Boston: Wentworth & Company, 1857. Hardcover. 16mo. 106pp. Folding frontispiece plate. Blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt. Gift inscription and stamp of a historical society, small creases and tears on frontispiece, small stains on the front board, very good copy. More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1853. Hardcover. Large, thick quarto. Unpaginated. Full black morocco, both boards with a lovely gilt arabesque boarder, raised bands along the spine creating six compartments each repeating an intricate gilt decoration save for the second compartment from the top which has, "Holy Bible" in gilt, gilt..... More

Philadelphia: D. Hogan, 1810. Hardcover. 12mo. 347pp. Full contemporary calf. Owner names of Eliza Nichols and Esther James on the front free endpaper. Wear to the boards and spine, corners bumped, front hinge cracked, a tear to pages 195/96 affecting the text, and foxing throughout, good or better. Many contemporary..... More

New York: Collins & Brother, (1847). Hardcover. New edition. 16mo. 180pp. Frontispiece. Green cloth. Illustrated in gilt on the spine. Lacks front fly, else a near fine and bright copy. Novel by the prolific, moralist author Timothy Shaw Arthur, about the economic realities at play on both the domestic and..... More

London: John Lane the Bodley Head / Modern Library, [1940]. Hardcover. Octavo. 1364pp. Full red morocco with dentelle border to both pastedowns, marbled endpapers, gilt ruled boards and spine with raised bands decorated with gilt devices and title; housed in an unprinted cloth slipcase. Rubbing to the foot of the..... More

London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893-97. Hardcover. A collection of 25 volumes from the Keynotes Series of Novels and Short Stories, which eventually ran to 33 titles over the course of its publication by John Lane in London from 1893-97. This collection includes the first 15 consecutive volumes and..... More

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1829. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, each with their own title page and pagination. xviii, 374; [2],335pp, [1] ad. Full contemporary calf, the spine has raised bands bordered in gilt making five compartments each repeating a device in blind save for the second from..... More

Albany: D.W. Farrand & Green, 1810. Hardcover. Includes a "Biographical Sketch of the Author" by a "Gentleman of New York," who is actually Washington Irving. 12mo. 296pp. Gift inscription and owner name of Annie C. Wickham on the first front flyleaf (dated July 1865) with some notes written on a...... More

London: Printed for T. M'Lean, 1819. Hardcover. Four volumes. Octavo. 376, 403, 370, and 440pp. Translated by Charles Jarvis. Twenty-four color plates from drawings designed expressly for this edition. Early ox-blood full polished calf, elaborately gilt ruled, decorated, and titled. Spine slightly darkened, a bit of edgewear and board light..... More

Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1882. Hardcover. First edition. Thick quarto. 577pp. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates and two engraved color maps (including one double-page). Publisher's red decorated leather over boards stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. Rubbing along the extremities of the boards, but a sound and tight very good..... More

Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1846. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 240; 240 ; 240; 240pp. Heavily illustrated. Decorative half-titles. Page edges marbed. Contemporary full calf elaborately foliate stamped in blind and titled on the spine in gilt. Contemporary owner name, some foxing and modest stains scattered in the text..... More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [no date, circa 1884-1890s]. Hardcover. Unknown edition. 456pp. [2 advertisements]. Attractive Victorian green cloth binding stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt. Gutter starting, edges lightly rubbed, small stain on front board, else a very good copy. More

Chicago: Pascal Covici, (1927). Hardcover. Reprint (first published by Covici-McGee in 1922). Vernacular binding of handsome patterned cloth with new plain pastedowns (over Hecht's illustrated ones). Cloth worn and stained, sound but good only, and still attractive. Possibly attributable to "V and W M Sutton" of Plainfield, New Jersey, whose..... More