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Item #3588 OPERA STUDIIS SOCIETATIS BIPONTINAE ACCURATA TOMAS SECUNUS C. Cornelii Taciti [The...

C. Cornelii Taciti [Tacitus]

OPERA STUDIIS SOCIETATIS BIPONTINAE ACCURATA TOMAS SECUNUS C. Cornelii Taciti [The works (opera) of C. Cornelius Tacitus (C. Cornelii Taciti) carefully attended to (accurata) through the efforts (studiis) of the Bipontine Society Second Volume (in the RARE ORIGINAL BINDERY DUST JACKET)] [ A LITERARY LANDMARK]

Zweibrücken: Societas Bipontina, 1779. First Biponti Edition, First Printing, First Issue. Hardcover. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the second Volume in the Bipontine Series, being a work by C. Cornelii Taciti [Tacitus]. This Volume presents his Drusus Caesarum Parens [Druze parent of the Caesars]. This is..... More

Price: $7,650.00

Item #3567 OPERA STUDIIS SOCIETATIS BIPONTINAE ACCURATA TOMAS TERTIUS C. Cornelii Taciti [The...

C. Cornelii Taciti [Tacitus]

OPERA STUDIIS SOCIETATIS BIPONTINAE ACCURATA TOMAS TERTIUS C. Cornelii Taciti [The works (opera) of C. Cornelius Tacitus (C. Cornelii Taciti) carefully attended to (accurata) through the efforts (studiis) of the Bipontine Society Third Volume (in the RARE ORIGINAL BINDERY DUST JACKET)] [ A LITERARY LANDMARK]

Zweibrücken: Societas Bipontina, 1779. First Biponti Edition, First Printing, First Issue. Hardcover. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the third Volume in the Bipontine Series, being a work by C. Cornelii Taciti [Tacitus]. This Volume presents his history of Vespasian [Vespasianus], a Roman emperor who reigned from..... More

Price: $7,650.00

Item #3526 Geschichte des Klosters Hirschau in dem Herzogthum Wirtemberg [in the RARE BINDERY...

Christmann, Christian Daniel

Geschichte des Klosters Hirschau in dem Herzogthum Wirtemberg [in the RARE BINDERY DUST JACKET]; [History of the Hirschau monastery in the Duchy of Wirtemberg]

Tübingen: Heerbrandt [Jacob Friderich], 1782. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing, of this work, in the original green cloth with the closed page block's three visible edges stained in red, showing only some minor rubbing to the board edges and..... More

Price: $9,450.00

Item #3593 Clear and Present Danger [SIGNED]; [Last Plane Out]. Tom Clancy, John Ball

Clancy, Tom; [Ball, John]

Clear and Present Danger [SIGNED]; [Last Plane Out]

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Editions. Hardcover. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $900. A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing in a Virtually Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY TOM CLANCY on the half-title. The book itself is sharp, unfaded, with bright gilt lettering and is without the..... More

Price: $950.00 save 70% $285.00

Item #3539 The Life of John Ruskin [In the RARE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE]. E. T. Cook, Edward Tyas Cook

Cook, E. T. [Cook, Edward Tyas]

The Life of John Ruskin [In the RARE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE]

New York: Macmillan, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy of the first edition, first printing showing some minor sunning to the spines (otherwise Fine) in the RARE ORIGINAL SLIPCASE with the label to the top edge. [The slipcase shows general wear and some modest splitting. Each..... More

Price: $850.00 save 70% $255.00

Item #3127 Our Phil, and Other Stories [Complete in the Rare Dust Jacket and with the Publisher's...

Dana, Katharine Floyd

Our Phil, and Other Stories [Complete in the Rare Dust Jacket and with the Publisher's Marketing Card]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Superior, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Harriet Beecher..... More

Price: $625.00 save 70% $187.50

Item #3316 Our Phil, and Other Stories [in the Rare Dust Jacket but without the uncommon...

Dana, Katharine Floyd

Our Phil, and Other Stories [in the Rare Dust Jacket but without the uncommon Publisher's Marketing Card]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1889. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A not quite Very Good copy, tight (and apparently unread) copy of the first edition, first printing, of this collection of African-American stories by a female author, with illustrations by E. W. Kemble [who also illustrated Twain's "Adventures of..... More

Price: $165.00 save 70% $49.50

Item #3065 Versailles and the Trianons Illustrated by René Binet. Pierre De Nolhac, René...

