New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1926. first US. hardcover. 8vo 370pp. The first sequel to Wren's wildly popular Beau Geste. It focuses on the adventures of Major Henri de Beaujolais from adolescence to maturity as a well-connected cavalry officer in the French Army. #01100.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1957. first thus. hardcover. 8vo 202pp. from front flap: "Here are the stars brought down to earth. Two leading authorities tell how our astronomers, with star light as their only source of information, have gathered for us a vast store of knowledge about the.....
Permabooks, 1949. hardcover. 16mo. 241pp. Permabooks P30. Short stories by Erskine Caldwell, W.R. Burnett, James M. Cain, Walter D. Edmonds, William Faulkner, James T. Farrell, Achmed Abdullah, Stephen Vincent Benet, Borden Chase, Richard Connell, William Corcoran, James Gould Cozzens, and Michael Fessier. #01098.
New York: Random House, 1989. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 672pp. Stated first edition, number line to 2, as usual for Random House. from front flap: "The lush islands of the Caribbean have always possessed a special allure--as colonial treasures in days gone by, as vacation retreats today. Told in James.....
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1940. first US edition. hardcover. 8vo 294pp. stated first printing. Humorous send up of English mores from Irish author who was also the inspiration for the character Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses. #01096.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1921. hardcover. 8vo 434pp. Biography of Queen Victoria by member of the Bloomsbury Group and innovator in the practice of writing biography, known for his Eminent Victorians. #01095.
London: Longmans Green and Company, 1904. fifth edition. hardcover. 8vo 453pp. from endpapers: "History of Architecture by Alfred D.F. Hamlin, A.M., Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and a General Index." part of the College Histories.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. 8vo 363pp. from front flap: "Here is John Gunther's first report from Europe since the war. Through personal observation he gives an up-to-the-minute, unbiased inside account of the Russian satellite countries as well as of other areas where.....
New York: Coward McCann Inc., 1929. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 315pp. biography of the 19th century French writer known for The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black. #01092.
Grosset and Dunlap, 1904. hardcover. 12mo. 220pp. +illustrations "An account of certain events which are supposed to have occurred in the month of May, 19--, at a quiet country inn on Dartmoor, in Devonshire; the events being recorded by the persons most interested in the unfolding of the little international.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 240pp. from front flap: "Santha Rama Rau is at all times a delightful traveling companion. In this newest book she revisits, in the company of her husband and young son, the countries described in East of Home--and beyond. [....
Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1968. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 532pp. Stated 1968 printing. third in a series of physics textbooks 'written for the beginning specialist in physics' following Mass, Length and Time (1959) and Vibrations and Waves (1961). #01090.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1958. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 373pp. + pictures/illustrations. From front flap: "Here is a stimulating and informative account of space travel--its past, its present, and its future. From man's earliest skyward thoughts to today's actual plans for flight in space, the men, the discoveries, and the.....
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1951. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 310pp. Memoir by German Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist about his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism. #01088.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1957. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 247pp. stated first printing. From front flap: "By publishing his autobiographical works, Confessions of a European Intellectual and The Inside Story of an Outsider, Franz Schoenberner believed he had communicated the most memorable and dramatic events of his life. And then.....
New York: John Day, 1936. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 302pp. from front flap: "Companion volume to The Exile, which is a biography of the author's mother, Fighting Angel is a biography of her father. The extraordinary fact is that while these two lived together for forty years and had seven.....
New York: M. Evans and Company, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 346pp. from front flap: "The psychiatrist who broke into national prominence when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had consulted him, has written a book which recent events in our history have demanded be written: an examination of the.....
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1987. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 264pp. Stated first edition. from front flap: "In 1972, the premier issue of Ms. Magazine elicited an astonishing 20,000 letters from readers. Fifteen years later, Ms. still receives more mail each month than magazines ten times its size. Readers.....
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940. hardcover. 4to 380pp. Twenty first impression, August 1940. Influential and widely adopted textbook by American zoologist Libbie Henrietta Hyman. One of the final printings of the first edition before her revised and updated edition of 1942. #01084.
Tarrytown, New York: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 134pp. from front flap: "WASHINGTON IRVING: MAN OF MANY WORLDS, a major exhibition of the writings, manuscripts, and memorabilia of Washington Irving presented by The New York Public Library, is commemorated in this lavishly illustrated volume. Under the sponsorship.....
Privately Printed, 1951. hardcover. 8vo 72pp. Privately printed by Samuel A. Dalton as Christmas greeting, with card laid in. no 529 of 700. First book to be printed photographically using "the fotosetter" instead of hot metal typesetting. #01082.
New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1963. hardcover. 8vo 399pp. later printing of first edition. Covers economists from Mercantilist, Physiocratist, Classical, Socialist, Marxist, German Historical, Marginalists, Early American economists, Keynesians, more. #01081.
Toronto: D Van Nostrand Company, 1951. second edition. 8vo 254pp. stated second edition. from Preface: "In this book is combined the practical experience of officers from several branches of the Service; the responsibilities of each Department of the ship and how each Department can best contribute to Damage Control are.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. hardcover. 8vo 285pp. selection of essays covering topics in religion, science, philosophy, art, and more, with contributions from Edith Sitwell, Herbert Read, Aaron Copland, Bertrand Russell, more. #01079.
New York: Vantage Press, 1960. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 160pp. stated first edition. Written by judge, Unitarian minister, law professor, and many times unsuccessful candidate for public office in Connecticut, California and New Hampshire. Exposition of political principles of the Catholic Church with an eye towards countering John F. Kennedy's.....