ABC of Reading
New Directions, (1951). Hardcover with DJ. 16mo, yellow paper over boards, blue stamped spine lettering. Exceedingly clean and sharp, DJ spine sunned as typical. Undated printing.
New Directions, (1951). Hardcover with DJ. 16mo, yellow paper over boards, blue stamped spine lettering. Exceedingly clean and sharp, DJ spine sunned as typical. Undated printing.
Cambridge University Press, January 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Exceedingly clean and sharp in like DJ, price clipped. Second Printing of the Second Edition.
New Directions, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, Printed paper over boards backed in royal blue cloth with gilt title lettering and pasted canal photo in debossed panel. Exceedingly clean and sharp in like transparent acetate DJ. Stated First Printing.
AMERICAN-JAPANESE PUB ASSOC / Kudo Printing Co., 1950. Hardcover. 346, 254 pp + appendices. 8vo, red and brown finished cloth, gilt stamped titles. Facsimile reprint of the English first edition. Volume 1 FINE, exceedingly clean and sharp; Volume 2 front board edges sunned, internally fine.
Princeton University Press, May 1971. Hardcover. 8vo, navy cloth. Exceedingly clean sharp copy in like DJ, price clipped.
Walter J. Black, Inc., 1932. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 16mo, limp leather binding with faux-alligator print, gilt spine lettering. Edges a bit worn but much less than typically seen. Clean, sound copy.
Fairfield Press, 1/1/1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio, yellow cloth with fushia and purple gilt design stamping. Printed endpapers, color photo illustrated throughout. A bit thumbed, sound and square otherwise; DJ somewhat tattered and repaired from the back with paper tape. Now wrapped in mylar.
Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. 4to, printed wraps. Small stain to fore edge, clean and sharp otherwise.
Crossroad, March 1995. Hardcover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo, black hard covers. Owner's stamp to FPEP, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise.
Fortress Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, Green cloth, gilt spine lettering. Faint foxing, owner's stamp to FPEP, clean and sharp otherwise; DJ tips just faintly rubbed, price clipped.
Thames and Hudson, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, turquoise cloth, gilt spine lettering. Owner's stamps to front endpaper, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise in like DJ, unclipped.
Yale University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Pristine copy in like DJ, unclipped, now wrapped in mylar.
Cambridge University Press, February 1980. Trade Paperback. Light rubbing to tips, owner's name to FFEP, sound and square otherwise, unmarked. Although many aspects of their hypothesis have been challenged, this is a landmark study in the course of Islamic historiography, incorporating many fruitful theretofore neglected sources for understanding nascent Islam.....
Northern Illinois Univ Pr, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, patterened blue endpapers. Exceedingly clean and sharp in like DJ.
Methuen & Co, 1963. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Hardcover. 12mo, fuschia cloth, gilt spine lettering. Discreet bookplate, exceedingly clean and sharp otherwise in like price-clipped DJ.
Henry Regnery Company, 1955. First English Ediiton. Hardcover. 150 plates, 90 pp. text. 8vo, B/W photo-illustrated Papal biography. Vellumesque paper over boards, gilt spine lettering and papal seal to front cover. Exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ tips rubbed with a few short tears, clean and bright o/w, now wrapped in.....
SPCK, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, finished brwon cloth, gilt spine title, frontispiece portrait and b/w plates. Contemporary owner's pen inscription d. 19 December 1926 and later owner's blindstamp to FFEP, foxing, very clean and sharp otherwise.
George H. Doran, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine title blocked in black and gilt ruled. Deckled fore and tail edges. Frontispiece B/w portrait. Exceedingly clean and sharp.
Emil Fink-Verlag, 1951. Second Edition. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations of religious figures, children by the iconic figurine sculptor, accompanied by Seeman's poems and preface. Foxing, sound and square otherwise; DJ shows some light wear and shallow chipping to extremities, clean and bright otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. SIGNED and.....
Henry Bill, 1889. First Edition. Harcover. 8vo, diced blue cloth, gilt title lettering and gilt stamped book, quill, and fern display to front cover, marbled edges, floral printed endpapers. B/W engraved frontispiece and plates throughout. Ex-lib, tips worn, spine leaning a bit, sound and unmarked otherwise.
Via Media, Inc., 1994. Trade Paperback. Complete in three volumes. Vol. 1 spine cracked; 2 and 3 are clean and sharp. Facsimile reprint of the seventh Oxford edition.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, August 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED and lined by the author on the title page. First Edition with complete number line. Exceedingly clean and sharp in like dust jacket.
Bloomsbury USA, February 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author 'Best Wishes' to no one in particular, with signed note on Osborne's 'Native American Rights Fund' letterhead tucked in. First Edition with complete number line. Fine copy, entirely clean and sharp; DJ shows some trivial rubbing around the tips.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons, August 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with complete number line. Exceedingly clean and sharp in like dust jacket.
Eerdmans Pub Co. Hardcover. All volumes are exceedingly clean and sharp. Owner's stamp to top edge.