Childe Harvard; A Romance of Cambridge. By Senor Alguno
by [Ames, Nathan]
Boston: Printed for the Author, 1848. First edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Calf by Zaehnsdorf. Some darkening of binding, some spotting, mostly at the front and back of the text, else a good copy of this rare parody of Byron's "Childe Harold.. First edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Written by Nathan Ames, Harvard graduate of 1848, died in 1865 and... Read More
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Amherst Class of 1882 Photographic Yearbook
by (Amherst) [Pach Brothers, photographers]
[841 Broadway New York: Pach Photographer, 1882. 88 albumen cabinet card portraits of faculty and students (6-1/4 x 4 in.), 8 views of Amherst (7 x 9 in.), with Pach studio stamp printed on verso, in window-mount leaves. Thick oblong 4to. Contemporary brown morocco over beveled boards, with brass clasps, gilt title ("Amherst 82 C.W. Loomis") on front cover.... Read More
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Certificate of Membership in the Antivenenean Society of Amherst College
by (Amherst)
Amherst, 1850. Engraved broadside with engraved cartouche. 10-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Light spotting, very good. Engraved broadside with engraved cartouche. 10-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Membership certificate to the Antivenenean Society, a temperance society that was active at Amherst College during the mid-nineteenth century.
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Amherst College. Class of 1874
by (Amherst)
[Amherest , Mass, 1874. circa 130 photographs. With 4 pp. of printed text giving the Statistics of the class at the front. Thick 4to. Bound in presentation embossed brown morocco, with graduating student Alfred Ely's name stamped in gilt on upper cover, bottom of spine perished, else Very Good. circa 130 photographs. With 4 pp. of printed text... Read More
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Hoaræ Colleginæ. A Literrary Periodical conducted by the Undergraduates of Amherst College
by (Amherst)
Amherst, Mass: Published by J.S. & C. Adams, 1839. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Half contemporary calf and marbled boards. Very Good. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo.
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Spain...Translated from the Italian by Wihelmina W. Cady
by Amicis, Edmundo de
New York: Putnam's, 1881. First Edition thus. Illus. 438pp. 8vo. Bound in three quarters brown mottled recent calf, maroon label, Fine. First Edition thus. Illus. 438pp. 8vo.
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Fragments d'un Journal Intime. [Two Volume Set]
by Amiel, Henri-Frederic
Genève: H. Georg, 1887. Reprint. [lxxvi], 247 pp.; 335 pp. Marbled endpapers. 2 vols. 8vo. Blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt ruling and decorative gilt and titles on five banded spines, t.e.g., with some toning and cracking on the first volume's spine. Some rubbing at corners, and toning to edges of pages, but an attractive and very good... Read More
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Journey through Kenya. Introduction by William Holden
by Amin, Mohamed; Duncan Willetts; and Brian Tetley
London: Bodley Head, 1982. First edition. Photo illustrated throughout, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 12 original photographs of William Holden and others in Kenya, mounted throughout. 192 pp. 4to. Original cloth, dust jacket. First edition. Photo illustrated throughout, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 12 original photographs of William Holden and others in Kenya, mounted throughout. 192 pp. 4to. This copy extra-illustrated with... Read More
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The James Bond Dossier
by Amis, Kingsley
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. 159 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Black cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket. First edition. 159 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo.
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The Darkwater Hall Mystery
by Amis, Kingsley
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. Number 8 of 15 copies on Saunders, signed by the author and specially bound. Illustrations by Elspeth Sojka 35, [1, blank], [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth spine, titled in gilt, marbled boards. As new. Number 8 of 15 copies on Saunders, signed by the author and specially bound. Illustrations by... Read More
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Girl, 20
by Amis, Kinglsey
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. First edition. 253pp. 12mop. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine. A good to very good copy, with moderate foxing on upper edge of front and rear flyleaves, spine is askew, most pages of text have a moderate and uneven vertical crease near fore-edge margin (otherwise printed text is fresh and clean), in very good... Read More
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Kingsley Amis on Drink
by Amis, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First American edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Quarter bound cream and blue cloth; stamped in brown and metallic magenta on spine; photographic color dust jacket; spine lightly sunned; price clipped. First American edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. The first American edition of Amis' collection of classic drink recipes — from... Read More
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I Like It Here
by Amis, Kingsley
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine panel faintly toned). First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The third novel by Amis, a semi-autobiographical story loosely based on his travels in Portugal while fulfilling the terms of the Somerset Maugham Award he won in... Read More
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Two typed letters, signed “Jo van Ammers-Kuller” and a typed synopsis entitled “Diana. The Life of the Famous Sculptress Elizabet Ney 1833-1907,” in English
by Ammers-Kuller, Jo van
The Hague: 's-Gravenhage, 1959. One and a quarter pages, one page and the synopsis in two pages. 1 vols. 4to. To Wesley Hartley, a long-time educator and teacher, formerly of the American Council on Education. Folded, else fine with two original envelopes. One and a quarter pages, one page and the synopsis in two pages. 1 vols. 4to.... Read More
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5 Boogie Woogie Piano Solos
by Ammons, Albert
New York: Leeds Music Corporation, 1941. 24pp. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial self wrappers with light wear and soiling. 24pp. 1 vols. 4to.
