London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1876. Full Leather. First Edition. xiii, [2], 403 pp. 8vo. Full red leather bindings with five raised bands at spine. Gold titling to spine, remaining compartments between bands decorated with gold embossed bridle and horseshoe illustrations. Three gold line borders surround front and rear boards with the same bridle image from the spine embossed in each corner, gold lines on board edges, creasing along hinge of front and rear boards that has lost a small amount of the leather's surface color ; gold line borders to pastedowns with two bridles embossed on foredge corner. Interiors have light staining in first pages, clean within and with original cloth covers bound in at rear. Illustrated with 10 color plates and 3 woodcuts... More

Philadelphia, PA: 1892. Quarter-Leather. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Mary Folwell, Translator. Bound in quarter leather (red/brown). Foxing throughout.
Signed By Translator. Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1866. Hardcover. First Edition. v, [4], 25, [1]-886 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Also contains Arthur Cayley's "A Supplementary Memoir on the Theory of Matrices" (pp. 25-35). Very Good. More

New York: New Directions, 1945. Hardcover. First Edition. 292 pp. 8vo. Slight wear and creasing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Light tan cloth boards with some soiling, water base at foot of spine. Front and rear endpapers illustatrated with a map of Miller's travels. Clean within, slight musty smell. Very Good / Very Good. More

Tress, Arthur. Richmond, VA: Westover Publishing Company, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket, small tears at head and foot of front and rear panels, now in mylar cover. Inscribed by the artist on the title page.
Seminal work by and about the photographer Arthur Tress. Inscribed by Tress in blue ink on the title page: "For Bernard/Arthur Tress." Fine / very good. More

Hartford, CT: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1867. Hardcover. First Edition. xvi, [17]-596 pp. 8vo. Green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine. Bumping to corners, slight fraying at head and foot of spine. All edges gilt. Front hinge starting, some staining within. Good. More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xii, 212 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed on the first free endpaper by the author to Hodding Carter III. Carter is a journalist and served as President Jimmy Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Fine / Fine. More

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hard Cover. First Edition. Wilderness Edition Frontispiece portrait of Eugene O'Neill. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth with gilt vingette on the front cover of each volume, top edge of text block also gilded. 12 volumes complete.
O'Neill has signed Volume 1. Set #179 of 770. Minor foxing to endpapers on some volumes. An exceptional set! Very Good. More

Swafford, J. G. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1936. First Edition. xiv, 108 pp. 12mo. Orange boards with black cover illustration and tilting to cover and spine. Light bumping to corners, sunning to spine. Clean within.
Inscribed by author on second free endpaper with her distinct signature. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1840. Quarter Leather. First Edition. [xi]-[xii], [xi]-[xii], [iii]-viii, [2], [1]-14, [1]-620, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
William Parson's (1800-1867) article outlining his design and construction of the reflecting telescope that provided him with the technology to make his observations and first identification of the spiral nebulae disseminated by him in our #27507, "Observations on the Nebulae" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 140 for the Year 1850 Part II, pp. 499-514). Very Good. More

Paris: Calmann Levy, 1899. Quarter Leather. As. 578 pp. 8vo. A beautifully rebound copy with leather spine set off from marbled boards and gilt rules. Five raised bands on gilt-embellished spine. Lightest wear at corners and bottom front of spine. Top edge gilt. Peacock-patterned marble eps with bookplate pasted in on fep. Original paper wraps bound in. French language. Fine. More

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1954. Hard Cover. First Edition. First American Edition. 464 pp. Subtitle: "Edited with an Introduction by T.S. Eliot." Black cover has bright silver on spine. Touches of bottom edgewear. Front fep shows a fingerprint. Unclipped dj has dark red front and spine with black lettering in white frames. Dj has tiny chips at spine extremities. Dj flaps and the ivory back cover are a bit aged, as are book edges. Gallup A67b. Very Good / Very Good. More

London: J. Johnson, 1775. Full Leather. Second Edition. xxiii, [4], 324, [4] pp. 8vo. Recent full leather binding in 18th century style. Brown leather with five raised bands at spine, burgundy patch title with gold lettering. Light age toning to interior. Previous owner's name in ink and dated 1777 on title page, second small ownership signature on third page with date 1902. Underlining in faded blue ink on pages 133, 178, & 179. Very clean overall. Two folding plates illustrating the apparatus used in the experiments, one tipped in opposite title page, second at end of Appendix at rear.
The first volume in Priestley's three volume work on the study of gases. This volume expands upon his observations reported in Volume 62 (1772) of the... More