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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth front cover gilt emblem bright, backstrip sunned. Very good. 396 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Clean, bright copy.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy nubby cloth lettered in gilt. Fine. 201 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Frontispiece of Dr. Kendall. A compendium of Kendall's sports interests including Dogs and Self Defense.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth spines and front covers decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. 2 Vols. Cruickshank, George. 284 & 280 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, very bright copy partly unopened. Bookplates free front endpapers of both volumes.

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, second issue. leather_bound. Full green levant with large central pictorial inlays of Grimaldi as a clown and as another theatrical character in various color morocco's within a geometric gilt frame. Aeg. Two vols. Cruikshank, George. 288, 263 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Half-titles, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 61 ENGRAVINGS including the 12 etchings by George Cruikshank,… Read more about this item

London: Chapman And Hall, 1846. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary brown polished calf. Teg. Very good/Near fine. 2 Vols. 415, 515 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Commentary on Dante, Bolardo, Ariosto, Tasso, et al. Clean, fresh copy, raised bands, double gilt cover panels, spine panels richly decorated win floral motifs, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, nicks to backstrip heads. … Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth, covers and spine lettered in blue. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 583 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Book label of the Fireside Book Shop.

New York: Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter black cloth and white boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 434 pages. 24 x 16,5 cm. Type in Fairfield, the first typeface by Rudolph Ruzicka.

Paris: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards and marbled endpapers.Very good. 107 pages. 28 x 19 cm. Frontispiece of Caylus who was a French journalist during his days in America. Ernest Caylus (1813-1878) was a young Frenchman forced to flee political unrest at home, coming to America in 1835. Most of… Read more about this item

London: Jacob Tonson, 1703. leather_bound. Uniformly bound in period Cambridge style binding brown calf. Very good. 5 Vols. 633, 624, 600, 750, 736 pages. 20 x 13 cm. With 53 engraved plates (including 5 frontispieces), tables, and ads. At the end of Vol. IV page of Tonson ads. Early ownership signatures of John and Anne Amson. Raised bands,… Read more about this item

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1904. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green pictorial front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. 277 pages. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Signed presentation copy. "In remembrance of my one night stand in Yoho Valley" from Clarence S. Darrow to my friends JW Barker/Gladys Barker. Yoho Valley situated in British Columbia, Canada. In a… Read more about this item

London: Cape, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark salmon cloth. Very good. 283 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Eight full page illustrations. Barry Moser's copy with his bookplate. Early owner inscription free front endpaper.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter brown morocco and blue buckram boards. Near fine. 3 vols. 87, 84 & 79 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm "the complete set of the letters contained in these three books had lain for over a century in a drawer, till Mr. Scott found and collated them. Full titles for… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth, front and spine paper labels. Fine in matching decorated slipcase. 331 pages. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 300. Planitin text with Brush Script handset -- the 82 publication of the press. Laid-in 24 page pamphlet: Notes For Tono-Bungay by Edward Mendelson from the Penguin Classics… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Hardcover. Orig. Navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 2 vols. 524 & 533 pages. 8vo, illustrated. SPILLER p.116. "...contains much documentary material on the development of historical scholarship." Ex-library, no exterior marking, bookplates only. Backstrips nicked at extremities.

Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. tan boards rubbed at extremities. Very good. 191 pages. Limited edition, one of 150 copies. Mostly unopened. "Printed by the Bibliophile Society for the owner of the originial manuscript letters, being subsequent to the edition printed for the members." The first few letteres in this collection were written after… Read more about this item

New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1854. Hardcover. Late 19th century tan calf and marbled boards. Near fine. 3 vols. 256, 352, 356 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. Frontispiece with tissue guard of Churchill, Vol. !. Comprehensive Index. English poet noted for his lampoons and polemical satires written in heroic couplets. He won his fame independently in 1761 with… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth, front cover and front cover with inset black label lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase. 486 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 2 of 250, signed by Gore Vidal in black ink.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue boards, black cloth back, blue labels printed in gold on front cover and spine. Very good. 219 pages. 29 .5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 235 of 250 copies privately printed by Mrs. Frank Hamilton Short. Frontispiece, printed in red and black. Short, an attorney, President of… Read more about this item