New Arrivals
BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY: From Single World System to Pure Land: Science and Technology in the Images of Motion and Light
Delhi, Varanasi, Patna: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. With a typed letter signed by Randy Kloetzli to Joan Blythe, the distinguished John Milton scholar, laid in. "While there have been numerous attempts to catalogue..... More
POPPING THE QUESTION: A New Game "As Old as the Hills." For Just Two, - U and I.
Boston: Adams & Co., 1868. Complete with 30 blue and 30 plain cards in a two-part stiff paper box. The box is a bit worn along the edges, with a split at the upper right..... More
MEMORIES, 1875-1895: Happenings Here and There Along the Trail, or "The World Went Very Well Then." A Victorian Tale Gleaned from Memories, and Told for the Edification of Fellow Typophiles
Pasadena, California: Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Accompanied by "Something about the Years that Followed. A Supplement to 'Memories'" (4 pp.), which is laid in at the rear..... More
WORLDS AWAY: Voivod and the Art of Michel Langevin
Spider Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated by Michel "Away" Langevin below his foreword. Fantastic retrospective of the visual art created by Michel "Away" Langevin (b.1963), the drummer and visionary artist for the..... More
HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English. Montholon (1783-1853), a French general during the Napoleonic Wars, chose to go into exile on Saint Helena with the ex-emperor after Napoleon's..... More
THE WORLD OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. A compilation of five major works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: A Street in Bronzeville (1945), Annie Allen (1949), Maud Martha (1953), The Bean Eaters (1960)..... More
LIFE OF LORD JEFFREY, with a Selection from His Correspondence; MEMORIALS OF HIS TIME; [and] JOURNAL OF HENRY COCKBURN: Being a Continuation of the Memorials of His Time, 1831-1854
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1852-1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Primary works of the Scottish advocate, judge, and diarist, whose Memorials of his Time (1856) remains one of the most vivid and attractive accounts of Scottish..... More
LIBER FLUVIORUM; or, River Scenery of France. Depicted in Sixty-One Line Engravings from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, R.A. With Descriptive Letter-Press by Leitch Ritchie: and a Biographical Sketch by Alaric A. Watts.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo: lvi, 336 pp. with 61 full-page engravings, including the extra title page vignette, by J. Cousen, Thomas Higham, R. Brandard, et al, after drawings by..... More
L'HOMME A L'OREILLE CASSEE
Paris: Librarie Hachette et Cie. 1885. Hardcover. Satirical proto-science fiction novel concerning a Napoleonic cavalry officer who is experimentally desiccated in 1813 and accidentally rehydrated and brought back to life 46 years later. Tall octavo..... More
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL FAMILY RECORD AND ALBUM
Dayton, Ohio: The Historical Family Record Publishing Company, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. An unused example of this family album with ruled pages for "Autographs", "Ancestors", "Parents", "Infancy", "Childhood", "Schooldays", "Marriages", "Occupation", "Church connection", "Other history"..... More
SYNGMAN RHEE: The Man Behind the Myth
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1955. Hardcover. An early printing, with the author's corrections. Intimate biography of the South Korean politician who served as the first President of South Korea from 1948 until his..... More
A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition of this acclaimed novel exploring lifelong, unrequited longing and the quiet constraints of middle-class domestic life. Small octavo. Original green cloth binding..... More
BLACK METROPOLIS: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, With an Introduction by Richard Wright
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Hardcover. An early printing. Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted..... More
LECTURES ON THE COUNCIL OF TRENT: Delivered at Oxford 1892-3
London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Delivered at Oxford in the Michaelmas Term of 1892 and Hilary Term of 1893 during Froude's tenure as Regius Professor of Modern History, these..... More
IN THE MECCA
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Hardcover. An early printing. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks to Diana L. Accurso, a librarian at Auburn University, on the half-title, with Accurso's printed name on the front flyleaf and..... More
![Item #80940 THE LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Volume I: Shelley in England [and] Volume II:...](https://johnsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80940.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1793399234)
THE LETTERS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Volume I: Shelley in England [and] Volume II: Shelley in Italy, Edited by Frederick L. Jones
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. The definitive scholarly edition of the letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), the English poet who, with John Keats and Lord Byron, was a major figure among..... More
BYRON AND SCOTT: The Waverley Novels and Historical Engagements
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Roderick Speer to John Clubbe, the distinguished Lord Byron scholar, on the title page, with an autograph letter signed (ALS) by..... More
![Item #80938 MIKSZÁTH KÁLMÁN MUNKÁI [Complete 20 Volume Set]. Kálmán...](https://johnsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80938.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1793398859)
MIKSZÁTH KÁLMÁN MUNKÁI [Complete 20 Volume Set]
Budapest: Légrády testvérek [and] Révai testvérek, 1901-1907. Hardcover. Mikszáth (1847-1910) was a novelist, regarded by contemporaries and succeeding generations alike as the outstanding Hungarian writer at the turn of the century. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt..... More
![Item #80937 RAKKOX DER BILLIONAER: Ein Protzenroman [with] DIE WILDE JAGD: Ein Entwicklungsroman...](https://johnsonrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/80937.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1793399347)
RAKKOX DER BILLIONAER: Ein Protzenroman [with] DIE WILDE JAGD: Ein Entwicklungsroman in acht anderen
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Striking example of German Seccessionist-style book design. Octavo: [viii], 119, [1] pp. with the frontispiece, title page decorations, chapter heads, tail pieces, and page decorations by Gustave-Henri Jossot. Also..... More
LA COMEDIE ENFANTINE
Paris: Ch. Delagrave, 1881. Hardcover. Nouvelle édition, originally published in 1860. Charming fables and verses for children. 12mo: [x], 275, [1, blank] pp. with the portrait frontispiece, a steel engraving after photograph by Michelet, as..... More
VITTRA SKRIFTER: I urval utgifna af Karl Warburg
Stockholm: F. & G. Beijers, 1894. Third Edition. Hardcover. Selected writings by the Swedish lecturer in philosophy and longtime professor of aesthetics in Oslo (Christiania). Wikner (1837-88) is primarily remembered for producing the first description..... More
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, in the County of Southampton, with The Naturalist's Calendar; and Miscellaneous Observations, Extracted from His Papers.
London: Printed for J. and A. Arch; Longman and Co.; et al, 1837. Hardcover. A New Edition; with Notes, by Edward Turner Bennett, Esq. First published in 1789, this classic work is comprised of 44..... More
THE SPRAGUE PRIMER AND FIRST READER
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo: 112 pp. with a full-page color wood engraving, a full-page color halftone, and a full-page halftone, as well as three ornamental..... More