Birmingham, AL: The Classics of Medicine Library, [1983]. Hardcover. Edited by Dr. Wilks and Dr. Daldy. 8vo. Full burgundy calf with decorative gilt, compartments, gilt spine. xxxi, 242pp. Sewn-in burgundy silk page marker. All edges gilt. Illustrations, marbled endpapers. Fine. A tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the New Sydenham..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Translation by Kenelm Foster and Silvester Humphries. Introduction by Ivo Thomas. 8vo. Dark blue cloth with ivory spine lettering, dust jacket. 504pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn (more so spine head/tail), with spine age toned; front flyleaf bears ownership signature and blind-embossed..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. Edited by Anton C. Pegis. 12mo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxx, 690pp. Grey decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with several tiny edge chips at head of spine; ownership name neatly inkstamped on half-title page..... More
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth. xi, 148pp. Very good. Tight, clean first edition of this biography of the 19th century French cleric, founder of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. More
Delaware senator (1869-85), Cleveland's secretary of state, ambassador to Great Britain. Large, bold signature and date (April 1891), 3 3/4" X 2½" slip, n.p. Very good. Small (1½" tall) vintage oval portrait of Bayard neatly tipped to blank area. A nice example. More
N.p. N.p., n.y., [1846]. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 16pp. Very good. Bit of spotty age toning, but overall attractive; binding traces along left edge. Part of the voluminous pros & cons literature on the tariff issue. SABIN 4078 note. More
Delegate to First and Second Provincial Congresses; lieutenant governor of South Carolina; member of the Continental Congress (1780-82). Party-printed DS, 1p, 12½" X 7½", Charleston, SC, 1773 August 10. Very good. Minor archival strengthening on verso; minor edge chips. Paper seal present. Attorney Bee, ten a member of the Commons..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Hardcover. Introduction by Joseph Conrad. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with blue decorative stamping and gilt lettering. 248pp. Very good. Spine slightly sunned. Tight and attractive third printing of this 1923 study. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 332pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Tight and attractive first edition of this biography of IBM's first president. More
N.p. American Historical Association, [1956]. Paperback. 4to. Stiff manila wrappers with hand-lettered paper label and two-prong metal clasp. 80pp (rectos only). Very good. Wrappers (only) lightly worn, else internally bright and fine. Surely the first and only printing of this homespun typed and mimeographed affair recording this acade3mic session held..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering. 140pp. Two heavy stock tissue-guarded steel engravings. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine. Handsome, bright first edition of these celebratory speeches by noted senators and representatives of the day that..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards, dust jacket. 240pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Psychological suspense tale of houseguest Chuck Burgoyne, a highly intelligent man who mysteriously knows everyone's secrets and carries a gun. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 296pp. Fine/near fine. First edition. Fourth volume in the series that began with "Crazy in Berlin." More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 296pp. Fine/near fine. Tight and handsome first edition of the fourth volume in the series that began with "Crazy in Berlin." More
This British army officer (major, 7th Light Dragoons) and courtier was appointed master of her majesty's household in 1861 and in 1866 named one of the joint keepers of her majesty's privy purse (sole keeper after 1867), and as such, according to Sir Theodore Martin in "The Life of His..... More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., [1993]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp. Numerous color illustrations and line drawings. Fine/fine. Tight and handsome second printing, with separate as-issued "Instructions for Decorating Bird Feeders" leaflet laid in. More
Cleveland: Freshwater Press, [1989]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 314pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Tight, quite handsome 12th printing of this popular 1940 account of Great Lakes maritime tales. More
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1994]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine letterig, dust jacket. xxxvi, 288pp. Numerous tables and figures. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this scholarly study, boldly inscribed and signed by the lead author in black ink on front flyleaf: "For Bob Malott, / who has..... More
London: Architectural Press, 1926-28. Hardcover. 4to. Modern rebind in quarter calf with gilt spine lettering/rules and marbled paper over boards. xv, 111pp; xvi, 113pp, (2pp). Color frontispiece (1926 volume), numerous full-page plates (many color). Near fine. Thomas Shotter Boys (1803-74) was a noted British lithographer and watercolor artist famed for..... More
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1988]. Hardcover. Introduction by John B. Lundstrom. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and rules. xxxvi, 518pp, (2pp). Sewn-in blue satin page marker. Near fine. Some minor spots to page edges. Handsome reprint of this biography of the famed World War two naval figure (1886-1969) first..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 778p, (2pp ads). Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; ownership signature on front flyleaf. Tight, handsome later printing of this Modern Library Giant, #G14, first published in 1934 and this printing..... More
New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 778p. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive early printing (undated, but ca. 1940) of Modern Library Giant #G14, first published in 1934. More
Rockford, IL: Sundberg Printers, 1982. Hardcover. Edited by James George and Janet George. 4to. Burgundy cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. 210pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Near fine. Abrasion at front flyleaf upper right, else tight and pristine. Handsome first edition of this centennial history of the firefighting history..... More
Shippensburg, PA: Burd Street Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full grey leatherette, dust jacket. viii, 212pp. Illustrations, maps, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition, tight and attractive -- and signed boldly by the author in black ballpoint opposite the title page. More