J. Edward B. Greene, 1909. J. Edward B. Greene, photographer. Original. Framed and glazed. SIGNED boldly by Author-Naturalist John Burroughs & Photographer Greene below the portrait image on the border, octavo (image size: 6 1/4" x 4 3/8"; overall photo: ~ 8 3/4" x 6 3/8") sepia-toned photograph of John..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Second Edition. Cloth. Important ASSOCIATION COPY belonging to Adlai Stevenson: Small 4to, grey cloth with gilt lettering over black label, liv + 387 pages. Prospectus laid in. A handsome, tight, and bright Presentation Copy belonging to future UN. Ambassador, Adlai E. Stevenson. On the front..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Lewis Carroll. First Edition. Gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo, green lettered & gilt-decorated cloth, photographic frontispiece of Lewis Carroll with tissue guard, plus 69 B&W illustratrations: often photographs or drawings by Carroll, top edges gilt, xx + 448 + [12 ads] pages. Overall, a quite good copy..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo, gray cloth with gilt, 22 B&W illustrations reproducing engravings by "Phiz," George Cruikshank, George Cattermole, and Marcus Stone, R.A.; xv + 198 pages + [2] Ads for The Biographical Edition & The Popular Edition of Charles Dickens. Scarce edition..... More
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Leigh B. Bienen, purple cloth with gold lettering on spine, 10 B&W half-tone illustrations, [x] + 230 pages. EXCELLENT illustrated overview of important 20th century crimes. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! More
New York and London: Academic Press: Probability and Mathematical Statistics [series], 1969. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), profusely illustrated with formulae, 506 pages. An important series of essays on applications of statistics to sampling and..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1988. Kimberly Root. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by Artist Root with a 2 1/2" by 4 1/2" sketch of Mr. Wind with the youngster Peter riding in his hair [no signature], tall 8vo (9" x 8"), glossy pictorial cover..... More
London: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, frontispiece is a colored photograph of Yazilikaya, illustrated with line drawings & 8 photographic plates, Mylar-protected dust jacket, [viii] + 78 + 8 B&W photographic plates, or..... More
New York: L.H. Walter, 1919. B&W photos. Memorial Edition. Pictorial cloth. 8vo, (8 3/8" x 6 1/4"), red pictorial boards with gilt & black lettering + black sword crossed with black pen beneath laurel wreath embossed on front and spine; introduction by Merritt Starr, M.A., LL.B.; special memorials by Bishop..... More
Washington -- New York: Joseph J. Binns Publisher, 1977. Walter Imber. First Edition. Cloth. Small folio, beige buckram with brown lettering on spine & stylized Maori face on the front cover, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photos taken by Walter Imber, several experts have contributed essays (R. B. Rains..... More
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers / National Wildlife Research Center, 1988. Photos color; maps;. First Edition [no number line: presumed first printing]. Pictorial cloth. SIGNED by both Author and Editor--Lady Bird and Carlton Lees--on a special bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper (with glassine tissue guard); square quarto (9..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1929. Grosset & Dunlop Reprint. Cloth. 8vo, bright green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting weatlhy and handsome Texan "Jimmy Higgins" and his gorgeous red-haired East Hampton love Roberta, publisher's yellow topstain, 303 pages..... More
Oak Park, Illinois: Think Fast Ink LLC, 2002. First Edition. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper (adding his stamp of a hyperdermic needle); tall thick 8vo (9 1.2" x 6 3/8" x 1 3/4"), black cloth with silver lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small quarto, burgundy quarter cloth with gold lettering over beige boards, illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photos, Index, xv, [xvi-xviii] + 350 pages. Tight, bright, and clean copy. Fascinating.history worth savoring... No previous owner or remainder..... More
New York: Knight Publications, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, orange cloth, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of a cowboy and his pistol, 228 pages. O'Neil's book relates important biographical and historical material about Jeff Ake, a real cowboy whose exploits became legendary. Says the author, "I feel...that Jeff Ake has..... More
New York, N.Y. Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1985. First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author [i.e., characteristically Initialled] on the front free endpaper, brown quarter clloth with gold lettering on spine over forest green boards, archival polyester-protected illustrated dust jacket (unclipped) depicting the Catskill mountains beneath storm..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED [i.e., Initialled] by the Author, forest green cloth over similar green cloth with gold lettering on the spine, Mylar-protected illustrated dust jacket (unclipped), 224 pages. Initialled on the free front endpaper by the Author (d.2010), the "Dean..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, grass green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over pale blue boards with POTSHOT stamped in gold on front cover, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a...... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, grass green quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over pale blue boards with RBP stamped in gold on front cover, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a...... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, red quarter cloth with black lettering on spine over red boards, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting handcuffs over shadowy outstretched hands -- protected in an archival quality..... More
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. Photos. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, black cloth over boards with silver spine lettering, profusely illustrated with B&W photographs throughout the text, x + [ii] + 253 pages. Exceptional Condition! Climate change becomes evident at the naturalist-environmentalist's sacred pond! Dr. Primack is a professor..... More
London: Seeley and Co., Limited, 1908. Reynolds, Zoffany, & Others. New Edition. Decorative cloth. Thick 8vo, green decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorations with borders on front cover, illustrated with 8 B&W plates of the Thrale Circle by Reynolds, Zoffany, & Others, x + 336 pages..... More
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New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Quarter cloth and boards. 8vo, black cloth over charcoal boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped), 395 pages. "Exhaustively researched and evocative of the Victorian era. The Whitechapel Horrors crackles with galvanic energy"--Philip A. Shreffler, Editor of The Baker Street Journal. Lower..... More
Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2020. First Edition. Glossy pictorial boards. Tall 8vo, (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") glossy aqua boards with black lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket with four people silhouetted against a night sky; xviii + 462 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. Laurence B. Siegel is the..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo, maroon cloth with gilt spine titles, dust jacket, 250 pages. Important study in superior condition. Dust jacket clipped and a bit tired but remarkably good condition; slight discoloration to free front endpaper probably caused by material previously laid in. More