Humbly offered here are a few of our favorite acquisitions from the three months of our short existence. Some things we are particularly excited by include the first appearance of Shelley's "Ozymandias," an early American song book, a First American E. P. Thompson, and the dust jacket from Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, printed on a wartime map of Düsseldorf.
We have been profoundly encouraged by the support from our friends and neighbors since opening for in-store browsing in mid-August. Since then, we have been busy building this website and cataloging our large backlog of scholarly titles. This catalog, finally, represents the third leg of our bookselling stool: notable, rare, and antiquarian books. In addition to paying some rent with big-ticket items, these catalogs aim to feature some more fun and accessible books that will reflect the character of our shop. We hope you enjoy the browse.
Boston: J. T. Buckingham for the Author, 1806. FIRST EDITION. Quarter Leather. Oblong 4to: a-t4, vii, [1], 10-152pp. Quarter sheep over paper covered wood-ply boards. A few splotches to front cover, light rubbing to extremities, minor and typical spotting to edges; front hinge mostly split and leather starting 2" from.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Daniel Vierge. Limited Edition. Hardcover. lxviii, 386; xv, 416; xxiii, 386; xvi, 422 pp. Large 8vo, brick red cloth, paper spine labels, gilt heads, deckled fore and tail edges. All volumes illustrated throughout with 261 B/W plates, all of with are present along with.....
Morel et Cie, Li, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol. I: iv, 240, 8 + i-xxiv, clxxxix-ccliv plates; Vol. III: 187, 6 + lxxxix plates. Large quarto, navy cloth, gilt spine titling, vol. 1 frontispiece, B/W. plates . Thin muslin cloth is worn around the extremities with much fraying and recession.....
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Coward-McCann, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. [8], 181 pp. 12mo, dark navy cloth, bold and bright red letting. Spine leaning just slightly, blind impression of a name jotted down over the FFEP, small and faint splotch to spine 1.5' from tail, wartime paper showing just a bit of.....
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 244, [6] pp. 12mo, kahki cloth, two tone navy and maroon spine lettering, navy head edge. Extremities a bit toned with just a few foxing flecks. Very crisp and sharp otherwise. DJ has a short tear, crease, and just.....
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1974. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xvi, 334 pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth, blue stamped label with gilt lettering and borders. A pristine copy––clean, sharp and square. DJ price-clipped, just a touch of shelfwear to extremities, crisp and bright otherwise. First and only printing.....
Seabury Press, January 1975. First English Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. viii, 228pp. 12mo, red cloth, silver gilt spine lettering. A pristine copy; DJ price clipped, crisp and bright otherwise in mylar wrap. Relatively scarce in dust jacket. Best known for his epochal analysis of the hegemony of "Technological Society,".....
Oxford University Press, January 1983. 0198226063. Hardcover. xi, 301 pp. Author signature and inscription to FFEP, “For my friend and colleague, with the compliments of the author.” The colleague in question is James McConica, his handsome bookplate to FPEP. A pristine copy. DJ wrapped in mylar.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xi, 362pp. Quarter black cloth over gray boards, silver gilt spine lettering and author's monogram to front cover, deckled fore edge, red top edge. Very minimal rubbing to extremities. DJ tips rubbed, clean and bright otherwise, now wrapped.....
Leiden: Brill, 1959. Paperback. xxiv, 355 pp. With list of prices pamphlet 22 pp. and cover letter. Frontispiece, six black and white plates, a bit worn, sound and unmarked otherwise. A few markings to list of prices. Once ubiquitous, the bookseller-publisher did not survive as a business model much past.....
New York: Fordham University Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. x, 415 pp. 12mo, green cloth, white stamped spine lettering. Catharine Misrahi trans. Spine and sliver of head just faintly sunned, otherwise a pristine copy––clean, tight and fresh. DJ tips a bit rubbed with some minimal chipping at.....
