Sale Books
April SALE! All books in the Books on Books, Canadian & Arctic History, European History and Languges, Latin American History, and Maritime sections priced at $125 and under are 50% off for the month of April.
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, lots, books on William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites, items sold on consignment, and newly acquired items.
Many prints & manscripts including framed items are also on sale for 30% off.
Links to each sale section are below:
Books on Books
Canada & the Arctic
Central & South American History
Eastern European History
English History | English Biography | English Monarchy
French History | French Language
General History | Ancient History
German History | German Language
Greek History | Roman History
Italian History | Italian Language
Irish & Scottish History
Maritime History
Medieval History | Renaissance History
Scandinavian History
Spanish & Portuguese History
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The Identity of France: Volume One: History and Environment
New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in near fine illustrated, price clipped dust jacket with blue title to yellow spine. Pristine interior. Index, 432 pages. Modern France. FRA/10262. Fine / Near Fine. More
The Identity of France: Volume One: History and Environment
New York: Harper and Row, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in near fine illustrated dust jacket with blue title to yellow spine. Pristine interior. Index, 432 pages. FREHIS/020612. Fine / Near Fine. More
The Master Mason's Handbook
London: Geoge Kenning, 1890. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Light blue cloth covered boards with black title to the front board. Damp stain to bottom of front board. Wear to edges of boards and spine. Minor soiling to boards. Spine slightly darkened. Damp stains on end pages. Lacks front second free endpage. Some pencil notes throughout. A few splits to interior binding; however all pages remain tightly bound. Overall interior is clean, however there are a few smudge marks in margins which do not effect the text. Six pages of advertisements to rear. 77 pages. GENHIS/071907. Very Good. More
England in Picture Song and Story
New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Dark blue cloth backed light blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Light browning to spine. First edition. Profusely illustrated with more than 100 black and white drawings and photographs accompanied by extensive notes. Index, 410 pages. English History. ENGHIS15/062699. Very Good+. More
The Romans: 850 B.C. - A.D. 337 (First Edition)
New York: Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. First Edition (American). Near Fine in grey cloth. Publisher stamp to bottom pages. Ancient History. ROM1/8231. Near Fine. More
Spirit of Sail: On Board the World's Great Sailing Ships
New York: Henry Holt, (1987). Hardcover. First American Edition of this book, with wonderful color photographs taken by Peter Christopher. In very good plus dust jacket with picture of a sailing ship along with title and author. In blue cloth with some fading along top edges. Interior is fine. 176 pages. MAR/042110. Very Good + in Very Good + DJ. More
Hell on Ice. The Saga of the Jeannette.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good minus blue cloth boards w/bright gilt ship design and light blue border stamped on cover; gilt title to spine. Circular cup stain to front board, light soiling as well; front bottom corner is lightly bumped. In VG minus illustrated d.j. (chipping, creasing, taped along front hinge) Map endpapers, interior is yellowed but clean; hinge cracked between title page and verso but rest of binding is tight. 421 pp. + ads. Maritime. MARI/5293. Very Good -. More
The Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier, 1767-1815
Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, (1968). First American Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good+ in bright red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. First American edition. Index, 292 pages. French History. FREHIS07/082899. Very Good+. More
M. De Barante, A Memoir, Biographical and Autobiographical
London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to front board and to spine.spine. First edition. Frontis. Foxing to first few pages. Text is clean and bright. French History. FREHIS07/092899. Very Good. More
Amid the Forests of Normandy
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Very Good green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor fading to spine and minor bumping to spine ends. Minor foxing to end pages. Sixteen full-page illustrations. Index, 274 pages. French History. FREHIS/11152. Very Good. More
Recollections of Past Life
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Fading to spine and to top edge of front board. First American edition. Autobiography of an eminent English physician. A few ink marks in text from previous owner. 351 pages, index, plus ads in the rear. English Biography. ENG106080. Very Good. More
Biblio-Typographica: A Survey of Fine Printing Style
New York: Covici Friede, 1930. Hardcover. First Edition. 1 of 1050 copies printed at the Southworth Press. Includes essays on typographic history and book design in the US and UK. There are reproductions throughout showing exemplary designs by such figures as Bruce Rogers, Stanley Morison, Eric Gilll, and Frederic Goudy. Large 8vo. Bound in the original red buckram with printed paper label to spine. Some wear to extremities, and the paper label is browned and slightly chipped. Overall in very good condition. Prospectus is laid in along with book plate of Ulysses Houghland. 303 pages. BOB/091310. Very Good. More
