Rare books from Monroe Street Books

Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1990. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. 151 pages. Softcover. SIGNED ON HALF TITLE PAGE BY THE 14TH DALAI LAMA IN OCTOBER OF 2012 AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 612428

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fair/None. SIGNED. 315 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED TO LULU B. VAN BEYNUM BY PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Van Beynum bookplate on inside front cover opposite inscription. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Age toning to pages. Spine cocked, with staining and rubbing to cloth. Overall Fair condition. Clean unmarked text. Record # 612350

US: Metropolitan Books, 2001-09-13. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 214 pages. Remainder mark to top edge, light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 463788

US: WordTech Communications, 2011-07-11. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. 100 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 464902

US: Ticknor & Fields, 1983-01-01. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. SIGNED. 69 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with a few small tears to edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 465561

Hartford, CT : Privately Printed, 1924. 1 st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. SIGNED. 560 pages. Black & white illustrations. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Binding slightly cracked in several places. The author's travel accounts featuring some unpleasant adventures all over the world. Scarce. Clean. Previous ownerÕs small sticker inside cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Supplement laid in rear. Record # 408256

Paris: Cercle du Livre Precieux, 1964-1966. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Complete six volume set, leather bound, limited to 3000 copies, #789. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Most pages are plates with many fold-outs, red ribbon markers. An astonishing collection of engravings with accompanying keys (text in French) covering a wide range of subjects including Mathematical figures, astronomy, military formations and tactics, navigation, marine signaling, hydraulics and so on. Most of the plates fold out, sometimes with two folds. Facsimiles of the 1762-1772 set. Huge, heavy volumes that make overseas shipping prohibitive. Very good plus with only the front fly leaf in Volume 6 gone. Record # 412377

Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1898. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 72 pages. Hardcover. Beautiful illustration in green on cover page. Sage cover boards, title paste-down on front and back covers. Deckled untrimmed edges, some pages unopened. Tanning and a bit of foxing to covers, (especially spine) and pages. No rips or tears. Spine still straight, binding quite tight. Small bump to front cover board bottom right corner. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. In beautiful condition for its age. Includes about a combined 50 sonnets and poems. Record # 31627

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 1st Edition 'Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant' in 2 Volumes. Vol 1., 584 pages; Vol. 2, 647 pages with index. Hardcover volumes, in brown morocco leather over cloth boards. Gilt circular seals with portrait of Grant inlaid on the front and rear covers. Significant wear to edges of spines and to front cover hinge, Vol. 1, and separation on upper spine. Front cover of Vol. 2 fully detached. Otherwise complete copy of these rare volumes - text block in good condition, a good candidate for rebinding.  Record # 2230755