Search Results: Titles starting with A from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Black padded leatherette covers, marbled endpapers. 207pp., First edition, second printing thus. A title in the Agatha Christiie Hardcover Collection. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy, as new, appears unread. Very fine.. Second Printing Thus. Faux Leather. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sterling, 2009. Large trade paperback. 340 pages. Index. Fifth printing. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A how-to blue-print for planning, assessing navigating and understanding the financial necessities, products and requirements for a successful retirement. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Fine. . Fifth printing. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. Original publisher's binding, half red cloth [including tips] over marble paper covered boards. 310pp. plus 10 pages of publisher's ads appended. Illustrated with 20 full page plates, including portrait frontis-piece, Holograph extract from a letter from Mr. H. Rider Haggard to Messrs. Harper & Brothers printed on the front endpage. First authorized American edition. No previous ownership marks. Covers show light age wear but a generally clean and square. Hinges strong, all pages firmly attached. Text very clean. Scans sent on request. A near very good copy of one of Haggard's best known and most popular novels.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: HarperCollins, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 255 pages. Illustrated with color photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks, but from the private collection of Carmen Orechio, former NJ State Senator, recently deceased (02/26/2018). A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket..

Brooklyn, New York: Mesorah Pubns Ltd, 1990. Trade paperback. 160 pages. Abridged and translated by Yisrael Isser Zvi Herczeg. Edited by Shlomo Fox. First edition, stated first impression. The text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover, including a narrative of the Exodus, in English with commentary. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications, 1992. Large trade paperback. 298pp., Index. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, sqaure, unmarked and unread copy. Near as new, a very fine copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 1911. Hardcover, blue cloth sans dust-jacket. 90pp., Two illustrations. An early contribution to the question of proposing an ending to Dickens' last unfinished work. Pasted to endpapers and blank prelims are letters written to the Editor of the Times [London] in 1919 concerning the true identity of Datchery. The first of these is by A.E. Taylor of the University of St. Andrews, the British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato. A second contribution is made by Arthur Pinero, an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. Both take exception to Times editorial by a Mr. Rolleston purporting to identify Datchery. Some toning to end-papers, else a clean, square, unmarked copy. A very scarce title in its original printing. Podeschi H259 Very Good.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very… Read More

Cambridge: Cambidge University Press, 1911. Hardcover, blue cloth sans dust-jacket. 90 pages. Two illustrations. First edition. An early contribution to the question of proposing an ending to Dickens' last unfinished work. End-papers toned and former owner's label inside front cover, else a very clean sound copy. A very scarce title in its original printing. Very Good+. Podeschi H259. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Da Capo Press, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 478 pages. Bibliography, Index. First Da Capo Press edition, first printing with full number line. An homage to the New Yorker, the urban and sophisticated magazine that defined the new intelligentsia of the post-war United States. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine. .

San Francisco: Cameron and Company, 1996. Oblong folio viewbook of Wahington D.C. bound in dark red cloth, matching red endpapers, and original pictorial dust-jacket. 159pp. Each page contains a panoramic aerial photograph, in full color, of various sites and places within the District of Columbia. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jacket complete with no tears, rips or chips. A very nice later printing of this unique view-book of our nations capital. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket.. Later Printing. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

New York: The Review of Reviews Corporation, 1929. Two volume set, dark blue cloth lettered in gold, snas dust-jackets. 263pp. & 277pp. with Index in each volume. Profusely illustrated with contemporary cartoons from newspapers and periodicals. Mild fading to spines and rubbing to spine ends, else a very clean, solid set. No name, no book-plate, etc. Very good+.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. Trade paperback. 243 pages. With new Afterword and Interfaith Discussion Guide. First paperback edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine. . First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. 173 pages. First edition. A study of Lincoln during the Civil War years by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom". No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Appears unread. Near fine. .

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, bound in genuine black leather with real 22 kt gold decoration. 762 pages. All edges gilt, silk ribbon markers sewn-in, raised spine. Sources and Acknowledgments, Index. Illustrated with color portrait frontispiece, black and white photographs and vignette engravings. Two-page broad-side Collector's Notes from The Library of the Presidents and an unused blank Easton Press Library of the Presidents book-plate laid-in loose. The one-volume edition containing The Prairie Years and The War Years reprinted specially for the Easton Press. No previous ownership marks. A pristine copy, clean, fresh, unmarked and like new. As new..

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, pictorial boards in non price-clipped dust-jacket with matching art work. 160 pages. Bibliography by Bernard Karpel. Illustrated with 227 titles plates, of which 8 are in color. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Mild rubbing to bottom of bards and dust-jacket slightly edge-worn with some chipped. Very good in a good dust-jacket. .

New York: HarperResource, 2002. Trade paperback, tall octavo. 176 pages. Illustrated with maps. Third edition. The only guide that leads you street by street into the hearts of cities. A clean, square, unmarked copy. No spine crease. No previous ownership marks. Very good.. Third Edition. Softcover. Very Good.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Columbia University Press, 1993. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large trade paperback. 206 pages. Bibliographical References, Bibliography, Index. First edition, first printing with full number line. This book examines the seemingly contradictory behaviors of lower class working women in Cairo, who, though becoming increasingly part of the modern outside-the-home workforce have nevertheless chosen to adopt the reactionary symbolism of the hijob and the traditional Islamist ideology of subordination it implies. Underlining and brief marginal marking throughout. No previous owner's name; no spine crease. From the private library of a Middle Eastern historian. A sound, tight, but for moderate underling otherwise clean copy. Good or better. .

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1908. Drab Boards with Cloth Spine. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very scarce piece of early Dickensiana, this acount is a facsimile of the report of committee on the Boz Ball [with notes]. Dicken's reaction to this newspaper account is most amusing and relflects his overall tone toward American journalism, given fuller expression the following year, in "American Notes." Gray paper covered boards with cloth spine, limited to 206 copies on Normandy Vellum. Fine copy. Not in Gimbel collection.. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Large hardcover, green cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 191pp., Index. Copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Dust-jacket protected by reinforces mylar cover, which have been pasted to inside covers. No previous owneship marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good+ in a very good dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 511pp., Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. No name, no book-plate, no remainder marks, etc. A clean, crisp copy with original $30.00 publisher's price still on dust-jacket. The first complete biography of one of the original "wise men" you saw their vision of a post- World War II world turn into reality through such efforts as the Marshall Plan, containment of communist expansion, and the creation of NATO. A very fine copy in a very fine dust-jacket.. Third Printing. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.