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Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1838. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good+/Good+. 8vos (7.5"x5"). 252pp. + 248pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, spine labels deteriorating. Spine slants, sunfaded spines, soft endcaps, rubbed corners, light edgewear. Boards spotty, small dent to lower cover of vol.1. Bookplates to front pdeps. Tears at hinge to ffep of vol.2, lower hinge starting. Heavily foxed.… Read more about this item

New York: S. H. Goetzel and Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vos (7.5"x5"). 348pp. +348pp. Brown, embossed cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Water damaged boards (discoloration and cockled cloth), gilt mostly worn away, spines faded. Spine slant to vol2. Corners bumped and rubbed. Pencil marks to endpapers. Corresponding dampstains throughout, without interior cockling. Pages toned,… Read more about this item

Weltvreden, Indonesia: Drunk Van G. Kola & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (7.5"x10.75"). 423pp. Blue cloth covered boards, Gilt text to front cover as well as spine. Mild shelfwear. Corners bumped. Near top spine cockled. Binding cocked and a smidge loose. Two bound-in fold-out maps as well as, one loose map sleeved at end of… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: The Stratford Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. 12mo (5.5"x8"). 297pp. Light green cloth covered boards with gilt title and author to front board. Title, author and publisher to spine. Spine sun faded. Small (2" approximately), white stain to front board. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Spine extremes scuffed and rubbed. Mild overall age-related, discoloration… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 16mo (5.25"x7.5"). 331pp followed by several pages of publisher advertisements. Green cloth covered boards. Gilt author, title and decoration to spine. Corners bumped. Spine extremes bumped scuffed and chipped. Light stain to front board. Shelf wear. Cracks to text block binding in several places but holding… Read more about this item

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Grey cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Spine slanted. Sun-faded edges. Two corners bumped. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar. Half title & index foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Jonathan and Tom, wishing you… Read more about this item

London, UK: Michael Joseph, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Oblong (7.5"x10"). 246pp. Green cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Textblock edges foxed. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: inner panels toned. Photographic endpapers foxed. Color photos throughout. Signed by Harding & inscribed, "For Tom & Jonathan, the poets of Skywinding, last keeper's of the… Read more about this item

Asheville, NC: The Captain's Bookshelf/Elizabeth Kostova, 1995. Galley of the first edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine/Fine/Fine. 4to (12"x9.5"). 193pp. + unpaginated volume with loose colored plates. This is a set of two pre-publication galleys: one has text, B&W frontis, B&W cuts & no plates, the other is blank with the loose color plates inserted chronologically. The published edition was limited… Read more about this item

Novelty, OH: Veritie Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 4to (10"x7.5"). 302pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Inscribed to the political activist Lonabelle "Kappie" Kaplan Spencer and signed by Boyer to ffep. Rusty paper clip mark to half title. Photographic dust jacket covered in protective mylar: edgewear, 1" closed tear to head of… Read more about this item