London: Cassell & Company, 1923, 1927 & 1933. 1923, 1927 & 1933. Three volumes, all first edition, first printings. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Very Good. Cloth with light general wear, darkening and light sporadic splashes. Foxing to textblock edges. Volume I has slight..... More
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1937. First edition of the first gay guide to London, offering "an ironic--if heavily veiled--indictment of contemporary sexual mores." Ostensibly taking the form of coded dialogue taking place in the "Theleme Club" between a young man with prophetic knowledge of the city telling an older..... More
Lockport, NY: Ward and Cobb, 1896. First edition. [vii]-xxx, [31]-485, x, with folding map at front. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at extremities, inner front hinge exposed though binding remains firm. Slight chipping to edges of front free endpaper and..... More
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855. First American edition. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Very Good with curvature to boards and lean to spine. Cloth lightly..... More
New York: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1912. First edition. Signed by Matthew Henson on the page following the half title, inscribed to former owner and dated 3/7/54, about a year before his death. xx, [ii],200 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with photographic frontispiece mounted on front board, lettered in..... More