np (Samarkand?), nd (c 1800s). 8.5 x 5, later floral-print boards, 129 leaves of thick, waxy paper with two columns of 15 lines each, manuscript poetry in Persian in black and gilt, with gilt, green and blue borders, 11 bright color miniatures depicting people (many with halos of flame) and..... More

Froben: Basilae, 1538. 12.5 x 8.25", full paneled leather with gilt symbol on front cover and gilt-lettered red leather spine label, 562pp, covers rubbed and with some cracking and chipping of leather, extremities bumped, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp a little toned, erased ink names on title page, some..... More

np (London?), nd (c. 1330). Hardcover. 5.5 x 3.25", later limp vellum, 98 vellum leaves plus two blanks plus later front endpaper, pages numbered at bottom at a later date starting at "1" (though there is some concern that the first leaf is missing), some fading to ink but largely..... More

Joannis a Sommeren, et al: Amsterdam, 1685. 104 (of 105) copper engraved plates + frontis + additional engraved title page, 21 x 15, old half vellum and boards, slightly raised bands, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, panels and label gilt tooled unpag. Covers extremely shelfworn, rubbed, creased, spotted..... More

The Company of Stationers: London 1820. 5.25x3", full period reddish-brown straight-grain morocco, decoratively ruled gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, inner dentelles gilt, all edges gilt, ink name, bookplate, piece of preliminary page cut out, shows some wear but an attractive copy. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING BEING A VIEW..... More

Charles Scribner's Sons: NY, 1931. Hardcover. Maps, 9.5 x 6.75", blue cloth, 866pp with index, covers quite worn, spine toned, hinges loose, pp toned. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, INSCRIBED "Inscribed by...for Veronica Hutchinson Feb 1932" AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. More

Bradbury & Evans: London 1846. Illus by George Cruikshank, 8.5 x 5.25", 3/4 red leather; marbled boards, 311pp, pronounced chip out of spine title, top of spine torn, covers well rubbed, hinges loose, plates spotted with offset to text. "A New Edition, Revised and Corrected". FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION... More

Harper & Row: NY (1968). 8.5 x 5.75", cloth backed boards, 170pp, minor extremity wear else vg in dw with minor wear to edges. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (w/"5.95 & Jerry Bauer photo). More

J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, (1960). Hardcover. 8.25 x 5.5", green cloth backed boards, 296pp, spine ends lightly bumped else a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and extremity-worn dustjacket with a hint of moisture at bottom of rear panel. Ninth Impression in an Eighth Printing Dustjacket, but INSCRIBED "To Marian Osmond..... More

Macmillan and Co.: London, 1888. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", grey cloth, 255pp + ads, covers heavily rubbed and darkened at edges, extremities badly bumped and fraying, small black spot on back cover, spine cocked, inner hinges cracked, blindstamp of former owner on front fly, pp toned with some finger soiling..... More

Hodder & Stoughton: London, (c. 1921). Illus. by Arthur Rackham including three in color. 8.5 x 7", pict grey cloth, 77pp, covers well rubbed and darkened (esp. spine). Extremities bumped and frayed, hinges loose, pp finger soiled and used. WITH ORIGINAL SKETCH ON FRONT BLANK OF AN OLD WOMAN LOOKING..... More

np (Washington, DC), 1957. Paperback. Plain paper, 11 x 8.5", some yellowing, spotting, folds, in the original mailing envelope: roughly opened, yellowed, spotted, worn. "Dear N___ I haven't seen the N. Repug. Artl/merely heard that it doesn't stink. Too much fun in Brasil, Tokyo, Melbourne...Illiteracy of the senate being punctured..... More

Ballatyne: Edinburgh. 1827. 7.5x5", full leather, contemporary blue morocco, gilt decorated, five raised bands on spine, gilt lettered red spine title labels, lightly worn owner's bookplate in each volume, all hinges sound, very good. FIRST EDITION. More