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Expressions of Sea Level
by Ammons, A.R.
Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1963. First edition. 83 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with blue lettering on spine; fine. Dust jacket. First edition. 83 pp. 8vo. A.R. Ammons' (b.1926 - d.2001) first published book of poetry following a scarce vanity press of Ommateum, with Doxology [Dorrance, 1955] of which reportedly 200 of the total run of 300... Read More
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Photo of Cleveland Amory with Grand Canyon burro in his arms: Inscribed: "For Richard (Scaife) who helped so much to make the Grand Canyon rescue possible. Cleveland.
by Amory, Cleveland
Framed and glazed. In 1967, Amory founded the Fund for Animals, with a planned focus on protecting animals from hunters and creating animal sanctuaries. The Fund struggled during the first years of its existence, but became known in 1979 for sponsoring a removal by air and land of 580 Grand Canyon burros slated for destruction by the National... Read More
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Who Killed Society
by Amory, Cleveland
New York: Harper, 1960. First Edition. 48 photos. 597, [1]pp. Thick 8vco. Black cloth. Fine in almost fine unclipped dj. First Edition. 48 photos. 597, [1]pp. Thick 8vco.
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Tunbridge Wells and Its Neighbourhood, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings and Historuical Descriptions
by Amsinck, Paul
London: Published by William Miller, Albemarle Street and Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street, 1810. First Edition, Including a list of subscribers and half-title. The Etchings by Letita Byrne, 31 full page engraved plates and 12 vignettes. 183pp. G.E. Miles, Printer 127, Oxford Street. 4to. Front cover off some foxing to plates. First Edition, Including a list of subscribers and... Read More
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Some Birds and Mammals of North America
by Amuchástegui, Axel
London: The Tryon Gallery, in association with George Rainbird, 1971. First Edition, No. 354 of 550 numbered copies. With a descriptive line text by Les Line. 16 full-page folio plates after drawings by Amuchástegui. [41] pp. 1 vols. Folio (21 x 14 inches). Quarter leather and marbled boards. Fine copy in original slipcase. First Edition, No. 354 of... Read More
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Anakreontos Teiou Mele [Greek] Praefixo Commentario Quo Poëtae Genus Traditur et Bibliotheca Anacreonteia Adumbratur
by Anacreon
Parma: Bodoni, 1791. One of 150 copies. Engraved portrait vignette on title and head of text. [iv], cxviii, [2], 111 pp. 12mo. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco, gilt ruled border and spine, gilt title. Light shelfwear, front flyleaf starting. Ex-Harvard University Library (blindstamp on title on one other leaf, donor's ink stamp on verso of title, bookplates with deaccession... Read More
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Francois Boucher, avec la collaboration de Daniel Wildenstein. Peintures. Catalogue raisonneé
by Ananoff, Alexandre
Lausanne/ Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976. First edition. Illus. 416, 366 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Cloth. Fine in almost fine pictorial djs. First edition. Illus. 416, 366 pp. 2 vols. Folio.
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A General History of Quadrupeds. The Figures engraved on wood chiefly copied from the original of T. Bewick, by A. Anderson. With an Appendix, containing some American Animals not hitherto described
by (Anderson, Alexander) Bewick, Thomas
New York: Printed by G. & E. Waite, No. 64, Maiden-Lane, 1804. First American edition. x, 531 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Modern half brown morocco and cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Occasional light spotting, old signature of William S. Barnes on title. Anderson, Alexander. First American edition. x, 531 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first American edition of... Read More
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Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa
by Anderson, Andrew A.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Illustrated with fourteen plates by the author. . x, 307; vi, 253pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, original spines laid down , with some loss to head of Volume One. Small library stamps on the title-page, new endpapers. VG. First Edition. Illustrated with fourteen plates by the author. . x,... Read More
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Typed letter, signed “Camilla M. Anderson”
by Anderson, Camilla M., Dr
Sidney, Montana, 1995. One page. 1 vols. 4to. To Wesley Hartley, a long-time educator and teacher, formerly of the American Council on Education. Folded, else fine with a clipped signature on the verso. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Anderson describes her advent into writing following a successful medical career. Her study of Genesis and subsequently of man brought... Read More
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