London: Hall, Virtue and Co., 1849. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 484). [iv], [16], [v] - xxxvi, 363, [1] pp. 12 page List of Subscribers (including, we note, Charles Dickens) at front. Errata slip tipped-in after final leaf. Lithographed frontispiece & 3 inserted plates. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's blue..... More
Luton, Bedfordshire: White Stone Publishing, 1997. 1st Edition. Limited to 500 cc. xxxii, [2], 160, [2] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Original bright red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. 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: 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: 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
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
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
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..... 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
[London]: Printed for Private Circulation [by Bradbury and Evans], 1851. 1st Edition. [8], 81, [1] pp. 12mo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/8". Original red cloth binding with gilt stamping to front cover. AEG. Pale yellow eps. City of the Desert = Petra. Scarce volume of 19th C. poetry, OCLC records just 4 holding..... More
Hull: Printed and Sold by I Wilson, Lowgate ... 1828. 1st Edition. xv, [1 (Errata)], 72, [2] pp. Untrimmed. Frontispiece engraving. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Maroon muslin spine over marbled paper boards, printed paper title label to spine. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. 1st edition thus, and overall 3rd edition, 2nd issue (BAL 4496; Wright I, 830). ix, [1 (blank)], 270, [6] pp. Contains 32 letters, 3 more than the first edition, also published in 1834. Twin, facing frontispieces [with tissue guard], one on yellow paper. With..... More
New York: Printed and Published by H. Simpson, 1830. 1st Edition. xxvii, [1], 136, [2] pp. Tipped-in errata leaf follows text. 8vo. Original publisher drab boards, with printed paper title label to spine. A penciled note in the front of the book asserts this a false-imprint, being actually printed in..... More
Garden City / New York. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1927. 1st Edition. Limited to 1001 copies of which this is 791. SIGNED. cf. Lee, 61. Divers. Frontis photogravure to each volume. 6-13/4" x 4-3/4". Red cloth, stamped in gilt to back strips. TEG. According to Alfred Lee's bibliography this set..... More
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London: Printed for the Author and Sold by J. G. & F. Rivington, ... and J. & G. Todd, York; & C. Upham, Exeter. 1832. 1st Edition. vi, [2], 154; iv, 129, [3] pp. Volume concludes with 2 page list of the Author's works, as published by Rivington. Text block..... More
London: Frederick Farrah, 1864. 3rd Edition. [12], 251, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5". Original publisher's deep dark blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & boards blocked in blind. More
New York: Charles Scribner, 1863. 1st edition (BAL 8592). 347, [1 (blank)] pp. 12mo. Publisher's original brown cloth binding, with gilt title stamping to spine. Pale yellow eps. More
London. Geoffrey Bles. [1926]. 1st UK Edition. "Published in England by Geoffrey Bles in 1926 with American sheets but a new title page" Slocum & Cahoon B6. 238 pp. Frontis of James Joyce with a facsimile inscription by Joyce below. 7-1/2" x 5". Maroon cloth back strip, with spine label..... More
London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, (n. d.). 1st Printing. Not in the Arents Catalogue of Books in Parts. 10 parts, each 48 pages. Each part with a preliminary plate, cuts throughout. 8vo. Original publisher's light brown paper wrappers, printed in black. More
