New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiii, 394pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edge chipped, mainly at top of rear panel, but complete and overall rather attractive. Tight, handsome first edition. More
Mexico City: Imprenta y Litografia de Juan Flores, 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and compartments and marbled paper over boards. 666pp. Very good. Binding board edgeworn and corner rounded, though calf spine nice and giltstamping bright; text block typically age toned; frontispiece an appropriate..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1947]. Hardcover. Introduction by Roscoe Pound. 8vo. Grey cloth with burgundy lettering. xiv, 498pp. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn, showing "flecking" to cloth. Just a reprint edition of this broad-based anthology that features fiction and non-fiction jurisprudence-based excerpts ranging from Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Lewis Carroll..... More
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1886. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. iv, 151pp. Very good overall. Mild binding edgewear; tiny chip at top edge of front flyleaf; neat and discreet expert archival mend to corner of leaf 147-48. Tight and nice second, revised edition of this 1884 essay..... More