Grove Press, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. ix, 261 pp. 12mo. Signed first edition commissioned by the publisher. The signed front endpaper was mislaid, leaving a bit of exposed glue on the fore-edge of the front cover, thus sealing in the signature with the Front (not-actually) Free.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. xxxi, 318. 12mo, navy cloth, yellow stamped spine lettering and borders, blind stamped publishers device to front cover. A faint dampstain to head, tidemark to front head cover and endpaper, faintest rubbing to extremities, otherwise crisp and square with.....
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1910. Hardcover. 227pp. 12mo, blue cloth, black stamped spine and cover title, blindstamped torch insignia to front cover. Tips rubbed, spine a bit sunned, moderate hand soil and some splotches, a few dogeared pages. Nevertheless, a sound and square unmarked copy. Charles Kerr was.....
Clarendon, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. viii, 352pp. 12mo, navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. Numeral notation to head of FFEP in pen, light bump to center head of rear cover, otherwise very fresh and sharp; DJ unclipped, extremities a bit rubbed, spine faintly toned, crisp and clean otherwise.....
Routledge, May 1992. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. x, 239. 12mo, black cloth, silver gilt lettering. A pristine copy, extremely tight and fresh. DJ crisp and sharp, wrapped in mylar. Her Gifford Lectures in pugnacious defense of the humanities did much to seal her reputation as “the most frightening philosopher in.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. New Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 182pp. 12mo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, blind embossed device to front cover, "Borzoi" endpapers. Discreet bookplate hidden by DJ flap, the slightest rubbing to extremities, first few pages creased at fore tail, otherwise a very crisp, fresh.....
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1856. Leather. viii, 9-504pp. 16mo, full dark-green morocco leather with full ornate gilt embossing, all edges gilt, frontispiece and 11 B/W engraved plates. Tide mark to upper edge of endpapers and several of the plates, pen and pencil marginalia to a few pages of "Essay on.....
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. [4], 5-916 pp. 8vo, grey heather cloth, yellow lettering on maroon stamped label panels. A bit of toning around the extremities, light foxing typical of “Wartime Standard” paper, owner’s name to FFEP. Otherwise clean, fresh, tight and square.....
University of Chicago Press, January 1970. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xix, 328pp. 12mo, goldenrod cloth, gilt spine lettering. A pristine copy, fresh and clean. DJ tips shows some faint rubbing, very crisp and bright otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. Review copy with request card enclosed specifying remittance of.....
London: C. and J. Ollier, 1819. Leather. vi, [2], 1-92; [4], vii-xviii, 1-103. 8vo, finely bound by Francis Bedford in full polished tan calf, with raised bands, gilt borders and floral panel inlay, burgundy and olive morocco labels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. "Rosalind and Helen," printed 1819 with "Lines.....
University of California Press, November 2010. Paperback. vii, 157. Large 8vo. Signed by the author with majuscule monograms to half-title. Extremities show some very light rubbing, clean and sharp otherwise. A love letter to a city if ever there were one. Solnit teams up with and extensive cast of cartographers.....
Thomas Newcomb, 1685. First Edition. Leather. Folio, 12.5' x 8'. [6], 167; [2], 141, [1]. 2 volumes bound in one. Vol. 1: 'True Account and Declaration of the Horrid etc.' ; Vol. 2: 'Copies of the Informations and Original Papers Relating to the Proof of The Horrid etc.'. Full calf.....
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 141pp. Quarto, black cloth, white printed lettering and two-lane divider to front cover, photographic endpapers. Some light rubbing and a few scratches to cover, clean and tight otherwise. Chillingly prophetic cover design given the role freeways would come to play.....
New York: Pantheon, 1964. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. [7], 8-848pp. Large 16mo, burgundy heather cloth, gilt spine lettering and borders, blindstamped pantheon insignia to front cover, green head edge; illustrated green dust jacket with yellow lettering and flaps. Owner's name to FFEP, tail fore corner of first.....
