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1978réf. 498587New York: Pantheon 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Advance Reading Copy of first American edition with receipt from the publisher laid in. Modest foxing on page edges light rubbing on cover near fine in a near fine lightly toned dust jacket with modest edgewear and tiny creases on the cover. Pantheon hardcover books
1978réf. 007537New York: Pantheon Books 1978. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 192579pp. Beautiful stated First American Edition bound in original publisher's black cloth. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacker $7.65 has a touch of rubbing to spine ends but quite minor. Fresh and bright with no creases chipping or tears. A very pretty collectable copy of the Author's first book and at a great price. Pantheon Books hardcover books
1978réf. 447333New York: Pantheon 1978. Hardcover. Good/Fine. First American edition. Dampstain in the lower margin of the pages thus good in about fine dust jacket. Pantheon hardcover books
1978réf. 447729New York: Pantheon 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Pantheon hardcover books
1978réf. 64720New York: Pantheon Books. Very Good. 1978. Paperback. Advance Proof Uncorrected. 176 pages orange printed wrappers. SOme scuffing at spine otherwise clean and nice. Very Good. . Pantheon Books paperback books
1978réf. 101288New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Random House 1978. Softcover. Fine. Third printing. Fine in wrappers with some rubbing along spine. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Random House unknown books
1978réf. 16560New York: Pantheon Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1978. 1st US Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 0394500652 . A handsome first US edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; The Last Sherlock Holmes Story is the last installment in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Michael Dibdin. The book follows the life of Sherlock Holmes after his death and his friend Dr. John Watson's attempts to keep his memory alive.; 8vo; 192 pages . Pantheon Books hardcover books
1978réf. 9033839New York: Pantheon 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First U.S. edition. Author's first book. Bound in black cloth with spine and cover stamped in silver. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket has light wear to extremities. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 192 pages. Pantheon hardcover books
1991réf. 704721NY: Summit Books. 1991. First American Edition. Review copy w/ publisher's slip laid in. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Summit Books hardcover books
1978réf. 02991THE LAST SHERLOCK HOLMES STORY Pantheon 1978 first American edition stain to paste-downs and r.e.p. else fine in like dust-wrapper. Formerly author and Fantasy Press publisher Lloyd Eshbach's copy with his ownership signature on the f.e.p. Pantheon unknown books
réf. 33887Amsterdam, De Arbeiderspers, 1992 Paperback, originele uitgeversomslag in kleur door Hans Bockting, 21.5x13.5 cm., 257 pp. + 2. ISBN 9029513403.
réf. Z28785Calmann-Lévy BROCHE
1829réf. 049581London: Robert Jennings and John Major 1829. Book. VG. Full-Leather. 2nd Edition. Complete in three 3 volumes uniformly bound in original full polished calf gilt-ruled boards rebacked in brown cloth with gold foil title and volume labels in burgundy and black mounted on spine panels new endsheets original marbled text block edges. 2nd edition. xlii422 iv428 iv482 pp. illus. w/ engraved frontis. portrait in each volume engraved plates w/ guards cuts in text. Interiors show scattered foxing generally light otherwise clean nicely intact. Boards show mild surface rubbing mostly toward edges most corners showing exposure but not layered or excessively worn. A sound attractive set scarce. Robert Jennings and John Major Hardcover
1827réf. 022928London: For Harding and Lepard 1827. Octavo. 4th edition in two volumes greatly enlarged and corrected. Frontispiece 562pp. and 579pp. 1 pp. items to be corrected. While this is the 4th edition it contains for the first time the best editions of the Hebrew Bibles and of the Greek and Latin Fathers. Several Greek and Latin classics introduced for the first time and some authors are described in a fuller manner such as Cicero Demosthenes and Euripides. It is also enriched with notices of copies of early rare and valuable impressions of the Classics printed on vellum which are found in various libraries in Europe. This is considered one of the first "leaf books" . On page 166 of Vol. I there is a small specimen leaf mounted from Pickering's Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament. A very handsome set bound in 3/4 brown polished calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands ruled in gilt red and black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt all edges red faint damp stain along upper edge of frontispiece with just a bit of cosmetics to spine ends light wear to corners. Tipped in is a manuscript note not important to front pastedown from previous owner or bookseller pertaining to the books and Dibdin. Very nice internally fresh. Previous owner's name D.M. Birkett and dated 1873. DM Birkett Junior Student of Ch Oxford 1868 2nd C Mod 1869 BA 3rd C 1872 MA Asst. Master in King's School Canterbury Headmaster of Sevenoaks Gr School 1878. For Harding and Lepard unknown
réf. a105945London 1827 4th ed revised and enlarged. Harding and Lepard. One royal octavo hardcover volume 3/4 leather with marbled boards. titlepage vol 1 professionally and nearly invisibly repaired. 562p.579p. 1p. corrigenda. VG Plus. no owner marks; binding very secure; hinges not cracked. Nice mounted green leather spine label; gilt trim on spine. Pictures available on request. Attractive volume in Excellent condition! . hardcover
1827réf. 12350London: Printed for Harding and Lepard Pall-Mall East; and G.B. Whittaker Ave-Maria-Lane 1827. Fourth Edition Greatly Enlarged and Corrected. 3/4 modern brown leather with gilt lettering and 5 raised bands to spine with 4 ornaments. Dark cloth over boards. Very Good. Imperial octavo oversized. Boards are 117/8" by 8 1/2" paper is 11"x 7 1/2" with wide margins. Lovely marbeled endpapers with 2 new blank preliminary leaves in both volumes. Original half-titles in both volumes. Plate and specimen leaf p. 166 present in vol. 1. Some foxing to first and last few original pages diminishing quickly a bit more noticeable on v 2. Light fingermarks on upper corners of some pages. vol. 1 xiii 562 p. vol. 2 579 p. w/ 1 p. corrigenda. Large paper copies limited to 250 Dibdin's Reminscences p. 213. Considered the best of the editions of this work adding the best of both Hebrew bibles and editions of the early church fathers. An attractive set. Printed for Harding and Lepard, Pall-Mall East; and G.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane hardcover
