Recent Arrivals from The Book Shelf

New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 055380202x . Both book and dustjacket are in pristine condition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 216 pages .

UK: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Near Fine. 2022. First Edition. Paperback. 9781913645335 . Book is in pristine condition. "This catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between money, power, resistance and dissent over the last 200+ years." ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 168 pages .

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Near Fine. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 0801873312 . Book is in pristine condition. "Little now remains of the vast network of passenger and freight railroad lines that once crisscrossed much of eastern and midwestern America, but in 1946, the steam locomotive was king. This is a record of a time when traveling out… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket has a few tiny chips and very slight edgewear - protected in a Mylar sleeve. See image. ; Book is in pristine condition. The Nobel Prize-winning poet's literary essays and lectures on Virgil, Sir John Davies, Milton, Johnson, Byron, Goethe, Kipling,… Read more about this item

London: W. Joy. Very Good. 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Chip to top of spine; bumped and rubbed corners slight edgewear, gutter starting but binding is tight and strong, foxing to frontispiece and offsetting to title page. ; Half leather with four raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 436… Read more about this item

New York: Viking. Very Good+. 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover. Spine is sunned - see image. ; Book is in excellent condition - exception noted. Tiny dealer tag on lower corner of front free endpaper: The Old Corner Book Store, Inc-Boston-Mass. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 111 pages .

New York: Dell. Very Good+. 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Tiny creases to the corners of the covers, and slight rubbing to some edges - nevertheless, this copy has obviously never been read because the binding and text are so tight. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 252 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight fading to upper edge of spine - see image. ; Book is in pristine condition - exception noted. Scarce copy in this First Edition, in this condition, and at this price. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 284 pages .

London: Houlston and Wright. Near Fine. 1858. First Edition. Leather Bound. Gutter starting on title page - nevertheless, the binding is tight and sound. Gift inscription on second front free endpaper, dated 1862.; Book is in excellent condition. Full leather boards with gilt borders on front and rear boards, five raised bands and gilt lettering - see… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Medallion. Near Fine. 1961. Second Printing. Paperback. Book is in pristine condition. "Unusual fictional memoir - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-outs of two great cities." [goodreads]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 155 pages .

New York: Harper. Very Good+. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is sunned; a touch of rubbing to some corners - see image. ; Book is in excellent conditioin. Traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket has some edgewear and a couple of closed tears - see image. Protected in a Mylar sleeve. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper dated, 1939 ; First Edition copy in Near Fine condition - exceptions noted.… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good+. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight chips to the lettering on the spine. ; Book is in excellent condition. " Hyde was a brisk young man who preached an idealistic philosophy, a sort of muscular Christianity, and who had a Teddy Roosevelt-like enthusiasm for life. By the College's centennial in 1894, Hyde… Read more about this item

New Hampshire: New Hampshire Publishing. Very Good+. 1977. New. Paperback. 9780912274539 . Book is in excellent condition. "Being an account of a cruise from Provincetown to Bar Harbor in the summer of 1858." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages .

New York: Berkley Books Publishing. Near Fine. 1974. Hardcover. 0399112707 . The book is in pristine condition. A four-year study by a researcher who witnessed transactions between men and the call girls without her presence being known. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 347 pages .

Canada: University of Toronto Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 0802067751 . Book is in excellent condition. The history of Ukraine is divided into five parts in the book and presented chronologically, beginning with an introductory chapter on the prehistory of Ukraine titled The Earliest Times, followed by Part One: Kievan Rus', Part Two: The Polish-Lithuanian Period,… Read more about this item

Maine: Down East Books. Very Good+. 2011. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages .

ME: Puckerbrush Press. Near Fine. 2004. Paperback. 0913006270 . Signed by the author on the half-title page. Book is in pristine condition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 147 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: W. W. Norton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 0393038912 . Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. First Edition. The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. ; Small 4to 9" - 11"… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Dustjacket has bumped corners and a few small, slight edgewear spots - see image. Unclipped. ; Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. Scarce First Edition copy in this condition. Popular Maine and New England author (The Outermost House).… Read more about this item