Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. (xxii) 333pp. Textured photo-illustrated purple, white and black dust jacket with black and white lettering on the front cover and spine. Cloth boards, with beige covers and a purple spine. The work is a first person account of Lieutenant..... More
East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [6], 24, [2]pp. Uncut. Original printed wrappers with printer's device on front cover. Loose photogravure frontispiece portrait of William Morris on Japan vellum, as issued. Decorative title-page, borders, initials and tailpieces. Scarce hand-sewn booklet being a short biography on..... More
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Los Angeles: The Times-Mirror Press, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVII, [1], 478pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by the author. Frontispiece portrait. This remarkable autobiography is one of the most notable contributions to the history of California..... More
New York: The Dresden Publishing Co., 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. xviii, 581pp., 10 plates, incl. frontispiece and double page facsimile letter. Original brown three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and tooling on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait photograph with tissue guard..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [6], 344pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over cloth spine with paper covered boards. Red and black lettering on spine. Top edge red. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by the author. Captivating biography telling the startlingly dramatic story of the beautiful daughter..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 460pp. Original burgundy-stamped teal cloth with gold lettering on spine and black lettering on front cover. Frontispiece portrait protected with a tissue guard. Remarkable work on the life of George Moore. The third child in a family of five..... More
Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 719pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped publisher's device and lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph with tissue guard. Elaborate biography of the renowned sociologist and philosopher Max Weber by his wife Marianne Weber..... More
New York: Liveright Inc., 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 598pp. + 19 plates. Printed orange and burgundy dust jacket with lettering on the front cover and spine. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Top edge red, and pages uncut. Signed by Gertrude Atherton..... More
Cincinnati: NP, 1954. Limited edition. Softcover. 1/200. Octavo. [6], 74pp. Original printed wrappers. Verso page numeroted and signed by Sol Blank. Fascinating autobiographical work in which the author relates his coming to America and thus the beginning of his incredible business experience. Minor edge wear on wrappers with spine age-toned..... More
Bucarest: Editurile Univers/Calistrat Hogas, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 269pp. [19]. Photo-illustrated white and dark blue wrappers, with dark blue and red lettering on the front cover and spine. A memoir of Romanian politician, diplomat and political analyst Silviu Brucan (1916-2006), chronicling his life and work during the era of..... More
[Bucharest]: Cartea Romaneasca, 1993. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. 587pp. [1]. Illustrated white wrappers with black lettering on the front cover and spine. The book is a harrowing memoir of Romanian author and anti-Communist activist Ion Cârja's (1922-1977) brutal experiences as a political prisoner of the Romanian communist regime from 1949-1964..... More
Berlin: Peter J. Oestergaard Verlag, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 369 (1)pp., plates. Original light blue-green illustrated boards with illustrated spine and green lettering on cover. Publisher's device on title page. "Rambling through the big city criminality and its hideouts." Contains 68 illustrative sepia-toned photographs, mostly by the author. The..... More
London and New York: John Lane, 1905. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 252pp. Original olive cloth with embossed color illustration and red and black lettering on cover, red on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece gravure. Illustrated title page. Reminiscing childhood and the everlasting generational gap, Grahame casts his reminiscences in imagery and..... More
Santa Monica: Norton B. Stern, 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Sm. 8vo. 75,[2],pp. Purple cloth with gold lettering on spine. Inscribed by Norton B. Stern (publisher) to Dr. Stanley Chyet on half-title-page. Frontispiece with b/w reproduction of a photograph of the author. "When Victoria Jacobs was writing about day-to-day events..... More
New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1912. First edition (I-M). Hardcover. Royal octavo. XII, [8], 396, IV, [6], 397-830, VI, [6], 831-1256, VII, [5], 1257-1719pp. Uncut and partly unopened. Green cloth with gold borders, illustrations and lettering on front covers and spines. Tope edges gilt. Frontispiece in each volume protected..... More
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. Hardcover. 2 volumes. xx,276pp. vii,276pp. Gold-stamped maroon cloth with lettering in gold on spine. Some age wear to binding. Spines sunned. Fore- and bottom edges uncut. Slight staining on binding. Illustrated title-page. Fascinating memoirs of Princess Massalska (later Princess de Ligne), the 18th century..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2"). 181, [3], 32pp (Publisher's advertisement). Uncut and partly unopened. Original red cloth, with gold lettering to front cover and spine. Tissue-guarded photographic frontispiece portrait of William Ewart Gladstone. Published a month after Gladstone's death, Lionel A...... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. Hardcover. Quarto. 400pp. Original red cloth with black-stamped borders on covers and spine and gilt lettering on spine. Fascinating work being a collection of stories occuring along the Texas borders of the Great South-west and South. This work contains 2 wood-block illustrations. Some age-wear..... More
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1936. Hardcover. 4to. Cream-colored cloth, gold lettering on front and spine. Frontispiece reproduction of black and white photograph of Caroline Franklin, "Golden Wedding Aged 70." Black and white reproductions of photographs throughout. Slight soiling to boards, overall very good condition. More
New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, [2], 445, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Frontispiece. Decorative title page. Remarkable biography of John "Jack" Reed (1887-1920). During his brief life, Reed earned his celebrity by reporting on U.S. labor strikes..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, (1957). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. vii, 208pp. Green cloth with imprinted gold-lettered title-label in original printed dust jacket. At the time of publication this was the first printing of Henry Thoreau's previously unknown first edition of "Walden," giving a unique insight to Thoreau as..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Large Octavo. viii, 432 (16)pp. Original blue green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Reprinted from the edition of 1882, London. Biography of the English port, illustrator and painter who had founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and..... More
New York: Roy Publishers, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Original pictorial wrappers over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Atkins offers us not only an absorbing study of a man in search of a satisfying philosophy, but also a lively exploration of European politics, present and future. Minor..... More
New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by author on title page. Quarto. 218pp. Original gold and black paper-covered boards with facsimile signature on cover, black and white lettering on gold spine. Textured gray endpapers. Photo-illustrated title page. Autobiography of American writer, journalist and television host Dominick Dunne..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, (1961). Hardcover. Small 4to. xxvi., 215pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped. DJ chipped with a few tears at top and bottom edge and a little writing in ink on the ledt side. One word written in ink..... More