NEW ARRIVALS FALL 2023 from Reginald C. Williams Rare Books

Weston, VT: Countryman Press, The, 1937. Publisher's red cloth, title and author stamped in black and gilt on front cover, original glassine wrapper, publisher's paper covered board slipcase. 8vo. cloth, 61 pages, five full page illustrations. Illustrated by Harold Denison. Limited to 700 copies signed by the author and artist. Bookplate of Schubert on front pastedown. Spine slightly faded, slipcase… Read more about this item

Publisher's original photographic boards. No marks. Light shelfwear. Light bumping at corners. This is the French edition of the book. It preceded the English translation version by several months. Filled with hundreds of black and white pictures from Hitchcocks films. First published by Éditions Robert Laffont, it is based on a 1962 dialogue between Hitchcock and Truffaut, in which the… Read more about this item

Review copy and Compliments of the author slips laid in. First published in 1970 stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight, boards straight and clean; black felt 2- to top front paste down with modest fading to top stain and slight soil mark to bottom edge else text fine, as new, unread. Dust jacket ($6.95) with cover art… Read more about this item

2 vols. VIII,614; XI,407 pp. Orig. hardcovers [brown h.cloth, gilt title, marbled boards]. - Spine-ends sl. worn. Corners bumped. Some slight discoloration to boards. Large water stain on first end-paper vol. I. Sporadic foxing throughout text in both volumes. Teil I: Die Religion des Buddha und ihre Entstehung. Teil II: Die Lamaische Hierarchie und Kirche. First edition of the first… Read more about this item

8vo, pp [8], 565, [3], bound in contemporary paneled calf with refreshed red calf label, lightly cracked to joints, endpapers foxed and browned, but an excellent clean tight copy in the original state. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, from the original French of 1681, and a classic of historical literature which never progressed further than the Roman Empire; apparently the only… Read more about this item

8vo. xx, 651pp. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original dark orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black. With dust jacket. Numerous charts and diagrams within text. The binding is tight, top corner of the back panel lightly bumped. Text unmarked. Top edge of text block shows some foxing, fore and bottom edges less so. Light spotting on… Read more about this item

First Edition, First Printing, with ads dated 1.09. The book is bound in the Original publisher's green cloth. The binding is tight with light wear to the edges with sunning and a slight lean to the spine. Housed in a contemporary custom green cloth dustwrapper (I doubt it s a publisher s wrapper, though a few early Wells titles have… Read more about this item

8vo., 575pp., Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Book shows just the teensiest bit of shelf wear at base of spine, light soiling to top of text block; the jacket seems to have been insect-nibbled just a bit along the top edge, at the base of the spine, and along the rear flap-fold, with various small holes and a… Read more about this item

8vo., 325pp., Publisher's Oatmeal cloth titled in black and blue. Stated first edition. Signed by Teller to the half title page. Damp stain spot to the text block edge, minor foxing to edge of end pages. Sound binding, square. The DJ in mylar with $4.95 flap price intact has mild edgewear, few closed tears, small damp stain to rear flap… Read more about this item

Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. First edition, first printing: with "First Edition" on the copyright page. Containing frontispiece showing Gertrude Stein at her desk and Toklas in the doorway, after a photograph by Man Ray, along with 14 full-page photographic illustrations and a facsimile page. Bookplates to front paste-down and verso of front free end-paper. Bits of soil… Read more about this item

FIRST EDITION. Halle, Max Niemeyer, 1913, OBrosch., 323 p., Publisher s original printed wrappers. cover dusty, slightly donkey-eared, minor signs of use, otherwise a very good well preserved with some minor sporadic underlining in the text. The scarce first edition, off-print, of Husserl's second main work, his seminal "Ideas", which constitutes the founding text of Constitutive Phenomenology and the work,… Read more about this item

First Edition (same date on title and verso). 3/4 Morocco with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine. Marbled boards. Some rubbing to leather corners, slight scuffing to boards. Edges dyed red, textblock VG. Fold-out map at back is clean and intact. Pages/boards clean and vibrant, NO foxing or markings. Overall a very nice near-fine copy. First edition of this… Read more about this item

Tall 8vo., A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with few spots of foxing. Internally fine, clean and tight. Small, closed edge tear to rear panel of dj. xiv, 320 pages, including Bibliographical footnotes; illustrations, maps; 23 cm. First Edition First Printing. This work was a collaborative effort between several distinguished physicists led by Edward Teller (1908-2003),… Read more about this item

London (John Murray), 1853. xxiii, (1), 686pp., 5 folding maps. 11 plates hors texte (partly tinted lithographs). Prof. illus. (woodcut figs.). Sm. stout 4to. Orig. cloth. First edition of this authoritative study on the Assyrian cities of Nineveh and Babylon based on Layard's second expedition to the region, richly illustrated with five folding maps, 11 lithographic plates (two folding, eight… Read more about this item

12mo, 127pp. A very good hardback copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with two small, closed tears and minor soil stain on at the bottom of the book and dust wrapper, else an attractive copy of an uncommon book. The six chapters of this book are the Reith Lectures given over the home service of the British Broadcasting Corporation in… Read more about this item

First printed edition Preceded by the very rare lithoprint edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Publisher's printed beige cardboard wrappers. Previous owner's name and address at top margin of front wrapper (neat and legible). A very good copy. Published on August 12, 1945, only six days after Hiroshima, the remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940… Read more about this item

8vo., 271pp., Publisher s original patterned boards with a gilt-stamped spine. A fine copy in a fine unclipped ($5.00) dustwrapper. Very scarce in hardcover with the jacket. Today Is Tonight is a novel written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow (1911-1937) in the mid-1930s but not published until 1965. Harlow's friend Ruth Luise Hamp inherited the rights to the unpublished manuscript,… Read more about this item

8vo. [iv], xvi, 378 pages of text. FIRST EDITION. Full contemporary calf raised bands with gilt-stamped compartments and red calf label. Avery good copy. In March 1755 Young published The Centaur not Fabulous in five letters addressed to a friend , that is, [Samuel] Richardson, who helped with its revision. Divided into six letters in the first of two revised… Read more about this item

Octavo [388, [2, ads] pp. (200 x 121 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep rebacked to style, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label. Some light foxing & browning to text, due to paper quality. Old ink signature on front free endpaper, marginal chip in a preliminary blank. Overall an unusually nice, attractive copy now Housed in a custom clamshell box with a… Read more about this item

Full contemporary Havana sheepskin, garnet and green title and volume numbers, spine with five bands and decorated with gilt fillets, a medallion portrait engraved by RAVENET after DONALDSON. gilt marked board edges and gilt lined turn-ins. a few worn corners, 2 worm spikes on a spine, worm work on the first half-guard, on the half-title and title, on the portrait… Read more about this item