De Nolhac, Pierre; Binet, René: Illustrator

Versailles and the Trianons Illustrated by René Binet

London: Heinemann, 1906. Binet, René. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good + to Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original green boards with the spine and front board lettered in gilt and decorated in blind (some pushing to the spine ends..... More

Price: $365.00 save 70% $109.50

Item #3579 A Message From the Sea (in the Original Self-Wrappers). Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins

Dickens, Charles; Collins, Wilkie

A Message From the Sea (in the Original Self-Wrappers)

London: London, Strand, 1860. First Edition, First Printing. Self-Wrappers. A Very Good or better copy of this Extra Christmas Number of All The Year Round, a periodical conducted by Charles Dickens, showing with the leaves dog-eared -with some slight corner loss - and showing a few marginal tears. Dickens was..... More

Price: $365.00 save 70% $109.50

Item #3456 Side-Walk Studies [Side Walk Studies; Sidewalk Studie]. Austin Dobson, Henry Austin...

Dobson, Austin [Dobson, Henry Austin];

Side-Walk Studies [Side Walk Studies; Sidewalk Studie]

London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good- copy of the first edition, first printing of this noted work by the noted Poet and Biographer Austin Dobson [Henry Austin Dobson], in a Very Good- example of the QUITE SCARCE DUST JACKET. The book contains a...... More

Price: $135.00 save 70% $40.50

Item #3634 Structure and Classification of Insects being "Part II, of the Text-Book of Natural...

Ebell, Adrian J. [John]

Structure and Classification of Insects being "Part II, of the Text-Book of Natural History

New York: Ebell & Co., [1872]. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original green wrappers, being INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the Author to G. S. Schultz on the Dedication page as follows: "Presented to G. S. Schultz /..... More

Price: $235.00 save 70% $70.50

Item #3087 The Time and Tide Album. John Galsworthy, Karl Capek, Katherine Anne Porter, Foreword

Galsworthy, John [Foreword]; Capek, Karl; Porter, Katherine Anne

The Time and Tide Album

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good + copy of the scarce first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original orange cloth (no dust jacket") which shows light rubbing to the spine ends and board corners and some modest handling soil. Within, the volume shows a black..... More

Price: $65.00 save 70% $19.50

Item #3608 I Claudius [RARE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY]. Robert Graves

Graves, Robert

I Claudius [RARE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY]

New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Hass, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good copy of the first rather scarceAmerican edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original blue cloth and lacking the dust jacket. The binding shows some general white spotting as well three faint rings (each apparently..... More

Price: $3,750.00 save 50% $1,875.00

Item #3454 Richard Rosney [SIGNED]. Maxwell Gray, Mary Gleed Tuttiett, Mary Gleed Tuttiett

Gray, Maxwell [pseudonym of Mary Gleed Tuttiett]; Tuttiett, Mary Gleed

Richard Rosney [SIGNED]

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. A Less than Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing with the binding askew and worn, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MAXWELL GRAY on the front free endpaper as follows: "To Mrs. Brading // With Kind Regards // Maxwell..... More

Price: $175.00 save 70% $52.50

Item #3605 Horace in Homespun [In the Rare Dust Jacket]. Hugh Haliburton, James Logie Robertson

Haliburton, Hugh [Robertson, James Logie]

Horace in Homespun [In the Rare Dust Jacket]

Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1886. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good + or better copy of the first edition, first printing, in a somewhat less than Very Good dust jacket with chips and tears and showing a small piece of decorative tape to each flap. [Some of the tears..... More

Price: $745.00 save 70% $223.50

Item #3426 The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Titagel in Lyonesse; A New Version of...

Hardy, Thomas

The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Titagel in Lyonesse; A New Version of an Old Story Arranged as a Play for Mummers In One Act Requiring no Theatre or Scenery

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing in the Publisher's original boards and slipcase, being number 397 of 1,000 such copies issued. The slipcase is rather worn but remains largely intact with some splits to the..... More

Price: $225.00 save 70% $67.50

Item #3502 ITALY AND THE ITALIANS IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, TOGETHER WITH LETTERS FROM ITALY [bound...

Headley, J. T.

