The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain by McCarthy, Cormac

London: Longman & Co, 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Jacket. Recased in original publisher's cloth with renewed endpages. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Foxing to the perimeter of plates. First Edition, First Printing. 2 volumes: 8vo; 23 cm.; 9 inches tall; xii, 330; v, 358 pages. Illustrated with [12] steel engravings and a folded map at the end of volume 1. Each volume has a tissue-guarded frontispiece and engraved title page. The Appendices, which extend to 213 pages, also include a letter and journal by Mr. A. G. Bain, who accompanied Dr. (afterwards Sir A.) Smith's expedition into the interior as far as Philippolis, and gives an account of the journey, an interesting narrative of the wreck of the Grosvenor, and much valuable matter respecting the Kat River and other settlements in Kaffraria,and the Ka'ir outbreaks and wars up to this period. A Very Handsome Set of this Important Exploration Title.… Read More

London: David Bogue, 1848. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued. Publisher's gilt and blind-stamped decorated green cloth with gilt-stamped illustrated spine. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spine Sun-faded. First Edition, First Printing. 12mo. 6.75 inches tall; viii, 153 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, vignettes. A handsome collectible copy. REF: Westwood & Satchell, 50; Albee, 34; Heckscher 357. Originally published in 1848, this classic guide provides historical, practical, and invaluable directions for bottom-fishing and trolling. Dive into the depths of angling techniques as Carpenter shares his expertise and insights still relevant to help you become a master angler. From choosing the right bait to perfecting your casting technique, this book is a must-have for anyone seeking to enhance their fishing skills and experience unforgettable moments by the water's edge. FULL TITLE:… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Illustrations by J.B. Gibbs. The book is in six parts: In the Cocos-Keeling Islands; In Java; In Sumatra; In the Moluccas and in Timor-Laut; and In Timor. Each part has an appendix. Publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xix, 536, 4 pp.; 3 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 1 in-text map, color frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Color tissue guarded frontispiece by J.B. Gibbs. 6 maps in total all present. First American edition. Bindings are tight and square. Minor shelf lean. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Light wear to extremities, lightly and evenly toned throughout. Collectible condition.. The British zoologist H.O. Forbes (1851-1932) travelled from the Keeling Islands through Indonesia between 1878-1883. He visited Java, South-Sumatra, the Moluccas and New Guinea. Giving in… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1881. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine; No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Walter Crane. Finely bound in full tan levant morocco, with the original pictorial cloth cover with gilt designed by Walter Crane attached to a blank leaf in rear of volume; gilt rules and corner designs, spine decorated in gilt with dark morocco labels; the top edge-stained tan. First Edition, First Printing. Illustrated with 12 wood-engraved plates on tinted backgrounds by Walter Crane, one of his earliest efforts. 8vo; 23.8 by 18 cm (9.25 by 7 in). Faint rubbing to bottom corners of boards; occasional foxing throughout otherwise text is clean; Near fine.. Mrs Molesworth is best known as a writer of books for the young, known as "the Jane Austen of the nursery." She typified late Victorian writing for girls. Aimed at girls too old for fairies and princesses but too young for Austen and the Bronts, books by Molesworth had their share of amusement, but they… Read More

New York: Rizzoli, 1994. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Illustrations by Tom Wesselmann. No Flaws or Blemishes but some minor wrinkling at the top rear the of the dust jacket and the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works. Appears new.. One of the founders of the Pop Art movement, Tom Wesselmann has created art in a variety of genres and media, from his early work in painting, collage, and assemblage; to his well-known series of pop paintings.

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good;/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Illustrations by Alken, Henry. This is one of Surtees few non-fiction works, taken from the sporting newspaper Bell's Life in London during the fox hunting season of 1845-6. Handsomely bound by Morrell in Full crimson morocco leather; Four raised spine bands with tittle and decorations; Dentelles embellished Doublures to marbled endpages. Original cloth and spine bound-in at rear. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, toned with scattered foxing. Moderate handling wear. First Edition. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece and extra title, forty-three woodcuts engraved by Cook and CO. 4to; 26 cm. vi-326 pages. Armorial Bookplate of James Allen Young. Background: Robert Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer. He left for London in 1825, intending to practice law in the capital, but had difficulty making his way and began contributing… Read More

London: Longman & Co, 1835. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good Hardcovers. Very Good/No Jacket. Recased in original publisher's cloth with renewed endpages. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Foxing to the perimeter of plates. First Edition, First Printing. 2 volumes: 8vo; 23 cm.; 9 inches tall; xii, 330; v, 358 pages. Illustrated with [12] steel engravings and a folded map at the end of volume 1. Each volume has a tissue-guarded frontispiece and engraved title page. The Appendices, which extend to 213 pages, also include a letter and journal by Mr. A. G. Bain, who accompanied Dr. (afterwards Sir A.) Smith's expedition into the interior as far as Philippolis, and gives an account of the journey, an interesting narrative of the wreck of the Grosvenor, and much valuable matter respecting the Kat River and other settlements in Kaffraria,and the Ka'ir outbreaks and wars up to this period. A Very Handsome Set of this Important Exploration Title.… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good Hardcovers. with Complete Maps, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Pictorially embossed dark green cloth lettered in gilt depicting Pasha standing in a small boat leading the expedition across the Congo. Gravure frontispiece portrait of Mountney-Jephson; Etched portrait of H.M. Stanley; With folding map of Equatorial Province and a facsimile of the Mahdi's letter in Arabic to Emin Pasha demanding his surrender to in back pocket. Wood engravings in the text: 22 plates (incl. photogravure frontis. portrait), title vignette, & 24 text illustrations. First American Edition. 8vo; 8.75 inches tall; xxiv, 490 pp. index. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. The dramatic story of the rebellion of the Mahdist in 1885 and of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, under H.M. Stanley, journeying to the rescue of General Gordon's lieutenant and friend, Emin Pasha… Read More

London: R.H. Porter, 1899. First Edition, First Printing. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine Cloth Hardcover.. Green cloth decoratively stamped and titled in gilt with beveled edges. 24 by18.5 cm.; 9.5 by 7.25 inches 8vo; xiv, 335 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece on card stock of the eggs of Little Stint; numerous plates [88] from photographs, and 2 folding maps. First Edition, First Printing. The Bindings are tight and square. light foxing to edges of text block. Text clean, Light even toning and minor occurrences of offsetting. Minimal shelf handling wear. With appendices "On The Botany and Geology" by Colonel H.W. Feilden. (1838-1921) Includes notes on glacial deposits in Green Harbour Spitsbergen p 255. A remarkable account of an ambitious project, this book forms part of the nineteenth-century genre of scientific travel literature and contains still-relevant information about the Arctic environment. In 1895, naturalists Henry J. Pearson and Colonel H. W. Feilden sailed to Norway… Read More

Northridge, California:, 1979: Lord John Press, 1979. No Binding. Fine/None Issued. Signed by John Fowles. Broadside printed in four colors by William Everson and Richard Bigus; Calligraphy by M. Carey. Bright Four Color Illuminated Initial. Printed on cream parchment-style paper. Copy 15 of 150 numbered copies. 22 inches by 15 inches (56 by 39 cm) Handsome, Collectible, Ready for framing. Will ship rolled in a cardboard tube. Background Information: English novelist and essayist, master of layered story-telling, illusionism, and purposefully ambiguous endings. Fowles's best-known novels include The French Lieutenant's (1969), adapted into screen in 1981, and The Magus (1965), which has gained a cult status. His protagonists must often confront their past, self-delusions and illusions, in order to gain their personal freedom or peace of mind.