Leipzig & Berlin: B.G. Teubner, 1914. First edition. [2], 52 pp. Bound in boards with black leather backstrip. Near Fine with tiny chip to paper on rear board, bookplate on verso of front board. A German language work on the theory of relativity by the Dutch Nobel-winning physicist Hendrik A...... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page & Co., 1923. First American edition, first printing. (Stated "First Edition" on copyright page.) xii, 187 pp. w/ photo frontispiece and ill. plate from the theater production. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with black lettering. Very Good, with a little foxing to front board, spine..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1969. First edition. 199 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. A Fine unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. From the collection of a deceased book scout, stored in a box for decades. The tenth book in the Cinema One series, uncommon..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1969. First American edition. 222, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth and orange boards with white and red spine lettering. Offsetting from jacket onto front board, else Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with fading to red, unclipped ($5.95). This novel of..... More
Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1914. First edition. xxiv, 956 pp. with illustrations. Bound in three quarter red leather with marbled paper sides, spine lettered in gilt. In German. Very Good, rubbed along edges, bookplate on verso of front board, slight vertical crease throughout contents. A private, not institutional, copy; uncommon thus..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1966. First edition. [iv], 250, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's purple boards with dark navy cloth backstrip, lettered in white and red, red topstain. Light rubbing along bottom edge and crease to rear endpaper, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight..... More
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. Issue without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. Bound in 20th century brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth boards, gilt lettering. A Very Good, large copy. Leather edges rubbed, foxing to contents, evidence of removed bookplate..... More
London: Printed for R. Clavel, C. Harper, et al. 1695. Early edition in English of the works of Machiavelli, an important work of political science which includes "The Prince" and "The Art of War." [40], 177, 188-189, [5], 199-262, 265-267, [5], 267-314, 317-431, [5], 433-528 (complete, with some inconsequential mis-paginations)..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1949. First edition. xxiii, 416 pp. Bound in publisher's black and green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Good+ with rubbing along edges, bumped corners, a few scuffs to boards, foxing to fore edge, gift inscription on paste down and bookplate on front free endpaper. Text free..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954. First edition. (First printings with title pages both dated 1954 with no additional printings indicated.) xii, 280; viii, 190 pp. Complete in two volumes. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine, hint of foxing to Vol. I, in Very Good+ dust..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. Signed limited illustrated edition; one of 325 large paper copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Thomas Hardy. Large Octavo. Bound in publisher's original marbled boards over vellum spine lettered in gilt, with 41 wood engravings by Vivien Gribble. Near Fine with marble..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. An unusually nice copy of the first edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's tan boards tamped in dark brown over brown spine cloth. Near Fine with rubbing through boards at corners, slight fading to spine cloth with light wear at ends. Contents tanned and..... More
New York: Avon, 1973. First edition. 284, [4] pp. Bound in illustrated wraps, red edges. Near Fine, uncreased spine, light shelf wear. A paperback original that went through a single printing. One of the high spots of political cynicism in the Watergate era was this long out-of-print memoir by..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1920. First edition. x, 242, [4] pp. with a photo frontispiece of Einstein. Bound in publisher's yellow boards with yellow cloth backstrip. In German. Very Good, a few small stains to boards, bumped corners, front hinge starting,a few pencil underlines in text. Uncommon. The German..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1916. First edition. 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly toned wraps, tiny stain to back wrap, slightly bumped corners, bookplate on verso of front wrap. An early German language work on Einstein's theory of gravitation with a foreword by the man..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing, with "Published May, 1936" on the copyright page. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light soiling and wear, contents tanned. A very sharp copy. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Green comb-bound wraps printed in black with review slip adhered to front cover and publisher's information adhered to first page with some browning from the acidity of the glue to adjacent pages. Very Good or better with..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. First edition, stated first printing. Signed by Audie Murphy on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner and general dated in the year of publication. Bound in publisher's original black boards over red spine cloth lettered in black. Very Good..... More
London: William Heinemann, LTD., 1964. First edition of the author’s first book and the first English novel to be published by an East African. Signed by James Ngugi [as Ngugi wa Thiong'o] on the title page. Bound in publisher's original brick-red cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's original white fleur-de-lis patterned cloth. Very Good with light toning to spine, bumping to corners, tape stains and ownership markings to front endsheet, hinge at half-title page slightly exposed, in a Good unclipped dust jacket which..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1990. First edition, first printing. Signed by both Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman on the title page. Bound in publisher's original red cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with light wear to spine ends, pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First American edition, first printing. [viii], 302 pp. Bound in publisher's light green cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. Very Good+ with some toning to cloth and light wear. Former owner name to front paste down, evidence of small label removed from front free..... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation, 1971. First book edition, first printing. Signed by Ram Dass and inscribed to a former owner on the front endsheet and inscribed to a former owner, "Don - in the book written by nobody + owned by nobody we meet to know God". Bound in..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition, first printing. Signed by Andy Warhol on half title with drawing of soup can and inscribed to former owner, with his initials in thick black permanent marker as well. [xiv], 241 pp. Bound in publisher's original yellow paper boards over red spine..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. First edition, first printing with "I-B" code on copyright page. Bound in publisher's original buff cloth stamped in blue and black. Near Fine with very slight lean to the binding, former owner bookplate to verso of front free endpaper and gift inscription to top..... More