Los Angeles: UCLA, 1991. 2nd edition, revised & enlarged. 135 pp + plates. Illustrated (with many plates in color). 8vo. 9" x 6". Grey printed wrappers, housed in a fitted plastic protector. Essential reference to the trade bindings of MA. Reputed print run was only 400cc (per a personal conversation with John Espey). More
Oakland, Cal. Pubished by William Halley, 1876. 1st edition (Bradford 2068; Cowan II, p. 260; Filby, p. 21; Norris 13; Rocq 3). iv, [2], v - xv, [1], 586, [6] pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, though lacking the sometimes-present hotel wood engravings at front. 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth binding... More
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881. Early printing, first published in 1880 (cf. NCBEL III, 614). x, [2], 120 pp. Frontispiece by the author. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4". Cream colored musling cloth with black & blue ornamental decorations. Bevelled boards. TEG. Green floral patterned paper eps. More
New York: R. R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library. 1962. 1st Edition thus, revised & enlarged. 652 pp. 10-1/4" x 6-3-4". Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. More
New York: Carvill & Co., 108 Broadway, 1840. 1st Edition in English (American Imprints 40-6036). INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, with Duer's signature on the t.p. upper margin. v, [6] - 179, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Original publishers green cloth spine over printed blue-paper boards. This a loose English... More
London: John Camden Hotten, [1871]. 1st Edition. 78, [34] pp. Text in verse. 32 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. Frontispiece. Text illustrated with drawings. Headpieces. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 5-1/4". Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Satire on war & the military. Contents... More
Rouen: Chez Pierre Seyer, Imprimeur de son Eminence Monseigeur le Cardinal, rue du Petit-Pults, 1788. Nouvelle Edition, augumentée. 293, [3] pp. 16mo, signed in 4s. 5-1/8" x 2-3/8". Period full deep maroon morocco binding with elaborate gilt decorative stamping to boards & spine; raised bands; black leather spine label in... More
London: Printed by J. Nichols for the Author, 1783. 1st Edition thus, i.e., issue with 76 pages. Cf ESTC T2812. viii, 76 pp. Untrimmed. T.p. vignette. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". In a later tan half-calf binding with marbled boards. We find 3 editions published in 1783 [priority not established], with... More
Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons, 1871. 1st separate edition (Bleiler, p. 42). 64 pp. 12mo. 17 cm x 11.5 cm. Rebound in purple muslin cloth, with original printed purple front wrapper bound-in. The 'Battle of Dorking' was, apparently, written to document the need "for a complete reorganization of the... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition. 163, [1 (blank)] pp. Photographic frontispiece. Facsimilies. 9" x 5". Dust jacket glued to book. A yellow dust jacket with illustration and red title lettering printed to front panel and black title lettering printed to spine. More
London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 219, Regent Street, 1844. 2nd Edition, Revised and Englarged. xxxv, [1 (blank)], 390, [2] pp. Last 2 pages a publisher advert for other works on Mesmerism. 8vo. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping to the spine & boards blocked in blind. Pale yellow esp. "Animal... More
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court, 1873. 1st edition thus, i.e., by this publisher. viii, 235, [3] pp. 8vo. Original publisher's terra-cotta cloth binding with gilt stamping to the spine. "Bastiat was a French economist, writer and a prominent member of the French Liberal School.... Bastiat developed the economic concept... More
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1906). 1st edition (Bennett 93). [6], 268, [4 (adverts)] pp. Frontis + 3 internal, inserted full-page plates. 12mo. 7-5-8" x 5-1/8". Tan cloth binding stamped in red, black & blue. Design as described by Bennett. More
London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, [1869]. 1st edition thus. 225, [3] pp. One page publisher advert at rear. Illustrated with b/w drawings by de Roussy. Oblong 12mo. 5-3/4" x 6-3/4". Original blue publishers cloth with red and gilt decorations, bevelled boards, AEG. More
Providence: Printed by Jones and Wheeler, 1812. 1st Edition (American Imprints 27586; Wegelin 1212). Not in the Bieber Collection Catalogue, nor the Harris Collection Catalogue. 12 pp. Binder's blanks. 8vo. Bound in later blue quarter leather binding with blue cloth boards; gilt stamped lettering to spine. Uncommon early 19th C.... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1920). Later printing (circa 1924 - 28). x, [2], 200, [8] pp. Adverts last 8 pp. Frontis & 3 inserted plates by Howard L. Hastings. 12mo. Green cloth with black outlined olive lettering on the frnt cover. Photographic eps. Color photographic dust jacket. Rear ads list through Roy Blakely series #11 [1924]. More
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1871. 1st US edition (Broughton, et al. A94). [8], 152 pp. Printed from "Advance Sheets". Head & tailpieces. 12mo. Original brown publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board; rear board stamped in blind. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street, 1834. 1st Edition in English (American Imprints 25805). 192, [3] - 28 pp. Publisher adverts [double column] last 26 pages. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's brown pebbled cloth binding with printed paper title label to spine. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). Ca 1954. [10], 210 pp. Frontis + internal full-page illustrations. 12mo. Light blue tweed binding with dark blue lettering. Dust jacket. More
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. 1st edition, 2nd state per BAL 7626; 1st edition, 2nd printing per Clark A24.1.b. xi, [1], [9] - 398, [2 (blank)], 22, [2 (blank)] pp. 22 publisher catalogue, dated November 1863, concludes volume. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-1/2". Original brown publisher's cloth with boards stamped in blind & gilt spine lettering. More
London: Printed for James Ridgway, York-Street, St. Jame's Square. 1789. [4], 40 pp. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Disbound, with binding remnants along spine. Now housed in archival mylar sleeve. More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1951. 1st edition thus. 184 pp. Frontis on coated paper. 12mo. Original lime green cloth binding with white spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1856. 1st Edition. iv, [5] - 153, [3] pp. Adverts last 2 pages. 8vo. 8" x 5". Original publisher's bright blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Bright yellow eps. Scarce first literary effort by this 19th C. Victorian lady... More
London / Edinburgh / Oxford: William and Norgate, 1897. 1st Edition. [10], 156, 14 pp. Last 14 pages publisher catalogue. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-5/8". Original maroon publisher's pebbled cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of... More
Boston: Published by Wm. B. Fowle & N. Capen, 1843. 1st edtion thus, i.e., by this publisher (American Imprints 43-4144). Also known as the "Massachusetts Edition", as a special print run was commissioned for MA schools. 552 pp. Separate dated title pages for each part. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's full... More
