![The Papers of Alexander Hamilton [Vols. I and II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/843/143/1721143843.0.m.jpg)
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton [Vols. I and II]
by Alexander Hamilton; Harold C. Syrett [ed.]; Jacob E. Cooke [assoc. ed.]
New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Very Good+/Very Good-. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavos (24cm); publisher's cloth in matching price-clipped pictorial dust jackets; xvii,[5],627; xi,[5],710pp.; seven leaves of plates. Dust jacket quite rubbed and worn, top half of Vol. I rear flap fold split, old faint rubber-stamp price to front free... Read More
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From the Other Shore and the Russian People and Socialism: An Open Letter to Jules Michelet
by Alexander Herzen; Isaiah Berlin [intro.]
New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1956. First American Edition. Octavo. 208pp. Printed dust jacket. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped along edges; spine faded; general spotting and scuffing. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound. Dust soiling to edges and mild spotting to endpapers; else unmarked. A Very... Read More
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Ethical Problems
by Alexander of Aphrodisias; R.W. Sharples [trans.]
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in bright yellow printed dust jacket; [6],145pp. Light wear from handling and very faint curving to boards, ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good.
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Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes
by Alexander Calder [illus.]; James Johnson Sweeney [intro. & ed.]
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. Limited Edition of 700 copies; this one unnumbered out of series. Quarto. 130 pages plus index and colophon. 85 black and white drawings by Calder. Printed dust jacket with $12.50 price intact. Yellow pictorial boards in brown cloth stamped in red. Housed in custom-made slipcase. ... Read More
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Plain Directions for Accidents, Emergencies, and Poisons
by Alexander Paul Turner
New York: Distributed to its Policy Holders by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, 1875. Very Good. New York: Distributed to its Policy Holders by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, 1875. One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand. Octavo. 144pp. Black and white illustrations. Chromolithographed wraps. Wraps quite soiled and chipped along edges; loss to bottom rear... Read More
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Henry Ossawa Turner
by Henry Ossawa Turner; Dewey F. Mosby; Darrel Sewell; Rae Alexander-Minter
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 308 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue blind-stamped boards. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a small smudge at top of front... Read More
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The Golden Cockerel: From the Original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin
by Alexander Pushkin; Elaine Pogany; Willy Pogany [illus.]
New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. First Thus, with no additional printings listed Quarto. [48pp]. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; bound in red cloth with gilt lettering and illustration. Housed in custom black slipcase. Dust jacket restored... Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
by Alexander Pope; Bliss Perry [ed.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1903. Very Good+. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1903. Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21cm); contemporary three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, spine in six compartments ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; 672pp.; portrait frontispiece. Brief scuffing to leather margins, spine very... Read More
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Peach Culture
by James Alexander Fulton
New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1870. Very Good -. New York: Orange Judd and Company, [1870]. First Edition. Octavo. 190 pp. + advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's rust-colored pebbled cloth decorated in gilt. Brown endpapers. Wear to edges with brief exposure and general spotting with white discoloration to spine. Binding sound. Scuffing and moderate... Read More
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![Hamilton’s Itinerarium: Being a Narrative of a Journey From Annapolis, Maryland Through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire From May to September, 1744 [Limited Edition, Signed by the Publisher, With Typed Letter Signed by the Same]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/655/537/1554537655.0.m.jpg)
Hamilton’s Itinerarium: Being a Narrative of a Journey From Annapolis, Maryland Through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire From May to September, 1744 [Limited Edition, Signed by the Publisher, With Typed Letter Signed by the Same]
by Alexander Hamilton; Albert Bushnell Hart [ed.]
St. Louis, MO: William K. Bixby, 1907. Near Fine. St. Louis, MO: William K. Bixby, 1907. First Edition, Limited to 487 copies of which this is no. 212. Quarto; publisher's three-quarter calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spine, housed in original paper-covered slipcase; xxvii,[1],263pp.; frontispiece, large folding map, and thirty (30) leaves of plates, chiefly facsimiles. Slipcase rather scuffed and... Read More
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A Summer in Skye
by Alexander Smith
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; iv,423pp. General shelf wear, most notably at spine ends, old black crayon price to front free endpaper, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound. ... Read More
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![The Queen's Necklace [Limited Edition, Signed by Arnstam]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/922/064/1618064922.0.m.jpg)
The Queen's Necklace [Limited Edition, Signed by Arnstam]
by Alexandre Dumas; Henri Peyre [intro.]; Cyril Arnstam [illus.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Near Fine. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1495. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt, in original gilt paper-covered slicpase; xvii,[1],300pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout, text printed in double columns within blue decorative border. Tiny... Read More
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![Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World [Inscribed and Signed by Munroe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/332/620/1665620332.0.m.jpg)
Art and China After 1989: Theater of the World [Inscribed and Signed by Munroe]
by Alexandra Munroe, Philip Tinari, and Hou Hanru
New York: Guggenheim, 2017. Very Good. [New York]: Guggenheim, [2017]. First Edition, First Printing. Large quarto; publisher's grey pictorial paper-covered boards; 324pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to board margins, textblock a bit cockled from exposure to damp, else a Very Good, sound example. Inscribed and signed by co-author and curator Alexandra Murnoe to title page.
