New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering, dust jacket. 285pp. Illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket age toned and a bit edgweworn, with expert archival mends to verso. Tight and nice fourth printing of this biography of Victorian prude extroardinaire, anti-vice activist Comstock (1844-1915)..... More
New York: United States Publishing Company, 1874. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf with gilt spine lettering and rules. viii, 693pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates, marbled page edges. Very good. Minor binding edgewear; endpapers a bit age toned; contemporary ownership signature on inner flyleaf. A handsome, quite tight fifth..... More
Philadelphia: McCarty & Davis, 1834. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Full calf with gilt spine lettering and rules, five compartments. xxxvii, 624pp; viii, 517pp. Frontispieces and engraved title pages, illustrations (some foldouts), foldout map, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and a tad scuffed, with gilt..... More