick Muller, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The demise of the Provost of Lancaster College, Cambridge, sets off a chain of disgraceful doings." Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, ...

A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

Pym, Barbara; Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym · 1984

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, E.P. Dutton, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The slow rise, the confusing fall and eventually reinstatement of Barbara Pym after her rediscovery in a Times Literary Supplement mention is told through this engaging (auto)biography via diaries ...

A River in the Sky

Peters, Elizabeth · 2010

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, William Morrow, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine and gripping work of mystery and adventure and the Biblical Near East (!), featuring Amelia Peabody and other women sleuths; it's fine historical fiction, set this time in Palestine...

Guardian of the Horizon

Peters, Elizabeth · 2004

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, William Morrow, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine and gripping work of mystery and adventure and Egyptology (!), featuring Amelia Peabody and other women sleuths; fine historical fiction. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover,...

Sweet Tooth

McEwan, Ian · 2012

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Nan Talese, for Doubleday, 2012. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Anothe fine novel by the author Atonement and Solar, Saturday and On Chesil Beach. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Structurally sound hardcover, lit...

The Undying Past

Prescott, Orville, ed. · 1961

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Stated First Edition, and exceedingly scarce in the trade. Brick-red cloth over boards, distinc...

Athenian Democracy

Jones, A.H.M. · 1966

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Oxford, England, Basil Blackwell, 1966. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Brick-red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt l...

The Etruscan Cities and Rome

H.H. Scullard · 1967

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1967. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Aspects of Greek and Roman Life, the author here, H.H. Scullard, serving also as the General Editor thereof. Sturdy, attractive, t...

Swann's Way

Proust, Marcel; Lydia Davis, translator · 2002

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, 2002. Twenty-Eighth Printing. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated wraps, in g...

Our Islands and Their People As Seen with Camera and Pencil, Volume I, Volume Iimajor-General Joseph Wheeler

Wheeler, Joseph, with special descriptive matter and narratives by Jose de Olivares; William Bryan, ed. · 1899

$112.00 (€101.61 | £84.76 | ¥17,887)

St. Louis / New York / Chicago / Atlanta, N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine exemplars of a braggadocious U.S. over its "acquisitions" (i.e., theft, annexation) of Samoa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawai'i....

Washington and Oregon: A Map History of the Oregon Country

Parker, Martha Berry · 1988

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

Fairfield, Washington, Ye Galleon Press, 1988. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. Reprint Edition of the 1857-58 true First Edition of the Preliminary map of ...

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles, Complete, in Seven Volumes

Jespersen, Otto · 1961

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

London, England, George Allen and Unwin, 1961. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uber-scarce in the field, there being no copies available currently on-line of all seven volumes, thus complete, of this edition of Jespersen's magnum opus contribution to linguistic...

Down the Colorado: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon

John Wesley Powell; Don D. Fowler, ed.; Eliot Porter, photographs and Epilogue · 1969

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1969. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Massively tall, oversized volume, being a stated Second Printing of the classic presentation of Eliot Porter's photographs and epilogue to augmented John Wesley Powell's diary of t...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific

Stoddard, John L. · 1903

$48.00 (€43.55 | £36.33 | ¥7,666)

New York, Saalfield Publishing, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound handsomely in an oblong quarto hardcover format, red cloth over boards, no lettering to spine...

Memoirs of Henry Villard: Journalist and Financier 1835-1900; Volume I: 1835-1862 and Volume II: 1863-1900

Villard, Henry · 1904

$52.00 (€47.18 | £39.35 | ¥8,305)

New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the son of the subject of this two-volume, thus complete set of memoirs, Henry Villard, thus, by Oswald Garrison Villard (March 13, 1872 – October 1, 1949), inscribed ...

The Old Oregon Country: A History of Frontier Trade, Transportation, and Travel

Winther, Oscar Osburn · 1950

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Stanford, California , Stanford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format exemplar of an accessible, engaging social history of Old Oregon Territory. Bound simply in mustard cloth over boards, brown ...