H.M.S. SARACEN
London: Jarrolds, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The story of a ship, unlovely and unloved, and the men who believed in her, set against the cruel background of two of the worst..... More
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THE LONDON HANGED: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. "Contesting the current view of the eighteenth century as that of a prospering consumer society, and revealing its polar opposite in the desperate poverty and strategies for..... More
DIVE IN THE SUN
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. The author's fourth novel. Four men in the Royal Navy's smallest sub are tasked with slipping into a closely guarded harbor..... More
CALIFORNIA AS I SAW IT: Pencillings by the Way of its Gold and Gold Diggers! and Incidents of Travel by Land and Water, With Five Letters from the Isthmus by W.H. Hecox, Edited by Dale L. Morgan
Los Gatos, California: The Talisman Press, 1960. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies designed and printed by Robert Greenwood and Newton Baird. Signed by editor Dale L. Morgan on the half-title. "Dr. William M'Collum left Lockport..... More
SHARPE'S RIFLES: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809
New York: Viking, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Bernard Cornwell on the title page. The ninth (chronologically the sixth) novel in the Richard Sharpe series. Octavo. Just a hint..... More
Ted Saucier's BOTTOMS UP
New York: Greystone Press, Hawthorn Books, 1962. Hardcover. New and Revised Edition, first printing thus. A mixology classic, featuring the recipes for more than 200 cocktails alongside risque artwork by eleven distinguished artists, including Al..... More
A WOMAN AT SCOTLAND YARD: Reflections on the Struggles and Achievements of Thirty Years in the Metropolitan Police
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Memoirs of the first woman to serve as a ranking officer in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Wyles (1885-1975) served as a nurse during the First World..... More
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: Arthur Miller's Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. This classic play by Henrik Ibsen was adapted by Arthur Miller for a production that opened at the Broadhurst Theater on December 28, 1950. It starred..... More
FINNEGANS WAKE
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Hailed by Anthony Burgess as "a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every..... More
COUNSELOR AYRES' MEMORIAL: Translated, with an Introduction, by Helen Caldwell
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by translator Helen Caldwell on the front flyleaf. "This carefully crafted story, the last of Machado de Assis'..... More
FANCY ICES
Brighton, United Kingdom: Liz Seeber, 1999. Hardcover. Limited Edition, this is number 230 of 300 copies. A facsimile of the 1894 first edition of this cookbook by the Victorian queen of ice cream. Until the..... More
THEORETISCHE GRUNDLAGEN DER ORGANISCHEN CHEMIE
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in German. A widely read text on organic chemistry. Its interdisciplinary approach spoke as well to chemists as it did to physicists. From the library of..... More
ARGON, A NEW CONSTITUENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition of this important scientific memoir, describing the manner in which the authors succeeded in extracting the previously unknown element, argon, in pure form..... More
THE FORTUNES OF RICHARD MAHONEY: Comprising Australia Felix, The Way Home, Ultima Thule
London: William Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Omnibus of Richardson's famous trilogy about the slow decline, owing to character flaws and an unnamed brain disease, of a successful Australian physician and businessman and its effect..... More
ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST: A Play in Three Acts
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. A prequel to Hellman's 1939 drama The Little Foxes, this play focuses on the wealthy, ruthless, and innately evil Hubbard family and their rise to prominence..... More
ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE: A Comedy
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition of Orton's first major play. When it first appeared in the Swinging Sixties, Orton's satire on social and sexual hypocrisy both scandalized and delighted audiences..... More
THE SPECTROSCOPY OF X-RAYS
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. A classic of scientific literature, summarizing Siegbahn's discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. In particular, he developed apparatus and methods for improving accuracy when..... More
THE ELECTRONIC THEORY OF VALENCY
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Reprint. The culmination of many years' interest in the nature of covalent and dative bonds, this work made Sidgwick (1873-1952) famous and when he was awarded the Royal Medal..... More
STUDIES IN RADIOACTIVITY
London: Macmillan, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, with the publisher's embossed stamp to the title page. The first edition of Bragg's researches on radioactivity. Bragg inferred the currently accepted view of the interaction of..... More
THE CONSTITUTION OF MATTER: Modern Atomic and Electron Theories
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition in English, translated from the second revised German edition by E.W. Blair and T.S. Wheeler. Born's important text, Aufbau der Materie, 1922. Born (1882-1970)..... More
THE PYRATES
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and promtional postcard laid in. Dashing young Captain Avery is entrusted with the mission of..... More
The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy: BLOOD ON THE MOON, BECAUSE THE NIGHT, SUICIDE HILL
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printings (1984-86). The first volume is a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Each volume is inscribed by James Ellroy on..... More
OUT ON THE RIM
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Ross Thomas on the title page. Hired by moneymen to funnel funds to anti-Aqurno rebels but interested chiefly in lining..... More
COOKING A LA RITZ
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1941. Hardcover. Fifth printing. "The world-famous chef, whose delectable dishes have made the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York a pass-word among gourmets, reveals his most prized culinary secrets in his book written..... More