New York: The Modern Library, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. 180pp, (2pp ads). Fine/very good. Lovely jacket faintly edgeworn, mainly along spine; small ownership signature on front pastedown. A tight, handsome early printing (ca. 1970) of the second edition of #109, first published in..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Preface by J. Dover Wilson. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 236pp. Fine/near fine. Small front pastedown ownership signature; jacket age toned but edgewear-free. Superbly tight and handsome later printing of this 1951 study. More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiii, 180pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings (3 foldouts). Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear and age toning. Tight, attractive first edition of this exceptionally in-depth archaeological and historical examination of the first..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1907. Hardcover. 4to. Olive green blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board pictorial stamping. xl, 846pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece, numerous full-page plates and couple chromolithographs, line drawings. Very good. Minor binding edgewear, else internally tight and bright and near fine; light ownership signature on..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Hardcover. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Illustrations by Horacio Butler. Small 4to. Brick cloth with gilt and blue lettering and decorations, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xi, 231pp. Full-page color plates, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive reprint edition..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935. Hardcover. Introduction by William Beebe. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Small 4to. Linen spine with brown lettering and green decorative paper over boards, slipcase. xvi, 206pp. Color illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slipcase edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Handsome copy of this wildly popular..... More
New York: The Heritage Press, [1944]. Hardcover. Introduction by Carl Van Doren. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Small 4to. Pictorial cloth, slipcase. 346pp. Color title page and 7 full-page color illustrations, color pictorial front endpaper. Near fine/near fine. Quite tight and lovely copy of the once-wildly popular romance set in the..... More
Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, [1987]. Hardcover. 8vo. Full gurgundy calf with gilt lettering and decorations, raised bands. xviii, (3pp), 424pp. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, sewn-in red satin page marker. Fine. A pristine and tight copy of this volume in "The Legal Classics Library" series, a facsimile of the 1904..... More
London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.y. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt front board decoration. 316pp, (4pp ads), (32pp ads). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, 35 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Faint edgewear; text block lightly age toned, with mild occasional foxing; nonauthorial 1912 gift inscription on..... More
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's rousing "date which will live in infamy" speech, in which the livid president declares that a state of war exists between the United States and the Empire of Japan, set the tone for World War Two and quickly became one of the most famous speeches in..... More
London: School of Archaeology in Egypt / Bernard Quaritch, 1913. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards with black lettering. vii, 39pp, (1p), lxxxi (rectos only). Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn, with spine lightly sunned and front board paper a bit age toned;..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. Hardcover. Complete 4-volume set. 16mo. Quarter vellum with gilt spine lettering and paper (dark brown, light brown, charcoal, blue) over bevelled boards with gilt lettering. xvi, 24pp; vi, 54pp; xiv, 38pp; vii, 47pp. Top edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispieces, sewn-in satin page markers. Each..... More
N.p. Indiana Historical Bureau, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. xii, 603pp. Tables. Near fine. First edition -- tight and nice -- of this facsimile reprint, being Volume XLI of the "Indiana Historical Collections" series, with foreword by Bell I. Wiley. More
N.p. Indiana Historical Bureau, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. xii, 603pp. Tables. Near fine. First edition -- tight and nice -- of this facsimile reprint of the first volume of this 8-volume set, being Volume XLI of the "Indiana Historical Collections" series, with foreword by Bell..... More
N.p. Indiana Historical Bureau, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 603pp. Tables. Near fine. Bright and tight first of this facsimile reprint of the first volume of this 8-volume set -- Volume XLI of the "Indiana Historical Collections" series, with foreword by Bell I. Wiley..... More
[Madison]: Forest Products Research Society, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, dust jacket. 192pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Tight and clean first edition -- a mild ex-library copy, with very few markings. More