Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923. First edition. [xii], 238 pp. Publisher's green cloth with orange lettering, photo mounted on front board. Fine with tiny emboss of "The Rock and Gift Shop of Sioux City, Iowa" on front free endpaper, clean and bright, in Very Good dust jacket with a...... More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. Signed by Allen Counter and inscribed to biologist Stephen Jay Gould on front paste down, calling him "a great friend and colleague. I really enjoyed teaching Nat Sci 36 with you. Good reading and Warmest regards, [signed] Allen Counter." Dated 1982. First edition. Fine in..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. First edition. Signed by Francis Crick, inscribed to evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, "For Stephen Jay Gould / Best wishes, Francis Crick." xiv, 317, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and paper-covered boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An excellent association between the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. First American edition. (States "Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1923." on copyright page.) 242pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Photo illustrated. Near Fine in rare dust jacket with original price intact ($2.25), chipped at head and tail, else Very Good. Jacket torn along..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First edition, first printing; second state "with portrait and map" printed on the title page. Signed by Elizabeth B. Custer the first blank page and dated 1894. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 312pp. Near Fine with light rubbing..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. Signed by Angela Davis on the title page, and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black spine lettering.Very Good with tape stains to boards, stain and residue to front endsheet, binding pulled with some tenderness to..... More
New York: Catholic Worker Books, 1948. First edition. 175 pp. Original stiff wraps. Very Good+ with toning to wraps, former owner's name on front free endpaper, light wear and slightly concave spine. An uncommon early memoir by the radical Catholic writer and activist, published four years before her autobiographical After..... More
London: Rowland Ward, 1898. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Demidoff to former owner "with kindest regards from the author" the half title. xvi, 319, [1] +4 four ad pp; fold-out map in pouch on rear paste down. Very Good, cloth lightly worn and soiled with sunned and slightly scratched..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First American edition. (Sheets printed in the UK, so presumably following the Chatto & Windus edition that same year.) [viii], 286 pp. with fold-out facsimile letter plate at rear. Original blue cloth with cream title stamping. Cloth head and upper tips slightly chewed, else..... More
New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary or near-contemporary half blue cloth over maroon cloth boards, with printed title label to spine. Very Good with light marking to covers, spine darkened, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown..... More
London: Christian Age, 1887. Third British edition. xvi, 454, [2] pp. with twelve plates and a frontispiece. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate black and gilt stamping, black coated endpapers. Very Good+, foxing and dust-soiling to edges, light wear along edges, foxing to prelims, name written on blank at..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. First edition, trade issue. [iv], 589 pp. Publisher's red and black cloth with gilt stamping. A Fine copy, sharp and bright, in unclipped dust jacket with rubbing along folds and a few scuffs to spine, basically Near Fine. An attractive copy of the writer's..... More
Paris: Editions La Terrain Vague, 1958. Inscribed in French by Marcel Duchamp on page following front transparency, then signed and dated. Translated the inscription reads, "Dear [Alma?] I appreciate the catalogues you sent me, etc. and here's another book, with no pretense. Salutations, Marcel Duchamp New York City, 1960." 231..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained red. Near Fine, boards lightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. Signed limited first edition, number M (A-Z were gifted to publishers) of only 385 copies signed by Edward. ix, 435 pp. with fold-out map at rear. Publisher's full morocco with gilt lettering, ruling, top edge, and dentelles, with silken moire endpapers; housed in original..... More
Boston: The Cornill Company, [1918]. First edition. xvii, [3], 143 pp. with frontis and seven pages of photos. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with bright gilt. Near Fine with subtle dust-soiling, very tiny gouge to top edge of a few pages, contents bright. An autobiography by the founder of the..... More
Leipzig, Germany: S. Hirzel, 1916. First separate edition. 4 pp. Illustrated with portrait of August Mach from photograph. Publisher's original printed wrappers. Very Good with some small chips to fragile wrappers, faint crease to top of front wrap, contents toned with age. This copy belonged to Hans Albert Einstein, Albert..... More
Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, trade issue. xvi, 781 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in a Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unworn. A very sharp copy of a collectible volume all about the famous..... More
Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages, offsetting to endsheets, former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very..... More
Evanston, IL: The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., 1949. First edition, signed limited issue; copy #362 of a 760 signed by Albert Einstein. Bound in publisher's brown morocco-grain cloth over bevel-edged boards, stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine and trivial rubbing to crown. Endsheets faintly browned..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963. Limited first edition, both volumes signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower and numbered 756. Bound in publisher's cloth with green title labels, lettered in gilt, in original acetate jackets, housed in publisher's slipcases. Slight concavity to spine of first volume, else Fine and bright..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First edition, limited issue. One of 1426 numbered copies signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower in bottom margin of page facing copyright page, his famous D-Day "Order of the Day." xiv, [2], 559 pp. with plates and maps. Original tan buckram, spine blocked in..... More
New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1958. First edition. Signed by Erik Erikson on front free endpaper, inscribed to fellow psychologist and immigrant Hans Loewald with the stamp of the Austen Riggs Center, where Erikson was a staff member. Signed not long after publication, as Erikson left the Center around..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1987. First edition. Signed by Erik Erikson on front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. xxvi, 782 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge, slight concavity to spine, in Fine dust jacket. A summary..... More
London: Studio Vista, 1970. First edition, cloth issue. 112 pp. Publisher's cloth lettered in silver. Slightly musty smell, else Fine in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon. Published only in the UK. Guitarist John Fahey's biography of another great and also often-overlooked guitarist with a singular style, Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton..... More