Rare, Antique and Especially Collectable Books and Sets
Boston: S.W. Tilton & Company, 1894. 1894 Tilton Edition. Hardcover in green cloth with gilt-stamped titling. This copy is in good condition only, with rubbing and bumping and soiling to the covers. Book remains tightly bound, though the front hinge is torn at the interior, still attached. Repairs to the.....
Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover in black cloth with silver gilt titling on the spine. A rare and important reference book on the unique art and culture of the PNW tribes. This copy is in near fine condition with some light edge toning to the.....
Washington D.C. US Government Printing Office, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover in 3/4 leather with marbled paper covers. Scarce government report on Indian affairs in very good collectable condition. Includes map of reservations as frontispiece. Pages lightly toned, covers rubbed at the edges. NOT a library book - the interior is.....
Washington D.C. US Government Printing Office, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover in brown cloth with gilt stamped titling. An incredibly well-preserved copy of a scarce report from the US government. Includes colored map as the frontispiece. Pages lightly toned. Binding very tight and pages clean. Very collectable copy of an important.....
![Item #996 For Whom the Bell Tolls [FIRST EDITION]. Ernest Hemingway](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/996.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1731813667)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in tan cloth boards with black titling on a red field. A very good first edition with the "A" on the copyright page (no publisher's symbol) and a very good original "$2.75" dust jacket. A nice binding which is.....
Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1907. First Edition. Hardcover in floral embossed blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt signatures on the cover. An incredibly well-preserved copy of this 100 year old book. A Record of Personal Observations, Adventures, and Campaigns Among the Indians of the.....
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover in olive cloth with black stamped cover decoration and titling. Possibly the best-preserved copy available of the 1925 book. This copy has been stored for many years and was recently purchased from an estate. Book is near fine, completely clean.....
London: Bickers and Son, 1889. Later Printing, 1889. Hardcover in green morrocco, with blind-tooling and gilt-stamped title on spine. This copy was given to Edgar Hermann Joseph Schuster as a prize for mathematics at Stoke House in April of 1892, according to the hand-written inscription. The book also contains the.....
![Item #1261 Beleaguered: A Story of the Uplands of Baden in the Seventeenth Century [SIGNED]....](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1261.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784085864)
New York and London: G.P Putnam's Sons, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover in blue cloth with gilt titling. A well-preserved copy of a scarce signed first edition. This is a historical novel about a tumultuous time in Germany. Book is without a dust jacket. Book is rubbed and bumped on the.....
London: George Newnes, 1902. Garth Jones. Newnes Edition, First Edition Thus. Limp parchment covers with yapp edges, with gilt and ink-stamped decoration and titling on front cover and spine. Book is 8vo (6.5" x 8") with 229 pp. A rare copy of the Caxton-translated instruction for the daughters of a......
New York: Rarity Press, 1932. Clara Tice. First Edition, Thus. Hardcover in red cloth. A novel in which a young Frenchman falls in love and is tormented by a young female dancer. This copy was privately printed for Rarity Press. In rare original dust jacket which is now well-protected in.....
![Item #1103 The Blue Bird [Edition DeLuxe]. Maurice Maeterlinck](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1103.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737408254)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1911. F. Cayley Robinson. Edition De Luxe, First Edition Thus. Hardcover in blue cloth, highly decorated in color and gilding on the cover and spine. Large imperial octavo sized book in highly decorated cover which original came boxed - the box is not included.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover in sky-blue buckram with red anad blue stamped decoration and titling. Very Rare in its original dust jacket, this book is a well-preserved survivor. Book is near fine and dust jacket is good with rubbing to edges and folds, some.....
![Item #1243 The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks [Two Volumes]. William Melmoth](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1243.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776055996)
London: J. Dodsley, 1777. "A New Edition" Hardcover in Two Volumes in Period brown leather tree-calf, spine gilt-stamped faux ribs with gilt-stamped title on black leather. A very well-preserved set in their original period tree-calf bindings. Volume one front cover hinge is separating but holding. On laid paper throughout including.....
London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1958. Falconer, George. First Edition (UK). Hardcover in blue cloth with silver gilt titling on spine. A fascinating book chronicling several of the most famous attempts to find the Northwest Passage. Book includes two large fold-out maps. Book is near fine, jacket has some loss.....
Victoria, BC: Horsdal & Schubart, 1998. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover in blue buckram with gilt titling on spine. Scarce hardcover edition of rare book on classic boats. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Jacket has some light edgewear. 24.5 x 22.5 cm.....
New York: Hurst and Company, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover in green cloth with debossed imagery and red and black colorization. 12mo, A rare book, especially in this condition. Life of Gutenberg from the late 1800's. Book is in excellent condition for the edge with some rubbing and bumping and toning.....
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1902. First Edition, Thus; One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand. Hardcover in brown decorated cloth. Beautifully decorated antique book in excellent condition. A true 120 year old survivor which is still tight and square. Light rubbing to corners. One of the best in condition online, and.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Later Printings, Printed Around 1900. Hardcover with decorative cloth covers. Set of four Dodd Mead late 1890's to early 1900's reprints of E.P. Roe novels, all in decorative covers in the 16mo size (4.25"x6.25"). E.P. Roe (1838-1888) was a popular novelist with.....
![Item #1269 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [Early Printing]. J. K Rowling](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1269.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785648828)
New York: Scholastic Press, 1998. First American Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover in red cloth-backed purple diamond-embossed paper boards. Near fine very early printing of the American first edition in original second state dust jacket. Jacket is also near fine. Jacket has all first state points, 16.95 price, "J.K." on spine.....
![Item #1266 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone [FIRST EDITION with Custom Slipcase]. J. K...](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1266.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785647978)
New York: Scholastic Press, 1998. First US Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in red cloth-backed purple diamond-embossed paper boards with gilt titling on spine. A near fine, beautiful copy of the first American edition, first printing housed in a custom-made slipcase. Book is clean, square, tight and unmarked. First state dust.....
New York: Viking Press, 1929. First Viking Press Special Edition. Hardcover in sky-blue buckram, with gilt-stamped titling on the front cover and the spine. A beautifully preserved surviving copy of a significant work on Marx. This 1929 copy looks as though it is from the 80's, in excellent near fine.....
![Item #1241 Beginselen Der Meetkunst [Book binding. A. van Rossum Court-Bookbinder of Amsterdam]....](https://librariana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1241.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776056377)
Amsterdam: De Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1838. Hardcover in brown leather with gold tooling. Dutch language book on the rudiments of geometry and trigonometry associated with Dr. Jan Paul Gildemeester. According to an included note, the book appears in a portrait of Dr. Gildemeester (1825-1901). The book was presented to him.....
St. Paul, MN: The Pioneer Press Company for the State of Minnesota, 1891. Second Edition of 10,000 Copies. Hardcover in 3/4 re-backed leather with original spines laid on, decorated with gilt devices and titling. A nicely restored set of these somewhat scarce state reports of the rosters and activities of.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1910. Alberto Sangorski. First Edition, Second Impression Stated. Hardcover in faux vellum over boards. A very nice copy of a famously beautiful illuminated book of prayers. Illumination by Sangorski is faithfully recreated via chromolithography and presented in a form which harkens back to religious manuscripts of.....