Search Results: Nonfiction from Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. RARE ADVANCE COPY in the Dust Jacket. Bound Galleys in the Dust Jacket. Very good/very good. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ADVANCE COPY (likely prepared for the Publisher's in-house review and without any Table of Contents) consisting of what appear to be trimmed signatures (perhaps the final Galleys) bolted together and wearing what appears to be the final dust jacket. The book (which contains a collection of Mailer's journalistic and other pieces) shows some soiling and staining to the page block's top edge and some modest stain marking to the top margin of the first sixty (60) or so pages. The dust jacket shows wear holes above the bolts and some general tearing and wear as well as tide marking to the front panel. We never have seen another copy in this format and it certainly was printed ahead of any copies sent out for review. A RARE ADVANCE COPY.

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. (Ernest Benn Ltd.), 1927. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (a bit of pushing to the spine ends, offsetting to the free endpapers, bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown's lower right corner), in an Essentially Fine example of the EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE dust jacket (a bit of edge wear, general soiling); a work providing information that allows anyone who uses it to identify the principal types of Eastern rugs, the book having been issued at a time when all but the experts in the field identified all hand-woven floor coverings from the East simply as "Persian", and providing useful information (via the text, an Index, and many illustrations, including 45 Plates. [The illustrations, including the 45 Plates illustrations are primarily in black and white. Four plates in colour are provided with each such colour plate having its own tissue guard printed with useful information on it.] Copies of the first… Read More

New York: I. S. Platt (for the first above item); Wiley and Putnam (for the second item, an expansion of the first), 1844 and 1846, respectively. First Editions, First Printings. No binding and Hardcover. Good and Very Good or Very Good +. Good to Very Good or better copies of two works, the first having been disbound (presumably from a larger volume, and the second housed in the remnants of a plain and privately-made dust jacket, with the spine mostly lacking (a small piece of which has been loosely laid in, and with the portions to the boards having been affixed to themselves (but not discernibly to the volume itself) too tightly to be removed without tearing them. The Author, Joel Tyler Headley (1814-1897), a member of the American Party, served as the Secretary of State for the State of New York for the year 1856. He had a varied career, working as a clergyman, historian, author, newspaper editor, adventurer and, of course, a politician. Headley graduated from Seminary and began his preaching… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine, tight, and unread copy of the first American edition, first printing, in fine dust jacket; a work of nonfiction in which, using Irish vernacular, Donleavy gives his personal view of Ireland. A Fine, tight, and unread copy.

Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog Press, 2005. Second Edition [being the New Expanded Edition]. Wrappers. Fine. A Fine, Tight, and Unread copy of this work by Marge Piercy and Ira Wood being the New Expanded Edition of the work and being bound in the Publisher's original wrappers

London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1912. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A Fine copy of the First Edition thus, being the Sixth Edition which has been revised and enlarged with additional chapters (foxing to the closed page block's bottom and front edges, top edge gilt, in a Fine dust jacket (some wrinkles to the spine panel and adjoining portion of the rear panel, tiny chip to the bottom of the front flap turn, minor handling soil); and containing a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 13 additional Mezzotints, 17 Etchings, 17 Line Engravings, 8 Stipple Engravings, 3 Aquatints, 3 Woodcuts, and 2 Lithographs. In this highly-regarded work, Malcolm C. Salaman, a staff-member of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, provides answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding print collecting and discusses only works of artists not living at the time of publication. A highly-useful book, the work provides helpful hints to beginners and covers etching, line engraving, mezzotint,… Read More