New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Smith (1749-1806), an English Romantic poet and novelist, initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped to establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and..... More
Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2004. Hardcover. "In 1952, Jean-Paul Sartre engaged Albert Camus in a celebrated and bitter public confrontation that had wide-ranging cultural significance. The year before, Camus had challenged the prevailing political..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, first printing. Signed by Haruki Murakami above his ink stamp on a prefatory blank leaf. The perennial Nobel Prize favorite's 12th work of..... More
A collection of scrapbooks containing photographs, ephemera, and memoirs written by Edwin Duden “Ted” Ashton (1914–2009), an American war hero and publicist for the film industry. Following his graduation from Princeton University, the New Jersey..... More
A collection of brochures and photographs related to the aviation history of Catalina Island, which was first linked to the mainland by what was then the longest overwater flight in aviation history, accomplished on May..... More
A collection of twenty letters comprising the outgoing exchange between California residents Margaret “Nellie” Crosson and her brother, James “Clarence” Allison, between 1927 and 1932, mainly concerning health and family matters and a visit a...... More
A collection of four photo albums, three panoramic photographs, and other material associated with the service of Warren I. Johnson of Northampton, Pennsylvania in the U.S. Army during World War II. Extensively annotated, the albums..... More
A collection of five humorously written annual reports dating from 1914 to 1917 for the Friendship Club of The Northfield, a loose knit group of young adult men and women from Massachusetts and New York..... More
A one-and-a-half page holographic bifolium letter written in June 1827 by Edward Everett to J.R. Poinsett, the first U.S. Minister to Mexico, concerning a Mexican hieroglyphic manuscript he gifted to the American Academy of Arts..... More
The U.S.S. Ranger was a United States Navy gunboat converted into a survey vessel in 1881. From 1881 to 1890, she was engaged in hydrographic survey work off Mexico and Central America and in the..... More
Lincoln, Nebraska: Lincoln Auto School, circa 1911. Wraps. Unpaginated, [16] p. with numerous textual photographs and illustrations. Original printed green paper wrappers, bound with two staples. The front panel is die-cut, with a fold over..... More
1852. A long and descriptive holographic letter written on December 5, 1852 by Humphrey Marshall, a four-term antebellum United States Congressman, who later served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a...... More
El Paso, Texas: Hotel Greeters of America, Southwest Charter No. 16, 1941. Wraps. According to the publisher’s statement, this booklet was “widely distributed throughout West Texas, New Mexico and part of Arizona, by the principal..... More
London: The Pushkin Press, 1945. Hardcover. An early reprint. Psychoanalytic tale of the effects of a dog on its owner. Translated from the French by Princess Eugenie of Greece. Small octavo: 79 p. with 8..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Examines in great detail the proceedings against Clan Gregor, the Darien Expedition and the trial of Captain Green for privacy and murder, the burning of Frendraught, the..... More
New York and London: Hafner Publishing Company, 1967. Hardcover. Reprint. Sandys (1844–1922) was a leading Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's College. His most famous work is this three-volume History of Classical Scholarship..... More
Buffalo, New York: Dennis & Co., Inc., 1966. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1926 first edition, together with the 1943 supplement by Robert Bowie Anderson. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with blue and gilt titles. Issued..... More
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Thomas M. Coffey on the front flyleaf. "...describes moment by moment this August 17, 1943 raid..... More
Kilchberg / Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1995. Hardcover. "A male view of male nudes - the perspective encompasses not only self-representation and the definition of one's own physical nature, and it includes more than just the..... More
Gallup, New Mexico: Buffalo Medicine Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy 26 of 250 signed by Walter Satterthwait, illustrator Ernest Franklin, and Sarah Cauldwell, who wrote the foreword. The total edition consisted of..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "...garners well over a thousand English references to Cervantes and his works, thus providing the fullest and most intriguing early English picture ever made of the writings..... More
Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Stith Thompson on the front flyleaf. A translation and enlargement of Antti Aarne's Verzeichnis der Marchentypen (1910), this work proved essential to the..... More
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Text in Italian. Quarto: 434 p. Original red cloth binding, with black and gilt titles. Some very mild edgewear; else very good or better in the original acetate..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. "A study of the background, correctional treatment and post-correctional behavior of 500 women sentenced by Massachusetts courts to the Reformatory for Women. The growth and contemporary..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition, translated from the French by Arthur Wills. Weil (1909-43) was a French mystic, social philosopher, and activist in the French Resistance during World..... More