Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Loose-Leaf Version
Brooks Cole, 2015. Textbook Binding. Loose-leaf eighth edition, new in publisher's shrink wrap. 10 x 8.25 x 2". As a large, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.
Brooks Cole, 2015. Textbook Binding. Loose-leaf eighth edition, new in publisher's shrink wrap. 10 x 8.25 x 2". As a large, heavy book this order may incur additional shipping charges.
Original Publications. Soft cover. From the back cover: "Modern American practice in the Occult Arts has borrowed heavily from the Craft's Sister Religion, which has come to be called Voodoo. The spells, ingredients and names for amny things in the present day practice in the United States, have come from.....
Big Sur: 1944. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Henry Miller's "Excursus on War", with the disclaimer that "neither the publisher nor the printer is responsible for or subscribe to statements made herein by Henry Miller". Fading and wear to the spine of the red wraps. Stapled text is beginning to come.....
London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1948. Hardcover. Fourth printing of 1948 of Stein's study of her friend Picasso. As the jacket promises, "Picasso's artistic career is here interwoven with the story of his life in a manner that could have been achieved by no other writer but Miss Stein. The result.....
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, second state binding in unclipped jacket. A collection of Stein's writing with an introduction from Sherwood Anderson. As the jacket promised readers in 1922, "Gertrude Stein is still experimenting and still renewing her realization of peoples, people, and things.....
Paris: Plain Edition by the Darantiere Press, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first edition of Stein's work on the craft of writing was published with a print run of 1,000 copies in Paris, the third of her Plain Edition books. A previous owner attempted to secure the paper label with.....
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865. Hardcover. A "New Edition" of the Victorian classic, in a handsome Riviere binding. Scuffs and wear to red covers, particularly the joints and corners (see photos). All edges gilt. Minor foxing to flyleaves and final pages. 167pp. 7x5"
London: Printed for C. Chapple, Pall-Mall, 1811. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes in one. Mrs. Sumbel's account of her extraordinary life, including her long career as an actress, her affairs and marriages, her imprisonments for debt, her conversion to Judaism, and her attempts to settle scores and defend herself from.....
Belford, Clarke & Co., 1889. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First edition in pictorial paper wrappers of the first collections of short plays published by a woman in America", including the "The Proposal", "The Title and the Money", "At the Grand Central", "Teacups" and "The Chatterbox". Wrappers worn with minor chips.....
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1836. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American edition of a collection of stories from the author of the popular "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician," prepared for American audiences eager for the author's material. From the glowing advertisement: "The subscribers have great pleasure in offering.....
Surrey: Jane's Information Group, 1989. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Stated first edition of Jane's Battlefield Surveillance Systems, 1989-90. The Foreword outlines the editor's decision to, for the first time, divide Jane's Weapons Systems into eight more specialized yearbooks. With perforated stiff blue order form. 218pp. 11.5 x 8.5"...
Privately Printed, 1895. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Robert Bridges's privately printed essay on Keats, number 135 of 250 copies printed. With the bookplate of the clergyman and poet Henry Charles Beeching, with a gift inscription "Harry, from Mary, 15th May 1895", offering a glimpse into the reception of the Romantic poet.....
The Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1978. Soft cover. Three stories and an introduction by Didion, printed for the Friends of the Bancroft Library, number 26 in the series of keepsakes. Slight scuffs to blue covers, minor bumping of corners. Interior is bright and clean. 51pp. 9.5 x 6.5"...
London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition of Addison's popular account of his travels. ESTC T74575. Contemporary paneled calf, with old repairs to address starting joints. Evidence of old bookworm damage to paste downs, front endpaper, half title and (very faintly) title page. Text is clean and unmarked.....
Palestine Liberation Organization. Soft cover. Collection of short stories, translated by Faris Glubb. Slight wear to the corners and extremities of the stiff card covers. Undated, 79pp. 7.75 x 5.25"
London: Sampson Low, Son and Co., 1860. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An nineteenth-century edition of the first and second quartos of Hamlet, printed on facing pages so they might be easily compared, from copies in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire. With a bibliographical introduction by Samuel Timmins, and facsimiles.....
Paris: Libraire Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1909. Hardcover. Early printing of Maeterlinck's play, handsomely bound for the San Francisco department store The White House. The printer's label to the front endpaper reads "Bound expressly for Raphael Weill Co. Inc. San Francisco", while an embossed stamp to the rear endpaper reads "Book.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Hardcover. Knopf's 1934 omnibus edition of Undset's tetrology of medieval Norway, in dust jacket. The jacket identifies Undset as the author of Kristin Lavransdatter and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1928, with the front flap devoted to a pen sketch of "Sigrid Unset.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969. Hardcover. First edition of Farquharson's monograph on the theory of voting, whose publication was delayed by his insistence that the logical choice diagrams be printed in color. Unclipped jacket; laid in errata slip; stamped numbers on free front endpaper; foxing to edges of text.....
Harry N. Abrams; Aurora Art Publishers, 1982. Hardcover. A study of the artist Ivan Yakovlevich Bilbin, with, as the front flap promises, "195 illustrations, including 98 plates in full color": "This edition covers all aspects of Bilibin's work -- book illustration and easel drawing, illustrations for Russian fairy-tales and bylinas.....
J. Kriz Publishing Enterprises, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, third printing, published and printed in the Philippines, SIGNED by Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, while in office as President of the Philippines. A long gift inscription from a family member congratulates "Mike" upon his birthday: "It must feel great to know.....
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. Hardcover. Grant's memoirs in the publisher's green cloth with gilt medallions. Written in the final year of his life and published posthumously by Mark Twain's publishing company. From the Preface: "Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined.....
Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns, 1930. Gekle, Peter Anton; Chomton, Werner. 1st Edition. Soft cover. A German work on womens' health and beauty from 1930, offered as part of the publisher's "New Housekeeping" series. "Color? Makeup? Neither, You are the Most Beautiful!". Illustrated by P. A. Gelkle with instructions for exercise, diet.....
London: S. and E. Harding, 1793. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A lavishly illustrated English translation of Anthony Hamilton's MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT. First published in 1713, Hamilton's memoirs of his brother-in-law's time in the court of Charles the second offer a vivid account of the Restoration court. Full crimson straight-grain morocco.....
The Folio Society, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An attractive Folio Society edition of Livy's THE WAR WITH HANNIBAL, translated by J.C. Yardley with an introduction and notes by Dexter Hoyos and a preface by Alessandro Barbero. Fine in slipcase, with gilt illustrations to spine and front cover, map endpapers, twenty.....