Tel Aviv: Sinai Publishing, 1971. Metal bound with elaborate tactile decorations and turquoise, white, and red designs. [viii], 1586, [10] pp. Text in Hebrew and English. Very Good with a little tarnishing to metal, a few prelims and terminals creased along edges. A nice vintage Torah with an elaborate binding..... More
Atlanta, GA: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. 126 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Staples visible at front and rear inner hinges. Former owner notation to front paste down, crease and wear to front free end paper. Hinge at final page of text is..... More
London: John Murray, 1837. Signed by Babbage "To Mrs. Davenport with the author's regards" on half title in ink; Edward Davies Davenport's bookplate on front endpaper. First edition. 240 (1, ads) pp. Publisher's black pebbled cloth with paper label on spine, light yellow endpapers. About Very Good with backstrip coming..... More
London: Printed for Thomas Northcott, 1691. Second edition. [181]-236 pp. Complete text but does not include Appendix: "Robert Barclay, His Vindication[...]" other copies were apparently bound with. Disbound with paper tape on spine. Very Good with slightly worn corners, small stains on last page and a small marginal checkmark there..... More
Paris: Johannem Anisson, 1698. First edition. (xxiv), 440 (7, Indiculus Locorum), (1) pp. Period speckled calf, spine gilt. Woodcut title page device, head and tail-pieces and initials. In Latin. Very Good with worn head and tail, small sliver of biopredation to front joint also effecting front free endpaper, joints starting..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. First edition. [viii], 143 pp. Publisher's dark navy cloth lettered in red. Former owner's name stamped on front free endpaper, else Fine in unclipped dust jacket with slightly dulled and rubbed spine panel, else Near Fine, lightly worn along edges. Uncommon in a presentable..... More
[Boston]: The Massachusetts Colonization Society, 1857. First American edition. (Reprinted from the London edition of 1856.) Original saddlestitched wraps. 31, [1, note] pp. Very Good with small chip at head, light tidemark to upper left corner of margin, wraps a little soiled and edges slightly worn. This pamphlet is a...... More
San Cristobal, NM: Lama Foundation. Later printing. Signed by Ram Dass on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Good. Covers creased and rubbed. Heavy creasing to top corners of roughly half the pages. Copies signed by the author are scarce. More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1982. One of only 15 hors de commerce copies matching the limited edition of 150. Signed by artist on the title-page and the printer, Andrew Hoyem, on the colophon. [64] pp. Illustrated with 29 woodblock prints. 11.5" x 15.25" Uncovered oak boards decorated with lightning-bolt..... More
Rochester, NY: Press of C. W. Hebard, 1859. 23 pp. Bound in publisher's original grey printed wraps. Near Fine, with light wear and toning to wraps. Originally a Quaker group, the 1859 board members included abolitionists and Women's Rights activists such as Frederick Douglass, who served on the Business Committee..... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1915). First British edition. xi, 456 pp. Original scarlet cloth with gilt lettering. Some underlining and marginal notes in light, easily-erasable pencil, else Near Fine with name and date written on front free endpaper, slight sunning to spine. A milestone in the development of..... More
London: Collins, 1967. First edition. xxv, 645 pp. Original cloth. Fine in bright, unfaded and unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear in top of front panel, light wear at head, Near Fine. An attractive copy. More
London: Harvill Press, 1960. First British edition. 256 pp. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with toned edges, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine a little darkened, small spot of sticker wear to front panel. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1927. First British edition. xliv, 248 pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations. A little sunning to spine cloth, else Fine with bright, clean contents and sharp gilt. Lacking dust jacket. A very attractive copy. The first English translation of the Tibetan Buddhist..... More
Paris: Fortune Press, [1930]. Limited edition. Copy #560 of 1,200. xvi, 243 pp. Original dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ with a little wear at head, rubbing to cloth. Lacking jacket. An illustrated edition of the book first published in Latin in 1591 detailing the gruesome suffering..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black paper covered boards over dark blue cloth spines, with titles on upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Very Good, with rubbing to covers at extremities, worn through at tips, small scuff to rear cover. Foxing..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited, 1950. First British edition, first printing. Ten books in Three Series, of which, this is the First Series. 1238 p. Blue cloth over flexible boards with gilt lettering to spine; lacking the dust jacket. Covers rubbed at extremities and lightly creased; spine slightly darkened..... More
(No Place): The First Zen Institute of America in Japan, 1961. First edition. (One of only 500 copies printed. McNeil A5) 56pp. Japanese square-sewn brown wrappers. A Good or better copy. Typical writing in margins, perhaps more so than in other copies, with rear blank filled with written explanation of..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. 41 pp. Paper-covered boards with paper label. Very Good with sunned spine, bumped corners. British scientist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane looks at the apocalypse in this neatly-designed, uncommon little book. More
Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961. First edition. xii, 340 pp. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, lightly worn at head, price-clipped. A important look at a tumultuous time of revolution, counter-revolution, and heresy in England by a distinguished..... More
New York: Twelve, 2007. First American edition. Signed by Hitchens in black ink on the title page. 307 pp. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Good+ with faint dampstain to terminals, a little wrinkling to pages, some reading smudges, in Near Fine dust jacket with faint sunning to spine..... More
New York: Hermitage House, 1950. First edition stated, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on the spine Vertical tape ghosts to endsheets and slight softening to spine at base, else Fine, in an un-clipped dust jacket with trivial edge wear, faint sunning to the spine and..... More
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1859. First edition. 103 pp. Original dark brown cloth, ornately blind stamped front and back boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, yellow endpapers. A Very Good+ copy with head and foot a little worn, former owner's info written on front free endpaper, moderate foxing..... More
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902. First British edition, first printing. Publisher's grey-green cloth binding with paper title label on spine. Good. Sunning and rubbing to cloth, with heavy bumping to the tail of the spine and associated short splits to the joints there. Pages toned. First blank is heavily..... More
