Lausanne / Exton: Edita / Schiffer, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 1984, First edition. Text in English and French. Hardcover, red cloth. 232 pp. Illustrated throughout. Good in a Good dust jacket. Tight binding; clean text. Some dampstaining to the dust jacket edges and covers; endpapers foxed. A useful copy, but some issues. More about Carriages, Cars and Cycles
Pittsburgh? Mellon National Bank, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Approx 32 pages, some illustrations. Hardcover. Good. Light foxing to contents; faint but noticeable tobacco odor. Originally written to be published for the bank's 75th anniversary in 1944, a laid-in printed card notes that because of war rationing for paper the book... More about Mellon National Bank: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Bank, Beginning with its Founding by...
Warsaw / Warszawa: Naukowo-Techniczna, 1994. Hardcover. 1994. Hardcover. Polish text. 317 pp. One large fold-out map. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing to edges. POLISH TEXT. More about Początki Osadnictwa Wizny i ziemi wiskiej na tle wydarzeń historycznych w tym regionie...
Ballantine, 2018. BN Exclusive Edition. Hardcover. 2018 Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition. Hardcover. Good. DJ. 351p. More about All We Ever Wanted
New York: Del Ray / Ballantine, 1976. Later printing. Hardcover. 1976, book club edition, also a later printing with T5 code in gutter of last page. Hardcover. 183 pp., with color photos from the movie. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. A tight, square copy with bright, clean contents... More about Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
New York: Brentano's, 1928. Hardcover. 1928, First edition. Hardcover, blue cloth. 446 pp. Fair, no dust jacket. Fraying and splitting along outer hinges; feels like the spine cloth has been glued down in places too; corners worn through; fading. Binding a bit shaken, but secure. Former owner's signature to fly... More about Motherhood in Bondage
New York: Pantheon, 1996. Fifth printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. 1996, Fifth printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. A sharp, clean copy. DJ now in mylar. Minor signs of handling or use. More about The Moor's Last Sigh
New York: Norton, 1985. Sixth printing. Hardcover. 1985, sixth printing of this classic memoir from the world-renowned physicist. Hardcover. 350 pp. Fair in a Fair dust jacket. Staining to the boards; DJ with edgewear; old price-sticker on rear. Text clean. A nice readable copy. More about Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character
New York: Humanities Press, 1972. Later printing. Hardcover. 1972, later printing of this classic work, here with facing German and English text. Hardcover. Red cloth. 166 pp. Good in a Good dust jacket. 4 pages are dog-eared and also have light pencil underlining; otherwise a pretty solid, clean copy. DJ... More about Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
New York: David McKay, 1967. Hardcover. 1967, first printing of this travel guide to Hawaii, notable for the 3 page introduction by James Michener. Hardcover, 12mo., blue cloth, 302 pp. 11 maps plus other illustrations. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. A sound, sharp, clean copy. DJ with light... More about Hawaii 1967 (Fodor's Modern Guides
New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 1966, First edition, this is the issue with the title in black on the jacket flap. Hardcover, black cloth, purple endpapers. 222 pp. Very Good+ in a Good dust jacket. A sound, square, clean copy with minor bumping to the spine... More about Despair
North Hollywood: Contact, 1969. Second printing. Softcover. 1969, second printing. Softcover. 188 pp. Good. Spine sunned; light creasing, rubbing and edgewear to the wraps. A solid, early printing of this counter-culture classic. More about A Child's Garden of Grass (The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1970. Second edition, revised. Hardcover. 1970, Second edition, revised. Hardcover. lxii, 168 pp. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Rubbing to spine; strong binding; clean text. DJ with general rubbing and handling, light soil; now in mylar. More about Swan on a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writing, The Cummins-Willett Scripts
New York: Sheed and Ward, 1953. First American edition. Hardcover. 1953, First American edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket designed by Edward Gorey! 189 pp. Good in a Fair dust jacket. Sound, clean copy. DJ price-clipped; with chipping along edges; puncture to middle of spine; old erased notes on rear panel, but... More about The Making of a Moron
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 1993 First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. DJ. Inscribed by author "To ___ Best Wishes." 422p. More about The Client
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 1961, First edition. Hardcover, yellow topstain still quite bright. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Small ding to the foredge of the front board; otherwise a bright, tight, clean copy. DJ price-clipped; single 1-inch closed snag to top edge of rear... More about Mystery on Telegraph Hill: A Tod Moran Mystery
London: Bemrose and Sons, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set in 2 volumes. 1895, First Edition. Hardcover, folios (10 x 13 inches), original red cloth, gilt titles, teg. Illustrated throughout. Total of 638 pp. Fair condition, but these books are usually found in worn condition. All text present and complete... More about The Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office of the Cities and Towns of England and Wales,...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Pr. 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 1967, First edition. Hardcover. 420 pp. Ex-library with only the standard, minimal marks. Sound binding; clean text. More about Enterprise and Empire: Merchant and Gentry Investment in The Expansion of England, 1575-1630
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., (1922). Job. Hardcover. A really beautiful and curious book. No date, but likely 1922. Printed in France. Hardcover, folio (10.5 x 12.75 inches). Pictorial boards and illustrated throughout by Job, whose real identity is still a mystery. Text on the title page verso states... More about The Story of Naughty Kildeen
London: Asia Publishing House, 1967. First edition in English. Hardcover. 1967, First edition in English. Hardcover. 138 pp. Ex-Library, no dust jacket. Ink mark on spine and first page of text; bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise a sound, unmarked copy. Volume 1 in the publisher's Great Thinkers of India series. More about Ramanujan: The Man and the Mathematician
Nashville: Jones, Purvis and Co., 1870. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1870, First edition. Hardcover, original half-leather. xxxii, 238 pp. Fair. Heavily worn copy. Lacks all spine leather; front board also missing; rear board detached but present; first 14 pages loose, but all text present and complete. As is. Fair copy for reference or rebinding. More about Acts of the State of Tennessee, Passed by the Second Session of the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly...
London: Longman Orme and Co., 1841. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 1841, Fourth Edition. Hardcover, original cloth. 324 pp. 2 illustrations. Fair. A heavily worn copy. Missing most of the spine cloth; chipping to corners; rear board starting to fall off. Text still readable. A useful reference copy or candidate for rebinding, More about Canine Pathology; or, A Description of the Diseases of Dogs, Nosologically Arranged, with their...
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974. First Edition in English. Hardcover. 1974, First Edition in English, translated from the Russian original which was published in 1930. Hardcover. 143 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Ex-Library. Bookplates on fly leaf (including 'Discard' stamp); ink on first page of text; otherwise a clean, relatively well... More about Sotsgorod: The Problem of Building Socialist Cities
Cleveland, OH: World, 1966. First Edition in English. Hardcover. 1966, First Edition in English. Hardcover, yellow cloth. 237 pp. Written and illustrated by Jean Dulieu, aka Jan van Oort. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Strong, square binding; clean and unmarked contents; absolutely minimal shelfwear to the corners... More about Paulus and the Acornmen
New York: Harper Brothers, 1926. Later printing. Hardcover. 1926, later printing. 299 pp. Book has been REBOUND in library buckram. Typical ex-library marks to earliest pages. Text itself is clean. Solid reference copy. More about Printing Ink: A History, with a Treatise on Modern Methods of Manufacture and Use