Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1861. Hardcover. First editions thus. Introduction by E. B. O'Callaghan. Quarto. xxx, 814pp. Bound with blanks into modern half cloth and marbled paper over boards with leather spine label. Bold contemporary gift inscription ("Compliments of James M. Rule[?]") on front blank. Binding very lightly worn..... More
Newark, New Jersey: D. S. Colyer, 1932. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 249pp. Illustrated from line drawings. Half leather and marbled paper over boards, topedge gilt. Small owner stamp on front fly, binding with moderate wear including the loss of much the marbled paper at the board edges, small streak of..... More
New York: The Free Press, (1969). Hardcover. First edition. 209pp. Good only ex-library copy with usual library markings and tape remnants on the endpapers in a very good dust jacket with some toning and an internal abrasion. More
London: The Folio Society, (1952). Hardcover. Second printing. 260pp. Half red cloth with marble papercovered boards. Scattered foxing on pages, corners lightly worn, small holes starting in front joint, else very good lacking the dust jacket and slipcase. More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2005. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 161pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket a touched sunned at the spine and with a light crease at the bottom of the front panel. Inscribed to sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer: "to Dr. Ruth with best wishes from..... More
(New York): W. W. Norton & Company, (2022). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. xxiv, 328pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Burnham on the title page. More
(New York): Published by the author, 1885. Hardcover. Third edition. 572pp. Illustrated with engravings. Good only with detached but present front free endpaper, tears, and rubbing. More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1851. Hardcover. Second edition (after the first edition of 1832). 12mo. [9], 10-260, [4 ads] pp. Contemporary full leather with boards double ruled and gilt spine label. Near contemporary owner name penciled on the verso of the front fly. Binding with moderate general rubbing and wear..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1967). Hardcover. Ninth printing. Octavo. 258, [1]pp. Publisher's stamp on topedge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Franklin to the President of the University of Chicago, and the U.S. Attorney General Edward H. Levi: "For the Edward H. Levis, with the esteem and..... More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 214pp. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. More
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 214pp. Topedge lightly foxed else fine, issued without dust jacket. More
![Item #629216 [Facsimile]: The New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot with a Journal...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/629216.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789657050)
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1810). Hardcover. Facsimile of the second edition of 1810. Octavo. 385, [7 tables] pp. Fine in brown cloth with spine gilt, issued without dust jacket. More
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, (1965). Hardcover. First edition. 311pp. Black and white illustrations. Foxing on the page edges thus very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with chips, tears, and creasing. More
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New-York: John F. Trow, 1838. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Measuring approximately 4½" x 7". 158, [1 ad] pp. Frontispiece engraving of the mob attacking the warehouse. Publisher's ribbon-embossed cloth (Krupp, *Bookcloth* Gt4) with spine titled in gilt. Penciled owner name ("Minerva Robbins's Book, Circleville, Ohio") on front fly and a...... More
San Pedro: Singlejack Books, 1978. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. 24mo. Measuring approximately 3¾" x 5¼". Red cloth with printed paper spine label. A fine copy. The first edition of an important book on labor organization and legal rights that has been reprinted several times and gone through at least..... More
London: Century, (1999). Hardcover. First edition thus. 280pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slight rubbing. A fascinating and exceptionally uncommon non-fiction account of con-men, and the definitive work on the subject. It was the primary reference used by David S. Ward for his original screenplay for the film..... More
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Washington, D.C.? The American Historical Association? 1935? Softcover. Offprint. Tall octavo. 62pp. Cloth backing with an untrimmed edge, presumably once bound into covers. Typed publication information laid down onto first page. Moderate wear, as it stands, a very good copy. Briefly Inscribed by Morris on the first page. More
Washington, D.C. The American Historical Association, 1935. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. vii, 777pp. Navy blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Light wear, page edges and endleaves modestly foxed, a very good or better copy, presumably issued without dust jacket. Issued as American Legal Records—Volume 2. More
Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Company, Book Division, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. 135pp. Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Bottom corner on preliminary page clipped, top page corners lightly dampstained, spine ends and corners worn, light tideline on front board, good only in a fair..... More
Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Company, Book Division, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner. Small quarto. Illustrated from black and white photographs by Neese (and earlier photos by "Satan" Andrews and Tom Runyon). Ex-library with the usual treatment, including tape residue on the endleaves and something roughly..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (2004). Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 365, [1]pp. Fine in lightly rubbed and price-clipped else very near fine dust jacket. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "3/18/04 To Emily, Happy Birthday. I hope this book stimulates a discussion about our future. Charles J. Ogletree."..... More
New York: The Free Press, (1996). Hardcover. First edition. 306pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Foxing on topedge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with light soiling and toning. Signed by the author. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. 414pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foxing on the page edges thus very good in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by the author. More
New York: The Board of Statutory Consolidation of the City of New York, 1939. Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Victor Hugo Palstits. Small quarto. xxiv, 612pp. Illustrated with facsimiles. Cloth with a toned spine and modest general wear and soil, rear hinge with a tissue repair, and a single folding..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. Hardcover. First edition. Tall octavo. 315pp. Security label on rear pastedown else fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Justice Sotomayor on the title page. More