Das Frauenbüchlein Des Ortolff Von Bayerland. Gedruckt vor 1500
München: Druck und Verlag Carl Kuhn, 1910. Paperback. Facsimile reprint of the first known edition of this book on obstetrics from 1500. Bound in brown paper wrappers with black title to edge of spine. Covers and spine are browned and chipped. Browning to end papers. Several signatures are loose. Approximately 50 pages. GER/022099. Very Good. More
The Communist World and Ours
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1959). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Very good+ red paper covered boards with black title to spine. Slight rolling to spine. Slight browning to end pages. Else is near fine. Grey dust jacket with blue title to front and spine panels. Light browning to edges and spine of dust jacket. 56 pages. Communism. 106030. Very Good + in Very Good + DJ. More
Commodore Kilburnie.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Pres, 2002. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Fine navy blue linen backed gray paper boards; blue title to spine. In mint d.j. Top corner bumped, light whitish soiling to binding. Interior is brilliant, like new except for two small puncture marks to ffep. 209 pp. Maritime. MARI/6243. Fine. More
Fishdecks Seafarers of the Norht Atlantic
New York: Paragon House, 1990. Hardcover. First Edition. Near fine cloth boards with giltspine. DJ near fine. B/W photographs throughout. 307 pp Maritime. MARI/3053. Near Fine. More
Breakers. A Novel About the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska.
New York: Lyons Press, 2000. Hardcover. First Edition. Near mint in mint pictorial d.j. Interior crisp, tight and clean. A novel about the commercial fishermen of Alaska. 350 pp. Maritime. MARI/6043. Near Fine. More
The Line Upon a Wind. The Great War at Sea 1793 - 1815
New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Grey and yellow paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Grey illustrated dust jacket with white and yellow title to spine. Illustrated. Index, 774 pages. MAR/080408. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Napoleon 1812
Cambridge: Harper & Row Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. Near fine in near fine DJ. First American edition. French History. FREREV06/101999. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More
The Escape of Charles II After the Battle of Worcester.
New York: Dorset Press, (1986). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in fine illustrated black dust jacket with white title to front panel and orange title to spine. Previous owner' blindstamp to title page, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustjacket. English Monarchy. ENGMON2/6251. Near Fine / Fine. More
Morality to Adventure: Manchester Polytechnic Library of Children's Books 1840-1939
Manchester Polytechnic Library in association with Bracken Books and Studio Editions, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. First edition. Black paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with several illustrations throughout. Black illustrated dust jacket with black title to front panel and blue and white title to spine. Index, 203 pages. BOB/102709. Fine / Fine. More
The Lengthened Shadow: An Address by Norman Strouse at an Opening of an Exhibition of Modern Fine Printing at the Grolier Club, April 19, 1960
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. Hardcover. First Edition. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author to Dale and Doris Armstrong. 1 of 1250 copies. Near fine in grey paper patterned boards with red spine panel titled in black. Light wear to spine ends and edges, else fine. Clean, bright interior. In very good beige dust jacket with black title to spine and front panels. Minor wear to edges of jacket including a few short closed tears and slight browning. 42 pages. BOB/062510. Near fine in very good jacket. More
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: A Memoir by his Grandson
London: MacDonald & Co., (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in very good+ green and white dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Light rubbing to dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with frontis of Wilfrid Scawn on Arab Stallion and more than fifteen b/w photos. Index, 368. English Biography. ENGHIS04/070399. Near Fine / Very Good+. More
A Master's Bibliophile Bindings: Tini Miura: 1980 - 1990
Tokyo: Seikosha Co., Ltd, 1991. Hardcover. First English edition. Folio sized. Born in Germany, Miura studied in Switzerland, Paris, and later in Sweden. She moved to Japan in 1976 - a year after finishing her masters work in Stockholm where she "introduced the art of bibliophile binding to the Japanese audience." Her work can be found in private collections, royal collections, museums, and libraries around the world. This catalog includes 169 of Miura's fine bindings, 27 designs for commercial book production, as well as posters and announcements relating to her work. Fine in blue cloth boards with blind stamped title to spine. Pristine with 300 large color illustrations on nearly every page. In fine dark blue illustrated dust jacket with yellow title to spine and front panels. 199 pages. BOB/101010. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More