ITALY AND THE ITALIANS IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, TOGETHER WITH LETTERS FROM ITALY [bound with THE ALPS AND THE RHINE A SERIES OF SKETCHES]

New York: I. S. Platt (for the first above item); Wiley and Putnam (for the second item, an expansion of the first), 1844 and 1846, respectively. First Editions, First Printings. No binding and Hardcover. Good to Very Good or better copies of two works, the first having been disbound (presumably..... More

Price: $425.00 save 70% $127.50

Item #2779 Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave [in the RARE 19th Century DUST JACKET]....

Hearn, Lafcadio; [Koizumi Yakumo]

Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave [in the RARE 19th Century DUST JACKET]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original decorated cloth with the title label applied to the front board and the title and author label applied to the spine panel (the spine shows some minor..... More

Price: $3,550.00 save 50% $1,775.00

Item #3520 By England's Aid; Or the Freeing of the Netherlands. G. A. Henty

Henty, G. A.

By England's Aid; Or the Freeing of the Netherlands

New York: Scribner and Welford, [Undated but 1890]. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good to Very Good + copy of the first American Edition, first printing, being one of the last four G. A. Henty titles to be published with the Scribner and Welford imprint. The first..... More

Price: $750.00 save 70% $225.00

Item #3050 Original World War II painting in Cherbourg France after the Allied victory there...

Jamieson, Mitchell

Original World War II painting in Cherbourg France after the Allied victory there [Part of the Battle of Normandy]; Twice Signed and Dated by the Artist

Cherbourg, France: Mitchell Jamieson, August, 1944. ORIGINAL WORLD WAR II ART. Framed Art. An ORIGINAL WORK OF ART by Mitchell Jamieson showing Cherbourg, France (location of a critical Port) shortly after its capture by Allied Forces, being a part of the D Day invasion at Normandy, SIGNED AND DATED BY..... More

Price: $3,750.00

Item #3318 CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MUSIC BOOK; Original Music Book of Confederate Military...

Lawrence, J.J.

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MUSIC BOOK; Original Music Book of Confederate Military Musician

No Publisher, No Date. No Edition. Wrappers. Confederate Manuscript Military Music -- Among the Rarest Type of Confederate Manuscript Material: A VERY GOOD ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MUSIC BOOK BELONGING TO CONFEDERATE DRUMMER J.J. LAWRENCE OF COMPANY G [OF THE FIFTH TEXAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY] DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The book measures approximately..... More

Price: $6,450.00

Item #2982 Engraving and Etching: A Handbook for the Use of Students and Print Collectors. F....

Lippmann, F. [Lippmann, Friedrich]; [Lehrs, Maxwell: Reviser]; [Hardy, Martin: Translator]

Engraving and Etching: A Handbook for the Use of Students and Print Collectors

London: H. Grevel and Co., 1906. Third Edition. Hardcover. An essentially Fine copy of the third and best edition, and the first edition to have been translated into English (with foxing to the boards as is usual with this title and with the closed page block's top edge in gilt)..... More

Price: $725.00 save 70% $217.50

Item #3559 The Strength of the Strong [First Publication; Hampton's Magazine]. Jack London

London, Jack

The Strength of the Strong [First Publication; Hampton's Magazine]

New York: Broadway Magazine Incorporated, 1911. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. TEMPORARILY DISCOUNTED. WAS $225. A Near Fine copy of this issue of Hampton's Magazine for March, 1911, a monthly magazine. This issue contains works by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Owen Johnson and others, and most importantly, presents the first..... More

Price: $225.00 save 70% $67.50

Item #3589 The Cruise of the Dazzler. Jack London, John Griffith Chaney

London, Jack [Chaney, John Griffith]

The Cruise of the Dazzler

New York: The Century Co., 1902. First Edition [possible second issue or printing]. Hardcover. A Near Fine to Fine copy of the first edition, apparently otherwise unknown, second issue or printing, with an updated title page not showing the publication date but with the colophon to the title page verso..... More

Price: $4,500.00 save 50% $2,250.00

Item #3247 Cannibals and Christians. Norman Mailer

Mailer, Norman

Cannibals and Christians

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. RARE ADVANCE COPY in the Dust Jacket. Bound Galleys in the Dust Jacket. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE ADVANCE COPY (likely prepared for the Publisher's in-house review and without any Table of Contents) consisting of what appear to be trimmed signatures (perhaps the final Galleys) bolted..... More

Price: $750.00 save 70% $225.00

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