Hartford, Conn. Privately Printed (at the Sherwood Press), 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 1/225 This copy out of series. Octavo. 45 (3)pp. Green cloth-backed marbled boards with printed label on spine. The essay was written for the Chancellor's English Essay Prize at Oxford in 1879. The original manuscript was considered lost..... More
Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson and Son, 1818. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi (i), 346, vii, 310pp. Contemporary speckled calf with gilt double ruling and gilt lettering on black label of spine. Translated from the German of Frederic Schlegel. History of Literature in 16 lectures with an introduction and plan of..... More
London: NP, 1822. Ninth edition, revised and augmented. Hardcover. 4 volumes. 8vo. xxxv,444pp. 462pp. 446pp. 495pp. Original calf with stamped and gilt decorated spine. Raised bands. Boards are detached but present on all volumes. Water staining and rubbing to boards and spines. Decorated endpapers. Ex libris to free front endpaper..... More
Göttingen: Academia Georgia Auggusta, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 136pp. (German) 20pp. (Arabic). Original paper wrappers in half leather over red marble paper boards. Classic introduction to Arabic literature, offering an overview of the major academies in the Islamic world. This work was reprinted in 1970. Ferdinand Wustenfeld was..... More
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Two hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been specially bound and signed by the Author on colophon. 233/250. Octavo. 346pp., 16 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and frame on cover, gilt lettering ruling and publisher's..... More
Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co., 1936. Softcover. 8vo. 29 plus Arabic pagination. Brown wrappers with black lettering to cover and back. Some chipping, creasing, discoloration and minor closed tears to wrappers. Pages unopened. Anfänge des Zaiditentums in Jemen. Textkritische Teilausgabe mit Übersetztungsprobe. Kommentar und Einführung in die historische Jemenisch-Zaiditische..... More
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 x 6 1/2"). xviii, 389, [1]pp. Contemporary half burgundy morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Original printed wrappers bound in. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to Charles Lévêque, dated December 24..... More
Hamburg: Verlag der Börne'schen Schriften, 1862. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decorative border and gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on cover, gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled edges. Glossy yellow endpapers. Ribbon markers. Frontispiece steel engraving in volume twelve. Börne received his PhD with his dissertation..... More
London: C. J. Clay and Sons, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/4"). xxxi, [1], 78, [84]pp. Quarter blue binders tape over original printed wrapper pasted on heavy cardboard, with handwritten title in white on spine. The biblical scholar Margaret Gibson (1843-1920) is credited with the discovery of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Hardcover. 8vo. 6 volumes. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail of spines chipped and rubbed. Corners bumped and rubbed. Some scuffing and minor staining to boards. Top edge gilt. Fore-page edges untrimmed. Inscribed by previous owner on free front endpaper..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiii, 385, xi, 387-821pp. Original illustrated dustjackets over blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. "The impact of Joyce's writing has provoked an overwhelming quantity of critical response. Professor Deming has selected for these two volumes as many divergent points..... More
Antwerpen: ABC WEEKBLAD, 1945. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 16pp. Original photo-illustrated brown wraps with dark brown and white lettering on cover. Volume 14, No. 23; 6th of May 1945. Profusely illustrated with sepia-toned reproductions of photographs throughout. Contains a two page contribution on the Dutch textile industry compared to the..... More
Alençon: E. Renaut de Broise, 1887-1888. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). [4], vi, 446, [2]pp. Modern blue cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Original printed front wrap bound in. A collection of 117 original texts from the following Indian tribes of North-western Canada: Chiglit Eskimos (2)..... More
London: Privately printed at The Chiswick Press, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4"). [8], 136, [2]pp. Uncut. Original gilt-stamped full vellum, with gold lettering to front cover. Top edge gilt. "Some Writings and Speeches of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton, in the Last Year of..... More
New York: Facts On File, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Paper-covered boards in green, blue, light brown and bronze color, each which white lettering on covers and spines. Each volume focusses a different factor for which different books were said to be banned: "Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds", "Literature Suppressed..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First printing. Hardcover. viii, 295, (1)pp. Pictorial cream dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, lettered in red, spine very lightly sun faded. Blue cloth, gilt, spine slightly faded. Hint of wear at extremities of spine. This first American edition is the first edition..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. Limited ed. Hardcover. 12mo. 200 pp. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Matching marbled endpapers. Ex-libris designed by W.T. Hopson. Pages untrimmed. Fading to page edges, not affecting text. Spine with six compartments. Corners lightly bumped. Spine faded. Large paper edition. 1/113 numbered copies..... More
Firenze: Casa Editrice "Israel" (1925). First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. xvi,341pp. Gray paper covered boards. Title label on spine and front. Text in French. Library sticker on bottom of title page. Overall good condition. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7"). 20, [2]pp (English text), 316 leaves (Facsimile plates). Original olive cloth, with gold lettering to spine. This work consists of three histories of Nishapur in facsimile. They are based on a common source, the "History of Nishapur" by..... More
Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIII, [1], 271, [1], XIII, [1], 226, XIII, [1], 275, [1], XV, [1], 331, [1]pp. Original soft green cloth with black lettering on spines and covers. Remarkable work examining cultural change in the Federal Republic of Germany. Text in German. Wrappers and..... More
Bielefeld: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1910. 33rd edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 382pp. 476pp. Gilt decorated dark green leather spine over gilt decorated green cloth. Head and tail of spine and corners rubbed. Tiny tear to tail of spine on vol.1 and to head of spine in vol. 2. Some..... More
Philadelphia: The Review, 1912. Softcover. 8vo. 18pp. Original wrappers. The covers are pulling away from the staples and are chipped on all the edges. The bottom of the covers near the spine is torn off and has closed tears just above where the cover is torn off. Reprinted from "The..... More
Wien: Richard Lanyi, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 427,10pp. Three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Rubbing to spine. Discoloration to boards. Wear to upper corners. Red top page edge. Fore-and bottom page edges untrimmed. Recased. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece of Karl Kraus. An interesting look..... More
Madrid: (La Biblioteca Nacional), 1953. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 289 pp. Original printed wrappers. Patronato de la Biblioteca Nacional. La Imprenta en Galicia, Siglos XV-XVIII por el P. Atanasio López, O. F. M. del Colegio de Misioneros para Tierra Santa y Marruecos, de Santiago de Compostela. Obra Premiada por la..... More
Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional. Departamento de Manuscritos, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Large 8vo. 340 pp. Original printed wrappers. Publication information tipped in. Some staining, age-toning to wraps, 2" tear to head of spine, 1/2" tear to tail of spine, minor creasing to corners. Slight staining to edges of interior pages, slight..... More