1827réf. 71301printed for Harding and Lepard Pall Mall East . 1827. hardback. very good condition nicely rebound in 1/2 leather and marbled boards and end pages- there is a bookplate on the front end pages; the frontis is beginning to come loose - sjipping via USPS. printed for Harding and Lepard, Pall Mall East .. hardcover
1817réf. 13004London: The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata colophon and half-titles. With 40 plates including the oft missing "Presentation in the Temple" in Volume I portraits illustrations and facsimiles engraved vignettes woodcut and text illustrations some printed on India paper and mounted. Contemporary full crimson crushed levant morocco bound by St. James' Duke Street London a dated binding with the elaborate gilt spine in 6 compartments and "London 1827" in gilt at the foot. From the library of Thomas Willement 1786-1871 British stained glass artist called "the father of Victorian Stained Glass" with his signature a small circular binders label and his personal bookplate from the Society of London Antiquaries. A handsome copy with an important provenance. First and only edition of one of the monuments of typographical bibliography and the most extravagant of all Dibdin's works. It was limited to under 1000 regular and 50 large paper copies. "Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania" Windle & Pippin A28. According to Bigmore & Wyman the work is written in the same dialogue manner as Dibdin's Bibliomania with the same interlocutors and may be properly described as a continuation of that work. The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press unknown
1817réf. 38193London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First and Only Edition evidently limited to 750-800 regular and 50 large-paper copies. Three volumes. 8vo pp. ccxxvi 410; iv 536 ii; iv 544 iv. 37 engraved plates two double-page; 35 text illustrations printed on India paper and mounted on pages; one mounted gilt lettered specimen of red pared calf; and hundreds of engraved and woodcut text illustrations several colored. including plate 9 in the first volume Bookplates. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco all edges marbled. Some minor foxing soiling and offsetting. A handsome copy. Hart 186. Jackson 40. Lowndes 1885 edition II p. 640. Windle & Pippin A28. "In 1817 appeared the most amusing and the most successful from a pecuniary point of view of his works the 'Bibliographical Decameron' on which a great sum was spent for engravings and woodcuts. The reader will find a great deal of gossip about books and printers about book collectors and sales by auction." DNB. Perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works.Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania." Jackson 4. Lowndes says of this work: "From the information which it contains and the splendor of the decorations and printing it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts. Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown
1873réf. 312922London: Nisbet and Co 1873. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Elevated motif to the front board. An attractive historiated initial appears at the beginning of the text. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: 100p. subjects: Story collection. short stories. Collections. Genre: Short Stories. London: Nisbet and Co hardcover
1843réf. 51410130056W.H. Dalton 1843. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. RARE ORIGINAL 1843 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Beautiful steel engraving of Edward the Sixth with light foxing spots. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers gilt decoration on both covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light fading. Binding is tight hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! W.H. Dalton hardcover
1817réf. 13004London: The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. FIRST EDITION. Complete with errata colophon and half-titles. With 40 plates including the oft missing "Presentation in the Temple" in Volume I portraits illustrations and facsimiles engraved vignettes woodcut and text illustrations some printed on India paper and mounted. Contemporary full crimson crushed levant morocco bound by St. James' Duke Street London a dated binding with the elaborate gilt spine in 6 compartments and "London 1827" in gilt at the foot. From the library of Thomas Willement 1786-1871 British stained glass artist called "the father of Victorian Stained Glass" with his signature a small circular binders label and his personal bookplate from the Society of London Antiquaries. A handsome copy with an important provenance. First and only edition of one of the monuments of typographical bibliography and the most extravagant of all Dibdin's works. It was limited to under 1000 regular and 50 large paper copies. "Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania" Windle & Pippin A28. According to Bigmore & Wyman the work is written in the same dialogue manner as Dibdin's Bibliomania with the same interlocutors and may be properly described as a continuation of that work. The Author. By W. Bulmer & Co., Shakespeare Press unknown books
1817réf. 38193London: Printed for the author by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press 1817. First and Only Edition evidently limited to 750-800 regular and 50 large-paper copies. Three volumes. 8vo pp. ccxxvi 410; iv 536 ii; iv 544 iv. 37 engraved plates two double-page; 35 text illustrations printed on India paper and mounted on pages; one mounted gilt lettered specimen of red pared calf; and hundreds of engraved and woodcut text illustrations several colored. including plate 9 in the first volume Bookplates. Bound in later 3/4 brown morocco all edges marbled. Some minor foxing soiling and offsetting. A handsome copy. Hart 186. Jackson 40. Lowndes 1885 edition II p. 640. Windle & Pippin A28. "In 1817 appeared the most amusing and the most successful from a pecuniary point of view of his works the 'Bibliographical Decameron' on which a great sum was spent for engravings and woodcuts. The reader will find a great deal of gossip about books and printers about book collectors and sales by auction." DNB. Perhaps the most lavish of all Dibdin's works.Its publication was a financial success and doubtless marks the high-water mark of the Dibdinian bibliomania." Jackson 4. Lowndes says of this work: "From the information which it contains and the splendor of the decorations and printing it will ever be considered as a model of excellence and good taste in typography and the arts. Printed for the author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press unknown books
réf. 3734059437.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1834réf. 017688London: Harding and King 1834. Book. Fair. Original Cloth. First Edition. Book has worn covers rear cover detached but present missing 15% of spine thus fair. All plates are present. Scarce. Harding and King Paperback