1st US Edition of ‘Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’ by W Godwin 1796

PRESENTING A SIGNED FIRST EDITION of ‘Minding the Store’ A Memoir by Stanley Marcus. Published by Little, Brown (1974). First Edition Second Printing. Pages 383. Dust Cover in fai...

Presenting a gloriously rare book Tarzan and the Lion Man by Edgar Rice Burroughs 1st Edition. An attractive first edition/first printing, gray decorated cloth with black letterin...

Presenting a gloriously rare book…. Tarzan and The Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs McClurg 1st Edition. First edition. Illustrated by...

PRESENTING A RARE EDITION hardback copy of The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams, Illustrated by M.J. Gallagher, Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston in 1932. Con...

Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1966. Hardback. Text in original French with English translation. In 1962, the Nobel-Prize winning French poet-diplomat, Saint-John Perse, com...

Author: Robinson, Mary. Title: Hubert de Sevrac, a Romance of the Eighteenth Century. Publisher: London: for the Author by Hookham and Carpenter, 1796. Description: First edition. 3 vols., 6-13/16" x 4-7/16", errata at the end of each vol., advertisement leaf at the end of vol. 3, vol. 2 M6 with early repaired tear at foot, without the half-titles, bound in fine contemporary full speckled calf, floral gilt decorated spines, gilt lettered red and green spine labels, covers ruled in gilt. Condition: Internally clean and bright, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, extremely minor foxing to first and last leaves, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, a handsom set. Additional information: An exceedingly rare gothic novel by Robinson (known as "the English Sappho") set during the French Revolution. In her lifetime Robinson was better known as an actress and lady of fashion as well as for a string of prominent affairs, including with George IV whilst he was still Prince of Wales whose portrait she wore encrusted with diamonds throughout her life but who she did not hesitate to blackmail for £5000 pounds when he cast her off. Her literary output, though derided at the time, has since been reassessed and Robinson herself now seen as a proto-feminist. Mary Robinson was one of those independent 'viragos' who upset so many conventional men at the end of the eighteenth century. She was admired by Mary Wollstonecraft...

Decorative Wedgwood by Alison Kelly. Country Life Limited, 1965. 1st Edition hardcover with dust jacket. The book covers: Josiah Wedgwood and the Taste of His Time, Ideas for Interior Decoration, Chimney-Piece Designs, Jasper Chimney-Pieces, Wyatt, Holland & Cameron (architects), Fonts, Furnishing Details, Tiles and Dairies, Furniture Inset with Wedgwood Ware, the Victorian Revival. A study of Wedgwood's decorative production as it relates to the taste of the times in the applied arts. The author describes the whole range of Wedgwood's output in the field of interior decoration, from the basalt figures and wall plaques to the more esoteric fonts and funeral urns...

Art Deco by Victor Arwas, hardcover book with dustjacket. First edition, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. of New York in 1980. Printed and bound in Japan. 416 Illustrations, includ...