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On Assumptions
by Alexius Meinong; James Heanue [ed. & trans.]
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. Very Good +/Very Good +. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 331 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Light creasing along edges of dust jacket with some curling at corners and very faint spotting to verso. Slight lean to boards and... Read More
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Alfarabi, the Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts
by Alfarabi; Charles E. Butterworth [trans.]
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, [2001]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white decorative dust jacket; xiii,[1],179pp. Ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine condition.
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![Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/203/867/1681867203.0.m.jpg)
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri [Two Volumes]
by Vittorio Alfieri
London: Henry Colburn, 1810. Very Good. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit-Street, New Bond-Street, 1810. First English Edition. Two volumes; octavos; contemporary calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, all edges speckled blue; x,286,[2]; [2],328pp. Leather a bit dried and starting to flake, bottom fore-edge corner of first fourteen leaves of Vol. I clipped but not approaching text, both... Read More
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![Grata Compania [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/129/961/1617961129.0.m.jpg)
Grata Compania [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Tezontle, 1948. Very Good. Mexico: Tezontle, [1948]. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 224pp.; illus. Light wear and soil to wrapper margins, top edge of upper cover slightly darkened, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free... Read More
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The Cariboo Horses
by Alfred Purdy
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1965. Very Good. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1965. First Edition. Slim octavo (21 cm); 112pp. Softbound in cream card, illustrated by Frank Newfeld and John Elphick. Covers toned, spine most significantly, with minor soiling and rubbing to edges. Page edges toned and lightly soiled. Half title has minor abrasion to top edge,... Read More
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Looking For Genet: Literary Essays and Reviews [Printer's Copy; Limited Edition Signed by Field]
by Alfred Chester; Edward Field [ed.]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. Limited Deluxe Edition, this designated "Printer's Copy" on colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's acetate dust jacket over illustrated boards with patterned spine, handbound by Earle Gray as the 26 lettered copies in series (100 signed numbered copies and 250 trade copies were also produced);... Read More
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Poems
by Alfred Lord Tennyson; Eleanor F. Brickdale [illus.]
London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. Very Good. London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. First Thus; First Edition to feature Brickdale's illustrations. Octavo. 402 pp. Illustrations by Brickdale throughout. Rebound in contemporary mustard cloth stamped in gilt and blue with new endpapers; top edge in gilt. Light edgewear with brief split to top of front joint; mild soiling.... Read More
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![Mercure de France, Juillet [July] 16, 1914 - Vol 110, No. 410](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/183/521/1674521183.0.m.jpg)
Mercure de France, Juillet [July] 16, 1914 - Vol 110, No. 410
by Alfred Vallette [ed.]; Rene Dumesnil, Emile Masson, Rachilde, et al. [contrib.]
Paris: Mercure de France, 1914. Very Good. Paris: Mercure de France, 1914. First Edition. Small octavo (23 cm); publisher's brown printed wrappers; [8],[209]-432,[4]pp. Wrappers generally toned and smudged with some offsetting on front panel. Dust soiled but pages relatively clean. A Very Good, unopened copy overall. Literary magazine and review which was published on the 1st and 16th... Read More
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![Who Lost An American? [Uncorrected Proofs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/562/1699562261.0.m.jpg)
Who Lost An American? [Uncorrected Proofs]
by Nelson Algren
New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Uncorrected Proof. Tall narrow octavo; original comb-bound wrappers; [2],244pp. Wrappers a bit worn and rather faded along margins, comb portion of binding dusty, else a Very Good example. Unrevised and uncorrected proof copy of this essay collection/underground travel narrative, a "guidebook to the seamier... Read More
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![The First Person and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/752/902/1655902752.0.m.jpg)
The First Person and Other Stories [Signed]
by Ali Smith
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2008. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 206pp. Publisher's dust jacket with price intact (£16.99). Boards full bound in black cloth with silver stamping to spine. Burnt orange endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed with superficial scratches to the surface and minor bumping to margins. Boards sharp with minor scratches to... Read More
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![The Second Paycheck: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Earnings [Inscribed by both to Stephen Jay Gould]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/775/1483775263.0.m.jpg)
The Second Paycheck: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Earnings [Inscribed by both to Stephen Jay Gould]
by Alice Nakamura; Masao Nakamura
Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. Very Good. Orlando: Academic Press, 1985. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by both authors on front free endpaper with inscription in Masao's hand to paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould: "To Professor S.J. Gould, with best regards, Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura." Octavo; [xvi], 509pp. Green buckram with gilt lettering. No dustjacket... Read More
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Five Poems
by Alice Walker
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. Near Fine. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition; one of 500 copies. Slim octavo booklet (21cm); [4]pp. Cream-colored paper with purple text; single sheet folded. Toned at edges and centerfold. Near Fine. A collection of five poems that would be included in Walker’s Revolutionary Petunias, published by Harcourt the following... Read More
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