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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, recounting the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Boyle's second book and first novel, an account of the travels of eighteenth century Scottish explorer, Mungo Park, in West Africa. INSCRIBED "Con Amistad" and SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: The Viking Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope and a joy to read. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope.
New York: Viking, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards His monumental novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, epic in scope and a joy to read.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. The dustwrapper for this first novel was designed by Lucien Freud.
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Joseph Mugnaini. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/4" x 10-3/8") bound in full silk-screened black buckram. Designed by Ernst Reichl with 11 color lithographs drawn directly on the metal by Joseph Mugnaini with the prints pulled from his plates. One of 2000 copies SIGNED by both the.....
London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. The first in a series of science fiction titles edited by Edmund Crispin. Many of the contributions mark their first appearance in book form, including James Blish's "A Case Of Conscience," a Hugo Award winner.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page by the former basketball star and presidential candidate: For Don Penny--/with respect and/humble recognition of my/limitations/Bill." Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley speaks with affection about his small-town upbringing and traces the road he.....
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Highly acclaimed first book made into a film.
London: J. Darby and T. Browne, 1729. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/4") bound in 19th Century dark red morocco leather with floral gilt borders to covers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, rebacked at an early date; viii, (xvi), 381.....
London: David Bogue, 1849. New Edition. Hardcover. Two small folio volumes (9-3/4" x 12-1/2") bound in original gilt-lettered and decorated brown cloth. Complete with 157 full-page plates and numerous text engravings.
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1982). Jack Levine. Hardcover. Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in black linen imported from Holland and stamped in gold. English version by Desmond Vesey with English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Illustrated by Jack Levine including an ORIGINAL THREE-COLOR LITHOGRAPH frontispiece.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1982). Jack Levine. Hardcover. Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in black linen imported from Holland and stamped in gold. English version by Desmond Vesey with English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Illustrated by Jack Levine including an ORIGINAL THREE-COLOR LITHOGRAPH frontispiece.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1982). Jack Levine. Hardcover. Tall octavo (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in black linen imported from Holland and stamped in gold. English version by Desmond Vesey with English lyrics and a new introduction by Eric Bentley. Illustrated by Jack Levine including an ORIGINAL THREE-COLOR LITHOGRAPH frontispiece.....
New York: William R. Scott, (1942). Jean Charlot. First Edition. hardcover. Pictorial green cloth, likely the first issue with the dustwrapper having only two titles listed on the rear inside flap. Illustrated with line drawings by Jean Charlot.
Philadelphia: W. Spotswood, R. Campbell, and B. Johnson, 1792. First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-1/8" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xiii, xii-xvi, 557, [1-advertisement for Spotswood's books] pages, as issued. Originally issued in London in.....
Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover. Six quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 10") bound in contemporary marbled calf leather, rebacked with later gilt decorated spines. Dual title-pages in French and Latin with parallel text in French and Latin, engraved woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Illustrated with 6 engraved title.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Gass's third book and first collection of essays. Harold Brodkey's copy with his ownership SIGNATURE on the front endpaper.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1993. Balthus. Hardcover. Folio (12-3/4" x 16-1/2") bound in goatskin leather dyed grey-green to evoke the Yorkshire moors and housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label. Illustrated with 15 drawings by the artist Balthus which were begun in 1933 when he was 25.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in.....
(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1994]. Reprint. Cloth. Quarto (8-1/4" x 11"); light orange cloth; , ix, 357 pages. First published in 1927. With detailed collations for 1417 fine press books produced from the two presses with which Bodoni was associated throughout his life. Numerous facsimiles of typefaces, title pages, and other.....