Melville, Herman
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1982. Leather. Green leather with gilt lettered spine and gilt stamped boards, all edges gilt, with silk moire endpapers. A clean and tight copy, as new. More
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1982. Leather. Green leather with gilt lettered spine and gilt stamped boards, all edges gilt, with silk moire endpapers. A clean and tight copy, as new. More
London: S.n., This may be printed, Feb. 6. 1677 Ro: L'Estrange. Printed in the Year, 1677. First Edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. Rare pamphlet, 6-pages, half bound in leather and paper-covered boards, sypathetically rebacked and with gilt-stamped black leather spine label, taupe endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Hugh W. Diamond (1809-1886), who..... More
Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2004. Soft cover. Signed. [260 x 200mm]. Curated by Philip Monk (who wrote the Foreword). Essay by Sally McKay. Short story by Sheila Heti. Essay by R.M. Vaughan. Short story by Derek McCormack. Inscribed and dated with locale by Philip Monk. Inscribed and dated..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1829. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Rebound into burgandy cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spines; contemporary endpages. College stamps to the head and heel page edges; traces of glue to the rear pastedowns; faint darkened squares to spines..... More
London: John Murray, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One quarter green cloth with green cloth over boards; gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Illustrated throughout from sketches by Lord Dufferin, portraits, and a folding map. Outer extremities of boards and spine worn..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gift inscription to the front endpage. SHort closed tear to the lower edge of the dustjacket rear panel. More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Octavo. From the library of David Garnett, Constance Garnett's only son, with his name-plate to front pastedown. With a pencilled noted on from endpaper "gift from CG" Blue cloth with dark blue spine lettering, in beige dust jacket with green lettering..... More
Edmonton: M.G.Hurtig Ltd., 1971. Cloth. 12mo. Frontis., 396 pp. Enlarged and Revised Edition, with a new introduction by Lewis H. Thomas. Illustrated and with one fold-out map. Hurtig reprint, second printing, fine copy. More
London: For J.F. Hughes, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. All 3 volumes bound in original paper covered boards with printed paper title plates to spines. Untrimmed edges. General wear to outer extremities, spines darkened with creasing, some wear to title plates on spines. soiling..... More
London: William Mackenzie, [1879]. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Pp. xxvi, 204, with 41 brightly coloured chromolithographs, 38 steel engraved headpieces, and 11 line-drawings in the text. Later binding in half green morocco and green cloth, 5 raised bands, gilt-stamped spine titles. Previous owner's small gift inscription to first blank, another..... More
Edinburgh: Geo. A. Morton, 1904. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with gilt decoration to front board and to spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates. The spine is slightly faded. More
London, [c. 1710-1712]: For Bernard Lintott, at the Cross Keys. Gucht. Half Leather. 8vo. Full title page of first volume continues: 'Occasion'd principally by the Title of a Book publish'd by the Doctor, being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Ancients. With an Extract..... More
London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1875. Second Edition. Half Leather. 8vo. Modern half-leather rebind; black undecorated leather, ribbed spine, and with blue paper to boards. Blue endpapers with some browning towards edges and rear free endpaper with spot of damp at edge; paper browning at edges. More
London: Collins, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. 8vo. 574 pp. Second printing. Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, light nicking to the corners of the dust jacket, top edge of rear cover a little sunned, with two very short closed tears. Clean and tight copy. More
Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Company, 1884. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Brown cloth with stamped and gilt decorations to front board and spine. A touch of light rubbing to the outer corners and head and heel of spine; faint dustsoil to outer page edges. A...... More
London: Collins, 1974. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. 8vo. 276 pp. Uncorrected proof bound in red mottled cover. More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1854. Hardcover. c. 1854. 54p. 15.5. x14cm. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Edges of boards rubbed, ink name on flyleaf, small and light brown stain that goes through eight pages, overall a clean and tight copy. In-text b/w illustrations. More
London: #1 - s.n.; #2 & 3 - Printed By F.L. For Michael Sparke Senior and are to be Sold at the Blew-Bible in Green-Arbour, 1644. First Editions. Wrappers and Slipcase. Octavo. #1 - "Certain briefe Observations and Antjquaerjes: On Master Prin's Twelve Questions about Church Government. Wherein is modestly..... More
London: Routledge, Warnes, & Routledge, 1864. New Edition. Decorated Cloth. 12mo. Scarce in any edition. The author wrote numerous sensational historical romances, similar in style and treatment to Ainsworth. In Fact Caesar Borgia first appeared in 1845 as a serial in Ainsworths's Mazine. First book publication was 1846 as a...... More
Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 1999. Hardcover. 12mo. Seneca the Elder. Clean and unworn copies, dust jackets lightly sunned and scuffed, with a couple of short rips at the edges, else about fine. Loeb Classical Library. More
Vancouver: The Vancouver Art Gallery, 1975. [220 x 180mm]. Softcover. Stapled spine. Cover designed to look like a globe/map of British Columbia and the surrounding water. Chipping along spine. Includes introduction (in English and French), and a page for each artist which includes their name and a black and white..... More
Athens: Olkos, 1985. First Edition. Orange Cloth. Quarto. Pp. 263, with 166 reproductions of maps, etc. in full colour. Small card tipped-on to half-title: "With the Compliments of the Greek Embassy." More
London: The Fortune Press, 1927. Rotha, Paul. First Edition. Cloth-backed Bds. 8vo. Frontis., vi, 123 pp. Edited with an Introduction by the Rev. Montague Summers. Drawings by Paul Rotha. One of 575 numbered copies, this being #387, printed by The Whitefriars Press on English unbleached hand-made paper. An exquisite reprinting..... More
Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1926. Third Edition. Trade Paperback. 4to. Frontis., 71 pp., illus. Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition of The Art Gallery of Toronto, held from January 29th to February 28th, 1926. Bound in beige wrappers with printing in brown ink on front cover. Loosely inserted is..... More
Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. viii, 199 pp. A collection of articles spoofing and satirizing the Australian book trade. Pages starting to age-tone, otherwise a fine as new copy. More